This was only around 15 minutes and never really felt like the Big Time Epic I was expecting. I don't mean that as a criticism either. Even if I was EXPECTING Big Time Epic it wasn't exactly what I was HOPING for. It was much more of a gritty affair, very scrappy with a nice amount of viciousness to tide us over. I also have to use my wrestling-watching time sparingly these days so 15 minutes gave me a little extra time to figure out how to do my taxes for the first time since moving to the US so that was a cool or at least useful thing. KAORU starting like you might've expected Hokuto to once upon a time was great, blitzing her with a springboard dropkick while Hokuto's back was turned. But it's not the first time someone's tried jumping Hokuto before she's even taken her coat off and her comeback was savage. That comeback was maybe a wee bit easily earned initially, but her selling as the match progressed was really good and by the end it felt like one arm and one leg were hanging off. To hell with that though, she was nasty as fuck and made KAORU pay for her early insolence. There was lots of mean shit, like the disgusting armbars, finger-biting and dropping KAORU on her neck several times. At one point KAORU tried to hit a back suplex off the top and Hokuto just grabbed her by the head and threw her out the ring, totally reckless, then followed up with a wild senton. She might not be THE Dangerous Queen anymore but you'd be a fool to think she isn't still dangerous. KAORU was pretty great here and she's become a favourite of mine the last couple years. She was willing to give as good as she got and hit a couple sick bombs of her own. I think my favourite thing she did was her low dropkick to Hokuto's notoriously dodgy knee. This thing was putrid and the desperation of it made it even better. The finish itself might've been the nastiest move of the lot, which I guess is a good way to cap a match. I don't know if these two have another singles match together but they face off in a couple tags that year so I should go back and watch those too probably.
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