I haven't seen a lot of 00s Ozaki. Or really any post-90s Ozaki, honestly. I'll read about Ozaki matches from 2007 or 2017 or whatever and there'll almost always be mention of "interfering police" and I never really understood what that meant, but seeing this I guess it just means someone literally dressed as police interfering in the match. Normally the interference stuff wears thin to me but I haven't seen any of it in a while and this was basically a balls out sprint from about two minutes in, so it wasn't as grating as it can usually be. After having watched so much mid-late-90s Satomura over the last couple years, what this really felt like was her stepping up to the plate and showing she can absolutely hang on the level of the legends surrounding her. At a couple points she seemed almost sheepish about stooping to the level that Ozaki and Hokuto wanted to drag this to, preferring to wrestle rather than choke people with a chain or wrap it around her boot and kick people in the face. By the end I don't think she'd done the former but she had absolutely done the latter and Ozaki might've regretted bringing that chain into play in the first place. Hokuto and Ozaki - particularly Ozaki - were all about the chaos, going above and beyond to create as much of it as possible. They attached Chigusa and Meiko at the neck by a collar on the end of the chain, and there was a part where both of them tried to walk in separate directions only to get jolted back, a real stinger of a thing. There was one weird moment where Chigusa had Ozaki on her shoulders so Satomura could hit something or other, but it wound up being Ozaki suplexing her from her perch atop Chigusa and I'm not entirely sure what they were aiming for. Perhaps Satomura's innocent NAIVETY was her downfall. A lesson for us all, I'm sure. The last few minutes are super dramatic with Chigusa and Satomura determined to walk through fire and pull out the win, Chigusa putting the nail in Ozaki's coffin with the sit-out powerbomb while Satomura holds Hokuto at bay. I think I'm pretty well ready to finally see that singles match now.
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