Dotonbori Pro

Review of the 03/04/2022 Dotonbori Pro show.

Hiroshi Yamato vs. Real Inunakin

Inunakin has a weird gimmick because he clearly showed that he could wrestle well but his gimmick wasn’t it, he is basically a dog who bark. It’s clearly not my taste especially when the guy under the gimmick can wrestle. But anyway, the match in itself started with some comedy but overall, Inunakin did good chops with good shoulder tackles and he also did good powerhouse moves. Yamato mostly did comebacks before winning the match. It wasn’t bad at all, it enjoyable for what it was.

My Rating : ***

Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru vs. Mikiya Sasaki vs. Captain Amemura

It was the comedy match. And it makes me so sad that comedy wrestling exist because if these 3 would have worked a normal match, this would have been good. Because on the little things they did seriously, it was pretty good but there was mostly comedy and it completely ruined the match. Sasaki was probably my fav one throwing great chops and Captain did good chops. Ranmaru also did a bit of fun stuff but everything became bad once they started doing comedy. If you love comedy, this match is made for you because there’s good wrestling in it too.

My Rating : **1/2

Osamu Suganuma & Taiyoto Kamen vs. Kinron & Super Delfin

Bad. It was bad. It was full of comedy and while the previous match had some fun and interesting wrestling, this one had nothing. It was uninteresting and boring and it doesn’t even surprise me with Osamu, Kamen & Kinron. Delfin isn’t anymore and his prime and he wasn’t good too. I have enough of watching comedy matches and i knew this one would have been a comedy match. But anyway, not a good match at all.

My Rating : *1/2

Gamerasu & Orochi vs. Kouki Iwasaki & Mizuki Watase

Orochi & Gamerasu worked as a heel team during the first half of the match. Then the rest of the match was a showing of Kouki & Watase making their comebacks and then it was 50/50. My fav exchanges are between Watase & Gamerasu in the last minutes with their sick strikes. Other than that some part of the match were okay but mostly during the work of the team Dotonbori.

My Rating : ***1/4

Takeshi Irei, Akiyori Takizawa & Takashi Tachibana vs. Magnitude Kishidawa, The Bodyguard & Rapid

This was okay. There was some flat stuff and good things and i’m mostly gonna speak about the good things. Tachibana & Rapid had a sick elbow strike exchange but it sadly didn’t lasted that much. Kishiwada was good with Irie & Tachibana and he was the MVP of the match. The last minutes were fun with everyone doing a move to close the match. Other than that, Takizawa & Bodyguard were here.

My Rating : ***

Yuto Kikuchi, Ryuya Matsufusa & Harutoki vs. Yuki Tanaka, Hideaki Sumi & Takaku Fuke

WDW Six Man Tag Team Title Tournament Final Match

That was awesome. I really liked the way the team of Sumi were bullying the younger team. Kikuchi, Matsufusa & Harutoki were great underdogs, theyt really showed a ton of great stuff on their comebacks even after getting some crazy shots by Fuke, Yuki but mostly Sumi who were awesome. Kikuchi overall was awesome too, he really fought well against Sumi and overall he was tied up as the MVP of the match with Sumi. The last minutes are pretty great with the sequences being 50/50, the great teamwork, the action who happened everywhere with the sequence with the dives at the outside ect. That finishing sequence was insane and probably a botch but it looked absolutely awesome with Sumi giving a low headkick on Harutoki’s face and then Yuki followed with a german suplex and Kikuchi was there to break up the pin but it didn’t had the time to do it.

My Rating : ****1/4

Overall, it wasn’t a good show, but it was totally worth it for that awesome main event. This is making me sad to see how many comedy matches there was on this show, because everyone on this show knows how to wrestle, and if they would have got the possibility of going crazy, they would have done it. But anyway, awesome main event and Kikuchi & Sumi rules