Happy New Year

ZERO1 Happy New Year - 01.01.2015

Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Yoshikazu Yokoyama

3 minutes of K-HASH stifffness! YEAH!

ZERO1 International Junior Heavyweight Title / ZERO1 World Junior Heavyweight Title Three Way Match
Jason Lee (c) vs. Atsushi Maruyama vs. Mineo Fujita

A bunch of comedic low blows and Mineo Fujita gorgeous hair make a fine little affair.

Daemon-gun (Daemon Ueda & KAMIKAZE), Kengo & VM Mask #15 vs. Dangan Yankees (Fujita Hayato, Ikuto Hidaka, Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto)

Half the match is clipped so I won't rate it but decent action. The Dangan Yankees 4 men are a pretty cool team.

Atsushi Onita, Dump Matsumoto & Ichiro Yaguchi vs. Voodoo Murders (TARU & YASSHI) & Voodoo Mask

Once again the match is too clipped. Good enough for what it was, look at the name, you know you won't get high workrate here.

Five vs. Five Tournament Match
Akebono, Daisuke Sekimoto, Ryouji Sai, Takashi Sugiura & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Hideki Suzuki, Kohei Sato, Masato Tanaka, Shinjiro Otani & Yusaku Obata

This is clearly a one match show so all of the previous matches were heavily clipped because of the Main Event. It's a gauntlet match, it needed time and it got 1 hour.

I didn't care for the Tanaka vs Sugiura match up and this is the one who got the most time. Hideki Suzuki was a bit disappointing, he looked really good in AJPW but I don't know something was off here, he didn't adapt well to short matches. Ryouji Sai was bad.

However, I liked the Royal Rumble countdown and loved Takayama starting. He's not really agile anymore but his elbows are still fucking STIFF. Sekimoto was good as always. Obata part was really enjoyable. Otani did a couple of great things like refusing to go down on some chops by helping himself with the ropes. And the more I see them the more I love Akebono big slaps.

It was not a bad match but I don't really recommend it. If you don't know what to watch it's an ok hour of wrestling. If you don't know any of those men tho, just don't watch it, it's not a must see at all. Now that I think about it I really liked the first 3 matches of that gauntlet. An enjoyable show overall, just nothing to remember.