The Briscoes vs Kevin Steen/Akira Tozawa
Fun sprint with lots of stiff shots and entertaining personalities. Tozawa riling the crowd up into a frenzy then yelling “SHUT DA FUCK UP” and his screaming contest with Mark were both funny shit. Not anything worth going out of your way for, but I can’t imagine many people not enjoying this.
The Kings Of Wrestling vs Kevin Steen/Akira Tozawa
Steen kind of irritated me in this match, he kind of crossed the line on how obnoxious a babyface can be (why he was a babyface on this show I don't know but that's another rant), but still you aren't watching this for Steen, you are watching this for Hero and Tozawa picking up where they left off from, and that aspect of the match is pretty great. Tozawa was pretty great in this and was a really good FIP, and the Kings did a much better job of working him over and keeping it interesting than they do in their ROH tags. I loved the way they teased and built up the backdrop suplex, and Hero took a hell of a bump on it. I also loved Tozawa later coming in of a hot tag and instantly getting killed by Claudio. There was some iffy selling near the end, but I guess that's just inherent of the style, and it worked in the same way it worked in the first Hero vs Tozawa match.
Kevin Steen/Akira Tozawa vs The Young Bucks
This kind of sucked. The brawling at the start was kind of bleh outside Steen killing the Bucks with powerbombs on the apron and his awesome splash. Tozawa worked an injury angle, so most of the match was spent with Steen working FIP, and he isn't half as interesting in this role as Tozawa, even with a blade job. The Bucks working him over with crappy looking kicks in between posing didn't help matters. Tozawa's final flurry was pretty fun, and the back RAKE got a laugh out of me through shear ridiculousness, but otherwise pass.
Best Of 2011
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