2018 Ongoing MOTY List: WALTER and Low-Ki Invade Ireland

28. Low-Ki/WALTER vs. Jordan Devlin/David Starr OTT 6/2

PAS: Devlin is a Finn Balor trainee who is the top star in OTT and works an import killer gimmick. He has a big plate of asskicking to work his way through, Ki and WALTER are a pretty intimidating tag team and lay the kind of beating you want those two to lay in. This match was focused on WALTER beating on Devlin and Starr and Ki was more of a secondary attraction. He did have a great scramble in the early part of the match with Devlin that ended up with him grabbing a leg. The double John Woo dropkick by Ki and WALTER was awesome too. WALTER was a force in this, I loved how he would walk through the chops of Starr and Devlin only to obliterate them with a chop of his own. This match would have been really good with a better face team, Devlin was really over, but outside of a fun knuckle sequence with Ki and a great headbutt, his offense was pretty weak sauce, Starr hit some fun crowbarry lariats, but otherwise brought little to the table. The structure was cool enough that even a poor mans Fantastics were going to look good.

ER: I thought this was awesome. WALTER and Ki are an awesome team, like a small version of Andre/Haku. I've not seen Devlin before but he has that same dead eyes FAS look of Balor and some similarly sketchy offense, but he's a guy I like seeing getting beaten down by Ki and WALTER. Starr is a guy we seem to be a lower vote on, but I really liked him in this match. He was a really good face in peril and his offense felt like 90% stiff arm lariats, and those lariats looked neck breaking for the receiver, and shoulder/elbow breaking for Starr. He should talk to Nigel McGuiness to see how his joints are doing these days. But myself, I enjoyed seeing him throw his straight arm as hard as he could at the side of WALTER's neck. Starr took a big beating from Low-Ki, and man Ki just has some of the best looking offense and craziest body movement in pro wrestling. I loved his arm bar/knee bar battle with Devlin, thought the double stomp to both men looked cool, threw some brutal stomps in the corner that looked like they would make someone puke their guts out, and was able to look both above Starr/Devlin, and beatable. WALTER sold their offense appropriately, and we got a couple real quality saves down the stretch, the match believably running 20 minutes without it ever seem like Starr or Devlin should have been dead before then. WALTER's match finishing Gojira clutch is the best submission in wrestling, just absolutely looks like he's smothering dudes while dislocating their shoulder.  I'd love to see this combo kill more guys in more countries, a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.


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