Cain Justice is a Stone Cold Believer Not a Smooth Talking Man

Cain Justice vs. Kevin Ku PWF 6/8/18 - GREAT

PAS: Cain continues to branch out, heading over to Indiana to fight for the PWF title. Match had a bunch of ideas, some of them they pulled off, some didn't come together, but I appreciate them trying something different. They opened up by taking a collar and elbow tie up all the way out of the ring, and doing some counter wrestling on the floor.  Match picks up when Cain counters a tope awkwardly with a forearm, it didn't come off great but it set up Cain to go after an arm in his traditionally vicious way. Some really nasty stuff including punching the hand and stomping on a crooked elbow. Ku was uneventful in this, I did like him responding to a Tenryu punch by grabbing Cain by the throat and bitch slapping him, but I wanted to see more of his stuff to really make this a MOTY list match. Still I am digging traveling Cain and can't wait to watch his SCI and ACTION matches.

ER: Chalk up another fantastic performance for Cain. This guy has a big ol' bag of tricks and it's only getting bigger, and really the only criticism I have of him here was that he looked so dominating that I didn't buy Ku's comeback at all. Cain just waltzed into Indiana and steamrolled the champ, with Ku's win basically looking like "well he's the champ so here's his victory". Ku's comebacks rang a little hollow to me, because of the torture that Cain put him through. Ku was at his best when he was using Cain against Cain, like when he yanked on one of his exposed toes. But this was the Cain show.  I loved all the ways he was taking apart Ku's arm, stomping his arm, posting his elbow, attacking his hand, loved him tying up Ku's legs, crossing Ku's legs and bending them and stepping on them (I did really like Ku splashing Cain's leg early in the match), Cain was just relentless. My favorite part of the match was this little moment where they were rolling on the mat and Ku gets a little ahead of Cain, and Cain grabs a waistlock and muscles him back up and over. It looked like a position that Cain wouldn't have had leverage from, but he somehow got it. Ku's best moment was definitely when Cain popped him right in the jaw, and I was expecting Ku to sell it like Kawada, stagger around with blinking eyes, plop down on his butt...but instead Ku awesomely grabbed Cain by the throat and just started smacking him. That moment was worth the price of admission. Cain was generous during Ku's comeback, selling his strikes big, going down for a couple throws; but I think Cain was the one who left Indiana looking like the champ.


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