Hideki Suzuki Worth Watching

Hideki Suzuki vs. Shuji Ishikawa BJW 4/19/16

This was Suzuki working his big Puro heavyweight main event. This isn't a style I like as much as quasi shootstyle or maniacal WAR tag, but this was a fine version of that match. They started with some solid, but unmemorable mat work. Match begins to pick up when Ishikawa sits on a chair in the audience and encourages Suzuki to come join him. The slam forearms into each other and Ishikawa dumps Suzuki awkwardly ribs first on the ring apron which was super nasty looking. Ishikawa in control was a little dull to me, his stuff is just a bit short of the kind of real violence that makes the Ishikawa family so compelling. Whole time I just wished he was Takeshi or Yuki. Shuji is really the Mike Von Erich of the Ishikawas. Finish run felt like a finish run, some nasty stuff, but very alternating. I really have no idea what they were trying for with that finish. Not terrible, but this isn't the kind of thing that would make me seek either guy out. Suzuki luckily had some goodwill to burn.