Tetsuya Naito pinned Kota Ibushi in 22:06 to win the IC title. Ibushi showed up looking in incredible shape. The crowd actually booed Naito early, but by the end of the match they were way behind him in cheering for his title win. Naito was booed again spitting on Ibushi. Ibushi did a double foot stomp and a huracanrana to the floor. Ibushi did a corkscrew pescado with his right knee nailing Naito in the chin. Ibushi did a half nelson German suplex. Naito used a tornado DDT and at this point the crowd was heavily cheering Naito. Next came the spot with the German suplex on the apron by Naito. They did all kinds of big spots. There were multiple high angle head landings by both men. Ibushi acted like Nakamura and went for the bom a ye but Naito moved. Naito hit a destino but Ibushi kicked out. He blocked a second destino and Ibushi hit the GTS. Ibushi hit a last ride power bomb for a near fall. He went for the kamagoye but Naito countered into a high angle DDT, followed by a destino off the ropes, a poison rana, Northern Lights bomb and another destino for the win. Honestly you could give this match anything from negative stars to ****3/4. As far as drama and engaging the live crowd, it was a near match of the year. But if you care about performers’ safety, it’s very different viewing and it was hard to enjoy. I think the botched apron spot took a lot of people out of it because the slow-mo was one of the sickest landings, in the sense it looked like Ibushi had broken his neck, and he’s broken his neck before. Mentally you wanted it stopped and they not only didn’t stop, but they continued to do everything they planned. Plus, Ibushi’s selling was so great that it made you think he was completely out, which either made it better for realism, or far too real to enjoy, depending on your viewpoint. Still, this is the modern version of Undertaker vs. Foley Hell in a Cell, which with 20 years of perspective, was a terrible thing because of all the stunt bumps it encouraged and how guys got into the business thinking they could get over by doing that stuff rather than wrestling. That said Foley was hurt far worse in that match. What they did in that match was more dangerous. It did make Foley’s career and he’s made a career of doing talk shows based largely on that match. It helped make Jim Ross the legendary voice of a generation with his impromptu call. It’s one of the most famous and vivid matches of all-time. I hated that one when it happened even worse than this, yet it became part of wrestling legend. And for all the same reasons, this one is probably going to be copied and admired, and that’s all wrong. But in wrestling if you study history, being wrong very often works to your advantage and becomes mythical. Hopefully not here. The good news is that the worst injury came from the head-butt, but why is anyone getting hurt from a head-butt. You either work the head-butt and it’s perfectly safe, or you shouldn’t be doing it at all, because we’ve learned too much to be doing shoot head-butts.
I agree with the Ishii rating, Ishii was an absolute GOD in that one. I'd go really high on the Dragon Lee match too. Shingo/Kojima was pretty good but just a regular lower card match really.
attitude maybe more people would post there but like i said what do i know.
I was thinking of doing a G1 thread with some history and whatnot but I'll fall behind with the tournament as usual, so probably better for someone else to start it. I'm glad the big Japanese shows have their own threads, it's a good sign 
give us Penta and Fenix in a block 
