PWG Card Subject to Change III, Reseda, CA
This is an ON THIS DAY watch. I have never seen this match, as I’ve never watched a ton of PWG, being that in general I think California wrestling is the shits.
That said, I go into this with high expectations. PWG is very good in small doses and as funny as Low Ki is in general, he is great, generally, and Tozawa rules. This is a first and to date only time meeting.
Working a side headlock Tozawa does some call-and-response screaming that he ends with, “Shut the fuck up!” and everyone laughs, ha-ha-ha, they’re in on the joke. Ki DEFINITELY still has that Kaval pump here in the spring of 2012.
After some slow mat work to prime every hipster jackoff’s pump, they speed it up with that bit where you, like, ALMOST get some pinfalls, and ALMOST hit each other but don’t, and you do that until you both stop and stare at each other and everyone goes WOOOOO, and in THIS SPECIFIC CASE, in fact, Ki asked for the mic so he could go [deep ass voice] “you know damn well you ain’t gonna see that on WWE TV” and everyone is like YYYYEAAAHHHHHH OH MY GOD HE HATES WWE
This would perhaps be more palatable if he hadn’t shit the bed with Doff Zigger toward the end of his WWE run but that is neither here nor there.
And at any rate, bullshitting aside, Ki is simply not suited for WWE, and never was, and EVERYONE knew that, including most likely Ki. He gets into the good, hard-hitting offense on Tozawa here, digging in his kicks and whatnot.
Ki dominates for a bit, but Tozawa gets an opening for a dive. Instead, as he starts the flight, Ki catches him mid-air with a kick to shut down the momentum. All of this makes Tozawa’s comeback run pretty damn satisfying, as Ki was looking confident and controlling, and Tozawa’s got that fast-paced, vocal fire that can really work against a quiet mercenary type.
Tozawa gets a couple dives, some good forearms and shit. Ki comes back landing on his feet on a suplex attempt and driving a double stomp into Tozawa’s chest. Tozawa never quite gets back from there, taking a vicious John Woo dropkick and the High Voltage double stomp from the top, giving Ki the win in a gentleman’s 20.
It’s a good match, never totally catches fire, but easy to watch and given the novelty of the fact they’d never wrestled before and never have again, that makes it more fun, too. Ki is easy to poke fun at because he’s a huge dork, but he’s one of the ATG indie wrestlers and a magnificent wOrKeR when he’s on his game. He and Tozawa aren’t entirely smooth here, and like most PWG (and most indies, really) the match basically has no reason to exist other than it seems cool, but it’s a good time.
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