KEITA In THE °C vs. Naoshi Sano

[6.0] "Good dumb fun. Sano comes out to the Double Dragon theme so this is already 5+ stars. KEITA is still in his weird TDK Joker phase but he's a menace on the mat, snapping on a ankle twist and a side Darce from back mount when Sano tries showing off by offering his back. Sano's whole plan is to basically be a huge coward, turtling (which is when you basically just sit with your back exposed) for the first while. Eventually Sano gets pissed when KEITA keeps outclassing him on the mat and takes his dumb mask off, and so the two instead go into some amazingly goofy lucha where Sano is giggling because it looks so bad lol. Half of the comedy comes from Sano being silly and the other half comes from his uber generic heel work. We still get some brutal stuff as KEITA eats a brainbuster on the mats, and Sano also takes some big stuff like a fallway slam into arch and a ref-assisted senton. The ref takes a bump off a Sano slap and so misses KEITA tapping him out to what was essentially a Yes Lock. Sano hits him with the lamest low blow in existence and a similarly half-assed Axe Bomber, but gets slapped into a Inoki-tribute act as his opponent gets out the Cobra Twist and flying kick before going for a pretty awesome sequence of arm-based submissions until rolling out of a armbar into a cradle to get the pin. Is this match good? Not in the conventional way, but I still enjoyed it. KEITA is someone who can be very hit and miss but the dude knows his shit on the ground and you really get that here. Sano can have great outings however he seemed to be taking it easy with all of the lax stuff on display alongside some very half-assed stuff. This is more of a weird comedy match than anything else, enjoyable nonetheless."