Early on Perkins avoided Ibushi's kicks by checking them, countering
them with a Dragon Screw and so on, did a lot of matwork, really leaving
an impression he had come prepared to face Ibushi, as in Ibushi's last
two matches were him just surviving insane bomb throwing. But with them
showcasing Ibushi as the favourite to win the tournament, it'd only make
sense that it almost didn't matter if Perkins did all that and went to
the trouble of cutting off Ibushi's dive, Ibushi was gonna get it in
anyway. Whereas that dive cut-off felt like a big- elaborate
counter-move from Perkins Ibushi doing something like staying on the
apron and hitting a Springboard Dropkick after Perkins had tried to
set-up a dive with his rope trick looked like it just naturally came to
him. The context really makes the finishing stretch work-it would seem
bloated and cliche that was how they'd worked every match. But even in
the last two big Ibushi matches the big nearfalls were based on novelty
and them doing a good job of setting them up and not so much, well,
*really* buying into that they were going to end the match. And that was
the case here. It didn't matter how the Sitout Last Ride was used in
the rest of Ibushi's career, in this tournament it was a killshot, and
this match was the pay-off that they could have and did afford due to
the uniqueness of the tournament. And for Perkins to beat Ibushi at his
own game it would take a bunch of bombs of his own, and hitting his
biggest bomb over and over again and modifying it and boy did they ever
accomplish everything this match could've and should've been. ****
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