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[quote][i]Originally posted by drmuerto[/i] I just watched the match (which is now on [url=https://youtu.be/_TgbxaQcheQ]YouTube[/url] and I also had some mixed feelings about it, although ultimately I was disappointed with the match. There's no doubt there were a lot of cool acrobatic sequences going on here. I've been a fan of flippy shit ever since the hey day of WCW's cruiser weight division, but it wasn't clear to me why any of this was happening in this match. Perhaps this is a case where the context announcers can provide would have helped. As I was watching I kept trying to figure out what the story here was, and it never clicked for me. Neither of them seemed very interested in winning the match until about the last 4 minutes. Ricochet was being sort of a heel, but not quite. And it wasn't quite like these were two long-time allies who were trying to one-up each other, since neither one was taunting or otherwise expressing self-satisfaction with getting the best of the other gut in a sequence. It just seemed like they were into laying out roughly equivalent sequences for the sake of showing off the (admittedly) really cool moves and counter-moves they'd come up with. Two parts stood out in that regard. First, after that (again really cool) set of moves that ended with them striking a superhero pose, it only took a quick kick an da fore-arm shot for Osprey to suddenly be totally at the mercy of Ricochet for a series of corner moves. In fact, all of the transitions were of that sort with not a whole lot of consequences for it. Ricochet worked Ospery's back a bit, but it never impacted what the latter could do in the ring. Second, at the beginning of the go home section Ricochet took two kicks to the head in quick sequence and after a perfunctory kick out at two was back on his feet setting himself up for yet another attack of the ropes from Osprey. It made it seem like the kicks meant nothing, and made the feed into the move seem convoluted. There was a lot of athleticism on display here, but somehow it felt more like it was in the register of a dance battle than a wrestling match in the context of a tournament that is worth winning. Somehow, it seemed more like a display of athletics than a competition or a fight, and while we all know that wrestling isn't really a fight it's still weird when the fight element gets so lost. [/quote]
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