こんな茶番見せられてそりゃ客も離れるわ

そして小川も引退してしまい、ついに丸藤と杉浦の2人だけに

That's not a good thing lol

From what I have heard there are two theories. First one was that misawa despite pushing akiyama to the limits still finds him a tag team wrestlers and that's why have the title drop to ogawa for reasons like ogawa was misawa's partner for a lot of his time. Which is insane considering akiyama main evented NJPW's 4 Jan Tokyo dome defending and retaining the title against then NJPW's ace yuji nagata. Then you have akiyama feeling mentally exhausted and needs time off.

@@dashtoroya2838most likely it was a mix of 1) Misawa getting a timeline for Kobashi to be back (as his intent even upon starting NOAH was to transfer Ace status from himself to Kobashi), and 2) with the choice being “have Akiyama hold the belt until Kobashi is ready to take it off him” or “do a little hot potato with the belt to set up a final Misawa vs Kobashi match to officially pass the torch”, he went with the latter, which also gave him the opportunity to give his close friend Ogawa a cup of coffee with the belt and to also pass it onto Takayama as an “attaboy” for doing business so easily both in moving his freelancing from AJPW to NOAH and losing in the finals of the GHC title tournament in the first place, which then Misawa could take off of him just in time for Kobashi to begin getting built up for his title shot that would then be the focal point of the promotion moving forward from that point. And then somewhere down the line, he still can run Akiyama vs Kobashi for the belt, a still unspoiled, built-from-day-one match at whatever point he felt it was right to pull the trigger on (which turned out to be the 2004 Tokyo Dome show). Akiyama also probably needing a break nearly as badly as Kobashi needed weeks into NOAH’s official start was probably part of it, sure, pretty much everyone high level in the latter half of All Japan in the 90s were the walking wounded, but the business end of things probably played a bigger part.

最後のパッケージホールドは、片方の足は手で抑えて、もう片方は 自分の足を絡ませて、 秋山も足をバタつかせてたから、意識はしっかりあるけど、 足をバタつかせる勢いで、肩を上げられなかったから、これは やっぱ、小川さんの 上手さだと思うよね。

田上と力皇相手に防衛した後、高山に負けた‼️

Nope it was planned as a surprise

普通なら勝ててない

ありがとうございます!小川マジッく小川!

どうなると、そうじゃないの？

​@@user-yk1qi5vs6dそんなピンポイントで5分決着を返せるもんかね😂

I agree with you. Ogawa is one of my all time favorites, but him as the champion was a bad decision. But at least it gave Ogawa vs Takayama which was in my opinion the best performance of his career.