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NJPW: Highlights from The New Beginning in Osaka

By Franny Crocker

SAPPORO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 02: Tetsuya Naito and KENTA square off during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling 'The New Beginning in Sapporo' at Hokkai Kitayell on February 02, 2020 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)
SAPPORO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 02: Tetsuya Naito and KENTA square off during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling 'The New Beginning in Sapporo' at Hokkai Kitayell on February 02, 2020 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Etsuo Hara/Getty Images) /
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The Hiromu and Drag- Ryu Lee Reunion We’ve Been Waiting For

I’m happy that the first time Hiromu and Ryu Lee were in a ring together since Hiromu’s return was their tag partnership in Liger’s last match, but for them to share a ring against each other exclusively is what those 582 (thanks, Chris) days were leading up to.

I can only imagine the amount of trust these guys have in each other, their history compounding. That smile on Ryu Lee as Hiromu comes down the ramp says it all, really.

This should go without saying but any match between the artist formerly known as Dragon Lee and Hiromu Takahashi is worth watching, in my personal opinion, and this one is absolutely no different. If you don’t watch any of this fight, at least watch this:

Those constant snap suplexes were poetry in motion. That slap fight in eternity was incredible. Their dives and DDTs outside of the ring were horrifying and exciting. This wasn’t even a fight for the audience, it was absolutely a fight for the two of them.

Their obvious trust in each other through their continuous high-risk, intense moves with a couple hints of Lee setting up the move that originally injured Hiromu – to the audible horror of the audience and everyone else – sets up a future of chasing that ghost and saying “one more” until one of them retires.

Fight forever, boys.

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