10 Best Matches From WrestleMania 35 Weekend

7. Daisuke Sasaki Vs. Konosuke Takeshita (DDT Is Coming To America)

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DDT Is Coming To America was quietly one of WrestleMania weekend's best shows, with the cult Japanese promotion delivering an uncompromised version of their weird and wonderful product on US soil, meshing Shinsuke Nakamura impersonators with big beefy hosses, Joey Ryan's d*ck with blow-up dolls, and cartoonish undercard action with a world-class main event.

It speaks volumes of Daisuke Sasaki and Konosuke Takeshita's ability and star power that they were able to hold the crowd's interest with a limb isolation match after all that chaos. Sasaki ravaged the KO-D Openweight Champion's leg, diving deep into his bag of heel tricks to do so, laying the foundations for a match that grew increasingly destructive by the minute.

These two were trying to kill each other by the end. Sasaki has a way of bumping on his neck/shoulders that makes every move look even more brutal than it should, and his disregard for his own health and safety is something else. At one point he leapt from the top rope, over the barricade, and onto a floored Takeshita with an elbow drop. The thud was as gross as the spot was awesome.

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