10 Live Observations From NJPW’s FIRST EVER UK Tour
1. Gunishment
To the victors went the spoils, then, as Zack Sabre Jr and Minoru Suzuki shared show-closing duties with brilliant promos at the expense of the Chaos lads they'd put in their places across both nights in the United Kingdom.
Avoiding the potential for a mutual appreciation society, an acerbic ZSJ relished the opportunity to mock the local crowd with potty-mouthed petty threats and digs at the various favourites that had fallen throughout the night.
Suzuki may have held two belts aloft and stood atop his stable of wrong-uns and rebels, but it was Sabre that truly shone. The victory over Kazuchika Okada won't disappear from view anytime soon, not least if he can tap out a few more "hunks" in the G1 Climax.
The heels received standing ovations despite the rabble-rousing, from an audience as much in awestruck appreciation of the work as they wore entrenched in the storylines they'd surprisingly been allowed to become a part of for one night.