10 Things You Need To Know About NJPW Best Of Super Juniors 2017
6. The Key Matches
There are a number of major matches peppered through this year’s brackets, with three of the world’s biggest Junior Heavyweight rivalries represented in A Block. Ricochet and Will Ospreay produced a series of dazzling bouts around the globe in 2016, and they’ll add another to their catalogue in BOSJ, but that’s not all for Ospreay. He and Marty Scurll have faced-off six times in the past, and will write the latest chapter in NJPW.
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Dragon Lee is the pick of the bunch, however. The duo had a tremendous feud during Takahashi’s recent Mexican excursion, and have fought more than a dozen times. Their matches are always dangerous and unhinged, wobbling precariously on the edge of control, and after producing a classic at February’s New Beginning In Osaka event, they’ll likely bring out the best in each other again.
In the second bracket, KUSHIDA and BUSHI will have the opportunity to revisit their long-term rivalry, while Volador Jr. and ACH should be exciting opponents for anyone else in the block. The fact that three known cheaters in BUSHI, El Desperado, and Yoshinobu Kanemaru are present means that B Block could be rife with shenanigans, however, which could might overall match quality.