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Austin Aries vs Kenny King
Feeling out process to start, as Aries takes King to the ropes and breaks kinda clean with the double chest slap thing. King returns the favor with the same, so Aries kicks King in the gut and uses his speed to go around King and get a side headlock. Shoving match ensues, and King...bounces his pecs at Aries. Aries responds by chopping those same pecs and backdropping King to the floor. Aries goes for a dive, but King is back in the ring and blocks, then rakes Aries' back and turns him inside out with a clothesline. King sweeps the leg, and Cabana says to put him in a bodybag. The crowd chants to sweep the leg, so King obliges, plays to the crowd, gets rolled up by Aries for 2, and sweeps the leg again as Colt asks if pain is allowed in this dojo. King gets a modified abdominal stretch that Ian calls the Reseda stretch, they go to the floor and King sweeps the leg again. Daniel would never walk again if this happened to him. They wind up back in the ring and King gets a rear chinlock, but Aries maneuvers him to the floor. King tries to springboard back in, but Aries dropkicks him off and back down to the floor, then Aries comes off the top with the double axhandle. Aries rams King into the barricade, then sends him back inside and hits a slingshot rolling senton for 2. Aries continues working King over until King hits a springboard blockbuster for 2. The tide has turned as King hits a leaping elbow in the corner, followed by a t-bone suplex, but Aries hits the kneebreaker/suplex combo, and goes right into the Last Chancery. King makes it to the ropes, so Aries hits a neckbreaker over the second rope, and King tumbles to the floor. Aries goes for the heat seeking missile, but King DRILLS him with a leaping enziguiri on the way down, and that made a very loud sound. Aries piefaces King, but King just starts unloading on him with forearms, then picks him up in a fireman's carry and Aries starts pleading with him that he's his friend and not to do it. King thinks it over, and just rolls him inside. Aries catches him with a small package for 2, King kinda hits the Royal Flush, and Aries is close enough to the ropes to break the fall at 2. Aries is literally clinging to the bottom rope and pulls himself to the floor, grabbing his belts and starting to walk out, but King takes him out with a twisting dive. He picks up the Impact World Title belt, holds it up to the crowd, and stalks Aries with it. Aries begs off, so King tosses the belt, and Aries immediately jumps up, kicks him in the gut, and hits a brainbuster on the floor. Aries picks King up and dumps him into the ring, slowly stalking him and...gets small packaged for 2. Aries quickly follows up with a roaring elbow and brainbuster for the win.
Winner: Austin Aries
This was a bit disjointed, it just felt like their timing was off through a lot of the match and it wasn't a bad match or anything, it just looked awkward for much of the bout.
Jay Lethal vs Kushida
Feeling out process to start, with neither man able to get an immediate advantage. Crowd is split right down the middle as they go to the mat, Lethal taking a side headlock and really grinding on it. Lethal reverses a hiptoss, misses the cartwheel dropkick, but Kushida gets Lethal down and connects with his own dropkick, as well as a trio of dives after Lethal rolls to the floor to catch a break. Kushida goes to the top for the double axhandle, and he is methodically stealing all of Lethal's trademark spots one by one. They fight over a vertical suplex, each man almost getting it, until Lethal kicks Kushida's leg out on a Lethal Injection attempt. Serves him right for ganking all of Lethal's spots. Lethal spends the next several minutes working over Kushida's legs, then he tosses him to the floor and hits a pair of dives, but Kushida counters to an armbar on the third. WOW! Lethal gets the Lethal Combination back inside, but Lethal goes for Hail To The King and Kushida catches the arm on the way down and gets a cross armbreaker. Lethal rolls Kushida to his back for 2, then goes right into the figure four right in the middle of the ring. Kushida makes it to the ropes, and they start trading kicks with one another, then they pieface each other, then go back to the kick exchange. Kushida slaps Lethal, and Lethal responds with a bicycle kick, and Kushida responds to that with a Pelle kick. Lethal with a bicycle kick and a spinning enziguiri, he goes for the Lethal Injection, but Kushida catches the arm coming back and counters to the hoverboard lock. Lethal goes to the ropes, they fight over pinning combinations, Lethal gets a pop-up Ace Crusher, then hits the Lethal Injection and covers for the win.
Winner: Jay Lethal
Another good match, both guys are SO on right now. Lethal moves another step closer to a shot at regaining the World Title.
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