(Written by Jom)
This is the first round in a pro-wrestling rules tournament featuring these two along with Watanabe and Iizuka. Basically, the exact same tournament as last time but with different rules and Hayashi instead of Matsui. Hayashi definitely benefits from these rules since he's much more of a traditional wrestler, but Ito hasn't bee a slouch in the pro-wrestling rules matches so far. Both guys do some fine wrestling here, with the story of the match being that while Hayashi is a veteran and has a lot more tricks up his sleeve, Ito's raw power and excellent technique repeatedly allow him to take and keep control. Hayashi is actually able to bust out some pretty cool stuff that betrays his older appearance, including backflipping out of a German suplex and attempting to hit the bouncy kick. He's also able to do a good amount of just extremely solid wrestling, such as a nice back suplex. Ito, for his part in the match, was also pretty good, albeit kinda boring at times. When he's in a pro-wrestling and not UWFi situation, you can tell he's not as comfortable, spending a good amount of time slowly doing his stuff. That doesn't mean he isn't good, as he's able to do some really cool stuff like his fallaway slam and most notably his strikes. The best moments in the match were definitely any time either man went into striking, especially one exchange towards the end. The actual match ending came when Ito connected with a sweet high kick and tried to rebound to the kneeling Hayashi for a PK, but Hayashi was able to counter both that kick and a second one to do a cool headlock rollup for the win. This was perfectly fine, for all the slow moments in the match there were also some really cool ones and the right man definitely won. I'm predicting now that Watanabe beats Iizuka in the next round and goes on to face Hayashi in the finals, mostly to put over Watanabe as the face of GLEAT's pro rules division.
Rating: B
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