3. Kushida vs. Will Ospreay Best of the Super Juniors 24 Final
The story of this match is... different... Both of these men are painted as the underdog walking into it...
Ok... let me break it down. Will Ospreay challenges Kushida for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at invasion Attack and loses. Ospreay wins Best of the Super Juniors 23 and gets to challenge Kushida for the belt again. Ospreay loses again. Ospreay can't defeat Kushida. Ospreay looks to win his second Best of Super Juniors match but has to defeat a man he hasn't been able to beat.
At Wrestle Kingdom 11 Kushida loses the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship to Hiromu Takahashi. Kushida challenges Hiromu to a rematch at Sakura Genesis but is defeated in just over two minutes. Kushida is now using the Best of the Super Juniors as a launching point to get himself back into the title picture and prove he can defeat Hiromu. First he needs to defeat one of, if not the most dangerous type of opponent, a man looking for redemption.
The match starts with the two men reversing and countering each others moves. It's established that the two men are equals with a back and forth. With neither man able to one-up the other the frustration boils over. They begin to kick each others heads in. Eventually they start to go for their finishers but they keep getting reversed. Finally Kushida hits a weak looking version of his finisher from the top rope. Kushida knows that this isn't enough to make his opponent stay down and rolls him through for a second time to get the pin-fall victory.