Kevin's Top 500 Matches Of The 2010s (#450 – 441)

450. NEVER Openweight Championship: Katsuyori Shibata [c] vs. Bobby Fish – NJPW Destruction in Tokyo 2016. While the prospect of Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kyle O'Reilly was higher on my list of matches I wanted to see, Bobby Fish getting a crack at Shibata sounded interesting too. Unfortunately, I didn't hear good things about their ROH Television Title match on ROH TV before this one. Luckily, this match delivered. We got treated to some good old fashioned Shibata violence. Fish started by going after the leg but also targeted the neck and shoulder. He trained to attack any part that is available, which I actually like. Like all good Shibata matches, this was a manly, violent battle. Fish was great, yelling for the official to stop the match when he was kicking Shibata's ass. I loved him shouting "FUCK YOU" when Shibata had him in the abdominal stretch. Shibata survived the Fish Hook and, being the absolute madman that he is, delivered a headbutt so severe that he instantly busted himself