It’s time for a Bad Boy to enter the fray as Dojo Pro enters its fourth round of action…
You know the score here… although this time they haven’t updated the ladder as Wheeler YUTA’s still low. Matt Lott opens up by facing the side camera, before fixating on the one in front of him as he tells us that Joey Janela’s ranked “low at number eight” because of his extreme style being seen as a liability.
Cue the promos, where Janela acknowledges how people overlook him because of his past… while YUTA believes we’re going to see “controlled chaos” on Janela’s part. Joey quickly gets fixed at the “discrimination” of being ranked 8th in the ladder… and they’re spending a lot longer than usual on these promos.
Wheeler YUTA vs. Joey Janela
Sadly, there’s no Protovision for Janela here, nor any decent sound-a-like…
We start with YUTA going for the arm of Janela as they kept it on the mat. Quite literally, in Janela’s case as he trips YUTA en route to an early Figure Four, before the pair rolled back-and-forth to reverse the hold. After escaping, YUTA started to work over Janela’s foot, but the Bad Boy escapes only to get cornered with some chops, which spark the usual chop fest, which Janela comes out on the losing end of.
Janela edged back in as he grounded YUTA with a rear naked choke, but they’re back to their feet as Janela ends up getting pulled down with an armdrag before a back senton crushes him for a near-fall. They keep up with the back and forth as Janela escaped a bow-and-arrow hold before taking YUTA into the corner with a gamengiri, then into another one chest-first as Janela set up for a German suplex out of the buckles.
Some kicks to the chest keep YUTA down, eventually earning a near-fall for the Bad Boy, as the crowd started to get on Janela’s back. That was the cue for the YUTA fight back, with chops and boots putting Janela in the corner, only for YUTA’s tombstone to be rolled out of as he ends up getting sent throat-first into the ropes. Janela’s able to target the arm once again, countering a dive from YUTA into a Fujiwara armbar on the floor as the White Belt was made to pay for his risk taking.
Returning to the ring, a single-arm DDT adds more pain, but Janela ends up crashing and burning from his own risk as a moonsault came up short. YUTA takes advantage with a double-jump dropkick and a Blue Thunder bomb as he started to settle into some of the moves we’ve started to associate with him, before the two ended up fighting on the apron… where Janela snaps ahead with a death valley driver onto the edge of the ring.
After getting rolled back into the ring, YUTA’s able to shrug it off, kicking out from a pinfall attempt as he catches Janela on the top rope, bringing him down with a superplex. Janela rolled to the outside to prevent getting covered, but he’s open as a springboard senton from Wheeler wiped him out, only for a crossbody back inside to nearly cost him as Janela rolled through. Not to worry though, as YUTA’s back in with an Angle Slam-like move he called the Pain Thriller, nearly snatching victory with that, before catching Janela with a Kamigoye-like knee to the face.
Regardless, Janela looked to hit back with a suplex, but it’s reversed as YUTA heads up top… only for his flying elbow to get caught as the cross armbreaker followed. A roll-up gets YUTA free as he applied his own submission hold, with Janela holding on despite the STF and making his way to the ropes. There’s shenanigans next as Janela deliberately unsights the referee so he can’t see a mule kick to YUTA, before a superkick gets the win. Easily the best match of the lot, but Janela’s “bad boy” stuff was largely just a tag until the finishing straights. ***½
The replay shows the mule kick and the pin, as Janela celebrates with the belt while YUTA’s left to rue his loss. Given the format of this show, that’ll be the last we’ll see of him, so if you liked what you saw… I don’t know what to tell you. In lieu of the programme saying so… Google him?