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I just watched Matt Sydal vs KENTA from The Bitter End and damn it was really great. Sydal really does play the babyface with sympathy role excellently, his facial expressions and selling after some of KENTA's kicks were just brilliant. He got so much sympathy that at some points there were "let's go Matt" chants without the obligatory "let's go KENTA" following. Matt took one of hell of a beating and his little comeback spots were timed to perfection, the best of these spots was the hurricanrana to reverse the Go To Sleep, I knew the result of the match before hand and I still thought that he had grabbed the win with this, needless to say the crowd really popped for it too. The match was ended at the right time as well, there was no overkill with the kickouts at 2. I was never that big a fan of Matt Sydal before this match but he was really outstanding here. This was a match of the year candidate and I would give it ****1/2.

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