YAMATO~! brings the hate~! TINIEBLAS~! and DR. WAGNER JR.~! don't really have a match! YOSHITSUNE~! has a name that gets censored~! DEAN~! might be a touch excited about GIANT BERNARD~! vs. YUTAKA YOSHIE~! And also his match with HIROOKI GOTO~! SUPER PANDA~! NEGRO CASAS~! The DARK KNIGHT~! GRAN HAMADA~! LENNY LANE~! TOOTSY~! TWO ISSUES~! ONE MONTH~! SUCK ON IT BITCHES~!
HIYA~!
It's kinda amazing what a bazillion wrestling downloads and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of downtime can do for our ability to review wrestling. This might be the silver lining to the economic downturn cloud. Orrrrrrrrr..... we just really like to hear ourselves talk. Despite the pseudo quick turn around between this issue and last, Dean is still another year older. We will try to keep it down for him. And as a birthday present - I even tried to edit this one... remember I said TRIED. Let's get on with the show Grandpa...
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DRAGON GATE INFINITE #123
(01/03/2009)
[by DEAN RASMUSSEN]
I always download these Infinity shows and now that I have a new process of not
burning anything before I actually watch it, it gives me a renewed FERVOR to
watch this crap and get it off my hard drive- into the ABYSS or to be
SHOWBOATED~! on a dvd at a future dorkfest. It is a giant, integrated lifestyle
now.
Naruki Doi/ Naoki Tanizaki/ m.c.KZ vs Shingo Takagi/ Dragon
Kid/ Taku Iwasa:
Hey, it's TNA guy Doi! And I saw that Shingo guy have a good match
with Kevin Steen at the ECW arena last year (actually that was Go Shiazaki. I
can't remember who I saw Shingo wrestle. I know it was in that hockey rink in
Edison, NJ. Either way.) And I saw m.c. KZ get his head crushed last week on the
DG PPV. Tanazaki and Iwasa I'm fuzzy on but I know they start it off and they
run around really fast. Doi and Shingo run around really fast and then they beat
up Dragon Kid for while. Dragon Kid must be hitting 31 or 32 by now. I remember
when he was pissing off Eddy Guerrero on Worldwide by blowing every spot
attempted. Ah, the past. they don't really beat on Kid long as the match wanders
off to beating on someone else. Doi keeps running over and punching Dragon Kid
in the face and I'm assuming there is a fabulous backstory to that that would be
apparent to me if I actually watched - as opposed to just burned- Infinity
80-122. Doi and Shingo try to beat each other's ass but they do it too fast for
you to give a shit. In the immortal works of Harley Race, "Slow it down or it
don't mean nothing!" They stereo piscados to the floor and nobody in this match
weighs enough for me to give a shit about a regular highspot. Doi does actually
kill DK by powerbombing him from the shoulders of Shingo on the toprope to
counter a very elaborate hurricanrana with the KZ frogsplash which allows DK to
be legitimately beaten to death until the match loses focus and they Doomsday
Device Tanizaki. This match is a mess; a list of spots that build to nothing.
They do like ten finishers in 2 minutes and nothing means anything more than
anything else. Tanizaki pins somebody and this really resembles more of a game
of Duck Duck Goose than a wrestling match. "Everybody just keep hitting
finishers and one who is the middle of the ring when the ref claps his hand will
be the winner!" This match sucked ass. Thank you. I shall move on and so...
shall YOU.
YAMATO/ Cyber Kong vs Gamma/ Susumu Yokosuka:
For the Belts! I'm glad I can pick Cyber Kong and Gamma out of a
line-up because it helps me peg the other two. Oh right, Susumu Yokasuka used to
be Susumu Mochizuki back in the olden days. YAMATO has hair a la douche and he
and Kong are assaulted before the bell. They kick YAMATO in the face a lot in
the corner and I kinda want to kick him once myself. He spits a lot into Gamma's
face TO COMEBACK~! and Cyber Kong does his Warlord-based offense for a few
minutes and you remember that not all 80s wrestling was spectacular. YAMATO has
removed his little skirt to show the world his tiny tiny pants and now I really
want to smack him one. God, YAMATO is the Tully Blanchard of DG- maybe I love
him because I instantly hate him. Gamma spits TO COMEBACK~! and I'm spotting a
trend in this match. Susumu wins a battle of lariats with Cyber Kong and then
loses several lariat experiences with Kong. All four do an elaborate and way too
choreographed rope-running section to set up Gamma Air Raid Crashing YAMATO who
then fights out of Black Tiger Bomb to procure the Douche-a-matic Sleeperhold on
Gama. YAMATO hits a very DOUCHEBUSTER for two to allow Cyber Kong to hit the
shittiest looking Greetings From Asbury Park you will see. Cyber Kong does the
truly fabulous Three man Dangerous Backdrop on Susumu via YAMATO. YAMATO and
Susumu elbow each other in the face and Susumu wins the lariat race when Gamma
uses a Kendo stick. then EVERYBODY runs in and you haven't seen so many
smooth-skinned, thin Japanese boys since you last wandered to the free section
of Manhole Japan on-line. THEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT... and it's SABU! Sabu realizes
that he was supposed to defend the IWGP junior title three blocks away and
sprints from the arena. They run around and Shingo beats up everyone. And THEN
THE LIGHTS GO OUT..... and IT'S JAKE THE SNAKE! Arai gets on the mic and starts
a "Fuck Sabu!" chant! Gamma hits a Skytwister Press to pin Cyber Kong and we
HAVE NEW CHAMPIONS! Gamma legit gets on the mic for 45 minutes and I guess I
should start the IWA-Midsouth postmatch jokes. Either way, that was perfectly
fine even with the overbooking because YAMATO is the most hateable douche I've
come across since Johnny Gargano in PWO. And wrestling needs more guys you just
instantly hate. Word to your mother.
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RIPPA'S MAGICAL MYSTICAL
YOUTUBE JOURNEY!
(by PHIL RIPPA)
This little adventure started when I decided that since I did a cover dedicated
to the Tinieblas that I probably should take the suck bullet and review at least
one match. So I went to YouTube and figured well let’s see where the related
links take me. And so it begins...
"Tineblas" vs. "Dr. Wagner Jr"
The reason the quotes are used is because when I did the search this was the
only “match” that showed up, which confused me. First – the reason no matches
came up was because I didn’t realize that I had dropped an extra “I” from
Tinieblas thus the wonky search. Second – this “match” isn’t a match as it is
two random kids in a Mexican High School (or maybe a border town in Texas,
California, Parts Unknown, take your pick) wearing masks and killing time in
study hall while a girl with an insanely high pitched squeal records it on her
IPhone. Clearly this isn’t the real Tinieblas (Sr. or Jr.) as the kid is much
more of a bumper. Plus, I don’t think the actual luchadore has as varied of an
offensive arsenal that this kid is busting out. Though he does have the cardio
of a Tinieblas as the entire clip is five minutes long and the kid is gassed
well before the time limit is reached. I mean they needed a run in by a fat
Konnanesqe girl near the end so it was very close to AAA booking. Doc Jr.
clearly let Tinieblas take advantage of him including taking an unprotected
brainbuster on the school floor. (Which I so giggled waaaaayyy too much at.)
Anyhoo – six minutes of two kids having a wrestling match in the middle of
school with not even the closest hint of some sort of adult supervision. Pretty
good educational system…
Not realizing at the time that I had
misspelled Tinieblas , I decided to start this train over again. Since I had
found the Abby/Zeus match the last time, I decided to try my luck with Puerto
Rico again. I figured “YOU KNOW! Carlos Colon had to wrestle someone absurd! And
someone else clearly had to put it on YouTube!”
Carlos Colon vs. Stan Hansen – Cage Match (WWC 3/87?)
I skipped the 4 dozen matches versus Abdullah the Butcher and the couple against
Hercules Ayala because I have seen enough of those to fill several nightmare
filled lives. Of course, this had Stan Motherfucking Hansen in it (who
apparently sucks now and wasn’t a big man. Grr….) Anyway – this is joined in
progress and the commentary is piped in from a studio, which sucks because it
mutes out the crowd entirely. It appears to be from something called Havoc WWC
and this match is labeled a “Classic of Lucha Libre” – well now. The crowd seems
molten especially near the end but, alas, we will never quite know for sure. Oh
and this is Escape the Cage rules which is irritating, though fits in with the
ending I guess (we will get to that soon enough.) When the clip starts, both
guys are already bleeding a ton. Not shocking since it is PR and CC – still
would have been nice to have seen how we got from Point A to Point B (of course,
the three bits of offense Hansen gets in this clip are him kneeing Colon
directly in the face. I would figure that might have had something to do with
it). Most of what we see is Hansen selling like fiery hot death as Colon works
over his leg. Colon trying to apply a figure four is about as awkward as me
trying to get a date. Hansen does his best to salvage something out of it as the
way he sells the figure four is the way that every fucking person should sell a
figure four. Out of nowhere the locker room empties – which you will know
because the camera zooms allllllllll the way out to make sure you can see every
last person in the Stadium. There is a lot of “Hey! There is Jason the
Terrible!” or “That might have been Bobby Jaggers’ ass!” moments. Basically, the
heels are storming the cage to try and get in and soon the faces follow to
prevent this. I did think “Holy Shit! That is the skinniest fucking Headhunter
ever but then I realized that it was T.N.T. Oh Savio… how your waist has
expanded. Anyhoo, Colon hops out of the ring to join in the brawl (and win the
match which is kinda glossed over), headbutts Jason the Terrible in the mask -
which he sells for a half a moment. Poor poor non-lethal hockey mask. I
shouldn’t criticize too much, though, since Colon gives JtT a giant kick to the
groin and JtT totally keeps on going about his day. Everyone brawls to the back
and we get a star wipe to end the clip.
Carlos Colon/El Santo vs. Barabbas/El Rebelde Loco – WWC
(1975)
This is Papa Santo so I was all sorts of excited since I have seen
very little. 1975 Carlos Colon is amazingly cut and has an outstanding afro that
clearly showed that footage of Oscar Gamble was making its way to San
Juan. The ring appears to be set up on home plate in Hiram Bithorn Stadium and
it is kinda quaint in its lack of height. Barabbas might have the greatest
wrestling beard ever. When you have a bald guy compensating for the fact that he
is bald by basically having his beard running entirely around his head you have
entered the land that is “Professional Wrestling”. (Shit - between him and the
Satos later on, I was truly blessed with the great hair this issue.) El Rebelde Loco has a mask
that says “I just finished robbing the checking cashing shop. Boy, this tube
sock really wasn’t up for double duty.” I have no idea why they kept showing
this one woman in the crowd. It might have been the future Mamma Santo. She
didn’t seem too interested in the match but it also could have been that she was
just waiting for the creepy old cowboy standing next to her to make a move.
Watching the clip a second time, it appears that the shots of Santo’s baby’s
momma are used to hide cuts in the actual footage. Of course, they could have
easily have just had a six minute two falls match. You will stay for the Santo
knee lifts and crazy tope. You will leave because of the 30 additional crowd
shots.
Blue Panther/Mistico vs. Averno/Mephisto – CMLL (1/21/06)
Remember how when Raising Hell came out and Run-DMC blew your fucking
mind? They were doing stuff you had never heard and you realized right then and
there that you had found something that spoke directly to your soul. For the one
and only time in your life, you were hip and cool. You listened and got Run-DMC.
This was what life was. It was what your parents get promising you that you
could have. Something to believe in. Then they go and remix King of Rock into the fucking Degeneration X theme song.
And X-Pac wore fucking overalls in the entire god damn video. Oh No! NO REV!
DON’T CROTCH CHOP! OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!
Remember all that? Yeah – that’s exactly what this match is like. Fuck, don’t do
it Blue Panther. Don’t team with Mistico. OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! STOP RAISING
HIS ARM!!!! Ooof….
KAORU vs. Cynthia Moreno – HAMADA UWF (Sept. 1991)
I was so disenchanted by the last match that I knew there was only
one thing that could ease the pain. Sweet sweet Hamada UWF. This amazingly is
the only match that came up when I put in “Hamada UWF”. Oh as an aside – if
anyone actually films Hamada’s new Mexican Wrestling League, that would be an
immediate ME WANT DOWNLOAD! Otherwise, Alfredo will be getting the rest of my
paycheck. Say what you want but Gran Hamada is so like my #1 guy I want putting
on shows. Dean was all sorts of excited when I noted
that I was reviewing this match and KAORU’s early nineties sports bra made me
decree “both hands on the keyboard” for Dean until this issue comes out. God
this fucking rocks. Cynthia Moreno is all sorts of tiny (I mean when you are
importing people and KAORU is still taller than you, you might need to find like
Chapparita Asari to tell you which stores carry your size) and great. After
KAORU figures out that Cynthia Moreno wants to work from the right, she goes
“well then this is the arm that I will motherfucking destroy”. Yeah – I so do
not envy the first person who went for an unwanted boob feel. The normally quiet
– especially when watching the opening match with two youngster ladies – starts
to really get into Moreno’s aerial offense. Of course, they also dug KAORU
briefly turning it into a brawl after completely jumping over Moreno on the
outside (I told ya she was tiny). The ladies really start to break down lucha
style and I could watch this all day. Mmmmm…. KAORU.
~!~
~!~
AULL or UWE (3/15/2009)
[by DEAN RASMUSSEN]
I assume this is all the same day. It is all coated in the usual indie lucha
mystery. I saw the results for the SUPER PANDA~! match so that's definitely the
fifteenth. Does it really matter? If it's the wrong date, change your polyester
pants and we shall get on with the reviewing. Pussies.
Los Lacandones vs. Gretor/ Dinamo:
Los Lacandones resemble the Ding-Dongs at first glance so I am in
love already. They are also fat guys. Dinamo has the less elaborate get-up but
neither technicos are great shakes and you are reminded that many lucha opening
matches are pretty much unwatchable. And this is quite the listless little
affair. And its only one fall, which kinda pisses me off. If you are going to
suck, at least suck for a half hour in a proper Lucha Libre match.
Kilvan/ Blade/ Blue Monsther vs. Enrique Vera Jr./ Acuarius/
Tootsy:
Worked on the street is that Tootsy is good. More giant wads of local
guys which is always fun if inconsistent in its quality. But come on, you're sick of
seeing the same choads every week so REJOICE with me. Blue Monsther is fave in
this- because I love any wrestler whose name can double for the name of a dildo.
Plus he has his name written on his pants so I'm 1/6th of the way there. Enrique
Vera Jr. can use a heapin' helpin' of pants so you know this could be quality
undercard lucha. Tootsy and Blue Monsther hookem up and Blue Monsther has a fun
and baffling wad of matwork to throw at you and Tootsy rolls with it and their
sequence of wrestling was enjoyed by DEAN. BM throws a lot of armdrags between
the leglocks and he is my favorite lowgrade Dos Caras of the match. Evil wins the
first caida as they all the rudos flop around trying to apply a submission.
Acuariaus and either Kilvan or Blade start out but the other of the
indistinguishable rudos helps his other half SO I WIN! Blue Monsther spanks
Vera's tiny pants in the buttocks section to make you remember that Mexico is an
odd country. Monsther brawls to the floor and truly dig him as a man and
wrestler as he forces Vera to bump flailingly into the audience and this is
quite the fun little sloppy ball of wrestling. Technicos hit the triple lung
blower for the second fall and the lung blower has officially outlived its
usefulness. Third caida is total mess for the first four minutes. Tootsy then
uses his own ass for 45 seconds to bump Blue Monsther in the face; knowing BM
and the Vera spanking, I'm not sure if this is really the hilarious yet hellish
beating Tootsy should be dishing out. They flail around with finishers and saves
and Vera hits the worst dropkick you will ever see- unless you go back and find
a Konan dropkick back in the early 90s. The technicos win and this match wasn't
good, but there is no way you could hate it.
Terry 2000/ Fantasma De La Opera/ Rey Krymen vs Sadico/ Robin
Maravilla/ Rocky Santana:
This starts out as a mess and makes it all the way through the caida
without ever rising above a mess. The second segunda starts out as a mess except
this is a mess more listlessly executed than the first caida. Third caida starts
with Robin Maravilla trying to unmask Fantasma De La Opera and kinda meanders
from there. Good God, will the Super Panda match ever get here? Though this
picked up at the 17 minute section- with mostly Robin Marvella hitting some nice
spots, this match will you hate wrestling a little more than when you started
watching it.
Iron Master/ Chacal vs Super Panda/ Mister Potro:
Hey! Super Panda! Actually, fuck Super Panda, Iron Master and Chacal
are crazy ass stompers. Iron Master shows YOU his naked buttcheeks! Chacal has a
nice corner lariat. God, Iron Master needs some pants. Super Panda is really
fat and agile so DO actually love him. But the beatdown by Chacal and Iron
Master was waaaaaay the most fun of the first caida. They even do the Only Giant
Swing I Can Stand- the one with the dropkick. Oh yeah! It is more of Iron Master
beating the shit out of Mister Potro and I really dig these guys. Potro has a
really fired up comeback and hits a dropkick and Piscado and it allows Super
Panda to show off his fat boy offense for a second. Potro and Iron Master are
carrying the match though. they brawl on the floor and Potro is awesome getting
the crowd behind him kicking the hell of Iron Master. Iron Master superkicks to
go back on offense and decides to go after the crowd- so yeah, this is pretty
fucking great. MEANWHILE, Chacal is de-masking Super Panda and beating the fat
boy to death. Chacal is not afraid to punch Super Panda dead in the face. This
is pretty fucking great. Iron Master wins the caida with an assisted powerbomb.
Second caida starts with Iron Master hanging on by his heels before hitting the
floor- only to be crushed by Super Panda off the top. Panda is also bleeding
like a fucking freak. The crushed rudos can't answer the count and we all are
scared that Super Panda might actually BLEED TO DEATH. Third caida starts off as
awesome as the rest of the match with Iron Master beating the shit Potro then
beats on Super Panda. Potro backdrops Iron Master and the technicos go on
offense and they are as brawly as the rudos and I love this match. Potro crushes
Super Panda with a chair accidentally and Iron Master eliminates Super Panda.
The rudos decide to beat the shit out of Potro but he rolls through a facebuster
and eliminates Chacal and they have figured out how to make this match go
longer. I concur 100%. Iron Master and Potro do some nearfalls- and Chacal
cheats to help when he can. Potro finally gets the submission and I want to see
all four these guys again.
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MICHINOKU PRO (12/12/08)
(by PHIL RIPPA)
There were two reasons for downloading this whole card after Desu put it up. One
was that Schneider and some other folks were pimping the main event. Two was the
fact that it was SURVIVAL MOTHERFUCKING TOBITA! God, for it to be 1999 again.
Shibaten vs. Rei
If I had known they were going to clip the match featuring the Santa
Birdman down to two minutes I wouldn’t have even bothered. Aww… and true match
time was 4:53. Poor poor keeping the avian man down. I have no such sympathy for
the former Milanito Collection AT.
Rui Hiugaji vs. MEN's Teioh vs. Shinobu
HEY! It’s a three way! HEY! It’s MEN’S Teioh! HEY! He wrestles while
reading a book! Ooof… I think it was manga which makes it all the more annoying
since I still want to murder the 15 year olds who would come in sit on the
floor, read the manga and graphic novels and not putting fucking away anything
they touch and not spending any fucking money. I haven’t fucking worked in
Borders in almost a year and I am still bitter about that. Grr… The match is 10
minutes long, clipped down to like four. It’s wacky M. Pro. You know what you
are getting into.
Kesen Numajiro vs. Jinsei Shinzaki
You know, Shinzaki looks good for a 8000 year old man. And let me
just say for the record that I still am not over Numajiro not being Yone Genjin
and it has been what? Seven years? Oh Michinoku Pro – you are getting so big.
Nothing too memorable outside the fact that I still really dig Numajiro’s hip
attacks. Of course, it’s a ten minute match and both guys are struggling with
breathing at the end. The match felt like it was a part of one of those
Wrestling Reunion shows. I mean I was half expecting Bill Apter to come out and
present everyone with a plaque afterwards.
Kagetora/Rasse/Shinjitsu Nohashi vs. Takeshi Minamino/ken45°/Maguro Ooma
Oh you wacky Dragon Gate/El Dorado/Michinoku Pro guys and your 8532
different gimmicks. Also, as an aside, Kagetora might have my favorite random
line in a Wikipedia entry as someone put “He has wrestled many famous wrestlers
including Jinsei Shinzaki.” Oooooh…. Shinzaki! Of course, you would think that
maybe would be on Nohashi’s page… you know, the guy actually doing basically the
Shinzaki gimmick. God these boys are all over this issue and I know I am not
going to be able to touch the Kagetora drinking story that Dean has cooking for
170 (TEASE~!) so I should probably just
move this right along. I will say that there is a whole lotta hair in this match
that gives me hope for the future of sleazy indy feds. This is the standard
Japanese Indy 6-man… except they skip the whole “everyone gets in and feels each
other out and then the heels beat on Nakanishi” part and go straight to the
dives and kicking out of finishers. This is a perfectly acceptable eight minute
sprint.
Final Decisive Great Space War ~ Operation to Rescue Ultraman
Robin:
Shu & Kei Sato vs. Great Sasuke/Survival Tobita
God – this is what I miss. Oh Victor. Oh beloved Federal Agent. How I miss ye
so. This is the goofy shit that I could watch all day or at least for awhile
until the novelty wore off. Let me see if I can explain this absurdity. THE
BACKSTORY: (at least what I could piece together. I would assume the truth is
nowhere close to this.) Great Sasuke wanted to get at those nasty Sato boys.
Ultraman Robin said “Well gee Pa! I am ready! Let me at them!” That didn’t turn
out so hot and UR got “captured” by the Satos. A distraught Sasuke tries to find
out the whereabouts of probably not so young and definitely not so thin Ultraman
Robin. This is also not so good of an idea. During his beatdown, who should
arrive on the scene to make the save but MOTHERFUCKING SURVIVAL MOTHERFUCKING
TOBITA!!!!. (FUCK ALL OF YOU AND YOUR LACK OF LOVE FROM THE MAN WHO IS MAKING
THE UNIVERSE SAFE!!!! WERE YOU WILLING TO TAKE ON THE OUT OF CONTROL BOX?!?!?!?!
WERE YOU WILLING TO TACKLE THE TASK OF CONTROL THE POTENTIAL OUTBREAK
MONKEY?!?!?!?! YOU PUSSIES HID UNDER YOUR BEDS WHEN THE MONSTER OF LANGUAGE AND
VIOLENCE SHOWED UP!!!! FOR SHAME!!!!!! Ooff… sorry.) Tobita shows up ingniting
the spray of an
aerosol can which gets censored so we can’t accuse the Japanese of not being
green. At least when it comes to that there wrestling. All the while, Sasuke
cuts his promo while being crotched on a ladder. Don’t ask. Just like don’t ask
about why the Satos would kidnap UR when he clearly was going to put a dent in
their food budget. I mean last time I looked I don’t know how much scratch two
guys with tremendous skullets were bringing in. Unless there is a weird Japanese fetish
that I want to know nothing about. Also do not stop to question why the rescue
of UR required the ring to have a little miniature city built in the ring –
complete with working train and anti-gravity toy top thingy. I could see if someone was working like a Mothra
gimmick or something but yeah. And then the complete kicker is that Sasuke
decides that he needs to dress up like Batman… excuse me… the Dark Knight since
we don’t want to infuriated the Heath Ledger fanboys (poor poor Rey Jr. all he
wanted was a goofy Wrestlemania outfit) or Christian Bale.
Meanwhile, the Satos wheel out UR. The reason I say wheel out is because UR is
hanging from a cross made of aluminum so they were shuttling him around on a
hand truck. Of course, since UR is hanging from said cross, the poor
unsuspecting children of Japan have now been exposed to this horror. It will
corrupt them horribly so. I would say so since I think any respectable Messiah
would be able to get himself down from any predicament that involved being bound
by Reynolds Wrap. The match itself is a total and complete cluster and stinky.
It is clearly a “love it or hate it” affair. It is far too goofy for me to hate.
Clearly, protecting the Universe has caused Survival Tobita to forget how to
punch. Or sell for that matter. Generally, there is a lot of nonsense. Someone
(Fuck, I forget who it was now) drives a motorcycle around ringside which is
used for spots… including the old let’s run over a photographer trick. Yeah – I
couldn’t help but giggle there. Now despite being able to see the neck brace
under the Dark Knight gear and the fact that this is a bizarro comedy match –
Sasuke decides well I am going to bump like a freak. I mean there was a
motorcycle bump that was unnecessary but at one point Sasuke does what I guess
was supposed to be an Atomico while the Satos are on the ring apron. To say that
didn’t go as smoothly as hoped would be an understatement. It is kinda silly
that Sasuke is doing this all, though, who am I to doubt an elected official.
“THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW TO PROTEST THE LACK OF SOCIALIZED HEALTH
CARE!!! DOES OBAMA HAVE THE BALLS TO DO THIS?!?!?!? WHERE IS YOUR MESSIAH
NOW?!?!?!?!” Somewhere during this mini-marathon (I think all of this goes for like
a half an hour plus), Ultraman gets freed, Sasuke gives him a hug and everyone gets
on the STICK~! Let me remind you that this is in the middle of the match. The general gist is that UR wants his
revenge now and since Mephiros Seijin also was helping the Satos out – it’s now
a six man. Paul Heyman clearly approves. Fuck – if someone told me right now
that it was booked by Heyman, I wouldn’t have even batted an eye. You know that if
Paul E. saw this match he too would wonder why he didn’t book the destruction of
a city in the middle of the ring. Or why he didn't have Tommy Dreamer and Raven
fight over who got to wear the vest straight out of David Bowie’s Labyrinth
closet. The only reason I know this wasn’t booked by Heyman is because UR didn’t
go all Patty Hearst and turn on Sasuke and Tobita. The finish is UR doing a
crossbody off the top rope onto Mephiros Seijin which is great because a) it's
about the worst crossbody ever and b) Great Sasuke so hadn't gotten out of the
way yet. Yeah... that couldn't have felt good on his superhero neck. Yeah… all of this should be
watched just…. well… misty water colored memories. OH! Make sure to stick around
to see Sasuke escape on his Batcycle… which is a pea soup green Yamaha (or
something). Nothing beats a superhero driving along concession stands with his
right turn single on. Especially, when the aforementioned superhero turns left.
THE DARK KNIGHT DOES NOT OBEY YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS!!!! SUCK ON IT RIDDLER!!!! YOU
WILL NEVER CATCH ME NOW!!!!!
Yoshitsune vs. Hayato Fujita Jr. - Tohoku Jr. Heavyweight
Title
All the kids on the net were talking about how this was a nifty
little match. I am assuming they all tweeted each other. Like I am young and
hip enough to fucking know how. Fujita somehow manages to sock himself in the face
with his doorknob in a sock rally towel thing that he has going – thus slightly
sullying a neat entrance (or perhaps enhancing it depending on your warped point
of view). This is really good. I think the thing I liked the most was the
intensity both guys were bringing to everything they were doing. Fujita was
laying in the kicks and Yoshitsune - kind flying soul - wasn’t afraid to land on
the top of his head for everything. There is one point were Yoshitsune says
“Yeah – not only will I fly through these chairs but I will crash into the wall
at a shoulder crushing angle”
all in the name of making Fujita’s brawling even better. God – Fujita does such
a king size selling of all the damage to his sternum. Well, it might not have
required too much selling as Yoshitsune kept double foot stomping the hell out
of him, including one off a second floor landing. Fujita – for a kid who looks
like he might not have to shave - did a bunch of great looking triangle chokes, my
personal favorite being the DDT off the top rope into the triangle choke. Man
this was enjoyable. There weren’t any blown spots… at least that I can remember,
which is a little surprising given how much wacky flying Yoshitsune tries to do.
I think the only time where I went “well I wish they hadn’t done that” was when
Yoshitsune basically did a headstand (which came out of a weird blocked rana/possible
Styles Clash spot) so Fujita could kick him. Y’all should watch this. And if you
don’t think it got all sorts of misty when Shinzaki (in his kickass suit) is
reading the title proclamation and getting all choked up and they are showing
shots of Fujita’s ecstatic mentally handicapped sister/cousin/friend you are
crazy. It’s things like this that make me love professional wrestling.
~!~
~!~
REAL JAPAN PRO WRESTLING (03/01/09)
[by DEAN RASMUSSEN]
Yuta Yoshikawa/ Hayato Mashita vs. Keita Yano/ Akifumi Saito:
Keito Yano is wee. Yoshikawa and Mashita I've seen before somewhere.
Newer BattlARTS maybe? Yano I've seen in the new BattlARTS, I'm pretty sure.
They do about four minutes of sloppy matwork. Yano uses his wee feet to kick
Mashita really hard and I'm digging the little fella the most. Mashita punches
our little friend in the face and Yano kicks him back and this is no longer
listless. Yoshikawa has a budding assholishness that may make him worth
following, but this match is forgettable in its slightness.
"Kamen Shooter" Super Rider vs Tomohiro Ishii:
ALLRIGHT! Our boy Ishii versus.... ooooh shoot, what's his name...
the shooter guy from DDT back when DDT first showed up.... guuuuh... hold on.
EEEHHH! I turned FORTY THREE yesterday so I GET to forget things like this. So
yeah, fuck the world, he's Kamen Shooter Super Rider and he used to that guy who
used to be that guy. Ishii is pissed off while WALKING! to the ring. He hates
you and your pussy-assed pussyness. KSSR is littler than the guy who I can't
remember who he is so this FINALLY comes full circle- as I TRULY don't know who
KSSR is. KSSR kicks Ishii and Ishii laughs at KSSR's pussy-assed pussy kicks.
Ishii does the shootstyle stomp to the head after crushing KSSR with a MANLY
forearm to the back of the head. Ishii calls KSSR a fauncy-pants fannyblaster
and escapes his submission and elbows KSSR in the head a whole lot. They trade
headbutts but Ishii's are far far more manlier. Ishii applies a headlock and
starts laying in the chops. KSSR starts crying under his pretty little mask and
tries to escape by procuring a Triangle Choke. Ishii scoffs at his girly non-Pro
Style and powerbombs out and BEGINS TO SHOW THE WORLD HIS UGLY FACE!!! Ishii
gets guff from the sob-sister ref so he throws KSSR to the floor and throws him
through an entire section of chairs and beats him to death with folding chairs.
He then gets in the ring and tells everyone in the building to suck his dick. He
then TRULY lariats THE LIVING FUCK out of KSSR off the apron. KSSR goes insane
on the floor and rips off his pretty GAP purchased shirt and punches the crap
out of Ishii and then SApinning DDTs him and hits a missile dropkick!!! Ishii
responds by fucking KILLING him AND the ref with lariats and then upmasks pretty
boy and pees in his mask and heart punches the ref for disqualifying him. WAIT!
KSSR has a back up mask and they go back at it! Ishii brawls like a motherfucker
on the floor, crushing him with chairshots up and down the stairs. They get
pulled apart and KSSR gets on the STICK~! and cries about that time on the
Gilmore Girls when Lorilei and Luke finally kissed and how awesome he thought
TWILIGHT the book was opposed to the movie. Ishii is already busy fucking KSSR's
mom behind the bleachers. Bajillion stars.
Alexander Otsuka vs Super Tiger II:
Otsuka is your Legends Champion! ST2 is fun so this should be a hoot.
4 THE BELT! They are smacky and kicky and you wait for the first big suplex by
Otsuka. Otsuka elbows and forearms like a LEGEND CHAMP! ST2 hits the nasty
straightjacket DDT to procure the triangle choke which morphs into the Rings of
Saturn! ST2 makes with the knees and slaps to procure the Crosswing CHICKENFACE!
Otsuka escapes again and he is a champion on the ropes. He counters a Tiger
Suplex with a takedown and an anklelock. ST2 spins and out is stomped repeatedly
for the effort. Giant spin and half crab and this isn't raising up to the
Greatness Of BattlARTS but its perfectly fine. Otsuka makes with the suplexes
and assorted submissions but it isn't harrowing and cathartic like a good
BattlARTS match. I don't know. Release a Dragon Suplex or something. Kick it
over the top. This doesn't do that.
Gran Hamada/ Sammy Lee Jr./ Kendo Nagazaki vs Tiger Shark/
Black Shadow:
Can Kendo Nagasaki still bring the magic? I am excited about even
more variations on the Tiger Mask gimmick. Ah crap, it's the British Kendo
Nagazaki. Boooooo. I have been baited and switched! Tiger Shark's mask is pretty
fucking swanky- Tiger Mask with shark's teeth. God, Hamada looks like current
day Dory Funk now so I guess his personal Portait of Dorian Gray has caught up
with him. Sammy Lee Jr. Orihara Moonsaults to his death early so I am actually
finding parts of this pleasing. God, Hamada's million year old ass still goes up
for the toprope rana like a fucking champ! Jesus, Hamada takes a brainbuster to
the floor as FUCKING ORIHARA has decided that Hamada will DIE THIS NIGHT! God,
Orihara looks like they scraped him off the floor of a Minneapolis Airport rest
room. Tiger Shark hasn't quite gotten the spinny TM stuff down. The Masks decide
to kill Sammy after beating the old guys to death to the point that Hamada is
stretchered out! STRETCHERED OUT! AWESOME! Kendo takes an STO straight on top of
his head and I'm recovering from buyer's remorse. They beat on Kendo forever
until he vertically suplexes to COMEBACK~! and then hits a SWEET double lariat
to tag in the useless so far Sammy Lee. Sammy is a house a fire and does the TM
stuff smoother than the other two. Kendo tags in and hits the fattest old guy
senton you will ever see and I suddenly totally love this match. Tiger Shark
double DDTs a flapjack attempt and the evil TM trainees beat on Kendo for a
while. Kendo hits a great fucking Western Lariat and TWO fucking beautiful
brainbusters. ORIHARA~! interferes to keep his minions unpinned and beat on
Kendo a while longer until Dark Shadow kills him with a brainbuster for the win.
I dug this match though it all kinda made Sammy Lee look like a total puss.
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuki Ishikawa:
So this goes roughly 7 minutes? Yuki drives his forearm into Suzuki's
face early and they get pissed off and smacky and trade headbutts. They do some
half-assed matwork. Yuki wants a fight, Suzuki is a load. Yuki taps to a
sleeper. BOY! That sucked some ass.
First Tiger Mask/ Tiger Mask vs. Riki Choshu/ Tatsuhito Takaiwa:
Oh Jesus, a MAN- A FUCKING MAN! That is what I am FOR YOU! I am going
to watch this because of love YOU. My beloved and endearing reader, I do this
FOR YOU. Oh holy fuck, here we go. Goddam, Sayama must weight a thousand pounds
now. He should change his name to Tiger Robert Hughes. He should come to the
ring with his twin bother on minibikes. He still gets up for the dropkick on
Choshu, though. So here's to you, fellow aging fat man. Takaiwa beats on TM4
but it's not as hot as TM4 vs. BT is these days. But still, the fact that I can
still give a shit about TM4 in 2009 is tribute to TM4. Sayama kicks Takaiwa and
it looks gnarley because Sayama can put some ass behind it now. Choshyu tags in
and hits a sweet looking brainbuster on TM4. Choshyu SHOOTS on the photographers
at ringside! Oooh geez, it's hard to concentrate. Draft talk on NFL network.
KTMA-period MST3K just finished burning... OH WAIT! Sayama tags in and his
offense is awesome now that he is a fat ass. Nasty kick to Choshu's throat and
nice kneedrop to the teeth. Takaiwa tags in. 6 more minutes six more minutes....
TM4 tags in he and Takaiwa punch each other in the face, which is nice. Choshu
procures the Scorpion Deathlock. Sayama kicks him in the teeth. Choshu kills
TM4 with a RikiLariat but it isn't over. Drifting.....drifting.... Takaiwa and
TM4 trade finishers.... drifint..... wsrow;j;r..... SAYAMA BACK IN! GODDAM, that
was a NASTY fucking tombstone. Okay, Sayama is totally bad ass now in my book.
Fat Boy Diving HeadButt? OH SIGN ME UP! TIGAH SUPLEX HOLDO! SAYAMA! Sudden FAT
MAN SUPERSTAR! Perfectly fine.
~!~
There's no turning back now- I'm under
attack now- I see the skies are open
And I hear the word spoken- SINGLES GOING STEADY You only
perceive
what you believe- You need only
believe to believe- What do you know?- What do you know?
~!~
ANDRE THE GIANT vs. RICKY CHOSHU
- New Japan (06/01/1984)
(by PHIL RIPPA)
Angry Andre in New Japan is so quickly becoming one of my favorites who I am
bitter about not watching more of and considering how much I love the Andre/Stan
Hansen match, I have no one to blame but myself. This was from a IWGP League (and I
know that Andre/Dick Murdoch match has to be floating around and since I have no
memory of it - it will be new to me!). Andre spend the first couple of minutes
distraught and the fans so he was out and about in the crowd scaring the poop
out of them. Just for the record, if I was in the crowd and Andre was headed my
way, yelling in his angry French, I sure as heck would be headed the other way.
Why the fuck Andre never did any of this great "hate the crowd" stuff
(especially the cover the ears in frustrating spot) when he was feuding with
Hulk Hogan is beyond me. Choshu is working exactly as you would imagine. Tiny
babyface trying to use quickness to avoid the giant. Andre does do the great
(and kinda dickish) bear hug from his knees. Well it certainly appears that they
are teasing Choshu bodyslamming and... WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!? DID Choshu JUST
FUCKING BODYSLAM?!?!?!?! AND LESS THAN THREE MINUTES INTO THE MATCH?!?!?!?!?!
AND AS A FUCKING TRANSITION?!?!?! Okay - seriously? Did Inoki just fly Andre
over so everyone could get their rocks off by slamming him? What's next? Is he
going to have one giant line of wrestlers and fans and office space just lineup
to each get their crack? Andre wins by literally sitting on Choshu. From bell to
bell, the match was five minutes and thirty seconds. Weird...
Negro Casas vs Mistico-
CMLL FSE 3/28/09
[by DEAN RASMUSSEN]
God, I haven't seen Mistico since the Black Warrior mask match. I wonder if I
shall be as hip and non-plussed by his stylings. ROLL THE TAPE! Mistico comes
out to a song with a child choir which is pretty awesome. This is FOR THE BELT!
Negro rules the earth so if Mistico ever has a chance for an awesome match, this
would be it. Negro begins the proceedings by kicking Mistico- maybe once in the
peenie area but they miss the shot. Mistico hits a tres swanky tope early,
crushing chubby Mexicans in the first row. But I've waaaay too many guys three
times his size fucking crush people this week for me to get too worked up. But
it was very nice. Casas gets a really quick first fall by hitting a sweet
spinning headscissors into a Fujiwara Armbar. Casas starts the second caida to
procuring a cross-arm-breaker over the toprope and the crowd is super pro Casas
for some reason. He does another CAB over the bottom rope and this is all
psychological and shit. Negro Casas kicks Mistico straight in the face a few
times- and by 10:14 into the clip, Casas has beaten Mistico into your heart.
Mistico sells the arm and gets a jumping kick to the face. Casas hit the fucking
AWWWWWWWWWESOME Dragonscrew through the ropes so it drives Mistico's face into
the toprope and this match fucking rules. Mistico is a wreck and Casas is
all-time great at beating your ass so IMAGINE MY EXCITEMENT! Casas sits him on
the top and Dragonscrews him to the mat and applies the Figure-Four until
Mistico hits the ropes. Mistico is selling like a king. And Casas dropkicks his
knee while Mistico is hopping around and we together begin weeping at the
beauty. MIstico dodges a corner lariat and Mistico gets all fired up, hitting
some kicks and bit of corner facescraping with a dropkick variation at the end to
allow a mortal. Mistico misses a moonsault and Casas dropkicks the knee again.
They roll through some La Majistrals but Mistico's sticks for the second fall
pin. Casas starts the tercera caida by stomping on Mistico. Mistico bounces
around the ring but can't really hit a quebradora because he is selling the
knee- which is a very nice touch. He hits an Asai Moonsault to lead into an
endless roll-up sequence which ends in STALEMATE! Casas kicks Mistico in the
face a bunch because NEGRO CASAS knows what DEAN likes. Casas hits a Tope Con
Hilo just to change things up. Casas kicks Mistico in the face when he gets back
in the ring until Mistico hits a truly sweet Angel Azteca armdrag set up his
no-hands varuiation on the Tope Con Hilo. Casas still is in charge when they get
back to the ring- as Mistico is still selling the knee- and Casas applies the
MEXICAN CEILING HOLD~! and a facebuster for two. Mistico jumps on the toprope
and crushes his own testicles and goes into the TREE OF WOE. Casas stomps on his
face and then goes all suplex crazy. Casas goes for La Tapitia but Mistico
escapes and procures his own until the double two count breaks it up. Casas goes
up top and Mistico catches him on the way- much to the crowds chagrin- and
Superplexes for two. This is really good, but it's not like Casas is in their
with a guy with an actual offense- so you won't be forgetting Casas-Santo 98
because of this or anything. But it is Casas carrying a pretty game technico so
I like Mistico after this than before it. Mistico hits a NASTY Spanish Fly and
Casas KICKS OUT?!?! Mistico's second- whose name eludes me at the moment-
distracts the ref so Casas pulls off Mistico's mask and gets the pin. Yeah, this
was good. Not life changing like ten other Casas matches have been, but good.
Actually, I guess you could consider this a Casas miracle match since it goes
nearly 30 minutes but you never get bored- the key being that Mistico's offense
takes up less than five minutes of the match. That's some rudoing, my boy. And
Negro Casas is your new champion!
Lenny Lane vs. Rick Fuller
- Great Lakes Championship Wrestling (03/08/08)
(by PHIL RIPPA)
It is sooooooo 1998 again. The match is held in a ballroom somewhere in
Milwaukee and we all weep at the glory that is fucking ballroom wrestling. Heck,
the video quality on this clip is so 1998ish too. I mean it's not off a JoMosh
tape or anything but you would think that with the advances that technology has
made in the ten years from 1998 to when this match was shot, someone would have
figured out that having tracking lines at the bottom of the video isn't the
highest production ever . Well, and to invest in a tripod and perhaps a digital
camcorder. The kicker to everything is that Fuller and Lane go out and have a
match straight out of 1998 Worldwide. Fuller looks EXACTLY the same as the last
time I saw him. Lane has acquired this ENORMOUS ugly ass tattoo on his upper
right arm that I don't recall him having before. Fuller still sells kinda
goofily but that has always seemed to be the problem of a big guy trying his
best to make little guys look credible but not quite understanding his own body.
I still love the big oaf. Lane doesn't really do anything memorable except knock
a fat, old lady out of her chair. All in all, I not unhappy that I spent 11
minutes on this. It was a fine #268 vs. #396 kinda match.
NEXT TIME: All the stuff we started writing but didn't actually finish. So maybe some BattlARTS or some IWRG or some Osaka Pro. There definitely will be some Dragon Gate. We need to bump up our HITS~!