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#$#$#$#$#$#$#$ OZ ACADEMY TV SPECIAL
- 2/28/99
(by REV RAY DUFFY!)
Show opens with the GAEA ring seeing the full
moon and turning into the super evil OZ Acadamy ring. There's also
the great goofiness of a group of Japanese women using "Pretty Fly (for
a White Guy)" by the Offspring as the opening credits.
From there we get clips of the hell Oz and company have been raising in GAEA with the super star unit including Oz commenting on the show's line up.
Kaori Nakayama vs. Chikayo Nagashima:
Nakayama is one of the refugees of the FMW women's
division who's more or less the "pledge" of the Oz Academy. Unlike
the other refugee's, she's not super heavy and in general, she doesn't
suck. Chikayo is on a hot streak as when I first started getting
GAEA tapes, she was shakey at times, but in the last few months, I think
he's gotten her confidence and looks sharp. Both girls look pretty
sharp and I think it's happy times for all as Nagashima is usually the
whipping girl of Oz and now has someone lower in the pecking order and
Nakayama doesn't have her royal shittiness Shark carving her up and no
selling all her moves. Nakayama gets in some good stuff. She's
got a good swinging DDT and she pulls off some moonsaults as well. Chikayo
controls for most of the match and ends up getting the duke with the hurty
fishermanbuster. Post match, Oz comes down the ringside and there's
talk between her and Nakayama. Nakayama shows potential and training
with Oz can only be a good thing.
Sugar Sato vs. Devil Masami (JWP):
Devil- who once put an armbar on Eve at Eden-mania
I- offers the handshake at the start of the match. The less that's
said about this the better. Devil really doesn't sell much early
on for Sugar aside from a figure four spot. Sugar gets some offense
out on the floor, allowing her to set up an Oklahoma stampede, but her
offense is pretty much short lived even when she does get some stuff in.
Devil hits two jumping powerbombs which Sugar kicks out of and then staggers
around the ring. Devil does for a third, Sugar tries to rana out
but that's not really happening and rather than kill her like Kawada killed
Misawa in the January Triple Crown match, Devil let's her live temporarily
before hitting the third powerbomb for the win.
Aja Kong(free)/Carlos Amano (JWP) vs. Toshiyo
Yamada/Meiko Satomura (GAEA):
Carloz (the z is because she's from the street...
she comes out to "Gangstas Paradise" after all) is sporting blue hair.
Satomura gets up in Aja's face during the ring intros. Satomura and
Amano start out with headbutts on each other and a sequence were Amano
tried to set up a diving lariat earler but ends up missing it. It
breaks down early as all 4 brawl through the crowd early and the rudas
use chairs to beat on the GAEA gals for a bit. Aja and Amano return
to the ring to return to a normal match, but when Satomura throws a chair
at Aja, it results in more crowd brawling mayhem with Team GAEA getting
beat up some more with chairs, cans and other plunder. Satomura gets
thrown in the ring and plays whipping girl for a while as Aja beats the
fudge out of her for a bit. Amano works for a half crab submission,
which Meiko rope saves out of. Aja works a boston crab, Amano's nice
enough to walk in and grind her boot into Satomura's head while she's in
the hold. Amano ends up eating a corner diving elbow counter to a
corner whip and Yamada is tagged in and works on Amano with a racked leg
hold. Amano gets the tag. Aja bulldozes Yamada a bunch, gets
hit with a diving kick allowing Yamada to tag out to Satomura. Satomura
gets some stuff in before Aja kills her some. Amano comes up with
a neat Oklahoma roll into a cross armbreaker. Things go back and
forth a bit. Satomura tries to do her crossarmbreaker off the second
rope on Aja, but Amano runs in and saves Aja by doing the move to Satomura.
Aja and Amano hit the doomsay device on Satomura. Amano shows interesting
ways to throw someone into a cross armbreaker. Maybe someone should send
a tape Kendo Ka Shin's way so he could vary the way he uses the move since
he uses about 80 million times in his matches. Amano escapes the
reverse gory bomb into the cross armbreaker at one point. We go into
near falls a mania. Yamada blocks an Aja uraken with a kick to the arm.
Her reverse dory special bomb is countered with an uraken. I'm not
sure if I liked the finish to this. Satomura hits the DVB on Aja
which sets up Yamada's RGSB for a two count. Yamada tries to pick
up Aja but she can't so she tells Tommy Ran (my second favorite referee
behind Ted Tanabe) to count out Aja. As Tommy counts and Yamada celebrates
with her back turned, Aja pops up and nails the uraken and scores the win.
I dunno, I liked the playing possum bit, but it was a manami-esque pop
up. The match was solid and stiff, but I was expecting a little more.
Yamada spent a lot of time on the apron, but given this was the second
show that day, maybe she was tired from working earlier. I'd like
to see some more of Amano in GAEA since I don't usually get JWP.
Mayumi Ozaki vs. Mima Shimoda:
The Minky Hellcats lock horns and you get to
watch. It starts with Oz and Mima trying some big moves and them avoiding
each other. They end out coming outside and Mima takes over with a few
chairshots and an ax kick, resulting in Oz bleeding. Oz gets a chain and
starts bashing Mima in the face with it, causing her to bleed. Oz, who's
face is redder than her outfit hits a thunder fire powerbomb for a two.
Mima avoids her uraken with the chain and a tug-o-war ends up with both
women decking each other with the chain. They brawl out into the crowd.
Oz fills the ring with chairs and superplexes Mima on it. Oz's powerbomb
and uraken follow up attempts are avoided and Oz takes a German suplex
into the pile of chairs. Mima tries to sit Oz in a chair and kick her off
the apron, but Oz meets her with an uraken and gives Mima a taste of her
own medicine. Oz throws her back in and hits a powerbomb for a two. Shimoda
tries to catch Oz with the Death Lake Driver, but Oz fights her off and
hits a load of urakens. Oz hits the tequila sunrise for a two. Shimoda
gets the chain and chokes out Oz to get back in control. Shimoda
ties the chain around her ankle and does the top rope somersault ax kick
to get a two. As Shimoda argues with Ran, Oz get the chain and hits
about 4 urakens with the chain. She hits a few more urakens until
Shimoda misses an ax kick and ducks a few. Oz finally catches her with
one final uraken and scores the pin. Post match, Oz and Shimoda share a
bloody embrace. Post match, the Oz Acadamy does their "bonzai!" ritual
to close out the show.
#$#$#$#$#$ BATTLARTS BATTLE STATION-
2/21/1999
(by DEAN RASMUSSEN!)
In case you didn’t know, I REALLY mother fulking
love BattlARTS and this is another in a long list of strong tapes you need
to get for your Finest Moments In Late Nineties Grappling and All Around
Real Pro Wrestling Tape Collection. BattlARTS is fucking SWANK.
Mach Junji vs. Takashi Hijikata:
Mach- who I figured would break out like a mother
this year- has turned all weirdly evil and is aligning himself with the
slightly resurgent Takeshi Ono and ne’er-do-well Orihara.This is clipped
all to hell but Hijikata looks good hitting some nasty suplexes that he
BattlARTSalizes into cool ass chokeholds, but pink-beclad Mach Junji looks
kinda cumbersome in the heel role as opposed to being in the role of the
horse that brung him (freaky shootstyle high-flying). Mach wins with
a flying headbutt- into- single- legged- Boston-Crab (also called the Single-Legged
Boston Crab) ((no doubt stolen from SuperNova)).
Katsumi Usuda vs. Masaaki Mochizuki:
For SOME fucking reason THIS is CLIPPED! WHAT
THE FUCK? SamuraiTV can suck my huge white dink. Anyway, these
two really beat the living hell out of folks. Mochizuki is the prototype
of the new era BattlARTS young punk as he kicks Usuda really hard right
in the face, goes for a few submissions but then throws in a Mor-TAL! and
Springboard Highkick as the final aspect of the weirdo new BattlARTS highflyers
stylistic trifecta is complete (and world famous, now that the world is
FINALLY seeing it all- now that Minoru Tanaka ((it’s most talented purveyor)),
is Top O the Super J boy and all) to move into Usuda’s final submission
sequence as Usuda counters a toprope highkick into a kneebar and then finally
finishes off his flashy and fun-as-hell opponent with a Volk Han-ian mega-goofball
Carny-Cum-Lucha Inverted Step-Over Toehold. Three minutes out of
Ten and I’m all cheesed off still. What the fuck is this, New Japan TV?
Tiger Mask IV/ Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Minoru Fujita/
Ikuto Hidaka:
Fujita and Hidaka are the coolest 1980’s tagteam
in the world! This match rocks- as TM4 and Hoshikawa further prove
that they are SO much more fun in every promotion that isn’t Michinoku
Pro. Fujita and Hidaka are spunky faces and TM4 and Hoshikawa just
beat the living hell out of them like Ono and Ikeda beat the holy living
paste out of TM4 and Hosh last year. Fujita and Hidaka come raging back
with their SUPER TRICKED OUT Midnight Express-On-Crystal Meth double team
maneuvers that are so elaborate and preposterous that CRAZY MAX phone in
and say, “Well, now THAT’s just goofy...” The kinda divide it up
with Fujita and TM4 taking turns being total dicks to each other- as TM4
kicks him in the face a whole bunch of fancy and then foules him exactly
like Sayama fouled TM4 in the last insufferable TM vs TM4 match I saw.
Fujita finds new and exciting ways to break TM4’s knee with assorted springboard
dropkicks and flippy, jumpy kneebars. Hoshikawa reminds Hidaka as
to why he was thought of so highly by your loving author when he was on
that big hotstreak in late 1997 thru early 1998, as he suplexes the flying
crud out of Hidaka and then kicks him in the face a whole bunch.
TM4 finally gets the Triangle Hold on Fujita to take it home as this made
everybody look better than when they came in. The really great dickish
saves on both sides and the FABULOUS Double Tope Suicida clearing out the
fifth row by Hidaka and Fujita puts this waaaay in the “Go Ahead And Get
This Column.”
Masao Orihara vs. Takeshi Ono:
Orihara is Sabu of Japan: an aging midgrade highflyer
who seemed to be the Next Big Thing at one point but ended up sucking in
the indies for a myriad of reasons- mostly because once you saw enough
of his matches you realized that he kinda... well.... sucked. I blame
Orihara for derailing Takeshi Ono for most of 1998 in the Most Promising
Total Asshole In Wrestling Talent Search- since Kanemoto and his crew are
no-selling their way into oblivion and TAKA is just now recovering from
the genius of Vince McMahon. Takeshi would have lost miserably to
the fucking ELECTRIC Shima Nobunaga anyway, but he would have come closer
to be the Brand New Dick if he wasn’t learning how to stink up a match
by learning all of Orihara’s cheap heel tactics and pint-sized Masa Chono-ized
low-blowarific crappy offense. Add that to the fact that Orihara
has guided him to lose the cool Ikeda-esque stiff-as-fudge and stretchy
matwork to ape Orihara’s half-assed Elvis Nakano Doing The Crappiest Aspects
Of UWFi-styled matwork. Now that I’ve told you how bad these two
are let me now tell you that this match was pretty good though- as Ono
goes back to his BattlARTS roots- the roots that are entrenched in the
fact that some of best BattlARTS matches are just some really well-educated
brawls. Ikeda, Usuda, Ono-in-the-old-days, Otsuka, Okamoto, Ishikawa
are all just well-rounded Old School Ass-kickers in the absolute best sense
of the words- Dick Murdocks who kick like motherfuckers and who stretch
folks like Aja Kong in a bad mood. Orihara and Ono approximate a
little of this in this match but actually they just finally get all that
sloppy highflying right that had made their foray into Michinoku Pro such
a disappointment. Plus Ono punches Orihara right in the face really
hard and then kicks him right in the face really hard at key moments and
Orihara takes it like a man so this does go to a real “Puroresu the way
you like it” level. There is a big cool stiff finishing sequence
that leads to the foule-arific ending. This was pretty fabulous by
the end. Mach Junji joins the bad hair lovefest postmatch and the
lotsa cursing interview follows. THOSE REBELS!
Minoru Tanaka vs. Hayato Nanjo:
Ah, it’s another year and it’s another chance-
FINALLY- to make jokes about how ugly Hayato’s mug is. It feels good
really. BOY! Hey Nanjo! What happened to your face? Cheese
grater get away from you? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hey wait! Maybe
sweet love is on your horizon after all. Maybe you could join the Oakland
Raiders as a free safety or something so you could have a go at Schneider’s
mom. Actually, work on your placekicking; she goes in numerical order.
But I kid the quasi-talented, unfortunately unmasked Hayato Nanjo.
He hangs with the FABULOUSLY ABLAZE Tanaka pretty well- getting in his
lowgrade highspots and not fucking up the amazing Tanaka’s fast-as-living-crap
elaborate submission holds. Minoru’s Northern Light Suplex Into A
Cross Arm-breaker is to fucking DIE for in this motherfudger. Hayato
hits a good little midgrade Asai Moonsault which clears out three rows
and follows up with a nice standing Hurricanrana. Tanaka goes all
submission-crazy on him for a while and does the hilariously GREAT Corner
Quebrada Into A Cross-Armbreaker. Hayato busts out the lucha roots
with some swanky roll-ups but Tanaka almost connects on a deadly spin kick
and the NLSIACAB follows and we all weep love’s easy tears. Irritatingly
clipped.
Yuji Ishikawa/ Alexander Otsuka vs. Diasuke Ikeda/
Mohammed Yone:
Mohammed Yone has gotten beaten hideously into
my heart and- here- Alexander Otsuka just KILLS THE LIVING FUCK OUT OF
HIM. This is one of those great,great BattlARTS matches where the
stiffness level is just fucking mindboggling. The fact that Ishikawa
and Ikeda are in the ring together instantly kicks the bar up a bit.
Otsuka - the original Diet Butcher (?!?!?!) and crusher of Marco Ruas’
face- is to BattlARTS like KAORU is to GAEA- lacklustre outside of the
promotion but awesome and vital inside the promotion and here he and Yone
try to get Yone over the hard, hard, hard, hard way and at the same time
set up the MP money match of Otsuka vs Shinzaki. Ikeda and Ishikawa
start the festivites by seeing how hard you can punch someone in the face
without actually drawing blood (turns out to be pretty fucking hard.) Yone
tags in and tries to pick up on the slight advantage Ikeda leaves him but
Ishikawa begins to beat the hell out of him and tags in Otsuka who goes
all old school US Pro-style with Wahoo chops and a Lawler Vertical Suplex
into a Heelhook that Ikeda kicks Otsuka RIGHT IN THE MOTHERFUCKING TEETH
to break up. Otsuka procures the Rear Naked Choke and Ikeda quickly
saves Yone again. Ishikawa runs in and says, “HEY! Let the little pansy
lose like a man!” Yone uses the Ikeda assist to get a key-lock on
Otsuka. Yone makes the tag and Otsuka gets the Ikeda Ass-kicking
he’d always wanted, where Ikeda beats and stretches him until he gets thrown
out of the ring- where Yone gets to kick him and call him a big pussy.
Otsuka jumps back in the ring and counters out of some Ikeda moves and
starts wrestling all over Ikeda’s ass until DIET BUTCHER can make the tag
to Ishikawa and we get back to Ikeda and Ishikawa beating the breathing
hell out of each other and YOUR heart is filled with glee because this
is like the best ass-kicking you will ever see. After a particularly
fantabulous forearm right to the face, Ikeda tags out and Yone starts beating
the hell out of Ishikawa- one of the first instances where young Yone has
actually looked dangerous. Ishikawa counters out as the TRUE story
of the match begins to come to fruition: Ikeda has proven himself
as a real ass-stomper on a billion occasions, Ishikawa won the B-Cup to
further prove he was a badass to accompany his much quieter-than-Ikeda
rise to the creme of skull-crushing, Otsuka beat Ruas at Pride 4 so he’s
got nothing to prove- so that leaves Yone to prove himself to the Big Boys
and he has to go through Otsuka because Ikeda has already mauled Ishikawa
too much to make that a legit route for Yone to prove himself in this match.
Yone starts off with SWANK~! Dropdown Shoulder-To-Shoulder Breaker that
I had NEVER seen and Otsuka takes like a KING. Yone hits a freaky
Powerbomb thing and procures the choke. Ikeda and Ishikawa having
finished mauling each other with sledge hammers or something off camera
on the floor, Ishikawa makes the save. After that they both tag out, so
as to have one last breather before true horror kicks in. Otsuka
and Ikeda end up in the ring as Ikeda avoids Otsuka’s SUPERNASTY Released
Dragon Suplex and gets the tag as we head home. Otsuka hits the assisted
Tiger Suplex as Ishikawa hits the spin kick to the face of Yone as he is
being set up to be thrown on his head- thus achieving win, place, and show
in the Dick Move 1999 Sweepstakes. Otsuka goes out for the knockout as
he does one of the most hellraising Released Dragon Suplexes IIII’ve ever
seen. Incredibly, Yone gets to his feet at eight so Otsuka hits an
EVEN MORE HORRIFYING Released Dragon Suplex and Yone crawls to his feet
at eight. Otsuka- incredulous- Released Dragon Suplexes Yone AGAIN
and Ikeda is cheering him on to get up (as to why I’ll never know).
Yone, who must be delirious and/or really stupid at this point GETS UP
AGAIN. So Otsuka does a FOURTH EVEN MORE BRAIN-STEM SMASHING Released
Dragon Suplex and Ishikawa tells Ikeda to stop this as the ref finally
hits the ten count. Otsuka, the eternal face, is all distraught at
almost killing the burgeoning young prospect and cries a bunch into THE
STICK! Shinzaki appears out of the crowd and offers to kick Otsuka’s
ass at a big card for Michinoku Pro. This match motherfucking RULED
and the ending is absolutely HARROWING in its scope of danger and violence.
You won’t see this in the US, folks. Yone got elevated, Otsuka got
elevated and I got to watch some GREAT professional wrestling. Otsuka is
poised for superstardom as is Minoru Tanaka and Yone is looking to be a
new player in BattlARTS. GET EVERY LAST FUCKING MINUTE OF THIS.
!@!@!@!@!@!@ G-PANIC SPECIAL: 4444
(The 4th Anniversary, April 4 at 4 PM)
(by PETE STEIN)
This is the biggest show in GAEA's history, based
completely around the GAEA vs. Super Star Unit feud, and with the promotion
itself hanging in the balance for the main event. Sakura Hirota actually
gets to give the welcome announcement, and whatever she says has the SSU
laughing their asses off.
GAEA vs OZ ACADEMY SURVIVAL
SINGLE MATCH 3 X 3- TOSHIE UEMATSU/ RIE/ SAKURA HIROTA vs. SUGAR
SATO/ KAORI NAKAYAMA/ CHIKAYO NAGASHIMA.
This is an elimination match set up as a series
of single matches, with the loser getting replaced by the next member of
her team until the entire team is eliminated.
SUGAR SATO vs. TOSHIE UEMATSU:
Both girls are sporting new costumes; Uematsu
has a new black look while Sugar's gone to a white version of what Ozaki
wears. Match starts with a test of strength which ends when Uematsu hits
Sugar with her double-wrist arm salto for a near-fall to a big pop, and
we're off to the races. Match goes back and forth for the first five
minutes or so before Uematsu takes control with a series of missile dropkicks,
but Sugar kicks out at like 2.999. Great heat from the crowd considering
this is the opening match. Sugar comes back with a dragon screw,
Oklahoma Stampede and a diving elbow for a near-fall. Uematsu tries
to comeback but Sugar cuts her off. She places Uematsu on top and
goes for a brain buster; Uematsu slips behind and rolls her up but Sugar
rolls through for a near-fall. Sugar goes for the Liger bomb but
Uematsu flips out, punches her and hits her half-wrist arm salto (Sugar
gets saved because this is another ref who has to sloooooow her third count
down- this annoys me like Toyota annoys Rev Ray and soap annoys Schneider).
Uematsu hits the ropes but Sugar hits the uraken on the rebound for 2.
Sugar heads up top; Uematsu meets her there and teases a top-rope double-wrist
salto, but Sugar knocks her down and they both miss dropkicks. Uematsu
recovers first and goes for the double-wrist but Sugar reverses it into
a TFPB for 2. Uematsu comes back with a rollup, a released German
suplex and a missile dropkick to the back of Sugar's head for 2.99999.
The two trade punches and urakens until Sugar finally catches Uematsu and
pins her with the Liger bomb at 13:47. Great opener.
SUGAR SATO vs. RIE:
RIE attacks at the bell, hitting Sugar with a
fast released German suplex and following with Destiny Hammer for 2.
RIE goes back up top but Sugar catches her in mid-air with her dragon screw>
figure-four leglock combo. Match goes back and forth until Sugar
hits three dragon screws and follows with the Liger bomb on RIE for the
pin at 7:29. Cut me some slack, it's "Bad Nurse" Nakamura we're talking
about here.
SUGAR SATO vs. SAKURA HIROTA:
Hirota gets a mess o' streamers for her intro,
but Sugar jumps her as soon as she turns around and chokes her out with
her gown before the bell even rings. Sugar destroys her with two
urakens, a missile dropkick to Hirota's face and a released powerbomb,
then kicks her around some before hitting her with a TFPB for 2.
Hirota sneaks in a roll-up and gives Sugar an uraken of her own, but Sugar
no-sells and slaps her down. Sugar goes for the Liger bomb, but Hirota
reverses it into a Frankenstein. Sugar charges her, but Hirota side-steps,
slaps on her weird "piggyback" armlock and turns it into a rollup on Sugar
for the upset pin at 2:38. MASSIVE pop, and Sugar takes her frustrations
out on the ref while RIE and Uematsu celebrate with Hirota.
KAORI NAKAYAMA vs. SAKURA HIROTA:
This Oz Academy gig has just been a TOTAL godsend
for Nakayama... nice stretch from getting carved up by Shark to having
actual wrestling matches. She gets to show off the necessary bitchiness
for the role too, slapping a camel clutch on Hirota and talking smack directly
into her face. This is a fun little match with both girls pulling
off some neat moves, Nakayama in particular with this cool jumping DDT
she does as well as a hot Frankenstein off the top. Ending comes as the
two battle in backslide position until Nakayama wins. Hirota gets
wrapped up in the ropes for the save, gives Nakayama an uraken and rolls
her up; Nakayama rolls through, but Hirota rolls through as well and gets
the pin at 9:21.
CHIKAYO NAGASHIMA vs. SAKURA HIROTA:
Nagashima jumps Hirota, gives her a German suplex,
then heads up top and gives her a top-rope foot-stomp before she even gets
her Oz Academy varsity jacket off (I have GOT to get me one of those).
She hits a second top-rope footstomp and goes for the pin but RIE and Uematsu
make the save. And the benches clear! Oz Academy heads after RIE
and Uematsu and before long we've got tiny girls brawling all over ringside.
Nagashima dropkicks Hirota to the floor and heads up top while everyone
congregates on the floor, but Team GAEA moves at the last second and Nagashima
wipes out her teammates with a plancha. Hirota heads up top and gives
Nagashima a plancha of her own. They head back inside, where Nagashima
slams Hirota and hits another footstomp off the top. She picks Hirota
up at 1 and goes for the fishermanbuster, but Hirota rolls through for
2. RIE then comes off the top with Destiny Hammer on Nagashima and
holds off the Academy while Hirota hits two of her Henara Sunsets (think
"Tequila Sunrise") on Nagashima for near-falls. She sets Nagashima
on top and hits a third Sunset off the top rope for 2. Hirota heads
up top but Nakayama knocks her down, then all three Oz Academy members
hit footstomps off the top on Hirota, at which point Nagashima hits a German
suplex for 2. Hirota comes back with an uraken and a wacky rollup
for 2. Nagashima ducks four straight uraken tries; Hirota fakes the
fifth, then leans down and finally hits it on Nagashima. She goes
for it one more time, but Nagashima blocks it and smears Hirota with the
fishermanbuster for the pin at 6:17 and the win for the Oz Academy.
Fun set of matches.
GAEA JAPAN vs. CACHORRUS ORIENTALES-
KAORU/TOSHIYO YAMADA vs. ETSUKO MITA/ MIMA SHIMODA:
Just a huge brawl from start to finish.
Cachorrus dominate the first several minutes after Yamada accidentally
takes out KAORU with a kick; Shimoda ejects Yamada as well and follows
with her Mita-assisted tope con hilo. Mita follows with a tope on Yamada,
who got bloodied up at some point not caught on camera. Yamada and
KAORU get thrown back into the ring and get set up for the railing dive,
but Yamada and KAORU are playing possum and they quickly take out the Cachorrus.
KAORU then slams Mita and Shimoda down, sets a row of chairs on top of
them, and Yamada gives them a taste of their own medicine with a railing
ride of her own! KAORU (also juicing; did GAORA hire the AAA camera crew
for this one?) gives Shimoda two brainbusters onto a chair and follows
up with Excalibur, but Mita makes the save. Mita holds KAORU for
Shimoda, but KAORU ducks and Mita eats a punch. Shimoda comes back and
hits her Aussie (Tiger) suplex on KAORU for 2. Mita comes in and
goes for the DVD; KAORU flips out of it, but Shimoda comes in and chairs
her. Shimoda tries it a second time but KAORU ducks and Mita takes the
chair instead. KAORU's Excalibur gets 2 after she FUBAR's her quebrada.
Yamada comes in and goes for her Reverse Gorry Special Bomb; Mita gets
out of it and Shimoda comes off the top, but Yamada sees this coming and
lays her out with a kick. She goes for it again; Mita gets behind
her, but KAORU comes off the ropes with a clothesline on her. Yamada
goes for her kick off the top, but Shimoda chairs her leg on the way down.
Tommy Ran tries to get the chair out of the ring, but while she does so
Shimoda dropkicks Yamada into the chair and KO's Ran. Yamada finally hits
the RGSB but Ran can't make the count in time. Yamada goes for the RGSB
again; Mita flips around and hits the DVD, but Yamada no-sells (!) and
gives Mita a nasty kick for 2. Mita gets up and gives Yamada two
straight DVDs, but KAORU makes the save. Yamada downs Shimoda with a spin
kick and tags KAORU who hits her Valkyrie Splash (moonsault into senton),
but Mita saves. Mita accidentally hits Shimoda with her Blazing Chop
and Yamada heads up top, but Shimoda moves and Yamada gives KAORU her kick
by mistake. Shimoda gives KAORU the axe kick but Yamada saves.
Mita wraps Yamada up while Shimoda hits the Death Lake Driver on KAORU,
who kicks out. All four venture onto the runway, where KAORU gives
Yamada a quebrada after the Cachorrus move. Shimoda and Yamada brawl
all the way back to the interview area and back while Mita gives KAORU
a DVD on the runway; they then line KAORU and Yamada up on the runway so
Shimoda can give them a revenge railing ride on the runway (say THAT five
times fast =P). Yamada and KAORU get tossed inside and get lined
up for another railing ride; Ran tries to stop them only to get squashed
as well. Mita gives KAORU another DVD and Shimoda hits her with a
rolling guillotine legdrop; Ran staggers over to make the cover, but Mita
knocks her away for not being quick enough. Cachorrus hit KAORU with everything
in their playbook but
she either kicks out or gets saved. KAORU
finally makes her comeback and hits her quebrada off the *light standard*
on the floor onto the Cachorrus! Yamada hits a flip dive onto everyone
on the floor. In-ring KAORU hits the Excalibur on Shimoda but Mita
saves. Yamada takes Mita out while KAORU hits a leg lariat on Shimoda.
Yamada heads over and takes Shimoda's head off with a kick, which allows
KAORU to hit two straight Excaliburs and IMPLODE Shimoda with a running
Excalibur for the pin at 38:27. Just an amazing brawl that never
ends... this'll make someone's MOTYC list for sure based on all of the
action, and you get the added bonus of emotional closure to the old Yamada-KAORU
rivalry.
Footage of Aja Kong urakening the taste out of Meiko Satomura's mouth on multiple occasions leads directly into...
GAEA JAPAN VS. SSU-
MEIKO SATOMURA/ SONOKO KATO vs. AJA KONG/MAYUMI OZAKI:
Aja comes out wearing her Jackie Gleason smoking
jacket- I keep waiting for her to grab the mic and say that "the Bunka
Gym audiences are the greatest audiences in the world!" (A joke only
Jeff Amdur could appreciate.) First several minutes are spent getting
over the novel concept that HEY! Aja's really big and dangerous, Ozaki's
really small but also dangerous in her own minky way, and there's no way
in hell that Kato and Satomura can win this thing. The youngsters
have to double-team Aja to get an advantage as everytime they hit a move
by themselves Aja does her "Did a fly just land on me?" sell-job.
Ozaki finally gets cut off and Kato hits her Dragon suplex but Aja embeds
one of her garbage cans in Kato's head for the save. Ozaki hits a
TFPB on Kato and goes for the casual pin, then moves just as Satomura comes
off the top and hits Kato by mistake. Ozaki hits two urakens on Kato
who goes down for an 8 count; she tries to make a tag but Ozaki's taken
out Satomura. Ozaki beats the crap out of Satomura on the runway
and hits a TFPB there while Aja gives Kato the nickel tour of Bunka Gym's
floor. Aja gives Satomura a windsprint clothesline on the runway while
Ozaki tosses Kato back in; Ozaki then heads up top and Aja joins her to
give Ozaki a superplex onto Kato, but Ozaki gets hurt herself. Kato
tags in Satomura who hits a diving splash on Ozaki for 2, and it stays
even until Aja tags back in and just destroys Satomura with short-arm clotheslines.
She hits the ropes only to get cut off by Kato; Satomura heads in and hits
the DVD, but Aja Toyotas up at 1 and hits another short-arm. Kato
makes the save and hits a German suplex on Aja, then hits her Crown's Gate
finisher on Ozaki while Satomura gives Aja a second DVD, but both SSU members
Norton up and hit stereo fishermanbusters on the GAEA team. Aja blocks
a rinne kick from Satomura and sets her up for her backdrop move off the
top but Satomura gives her a sunset flip off the top for 2. Aja comes
back with a uraken and goes for a brainbuster but Satomura slips behind
her and slaps a choke sleeper on Aja, who stays in the hold for almost
two minutes before finally reaching the ropes. This is the turning
point in the match; Satomura hits the DVD again and Ozaki has to leap halfway
across the ring to save Aja at the last nanosecond. Satomura goes
for the DVD again but Aja gives her the uraken on the way up, then pushes
Satomura into Kato's kick. Aja sets Satomura up one more time, but
Ozaki rushes in and gives *Aja* the uraken by mistake... then does it *again*
after Satomura ducks. Kato takes Ozaki out while Satomura hits the
rinne on Aja, then Satomura hits two straight DVDs on Aja and gets the
UPSET OF THE MILLENIUM~! at 17:19. Yokohama dry cleaner owners must
be licking their chops because the crowd collectively WETS themselves for
Satomura's win. Satomura gets right in Aja's face, and Aja reciprocates
with an uraken that would've had Asahi or NTV break in with one of those
"flash" earthquake announcements if this were NJ or AJ... come to think
of it, Satomura's definitely hearing chimes right about now. MASSIVE pull-apart
follows as the entire Oz Academy has to drag Aja to the back. This
was really beautiful if you've followed GAEA since the beginning, as Chigusa's
top proteges get the biggest win of their career on the anniversary of
their respective debuts and it all comes full circle.
Lioness blows Chigusa off, hangs KAORU from the Korakuen Hall balcony, gives her a piledriver through a table, destroys one of her old "Crush Gals" jackets and lays the smackdown on one of the GAEA executives, which leads to the contract signings for...
CHIGUSA NAGAYO vs. LIONESS
ASUKA:
Slow going to start with the big "spot" coming
as the two trade Sharpshooters, but there's a metric ton of heat for everything.
Chigusa eventually places Lioness on top and hits a huge belly-to-belly;
she goes back up top, but someone in SSU hands Lioness a chair which she
uses to paste Chigusa. Lioness then goes onto the apron, gets underneath
Chigusa and powerbombs her onto a table apparently set up on the floor
by the SSU (entire floor area is darkened, explaining some of the sketchier
details here). Lioness takes part of the table and goes postal on
Chigusa, and before long Chigusa's bleeding a gusher. Lioness continues
to beat Chigusa up on the runway; she then starts to climb up the same
light standard KAORU did her quebrada off of earlier while SSU sets Chigusa
up on a table, but Lioness slips off and doesn't quite hit what she wanted.
The SSU obligingly sets Chigusa up again, and Lioness hits a footstomp
from something like 10 feet up. The SSU piles some chairs in the
ring and hands Chigusa over to Lioness, who sets her up top and hits a
sort of modified Iconoclasm onto the chairs. Lioness makes the cover,
but Tommy Ran refuses to count it. Lioness hits her Liger Bomb; Chigusa
immediately pops up only to get WASTED by a Lioness spin kick. Lioness
covers but Chigusa kicks out at 1. The SSU gets pissed off at Ran
and drag her outside while Lioness sets Chigusa up on a table in the ring;
she heads up top but Chigusa recovers, cuts Lioness off and gives her the
Superfreak through the unbreakable table! Chigusa places Lioness back up
top and gives her the Running Three, but she hurts herself in the process
and can't make the cover in time. She ducks a Lioness kick and hits
a DVD but Lioness kicks out at 2. Chigusa heads up top but someone
in SSU drills her with a chair, which allows Lioness to run in and hit
the Towerhacker Bomb on Chigusa for 2. The SSU tries to bring in another
table; Ran protests this, at which point Aja takes her out with one of
her cans. Lioness tries to drag Chgusa onto the table, but Chigusa
gives her a German suplex off the table; no ref to make the count.
Chigusa goes after Lioness again, but Lioness literally TOASTS Chigusa
by shooting a fireball in her face from point-blank range! Lioness
follows with a second Towerhacker, and Ran (bleeding like a stuck pig from
the can shot) counts Chigusa out at 16:59. This is a title switch
in the truest sense of the word, as Lioness wins the title to GAEA and
becomes the owner. SSU grab the books, give a victory pose and parade
out as the GAEA ring announcer gives a campy "D'OHHHH!" take to the camera
and the GAEA executive sits bummed out. GAEA head to the back in
tears while KAORU and Yamada grab the house mic and promise GAEA's return.
Show ends with Lioness and the SSU commanding various GAEA suits to essentially
"pucker up, Buttercup!"
Overall this was really great with the emphasis
on the youngsters in the opener and the semifinal... dunno what the schoolgirls
back in '85 would've had to say about the main event, but it had its moments.
Get this one.
#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#New Japan Pro-Wrestling
TV
(by REV RAY DUFFY!)
The show opens with clips from the 3/12 WAR show
with Tenryu and I think Nakamaki v. Onita and I think Araya which Tenryu
wins by pinning Araya. Post match , Onita gives a speech about the
Tokyo Dome. I dunno if it's an upcoming match or if it's a model
he's building for art class. An announcer comes over and talks to
Onita. He asks him to do some integrals and Onita gets all pissed
because he didn't study that chapter, so he threatens to get all geometric
on the guys ass.
Yuji Nagata/Kazou Yamazaki vs. Kenji Mutoh/Satoshi
Kojima (JIP):
Nagata is getting beat on by Mutoh and Kojima.
Yuji rallies with some kicks on Kojima and tags to Yamazaki who decides
to play kick the punk. Mutoh tags in and Yamazaki dominates him until
he runs the ropes and hits a Kojima knee. Kojima sets up Yamazaki
for the Mutoh handspring elbow, but Yamazaki catches Mutoh coming in and
answers with a wakigatime. Mutoh escapes, both guys trade dragon
screws before they switch off to their partners, with Kojima dominating
with a lariat and his corner elbow smash/elbow drop. Yuji gets out
a northern lights on Kojima and an exploder for Mutoh before getting another
two with a German suplex. Kojima fights out of a German suplex
with a Kojima cutter. Kojima sets up for his triple lariat finisher
(which I hate because the guy has to stagger around and take 3 hits before
being dropped). Yuji breaks the third lariat with an overhead belly
to belly, but Koji recovers and catches Yuji with a lariat to score the
win. I wasn't big on the finish.
Don Frye vs. Tatsumi Fujinami:
Don, being the All-American Super Dick Heel,
attacks before the bell, resulting in Brian Johnston hitting the ring and
attacking Don before the match starts. This is pretty fun as Don
Frye, a former UFC champion has to sell being in trouble for "The Dinosaur"
Fujinami for like 7 minutes. And it's not like Don spent 6 minutes
of the fight looking for a vendor to bring him a beer or anything.
Don wins with the cross armbreaker and won't break, so Johnston goes after
him again until they're seperated. And as a special treat for all
the LAAAAADDIESS... Don moons Fujinami and Johnston and half the arena.
Post match, Mutoh's interviewed about his up coming match with Frye.
Masahiro Chono/ AKIRA/ NWO Sting vs. Manabu Nakanishi/
Kensuke Sasaki/ Shiro Koshinaka:
This is Chono's new splinter group he formed
since Mutoh took over nWo Japan. AKIRA is Akira Nogami. He's
dyed his hair blond, has shiney pants and looks like he stole the Robin
face mask from “Batman & Robin”. AKIRA plays whipping boy
for a little bit as he takes a Sasake back suplex spiked by a Nakanishi
diving neckbreaker drop. Eventually, Nakanishi gets in trouble and takes
a tope from AKIRA and gets worked over by Chono to set up the STF.
Chono's team works a spot where Sting does the Stinger Splash, whip into
the Chono Yakuza kick and followed by a Nogami top rope splash. This seemed
to be pretty good from what was shown. AKIRA took a crazy bump off
of Choshyu Dos Mil's lariat. Eventually, Chono low blows out of a
German suplex attempt and hits the Yakuza kick to score the win over Mr.
Hokuto.
Jushin Thunder Lyger vs. Koji Kanemoto (JIP)
Lyger and Koji are on the mat and exchange a
few holds. Koji takes over with a chop off the ropes and hits his
turn around somersault senton. Koji sets up for a top rope rana,
but takes too long being a dick and slips off Lyger, resulting in Lyger
doing a Hoganesque bicept pose followed by a second rope drop kick.
His offense is shortlifted as he runs into a Koji frankensteiner. They
fight over a suplex near the ropes which ends in Koji getting suplexed
to the floor. Followed by Lyger German suplexing Koji on the floor and
shotaying him over the ringside railing. This resulted in Koji crawling
back into the ring at the count of 19. Lyger tries to charge him, Koji
hits him with an overhead belly to belly and follows it up with a second.
Koji sets up for the kill, but again plays to the crowd, which costs him
as he runs into another shotay. But with Lyger stunned, Koji takes
him down into a knee lock, working on the leg which is bothering Lyger.
Lyger fights to get the ropes, but falls short once, but makes it on the
second go. He recovers and hits a brainbuster and diving headbutt
for a two. Lyger goes for a powerbomb, Koji slips out and throws
on a knee/ankle lock hold again, going as far to bite Lyger's foot while
putting the hold on as Lyger fights to make it to the ropes. Koji
hits Lyger with a knee in the corner and a back kick to the leg before
hitting the top rope powerslam. Koji immediately goes to another ankle
lock which Lyger again rope saves out of. Koji goes for the moonsault
and finds nothing but knees. Lyger then hits a shotay to the
body and starts working on Koji's stomach with strikes and then drops him
across the top rope with a front suplex. Running Lygerbomb gets kicked
out of at 2 as does a regular Lygerbomb. Lyger hits the top rope brainbuster,
but can't follow up with a quick pin as his knee is bothering him.
Of course, Koji decides to hulk up, Lyger hits him with a shotay to the
back of the head and ends up with both guys hitting simulataneous strikes
until Koji hits the Tiger Suplex for two. Koji hits his moonsault
into a senton and a regular moonsault. OK aside from the dumb ass
no sell near the end. Plus I would have liked to have seen the working
towards the leg submission actually get the win, but otherwise, this was
pretty ok from what was shown.
*(*(*(*(*(*(*(* BATTLARTS BATTLE
STATION-3/1999
(by DEAN RASMUSSEN)
Mohammed Yone vs. Takashi Hijakata:
Clipped to basically nothing, the only thing
worth noting is that Hijikata does a nice Dangerous Backdrop and that Hijikata
picked up the Greg “the Hammer” Valentine facefirst flop when the wily
Mid-Atlantic veteran was hanging around for the B Cup.
Takeshi Ono/ MACH Junji vs. Azteca/ Daiyu Kawauchi:
Azteca and Kawauchi are floating random sleazoid
Japanese Indie wrestlers who seems to be quite proficient and a-okay in
the ring. Azteca has this wacky outfit and does a nice... HEY!! That’s
not all, is it? YOU GO TO HELL SAMURAI-TV! Never mind.
Yuki Ishikawa/ Ikuto Hidaka vs. Minoru Tanaka/
Minoru Fujita:
Hidaka and Fujita go hogwild on the mat as they
hit all these neato rolling submissions as they both go all gleefully carny.
The great Minoru Tanaka stays out of the young punks’ way but he does hit
some wacky highflying to keep the match moving. Ishikawa sells a
bunch for Fujita but it bogs down into sloppiness for the rest of the six
minutes that are shown. Tanaka letting the little guys get the spotlight
is fine in theory and Ishikawa selling for a little guy is good, but there
is a speed and style conflict that Tanaka could bridge better than Best-Malenko-disciple
Ishikawa can at this point. Worth it just for the first mat section
as Morton gives Gibson WHAT FOR! Plus the added attraction of Minoru
Tanaka’s comical silver pants. Actually, Fujita hits a Rolling Cradle
to negate the coolness of the comical silver pants.
Tiger Mask IV/ Alexander Otsuka vs. Katsuki Usuda/
Diasuka Ikeda:
Another in a long line of really great Festivals
Of Hellish Stiffness as BattlARTS serves up the coolness as they hopefully
are positioning for a bloodcurdling feud between SuperAssStomper Usuda
vs the Amazingly and Suddenly Deadly Otsuka- as they really look great
together punching each other right in the muthafrickin face. TM4
has come a long way from being the whipping boy for Ikeda and Ono in that
most harrowing ass-kicking you will ever see last year. Here, he
is REALLY getting the shit beaten out of him by 24-7 KINGS of Beating The
Hell Out Of Folks- Ikeda and Usuda- but the difference now is that TM4
gets in a lot more offense and actually looks all tough and shit trading
kicks and punches right in the face with Ikeda and Usuda. Usuda has
a weird role in this match as he sells an extended ass-stomp as Otsuka
moves closer and closer to total awesomeness as he suplexes the living
fuck out of both BattlARTS elder statesmen- but REALLY concentrates on
killing the hell out of Usuda so that TM4 can do the SWANK spinning heel
kick to the face, that Usuda takes like a MAN. Otsuka’s freaky matwork
and headbreaking suplexes match up well with Usuda’s overall superior brawling
but there are some real nice sections where Usuda and TM4 trade submissions
between beating the hell out of each other. This GOES BROADWAY! and
all who love wrestling stand with mouth agape. Kinda baffling that
Usuda and Ikeda don’t kill the little punk TM4 since he’s RIGHT THERE but
BattlARTS is all about elevating the youngsters and the Otsuka push has
been nigh perfect if you throw out the Road Warriors crap. Otsuka
DOESN’T hit a brainsmashin Released dragon Suplex but he DOES hit a Giant
Swing- so this was actually only so good. TM4 looked great in this
though.
Minoru Fujita vs. Takashi Hijikata:
Hijikata is the odd man out. He’s gained
some weight and looks to be developing into a BattlARTS-style heavyweight
like Mohammed Yone is, but he isn’t far enough along to get a push.
His classmates are these fast highflying little guys and Fujita works circles
around him in this. Hijikata hits some swanky suplexes but Fujita
does the freaked-out submissions that’ll warm your heart and send those
checks to Jeff Lynch. Clipped to fudge.
Azteca vs. Daiyu Kawauchi:
Azteca and Kawauchi are floating random sleazoid
Japanese Indie wrestlers who seems to be quite proficient and a-okay in
the ring. Azteca has this wacky outfit and does a nice pescado and
a Fisherman Buster that’s pretty...HEY!! That’s not all, is it? YOU
GO TO HELL SAMURAI-TV! Never mind.
Tiger Mask IV/ Ikuto Hidaka vs. Takshi Ono/ Mach
Junji:
Hey! It’s evil MACH Junji again! WOO-HOO!
Hidaka is his former morally upright doppelganger but now MACH’s
wearin’ pink, frenchin’ girls, pootin’ out loud,
flippin’ off the press, and has developed a hairstyle so hideous that he
can now hang around Takeshi Ono and Masao Orihara. Hidaka is suddenly Number
One on my Most Improved List as he makes shootstyle waaaaay more fun than
it should ever be- as he channels Dos Caras, Satanico, Rey Misterio Jr,
Volk Han and Yuki Kondo simultaneously as he has the super lucha matwork-cum-shootstyle
matwork-cum- puroresu highflying freakout and it rules. The highlights
included a Springboard Elbow that Hidaka opts to turn into a big flippy
kick to the face. He also hits a cool Double Arm Belly-to-Belly Suplex
Floatover Into A Rear-Naked Choke that rocked like a little weird Japanese
guy applying an unlikely and elaborate submission hold. The psychology
o’the match is the basic story of the older guys beating on the younger
guys on each respective team as TM4 beats the living hell out of MACH!
and then Ono beats the living hell out of cool-ass Hidaka. Finally,
Hidaka and Junji end up together where all the aforementioned cool stuff
is hit by Hidaka to set up TM4 beating the hell out of everyone and then
they all kick each other in the face a whole bunch until TM4 gets a Crossface
Chickenwing for the DUKE! (MACH~! Junji hits the diving Groin-hurter
off the toprope onto Hidaka for quite the parenthetical highlight as Junji
begins gathering the points to challenge Nobunaga’s Throne Of Penis down
the road.) Fun! Fun! Fun!
Tetsuhiro Kuroda!/ Yoshinari Sasaki vs. Mohammed
Yone/ Katsuki Usuda:
WHIP ASS! Kuroda ROCKS! Sasaki is a Sumo
guy that wrestles in FMW and he’s actually not bad at all- though he does
have any eerie resemblance to some sort of Big Van Vader and Aja Kong demonic
hellchild. Yone- beaten into my heart in an earlier review- and Usuda
plus Kuroda should guarantee fine, quality wrestling viewing either way.
It’s a pretty cool straightforward story of the two camps wrestling the
predominant style of their given promotion- thus Kuroda and Sasaki bludgeon
Yone and Usuda with lariats and assorted traditional Pro Style moves while
the BattlART contingent go for the freaked out submissions and stiff kicks
to the face that make their brand of Pro Style so frickin’ great. The key
to the match is that Kuroda and Sasaki sell the submission like kings while
at the same time Yone and Usuda go traditional pro style just as well so
there is a lot stylistic ground covered in a very simple match. Kuroda
and Sasaki are actually a really good tag team, in that Sasaki does all
the big powermoves and makes hellishly hurty looking saves and Kuroda makes
with all the finesse and subtle selling to go along with his own All Japany
MOVESET! Yone vs Kuroda is something worth pursuing because they
compliment each other well- in that Yone’s offense is pretty reliant on
big Pro Style finishers that aren’t suplexes- weird powerbombs, lariats,
Assorted Hayabusacana- while Kuroda is big on cool lowgrade suplexes and
is very lariat intensive- a sort of overly Pro Style Diasuke Ikeda.
There is a lot of shared ground and that made the best parts of the match.
Kuroda with a zillion Shortarm Lariats on Yone.
Alexander Otsuka/ Diasuke Ikeda vs. Yuki Ishikawa/
Minoru Tanaka:
This one was preposterously clipped but the neat-o-ness
still shone through. I’m guessing they cut the beginning part where
it appears Ikeda and Ishikawa were basically finishing up killing each
other. After a ham-fisted SamuraiTV! edit, Otsuka does a bunch of
goofy moves (headbutt into the corner, Counterbalance Broncobuster, GIANT
SWING!) that he finishes off with the Super SWANK Deadlift German Suplex
right onto Tanaka’s scrawny neck. I love BattlARTS because the Suplex
is a knockout attempt so Tanaka has eight seconds to sell it, thus it added
to the rich tapestry of the psychology of the match and shit. Minoru
Tanaka starts in on the second half of the match by trying break off Otsuka’s
arm and beating him with- as he counters out of an attempted Released Dragon
Suplex into a Triangle Hold. Ishikawa tags in after the Ikeda save
and they crimp his arm for a while and apply various Octopus Holds.
Ishikawa starts the I Hate Giant Swings Suplex Train a-rollin’ as he hits
a Dangerous Backdrop and tags out to set up Tanaka hitting a nasty as fuck
German that he follows up with a BEAUTIFUL NLSFOICAB which Ikeda makes
the save on. Otsuka finally gets out of trouble by hitting a horrendously
hurty Cradle Suplex right on Tanaka’s scrawny neck and collapses into the
corner to get the tag. Tanaka and Ikeda share fabulous kicks, Ikeda hits
a big Lariat AND THAT’S IT!! WHAT THE FUCK! Samurai TV upsets me
with their editing of BattlARTS main events! This still rocked. I
think you know what to do when it comes to getting BattlARTS.
%&%&%&%% AJ CLASSICS
ON SAMURAI! (12/84 ---> 3/85-ish)
(by POGO PETE STEIN!)
As we are about to see, 90s WAR has NOTHING on
70s-80s All Japan WRT being the Island of Misfit Wrestlers.
JERRY LAWLER/ JIMMY VALIANT vs. THE GREAT KABUKI/
TAKASHI ISHIKAWA (2/5/85):
And you thought I was kidding! This is
billed as the Oriental Cup final- IIRC this was just a one-match tourney
so Lawler could swing himself some international exposure for the yokels
back in Memphis. Lawler works most of the match while Valiant hangs
around the apron in his "FM 100 MEANS MUSIC" tights (Naimark: "PLAY 'FREEBIRD'!!!")
and mugs more shamelessly than Haruka Eigen, El Brazo and Super Porky put
together. Kabuki's in his mid-30s and feeling frisky- guess what,
he still ain't good. Ishikawa still looks the same and still has
the personality of grocery store-brand cottage cheese. Japanese team
lets the Americans hit some token offense before Ishikawa hits a shoulder-block
on Valiant and slaps the Scorpion on him for the submission in... ah hell,
it was short. Now Lawler can go back home and tell Lance Russell
how he hit the piledriver and had the match won when from out of nowhere
a squadron of sumo ninja robots hit the ring and threw poison-tipped, nuclear
warhead-armed shuriken at him while the evil Jap ref looked on in slant-eyed,
buck-toothed glee. BTW, ref Kyohei Wada (now AJ's chief official)
looks hysterical wearing the sub-Jackie Sato perm.
PIRATA MORGAN vs. TIGER MASK (12/8/84):
I think I just caught a cold from the sudden
change in temperature here. ;) Morgan was just the 80's Lucha MACHINE,
hitting a sweet tope and doing a .9 Jerry Bump
but also supplying the stiffness with some loud shoulderblocks on Tigersawa
in the corner. The crowd's so into him that he's actually more over
than TM, and they're going bonkers as he kicks out of everything in sight
before TM finally puts him away with the Tiger Suplex at around 7 minutes
or so. This needed to go about 40 minutes longer, but it may have been
the best "AJ Super Astros" match ever. Match receives bonus points
for Morgan getting helped to the dressing room by THE MONSTER MENG back
when he was still THE ANONYMOUS SECOND.
GIANT BABA/ MIGHTY INOUE/ TAKASHI ISHIKAWA vs.
RUSHER KIMURA/ RYUMA GO/ GORO TSURUMI (3/9/85):
*sniffle* All six guys attack each other
with the flowers they got from the LADIEEEEEES before the intros, and for
the rest of the match you've got flower petals flying all over the joint
every time someone takes a bump on the mat. This is actually kinda
fun as all six guys haven't quite reached codger status yet and still have
some spring to their step, and there's an issue going on so there's lots
of heat. Go in particular is a riot with his Ligeresque mane.
I guess short matches were the order of the day back around that time,
as Baba's team takes it in less than 10 minutes when Ishikawa uses his
Scorpion again on Go for the submission... and there's something funny
seeing All Japan use Sumo Hall as its "big show" venue.
THE FUNKS vs. BRUISER BRODY/STAN HANSEN (12/8/84):
This is part of the '84 Tag League, and it's
cool as hell because this is the first time I've seen them work a match
that isn't an insane, quad-juice brawl. Brody and Hansen are just
awesome here, with Brody pulling off these GIGANTIC dropkicks and getting
huge hang-time just taking snapmares, and Hansen connecting with some Jason
Elam 63-yard kicks on Terry. Later on Brody gives Dory a backbreaker
onto his knee, then holds him there so Hansen can come off the ropes and
embed the word "MCDAVID" into Dory's chest by way of his kneepad.
Of course there's no way in the world these four could have a clean finish
back in '84, as Joe Higuchi gets bumped and Brody and Hansen use a table
to work over Dory's back. They toss Dory back in and drag Joe inside
so he can count the pin, but Terry grabs Brody's chain; Joe tries to take
it away from Terry, who loses it and headbutts Joe. Four-way brawl follows
and the match gets thrown out around the 17-minute mark. NO JUICE!
I can't stress this enough, even with tables and chains flying all over
the place at the end! More "Spot the Seconds" fun: Terry has to be
restrained from chasing Brody and Hansen to the back by Kawada, who got
to borrow Unka Shohei's Caddy for his hot date with that Keiko Nakano babe
from AJW after the show in exchange for helping out with those nasty Texans
after their match.
ANIMAL HAMAGUCHI/ KUNIAKI KOBAYASHI vs. DAVEY
BOY SMITH/DYNAMITE KID (2/5/85):
More weirdness, as Tiger Hattori is the ref for
this one. Kobayashi was pretty flashy backinnaday with some cool spin kicks,
but Dynamite was the fucking KING of the juniors. It's pretty funny
how blatantly Benoit borrows from Kid's rep- not a knock on Benoit at all,
but the similarities are uncanny at times, especially in mannerisms.
Animal and DBS are more-or-less just there, although DBS pulls off a neat
little move where Kobayashi tries to whip him to the ropes, but DBS pulls
Kobayashi with him and hits a short-arm clothesline in the ropes.
Later Animal does a Samoan Drop on Kid that looks really good in that Animal
doesn't just fall back but actually leaps in the air while Kid is still
on his shoulders; Animal was a legit powerhouse for his size IIRC, winning
all kinds of weightlifting titles. This gets fearlessly booked to
a DCOR after DBS dropkicks both Animal and Kid to the floor after Animal
slaps an airplane spin on Kid; Kobayashi then sends DBS outside and hits
a tope for the DCOR.
HARLEY RACE/ KLAUS BARAS(?) vs. KILLER KHAN/ MASANOBU
KURISU (3/9/85):
Funny seeing Harley get the huge babyface pop
for his intro, but someone out there has to hip me to the identity of his
partner. Burly guy with long, dirty blond hair. Kurisu and Khan try
to use headbutts on Harley, but "Mr. Puroresu" has his Afroturf for protection!
Harley takes the match with his HALF-HOUR VERTICAL SUPLEX OF CRIPPLING
AGONY on Kurisu, which is too funny for words considering that you can
drop a guy on his head now and still not get the three-count with it.
Oh, and Khan never retired- he just grew some hair and changed his name
to Tadao Yasuda.;)
TIGER MASK vs. KUNIAKI KOBAYASHI (3/9/85):
Fun match in a "Super Astros" kind of way- it's
even laid out the same way as both guys hit dives right at the beginning
of the match, then they head back into the ring and work their way from
there. Another DCOR here, as TM suplexes Kobayashi to the floor only
for Kobayashi to hold on to him and they both get counted out on the floor.
I'd go into more depth, but the temperature just hit 97 degrees in NYC
and I've got a cool bath waiting. It was good, I promise.
PWF HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE- GIANT BABA vs. TIGER JEET
SINGH (2/5/85):
Well, THIS is a fine how-do-you-do... here I
am about to jump in the tub, and Singh proceeds to confound me by going
out and having an honest-to-gosh WRESTLING MATCH with Baba. Match
is slow to start (slight pause so the DVDVR readers can all yell "Well,
DUH!" at me), as Baba works over Singh's arm with Gianto Wakigatames.
Singh gets some offense in and breaks clean every time Baba gets to the
ropes, drawing ooooohs and ahhhhhhs from the crowd- they're clearly waiting
for the other shoe to drop here, and their patience is rewarded as Singh
nuts Baba, picks him up(!) for a fireman's carry and slaps on a cross-armbreaker.
Baba gets a rope-break, at which point Singh goes into his tights for something,
hits Baba with it and spends the next few minutes playing "Hide The Object"
with Joe Higuchi. Singh stays in control for the balance of the match,
eventually using his Cobra Claw on Baba, but Baba comes back by hitting
a headbutt and a piledriver. He then slaps on an abdominal stretch
and Singh submits (holy crap!), so Baba retains the PWF title clean.
Rusher Kimura runs in post-haste, which allows Singh to grab his sword
and work over Baba some while Rusher gets on THE STICK and talks about
how the IWE boys REALLY drew the house at that Budokan show back in '79.
Shockingly un-horrible match, as Singh was perky and the psychology was
good.
As far as the Samurai! classic shows go, this
one's pretty good. Worth getting just for the Funks match alone,
but the juniors are also good here and even Baba's cronies are entertaining
in their own way. Worth a shot for you retro types.
)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+) MICHINOKU PRO
BATTLE STATION! on SAMURAI! TV- 3/99.
(by DEAN RASMUSSEN!)
Chaparita ASARI vs. Saya Endo:
I think it’s Saya. There are three Endo’s
I know of and this looks like Saya but she dyed her hair blond. ASARI
is as lowgrade lucha as you remember. Skytwister Press hits Saya/Mizuki/Nobue’s
right on the knees and she sells it as a finisher, so there you go.
Pilota Suicida/ COSMIC SOLDIER!/ Flying Kid Ichihara
vs. the Convict/ Sasuke The Great/ AKINORI TSUKIOKA~~!!:
This match was waaaaay fun. Cosmic Soldier
does the greatest Shiryu Tope To NOWHERE ever pulled off by man as he totally
overshoots The Convict and flies wildly into the crowd killing everything
in his wake. It looks like he is swallowed up by the ground.
It was wild! Pilota Suicida is much maligned usually but he is quite
a-okay here, as he hits his low-end lucha highspots and keeps the actual
match together when he is in. I heard he is Super Boy’s brother (and
Super Boy is the Convict) and he and the Convict have a quite average lucha
exchange with Pilota blowing a rana. Okay, maybe Pilota is quite the Sicodelico
to Super Boy’s Dos Caras. TSUKIOKA~! has new bad pants and new bad
hair so he doesn’t look like a BattlARTS trainee refugee anymore and he
is all about wacky highspots in this as he FREAKS OUT and does the cool-ass
Apron Moonsault onto Flying Kid Ichihara while the kid is coated in chairs-
ALL as a harbinger for the amazing SWANKNESS of the fucking CHOICE Ringpost
Skytwister Press to the floor which smoked ASARI’s on this same show as
AKINORI fearlessly lands right on his head and shoulder all in the pursuit
of YOUR entertainment. There is a fabulous Highspot Train where FKI, Sasuke
The Great, Pilota and SuperBoy do deulling Asai Moonsaults that set up
the fricking VICIOUS tope by the already ruling it Cosmic Soldier.
Outside of the fabulous highspots, Super Boy rules the roost with his great,
great in-ring lucha stylings- hitting the corner Quebrada and the Phatter-Than-Phat
Senton that makes a real wrestling fan weep in awe and love. TSUKIOKA~!
supplies the finish as he kills FKI with another Moonsault- this one contained
in the ring- on a chair draped about the Kid after hitting the most cool-as-shit
Memphis Piledriver on the pathetic-but-lovable Flying Kid. Sasuke
The Great accidentally crushes Akinori’s tiny skull with a chair to set
up Flying Kid Ichihara’s lowgrade Moonsault for the pin. Dopey unfair
ending, but still FUNFUNFUNFUN!
TAKA Michinoku/ Tiger Mask IV/ El Gran Naniwa
vs. Great Sasuke/ El Gran Hamada/ Pablo Marquez:
This match is quite the mixed bag as Michinoku
Pro pulls itself out of the doldrums of 1998 and starts heating up in 1999
after a few kickstarts. The story of this match is Tiger Mask IV
finally looking really good in Michinoku Pro on his own merits- as he somehow
is the most spectacular flyer in a match with the Great Sasuke and TAKA
Michinoku. Here he is centered, masterful, graceful- everything you
always figured a Tiger Mask should be. El Gran Hamada shows no signs
of aging as is still tight as a tick- hitting his toprope Stone Cold Stunner.
Pablo Marquez- another good worker in this match trying to recover from
the genius of Vince McMahon- is basically a mattress for TAKA to land on
and he gets Michinoku Driven II to take this home. El Gran Naniwa
and Sasuke do MP 1998 Unheated Match Of Boredom By Numbers and sleep walk
through this and wonder where my friends at the SamuraiTV editing room
are. The spirit of TM4 and Hamada make it watchable, the raw highspots
make it watchable, the fact that the other Six-man against CRAZY MAX was
a Match Of The Yaar Candidate makes this one less than awe-inspiring.
I dunno.
Alexander Otsuka vs. Jensei Shinzaki:
Alexander Otsuka has had one good match in Michinoku
Pro- with Danny Collins, Dick Togo, TM4, Great Sauke and somebody else-
way back in 1996 and he does own the title of worst match in MP not involving
Jensei Shinzaki, when he wrestled Yone Genjin in what had to the crappiest
match in Genjin’s less than stellar career. Shinzaki owns a couple
of Crappiest titles in MP: Worst Match Ever: vs Magic Man, Worst Undertaker
Match Ever, Worst Match Involving an actually talented wrestler: vs Shiryu,
and the list goes on. Shinzaki is on a hot streak in FMW and All
Japan but hasn’t let it carry over to his MP matches so that all brings
us to this. Otsuka poised for stardom as he has finally figured out how
to be a dangerous, compelling wrestler; Shinzaki working his way out the
gargantuan hole he dug for himself sucking ass for three years. This
match is a living allegory to what made Shinzaki suck and what is making
him watchable the last year. This match starts real slow as they
take it the mat for eight minutes and it’s pretty decent but this isn’t
Ishikawa and Ikeda where you get the big fun of them doing what YOU and
IIII would do if taken to the mat- which is to punch each other the entire
time while Procuring the Wrestling Holds. Here Otsuka kinda works
on Shinzaki’s leg and Shinzaki kinda counters out for a while until they
get to the Goofy Spot Trade Off as Otsuka does a Giant Swing and Shinzaki
makes with the stupid ropes walking spot which I fucking hate. After
this worrisome beginning, Otsuka opts to make ME love this match by whipping
out the first of a batch of really cool suplexes from both wrestlers.
Shinzaki hits the first of his three cool moves- the Ankle Dragonscrew
while Otsuka goes into assorted Half-crab submission holds to take up the
middle as they move into the big hurty spot section of the match.
AND THEN they start mixing in this other cool twist as they both start
hitting half of their elaborate finishers and countering it with parts
of the other’s elaborate finishers. This all really works because
Shinzaki has one of the shittiest finishing sequences as he takes forever
to set his bad diving headbutts, his praying powerbomb and his shitty missile
dropkick. Otsuka has the truly harrowing finishing sequence of Released
Tiger Suplex to set his Nasty-As-Hell Released Dragon Suplex to set up
his Nasty-As-Hell Released Dragon Suplex to set up his Nasty-As-Hell Released
Dragon Suplex to set up his Nasty-As-Hell Released Dragon Suplex.
So when the first shitty diving headbutt sets up the shitty Shinzaki Stuff
Powerbomb, Otsuka hits his warm-up to his finishing sequence- the Deadlift
German Suplex Right Onto The Top Of Your Head. Shinzaki throws in
the twist of using his SWANK Straightjacket Camel Clutch which is what
he uses en lieu of his shitty finishing sequence when wrestling FMW or
All Japan- but would have disrupted the story of this match, but it was
cool that he alluded to it, even if it was rope broken after a forty-five
seconds or so. Otsuka escapes the SJCC and hits another frickin’ HIDEOUS
Deadlift Powerbomb and then makes with the Super hurty Released Dragon
for a two. Shinzaki sells it like a king and Otsuka is still recovering
from the first half of Shinzaki’s cavalcade of finishers and the added
bonus Camel Clutch so Shinzaki has the gumption to counter the second Dragon
and hit a truly Mindbashing Backdrop Driver to buy himself some time.
Otsuka finally gets back to his feet and hits his second Released Dragon
but doesn’t have enough in the tank to make it over for the cover.
After an eight count, Otsuka hits a Northern Lights Bomb that looked like
it should have separated Shinzaki’s shoulder and gets the THIRD Released
Dragon Suplex but he is all out gas and they take another Eight count to
get to their feet. Shinzaki hits a desperate final transition by
hitting a Lariat and then finally finishes his finishing sequence with
a Praying Powerbomb and the big Black Tiger Driver for the pin at 34 minutes
in. This was real good by the end. I wish the beginning wasn’t
so goofy and stupid but the goodness of the last twenty minutes of the
match more than covered up for it. I liked how Shinzaki used a tired
way of wrestling matches- a way that he wisely abandoned when putting together
the real MOTY Candidate with Mr Gannesuke in FMW and in all of his other
non-MP matches- and finally found someone who could make it work into an
interesting story. Otsuka’s youthful brutality kicks the bad Shinzaki
match into gear as it takes apart the components of his finishing sequence
and matches it with hellish bonecrushing suplexes- thus Shinzaki looks
resilient and the insertion of the cool new moves by Shinzaki (the Straightjacket
Camel Clutch, the Somersault Heelkick and the Ankle Dragonscrew) are dangerous
complements that make his lame finishers look adequate to get the pin.
Otsuka’s selling also helped his own cause as he replaced the BattlARTS
idea of the Suplex as Knockout and thus the extended eight count to recover
from the throw (as opposed to the eternal and psychologically unsound endless
procession of kickouts) with his own selling of Shinzaki’s bigger moves
as a cause for his own inability not to make the cover and thus allowing
Shinzaki time to sell AND recover. A nice bit of wrestling here.
Otsuka’s Michinoku Pro Crappy Match losing streak ends here.
The final match and the Japan Indie Highspot Rally is SO worth the price of admission. Go ahead and get this momma.
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WRESTLING*INTERNATIONAL NEW GENERATION 6/4/95: THE CURSE OF THE BARBED-WIRE
BAT (COMM TAPE)
(by POGO PETE STEIN!)
Not the original incarnation or the FMW edition...
this is Mickey Ibaragi's "Restart" promotion, and it's apparently taking
place in a grade-school gymnasium since Ibaragi burned all of the reputable
buildings in Tokyo at one point or another. Looks like no one would
give him a halfway decent ring either, as this is the scuzziest ring I've
ever seen... there's old blood spatters all over the mat, and no one appears
to pick up on the fact that the apron isn't even on the ring all the way
around. This one's quite the curio tape, for reasons about to be
explained.
MINI ESTRELLAS SPECIAL MATCH- DAMIANCITO vs. CICLONCITO
RAMIREZ:
The former Damiancito El Guerrero gets to work
the infinitely cooler Damian 666 gimmick, as even by typical Mexican standards
he totally dwarves his "maxi," EMLL's worthless Damian El Guerrero.
What this means is that 'Cito wears the "666" facepaint and intros himself
by strolling out of the locker-room singing "La Bamba" before getting "startled"
by the cameraman, at which point he talks up EMLL and W*ING before wrapping
things up with Lucha Pose #8 (staring off to the side, hand extended).
Match itself rocks the house (which is as tiny as they themselves are =P),
as 'Cito gets the Damian schtick in by doing Shinzaki's "praying ropewalk"
before Ramirez pulls his arm away and Cito does a Sailor Moon-esque faceplant.
Later Ramirez sends 'Cito to the floor and follows with his Federally-mandated
"insane Ramirez tope" which sends them both into something like 50 empty
chairs at ringside. Ramirez tries to do a Toyota Roll, but 'Cito
catches him and reverses into a Liger Bomb in a hot spot. Ramirez
comes back to win after 'Cito tosses him into the air, at which point he
comes back down with a high-speed Frankenstein for the pin at 9:57.
Apparently Mickey hired the same folks who edited the FMW videos, so this
gets clipped down to about 2 minutes. Grrr...
AIR WINGER vs. MR. NIEBLA:
Hey now! Niebla was already quite the budding
superstar even a year or so away from becoming an Arena Mexico regular.
Air Winger's greener than a Tijuana opening-match wrestler but he does
some cool spots like a double-backflip into a dropkick on Niebla.
Both guys trade Fiera dives before Niebla drops Winger and hits a beautiful
moonsault for the pin at 8:19.
DOG-COLLAR CHAIN DEATH MATCH- RYU MIYAKE vs. PITBULL
BUSTER:
It's Pitbull #2 vs. Tarzan Scroto's top scrotege.
Buster: "I'm one of the best chain wrestlers in the world!"
Slight pause while Lorefice, JDW, Idol and Kunze howl with laughter at
the irony of this line. Buster squashes the scrotege to within an
inch of his life, finally ending the proceedings with a sub-Cibernetico
elbowdrop and a SICK powerbomb for the pin at 9:55.
SINGAPORE CANE STICK DEATH MATCH- SANDMAN vs.
JASON KNIGHT:
Yikes and away... where to start? Jason
cuts a long promo talking about how he felt envy at seeing Sandman with
Woman, so he's going to win the ECW title tonight, come back to the States
and "enter the Pleasure Zone" with her... and THEN he's gonna set his sights
even higher. That's right- the W*ING Junior Heavyweight title.
Sandman then blows the GoofyMeter COMPLETELY off its hinges by talking
about how he grew up watching Inoki, Baba, and ULTRAMAN matches- and to
prove it, he's got a little Ultraman statue with him. "Who cares
if I smoke a cigarette? Who cares if I drink a Sapporo?" Match
proper is nothing to speak of until Jason sets the Ultraman doll up in
the ring and tries to cane it... so Sandman dives halfway across the ring
and "sacrifices himself" to save the doll. Jason juices Sander, who
comes back by rolling Jason up and pulling his tights down so Jason can
do Metal Maniac's "walk around for several minutes with your ass exposed"
schtick, BROTHER! Sandman comes back after Jason misses a springboard
legdrop with the Ultraman doll, and juices Jason with the cane. He
drops Jason with a DDT, grabs Ultraman, yells "HAYATE!" and hits his old
"Bitchin' Legdrop" finisher for the pin at 8:54. The GoofyMeter gets put
out of its misery with one last bullet to the temple as Sandman cuts a
promo on the Japanese magazines while they play an ETHEL MERMAN song over
the proceedings. TOO WEIRD FOR WORDS.
LUCHA LIBRE MIXED MATCH- DAMIANCITO/ MR. NIEBLA
vs. CICLONCITO RAMIREZ/ AIR WINGER:
They work the best Kendo "spin and hop" spot
I've seen since the FMW 5/5/93 show, so this automatically becomes a great
tape. Damiancito is the pint-sized maestro, hitting a wicked spin
kick in the corner on Ramirez and later hitting a huge flip dive (El Drive-By)
to the floor on everyone. They eventually give up on the pairings
and work a straight tag match with the maxis taking on the minis and so
forth. Niebla sends Winger to the floor, does his awesome hands-free mortal
fakeout, steps to the apron and hits a sweet cross-body on Winger, leaving
'Cito to wrap things up by forcing Ramirez to tap at 7:03 to a luchistically
improbable submission hold... then he throws the Inoki "ichi ni san DAHHHHH!"
pose in for good measure. Great action here... and the fans were
so hot for it that you could hear cameras rewinding in the crowd. D'OHH!
THREE-WAY SCRAMBLE BUNKHOUSE DEATH MATCH!: JASON
THE TERRIBLE vs. GRAVE DIGGER vs. BOOGIE MAN:
Jason delivers the most hilariously awful promo
this side of early 90's Windy City Wrestling at the beginning of the tape
to hype this match up. "Baseball and barbed-wire... juss by isself,
iss a dangerous weapon. Together- LETHAL!... Scramble Bunkhouse Death
Match! Bat Barbed-Wire Death Match Bat! Iss incredible... this
<garbled> could be more... lethal- DANGEROUS! But ihhas to be this way."
Folks, it just doesn't get any better than Jason the Terrible waxing philosophic.
Boogie Man IIRC is J.T. Smith wearing a jumpsuit and a $5 Michael Myers
mask. Grave Digger I have no clue on. First several minutes
is LITERALLY nothing but one guy walking around with the bat until a second
rushes in and attacks him so the third guy gets it away. Lather,
rinse, repeat. HEY! They're walkin', yes indeed. And they're
awful, Digger and J.T. And I'm hopin' that this W*ING will cease
to be. Having run that into the ground, on with the match. =P
Jason does his trademark "ooey gooey blade-job" after Digger rips off his
hockey mask and shreds his face with the bat. All three guys actually do
a dive, with Jason topping the others by hitting the Bloodiest Asai Moonsault
in The History of Our Great Sport onto them. Jason gets double-teamed,
but Boogie Man accidentally sends Digger to the floor with a bat shot and
Jason chokes him out with the bat at 16:27. He continues to choke
Boogie Man out until Digger gives him a chairshot. DDT onto a chair
follows, and Digger chokes Jason out with the bat until the ref stops the
match at 20:57. He continues to work Jason over with the bat as Jason
Knight and Pitbull 2 come out to help him, but Sandman makes the save and
he and Jason shake hands after doing the "misunderstanding" bit.
This shocking turn of events led to a lucrative series of houses for the
reborn W*ING as-- oh wait, they went under and Jason went back to FMW.
This may be the strangest tape I have. Some
good stuff in the lucha matches, some bad stuff in the garbage matches
and the Roger Corman-booked main event, and some truly WEIRD stuff in the
Sandman match. Your mileage WILL vary on this one, guaranteed.
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NEXT WEEK: GEEZ LOOWEEZ! ISSUE 100!
WHAT THE FUDGE?!?
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We are DVD HOLLENDAISE- THREE FISTS IN THE FACE
OF WRESTLING.
"I’ve done all I can do- To get along with you-
still your not satisfied. Ruby. Ruby. Honey are you mad at your man? If
you don’t believe I’m right- then follow me tonight- I’ll take you to my
shanty so cold..."
- BUCK Motherfucking OWENS (written by C. Emmy)
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