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WRESTLER OF THE DAY: SHINYA HASHIMOTO

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I just need a simple wrestler who wasn't really going to make me think of the WWE or Mania to make the pain go away. Hash eases that pain. Don't ruin this for me fuckers

 

 

This was the match that the group went to that I didn't for reason I can't remember. It is one of my biggest regrets

 

 

 

SHINYA HASHIMOTO vs. STEVE CORINO vs. DYLAN NIGHT vs. GARY STEELE 

MH: At first, we’re bummed because this isn’t a round-robin, but we’re willing to see what develops – BTW, it’s a four-way Iron Man match. That patience is rewarded as this is easily the best four-way match I’ve ever seen, and one of the best matches I’ve seen live this year.
 
(As all four guys face off in the ring and the ref holds up the belt, Hash takes off his headband and throws it at the belt. As we all wonder what kind of symbol of honor/manly challenge this is, he smiles, picks up the headband, and throws it right into the crowd, where Phil Schneider grabs it. So this coming Friday night, Phil will be in the Karaoke Bar where he DJs, putting the blast on every lady that comes in while wearing his signed Hash headband.)
 
PS: The best pre-match antics was Corino verbally destroying one of the sign guy putzes, just making him look like an idiot, to the point where all he could do was pathetically whine “I used to like you man.” Corino is gold on the mike.
 
TKG: As a rule, I dislike 3ways and 4 ways. As a rule I dislike Iron Man (most pinfalls in allotted time) matches. I thought whole night was going to work Starcade 1990 Iron Man style. That said this was smarter and provided a far better match. As all I had formerly expected was some fun Hash beatings and maybe a goofy angle where Rapid Fire Maldonado interferes in Gary Steel match. This also meant 30 minutes of Hash. I can’t think of the last time I’ve seen Hash go that long on tape and here I was going to see it live standing next to Dylan Knights kids and their friends yelling “Go Daddy” and trying to help them get better angles on the action. I also want to say that the too long mic segment by Legrande was probably necessary as Steele needed to be established as a face and his work alone wasn’t going to be able to do it. Cheap heat sucks, but Steele is such an anonymous worker that he at least needed to be established as a face somehow. The segment could have been shortened but it was a good move. I still don’t understand Randazzo’s claim that Hash is the Japanese Rock. In contrast, Hash seemed to have a thick head of flowing hair…no thinning at all.
 
MH: There’s so much to discuss about this match, but the best place to start – obviously – is with Hashimoto. He projected this aura that said “We can wrestle, but don’t make me mad or I’ll chop your left nipple off and then kick it back on.” It was if all of the other guys knew that they were in over their heads, but were determined to go down fighting. And all four guys delivered in spades. I have never seen Steve Corino wrestle a better match, having the conniving heel thing down cold, and trading blows with Hash throughout. Gary Steele is fine in this, but blows a couple of things and honestly gets outclassed by Dylan Night. Night is up for this one, working up to everyone’s level and taking the requisite beating for daring to wear a kicker’s outfit in the same ring as Shinya Hashimoto. But then, all these guys take an absolute shitkicking, with big highlights being Hash’s Cringe-inducing senton onto poor Dylan, and the One True Move From Hell – Hashimoto’s TOP-ROPE DOUBLE-STOMP onto what was once Gary Steele’s stomach. The falls don’t come quickly, but come in bunches when they do. And in true fashion, it comes down to the last seconds, with everyone tied up at 3 falls apiece and Hash kicking the fuck out of Corino and locking on a sleeper to get the deciding fall with 2 seconds left. Great match, I need a tape of it and so do you.
 
PS: This was incredible, I was initially weary of the stipulations, but it worked well, in that it allowed a sense of drama, without Hash having to ease off on what makes him Hashimoto. All four guys ratchet up the stiffness, with even the non Hash sections being super stiff. Corino has great, great punches; they look like Bob Sweetan at this point in his career. Dylan Night had the match of his life, as he stepped it up big and took a beating like a man, also doing some nice heel shtick, stealing the pin from Hashimoto after Hash demolished Steele with the double stomp. He also had a really nice mat section with Corino, as they did stereo submission reversals with Steele and Hash working each other and Corino and Hashimoto working. Hash seemed to be enjoying himself in America, as he worked in some American heel spots, including chasing after Candi (Night’s valet) with a chair, doing a log roll on Night, and even doing a three stooges nose pull. At one point he is pounding on Night and Candi slaps him, and he sells it more then he sold anything for Otsuka.. The end of the match was great, everyone is tied at three falls (although no one pinned Hashimoto) Hash just destroyed Corino’s arm, and it is limp at his side, he has to just throw headbutts. I disagree with Marcel as Corino was clearly the babyface in this match, the match is counting down and Night piledrives Steele on the floor (which looked like it might have concussed him) and Corino yells at Hash “COME ON MOTHERFUCKER” and they just have a hellacious exchange of chops, with Corino going down to a Hash sleeper choke at the bell. I felt spent, I was on a serotonin high, I have never enjoyed a live wrestling match as much. So much greatness, plus I have Hash’s bandana. The punishment they took was incredible, Corino’s chest looked like someone had left a steak out in the sun.
 
TKG: Corino totally credibly pulled off “tough shit kicker character” which I didn’t expect him to be able to pull off. I have seen Taz live (who Corino worked cowardly heel against) and Tazz was never able to work tough guy as credibly as Corino did here. Part of what made him look so tough was that unlike Tazz he sold and took punishment. Corinos arm gets worked on a lot in match and he sold it to the point that he started holding his arm limp and sold as though he were forced to give up on the arm and move to headbutts. Corino looked world class here, like he could be one of the top twenty workers in the world.
 
Dylan Knight also stepped up to the plate huge. Knight worked a more conniving semi chicken shit heel character, and was able to pull that off within the context of this match. His strikes and matwork looked good. And he ate a hellacious beating, including a chair shot on the floor from Hash and the senton on floor from Hash. I tried to comfort one of his daughters friends at one point as Knights arms looked beat red. At one point Hashimoto began running the ropes back and forth about four or five times before building up enough momentum to hit Knight with the meanest shoulder tackle I’ve ever seen.
 
Knight also leans in for a Corino superkick for a pin and eats a Hash DDT for another pin.
 
When Knights mom (filming) accidentally took a bump for one of the workers, Schneider went over to check on her: 
Phil: Are you ok? 
Mother: yeah, thanks 
Phil: Is your son ok? 
Mother: Don’t worry, he’s tough.
 
Knight was not only able to absorb punishment and show off his offense, he also was able to project his character, in a way that would make a member of the audience want to see him have a singles match with any of the other three guys in the ring. He got over his heelish character stealing a quick roll up on Steele after Hash hit Steele with a double stomp. Steele later avenged this when all the participants held Knight down for a pin and Steele got on top of the pile to steal that win. Smartly laid out, and worked.
 
Steele was the least of the guys in the ring but threw some nice suplexes and had some neat submissions. Steele needs to find a way to make the process of moving into the submissions look smooth or interesting. With Steele’s submissions, only the ends looked cool but the process of applying them was visually uninteresting.
 
Hash was charismatic as all hell and just a monster heel. He was Aja like in his willingness and ability to sell for everyone else in the ring enough that no-one left this match looking weak. Everyone was working strong here. No one looked to be aiming at happy medium, they were all aiming at the HAPPY-STRONG. I could have bought into any of the participants winning this match, and I would have left happy.
 
EPILOGUE 
MH: We manage to not get too lost while raving about the match on the way back. We were all just so excited about what we had just seen that we couldn’t stop raving about it in the car. We were so high on the match we had just seen, we didn’t even care about the morons behind us or anything. The Hash-head thing gets reaffirmed. I am so glad I went to the show, and folks who were going to come and for some reason didn’t really missed out. We eventually make it back to DC just in time to put an end to the Politics discussion that had somehow popped up after we finished talking about wrestling. There’s no way I could make it home to bed after dropping off Tom and Phil to get anything resembling a decent night’s sleep, so I stay up and get to writing up my Weekend On The Road.
 
PS: Best overall wrestling show I have ever been too. Everything was good, and the main event was transcendent. When Hashimoto comes back to the U.S. you owe it to yourself as wrestling fans to go see him.
 
TKG: Man oh man. After the main I felt like I needed a cigarette. I had a full on runner’s high going and was totally blissed out. It takes me a long time to come down from the high , when I finally do come down it was like mesc where you think your done with it for a couple minutes and then BOOM it fires back up full blast all over again. I didn’t get any sleep till late Monday night. The card was solid top to bottom and the main rocked. I hope PWF promoter is inspired by this show and the crowd’s reaction to the main event. Man oh man. Lots of people claim that the puroresu product could never get over in the US. I’d like to point out that about 4 minutes into the main, the biggest rockin’ idiot rube in the crowd said, “Damn! This Hasihomo guy is my favorite wrestler”. Man oh man.

 

 

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J.T.

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Goddammit, Rippa, I hate you.  I was sad for days after Hash passed away.

 

Here is Hash being fucking epic against Naoya Ogawa.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxftF1GObVQ

 

Inoki factors heavily into this so there will be pain for you, but at least it is not of the WWE variety.

 

It is too early in the day to go home and shoot something in the head on XBox.  I need ice cream.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ9BN_XPcUA

 

I just watched this again the other day at my friend's house, since I was staying over, everyone was asleep, and they have free internet. First match that popped into my head. "Well, I guess I can look at whatever Youtube shit I want. I want to watch a wrestling match. Hey, what about Hash and Kawada?"

 

Voted Hash over Vader in the Big Man poll here so you know he's got all the love from me

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I was going to make a mean joke related to Phi's sadness, but was unceremoniously kicked in the head for my troubles. I take this as a sign.

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Curt McGirt

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Well, I posted about that mere days ago

 

 

 

This match will remind you why Rick Rude was tremendous. His selling in this is off the chain. Then again, when Shinya Hashimoto is kicking you in the back and the ribs, that isn't hard. Some good old fashioned US heel work comes into play and there is a top-rope DDT that looks like murder. Hash's nose gets busted early and for some reason he doesn't take Rude and absolutely break him in half which is a tribute to his character. Now I'm gonna have to go watch the Rude/Hase match from the same G1 Climax again...
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