RIPPA Posted April 16, 2015 Author Posted April 16, 2015 Dean wrote this in DVDVR #168 If I wasn't so lazy I would find the video but y'all fucking know how to use Google Tiger Mask/ Kantaro Hoshino vs Black Tiger/ Villano III - NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING (9/17/82) [by DEAN] God bless American Dragon 1979. I'm trying to recall Hoshino. Let me quickly hit the Wiki. Ooo, he had a stroke in 2004. Black Tiger is Marc Rocco, I'm assuming. He's got the awwwwwesome beard mask and you and I both rejoice. Rocco's offense is awesome- quick elbows and punches to the base of the throat all leading up to the beautiful Vertical Suplex. Fifth best Tiger Mask tags in and V3 is your magnificent rudo as TM1 flies all over the place. Hoshino hits a Cowboy Frankie Layne running lariat and I remember the 70s. Rocco crushes Hoshino's head with a double axehandle and a fucking NASTY running elbow to the face. Rocco was soooooooo the best thing ever. Rocco bumps all Ray Stevens to the floor and I remember the 70s. Tm1 tries all his jumping spinny crap and BT punches him in the face because HE KNEW IN 1982 THAT DEAN WOULD WATCH 27 YEARS LATER AND LAFF AND LAFF AND LAFF. Punch him again! TM and BT go all Euro with the matwork and its scientific until BT drapes him stomch-first across the toprope and I remember Chris Benoit before he killed everybody in his family and ruined that move fo everyone. Hoshino does that shin across the stomach from the toprope that is to anachronistic Japanese wrestling what an airplane spin is to anachronistic US wrestling. Hoshino is tied up in the ropes but maves to allow BT to crush his testicles on the toprope and then take an Atomic Drop so that BT's nether regions don't know if they are coming or going! BT and Hosh take it to the street and BT mauls him against the rail and then hits a double axe-handle off the top to the floor. V3 gets in a headscissors but he is there mostly to make TMs technico stylings look good. And he's about the best there is at that. BT brings the assbeat so he is the more fun rudo in the match. God, his brainbuster is fucking MAGNIFICENT. BT with the low blow! EEEEVIL! V3 hits a very slow backslide while TM nurses his crushed junk. BT wants to do more evil things to TM so he ties him up in the ropes and they whup up on him for a while. TM ties up BT and Hoshino decides to make an appearance. BT escapes before the second running body press can land for Hoshino so BT kicks him in the face and hits a FUCKING AWEEESOME Tombstone- a tombstone better than the one's Fit Finlay would fucking kill people with back when he had the mullet and was streaming for Regal on WCW Saturday night. Go download this and see it. It is fucking BURLEY. V3 tags in and Boston Crabs the earthly remains of Hoshino's skull. Hosh escapes and FIRES BACK with his own piledriver on V3. TM does the far far far far far lesser Tombstone and BT makes the save. Hoshino backbreaks V3 and Rocco makes the save diving off the toprope and killing him. Hoshino and misses a plancha to the floor and BT is beating the hell out of him as TM casually pins V3 with a Quebradora. Black Tiger is fucking ELECTRIC. You can't really get much better than Mark Rocco in his prime.
Curt McGirt Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 It cuts before the end and isn't really as great as Dean makes it out to be IMO. Still, it drops you down the rabbit hole of wondering what got left off the New Japan set*, and what this would be like if it ran in Mexico with blood, which I imagine would end in a complete riot. * If you look in the related videos there is Negro Navarro vs. Tiger Mask, El Solitario and Solar vs. Tiger Mask and Fujinami... damn
Brian Fowler Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Rollerball Rocco is not Rocco Rock. Old board joke that I might be the only one that remembers my own stupidity. 1
Lazlo Woodbine Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Rocco tries to pulp his own knees, bleeds and some woman calls him a fuckin cheat. Johnny's chair shot is stupendous.
BurningBeard Posted April 20, 2015 Posted April 20, 2015 Top Five favourite for me, and being exposed to him is one of the greatest things that ever happened during the brief period we had The Wrestling Channel in the UK Sucks he had to retire early, I always wish he'd got a prolonged run in early nineties WCW
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