Brian Pillman v Tom Zenk (WrestleWar 17/5/92)
--Liked this a lot, especially for a former partner match where neither guy is full-fledged heel. Zenk seemed to be the guy that was going heel; by the time Pillman had the majority of the match he'd go to the lnegths of faking injury. Pillman had the leg worked and Zenk would fall in a pile when he tried an Irish whip, so Pillman goes airbourne to finish him off. Zenk was milking it and he comes off as a bit of a dick. Which was great since babyface Zenk isn;t my (or anyone else's, from what I gather) cup of tea. Nothing to shove on a ballot for me, but another gem in the belt of WCW's '92 year.
The Steiner Brothers v Tatsumi Fujinami/Takayuki Iizuka (WrestleWar 17/5/92)
--This was better than Pillman/Zenk, if even basically a glorified spotfest. I thought there were enough nifty transitions and ground-and-pound for this to sidle away ever-so-slightly from the territory of a "spotfest", but what you remember about this one is the spots. And there were some really good spots. I particularly liked the one where Fujinami & Iizuka were attempting some sort of doomsday device with Rick on top, only for Rick to counter it with a suplex. It was a little sloppy, which is unsurprising given the move actually pulled off, but it made for a hell of a visual regardless. Iizuka's nose exploded somewhere in there, and i thoguht that added to whatever role he was playing...which I saw as "underdog". Sort of. Won't put this on the list either, but it goes in that '92 WCW belt.
Sting v Cactus Jack (Beach Blast 20/6/92)
--Watched this again because I thought it's drop a few places, and while it did, it's still awesome. I think I've seen this like 6 times now since first watching it 2008, and pretty much every time it holds up way better than I thought it would. Cactus takes more concrete bumps than I had remembered, the vertical suplex within the crowd barriers and the backdrop suplex where his head connects with the legs of the railing look nastier with each viewing. That sunset flip from the apron to the floor does as well. Totally makes him look like the looney shit-smahser that will do anything to inflict pain. him rubbing the chair after swinging it was bone-chillingly great as well, and I think he even apologized to it. Sting was pretty great in this, as well. I loved when Cactus had a leg-scissors around his waist and he was fighting off the crossfaces and giving a really good Herculean comeback. By the end of it it really felt like he had endured a flat out fight to the end. Shit's still awesome.
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Found a lot more...
Pardon whatever spelling errors there might be..Blush smiley.
Riki Choshu v Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 2/8/96)
--Just became one of my favourite matches ever, so damn HARD HITTING and STIFF. It had a certain atmosphere like these two were evenly matched or something and they started off with a few collar & elbows tie ups which lasted not a minute before they started belting each other with palms and chops, to say the very least it was great. I was surprised by how much these two took in, seemed like they had made some mutual agreement to not hold anything back at all because from what I remember every hit landed stupidly hard, no thigh-slapping, no dumb stomping, nothing. The lariats near the end were one of my favourite sequences of any match ever, Choshu keeps laying them in to take Hashimoto down, and Hahsimoto wasn't going down after like five of them. When I say "lay them in" I don't mean "they looked awesome" I mean he honest-to-God swung at him and hit him borderline as hard as he could. Finish wasn't long after that; Hashimoto gets ready for the last lariat and yells "CHOSHUUUU" and finally goes down. 1996 match of the year contender.
Tiger Mask v Black Tiger (NJPW 26/5/82)
--Nothing special but as far as Tiger Mask matches go it was good. First few minutes had the usual TM formula where he'd squeeze in as many spinny arm reversals and stuff as possible, and as usual his opponent sells it like a punch to the face. Black Tiger tried working the arm after that and Sayama seemingly shurgged some of it off but still managed to not ignore it and make it look hurtful.Small finishing stretch was neato with Sayama winning with a crooked looking moonsault. If you like Tiger Mask's style a lot then definitely watch this, otherwise it's nothing above "good".
Hulk Hogan v Abdullah the Butcher (NJPW 26/5/82)
--Oh man I liked this a lot. Hogan's been one of my favourites ever since I first watched him, and this is good for an example of how he can put a really good little match together. His execution isn't too sharp but it's satisfying enough. Abdullah, despite looking exhausted after the first five minutes, put a great effort in right down to the awesome post-match brawl. He did his usual routine, poking and jarring Hogan with a spiky foreign object, leaning outside to run his head into the post, etc. then Hogan retaliates by chewing parts of his head so the both of them are bleeding good. Unsurprising double count-out finish aside, I could watch this over and over, I think.
Dick Murdoch v Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW 6/7/82)
--If Murdoch kicking the flowers given to him into the crowd isn't the best thing I've ever seen, then his grounded shots on Fujinami are. He was laying his knuckles straight into the corner of his forehead, and without trying to sound evil, it was awesome. Fujinami's a guy I can really get into as far as coming back from huge amounts of pain goes and he was tops here as usual. Really well put together match. Little surprised after everything Murdoch had done he got face reactions, though.
Tiger Mask/Kengo Kimura v The Dynamite Kid/Bret Hart (NJPW 16/7/82)
--TM and DKid are a hit and miss to me, and Bret sucks shit in Japan, so I wasn't planning on paying close attention to this at all. I got the basics of it, it looked to be almost a little version of the No Mercy 2002 tag or something (which I'm not a fan of at all), with plenty of big moves and stuff. Didn't look bad or anything but this making the NJPW 80s set over Inoki/Fujinami 8/8/88 is a real head scratcher.
I'll find more as well, you watch. Actually I know for a fact I wrote something on Fujiwara/Choshu from 87, Danielson/Strong Vendetta (which was actually my longest one ever, WarGames 92 is probably bigger, though), and more Santito stuff. I have others from earlier years but I don't plan to post them anytime soon. Another blush smiley.
Riki Choshu v Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 2/8/96)
--Just became one of my favourite matches ever, so damn HARD HITTING and STIFF. It had a certain atmosphere like these two were evenly matched or something and they started off with a few collar & elbows tie ups which lasted not a minute before they started belting each other with palms and chops, to say the very least it was great. I was surprised by how much these two took in, seemed like they had made some mutual agreement to not hold anything back at all because from what I remember every hit landed stupidly hard, no thigh-slapping, no dumb stomping, nothing. The lariats near the end were one of my favourite sequences of any match ever, Choshu keeps laying them in to take Hashimoto down, and Hahsimoto wasn't going down after like five of them. When I say "lay them in" I don't mean "they looked awesome" I mean he honest-to-God swung at him and hit him borderline as hard as he could. Finish wasn't long after that; Hashimoto gets ready for the last lariat and yells "CHOSHUUUU" and finally goes down. 1996 match of the year contender.
Tiger Mask v Black Tiger (NJPW 26/5/82)
--Nothing special but as far as Tiger Mask matches go it was good. First few minutes had the usual TM formula where he'd squeeze in as many spinny arm reversals and stuff as possible, and as usual his opponent sells it like a punch to the face. Black Tiger tried working the arm after that and Sayama seemingly shurgged some of it off but still managed to not ignore it and make it look hurtful.Small finishing stretch was neato with Sayama winning with a crooked looking moonsault. If you like Tiger Mask's style a lot then definitely watch this, otherwise it's nothing above "good".
Hulk Hogan v Abdullah the Butcher (NJPW 26/5/82)
--Oh man I liked this a lot. Hogan's been one of my favourites ever since I first watched him, and this is good for an example of how he can put a really good little match together. His execution isn't too sharp but it's satisfying enough. Abdullah, despite looking exhausted after the first five minutes, put a great effort in right down to the awesome post-match brawl. He did his usual routine, poking and jarring Hogan with a spiky foreign object, leaning outside to run his head into the post, etc. then Hogan retaliates by chewing parts of his head so the both of them are bleeding good. Unsurprising double count-out finish aside, I could watch this over and over, I think.
Dick Murdoch v Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW 6/7/82)
--If Murdoch kicking the flowers given to him into the crowd isn't the best thing I've ever seen, then his grounded shots on Fujinami are. He was laying his knuckles straight into the corner of his forehead, and without trying to sound evil, it was awesome. Fujinami's a guy I can really get into as far as coming back from huge amounts of pain goes and he was tops here as usual. Really well put together match. Little surprised after everything Murdoch had done he got face reactions, though.
Tiger Mask/Kengo Kimura v The Dynamite Kid/Bret Hart (NJPW 16/7/82)
--TM and DKid are a hit and miss to me, and Bret sucks shit in Japan, so I wasn't planning on paying close attention to this at all. I got the basics of it, it looked to be almost a little version of the No Mercy 2002 tag or something (which I'm not a fan of at all), with plenty of big moves and stuff. Didn't look bad or anything but this making the NJPW 80s set over Inoki/Fujinami 8/8/88 is a real head scratcher.
I'll find more as well, you watch. Actually I know for a fact I wrote something on Fujiwara/Choshu from 87, Danielson/Strong Vendetta (which was actually my longest one ever, WarGames 92 is probably bigger, though), and more Santito stuff. I have others from earlier years but I don't plan to post them anytime soon. Another blush smiley.
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