Phil Schneider

This is about as great a six minute match as you are going to get. This was worked on UWF rules and is a classic Fujiwara story as the sneaky veteran is taking on the powerhouse kicker. Mochizuki unloads some really big shots, organ shifting body kicks, dental work knees. Meanwhile Fujiwara was trying to survive the onslaught and look for openings. I loved how when he maneuvered Mochizuki in the corner, he mixed in some liver shots with his body shots, he knew he wasn't going to stop this beast with power, but a perfectly placed kidney shot might. Finish was an all timer, Mochizuki goes up for his rope climb knee strike and Fujiwara shifts slightly and catches his knee in almost a calf slicer and just cranks it until Mochizuki taps. After reviewing over a hundred Fujiwara matches, shocked he can still find ways to surprise me.

Maybe Sinclair can get some big Alt-Right figures to work as Special attractions. How would Young Bucks and Sebastian Gorka v. Omega/Cody/Progessive Liberal draw?

This was the earliest Super Dragon match I could find and I was surprised at how well it held up. Dragon had mostly developed all of the traits I liked about him, even as a babyface he is still a crowbarring asskicking motherfucker. TARO is a stick skinny dude in a lucha match, he looks like he has DJ Qualls physique, but he can take a hellacious ass whipping. SD dumps him on his head, slaps cheek tissue out of his mouth and even rocking chairs his head into a wall. The Psycho Driver SD lands to finish the match was grotesque. TARO gets most of his offense off by cheating and outside interference, but I did like some of his reversals including a snap rana out of a Tiger Driver. Might have gone a bit too long, and it was hard to buy TARO near falls, but this was damn fun stuff, and I am excited to revisit more pre PWG Dragon.

Anytime Fujiwara and Kido match up it is almost all on the mat

I was coming here to do Fujiwara and see I was beat to the punch Reviews for all of these are here http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2009/08/complete-and-accurate-list-of-all-of.html 1982 w.Osamu Kido/Kengo Kimura v. Animal Hamiguchi/Isamu Teranishi/Ryuma Go 8/29 1983 v. Killer Khan 5/24 1984 v. Super Tiger 9/7 1985 v. Super Tiger 9/11 1986 v. Akira Maeda 2/5 (I'll also skip the eliminations for a more Fujiwara centric pic) 1987 v. Riki Choshu 6/9 1988 v. Riki Choshu 6/19 1989 v. Kazou Yamazaki 7/24 1990 v. Nobuhiko Takada 2/27 1991 v. Minoru Suzuki 11/3 1992 v. Yusuke Fuke 2/24 1993 v. Joe Malenko 6/1 1994 v. Shinya Hashimoto 6/1 1995 v. Taka Michinoku 8/26 1996 v. Dick Murdoch 5/23 1997 v. Genichiro Tenryu 11/24 1998 v. Don Frye 5/6 1999- Looks like I haven't reviewed a single 99 Fujiwara match 2000- w. Dan Kroffat v. Mistu Nagai/Masahito Kakihara 12/6 2001 -w Tiger Mask IV v. Carl Malenko/Yuki Ishikawa 5/5 2002 v. Kohei Sato 3/3 2003 v. Kintaro Kanemura 9/1 2004 w. Shinya Hashimoto v. Kohei Sato/Ryuji Sai 8/15 2005 w. Kazunari Murakami v. Egan Inoue/Yuki Ishikawa 8/14 2006 - Nothing great 2007-Nothing great 2008-Nothing great 2009- Nothing great 2010 w. Katsumi Usuda v. Shoichi Funaki/Ikuto Hidaka 5/30 2011 w. Carlos Amano v. Yuki Ishikawa/Kana 1/10 2012 w. Yuki Ishikawa v. Mitsu Nagai/Tatsumi Fujinami 1/8 2013 v. Maasaki Mochizuki 12/14 2014 - Nothing Great 2015- w. Takayama v. Kazunari Murakami/Minoru Suzuki 11/15 2016 v. Atsushi Aoki 1/3 2017 v. Shinya Aoki 4/5

This was a KO or submission match for the WWWA title, and merciful fuck was this a war. Kandori opens up by tackling Hotta to the floor, after they get back into the ring, they scramble and it ends up with Hotta field goal kicking Kandori right in the head. Hell of a way to open a match and it really lets you know you are watching something special. This match has the greatest guard work I have ever seen in a pro-wrestling match, Kandori is basically a distaff worked Demien Maia. There is this great section early in the match where Kandori is in rubber guard and Hotta, frustrated with her inability to pass, just rains down headbutts splitting her own head open. For the rest of the match Hotta has blood streaming down her head which totally adds to the crazed aura. Of course with these two quasi unprofessional ladies everything is thrown with reckless abandon. Hotta is just unloading KO shots with every kick, Kandori is trying to crack jaws with every slap. Finish was great, Hotta lands two big bombs, a double underhook piledriver, and a nasty liger bomb, but clearly weak from blood loss, she forgets the rules and goes for a pin. This allows Kandori to catch her from the bottom with a great tight triangle choke for the tap out. It was basically a worked version of the Chael Sonnen v. Anderson Silva finish 12 years before that fight. Such a masterful piece of violence and a Segunda Caida match through and through

Speaking of Atlantis, has anyone seen this before?

This wasn't on the DVDVR 80s set

Man did I love this match. The concept is a group of AIW students challenged team of old school AIW guys. The first section of this match has the Old AIW laying a 75% Kurisu level beating on the rookies. Matt Justice nearly beheads Tre Lamar with a leg lariat, the Jollyville Fuck Its (who are a team I love and I need to seek out more of) have this great spot where T-Money puts Lamar in an airplane spin and Russ just punches him in the face on every spin. Garrison King has light up shoes an awesome secondary nickname (Garry "The King" Baller) and takes an absolute shellacking. After a really long one sided beating the rookies get a bit of an advantage with AJ Gray (who is sort of a ringer) and that leads into this awesome dive train, with Chase Oliver doing a Taka moonsault to the floor, Lamar hitting an insane looking Fosbury flop, Gray hitting a skytwister off the top and Justice Davey Boy Smith style powerslamming King off the top rope into a crowd on the floor. Finish run is pretty bonkers with everyone hitting big moves until the rookies get the big upset win. Batshit spotfest, with the old school team beatdown leading to a real structure that most of these kind of matches lack.

I am always very happy to see a big time Eddie Kingston singles match. Kingston isn't going to grapple with you, so this had less jujitsu rolling then the other Lawlor matches I have watched, but they replaced with grappling with Kingston chops and backfist to the face. This was these guys doing an All Japan main event and Kingston's selling put it at a higher level then most matches of this style. Every shot was impactful and every suplex was compressing. Lawlor has really good looking suplexes and is willing to take an asskicking. Lawlor does his neck snap move and Kingston sells it like it gave him nerve damage. Even the suplex no sell section had Kingston fighting through adrenaline and both guys collapse on their face. Finish was pretty great with Lawlor turning a Tazmission into a nasty ground and pound into a guillotine. Loved Kingston fighting from the ground until he ate one too many elbows and slumped unconscious.

The new trend of UFC guys (and gals) deciding to do indie wrestling has really led to some great stuff, and this might be my favorite. Filthy Tom Lawlor actually had some pro-wrestling experience before UFC (he is listed as Hack Myers trained by Cagematch) and was a DVDVR poster back in the day. Garrini isn't an ex-UFC guy but is a Brazilian Jujitsu champion and fits in perfectly in this style. Lawlor comes out in a gimp mask and predator wig, and I am not sure what gimmick he is working. Opening matwork was great, both guys rolling around grabbing arms and legs. I imagine this was ju-jitsu sparring and you could tell that the skill level was really high. After the matwork there was a section I didn't like where they did a very 2017 slap exchange into an elbow exchange into a a pair of semi no-sold German suplexes. After that there was a very cool double KO with Garinni throwing a knee and eating a superman punch at the same time. Finish run was awesome with Lawlor hitting a great uranage into an Olympic hell (man someone needs to bring over Tamon Honda and have him work both of these guys and Riddle). Actually finish was dope, Lawlor goes for a top rope headbutt and gets caught in a triangle, Lawlor fights his way out of it and counters it into a Styles clash for the pin. Just a hell of fight, and one of my favorite matches of the year.