Phil Schneider

We went ahead and made this our MOTY over at Segunda Caida This was really tremendous, best Brock match since the Wrestlemania match with Reigns, and it is great to see that he can still bring it on big occasions. I loved the opening thrust kick right to Styles chest great way to say hello, and the knees he was throwing looked like they were going to puncture lungs. Styles is still an electric bumper even at 40 years old he really has kept almost all of his athleticism. Some of those suplex bumps looked terrifying, a great combo of force and acrobatic bumps, they weren't the Shawn Michaels/Ziggler look at me bumps, he flew the way a guy should fly when being thrown by a Gorilla. After taking this huge beating Styles comeback was credible and great, his flying moves really land with force, he never felt like he was doing springboards to look cool, they always felt like attacking from afar was his only approach. Airplanes don't try to punch it out with King Kong they dive bomb. The calf slicer spot was incredible, Styles had been killing the leg all match, and Brock sold the calf slicer like all of the tendons in his knee were shredding, Brock countering it by trying to show Styles the inside of the ring was incredible stuff, right up their with Ki breaking Callihan's jaw for violence of the year. I also like how Brock has brought back the F5 as a one move killshot, he isn't throwing ten of the them a match anymore, it is back being a one hitter quitter. Incredible match, loved every second of it. Big match inspired Brock is still the absolute best.

I have been doing a Fujiwara Advent Calendar over at Segunda Caida so I can make some changes to this list Add 1982 Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Kengo Kimura/Osamu Kido v. Animal Hamiguchi/Isamu Teranishi/Ryuma Go NJ Added 2000 Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Dan Kroffat v. Mitsu Nagai/Masahito Kakihara AJPW 12/6/00- GREAT Switched 2013 Yoshiaki Fujiwara v. Masaaki Mochizuki Tokyo Gurentai 12/14/13

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