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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65eaEEV0eTM&sns=fb It's a BLIZADE

I think if it was just that it'd be fine. If ppl simply left things at "I watched it but didn't like it that much because it's not the style of wrestling I like" and moved on it wouldn't be as big of an issue. It's that the anti NJPW fans seem to have a need to tear down, justify & come up with some excuse as to why it's popularity isn't.....legit? So in a nutshell, the arguments turned into NJPW is overrated and only popular with ignorant sheep who follow the word of Meltzer and couldn't possibly have seen much other wrestling because if they had they'd know it was actually an inferior product. True but in this era most ppl get their stuff via other means. Typing in Wrestle Kingdom 7 into youtube, the first result is the full show and it's got 63,000+ views and that's just one person uploading it to one channel. There's multiple other ppl on youtube, dailymotion and other streaming & torrent sites that uploaded the show too so the real amount of international interest/viewers is pretty high.

Here's a Reckless vs Montoya match from 1/17/97 that Dave Prazak uploaded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yF9Q_h5UUk Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but it seems like something worth checking out atleast Watched this today, liked it a lot but wouldn't rec it for the year book. Stylisticly it would have fit right in on an ECW show with it's mix of technical stuff, crazy highspot dives, hardcore spots & 2.9 kickouts done by 2 dudes wrestling in grungy jean shorts & t-shirts. Good match but when comparing it to what was going on in ECW or WCW or Japan or any # of other companies, there's nothing about this that makes it stand out above the pack.

Funny since it's a song used in 8 billion other youtube vids, oh well alt link http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx1s1y_ga...ersary-mv_sport

GAEA 10 Year Anniversary Music Video The anniversary show music vids were always a big highlight for me each year. This one mixes in clips of all the previous anniversary shows with a few other major highlights from company history.....

Meh, that's just part of the joshi heel style. Weapons, interferance, etc... been that way for decades. It happens, you just have to REALLY push the envelope.

AJW 1991 Thoughts & Top 10 List So having now finished everything from 1991 AJW that I know of that's available here's some random top whatever list & general thoughts 14 Shows (comm tapes & tv eps) + 2 fan cam matches 87 matches total Top 10 matches 1. 4/29/1991 (3WA Tag Titles - 2 out of 3 Falls) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura © vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno 2. 6/18/1991 (3WA Tag Titles - 2 out of 3 Falls) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura © vs Bull Nakano & Kyoko Inoue 3. 9/7/1991 (3WA Title) Bull Nakano © vs Kyoko Inoue 4. 1/4/1991 (3WA Title) Bull Nakano © vs Akira Hokuto 5. 1/11/1991 (Hair vs Hair) Bull Nakano & Kyoko Inoue vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura 6. 4/29/1991 (All Pacific Title) Suzuka Minami © vs Akira Hokuto 7. 5/26/1991 Toshiyo Yamada vs Yumiko Hotta 8. 8/18/1991 (JGP Finals) Kyoko Inoue vs Bison Kimura 9. 12/9/1991 (Tag Leauge The Best 91 Semi Final) Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuta vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura 10. 11/15/1991 (Elimination Cage) Bull Nakano & Monster Ripper vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura Just missing the cut 8/18/1991 (JGP) Toshiyo Yamada vs Kyoko Inoue For me nothing touched the Jungle Jack vs Toyota & Esther match in terms of pure excitement but the 6/18 tag is a real real close 2nd. The work is off the charts great but it's the neat little touches, storytelling & playing off history that bring it to another level. After that the 2 Bull 3WA matches are really close to each other as well and on another day I could easily flip the 2. And even though it draged by the end the majority of the November cage match really was too great not to have it this high. Not top 10 or 20 or anything but special mentions to the Bat vs Kurisu shoot being the most surprisingly awesome match of the year and to Toyota vs Suzuka for being the most disapointing. Top 10 Wrestlers 1. Bull 2. Aja 3. Kyoko 4. Hokuto 5. Bison 6. Toyota 7. Esther Moreno 8. Yamada 9. Takako 10. Yoshida Bull's easily wrestler of the year, no questions asked. She is the Sun and everything in the Zenjo world revolves around her. It's weird too, as i've always known she was great, I had her #10 on my greatest joshi wrestler ballot over on the Smarks Choice board years ago but I still never knew she was THIS great. There's very very few people I can think of who were better playing the unbeatable monster role as she was this year. One of the bigger stories of the year was Kyoko's rise up the ranks. I might not have had her this high up on my list earlier in the year but once she won the JGP and got out of Bull's shadow she was on an amazing hot streak of awesome matches. Like i've mentioend before discovering how good the Moreno's were was another highlight of the year for me. Esther easily steals the show in every match she's a part of and the only reason she's as low as 7 on my list is because she didn't get as many high profile big matches to shine in and was mostly regulated to mid card matches most of the time. Takako getting a big push as a mat wrestling/submission master took a little getting used to since that's not usually the style I associate her with damn if she wasn't great at it. Special mention to Mika Takahashi, Miori Kamiya & Bat as wrestlers who I also came out of this year with a much higher opinion of then I did going in. Bat especially, I still wouldn't call her good or anything but I used to think she outright sucked most of the time but for much of this year she was perfectly decent. Going from someone I used to dread watching to someone I don't mind sitting through is quite the acomplishment. And the only wrestler I can say I had a lower opinion of by the end of the year or atleast was disapointed by was Hotta. The May Yamada match was great, the Bull cage match was really good and she looked impressive hidden in a lot of random 6 man tags but I really feel like she failed to deliver when given the chance to be in the spotlight more times then not and a lot of the other good matches she was involved in this year were good despite her involvement not because of it. Bull & friends vs Jungle Jack is obviously feud of the year but beyond that as far as secondary feuds/storylines I really dug Toyota's mini quest to take down Aja, the All Pacific title mix between Hokuto/Suzuka/Toyota, the AJW title sceen built around Takako and the way they slid in Hokuto as Bull's new bff (after having a friendly rivalry earlier in the year) right around the time they started breaking Kyoko away from that role.

- (Tag Leauge The Best 91 FINAL) Toshiyo Yamada & Kyoko Inoue vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura JJ's in full on heel mode tonight. Hokuto & Bull get nice ovations from the crowd on their way out and the place is going nuts for Yamada & Kyoko coming in, hoping they can pull out the win. Story of the match is Yamada & Kyoko are balls of energy, coming in with lots of fast paced attacks & wacky lucha submissions, Yamada even gives Bison a bloody lip early on with punt to the face but even though they're banged up & had just wrestled 1 match JJ are still too tough to take down easily. Jungle Jack uses a lot of power stuff, crowd brawling & weapons to controll a majority of the match, Aja going nuts with the trashcan being one highlight. In the end though, you can see the effect going 45+ mins over 2 straight matches was having on Jungle Jack as they pretty noticably ran out of gas by the end which is what allowed Kyoko & Yamada to pick up the win with a last minute burst of energy using a cool powerbomb, flying enzugiri sequence of moves. Real good match though not on the level of their one in October.

- (Tag Leauge The Best 91 Semi Final) Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuta vs Aja Kong & Bison Kimura Aja comes out super late, taped up, surely & pissed off tossin furniture around. Bull & Aja staredown while Hokuto offers a handshake but JJ are out for revenge after the cage match 3 weeks ago and ain't havin none of that shit so they attack to start. Hokuto gets mauled for a bit but it doesn't last too long and she punches Bison right in the jaw for her troubles. They go back & forth for a while with a lot of brawling & more stiff strikes on everyones part before Hokuto again finds herself in trouble. To regain controll this time Bull & her after Jungle Jack's big weaknesses, Bison's injured knee & later on Aja's still injured stomach. They especially go hard on Aja with various with various weapons which sends Bison running in franticly to break things up before the ref can even count 1. By the end things break down into a near street fight and the finish finally comes with Jungle Jack making 1 last come back after a missed Megadeath leg drop from Bull folowed by a uraken to knock her out allows them to crush Hokuto for the win. Great match but it's not over yet as we immediatly go to

- Toshiyo Yamada & Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto & Manmi Toyota Initial thoughts were this was a really good but sloppy spot fest. Watching it a 2nd time I noticed the match has a lot better build then I first gave them credit for. While Toyota & Hokuto's feud has died down & been settled they still aren't a super buddy buddy cohesive unit & the 1st part of the match is all about showing off how much better Kyoko & Yamada, fresh off their Mexico tour are at working as a team. They get 2 long controll segments on Toyota & then Hokuto and it's only once Toyota gets taged back in that it turns into your traditional faster paced joshi workrate tag. During all the action Yamada takes a few nasty bumps on her head which I fig 1 of which must have rung her bell because there's a couple sections whear she blows a lot of spots but each time they recover nicely. These 4 could easily do better on another night but this still ended up being a really great match and for 30+ mins the time blew by.

(3WA Title) Bull Nakano © vs Kyoko Inoue Not sure what to exspect going in, i've had seen these 2 have really great matches (94) and really boring ones (95). This one was easily my fav of them all and by far one of the better matches of the year. Bull starts out strong as usual before Kyoko gets the advantage. There's very few people in the world that were gonna stand up to Bull in a fight but she can be outwrestled, either by really speedy girls who hit & run and or on the ground, taking it to the mat. Course, the problem with either strategy is Bull will eventually catch you if you run around and Bull will eventually get back up if you take her down. Here, Kyoko uses her speed to her advantage and is lucky enough to bust Bull open really early off a post shot, making her a bloody mess for the rest of the match, then she goes into a long section of trying to wear down Bull with diffrent holds which she's pretty succesful at actually. Like I said, Bull eventually came back and regained controll but she was clearly weakened by then. Bull decided to return the favor and really tortures Inoue with diffrent stuff, stretching her to hell. Ending sequence sees both really fatigued, desperat to pick up the win. In funny moment, Kyoko tries to go for a german while Bull is holding onto the ropes and if you look in the back ground the ref is just shaking his head like "nope, don't even try girl". Bull has to dig DEEP into her move set to try and win this, again, busting out a lot of stuff i've never seen or atleast rarely seen her do. In a true holy shit moment, Bull counters being whiped into the ropes but doing a fucking picture perfect cartwheel out of it and in one motion, the second she lands on her feet grabing Kyoko for a belly to belly suplex. So the coolest thing EVER. Still, this looks like it's gonna be Kyoko's night, she's able to keep coming with the high speed attacks & get Bull up for a lot of her power moves as well. Things finally go bad for her when she makes the mistake of trying to do Bull's own flying leg drop on her and because Kyoko was still super skinny back then she didn't have enough ass cushion so she hurts her own butt doing it. This allows Bull to grab her in a reverse DDT and hit a giant moonsault to retain her title in what actually felt like a lucky win for her. This truely was Kyoko's year though as far as star making performances and she gets a huge ovation anyways post match.

- Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada So this is the 7th singles match i've seen between these two and if you've ever seen even a few of their matches before you should have a good general idea how this one went. On this night Yamada was on offense for most of the mat work section working over Toyota's leg which I think Toyota did a good job of putting over. She doesn't exactly do it in the traditional "ow my leg" hobble around sort of way but she still gets across that Yamada's attacks are taking their toll as when she does go back on offense she can't put the same speed or strength behind her stuff anymore. Yamada while not taking as much punishment suffers in that department as well, perhaps being "rope a doped" into using up a lot her energy dishing out the beating. Turns into an interesting battle for the final stretch with each one delivering what the other can't. Toyota has a lot of big moves but can't put much energy behind them, Yamada has a little more energy but can't deliver a big enough blow to grab the win so things end in yet another 30 min draw between them. Not the best one in their feud but still a great match and a fine addition to it

(3WA Tag Titles - 2 out of 3 Falls) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura © vs Bull Nakano & Kyoko Inoue 1st Fall, giant crowd brawl to start before JJ beats down Kyoko a little bit before tagging in Bull. Bull & Aja go at it for a bit including Aja head butting her so hard I believe she may have busted her own head open hardway. Kyoko comes back and gets beat down for a longer period, for just a briefe second the camera pans to Bull holding her nunchucks waiting to be taged back in and you can tell shits on when that happens. Kyoko finally does tag and Bull cleans house on everyone, few mins later, after a few double teams and Bull decideds she's done fucking around and bust out the megadeath flipping leg drop to kill off Aja. Noticed that Bull only ever does that when she's fighting a really strong opponent or when she's just super pissed off, here I think both easily apply. 2nd fall starts the same way with another crowd brawl then Aja getting beat down some more for a bit. Bull makes the mistake of hitting her with her own can which only serves to fire her up and leads to her come back. Bison, having not been in for a while and being fresh comes back in a ball of energy, singlehandidly fights off both of them and puts Kyoko away to even things up. Aja continues going after Bull so they say fuck the rest period and go straight into the 3rd fall with it being Bull's turn to bleed now. Things settle down for a short section between Bison & Kyoko before exploding again with the 2 monsters going at it. Aja goes nuts with the trash can murdering everyone in sight. For the last few minutes things just turn into a war of attrition, everyones worn out and trying to hit any & every big move they can think of to end things. Aja does an awesome top rope tope to the floor in one highlight. Things finally end with Aja pinning Bull after THREE bare fisted urakens. A true HOLY SHIT moment on several levels. Aja hitting the bare fist uraken is the most protected move i've ever seen anywhear in all my years of watching wrestling, i'd never seen anyone survive even 1 until now. At the same time, Bull has been presented as this ultimate unstopable monster for a long time, playing Vader better then Vader did. Bull will look vulnarable at times sure but in the end she leaves you with no doubt who the biggest, baddest, best, toughest wrestler in the company is. Fairly sure this actually may have been her 1st pinfall loss atleast since winning the 3WA title so that Aja had to go to such lengths to take her down is sorta fitting. I still sort of lean towards Jungle Jack vs Toyota/Esther being better but at worst this is still the 2nd best match of the year at this point, just fucking awesome awesome stuff.

- Aja vs Toyota I thought this was a really good match but I could see opinions differing. There were a lot of "blown" spots but I thought it made for a good story. Aja is a big bad ass who mows over her & dominates with simple power stuff, Toyota makes comebacks but every time she gets the advantage she messes things up trying to do "fancy" shit which she can't pull off due to not being strong enough (in this match atleast) to get Aja up for all her whacky suplexes and stuff, getting more and more desperate & frustrated as time goes on trying to figure out some way to slay the beast.

Toshiyo Yamada vs Yumiko Hotta Great match. This is what the way overrated Hotta/Lioness match wishes it was as they go all shoot style and stiff the hell out of each other. When this type of stuff happens between 2 people who 1. have no problem doing it & 2. are tough enough to pull it off I have no problem with it so I loved every minute of this.

3WA Tag Titles - 2 out of 3 Falls) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura © vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno Speaking of MOTYs. After they lost the hair match in Jan to Bull & Kyoko, Jungle Jack vacated the tag belts. Earlier this month they regained them beating Hokuto & Hotta not sure if that was a tournament final or just a decision match though. Bison comes out rocking the kick ass giant spiked cape & viking horned devil helmet. Aja follows being carried out on a fucking thrown Macho Man style. You can tell something special's in the air for this one. Here they're taking on the Toyota & Esther proving that giving title shots to random ass mish mash teams who've never teamed before is not a recent trend in joshi. As far as random ass teams go though this is atleast an awesome one, they reminded me a little of one of my fav teams ever KAORU & Hikari Fukuoka, both being high flyers that mirror and compliment each other well. Match starts out with them playing the cat & mouse game, with Toyota & Esther running around a million miles an hour hitting high spots, knowing that they'll get killed if they get caught which JJ finally does after a while, using their size & power to dominate things. In a cool moment, Esther tries to head but Aja who literally reacts by going "BWAHAHAHA" and looking at her like "you idiot WTF" but jokes on them as they're able to come back and put Bison away with stereo moonsaults. 1 fall in and this is allready one of the better matches this year but they're just getting started. The 2nd fall starts the same as the 1st one but then Moreno makes the mistake of trying to head butt Aja again and this time she gets more then laughed at, this time she gets the trash can to the head which causes Esther to bleed...A LOT. She freakin bleeds like there was a who can bleed the most contest that night and the prize was a million dollars. Full on 1.0 Muta scale. She's able to tag out fairly quickly to Toyota but then comes back in soon after and gets caught for a while before finally getting put down by Bison, avenging her 1st fall loss with a twisting dive of her own. 3rd fall starts with Jungle Jack taking turns torturing Cynthia & Toyota for a while before they're finally able to come back. The finishing stretch is ridicuslously great with everyone busting out gigantic dives including Esther busting out an Asai moonsault that would make Ultimo go "WOW" and tons of other big moves before Toyota finally gets killed by Aja with a Mike Awesome style power bomb off the middle rope. Can't understand a bit of Japanese or Spanish but I can read body language & emotion and I believe the post match goes something like this. Aja - "hey, heck of match kids, good job" to which Esther responds "Fuck you Jungle Jack, shove it up your ass" followed by several more mins of Esther going all nutty and riling up the crowd for support, she disapears and then Toyota & Aja get into it and have to be held back from ripping each others throats out. Everyone brought their A game for this one, especially Esther who at times looked like the best wrestler in the match, showing that she can do so much more then just flippy high spots. Easily best match i've seen from AJW this year so far. I've got another 7 or so shows from 91 that I haven't watched yet but there isn't too much I exspect has a chance of toping this.

- (All Pacific Title) Suzuka Minami © vs Akira Hokuto The Big White Belt on the line as the Mega Powers Explode. So remember everything I said about Suzuka/Toyota not having any passion or emotion and being a bland, by the #s match? This was the complete opposite, everything that match should have been and more and all around off the charts great. The tag partner/friend element adds a lot to the dynamic and the story of the match is them tossing that shit out the window cause the title's on the line. In an amusing irony, Suzuka herself goes after Hokuto's leg, not as agressively as Toyota did a few months back, just enough to get over that if need be she too will exploit her weakness to gain the advantage. Hesitating to go all the way with it may have been what cost her though as Hokuto picks up the win in the end. Kick ass finish too with her hitting 3 vicious looking missile drop kicks off 3 diff turnbuckles, a 4th flipping drop kick off the last one (which ended up being more of a flipping ass to the face but still) and then finally the NLB. Easily the best Suzuka Minami match i've ever seen and one of the better matches of the year.

my old review - Toyota vs Hokuto Ah Hokuto, Mrs. Victory Through Guts. Here she comes in with a hugely bandaged arm, knowing her probably for a legit injury and Toyota just waste no time going after it, ripping the 8 million damn layers it's wraped up in off. Being a lot more brutal & vicious then you usually see Toyota act. Toyota also has a bad leg going in though so later on Hokuto tries to focus on that to even the odds. Makes for a really cool story and a damn good match. Suzuka Minami was at ringside for this freaking the FUCK out, threatning to throw the towel in for Hokuto at any moment. After the match she is super pissed off, yelling at Toyota and swearing to get revenge and now for literally the 1st time in all my years as a joshi fan I now actually want to go out of my way to check out a Suzuka Minami match.

- (Vacant AJW Title) Kyoko Inoue vs Mika Takahashi The 1st 1/2 is filled with a lot of time killing unfocused mat work mixed in with a few big moves which doesn't do the best job of building momentum. The later stages are really good though, with time ticking down and them busting out high spot after high spot to try and win. Takahashi was especially impressive during this part as she has a lot of athletic stuff she can do. Funny moment near the end when she does a huge double underhook suplex off the top and doesn't imediatly follow up so the ref starts freaking out, like "hurry, cover her you fool, this is your chance, there's not much time left". No winner declared in the end so the belt remains vacant. Given their experience level it was interesting watching them try and fill 30 mins which is more time then all but a handfull of matches got that year. Despite a # of obvious flaws it was mostly a real good match overall. One i'll probably give a re-watch too soon as I think I might enjoy the first part of the match a little more with a 2nd viewing.

- (3WA Title) Bull Nakano © vs Akira Hokuto Tough as Hokuto is she can't really stand toe to toe with Bull in a brawl so she tries for the quick win using a bunch roll ups & high spots. No go though and Bull catches her and makes her pay. They move into a matwork section which Hokuto surprisingly dominates and controlls for the middle part of the match. Soon as Bull's able to escape though and get back to her feet it's back to ass whoping time. She gets in a large amount of offense in a row and it's looking like she's got it won before Akira finally fires back. From then it turns into another one of those wars whear it's a race to see who can finish the other and both scrambling to figure out a way to win. Bull bust out a # of things i'd never seen her do before or rarely see her do, including a big lucha dive off the ropes to the floor. Nothing she seems to do can get her the win though, Hokuto survives the leg drop, ddts, power bombs. Kyoko Inoue runs in to give a quick assist helping lift up Hokuto so Bull can hit a fucking nasty ass middle rope tombstone pile driver which still doesn't put her away. Hokuto for her part was tossing out a ton of dives, suplexes, missile kicks, the NLB and everything else and couldn't win either. She finally falls when Bull catches her with a back drop suplex which actually seemed a little anticlimactic after everything else but that's a minor flaw in an otherwise really great match, one of the best of the year. Post match the Dangerous Queen gets on her hands and knees, bows and begs for a rematch.

Don't know how long they've been offering this but on TNA's youtube page they have almost all their ppvs from 2004 - 2012 for sale for 99c each

There were a number of things that kinda derailled the division for a while starting in late 99 - Liger MEGA push For some reason they thought it would be a good idea to have him go into "Black Liger" mode & start destroying motherfuckers. He defended the JR title vs Kanemoto, Tanaka & Samurai & squashed them all in like 4-7 mins. THEN he went on to the 2000 J Cup tournament which overall was decent but doesn't live up to the first 2 and he won that as well when at the time most ppl thought it should have gone to CIMA instead. So all that left a bad taste in ppls mouths. - Gutting the division. Around the same time, Ohtani left to go heavyweight full time, Liger went back & forth & experimented with being a heavyweight for a while & they stoped working with outside groups as much. Plus when Z1 started up Takaiwa & Ohtani left to go with Hashimoto anyways. - The shoot influence seeping down Led to weird shit like Masayuki Naruse, who wasn't working the style the fans wanted out of that division, getting the jr title & Kendo Kashin's 2nd run with the belt. Wouldn't be until late 2001/early 2002 when things started getting back on track again. By that time Minoru Tanaka had joined full time jumping from Battlarts, they snagged TM4 from M-Pro, Jado & Gedo came in full time after leaving FMW & bouncing around the indies for a while & they were using Takehiro Murahama from Osaka Pro a lot & just working with other promotions again in general. I'm still kinda bumed Murahama didn't stick around and disapeared shortly after, he was a great lost talent who also prob would have ended up joining NJ had he lasted longer.

It's all about Josh Matthews & Taz and Josh Matthews & Michael Cole on Velocity. Shades of Pokerface 4-Life yo....

Also from 5/8 Yumiko Hotta & Manami Toyota vs Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada - Not a major match in the grand scheme of things so no deep story or anything but it's the main event of a K-Hall show so they go out and bust ass for 20+ anyways and have a great 4* ish range match. Says a lot for how deep AJW was at the time because in many other promotions this would stand out as one of the best matches of the year, but for this time frame it's something that seems to have been a little forgotten and i'm not even sure if this cracks the top 20 AJW matches in the first 6 months of 93. Post match Rumi Kazama & a bunch of LLPW roster members who were watching in the crowd came in the ring & had a big confrontation with Hokuto, LCO, Suzuka & Bat (Suzuka & Mita had a damn good match on the undercard of this show too)

I'd add these as must haves Battlarts 3/21/1999 Masaaki Mochizuki vs Minoru Tanaka 5/14/1999 Alexander Otsuka & Mohammed Yone vs Hayabusa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda 6/20/1999 Yuki Ishikawa & Mohammed Yone vs Daisuke Ikeda & Ikuto Hidaka BJW 5/30/1999 (Barbed Wire, Fire & Lightbulbs) Ryuji Yamakawa vs Shadow WX I'd put these in the keep only if there's room pile Yuki Ishikawa & Daisuke Ikeda vs Joe Malenko & Carl Greco (BattlARTS 06/09/99) Taka Michinoku, Yuki Ishikawa & Kazunari Murakami vs Alexander Otsuka, Mohammed Yone & Ikuto Hidaka (BattlARTS 09/26/99) Tomoaki Honma vs The Winger (BJPW 10/03/99, Barbed Wire Board Death Match) and i'd drop this all together since I thought it was pretty average Naoki Sano vs Maasaki Mochizuki (BattlARTS 11/09/99) I thought the August match was a lot better but this one is really good too, works well as a set up & just as an overall part of their big feud over the years