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Show #5 (12/9/2003) came out with a watchable undercard that was more about the curious rather than the actively good. The mysterious CRAFTER M comes out and engages in some very good exchanges with the befuddled Manabu Hara but ends up winning quite decisively. No less befuddling is the random appearance of future Kings Road imitator Kazushi Miyamoto in an amusing match. Namekawa/Ito was quite scrappy and stiff but ends rather abruptly. Especially liked the nasty leg kicks. The same goes for Ueyama/Mishima which hints at a really great match but ends in about 5 minutes with Mishima targetting Ueyamas bad leg. Sakata/Sasaki was going for a similiar vibe as Sakata/Ito from June. Methodical shootstyle matwork with building intensity that mostly came from Sakata punishing Sasaki with those heavy hands. Lots of knuckle grinding too. Would've been a very good match with a slightly more exciting finish. The main event was just a great match with tremendous intensity and sense of danger. Fujii had destroyed everyone up to this point and Tamura sold him as a legit threat, fighting like mad to escape his German Suplex of doom. Some great standup from Tamura and Fujii came across as a bull rushing through with his power. Loved him just picking up a clearly resistant Tamura for the waterwheel drop. About as good as a fully developed 7 minute epic as you can have.
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[1987-04-27-NJPW] Antonio Inoki vs Masa Saito
Jetlag replied to Superstar Sleeze's topic in April 1987
Weird and wonderful spectacle. They start out wrestling straight, with lots of cool amateur style grappling. Saito gets the advantage when he looks in his awesome Prison Lock. He continues focussing on Inokis legs, with Inoki resisting against the Scorpion Deathlock with all his might. Saito proceeds to take a few pages out of Choshus playbook and destroys Inoki with lariats, backdrops and Scorpion holds. Inoki looks badly beaten up and is seemingly done, so Saito proceeds to punish him some more by dropping him crotch first on the ropes. This humiliation wakes up Inoki again, he catches Saito with the abisegiri. Now things get really whack as Inoki has the ropes removed (he is the boss after all) and starts beating down Saito. A brutal posting later and Saito is gushing blood and eating punches and Ezugiris left and right. Sneaky Hiroshi Hase who is seconding Saito hands hima pair of handcuffs and he and Inoki are chained together. The good times don't last long for Masa Saito though as Inoki is soon back to brutally beating him down with punches, headbutts and elbows. Both guys are coated in blood by now and Inoki is pounding away at a motionless Masa Saito until Hase throws in the towel. Quite the epic spectacle as this was a mix of quality wrestling and a violent bloodbath, altough the handcuff/rope removal stuff felt a little forced. -
[1980-09-25-NJPW-Bloody Fight Series] Tatsumi Fujinami vs Kengo Kimura
Jetlag replied to Loss's topic in September 1980
Insanely tight matwork in this contest. While there's not a lot of spectacular moves, they really make up for it by working every exchange with maximum resistance and caution. Really sinking into hammerlocks or yanking at the leg. I liked how Fujinami didn't lose his cool in this one when he got slapped. The rope running and strike exchanges feel really frantic and dangerous. A double dropkick spot actually comes across as cool!! It builds to an epic last third with awesome blood, dives, one of the most brutal piledrivers ever, great momentum swings etc. I know a long grappling heavy between two guys in black tights is tough to get into but this is potentially the greatest junior match of the 80s. -
The 3rd show (6/29/2003) comes with the usual decent undercard action with nothing in particular standing out but the last 3 matches are the good stuff. Sasaki/Mishima is pretty much your workrate shootstyle done right, innovative athlete vs. Decent little guy is guaranteed to be something and this was slick and smooth with plenty of cool moments while feeling thoroughly competitive. Mishima feels way ahead of the curve but Sasaki manages to be actually competitive with him and lasts up until the last point. Last couple exchanges were pretty intense. Probably would have been a great match if Kyosuke Sasaki was a little better at selling his near defeat. Then Ito/Sakata is just something else as Sakata had found his personality when beating Okubo with his fists on the last show. Starts out intense from the get go with some hard shotais. They then move through some methodical matwork and soon the hands start flying again cranking up the intensity. Knuckles grinding in the face, kidney punches, Sakata just slapping Ito silly with palms and Ito getting really fired up. Really great nearfalls near the end which are all made by Itos body language, I also liked how Sakata almost seemed flustered when Ito would start gaining the advantage or prevent a move. Great stuff. The main event was a really great quasi-squash with Fuke coming out swinging wildly only to get outclassed and destroyed by calm superior Tamura. This is how an ace behaves. Show Nr. 4 in the U-Style catalogue (10/6/2003) was really fun even without the established guys. You had squash machine Fujii getting in troube for the first time, with Echigo showing lots of spunk and rushing him to actually put him in peril here and there, and everyone else showing lots of promise. Hara/Okubo was a really cool, lengthy match that never dragged. Hara seemed to be leading the dance early on, teasing his german suplex, but Okubo got fired up and the crowd got behind him big time throughout the bout. Probably the most color he has shown in U-Style so far. Slick grappling throughout and they deliver a hot finish with the time running out as Okubo tries for an armbar. They do a restart and go for broke. Ito/Ueyama was a really interesting match. You had Ueyama, who is a really explosive worker, dominating early on, landing this awesome shotai/body shot combo in the corner and getting the advantage on the mat. So Ito stomps on his face and gets a yellow card and thinks „well might as well“ and starts kicking the hell out of Ueyamas bandaged leg. He even punches at the leg on the ground. Ueyama starts limping and getting more cautious while fighting back valiantly resulting in some tense moments with the finish being a standout. Pretty unique stuff for a shootstyle bout that worked extremely well. The other matches were fun too with the finals being a frantic scramble that felt like it had a lot at stake and could work anytime. Really cool show which elevates everyone involved. Actually, Ueyama was out of points, so grabbing the ropes would have done nothing. He simply refused to tap and the referee stopped the bout. Very good finish.
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Kitahara/Kawauchi was basically just a gritty uncooperative streetfight. Kawauchi was more aggressive and overzealous here so Kitahara just absolutely beat his ass in between taunting him. Short but good stuff that the fans got really into and I hope this isn't the last I see of Capture International.
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Kitahara/Kurashima was a nifty little battle. Kurashima is naturally at home on the mat and Kitahara is actually willing to work the mat against him. However Kitahara has the advantage because he is a bastard. Kitahara brutally kicks him in the jaw while exchanging leglocks and follows with more boots to the face. Kurashima makes some desperation takedown attempts until Kitahara catches (captures) him for the tap.
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Johta/Mineno was another rounds match only this time they had MMA gloves. Why the rounds? Hey, look these ring girls (mat girls?) are totally HOT! They got Capture International style bikinis!!! The match was really good as these two just kick the hell out of eachother and also have good grappling and throws. Basically the worlds greatest worked Shooto. It works because there's no back and forth strike trading, just two guys throwing and evading really fast and aggressively. Little premature ending as this was only half as long as their boxing gloves match, but the finish was pretty damn brutal so what the hell.
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Oh but this match is a goodie. You have Tomohiro Ishii pre-Choshuism and CAPTURE boy since the beginning, aswell as the unseen should-have-been-a-star DAISAKU (Shimoda) and his twin brother YUSAKU (Shimoda and half a dozen other names) rocking the gloves and ready to throw down. I'll never understand what motivates these indy guys to get punched in the face in a basement in front of 70 people but I'll always enjoy watching. This goes about 6 minutes and it's basically all 4 guys kicking the crap out of eachother. Really liked the lumpy boys who like to kick hard sections between Ishii and YUSAKU and the attempted fraticide between YUSAKU and DAISAKU was pretty brutal aswell. Daisaku has some huge kicks and thai knees while Yusaku sticks to more traditional pro wrestling stuff punches and knees stuff executed with a CAPTURE sized vicious streak. Also really liked Ishii in his Kawada wannabe tights flying at Kitahara with huge kicks. By no means is this intelligent or well rounded pro wrestling, it's arguably shootstyle in it's most primitive form, and that's why I love it and want to see every single match in this style ever done. So Kitahara if you're reading this there's someone who cares, and Kitahara's neighbours if you are reading this please break into his garage and steal all his VHS tapes for us and don't get spin kicked in the face doing that.
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This is our sole taste of 90s Capture International. It's Aoyagi working a somewhat regular undercard match against Kitahara's boy Nihao (who would go on to be in U-Style – CAPTURE can get you somewhere). Aoyagi working holds isn't quite the same as Aoyagi working a crazy spectacle, but I probably liked this better than Aoyagis undercard work in Wrestle Yume Factory. Aoyagi sure does give Nihao the business with stiff kicks and punches to the mid section and there is one truely brutal near KO. The finish is a really nice moment too. I didn't get a ton from Nihao here but he looked fine.
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The debut show (2/15/2003) had a decent undercard with Ito/Ueyama being the one standout match to deliver some high end shootstyle action. Ueyama feels very Tamura inspired with his almost dance like knee grinding and position switching on the ground. The match obviously had lots of good matwork with the opening exchange being perhaps the dopest on the show, and then Ito, after almost getting submitted, starts doing his dismissive mugging and "I will bite you" grin. Lots of feisty palm strikes.
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The main event was obviously the best match and had everything a Tamura match entails. The good thing about U-Style is that they didn't do straight up UWF or RINGS worship but instead it was this exciting new take on shootstyle with faster pace, shorter matches and submissions being more important. Great mix of slick, athletic matwork with intelligent pacing and strong standup sections. Tamura comes across as a very dangerous force but he mostly works even with fellow RINGS leftover Sakata. Sakata is someone who seems to rough his opponent up a little more than average, it didn't come across strongly here but he had his moments. Really liked how tough the body shots here felt. Whenever Tamura shows vulnerability Sakata goes after him and his crazy desperation assault after almost getting KO'd was the highlight of the match. Some really great submission nearfalls while keeping it believable.
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[2003-04-06-U-STYLE] Kiyoshi Tamura vs Dokonjonosuke Mishima
Jetlag replied to superkix's topic in April 2003
The main event was just an insanely fun match with Mishima coming in as an outsider to Pro Wrestling and winning everyones hearts with his tricked out wonky holds and kicks. Not a master Tamura carryjob but with him you cannot have a bad shootstyle match and a worker like Mishima is must watch. Crazy handspring kicks that look credible and weird pull-his-torso-apart submissions, the man had it all. -
The second show starts with your usual decent undercard. Ito/Yoshida was a very basic opening match which had the simple story of Yoshida going for the same takedown over and over until Ito starts preventing it until he catches him. Yoshida didn't add much aside from one nice hold for a cool nearfall. Hara/Echigo was a nice long match that was also not super flash but they kept it moving and kept working small highlights into it with Echigo landing nice throws and Hara getting nice near K.O.s and making a nice rush in the last minute. Nothing mindblowing but I liked it and stuff like this helps the audience to respect the workers and the rules more. The Fujii match was another squash and while he is not an impressive squash machine it was amusing to watch him slap the tattooed goon to death. I did not like Murahama/Sasaki much as Murahama is the Minoru Tanaka of this promotion with his tendency to do soft matwork and contrived spots. Kyosuke shows potential but this was at best watchable. Okubo was way over his head in the Semi Main Event. I actually would have liked Sakata to squash him to reassert his dominance but they start working throwaway shootstyle before Sakata decides to brutalize him some with hard slaps, knuckles in the face etc. Bread and butter rookie/veteran stuff with Okubo getting his token nearfalls but it ended up being fine. The main event was just an insanely fun match with Mishima coming in as an outsider to Pro Wrestling and winning everyones hearts with his tricked out wonky holds and kicks. Not a master Tamura carryjob but with him you cannot have a bad shootstyle match and a worker like Mishima is must watch. Crazy handspring kicks that look credible and weird pull-his-torso-apart submissions, the man had it all.
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This is the last Capture footage which is from Kitaharas YouTube channel. There is also a highlight video which has more clips that seem to be from matches in the 90s. I have no idea why you would have this stuff filmed and leave no trace of distribution but god knows what is going on in a guy like Kitaharas head when they start a promotion like this. Masashi Aoyagi vs. Nihao (Capture 7/4/1999) This is our sole taste of 90s Capture International. It's Aoyagi working a somewhat regular undercard match against Kitahara's boy Nihao (who would go on to be in U-Style – CAPTURE can get you somewhere). Aoyagi working holds isn't quite the same as Aoyagi working a crazy spectacle, but I probably liked this better than Aoyagis undercard work in Wrestle Yume Factory. Aoyagi sure does give Nihao the business with stiff kicks and punches to the mid section and there is one truely brutal near KO. The finish is a really nice moment too. I didn't get a ton from Nihao here but he looked fine. Koki Kitahara & YUSAKU vs. Tomohiro Ishii & DAISAKU (Capture 5/30/2000) Oh but this match is a goodie. You have Tomohiro Ishii pre-Choshuism and CAPTURE boy since the beginning, aswell as the unseen should-have-been-a-star DAISAKU (Shimoda) and his twin brother YUSAKU (Shimoda and half a dozen other names) rocking the gloves and ready to throw down. I'll never understand what motivates these indy guys to get punched in the face in a basement in front of 70 people but I'll always enjoy watching. This goes about 6 minutes and it's basically all 4 guys kicking the crap out of eachother. Really liked the lumpy boys who like to kick hard sections between Ishii and YUSAKU and the attempted fraticide between YUSAKU and DAISAKU was pretty brutal aswell. Daisaku has some huge kicks and thai knees while Yusaku sticks to more traditional pro wrestling stuff punches and knees stuff executed with a CAPTURE sized vicious streak. Also really liked Ishii in his Kawada wannabe tights flying at Kitahara with huge kicks. By no means is this intelligent or well rounded pro wrestling, it's arguably shootstyle in it's most primitive form, and that's why I love it and want to see every single match in this style ever done. So Kitahara if you're reading this there's someone who cares, and Kitahara's neighbours if you are reading this please break into his garage and steal all his VHS tapes for us and don't get spin kicked in the face doing that.
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This was the best of the Forgotten Kawada TC Defenses I watched today and a borderline classic. And the reason for that is, of course, Osamu Nishimura. Nish often gets branded as a novelty worker who just does tribute matches imitating Dory Funk Jr spots, which is simply not true, as he does a bonafide job working a true Kings Road style match against Kawadas strike based style here. Not forcing him to work his trademark style at all, just building a really good match around his signature spots while educating the crowd on the importance of Backslides and Abdominal Stretches, telling a story and all while never losing his composure. The opening sees Nishimura ambushing Kawada and targeting his leg, they then proceed to work a basic exchange, Kawada goes for a cheapshot but Nish blocks him and hits back, showing he's prepared. They continue in this vein, with Kawada lacing into Nishimura with strikes only for Nishimura to fire back on him, often punching or headbutting him in the eye. This causes Kawada to actually get fired up and look like a dangerous striker against Nishimuras more toned down offense like getting punched and headbutted in the eye actually shook him after years of getting elbowed, kicked, chopped etc. There is some excellently executed legwork and a flawless build to a Figure 4 which was full of struggle and great. Kawadas selling was pretty hit and miss as per usual during this period but I actually thought it was acceptable. The finishing run was really great, well put together stuff with plenty of neat spots and I thought it was largely carried by Nishimuras amazing charisma, he is such a wrestling master with how he manages to work his stuff with so much urgency, he really yanks on Kawadas neck when he goes for a sleeper, he would also go from an Abdominal Stretch to a pin to an armbar trying to force the tap, like he was trying everything he knew to get that win. His bumping is also up there with the best of the 90s death seekers, as when he takes a back suplex his head and feet touch the ground at about the same time but he folds his neck up. I thought his performance here was close to Hondas GHC challenge in 2003. Kawada had one of his better nights on his TC run too, I really liked how he would sell Nishimuras finer strikes and really liked the Octopus Hold into Stretch Plum as a Fuck You to Nishimuras lineage. Great stuff and one of the few matches where you'll see Kawada carried.
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Pretty by the numbers japanese big match but not bad. Sasaki gets the advantage using his power early on, finisher on the floor, some limbwork ensues, lots of stiff shots etc. It's a formula that works and these two are good at it. Sasaki is pretty fly here hitting a big plancha to the floor and really walloping Kawada with potatoes. There is some neck work which ends up not being of much importance but leads to some fun moments. Sasaki cosplays 90s Kobashi by chopping Kawada in the neck and hitting flimsy bulldogs, it also leads to a pretty sick piledriver. Kawada was halfway into lazy mode as he had some nice transitions such as kicking Sasaki in the face when he tried his silly facebuster or slipping underneath for the cheap powerbomb, but he would also just go back on offense at other times. Kind of dumb finishing stretch, but not offensively dumb.
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Man, I had no idea Frye challenging for the Triple Crown was a thing. Judging from Fryes workrate here he really should've been IWGP champion. The first half of this was mindblowing – Frye did a great job selling for Kawada, while also engaging in some of the most violent punch exchanges in pro wrestling history. Really great stuff with Kawada getting rocked repeatedly and desperately trying to shut the MMA fighter down. Unfortunately the way Kawada completely dominated Frye in the second half and no sold all his comebacks was terrible and killed the match.
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Most overlooked match between two big names in japanese wrestling history? I never even knew this one happened. It was a pretty fun match, altough far in the shadow of their 2000 encounter. You get those two smacking and punching eachother a lot, so that is really fun of course, and also some of Crazy Tenryu with him throwing chairs and making use of the Spider Suplex etc. Unfortunately Lazy Kawada was in effect here with him ignoring some fun legwork Tenryu was doing and no selling his way back on offense later, he also seemed to have a lot of light on his enzuigiris. On the other hand, him coughing after getting chopped in the throat was a nice touch. Perfectly good match otherwise.
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I'm gonna join in here for a bit. I've seen bits of U-Style but never the whole thing in one go, so I'll have a go. The debut show (2/15/2003) had a decent undercard with Ito/Ueyama being the one standout match to deliver some high end shootstyle action. Ueyama feels very Tamura inspired with his almost dance like knee grinding and position switching on the ground. The match obviously had lots of good matwork with the opening exchange being perhaps the dopest on the show, and then Ito, after almost getting submitted, starts doing his dismissive mugging and "I will bite you" grin. Lots of feisty palm strikes. I don't remember Kyosuke Sasaki being a "crazy matwork" type but he had to bring it against the bigger RINGS veteran Namekawa and he had some cool stuff. Especially liked the Triangle Chokes. I didn't care much for Murahamas cute spots and hokey selling and Okubo was seriously bland. There is a big difference between Murahama selling a near submission and Hiroyuki Ito or Sakata doing it. The main event was obviously the best match and had everything a Tamura match entails. The good thing about U-Style is that they didn't do straight up UWF or RINGS worship but instead it was this exciting new take on shootstyle with faster pace, shorter matches and submissions being more important. Great mix of slick, athletic matwork with intelligent pacing and strong standup sections. Tamura comes across as a very dangerous force but he mostly works even with fellow RINGS leftover Sakata. Sakata is someone who seems to rough his opponent up a little more than average, it didn't come across strongly here but he had his moments. Really liked how tough the body shots here felt. Whenever Tamura shows vulnerability Sakata goes after him and his crazy desperation assault after almost getting KO'd was the highlight of the match. Some really great submission nearfalls while keeping it believable.
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Capture 3/8/2003 Yasuhiro Yamagami vs. Masaki Sawai Koki Kitahara vs. Nobuyuki Kurashima Daiyu Kawauchi vs. Jiraiya Johta vs. Masayuki Mineno Kitahara vs. Daiyu Kawauchi Yamagami/Sawai – Yamagami is bigger and aggressive and punches and kicks Sawai some. Not much going on in this match as Sawai had his hands full trying to defend himself and gets caught and tapped quickly anyways. Kitahara/Kurashima was a nifty little battle. Kurashima is naturally at home on the mat and Kitahara is actually willing to work the mat against him. However Kitahara has the advantage because he is a bastard. Kitahara brutally kicks him in the jaw while exchanging leglocks and follows with more boots to the face. Kurashima makes some desperation takedown attempts until Kitahara catches (captures) him for the tap. Kawauchi/Jiraya sounded cool on paper if it had been that aggressive Kawauchi from the previous show. Instead he mostly let Jiraya grapple him some before some shotais finally woke him up and he finished the match with the lift and drop and then a shootstyle Jackhammer. Pretty throwaway match aside from the cool finish. Johta/Mineno was another rounds match only this time they had MMA gloves. Why the rounds? Hey, look these ring girls (mat girls?) are totally HOT! They got Capture International style bikinis!!! The match was really good as these two just kick the hell out of eachother and also have good grappling and throws. Basically the worlds greatest worked Shooto. It works because there's no back and forth strike trading, just two guys throwing and evading really fast and aggressively. Little premature ending as this was only half as long as their boxing gloves match, but the finish was pretty damn brutal so what the hell. Kitahara/Kawauchi was basically just a gritty uncooperative streetfight. Kawauchi was more aggressive and overzealous here so Kitahara just absolutely beat his ass in between taunting him. Good stuff that the fans got really into and I hope this isn't the last I see of Capture International.
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It's Ishikawa facing the most insignificant first period BattlARTS guy on a random AJPW card in the 2nd match on the card. It can't be more than just a fun little exhibition? And well that's WRONG because these two just do one of the most brutal under 5 minute sprints of the decade. Crowd brawling that looks legit (why is Ishikawa, a quasi shootstyle working Inoki worshipper arguably the best crowd brawler in japanese wrestling history?), some of the stiffest slaps you'll ever see, and then probably the stiffest Enzugiri you'll see ever, insane Maeda/Fujinami blood, stoppage drama... yeah this kicked ass.
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Well, I assume the main event is what everyone in attendance bought their tickets for. Exactly what Capture promises, 4 guys just beating eachother silly in savage ways. The Mineno/Johta sections were really fun with both guys throwing fast hands and kicks, all ultra stiff of course. Then you had the heavyweights – both Kitahara and Kurashima looked like they were twice the size of either Johta or Mineno – bullying the little guys around. Kurashima is a MUGA boy and he mostly sticks to matwork here, altough he does punish opponents with some brutal throws and inventive submissions. At one point he did a Backlund lift from an armbar into almost a One Winged Angel. Kitahara was an absolute bastard once again, stomping on Minenos face and sucker punching him from behind. Match is really good shootstyle in parts but starts breaking down into chaos towards the end with the referee losing control over who is legal and who isn't, so you would get Kurashima tackling Kitahara while Mineno would try to kick him in the face. Still this is what Capture promise and each fall had a great finish.
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The main event had little story to it but was a string of cool moments. You had Shunji Takano working as sleazy Jumbo Tsuruta walloping everyone with huge kicks and knees, George Takano & Oya having a great moment trading shotais and Nagasaki in his working boots hitting the mat and dishing out big kicks. Oyas execution was sharper than later in FMW but he didn't seem to have a clue on how to add direction to the match. Just when things started to get heated when Nagasaki said Fuck This and went to blast Shunji Takano with the chairs as Kendo Nagasaki does an Umanosuke Ueda run in happens and the match just ends. Kind of a bullshit thing to end your main event of a Korakuen Hall show like this but I actually want to see more NOW now.
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Arakawa/Kawabata was also unexpectedly great as it was that classic japanese material of two tubby guys trading big fucking beatings. Arakawa is known as a comedy worker and while there are some laughs and exaggerated body language this is competitive. Starts great with Kawabata slapping him and Arakawa dumping him with a huge german suplex. Lots of hurty looking slaps and Arakawa punches ensue. We also get some fun Arakawa matwork aswell as a dive tease. This was the most inspired I've seen Kawabata look as he would really lay into Arakawa with kicks and palms and ram him like a bull. What does it say about Kawabata that his most inspired performance is some fancam undercard match against a comedy wrestler from some long forgotten offshoot company?
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Capture 12/8/2002 Masake Sawai vs. Hayato Minami Takayuki Nakazato vs. Seiji Nakamura Cry vs. Jiraiya Koki Kitahara & Johta vs. Nobuyuki Kurashima & Masayuki Mineno The opener was about 4 of decent shootstyle grappling. Again liked Minamis tenacity aspecially when he was again working for an armlock from underneath. Nothing much to get from this kind of match though. In the 2nd match is actually a guy whose name sounds like Seiji Nakamura, not Kazunobu Nakamura as Lynchs matchlist says. It's pretty much irrelevant as Pancrase shorts wearing Nakazato armbars him in about 5 seconds. Cry vs. Jiraiya was some utterly bizarre shit. Cry is a masked guy in all yellow who does some weird exaggerated mannerism comedy while the folks who bought tickets for a CAPTURE show sit there and stare in silence. After about 10 minute of somewhat awkward and not at all good shootstyle grappling Cry gets the win. Not a good night to be Jiraiya. Well, I assume the main event is what everyone in attendance bought their tickets for. Exactly what Capture promises, 4 guys just beating eachother silly in savage ways. The Mineno/Johta sections were really fun with both guys throwing fast hands and kicks, all ultra stiff of course. Then you had the heavyweights – both Kitahara and Kurashima looked like they were twice the size of either Johta or Mineno – bullying the little guys around. Kurashima is a MUGA boy and he mostly sticks to matwork here, altough he does punish opponents with some brutal throws and inventive submissions. At one point he did a Backlund lift from an armbar into almost a One Winged Angel. Kitahara was an absolute bastard once again, stomping on Minenos face and sucker punching him from behind. Match is really good shootstyle in parts but starts breaking down into chaos towards the end with the referee losing control over who is legal and who isn't, so you would get Kurashima tackling Kitahara while Mineno would try to kick him in the face. Still this is what Capture promise and each fall had a great finish.