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Masayuki Naruse 1992

Whoops, I scanned the rosters but guess I missed him. Yuji Nagata 1992

El Samurai 1992 Beast is up.

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Akira Nogami 1991 Yoshihisa Yamamoto 1992 Beast Blehschmidt Gordi Lee Casebolt Joeg Elliot Low Blow - Todd Champion 1991 El Boricua

There's one name in particular that I keep pushing back but I'm always very surprised he's still available when I come back around again.

Kensuke Sasaki 1992 Willie Peeters 1991

Episode 6 is now available. Here's the direct link. https://fightingnetworkfriends.podiant.co/e/35b11bd7e2d11c/ to stream, or subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also search us on Apple Podcasts. FNF #006: Giving THANKS Topics discussed: - Oklahoma farms - Thanksgiving spreads - UWFi, Battlarts, FUTEN & NOAH - Murakami again - Weird camera angles - Bad News Allen - Koji Kitao's shittiness - A BattleArts elimination tag that is one of the best things we've seen & More No City Pop, Japanese or Korean music today. We got Don Trip, Kehlani and Stephen Kellog (weird) Matches: UWFi - 12/5/93 - Bad News Allen vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (thanks KS) FUTEN - 7/18/11 - Kengo Mashimo vs. Seiken (thanks Marc) NOAH - 6/8/07 - Kazunari Murakami vs. Naomichi Marufuji (thanks Tanner) UWFi - 10/23/92 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Koji Kitao (thanks Rob) BattlArts - 7/26/08 - Daisuke Ikeda, Katsumi Usuda & Super Tiger II vs. Yuki Ishikawa, Alexander Otsuka & Munenori Sawa (thanks Dylan) Youtube Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/fnf006 Follow us on Twitter: @fightfriends @trillyrobinson @bren_patrick Email at: [email protected] Youtube at: http://tinyurl.com/FightFriends

My roster should be good to go after Round 30.

Kazuo Takahashi 1992

Yoshinari Ogawa 1992

Osamu Nishimura 1992 Gene Lydick 1992 Blehs back up.

Yuki Ishikawa 1992 Bleh is up.

One of the more interesting aspects of any Murakami match is watching how his opponents manage his rabid dog-style in the ring, and for the most part, the strategy is predictable: let the dog tire himself out and then sink in a submission hold. Nagata uses the same approach here, absorbing Murakami's wild swings and stomps before taking control of the situation with a suplex and finding some leverage on the ground. Blood is also a common theme in most Murakami's matches and we get it here, complete with Murakami licking it off his forearm. I thought Nagata's knees looked good and the stuff with the arm, breaking it down in between holds with the armbreakers and stripping off the elbow pad to stomp at it. I was kind of hoping this would end via submission but instead, Nagata uses three wrist-clutch Exploders. It does the trick. This was pretty great.

Yusuke Fuke 1992 Jetlags up.

Shinjiro Ohtani 1992

Grom Zaza 1992

On the English HDNet broadcast, one of the commentators referred to the matwork as "dirty grappling", which fit well here, considering these two grunty dudes trying to manage the opposing bulk -- opposing bulk well-versed in the same catch-as-catch-can approach. Between the leg jockeying and the back-and-forth for arm control, Suzuki and Barnett conveyed the struggle of not only applying the holds, but keeping them locked on, and exhaustion of throwing around that weight working against them. This was my first exposure to Hideki Suzuki and it was clear to me early on that there's a lot to love from him as a worker. The fact that he just reaches in and coolly slaps Barnett across the face says a lot. He had a good grasp of selling with subtly, which he did here with the leg Barnett kept going after. I haven't seen much of Barnett's pro-wrestling career but I like that he's scrappy and rough-edged. He'll boot Hideki in the face before applying the single leg before transitioning into a brutal-looking STF. The powerbomb and suplexes were an awesome component of this match to establish itself as "strong style pro-wrestling" but within that, there were cool touches, like Barnett going back to the arm after each suplex, or Hideki using his weight as a counterweight to Barnett's throws. Barnett destroying Hideki with the Northern Lights Bomb from seemingly out of nowhere was the cherry on top of it all. Great stuff.

Yoshihiro Takayama 1992

Lee already took Vladimir Berkovich.

Bart Vale 1992 1. Jetlag 2. Joeg 3. Bleh

Im for it!

Shiro Koshinaka 1991 Lee Castlebolt is up

Dude, definitely.