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[1998-08-03-WWF-Raw] Taka Michinoku & Val Venis vs Dick Togo & Shoichi Funaki
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I've always held TAKA Michinoku in high regard and him cultivating such a badass house style in his own promotion is only going to help his 2026 GWE looks for me. This match. My god. What can I even say to do it justice. I'm astonished how simple doing pro wrestling right can be sometimes. This match consisted of nothing more than these two grappling. And it became something special. Not because they used big symbols, but because they used normal, usual, mundane symbols and turned them into something huge by mixing them up with a bunch of cool, beautiful looking matwork. When you know how to sell you can turn Headscissors and Armbars into viable nearfalls too. I loved how TAKA used Headlocks and Sleepers to set up his Crossface variations-maybe connecting smaller symbols with bigger symbols and thus increasing their importance is something that should be discussed more. Ayumu Honda is still the best and this ruled. ***1/4
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[1997-12-07-WWF-D-Generation X] Brian Christopher vs Taka Michinoku
Bierschwale posted a topic in December 1997
(Final of the LHW title tournament.) The incessant commentary joke for this match is Lawler denying that he's related to Brian, no matter how many times that JR catches him. Christopher is SUCH a piece of shit scumbag heel, taking a rising sun sign made for TAKA, tearing it in half and wiping his ass. You just want him to fuck off and die throughout the match, it's excellent. That friggin' hyena laugh. I also love that great tacky dark red leather belt. The crowd is all over Christopher about being Lawler's son, too, just a perfect storm of hateability. And of course, this is prime TAKA, flipping out of a low-angle German attempt by Christopher that looks great, with the crowd eating up his comeback and popping huge for a classic TAKA springboard plancha. Christopher takes back over and throws TAKA to the outside, and goes for an arrogant dive of his own and just EATS SHIT, going face-first into the rail, getting busted open for his trouble. Another great pop and the first nearfall for a TAKA tornado DDT which Christopher takes like a champ. TAKA pops up after a baseball slide under Christopher and hits a rana that sets up another great Asai moonsault from the turnbuckle. Back in the ring after Lawler comes over in concern and dabs the blood off of his baby boy and we get a good rope-running exchange that ends with Christopher planting TAKA with a good full nelson facebuster after TAKA escapes a wheelbarrow suplex, then catches a TAKA telegraph with a sitout powerbomb. Arrogant crotch-first pose leads to a nearfall that TAKA reverses into a 2.75 of his own. The match is just pure energy. Second-rope dropkick from Christopher hits TAKA in the back of the head. Rocker Dropper and a gutbuster leads to another 2. Christopher mocks him with some horribly shitheaded crane kicks in the corner before a waistlock exchange that ends with TAKA taking a whammer of a head drop off of a German. Christopher dicks him around before a powerslam to set up the guillotine off of the top, but this ain't his night, and TAKA escapes and catches him just as Christopher snaps his tailbone with a great Michinoku Driver for the three. Awesome pop for the win. TAKA looks as good as anyone in the company, Christopher goes above and beyond in scumbaggery to help him get over, and it almost looks like that the LHW division might have a future. Almost. -
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STR 53: Punk & Vince Podcasts, Raw, TLC, 1997 ECW Barely Legal 6-Man Review
Shake Them Ropes posted a topic in Publications and Podcasts
Shake Them Ropes Episode 53 http://traffic.libsyn.com/shakethemropes/str12022014.mp3 Download Shake Them Ropes is packed this week with WWE news, reviews, and directions for the future. We start with WWE Raw, the positives and negatives, and Rob rants on Dean Ambrose’s WWE PPV record. Then we cover the newsmaking whirlwind of podcasts featuring CM Punk and Vince McMahon over the last week, including some weird answers Vince gave on the current roster, and Cesaro specifically. Plus, as we continue our Top 100 Matches To See on WWE Network series, we’ll review #98: The ECW Barely Legal International Six Man Tag. 90 minutes of fun from ShakeThemRopes.com and VoicesofWrestling.com! RSS: shakethemropes.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling/id888620707?mt=2 -
I hate to keep using "fall out of bed good," but that's what this is. You get the familiar arm-pumping comedy spots, and the double surfboard to triple surfboard to triple pin attempt spot, and the dive trains. What jumps out in this match in particular is the star-making performance from TAKA. He fits into this seamlessly, throwing some vicious strikes and of course wowing everybody with his spaceman planchas and springboard dropkicks. -
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[2007-12-01-K-Dojo-Overthrow] Taka Michinoku & Dick Togo vs Kota Ibushi & Madoka
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[2012-06-16-NJPW-Dominion] Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask IV vs Taka Michinoku & Taichi
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