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Here's your 2000 indy MOTY. No kidding, this was just awesome and shockingly better put together than you'd expect. Really makes me wish there was more footage of the DDT crew doing BattlARTS style matches. I liked the opening matwork between Sasaki and Rider a lot. It felt very raw and unrehearsed, but they still whip out some cool transitions. Watching Sasaki here made me extra sour he spent the rest of his career as a go-through-the-motions bleeder because his stuff was inspired and he hit everything with a lot of snap. He looked like a rich mans Yuji Nagata here, a slick pro style wrestler who can hang doing stiff shootstyle. Ishii was in CAPTURE mode here - basically trying to crush his opponents with every single move he did. He opens this with one of the nastiest lariats I've ever seen against skinny thaiboxer Toba and basically doesn't let up after that. Even his basic "throw guy into corner to set up a tag" looked really violent. Toba is the DDT guy who works as basically a boxer which works very well in this kind of sleaze shootstyle match. He does exactly what you want, by punching guys in the face hard a lot and getting ragdolled around. I was also really impressed with Super Rider here - he made some brief Sasaki legwork that could easily have been filler compelling by selling vulnerability. He would then shoot for takedowns and submissions to protect himself, and also maul opponents on the ground. I also loved his Volk Han like ragdoll throw on poor Toba. The Ishii/Sasaki pro style section was probably the weakest point in the match but still had enough neck compression and potatoe shots to keep you entertained, with Sasaki doing some cool things that he would later drop - presumably because his athleticism declined. I liked how Ishii, when reversing a basic suplex, immediately went for the kill by dropping Sasaki on his head. The finish is between Super Rider and Takashi Sasaki, which is a match up only the most hardcore tape nerds (i.e. me) would anticipate and it totally delivers with Rider whipping out some genuinely awesome reversals. So there you have it, great ultra stiff quasi-shootstyle action that was actually well put together while retaining some of that sleazy underbelly of pro wrestling rawness. Maybe a low end nomination when it comes to all-timer discussion, but golly I loved checking this out. The whole thing is on the DDT Universe streaming service. -
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3-2-1 BATTLE! BattleMania 2019 April 19, 2019 Seattle, WA Elimination tag: Team Cooper (Evan Excelsior, Mr. Knight, Mr. Logan & Officer Cooper) vs Team Migs (Izzy McQueen, Jesus Christ Jr., Mama Shango & Steve Migs) 3-2-1 BATTLE! Solid Steel Title: Steve West (c) vs Dave Turner Five Way: Alex Zayne vs Ashley Dunn vs Flip Kendrick vs The Whisper vs Zachary Wentz Six Pack Challenge 2019, Final: Allan Jepsen vs B-Boy vs Dante Smythe vs Desi Derata vs Sage vs Tony Baroni Daniel Makabe vs Jonathan Gresham Battalion Medallion On The Line: Eddie Van Glam vs Pitfall Jones 3-2-1 BATTLE! Tag Titles: Mint Conditioning (Christian Andes & Mr. Fitness) (c) vs 4 Minutes of Heat (Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson) vs Friends With Medical Benefits (Nurse Black & Tommy Lawless) vs JerBear The Killer & Officer Cole vs The Hall Sisters (Bambi Hall & Liiza Hall) vs The Romantic Nerds (Herman Nerdstrom & Romantic Romeo) vs The Strays With Rabies (Elly & Icky) Kimber Lee, Kris Wolf & Shotzi Blackhart vs The Fur Horsemen (Kaden Talbain, Drew Sarian & Scott Henson) 3-2-1 BATTLE! Seattle Underground Title, Ladder Match: Rook Kelly (c) vs Cole Crazy vs Jacob Soumis vs Sonico vs The Bird Bold matches are PWO recommended.
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WWF All Star Wrestling Aired April 19, 1980 (Taped April 16, 1980) Hamburg, PA No review yet. Ken Patera vs Mike Masters Tor Kamata vs Manny Siaca Andre the Giant & Pat Patterson vs Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada Pedro Morales vs Frank Williams Tony Atlas vs Marc Pole Bold matches are PWO recommended.
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WWF Championship Wrestling Aired April 19, 1980 (Taped April 15, 1980) Allentown, PA No review yet. Tor Kamata vs Mike Masters Exhibition Match: Bob Backlund vs Jose Estrada Dominic Denucci vs Paul Mauret Pedro Morales vs Marc Pole Ken Patera vs Rene Goulet (April 16, 1980; Hamburg, PA) Bold matches are PWO recommended.
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Motegi is surprisingly effective as surely vet carrying skinny indy juniors and this was no exception. The match had a simple layout that worked: Fujita would get the advantage through a flashy move or highspot, and Motegi would repay him with a gritty stiff receipt. Highlights include a brutal lariat, some nasty as hell work on the stomach and making Fujita faceplant on the floor. Fujita is so skinny the beating looks double brutal and Motegi can just manhandle him. One goofy no selling spot, but this stuff ages better than your average 90s junior match.
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Ayako Hamada vs. Chihiro Hashimoto (Sendai 4/19) was a really fun match between two thickly built wrestlers. I really liked the opening exchanges, nice matwork and shoulderblocks, with Hamada's snappy lucha armdrags looking credible against Hashimoto's amateur stuff. I loved how well they worked stuff like abdominal stretch reversals and with Hashimoto moves like a hip toss or senton look brutal because she's so thick. The match didn't have great direction but there was some sense of build (e.g. building to Hashimoto hitting the 2nd rope senton, building to the first german suplex, building to first big Hashimoto nearfall with the short arm clotheslines etc). Ayako Hamada has been one of the sharpest wrestlers in the world for years and her picking apart Hashimoto with kicks looked great.
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