Loss Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted November 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Last few minutes. Bearded Muto is awesome. The heat is so through the roof and Muto's selling looks so good that I wish this was a match we would have had room to include in full. Muto hits two moonsaults to win the IWGP title and kick off what I am expecting to be quite the exciting run for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Muto leading the crowd in "Inoki's cheer" was weird. I thought Inoki was the only one that did that? Good stuff though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Can anyone explain this match to me? I just watched this and thought it was a total turd. The heat was good but nothing happened in the first 10 minutes, Mutoh hit a bunch of offense and then some shenanigans happened during the pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 First half they worked the mat. It was a pleasant way to pass the time with a few nice touches. They patiently built it up. I liked how nothing came easy and they had to fight to pull off the higher powered moves. The stretch had clear shifts in momentum with one and then the other getting close but just being denied. It was a matchup of equals and on this day Mutoh shaded it. If it had gone to the better performer then Hash would have retained. I have no idea what "shenanigans" rzombie is referring to. I would usually use the term to refer to sports entertainment related screwiness. The match was by no means perfect, but it was a good main event for a Dome show and well worth a watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Dr. Death has lost a TON of weight since his drug bust, and--oh, that's Mutoh. He wins the IWGP title. Yay. Hash had had a stranglehold on the belt for the past year and a half, minus an inexplicable quickie reign by Tatsumi Fujinami, but I wasn't quite ready for him to lose the belt just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 Muto's matwork has progressed here so this was an alright portion unlike some of his early 90s encounters with Hashimoto but it still feels like Hashimoto just hears the 15 minute call and decides to start headbutting Muto a bunch and wake up the Dome and get the match moving along. I will say however I felt like their transitions were a lot better by this point. Too much early 90s NJPW had the sort of obvious rope running counter ones or just a "well I'm in a corner and my opponent is running at me from far away I guess I'll duck" type of momentum shifts but they're much better at pulling you into the drama late here. This too has another good finishing stretch, which seems to be a theme of these longer Hashimoto/Muto matches. I've never felt disappointed in the last segment of them but the journey is usually not worth it. Muto completely spikes Hashimoto on the dragon suplex here and it's kinda disappointing that he overshoots him on the first moonsault so he has to run back to the middle rope and do it again. Think my personal favorite moment in this was when Muto randomly decides to break out these terrible looking savate kicks that are missing by a mile so Hashimoto literally just walks through them to attack him some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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