Loss Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 JIP but we get a good 10 minutes or so of action. Great drama and heat with Tenzan bleeding. Muto pins Tenzan after a moonsault to retain the IWGP title. I wouldn't mind seeing this match in full sometime, considering that this was a big year for both guys, but it was a long one and we had to trim it down. Supplemental pick for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 I too would like to see the full match some time as the finish was good. Nice to see Chono and Choshu at ringside. The look Muto gives Chono at the end was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Basically a ten-minute closing stretch, and a good one, though I never really felt Tenzan had a chance of winning the title, even in the wacky world of NJPW booking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted July 4 Report Share Posted July 4 IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan - NJPW 6/14/95 Leave it to Hirata to make Tenzan look like Stone Cold in terms of charisma. This is in the Budokan, typically the domain of All Japan. Tenzan is tag team champion and Chono is out with him. Woke up in the middle of the night in the Azores and call me crazy but this is FUCKING AWESOME! Even though Mutoh looks a little taller and wider than Tenzan, they stick to script that Tenzan is big bruising goon and Mutoh needs to use speed. The match works so well because Tenzan gives Mutoh fucking NOTHING at the beginning of the match. He is this torrential force of nature. He has the Champion reeling and wrestling off his back foot. This is basically Tenzan’s rookie year on the main roster so to speak and he is showing great poise. He felt like a bull in a China shop but in a different way than Stab Hansen. Hansen is frenetic and chaotic. Tenzan is straight ahead smash mouth. Mutoh was throwing desperation kicks just to get a moment of respite from Tenzan’s suffocating offense. Mutoh would clamp down on a hold after the kick but Tenzan would keep coming. I loved Mutoh’s response to a loss In a shoulder block battle to apply drop toehold but Tenzan kept coming. When Tenzan went for a cross arm breaker it looked like Mutoh was going to wake up lest he be steamrolled. We get the Mutoh Elbow but when Mutoh went for a single leg crab Tenzan was having none of it and just fucking stuffed his attempt. That’s when I knew I watching something special. Nothing was given everything was earned. Tenzan Ramps it up here and honestly it looked like it was going to a blow out. Mongolian Chops. Headbutt rain down from the sky. We were one Tenzansault from a shocking upset. Mutoh hits a Dropkick to Tenzan’s ass who brains himself on the top of the Ring post and takes a nasty tumble to the floor. It is official this match is fucking great. Mutoh Bulldog on the floor. Mutoh has wounded the bull and needs to finish him off. Spring board Dropkick. Mutoh goes for a moonsault. TENZAN ELECTRIC CHAIR DROP! The Symmetry! The Hook! The hook is who can hit the Moonsault first. This is Marty Sleeze fucking wrestling here. They are throwing bombs trying to get this moonsault. Tenzan eats nothing but canvas. Mutoh tries his backbreaker moonsault combo twice comes up empty both times. Then the match gets even better! Tenzan in the pursuit of giving Mutoh absolutely fucking nothing plucks Mutoh out of his customary back handspring and MANHANDLES him tossing him into the floor. It is a gnarly bump. Fucking Mutoh is PISSED! He comes in fists balled and cocked. He UNLOADS on Tenzan until he bleeds! I wanted blood on the Ring post shot and we got here. Mutoh rips up the protective mat and bulldogs Tenzan on the exposed concrete. If you didn’t know already this match FUCKING RULES! Mutoh back inside working the cut with punches when Tenzan let’s out a PRIMAL ROAR! OMFG LETS FUCKING GO! Tenzan spinning wheel kick wipes out Mutoh. Tenzan FINALLY HITS THE MOONSAULT 1-2-NO! YES! Tenzan undeterred goes for his Top Rope Headbutt but no one is home and he eats a face full canvas. As you can expect it is off the to the races for Mutoh who uses his Springboard Dropkick, Top Rope Frankensteiner , backbreaker and Moonsault to finish off the very game Tenzan as a challenger. This exceeded all expectations and was the best IWGP Title Match of 1995! Fuck it! This rocked so damn hard! ****3/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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