[1990-06-07-Hamada's UWF] Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo & Kendo vs El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Good match, but again Kendo is the big standout. I wish he could have stayed around and worked in Michinoku Pro or something. He is by far the most over guy of everyone, both in this match and the previous one.

[Tim Cooke]

Kendo did work MPro tours from 1993-1995. He's in the mixed trios match from December 1995 that gets some talk.

[FLIK]

Random pointless fact, in Japan the comedy spot that ppl still do to this day whear everyone in the match spins around & jumps up in the air is named the "Kendo hop"

[PeteF3]

This had a fantastic first fall, with Hamada working some incredible athletic spots, Kendo continuing to work the crowd like a champ, and Aguayo being incredibly fun in his new babyface role after working as a big, bruising heel for his first few appearances. The rudos provide probably the greatest array of heel miscommunication spots in any match in history. Aguayo gets the fall for his team and the crowd chants for Kendo anyway. That's charisma.

 

The second and third falls don't quite live up to the first, as there's a bit of meandering and despite some stiff strikes the rudos are a bit less compelling on offense than working comedy stooge spots. All 3 babyfaces looked great throughout. It's too bad Hamada was such a stumpy little guy--he literally looks like an extra-tall midget--I think it hurt him on the believability scale, as he would have been better off as New Japan's junior ace than Sayama based purely on talent and ring smarts.

[soup23]

Kendo does look good here and I probably jinxed myself complaining about Hamada because his sequence with all three guys in the first fall is breathtaking and one of my favorite cat and mouse chase sequences I have ever seen. However, again I thought a lot of steam was lost after the first fall and this match felt really long.

[shoe]

I thought bthe comedy spots here were well done, and had the crowd ate them up. This type of match would have gotten over huge in Memphis I bet. I wish instead of Mil and Cactus at the Clash we could have gotten some type of shorter version match than this.

[Kevin Ridge]

Hamada gets backed body dropped? Even the fans were stunned at that. These rudos are not putting up with Kendo’s shenanigans. I’m thinking how the rudos are working well together but then they do a series of spots of hitting each other in error. Ha, Kendo’s multiple kip up thingy is a riot and the rudo’s team reaction of just standing there and letting Kengo walk away was fun. This Kendo guy is cracking me up. Fans start mocking one of the rudos. Entertaining match.

[Zenjo]

The 1st fall is fun semi-comedy. They should've stopped it there as it really started to grate in the 2nd and was FF material before the end.

[Cox]

I'm starting to think I prefer lucha six man tags to all other lucha as I really enjoyed this. I liked the third fall better than most here as I felt they built to a good finish with the fall coming shortly after the dives. I'd watch this again.

[garretta]

I noticed two things in particular about this match:

 

1. Kendo was the most over guy in this promotion at the moment, yet he really doesn't do much that makes him different from anyone else. It's indescribable, really, but then charisma often is.

 

2. In several earlier threads pertaining to matches from this promotion, people have mentioned drunk and/or disrespectful crowds. This was one of them. The only one really over was Kendo, and most of the moves, particularly in the last two falls, got the so-called "Warrior/DiBiase treatment". It's the first time that I've really noticed a Japanese crowd doing that, and it's horribly distracting. The jumpy fan cam doesn't help either.

 

Not a bad match, much easier to follow than most of the trios matches so far. Still, I'm glad to be done with this type of match until July.

[ohtani's jacket]

I checked the match on YouTube and I don't think the crowd were being disrespectful. They were reacting the way Japanese fans always reacted to lucha, which was to play along with it. The "ooohs" are mostly genuine.

[garretta]

Thanks for the tip, Ohtani. I'll keep that in mind for future viewing.

[Laney]

This is a match that would have been much better if it was just one fall. I loved the first fall of this match, but the other two just brought it down. I didn't see anything wrong with the crowd here and thought they seemed genuinely into the match.

[drew wardlaw]

Wow so Kendo was really snapping off some crisp offense here. He was very cool, but Perro Aguayo was my favorite part. I really enjoyed him as a babyface.