Loss Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Cut to the finish with Fujinami winning in what I thought was a huge upset watching. This gets a great crowd reaction and feels like a victory lap championship win for Fuji at this point in his career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 One of those moments which gets a great reaction on the night and then completely sucks for the next few months. It was pure nostalgia on this evening as the washed up veteran wins the IWGP title for a record 6th time. He still joint holds the record until Tanahashi's next title reign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Last few minutes. Fujinami wins the IWGP title in a huge upset but he just didn't have it anymore by this time. The crowd reaction is awesome though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Monster pop for the title change even if Fujinami doesn't really have much anymore. Fujinami's IWGP title win in '94 raised an eyebrow with me--and now he's champion again 4 years later. Here they were trying to recreate the magic of Choshu's final chase for the belt in '96 and '97, plus I think the Sasaki push simply wasn't working. Hopefully--and I don't know the lineage at this point--this is just a transitional thing so we can get the title back to Hashimoto where it belongs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravJ1979 Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 twenty enzugiri's later Fujinami is your nostalgia champ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMoonlight Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 Nice match based around the clash of styles: brute force vs slick veteran, the selling of the leg by Sasaki is really on point and provides the match with this sense of progression. It’s a quite slow match by ’98 standards but the execution is tight and there's a strong enough layout to get substance behind every sngle second of this. Fujinami’s win is crazy in context (I was shoked when he won '93 G1 so the iwgp 5 years later, come on!), his look of disbelief with the 70.000+ crowd reaction on Inoki’s retirement night makes it really memorable. A very solid match with that special touch. 3.75* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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