[2000-03-02-BJW] Gedo & Jado & Kintaro Kanemura vs Great Kojika & Ryuji Yamakawa & The Winger

[soup23]

Kanemura, Gedo and Jado do a synchronized dance to start. Move over Too Cool. This was kind of a weird match in that it started into a brawl and then settled down into a more traditional tag match. Neither portion was that captivating to me but it also wasn’t awful. Things break down at the end and Jado steals a pinfall which is still a problem in 2017. This also didn’t really do a good job of setting up anything in the future as Yamakawa has beating Kanemura. I have been probably a bigger fan of Yamakawa than others going through the stuff so far but he really was just a guy here. **1/2

[Loss]

I like the Gedo/Jado approach to tag team wrestling and Kanemura complemented them well, but something was missing here to put this over the top. I'm glad I watched it, but it never seemed to come together as a good match. I think the big problem was how one-sided this was, with the heels way too dominant. The action itself is really good, with everyone doing a solid no-frills style, almost like a ring full of Arn Andersons and Steve Austins. I am expecting Gedo and Jado to have moments of brilliance this decade when the stars align properly, and this definitely got me hyped for more of them as a team, even if the match never kicked into high gear. And yeah, Yamakawa doesn't do much for me.

[Moonsault Marvin]

The Winger took a beating for most of the match after a power bomb, going through a table, and getting busted open. He tagged out, but for some reason didn't stay out for long, leading to an easy loss. Most of the BJW matches haven't clicked for me so far. Average match.

[Tim Evans]

I will always mark out for the Team No respect dance. Were they still in FMW around this time? Kojika looks old in 2000 and he still wrestles to this day. I agree with the rest of you about this not being very exciting. Winger gets unmasked and bleeds. The FMW crew play good heels. The big Japan crew weren't very exciting and the crowd was pretty dead.

[cramerjason87]

Really disappointing considering the wrestlers involved. Lacked the wildness a match like this should have had. The sparse crowd didn't help. The bodyslam spot on The Winger from the apron was really nasty looking.

[Edwin]

This felt like a standard FMW hardcore six man tag -- sans one of BJW's founder fathers, Great Kojika coming to save his company from the FMW/WEW invaders, Team No Respect.

 

This isn't the first time Winger has gotten unmasked in a match, so the unmasking seems rather heatless and pointless. I dug that he was all bloodied up once they tore his mask to at least make up for it. His selling of the armbar in the finishing stretch was pretty awesome.

 

They never really aimed to escalate this match and take it to the next level, so it doesn't really do much for me.

[Stiva]

Echo what others have said in that this had some really solid heel teamwork but fell completely flat. There were individual moments where it looked like a spark may light but it's disappointing that the match fell flat immediately afterwards. The first two that come to mind are the initial attack on Winger with the nasty looking table bump which just settled into a solid, yet uninspiring heel control segment and the second was immediately after the hot tag. Rather than being a chaotic finale, the finishing stretch felt oddly disjointed and anti-climatic. Gedo, Jado and Wing all looked good though so I'm hyped to see more of them as the decade rolls on.