Obscure Japanese 90s Indies (Yume Factory, W*ING, KAGEKI, IWA Japan, Capture etc.)

[Jetlag]

Next in the gauntlet is one of the original sleaze classics - SPWF. Social Progress Wrestling sounds like a north korean propaganda fed, perhaps booked by Antonio Inoki, but the product was pretty interesting.

 

SPWF 9/5/1994

Shinichi Nakano vs. Kamikaze

Yoshiaki Yatsu & Masayoshi Motegi vs. Isao Takagi/Hirofumi Miura

 

This is from an episode of TV, which gives me some hope that there's more pro filmed SPWF out there.

 

Nakano vs. Kamikaze was a classic journeyman performance of Nakano to drag the shitty Kamikaze into a solid match. From what I've gathered about SPWF google translating their japanese Wikipedia page is that they made backyarders into pro wrestlers, and I assume Kamikaze was one of those backyarders because he exhibits all the traits of one: hesitancy, sloppiness, polished looking highspots but shitty looking everything else, and general lack of conviction. Also, at this point he was still wearing a mask, and the jacket he wore was without a doubt one of the ugliest pro wrestling attires I've ever seen. Nakano beats him up and stretches him good and is able to build a solid by the numbers match around him with some nearfalls. Nakano even did the Fuerza punt. Seems SPWF had a lot of kids in the audience because Kamikaze got a lot of kiddie sounding pops.

 

The main event was a match I'm sure is good, but not exactly sure how good it was. Do you like formula wrestling? Because this was tag formula executed to a tee. If you find that boring, it was probably less exciting. It was worked a lot like an SWS match with 1992 WCW layout. Sharp basic wrestling, with a fast pace and few stiff shots. Motegi looked really sharp, playing his role of Yatsu's young partner well, hitting nice armdrags etc. and playing a good Ricky Morton when he got isolated and bloodied. Dare I say, is Motegi actually one of the underrated juniors of the 90s? Miura, for a guy who has been stinky in everything I've seen so far, was acceptable here and the old guys were really fun. Yatsu still had something in the tank, and the future Arashi was really spry.

 

Not exactly mind-blowing stuff here, but I'd love to see more SPWF.

[Jetlag]

Back to: Kitao Pro 2/21/95

 

Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Masanobu Kurisu

Koji Kitao vs. Richard Byrne

Akio Kobayashi vs. Hiroshi Itakura

Al Snow vs. Takashi Okamura

Akio Kobayashi vs. Koki Kitahara

Koji Kitao vs. Osamu Tachihikari

Al Snow vs. Koki Kitahara

Koji Kitao vs. Masaaki Mochizuki

Ryuma Go vs. Kazuhiko Matsuzaki

Koji Kitao vs. Koki Kitahara

 

Ohh boy this card. In case you are confused – this is a tournament, with Tachihikari and Kitahara getting a BYE for some reason to skip the 1^st round. They removed the ring ropes for this show – smart move. Let's do it quick: Mochizuki/Kurisu was Mochi throwing really hard kicks and Kurisu throwing really hard headbutts and stomps for 3 minutes – so about what you expect. Then Mochi downs Kurisu, causing him to slip over the edge of the ring and almost land on his head outside, dear good. Kitao/Byrne – Byrne has an amazing Jerry Flynn/Bart Vale like american bullshido master look, but is squashed in 40 seconds when Kitao catches him with an admittedly pretty cool Volk Han like wrist lock. Itakura/Kobayashi – Itakura looks like the lost great talent of the 90s, as he wrestles like a tubby Kota Ibushi, fast, stiff, capable on the mat, cool spots – but gets kicked in the face by the lousy Kobayashi and fails to get up. Poor Itakura always gets the short end.

 

Snow/Okamura – it will never cease to amaze me how Snow got roped into doing this shit. Snow earns my respect by working a pretty solid 5 minute match against the not very good Okamura, hitting stiff palm rushes and actually getting the crowd behind him. Snow also eats one of the most brutal koppu kicks I've ever seen. Kobayashi/Kitahara – Kobayashi is a slimy hateable dipshit, and Kitahara kills him some in this match, but not nearly enough. Kitao/Tachihikari – for a few seconds this was two fat sumos clobbering each other, and all was right in the world, then Kitao wins another 1 minute squash. Don't exhaust yourself, Kitao.

 

Snow/Kitahara – this is the most promising matchup cause both these guys can actually work. Snow gets dropped on his shoulder with a german suplex and Kitahara painfully picks his shoulder apart. Snow tries hard, but at 3 minutes the match fell short just as it got good, 1 or 2 minutes longer and it would've been a pretty good bout. Kitao/Mochizuki – Mochizuki is next on Kitao's short pointless squash list. Ryuma Go/Matsuzaki – Go saves this show by beating the snot out of Matsuzaki with ultra stiff punches and headbutts and then tortures him on the mat and then some. Go is INSANE and I love him.God bless you, Champion of the Galaxy. Kitao/Kitahara – Kitahara is the first guy who gets to do actual harm to Kitao. They beat the shit out of eachother and Kitao throws these brutal Vader Hammers, and brings out the Kitao Driller again. Eh I guess this was solid, brutal enough to be worthwhile, altough with a match as short as 4 minutes you have to go a little more all out than this for it to be something special.

 

I dunno. The feel of these Kitao booked shows is kind of fun with the „anything can happen/match can end at anytime“ vibe, and every match is brutal as fuck, which is always a plus. But I feel they could've delivered a little more on some matches. You know there's something fishy when Ryuma Go and Al Snow are bringing the workrate. It was interesting and a breeze to watch, kind of like fast food shootstyle. The best match was Snow/Okamura, so now you know it – once upon a time, Al Snow carried a mediocre japanese karateka to a pretty decent 5 minute match.

[Jetlag]

Back to: W*ING 11/21/93

 

Moondog Spot vs. Ryo Miyake

Moondog Splat vs. Badboy Hido

Masayoshi Motegi vs. Winger

Crash the Terminator & Miguel Perez Jr vs. Leatherface & Boogie Man

Nightmare Freddy & Crypt Keeper vs. Nobutaka Araya & Shoji Nakamaki

Jado & Gedo vs. Headhunters A & B (Barbedwire Match)

 

W*ING seemed to be lacking in japanese stars at this time. All your sleaze heros (Araya, Hido, Nakamaki) were still in their infancy stage, Nakamaki even wearing the black trunks attire. Maybe that's why they introduced the horror characters. Anyways this show was kind of the downside to watching old indy houseshows. Almost every match here was a sloth like brawl. I actually kinda liked the brief Moondog squash to open the show. Motegi/Winger was the best match on the show as Motegi continues to look better than he has any right to be as he carries the almost completely useless Winger to a perfectly passable junior undercard match, busting out cool holds and all that. The first Horror monsters match had some cool power moves especially from Crash (Bill Demott?!) but ended on a very dry note. The other match was basically a squash. The main event was solid enough - Jado and Gedo wore their amazing Zubaz pants. These two teams have wrestled eachother a bunch and the barbedwire stip made them stay in the ring, all 4 guys have nice punches, and Headhunters always bust their ass breaking out their highspots and big bumps. Still the match was a little long and sluggish but the finish was cool with how the Headhunters set up their big Bulldog.

 

Another Motegi match that delivers beyond logical expectations. At this rate Motegi is pretty much my boy.

[G. Badger]

Headhunters vs anyone is likely to be a good match. They were the Holy Demon Army of the Indies

 

I'd like to check this match vs the NJ bookers out as they were also very game to put on a memorable match at this time.

[G. Badger]

Headhunters vs Nobutaka Araya/El Misterioso IWA Japan 5/23/94

 

Took me a minute to find the date but, here we are...Araya took on the big boys a few time in IWA so, they took his offense well. Misterioso had to work for it though...it paid off because when he hit his stuff it looked like it was throwing the twins for a loop.

 

Best part of the thing were the reoccurring miscues...I don't want to spoil any of these it was funny plus the moves everyone did hit made up for it...plenty of laughs and "oh shit" moments...this was just fun fun stuff.

[G. Badger]

Really dug Cynthia Moreno in early 90's AJW so I was pleased to see that she made some appearances in the sleazies...IWA Japan specifically.

 

Just watched her murderlize Tomoe Araya on the 3/7/95 show opener (not 100% on the date). People clapped for the usual "we admire your toughness" for Araya but man...Moreno brought the Zenjo level brutality here at times. Definitely encouraged to watch more Señorita Moreno in IWA.

 

There's a couple vs Shintani that are readily available so, I'm hoping to view those today.

 

Edit: started watching the "Shintani" matches...its just Tomoe Araya eh what the heck...I'll still watch 'em.

[G. Badger]

Man, no idea why people interchange Shintani with Tomoe Araya...anyhow watched Cynthia and her first match at Duel of the Wilds, IWA Japan.

 

Much better match than the above...surprising since you'd think they'd improve. Here they kept everything simple and spaced out the moves better and more logically. Sure, the 3/7 match had Moreno as death dealer at times but, this first match was actually fun for the right reasons!

 

Then there's one where Cynthia is in a gold singlet rather than black. This one was shaping up to be good but then Tomoe lost her balance on her Yoshida run up turning cross body block move...so she jumped to the floor. Not sure where in this epic trilogy this match fits in but, hey, its been fun.

[Jetlag]

JPWA 4/14/2000 - I know this thread called "obscure 90s..." but here's a real oddity from early 2000: it's a shootstyle event ran by Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Nickbockwinkel centered Japan vs. USA matchups. Reminded me a bit of PWFG, and the 2000s could have used a PWFG style fed, but it seems they only did this one event.

 

Card:

1. Billy Scott vs. Mamoru Okamoto

2. Tomohiko Hashimoto vs. Tom Burton

3. Retsu Maekawa vs. James Woodin

4. Kohei Sato vs. Kasey Geyer (KC Thunder)

5. Koichiro Kimura vs. Shawn Hernandez (Hotstuff Hernandez)

 

The card looks interesting, but unfortunately, they clipped all the matches. Quite unecessesarily, because most of these were around the 7 minute mark except the main event and opener. Billy Scott looked quite good in the first match, doing some nifty wrestling, and his opponent, former BattlARTS undercarder Okamoto bringing the punishment. The 2nd match was wrestler vs. judoka that looked fun from the glimpses. Tom Burton looked old as dirt, but still like a credible asskicker, so it's obvious that I love him. Maekawa/Woodin was barely shown. Woodin had funny bleach blond hair and was not in great shape, so kinda looked like a garbage worker. Sato/KC looked like a fun power vs. skill matchup, with Sato looking especially good, and KC (a huge musclehead) looking nervous.

 

Then the main event - this was 28 minutes clipped down to 17 minutes. And Shawn Hernandez is Hotstuff Hernandez in a singlet, looking like an absolute tank. This match was a match of two sides - 1. Hernandez was absolutely killing Kimura for the entire duration, launching him around with some of the most beastly throws I've ever seen and exploding his nose with a stiff palm strike. 2. the absolute stupidity of putting Kimura, a guy who's not all that good, and Hernandez, a guy with very little experience especially not at shootstyle wrestling in a match this long. Hernandez didn't seem to know any submissions, Kimura added very little, and for some reason they did not allow rope breaks at this show, so even with the clipping, a lot of this was two guys lying on the mat, one of them being very unsure. Thankfully, Tom Burton was at ringside to tell Hernandez what to do step by step: "Take the ankle! Good, now slap him once!" Now that's a veteran, carrying a green guy when he's not even in the match! God bless you, Tom Burton. Fujiwara also was at ringside, and at one point was convinced Hernandez was throwing fists, so he took offense and took his jacket off, ready to go at him. So, Fujiwara and Tom Burton did more to add to this match than Kimura. Kimura eventually got to pick up the win after he KO'd Shawn with a lucky kick after absolutely getting his shit pushed in for 28 minutes, and admittedly this got a pretty excited reaction from the crowd. So I guess the match did work after all! Kinda funny to watch, and makes you wonder if with a little more help from Tom Burton Hernandez could turn into the next Shamrock or a great tag partner for Lesnar.

[Jetlag]

Back to the fed that started the madness: WDF 9/23/1997

1. Tadahiro Fujisaki & Makoto Saito vs. Great Takeru & Akinori Tsukioka

2. Shinichi Shino & Onryo vs. Cosmo Soldier & Shigeo Kato

3. Shinigami vs. Katsumi Hirano

4. Masashi Aoyagi & Gokuaku Omibozu vs. Masayoshi Motegi & Azteca

5. Shinichi Nakano & Basara vs. Tarzan Goto & Jun Kikuzawa

6. Masakazu Fukuda & Kamikaze & Hiroyoshi Kotsubo vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Takashi Okamura & Yoshikazu Taru

 

I got this and 3 other shows from Lynch... they weren't listed in his PDF file or anywhere, but I guess he just magically summons stuff like this from time to time. And what do ya know, this card was pretty awesome. The opener was a well worked match that was also stiff as fuck and had some really good hatred between future comedy jobbers Fugofugo and Kuishinbo Kamen. Also Saito really should've kept wrestling this way instead of becoming a generic heel in Toryumon (Dragon System ruins everything I guess), he was flying around and spin kicking people in the face like the easiest thing in the world. The second match was not really good but had Shinichi Shino threating the other two guys like trash and smacking them around all stiffly and arrogantly for 8 minutes or so. The 3rd match - Shinigami is so fucking bizarre to watch, also I am probably the first person in the western hemisphere to have seen three Katsumi Hirano matches.

 

The second half had a decent Karatekas vs. wrestlers match. For some reason Aoyagi works not that urgent in his fed and just pummels his opponents like he was auditioning for a WCW gig, and Azteca is such a goof, but atleast the match had an exciting ending that fans got into. The two main events were great - Goto match was a Goto match, well it had some fun matwork between Goto and Nakano, but mostly it was Goto carving up Basara and ripping mask, and it was awesome. The main event was another high intensity affair between the Buko guys and the WDF home boys, with all 3 kickers trying to kill Kotsubo dead spin kicking his skull, huge deadly dives, reckless spin kicks and great crowd heat. I am just sour cause they clipped a 22 minute match down to 14, but the stuff they showed was really good and felt like it could end at any moment.

[Jetlag]

So, a shitton of WING has popped up on the internet, includig the handheld show I reviewed earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn2ThJiM6OQiC1Le-WppomQ/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKDS3Uc07Guw9M06YnStqNQ

 

And also including this show: W*ING 01/02/93

 

Card:

Katsumi Hirano vs some WING rookie

Ryo Miyake vs The Winger

Mitsuteru Tokuda & Masayoshi Motegi vs Kazuhiko Matsuzaki & Hiroshi Itakura

Gypsy Joe vs Shoji Nakamaki

Kim Duk vs Hiroshi Shimada

WWC Junior Heavyweight Champion Ray Gonzalez vs Masaru Toi

WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Champion Yukihiro Kanemura vs Ricky Patterson

Jason the Terrible, The Cuban Assassin & Mohammad Hussein vs Mr. Pogo, Gypsy Joe & Crash the Terminator in a Bunkhouse Deathmatch

 

This card looks awesome, and it was pretty cool. W*ING had really nice variety - you really don't see indies flying in Puerto Ricans and US legends for a show in Korakuen hall anymore, not to mention Saddam Hussein.

 

And this starts with a lot of wrestling, as Miyake and Winger go toe to in a 20 minute scientific wrestling masterpiece!! Well, actually it wasn't that great. I wanna congratulate them for starting slow with a ton of matwork, but it was... really slow... so slow in fact that I watched it at 2x speed and it was still slow. And they didn't really know how to make their matwork interesting. They finally pick it up in the 2nd half when they start throwing all their bombs for 2,9999 counts. Miyake has really nice offense, nice fatboy sentons and a sick looking Tiger Driver/Ligerbomb mashup. The time limit draw was really predictable and they also ran out of moves they could do so they had to repeat spots... not a good match, but the crowd ate it up, so who am I to judge.

 

The junior tag was much faster and livelier paced and just a really fun match. One thing that's different between early 90s junior indy wrestling and today's junior wrestling is that back then everything felt made up on the spot, nothing felt overly contrived or choreographed, and I like that a lot. Even when Motegi busts out a dive it feels like something he just decided to do in the moment, and thus much more exciting. Motegi is generally awesome in these matches as he always does something entertaining, like randomly locking in an awesome ground cobra twist in this match. Matsuzaki I liked a lot on the previous OPW show and he looked good again here throwing hard kicks and headbutts. Tokuda was the guy I hadn't seen before, and he looked really fun too, apparently doing a judo gimmick, as he had some cool judo-ish offense, such as Mariko Yoshida monkey flip into armbar and a badass backdrop that he turned into a Uranage in mid-air. The finish was great too with Motegi just nuking Matsuzaki with the triple german, really fast and with a ton of snap. He made that move look better than Angle. There I said it, Motegi > Angle. Hell, Motegi > Liger. I love Motegi pretty much.

 

At this point the card gets a lot hokier. Joe/Nakamaki was basically just a squash. Shimada/Duk was a slightly weird match - Duk looks really huge and menacing and I was totally expecting him to beat the shit out of the young boy, but instead he was really nice and they just had a normal match with drop toe holds and bionic elbows and whatnot. Gonzalez/Toi was another cool juniors match with Gonzalez having lots of elegant moves, but it was fairly rushed at about 8 minutes length. Lots of nice crossbodies, leapfrogs and clotheslines though.

 

The two main events - you didn't see much of em because it's a handheld and these two matches had a lot of wandering crowd brawling. Patterson/Kanemura looked like a good match, Patterson looked like a mashup between Hansen and Sgt. Slaughter so he's cool, he also hit a pretty ballsy spinning plancha. Both guys bled and Kanemura was selling big. The main event was essentially guys wandering around and hitting/stabbing eachother. Crowd was into it, but hard to figure out how good it was as you basically saw less than 1/5th of it..

[G. Badger]

AJW is no way obscure nor an old Indy fed but, stumbling thru the 'tube I found a couple matches right there with the sleazies.

 

The first is Bull Nakano vs Yumi Fukawa (Train Match). Yumi jumps the Ice Queen on a train with a referee in tow. This 5 minute clip makes no damn sense and is therefore brilliant. Mind you there are normal work a day people on the train with them...

 

#2 is Yumi Fukawa vs Nobue Endo (Waterpark Match) which is hilarious. I don't want to spoil the opening segment especially. This is some goofy shit. Also around 5 minutes.

 

Watch these while you're waiting for your spaghetti water to boil

[El-P]

Oh fuck, those Yumi Fukawa WTF matches. I miss these kind of totally random stuff.

[KB8]

Watched Yoshiaki Yatsu/Masayoshi Motegi v Isao Takagi/Hirofumi Miura from the 9/5/94 SPWF show. Thought it was really fun. You had the potato shots, the establishment of hierarchy with Yatsu and Takagi being the chunky team leaders, some nice peril segments, even a bit of blood and guys skidding around a grimy gym floor.

Canek/Principe Maya v Motegi/Kamikaze from what I think is the first WYF show (3/31/95) is a totally badass little match that I kinda loved. Canek and Maya basically worked as Murdoch and Adonis for stretches, heeling it up and throwing out a bunch of cool offense. Motegi's hot tag ruled, not just because he came in and cleaned house and capped it off with a killer tope, but because the crowd loved him and one possibly-drunk section of fans were popping huge for everything he did. I don't know who Kamikaze is, nor do I know how good he might actually be, but he was fun in this. He took a beating early and when he got to reel off some offense he had some pretty neat stuff, including an enziguri flush under Maya's chin and a springboard moonsault where Motegi was a launch pad of sorts. Maybe a wee bit ragged in parts and it felt like the heat segment on Motegi ended a bit abruptly, but for twelve minutes this ticked all the boxes. It's also one of the better 90s Canek performances.

[G. Badger]

Enjoyed the heck outta Super Astro vs Takashi Okano IWA Japan 11/17/94.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpFAi2q1pJM

 

It was the Super Astro show so, it had lots of junior/lucha spots. Okano was good in hanging with Astro and making everything look good. Plus he added a little humor in as well. At around 9 minutes, its well worth a watch.

[G. Badger]

Takashi Okano vs El Gran Apache IWA Japan - 1/8/95

 

part 1

 

part 2

 

This was much more mat based than the Super Astro match. Okano again hangs in there very well making this a much more substantial match. Its less pizzazz and more of a fight. Highly recommended match. Okano has got talent.

 

Edit: also watched these two guys from 10/16/94 but, its not paced or laid out as well. Its also in 2 parts on YouTube but, its worth just skipping to the 2nd segment. Its in Korakuen to distinguish it from the other.

[Edwin]

Thought I'd revive this topic. I know G. Badger has mostly been seeking gems in these, but this is a bit sleazier than what hes posted, but still along the lines of obscure Japanese 90s indies.

 

 

This is some obscure Japanese 90s indy wrestling. According to the description, its an IWA Kokusai, Union Pro and Go Gundan joint show at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The matches all feature monsters and they fit all 4 of them clipped by 10 - 15 seconds in a 16+ minute video. Of course the matches are terrible.

 

Heres some general info from the event:

 

IWA Kokusai/Union Pro/Go Gundan, 12/21/1994

Monster Tag Team Tournament

Korakuen Hall

Tokyo, Japan

 

1. Monster Tag Team Tournament: Super Uchu Majin and Uchu Majin X vs. The Scalper and The Gouger

2. Monster Tag Team Tournament: Demonio I and Demonio II vs. The Mummy and Black Mummy

3. Monster Tag Team Tournament: Super Uchu Majin and Uchu Majin X vs. Zombie I and Zombie II

4. Monster Tag Team Tournament: Super Uchu Majin and Uchu Majin X vs. Demonio I and Demonio II

 

Super Uchu Majin is Goro Tsurumi. Tsurumi has been around since the 70s and hes wrestled all over the world -- Japan, Memphis, Germany, Puerto Rico, Mexico, etc.

 

Uchu Majin X maybe Koichiro Kimura who passed away some years ago and who was also Super Uchu Power in DDT and who fought in PRIDE.

 

The identities of the rest is unknown, but The Mummy and Black Mummy may still be around working really small sleazy independent shows in Japan.

 

All 4 of the matches are horrible, but its in front of a jam packed Korakuen Hall crowd. The Mummies lose focus during their match as they attack Poison Sawada who was the founder of Union Pro and he was also Poison Sawada JULIE in DDT. He always fought The Mummies in Union Pro.

 

The Scalper and The Gouger are the guys wearing red and black; Demonio I and Demonio II are the guys wearing the jean overalls with the red shirts and Zombie I and Zombie II are the guys with the long sleeve denim shirts.

 

Goro Tsurumi unmasks after the first match and he also puts on a glove which he lights on fire and uses to attack Demonio I and Demonio II.

 

Whacky stuff.

[G. Badger]

Well, this sounds pretty awesome!! And by awesome, I mean that its not a 90 minute video but condensed 15 minutes of bizarro sleaze!

 

Edit: Yeah this is pretty darn fun. The flaming glove bit was great! What puzzles me is that the Demons look like zombies & the Zombies look like demons I hope everyone had a fun time doing this.

[G. Badger]

Silver King & El Texano vs Takashi Okano & Yoshihiro Tajiri (IWA Japan 03/07/95):

Double plus quick lucharesu opening. Tajiri's throwing kicks even in his green pad & trunk days, nice! Texano eats a couple then, says " Hey Silver! You get in there man!"

 

Eventually chairs are brought into the mix & it gets really good. The native team look dusted but, Tajiri is showing all kinds of intestinal fortitude & our man Okano is busting up pins like a bowling ball. Make no mistake though: This is a chunk of Los Cowboys awesomeness.

 

Ultimately, I had little clue something this technically outstanding was shown in full in IWA-J. There's no death match stuff here. Had this been viewed by a larger number of folks at the time, it would be considered a great match in the style. I mean its probably as good as any tag from Eddie, Dean, Chris etc. in ECW from the time. Its not the "cleanest" wrestling like NJ Jr. in '95 but, it sure is exciting!

[shodate]

i went to qiute few indies when in was younger capture being a fave of mine among others

[G. Badger]

i went to qiute few indies when in was younger capture being a fave of mine among others

 

Not too familiar with Capture. Any details or matches you'd recommend? Sounds like a shoot style promotion?

[shodate]

 

i went to qiute few indies when in was younger capture being a fave of mine among others

Not too familiar with Capture. Any details or matches you'd recommend? Sounds like a shoot style promotion?

 

the promotion is not dead

Tomohiro Ishii vs Nihao[ from the first show the promotion diid

Kaoru Todori vs Yukihiko Koizumi [ctach wrestling festivle]

Nobutaka Araya and Nobukazu Hirai vs Koki Kitahara and Daisaku [ show 23 ]

2017.09.06 Minoru Tanaka vs Sanshu Tsubakichi

[Jetlag]

I watched my first

 

 

 

i went to qiute few indies when in was younger capture being a fave of mine among others

Not too familiar with Capture. Any details or matches you'd recommend? Sounds like a shoot style promotion?

 

the promotion is not dead

Tomohiro Ishii vs Nihao[ from the first show the promotion diid

Kaoru Todori vs Yukihiko Koizumi [ctach wrestling festivle]

Nobutaka Araya and Nobukazu Hirai vs Koki Kitahara and Daisaku [ show 23 ]

2017.09.06 Minoru Tanaka vs Sanshu Tsubakichi

 

 

Do Capture release DVDs of some sort?

I've found this YouTube channel, where they've uploaded some highlight videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjaRcDrsX-lHVsZo6FtqtA

 

That being said, I watched my first Tokyo Pro show:

 

Tokyo Pro 8/25/96

TWA World Tag Challenger Team Decision Match: Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask vs. Takashi Ishikawa & Yoshihiro Takayama

Sabu vs. Black Wazuma

NWA Light Heavyweight Title Match: El Dandy vs. Masao Orihara

TWA Tag Title Match: Abdullah The Butcher & Daikokubo Benkei vs. Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask

 

This card was a total winner with every match being worth checking out. UWFi dudes and Tiger Mask looked great, Sabu and Scorpio had their best match together that I've seen, Dandy and Orihara delivered a fun WCWSN match and the main event was better than it had any right to be. Blood, stiffness, cool matwork, crazy high spots, this card delivered pretty much everything a japanese sleaze indy aims at.

[shodate]

I watched my first

 

 

 

i went to qiute few indies when in was younger capture being a fave of mine among others

Not too familiar with Capture. Any details or matches you'd recommend? Sounds like a shoot style promotion?

 

the promotion is not dead

Tomohiro Ishii vs Nihao[ from the first show the promotion diid

Kaoru Todori vs Yukihiko Koizumi [ctach wrestling festivle]

Nobutaka Araya and Nobukazu Hirai vs Koki Kitahara and Daisaku [ show 23 ]

2017.09.06 Minoru Tanaka vs Sanshu Tsubakichi

 

 

Do Capture release DVDs of some sort?

I've found this YouTube channel, where they've uploaded some highlight videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjaRcDrsX-lHVsZo6FtqtA

 

That being said, I watched my first Tokyo Pro show:

 

Tokyo Pro 8/25/96

TWA World Tag Challenger Team Decision Match: Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask vs. Takashi Ishikawa & Yoshihiro Takayama

Sabu vs. Black Wazuma

NWA Light Heavyweight Title Match: El Dandy vs. Masao Orihara

TWA Tag Title Match: Abdullah The Butcher & Daikokubo Benkei vs. Yoji Anjo & Tiger Mask

 

This card was a total winner with every match being worth checking out. UWFi dudes and Tiger Mask looked great, Sabu and Scorpio had their best match together that I've seen, Dandy and Orihara delivered a fun WCWSN match and the main event was better than it had any right to be. Blood, stiffness, cool matwork, crazy high spots, this card delivered pretty much everything a japanese sleaze indy aims at.

 

i wish they had tv or even a deal with nico but they do not sad

[G. Badger]

 

Yeah, I remember liking the main event on this. I think what I saw was jip. Talk about a match up!

 

The Sabu vs Scorpio match is another that I meant to watch awhile back. If its better than their Cyberslam '96 match, that'd be great! Dandy vs Orihara is an unknown WTF dream match.

 

Edit: Couldn't find the above Scorp. vs Sabu but, did find Sabu vs 2 Cold Scorpio (10/18/96) from Tokyo Pro. Holy crap! It was great. At about half their Cyberslam match this was pure gold...great punches, chair stuff, and the aerial moves. Sabu hit everything perfectly (in a Sabu kinda way) and Too Cold was on point. Plus he does the Macarena...what's not to love!?

[G. Badger]

Found that Tokyo Pro 6/24/96 & 8/29/96 commercial tape is online.

 

 

Has another Sabu vs Black Wazuma (Scorp.) match. Humorously, Scorpio flubs the name thing during his pre-match promo. Very good but clipped. Not as good as 10/18 match (Quebrada shows it as 10/08/96).

 

Excited about Takashi Ishikawa & Kishin Kawabata vs Tarzan Goto & Mr. Gannosuke (Shin FMW team) from 06/24. And it totally lives up to that excitement. An early highlight is Gannosuke getting busted open and Ishikawa kicks the wound. Then a minute or two later, serendipitously, we get a up close shot of Ishikawa's blood drenched boot as it passes through the camera shot. Wicked!

 

Goto's sick smile after caving Kawabata's cranium in was another moment of joy. Overall, there's not enough Goto vs Ishikawa but, I'll take it!

 

Also, it looks like they've been frying cheese steaks in the middle ring. Take a look at the canvas...blech!