[2000-11-19-WWS] Shoji Nakamaki & Viking Taniguchi vs Mr Pogo & Hiroshi Shimada (Fire Barrel Death Match)

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There’s a great backdrop for this, the ring having been set up in a car park with trees and a forest in the background.  A whole bunch of barrels are around each side of the ring with their wooden contents set alight.  I reckon it’s going to be more a visual thing where they will tease someone being thrown into the bins but nothing will actually happen.  The teams pair off, Pogo with Nakamaki and there is an early tease of Nakamaki getting his head put into the flames.  They bash either a metal drain or an exhaust over each other.  Pogo gets his head run into a car window.  There is only one handheld filming this by the way and they’re following these two as opposed to Shimada and Taniguchi.  Those fires are bellowing now, grey smoke filling the sky.  Pogo sets a barbed wire bat on fire which he swings at the Nakamasochist.  Everyone returns to the ring and we get out first look at Taniguchi and Shimada.  As Pogo sticks his sickle into Naka’s head you hear a woman audibly scream.  Sickle into the back and head of Taniguchi.  Fuck, Pogo pulls out a knife which he draws across the foreheads of the opposition.  He blows fire at Nakamaki and Taniguchi is there to break up the pin.  Shimada grabs Taniguchi and holds him in place, however as Pogo goes to blow fire at him, Viking ducks and he burns his own partner.  A big splash followed by a cover and after being beaten all match Nakamaki and Taniguchi steal one here.

Pretty much the definition of a Death Match squash, just with the team getting squashed pulling out a ‘Hail Mary’ at the very last minute.