[2000-08-08-!BANG! TV] Osamu Nishimura vs Adam Windsor

[Ma Stump Puller]

These two apparently went 60 minutes (this was a Iron Man match) but we only get around about 30. Windsor is a interesting case; a early darling of Dory Funk's wrestling school, pushed pretty hard, he didn't really do a lot with such a reputation though. I guess it was significant enough that Nishimura went the distance with the guy despite usually jobbing out trainees in less than a quarter of that time lol. We know going in that Nishimura is at 1 point after a German suplex, Windsor is at 0, so at least I could keep track. There was also apparently a follow-up no DQ Iron Man, but this to my knowledge wasn't televised.

The match is....expected quality. Windsor isn't very good and Nishimura has to carry a good portion of this with his stellar work as per standard, though he's less on the technical side and more on his old Jr heavyweight leanings here given he throws out stuff like savate kicks and whatnot. There's lots of slow plodding stuff as they sit in holds, but we also get the 5-star Surfboard sequence from the pair so instantly redeemed. Nishimura throws out some hip tosses until Windsor counters one into a messy backslide to even things out. To note Nishimura was also being managed by Missy Hyatt because of course he was lol. Windsor tries for a figure-four but Nishimura does a good job building it up by consistently blocking the hold from being applied fully, grabbing onto the foot and trying to use it as leverage to escape. He rolls around in it before rolling up and over into a Indian Deathlock so he can do the Inoki-spot for a bit, that's cool. Dropkick, Windsor resets and does one of the slowest headlock takeovers I've ever seen and keeps it held on until Nishimura does a cool counter by quickly snapping on his Cobra Twist when they stand up.

Second half goes omega goofy-mode with Windsor landing a rough back suplex that Nishimura gets his foot on the ropes for, but the ref doesn't see it until after the count. Nishimura is big mad and throws on a fancy O'Connor Roll before getting hit with the crappy !BANG TV belt. Multiple near falls as Nishimura won't give up, and when he's on the outside he bonks Windsor with a chair. This leads into a pretty solid top rope knee drop for a near fall. Nishimura actually provides some urgency relating to the stip as he throws on numerous holds to try to either snap the arm or choke his opponent out, throwing full on punches or roll-ups. He alone makes this feel like a actual race against time as opposed to Windsor just mostly gassing out and throwing shoddy stuff, which it ends on as he just weakly holds on to his opponent until the bell sounds for the draw. 

This is probably the longest out of the "Nishimura/random Funk trainee" series of matches and it's also probably one of the better ones despite Windsor being incredibly sub-par. Nishimura drags his ass to a actually decent performance, even if the tainted second half and oodles of cheating make it really rather cartoonish. Nevertheless we get Nishimura's experience making this a lot more varied than it should've been alongside some pretty good bumping as he struggled to make Windsor's very limp suplexes look devastating. Again, it's another example of his superhuman efforts around this time as he refused to have a bad match, even with the worst of performers. What a trooper.