August 2024

Who thought we'd get some actual cool Bati-Bati antics on a super mid C-show brand? Dan Tamura's look is incredibly unflattering and Tyson Maeguchi is truly apart of a misguided generation of guys who really needed a Ikeda/Ishikawa mentor figure to be truly great; that said, I think combined this was fairly decent for what it was. They worked this like a conventional 90's striker/grappler match you'd see out of Fujiwara Gumi so Maeguchi was consistently abusing rope breaks while Tamura was throwing out double legs and tackles as soon as any strike was being fired out, bringing in a fairly smart gameplan on both sides that was respected enough to stay basically in that sam…

Batshit insane but deep down in my heart I knew that this was actually kinda heartwarming to see. Dory is at the end of days and Nishimura's got stage 4 cancer with the occasional brain seizure (god bless him, I really hope he's able to at least live a couple more years in relative comfort) and Onita's been fucked since the early 90s. This was always going to be built by the stipulation and sheer spectacle. The bar is so low that Yaguchi ends up being the MVP purely because he's the only guy here who can take bumps consistently without shattering into a million pieces, having to oversell at times for completely nothing since Dory can't even muster the ability to throw on …