November 1998
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With this match and a Great Sasuke vs Bob Backlund happening earlier in the night (the later match was sadly clipped to pieces though), this entire show feels like a massive fever dream. Otsuka and Yone are billed as the 'Love Warriors' for some reason. Yone comes out to Antonio Inoki's theme music and Otsuka comes out as some random guy singing his entrance music from the cheap seats. Bizarre scenes. The Road Warriors are massively washed up by 1998, and Hawk couldn't even be arsed to shave his hair into the famous double mohawk. Despite all this, they still feel like megastars as they powerwalk their way into the Ryogoku Sumo Hall, as Iron Man blares over the speakers. …
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This is slightly clipped, but nowhere near to the extent of most of the other matches on this show. This goes 22 minutes and I think we are missing around five or so minutes. This is the final to the B Cup 1998 tournament and both men had wrestled earlier in the evening in the semi-finals. Backlund flexs his cardio by running all over the place as the match starts to put over how much he's still got left in the tank. You can tell Ishikawa is having the time of his life wrestling Backlund as he has a big grin plastered across his face as they start grappling. This match is all holds and not much else. Granted, the holds look decent and there's always a sense of a struggle,…
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Taka and Funaki are on loan from the WWF and are brilliant as ever being cocky comedy heels. Hidaka and Fujita are a solid enough team of babyfaces, but I felt the match lost momentum once they had a lengthy work over on Funaki in the middle of the match. There's no point for a heel team to working up for a hot tag after all. The finishing stretch is fast paced and action packed. Anytime I get to see Taka bust out his insane Spaceman Plancha, I'm instantly a fan. Fun lucharesu bout to start things off. ★★★
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Usuda has insane cardio and spends 90% of the match working on offence. He totally schools Ikeda with a wide variety of strikes, gaining multiple knockdowns. Perhaps with a stroke of luck, Ikeda is able to land a series of brutally stiff lariats and is able to take back control. Ikeda is charismatic as hell and his selling of his beating put him over as huge fan favourite. This exactly what a BattlARTs match in front of big crowd should look like. ★★★
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