Jetlag
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This was a basic undercard match. Hercules Boyd was a regular in europe so this was kinda worked like a Hamburg undercard match except it didn't go 3 rounds. Thornton seemed to be the face here but at one point went over to berate someone in the audience. Terrible finish where Thornton hits his awesome backbreaker but injures himself leading to his defeat. -
For a slow, houseshowish match that didn't have neither guy doing anythingout the ordinary, this was kind of fun. It told a story and all that. I always enjoy Dusty mixing it up with the punch and elbow combos like he's a bizarro Misawa, and Boesch even points out his fighting spirit (though Dusty does not nosell any suplexes here). I liked the strength holds from Graham too. Graham ends up blatantly attacking Dusty with a foreign object and we get Dusty bleeding and making a comeback which he can do in his sleep. Then they work a bunch of spots around a bearhug where Dusty wants to hit Graham but he ducks under and clutches him again. Another night of work from the American Dream.
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I downloaded a couple of CAWs from the workshop, made by by some guy named Jetlag. That you? It is
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Watched the full match. Misawa kicks the SHIT out of Taue to start, but soon Taue goes on an absolute rampage, launching Misawa about the place and busting out an awesome flip dive. Some good back and forth exchanges which would become the standard for their longer matches later, mostly leading to Misawa catching Taue with a stiff elbow or kick to the face. Taue kicks out of the Tiger Driver, and Misawa finishes him immediately after with the deadly 91 version. Kind of a weird way to debut your deadly super finisher in a 10 minute match but they got the point across.
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Yeah this match never stops being awesome. Gritty blood drenched tooth and nail fighting from start to finish, including awesome use of the guardrail. Kawada making a savage comeback where he bloodies Taue only to have his leg smashed was such an epic moment. Taue has all kinds of big spots but also awesome stomps and headbutts, and you know his headbutts are great because he leaves Kawada covered in blood too. I love the huge bump Kawada takes for Taue's simpel facebuster and the brutal back brain KO finish was sick. Both guys looked great here.
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The Andre interview before the match may have been more interesting than the Battle Royal. WOO! I hate battle royals! You have all these awesome guys in a match, and then you get to watch them lean against the ropes and clubbing eachother softly. This also had weird novelty rules where guys had to be thrown from ring #1 into ring #2 where they would continue fighting. So it's like a reverse battle royal merged with an actual battle royal! Andre was throwing these guys over like rabbits. I love that the first thing Tully does is dropkick the unsuspecting fatguy. Eventually it boils down to Wahoo fighting Gino and Tully in ring #2 which was fun. But yeah this was a match that mostly got by on novelty.
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This match was easily the most mediocre thing I've seen in a while. So mediocre yet servicable it made me wonder how actively great wrestling could come into existance. It's a pretty classic story, foreigners brawl and put the natives in trouble, but Brody and Mosca are deeply uninteresting. And well, Baba and Jumbo won't set your pants on fire here either. Brody assaults Baba with a chain to start, which is not as awesome as it sounds when you picture a bittle between a giant savage and a giant japanese folk hero. Baba chops his way back on offense because that's all he does~! then stays out of the way for most of the match... because he's smart! Jumbo has really nice offense, dropkicks, flying bodyscissors etc. but really doesn't have much fire here as he gets pummeled and bearhugged in uninteresting ways by Brody and Mosca. Mosca is so lame that he wins one fall here with a bodyslam! It wasn't even a good bodyslam! Someone like Moose Morowski would have rocked that bodyslam. Brody does some selling, which reminds me that people criticizing him for no-selling are wrong because his actual selling is so bloody goofy. Eventually Baba comes in and before long blood is spillt~! (without looking grizzly or anything) and we get the trademark bad 80s finish. Yeah when you think of a good old school brawl or title match... this isn't it.
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JIP match. Tenryu is young and skinny! Lots of basic 70s style hold for hold work, some of which was pretty fun. Surprisingly enough the sections with Wild Bill may have been better, altough Robinson has by far the greatest presence. Tenryu & Hata control alot, hit some nice double teams and finish off Bill after Tenryu takes out Robinson, perhaps foreshadowing future interactions between the two?
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Fun match. Jumbo is KO'd by a trademark graceful and deadly Misawa elbow. Poor Taue gets isolated and his leg worked over. The aspiring New Generation heroes draw big time heel heat! Jumbo wastes the little dudes with fat lariats and knees! Kawada is a stiff bastard! Lots of cool little details to love here, such as Kawada attacking Jumbo's buzzing head like a mad dog when he tries for a comeback. Taue was pretty much the focus of the match and made the most of it, doing a very good job selling and busting out the sumo pummeling and awesome Taue dive in the second half. The finish was between the secondary guys and we get a nifty guessing game on whether Misawa or Jumbo will be able to seal the match while not being the legal men. Good stuff overall, neat story, some violence, cool psychological details etc.
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This was pretty underwhelming. Which is weird because all the previous matches in this tournament where a ton of fun. Fukawa and Tanaka added almost nothing to this match. Tanaka just ran through his stuff. Did I ever mention I hate that guy? There was one cool moment when Hamada decides to get all lucha on the mat with Fukawa and Fukawa is like „fine“ and they go all IWRG. Sadly that only lasted about 30 seconds. There were also a few blown spots. Fukawa tries countering the Hama-chan cutter and both she and Ayako end up falling on their heads. Eventually Tanaka remembered he's a BattlARTS guy and lands some nasty spinkicks on the older Hamada, and the finish was a feel good moment but the rest of this was just not good.
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Ayako Hamada/Michiko Ohmukai vs. Lioness Asuka/Mariko Yoshida (Twinstar of Arsion Tag Title, 10/21/01 Tokyo) Okay, so this match. I like the Asuka/Yoshida team because it moves Yoshida into prominence. And there were lots of good exchanges between Yoshida and both Ayako and Ohmukai where she catches them in submissions and works Ayako over with punches. The Ayako/Lioness exchanges were good too, altough had kind of a funny feeling, as if Ayako was saying „Back off! I'm the ace of this company!“ and Asuka was going „But I used to be a huge star!“ and then neither would back down. I liked that, and Ayako even works some fun exchanges around Asuka's stupid table spots! The Ohmukai/Asuka section was fun too as neither has a problem trading stiff punches and kicks to the face. Then the match goes crazy! Ayako almost kills herself on a dive! Asuka gets pissed off and rampages about the place, hitting everyone with a piece of table and bloodying Ohmukai! I didn't expect the match would have an actual finish after Asuka's rampage, but it did have a finish and that was kind of great too! So yeah, I got the feeling that diehard ARSION fans hated this stuff at the time, but I liked it a lot. Good wrestling, good spectacle, blood and a satisfying ending. Mima Shimoda/Etsuko Mita vs. Azumi Hyuga/Tsubasa Kuragaki (Tag League, 11/3/01 Tokyo) Hm, I guess this would've been OK if I wasn't so deathly tired of LCO at this point. LCO dominate much of the early portion of this match, so much that it almost fees like a burial of the JWP crew. Hyuga got a bloody nose, but that didn't lead to anything. Kuragaki was fun probably simply by being a fresh face. I liked how she followed a torture rack up with a big splash to the back, and her no hands headbutt ruled. Hyuga kinda runs through her shit in all these matches and this was no exception. And what do ya now, brave Tsubasa falls to generic LCO bullshit. The lack of motivation is understandable.
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This is a remarkable match. It feels different from the previous rookie-ish matches from the get go as they bitch slap eachother and the crowd gets really excited. Following that it's all over the place: brawling through the crowd, hitting the mat, impact moves and flying. It's distinct in the way it builds; they get more and more uncooperative, refusing the even get rolled on their backs for pinfalls. I wouldn't call it a great match but the intensity they created was outstanding. Chino may have been the better woman as I felt she was quite good at expressing the exhaustion and toll that the match was taking. At one point, Yokota keeps reversing Chino's attempt at a boston crab, so she simple hurls her all over the ring with a giant swing. One of the best uses of that move that I've seen.Yokota was less expressive but her ring work was razor sharp as usual.
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Nothing like celebrating christmas through a big ol' BattlARTS style asskicking. This was Ikeda & junji vs. two big damn crowbars. For someone who is notorious for laying epic beatings on others, Ikeda is really good at fighting from underneath and making the opponent look like a menacing force: he sells sympathetic, makes a strong comeback and then in turn levels the other guy with stiff shots. This was one of those pro-style leaning BattlARTS matches were they don't do much matwork and just beat eachother to a pulp, which plays to the strengths of Yone and Nagai. Junji was pretty fun here, as he got basically no offense and was beaten and stretched badly. The finish has Nagai laying a series of brutal kicks on junji and finally finished him off with a huge spinkick to his mouth. He totally executed the little guy. Match probably needed a little more Ikeda to get on the high end BattlARTS side, but was still pretty fun.
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A houseshow match. Some very good stiff action early on where they mix up the shots. Lots of vicious spinkicks and elbows. Even Kobashi threw martial arts kicks which is just weird. Kikuchi ends up FIP and getting military pressed to the floor because KIKUCHI IS A LOON. Crowd gets going behind Kikuchi good, and anytime Misawa gets in he's a total house of fire. Misawa is only in for about 30 second periods but he is working like a motherfucker. Talk about knowing how to carry yourself like a star. He barely gave a damn about Kikuchi though. Well, he'd master the "win the match while dragging a weak partner" formula later. This is another decent little AJPW match to add to the list.
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This got 20 MINUTES and was worked like a big match. It seems to be from an M-Pro show, but I'll let it count as best of ARSION. The early guy vs. Guy sections were pretty filler and resthold-y. The girl vs. Girl sections were good as in „two wrestlers who have fought eachother a bunch doing their stuff“. For some reason, the guys gave the girls a ton of offense and stooging a bunch. Maybe they were trying to be gentlemen. Yagi did a mix of spaced out lucha armdrags, judo throws and armbars which was cool. Asari did her usual athletic stuff and looked quite good. The finishing stretch was built around guy vs. Girl and then girl vs. Girl sections and pretty fun. This took a bit to get going but for this type of lucharesu action I'd say it got going good.
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I uploaded a Fugofugo match from Yume Factory which is his best match that I've seen (in a trainwrecky way).
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Pretty fun BattlARTS spotboy match. Kinda veered into trained monkey show at times, Minoru Tanaka was even slapping his thigh, but Hidaka & Fujita were pretty fun to check out here. It has fallen into complete obscurity, but once upon a time Minoru Fujita was a talented little dude who had all the ultra choice moves. His La Casita into Calf Slicer and Terry Funk rolling cradle into the same hold were really post modern and steal-worthy. He does some good legwork on Mochizuki (who of course doesn't bother to sell) then some fun finishing sequences ensue.
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They said that edit sharing will be available on PS4. The only question will be whether it will be possible to share edits between PS4 and PC. So, less than 1 week after EA release, they already released an update adding a new move and fixing nearly all the bugs. Spike is really bringing the workrate now.
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This was the longest singles match on this show. And it was pretty much a DVDVR dream match, as they pack all their ultra choice swank junior moves into a well worked basic opening match, and doing a really good job at it. Just the way they set up the big dive by teasing a Hidaka dive, then following it up with Saito's headstand scissor to the outside and finally leading into the big suicide dive makes me think these two are better at this stuff than any current non-mexican junior. Maybe it's because I've developed a burning hatred for stupid over the top junior wrestling, but this type of well worked basic wrestling leading into well timed, graceful rollups and submissions without any inane flips'n'headdrops bullshit is really endearing to me. Saito gets a nice nearfall with a great looking bridging butterfly suplex and yeah this match is the logical consequence to 70s junior matches. Lovely bout, altough I may be overrating it slightly.
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This was a fun match between a low ranked BattlARTS guy and an indy nobody. Nothing BattlARTS here as it's just a technician vs. Flyer match. They do some fun mat based arm work early on, junji has really fun ways to spin into armbars. Azteca impresses me by being shockingly decent, able to go on the mat, selling his arm, taking a really nice whiplash bump for a Junji flying clothesline, taking a nasty kick to the gut and doing a fine job at imitating a graceful luchador in some of the sequences here. Perfectly good down to earth junior match, having matches like this is the reason why BattlARTS was such a fun quirky fed.
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This was a 10 minute match and pretty much a highlight reel of their stuff. Meaning Ishikawa looks like a superstar on the mat, and Usuda attempts to turn him into a vegetable with rotten kicks and headbutts. Despite the short length and both guys being familiar I was impressed by how well worked and elaborate their exchanges were, and even while being very familiar with both workers I bit on a few of the submission nearfalls. Nifty little bout.
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This was a really excellent wrestling contest. Yeah, Ohtani is so over the top it's hard not to love him, but the main selling point for me was the really good, super simple work in the opening. Just sweet tight holds and takedowns worked with a purpose. Of course Ohtani adds something to his grinding basic armlock by being a smug prick, but the baseline is that he was also doing some really great elbow popping grinding arm work there. Ultimo was right there, laying in stiff kicks and stepping on Ohtani's face, and not an inch behind in execution. The knee to the balls was a great move aswell and the moment where Ohtani finally manages to make that damn Dragon's flashiness backfire to him is a hit too. The finishing stretch is not on the same level as the body of the match, but Ohtani never loses you with his overrunning faces and music video like enthusiastic body language. Both characters played great together here.