March 24, 201114 yr comment_5468205 This is a match up of cult favorites and everyone lives up to those expectations. Is Sasuke going to get himself killed? This time it'll be blood loss. Is Pogo going to stab someone? Is the sky blue? Tarzan Goto is as awesome as you'd expect. He destroys Toi. The stuff with the ref building toward the hot tag had me laughing out loud but in a Michinoku Pro/FMW production I could definitely see a ref being a lot more vigilant about enforcing tags than stopping someone from being stabbed. If you don't like this you have no sense of fun.
July 3, 201114 yr Author comment_5475798 What Graham Crackers said. Kind of a preposterous match, but that's part of the fun of it. The Sasuke stabbing stuff is nasty and a little tough to watch.
July 16, 201312 yr comment_5552337 The staking of Sasuke's back was fucked up. Why would you let someone mutilate you in that particular way? It really is amazing that guy seems reasonably healthy 20 years down the line. Anyway, I enjoyed the match a lot. Goto is a fucking bull, and he was awesome again here, just wrecking Pogo and Toi in the early going. Actually, they fit all the weirdness into a pretty traditional tag structure. Like Graham Crackers, I found it highly amusing that the ref was a stickler about tag rules but completely cool with a broken stick being ground into an open wound along a man's spine. Glad this made the set.
January 26, 201411 yr comment_5582065 I think they were trying to start a fire with rubbing the stick up against the spine of Sasuke so that they could then throw a fireball in his face. Sasuke is left with a big wound on his back.
March 1, 201411 yr comment_5591226 Good God, how appropriate that I watch this so soon after the "Sasuke is crazy" topic started. A simple Youtube link to this match in that thread would go a long way--this is an entirely new kind of crazy for Sasuke and Michinoku Pro. The Sasuke-in-peril segment goes on a looong time for my tastes, but goddamned if this match as a whole isn't fun as hell. Sasuke & Goto are the greatest mismatched Rock 'n Roll Express in history, and I could watch Goto work hot tag house-afire sequences all day. The absurdity of this match-up, these partnerships, and the stabbings is all made up for by the fact that this is a traditional southern-style tag in every other aspect.
March 5, 20178 yr comment_5790477 Traditional Southern tag? I can't believe that anyone could use that phrase in any way make, shape, form or fashion to describe this abomination. I guess I have no sense of fun either, because even though I read the thread beforehand and knew what was coming I was shocked that it was allowed to happen in a match that supposedly was conducted under normal rules. The stick should have been the end, period. Pogo and Toi should have been disqualified, and we could have all moved on to a match that made sense. The only one I'll give credit to is Sasuke for having the guts to agree to wrestle with a great big bloody hole in his back when he shouldn't have had to. Make it a specifically stipulated hardcore match (none of this "it's the house style anyway" stuff) and I can rate it on its merits. As it stands now, the ref looks like an idiot for allowing a foreign object without blinking an eye and the promoter's a bloodsucker and an asshole for booking the match in a way that could have gotten one of his top stars maimed. Period, end of review.
March 7, 20178 yr comment_5790690 Oh well, if a man wants to have himself maimed for fun and profit, who are we sane people to call him an asshole and a bloodsucker? Thanks for the info, Pete!
June 2, 20178 yr comment_5802783 Some good sleezy action although it was really all about the work on Sasuke's back and how gruesome and grimey that got. I really liked seeing Pogo and Goto mix it up and having Sasuke in there added a bit of on intrigue and provided a sympathetic figure. ***1/4
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