[2003-01-02-BJW] Abdullah Kobayashi vs Shuji Ishikawa (New Year Death Match)

People tend to either love or hate death matches. I’ve certainly seen some fantastic ones, and watched others that were just awful. This battle fell in the “good” range for me. I tend to prefer matches of this genre where they build to the weapon use. That really isn’t the formula they follow here, but it worked because of the wicked exchange of strikes near the end. Having a red-hot crowd certainly helped.

Ultimately, if you like death match wrestling, you’ll like this. If you don’t like death matches, just skip it.

Here's my full review of the match, part of my 365 Wrestling project.