Posted June 11, 200817 yr comment_5432164 Kengo Kimura vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (NWA International Junior Title) (9/25/80) - Off the bat, I thought Kimura botched an arm drag attempt but a quick rewind shows that it looked like he made a mistake and Fujinami captialized on it. In fact, there were several points where I had to rewind the footage to catch something I didn't pick up on in my initial viewing. Just some beautiful sequences early on. One sequence has Kimura breaking a knuckle lock, getting his leg swept and kicks Fujinami in the face all in about a second. What started off as a nice technical match gets a little testy as Kimura and Fujinami just start kicking each other and later, Kimura slaps Fujinami in the face. They play off the earlier theme of Kimura unable to capitalize as he tries to hip toss Fujinami out of the corner but Tatsumi holds the ropes and slips out of Kimura's grip. I also like that they go back to earlier sequences such as Kimura controlling a head scissors after Fujinami had worked him over with one earlier in the match. It gets a little sloppy towards the end but Kimurra drops Fujinami with an UGLY piledriver. In the end, both guys hit some big moves and get nice and bloodied. The match is stopped when neither man can get up after a ten count but this was a SLAM DUNK nomination. (NJC 93)
June 16, 200916 yr comment_5440764 I loved the way this broke down. That Kimura piledriver was scary ... almost totally uprotected. As Will said, the violence at the end followed a lot of nifty exchanges during the more civil part of the match. Yet another Fujinami match that has to go on the set.
August 25, 200916 yr comment_5443342 Did both guys blade after the tope? That was awesome, I loved all the MUGA at the beginning and then how it broke down into some serious violence. Man did these guys have some great chemistry as both opponents and as a tag team. Big yes.
