Thursday, January 21, 2021

Brief thoughts on IWU 4/28/1995

 IWU 4/28/1995

  1. Mitsunobu Kikuzawa vs. Shigeo Okumura
  2. Katsunari Toi & Black Hole vs. Kazuhiko Matsuzaki & Masahiko Kochi
  3. Apollo Sugawara vs. Iron Hercules
  4. Goro Tsurumi & Takeshi Miyamoto vs. Masahiko Takasugi & Kei Tsukuda
  5. Takashi Ishikawa & Hiroshi Hatanaka vs. Kishin Kawabata & Dunk Tani
  6. Barbedwire: Poison Sawada & Ryo Miyake vs. White Mummie & Black Mummie

Another pretty watchable 90s indy card. You had the future Kikutaro doing a decent job carrying Okumura in the opening match, and then of course, BLACK HOLE. If you ask me Black Hole should have taken center stage in these promotions, he is the coolest of the space monsters. And he doesn't do anything but judo throw people and it rules. SPWF jobber boy Kochi got to look good in that match too, bleeding and dishing out some stiff kicks. Then Toi drops him on his neck with a ganso bomb for no reason. Toi truely doesn't give a fuck.

The best match by far was Tsurumi/Miyamoto vs. Takasugi/Tsukuda. If you've seen Miyamoto/Tsukuda before, you know these two randoms love killing eachother, and that they did here, just a flurry of sick punches and kicks. Then we even get some fun Tsukuda/Tsurumi exchanges. Turns out the trick to getting something good out of Tsurumi is to punch him in the face. Really need sleazy veteran boxer performance from Tsurumi. Takasugi doesn't add much but I always like his crowbar dropkick. With a better finish that match would've been a surefire nomination.

You don't really need to see the rest of the card. Gotta say, the Mummies have to be on the shortlist of the worst brawlers ever. I have no idea what they were thinking with that shit.

 

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