Sunday, March 14, 2021

Tarzan Goto Documentation Project

 

 

Tarzan Goto is one of the most recognizable wrestlers ever, and in some ways the sleazy grindhouse version of Tenryu. A lumpy, demented freak in a bumblebee color scheme who is not afraid to break beer bottles and punch hapless dudes in the face. Even though he was in some of the biggest matches ever (such as the earliest explosion death matches, and the official 1994 MOTY teaming with Onita against Tenryu and Hara) he tends to get overlooked as a sleazy vampire, with a chunk of his career spent working grimy offshoot feds, not to mention that the DVDVR crew used to flat out dismiss his work back in the day in one of the more baffling instances of poorly aged wrestling opinions. Despite his singular approach to wrestling he was able to produce some quite great matches in a variety of settings simply by being a master of gory and grimy pro wrestling, so it's time to explore and unearth his work.

1984

vs. Toshiaki Kawada, AJPW 11/28/1984 - FUN

 1989

w Atsushi Onita vs. Jerry Flynn & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, FMW 12/10/1989 - EPIC

1990

w Sambo Asako vs. Masanobu Kurisu & The Shooter #1, FMW 5/14/1990 - EPIC

w Mr. Pogo vs. Atsushi Onita & Sambo Asako, FMW 7/25/1990 - FUN 

vs. Atsushi Onita, FMW 8/4/1990 - GREAT

vs. Katsuji Ueda, FMW 8/25/1990 - GREAT

vs. Gran Mendoza, FM 8/20/1990 - FUN

1991

vs. Atsushi Onita, FMW 2/26/1991 - EPIC 

w Ricky Fuji vs. Atsushi Onita & Mr. Gannosuke, FMW 11/4/1992 - GREAT 

w Atsushi Onita vs. Grigori Verichev & Koba Krutanize, FMW  12/9/1991 - GREAT

1992

vs. Leon Spinks, FMW 3/25/1992 - EPIC 

 w Nitron & Negro Casas vs. Hijo del Santo & Mil Mascaras & Atsushi Onita, Tijuana 5/15/1992 - FUN

1993

w The Sheik vs. Tiger Jeet Singh & Tiger Ali Singh, FMW 3/29/1993 - EPIC 

vs. Katsutoshi Niiyama, FMW 9/23/1993 - FUN

w Great Sasuke vs. Mr. Pogo & Masaru Toi, Michinoku Pro 12/10/1993 - EPIC

1994

w Atsushi Onita vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara, WAR 2/3/1994 - EPIC

vs. Masaru Toi, FMW 2/19/1994 - GREAT

w Damian 666 vs. Hisakatsu Oya & Goro Tsurumi, FMW 6/19/1994 - FUN 

vs. Mr. Gannosuke, FMW 6/28/1994 - EPIC

vs. Battle Ranger, FMW 7/31/1994 - EPIC

vs. Hisakatsu Oya, FMW 8/28/1994 - EPIC

 1995

w Mr. Gannosuke & Flying Kid Ichihara vs. Kendo Nagasaki & Giant Korean & Kim Soppo, BJW 6/10/1995 - GREAT

w Mr. Gannosuke vs. Kendo Nagasaki & Bruiser Okamoto, BJW 7/25/1995 - EPIC

w Mr. Gannosuke vs. Keisuke Yamada & Shoji Nakamaki, IWA Japan 8/20/1995 - GREAT 

vs. Dan Severn, IWA Japan 8/20/1995 - EPIC 

vs. Cactus Jack, IWA Japan 10/5/1995 - EPIC

1996

vs. Buh Buh Ray Dudley, IWA Japan 8/8/1996 - FUN

vs. Perry Saturn & John Kronus, IWA Japan 8/10/1996 - FUN

1997

w Ryo Miyake vs. Shinichi Nakano & Arashi, WYF 3/20/1997 - GREAT 

w Jun Kikuzawa vs. Ryuji Yamakawa & Shoji Nakamaki, BJW 5/29/1997 - FUN

vs. Katsutoshi Niiyama, Shin-FMW 6/17/1997 - FUN

vs. Takashi Okano, Shin-FMW 6/17/1997 - FUN

w Ryo Miyake vs. Ichiro Yaguchi & Nobukazu Hirai, Shin-FMW 6/17/1997 - FUN

w Ryo Miyake vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Rikio Ito, Shin-FMW 6/17/1997 - FUN

w Ryo Miyake & Mitsunobu Kikuzawa vs. Kazuhiko Matsuzaki & Kishin Kawabata & Shigeo Okumura, Shin-FMW 6/17/1997 - FUN

vs. Ryo Miyake, Shin-FM 6/17/1997 - FUN

w Ryo Miyake vs. Masayoshi Motegi & Shinichi Nakano, WYF 7/16/1997 - EPIC

w Mitsunobu Kikuzawa vs. Masayoshi Motegi & Shinichi Nakano, WYF 8/9/1997 - GREAT 

w Jun Kikuzawa vs. Basara & Shinichi Nakano, WYF 9/23/1997 - GREAT 

vs. Masashi Aoyagi, Shin-FMW 9/29/1997 - EPIC

1998

w Ryuma Go & Great Kabuki vs. Keizo Matsuda & Keisuke Yamada & Shigeo Okumura, IWA Japan 3/13/1998 - EPIC 

vs. Chainsaw Charlie, Indy World 5/21/1998 - EPIC

Masashi Aoyagi & Azteca vs. Dick Togo & Shoichi Funaki & MENs Teioh, Indy World 7/22/1998 - EPIC

1999

w Freddy Krueger vs. Yoshiya Yamashita & Katsumi Hirano, IWA Japan 1/17/1999 - GREAT

2000

vs. Yoji Anjoh, Rikidozan Memorial 3/11/2000 - GREAT

2001

vs. Viking Taniguchi, Onita Pro 9/23/2001 - FUN

2002

w Tomoaki Honma vs. Terry Funk & Abdullah The Butcher, AJPW 10/27/2002 - GREAT

2005

w Kazuhiko Matsuzaki & Gran Hamada & Masashi Aoyagi & Masanobu Kurisu vs. Ryuma Go & Shiro Koshinaka & Ishinriki & Arashi & Ryo Miyake, Wrestle Aid Project 5/2/2005 - GREAT

w Mr. Gannosuke vs. Soldier & Mineo Fujita, WMF 9/5/2005 - EPIC 

2009

w Mikan vs. Lemon & Musashi Oyama, Goto-Ippa 5/10/2009 - GREAT

No comments:

Post a Comment

More Joshi

  Mariko Yoshida vs Momoe Nakanishi, AtoZ 11/9/2003 Cool match. I’m surprised it’s not that well known since Nakanishi is generally well ...