Atsushi Onita vs. Tarzan Goto (FMW 2/26/1991) - EPIC
Okay, wow. This was brutal as hell. Essentially the world's sleaziest
WAR match. Forget about explosions and barbedwire, this was about crazy
headbutts, lariats and punches in the face.
This was also a total fight. Normally in hardcore type matches there will be some lulls when guys are rummaging around, but here they are just killing eachother the whole way. Right out the gate they are ramming their heads into eachother, Goto's face in a pool of blood immediately, and I love how Goto was selling that he is clearly rattled by Onita's headbutts but still trying to push back. Onita comes out on top and immediately goes for a suicide dive that doesn't go well, and Goto immediately grabs a chair and waffles Onita in the face. Next you know Onita is bleeding and Goto continues to beat the life out of him, just killing him chucking tables and stomping him in the face. When that doesn't do it Goto briefly works Onita's leg to set up an STF, altough he is still laying in a fucking stiff beating kicking Onita in the hamstring.
One headbutt exchange later and Onita has proven that he is still tougher, sending Goto outside altough Goto immediately goes for a fucking dropkick there. Neither of these guys will stop attacking, altough Onita gets the advantage again body slamming him into chairs and landing a table-cracking piledriver that looked like a potential KO as much as anything. Back in the ring and both guys are a mess at this point. Goto with the blistering lariats and huge superfly splash again, but Onita catches him with his DDTs and goes on to drill him with the big damn powerbombs. I actually liked the "kick out at 1 spot" here, it's become such a cliche at this point, but Goto's facial expression really gets it across, he's thinking "I know I'm dead on my feet, but I'm not quitting now, fuck you" then punches Onita in the face. Onita just keeps dropping Goto with one nastier powerbomb after another until he stays down, making this almost a Steve Williams Backdrop moment.
I dunno. This is probably not as fine as Kawada/Taue, but in way it feels like the ultimate 90s indy sleaze massacre. It's easily the best match of that kind that I can recall seeing. It's gruesome, primitive, savage as hell and unlike many other matches of that kind had me enthralled the whole way through. Yeah maybe it's not a Top 40 match in 1991, who gives a shit. I loved this.
Tarzan Goto & Mitsunobu Kikuzawa vs. Masayoshi Motegi & Shinichi Nakano, WYF 8/9/1997 - GREAT
This was another piece of fucking great pro wrestling. This was not
quite the same chaotic, savage massacre as the previous Goto vs. WDF
guys tag, but more of a great southern style tag. Some really fun back
and forth wrestling early on which was damn cool to see from such a fat
guy as Goto, before Motegi ends up suicide diving right into a Goto
chairshot (did I mention Motegi is actually awesome?) which sets up the
heat section of Goto again mercilessly fucking up Motegi with various
foreign objects, including drilling his face with an umbrella. Motegi
screaming for his life while Goto was stubbornly trying to crack a beer
bottle over his head before he just breaks it and carves him up gave the
whole thing a Hillbilly slasher movie feel. Goto has fucking great
punches, too. It all builds very well to Nakano getting the hot tag and
in turn messing up everyone with his simple, violent offense. Aside from
Goto being awesome you also had the future Kikutaro who at this point
was a fun fatboy wrestler that gets messed up by the veterans for being a
newbie, at one point Nakano just grabs him and drills his face with
knee strikes. Really well worked match that blends southern psychology
and japanese hierarchy thinking.
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