Man, I love the fact Takashi Sasaki had an Ishikawa/Ikeda like feud going with Toba. Whenever these two stepped in the ring against each other the violence just reached next level. They just go toe to toe the whole time and it‘s a rush. It wasn‘t your turn-my turn style exchanges either, both guys were rushing and trying to outgun each other. Aside from all the stiffness there are some really good moments of countering the other guys onslaught. I once again loved Toba busting out his insane apron kick, as well as the huracanrana into punch rush. Really good finish, too. This wasn‘t quite as epic in scope as their singles earlier in the year (that was a main event while this was a semi) but this was still 8 minutes of super badass pro wrestling.
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Toba & Tomohiko Hashimoto & Jason the Terrible vs. Tomohiro
Ishii & Issei Fujisawa & Shigeo Kato, DDT 12/12/2001 - FUN
Now
this is a match up! This match has honest to god Jason The Terrible
hitting the mat with Shigeo Kato. Outside of that this was really
fun. Hashimoto is cool just pounding people into the mat with STOs
over and over, and Kato is a fun heel who knows how to turn up the
violence. Whenever Ishii and Toba were facing each other the violence
increased a lot, mostly just Ishii brutalizing Toba, right in the
opening he hits a jaw cracking lariat on Toba, then launches him over
the rope with a gorilla press before hitting a reckless dropkick on
the floor. Toba held the match together taking an asskicking from the
heel team and being sympathetic. We don‘t really get him teeing off
on somebody but he has some cool moments hitting flying kicks and a
cool double team with Hashimoto where Hashimoto hits an STO while
Toba kicks the guy in the face. Jason looks good hitting cool spin
kicks and powerslams. Fujisawa is the Kensuke Sasaki imitator and he
was imitating multiple wrestlers in this and he was a bit clunky but
didn‘t derail the match with jokes. Weird to see a match with this
many whacky characters in it be played completely straight but it was
good.
Tanomusaku Toba vs. Yasu Urano, DDT 8/10/2008 - FUN
One of those examples of a random midcarder suddenly working a bit harder when facing the mighty force that is TOBA. Urano seemed to be laying in his dropkicks and lariats harder and some quality stiff exchanges resulted. Toba also busted out some great offense, such as his springboard enzuigiri and a bunch of awesome looking rollups. Perfectly entertaining 5 minute snack.
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