Fugofugo
Yumeji & BUKI vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Johta, EXIT 7/14/2018
Now
this… this is a damn MATCHUP!! Fugofugo going toe to toe with
Ishikawa is a weird fever dream of this blog… and in this match,
holy fuck they go toe to toe! Everything you can ask for from a match
in a tiny ring with chains instead of ropes held in a Tokyo merch
store. You get Fugofugo and Ishikawa brutalizing each other
(including Fugo almost shattering Yukis face with pretty much the
most god awful headbutt in the history of the world EVER), but you
also get plenty of neat Ishikawa matwork. BUKI and Johta are really
fun complementing characters, BUKIs super stiff mini Great Kabuki act
is so cool, and while Johta was slower compared to his CAPTURE days
he was willing to hit and get hit which is all I ask for. This went
+20 minutes and had a really nice ebb and flow structure to it. The
finish was between BUKI and Johta and while maybe that wasn‘t the
epic Fugo/Ishikawa showdown you hoped for it was primitve and
violent. Besides both the old guys were probably on the verge of
brain damage at this point. Really extremely well done stiff
quasi-shootstyle brawl, felt like one of the better Japanese tags of
the 2010s.
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