Genichiro Tenryu & Koki Kitahara vs. Super Strong Machine & Hiromichi Fuyuki (WAR 2/24/1994) - EPIC
4 tubby guys beat the fuck out of eachother and it rules, what else is
new? The opening minutes were really fun logical pro wrestling. Fuyuki
was fired up, ready to take down Tenryu and kick Kitaharas ass. He also
looked shockingly good doing sympathetic selling as he got awkwardly
kicked in the chin and face repeatedly etc. Kitahara loves demolishing
other dudes with kicks but ends up having his leg taken out in a simple
spot that looked great. His leg selling was very good as his kicks
became mostly useless. Tenryus hot tag was really fun and different as
Fuyuki just bitchslapped him out of the ring and proceeded to kick
Kitaharas ass some more. Tenryu then hands out some Necro level
chairshots only to get brained himself. Super Strong Machine is not a
very charismatic dude compared to the others but he is really fun here
blindsiding guys, just constantly ramming people in the back of their
necks with lariats and chairs when they would least expect it. Tenryu
kind of played the role of the megastar who looked like he was on the
verge of defeat, always looking like he was gonna go „Damn now I'm REAL
fed up!“ and then he would get bonked in the head again. Really cool
finish. I'd say this isn't quite up there with the high end WAR material
but for the genre this is must watch anyways.
Pretty cool short match. The first part of this was to put over Kitao as an unstoppable monster, and they actually make him look like such. He devastates Ishikawa and Ishinriki, but Kitahara is able to make some dents in him, which is a pretty cool role for Kitahara to be in. Then Kitao tags in Kobayashi (not sure why, he was destroying everyone) and immediately we get some scrappy violent exchanges starring a pissed off Kitahara slapping the shit out of a snot nosed karateka. Ishinriki also looks good doing wild sumo flailing and throws against the karatekas. Mochizuki frantic exchanges were great. I‘d Ishikawa trying to grab Mochizuki and trying to yank him over the rope also felt crazy. And Kitahara was the man in this.
Koki Kitahara vs. Nobutaka Araya, WAR 7/13/2000 - GREAT
One of these violent and out of control spectacles you only really get when two scuzzy thick guys (preferably with mullets) face each other in a WAR match. It looks like Araya is drunk or something here, most of what he does is hit Kitahara with hard crowbar shoulderblocks, awkwardly flopping about the place as Kitahara beats on him, and acting weird and psycho. It takes a look to look up there with Kitahara in the psycho department but Araya does it here. At one point he puts his hands on Kitaharas second Nihao, and it felt like a very real moment where shit was about to go down. And Kitahara looks just disgusted with him and kills him with nasty blunt force kicks. Awkward, violent, seedy match, pure Wrestle And Romance
KOKI KITAHARA DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
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