Tarzan Goto Documentation #10

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

I always wanted a Katsuji Ueda showcase match, and here he is against Goto!! I don‘t know much about Ueda, but he is someone I buy as being tough just by looking at him. Mustache, boxing gloves, taped ankles for some reason. And Goto doesn‘t care about any of that – as he opens by moving in and trying to headbutt Ueda into oblivion right at the go. Ueda throws punches and kicks and this is really like a martial artist vs. Bar fighter match. Goto moves close enough to Ueda where in a normal sport the referee would break it up – but this is FMW, so Ueda eats headbutts to the face. Goto also has some pretty fast ankle picks for a fat guy. Ueda soon puts a pretty big beating on Goto, knees to the face, elbows to the back of the head. It‘s rough and grizzly and Goto is soon bleeding like crazy and getting knocked out over again. Pretty great transition from Goto bullying this guy around Goto putting over how dangerous his strikes are. It looks like Goto is done but he is able to catch a kick, pop Ueda with another headbutt and sink in a Figure 4 of all things. Some really great falling headbutts to Uedas leg later and he‘s out. I would‘ve liked a bigger 3rd stanza with Goto throwing Ueda around some more, but it made sense since Goto looked on the brink of defeat. Great match, anyways.

 

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

Curious match up because it‘s Toi working a main event singles (unless there was a match after this that the camera guy missed). The match was almost a total squash too, albeit a memorable one simply due to the sheer violent asskicking Goto unleashed. Toi paid his dues working in Calgary so he was never really on young boy duty and instead the guy delivering punishment when it comes to his matches in W*ING, PWC etc., so Goto kicking him all over the place here felt different. Goto was like a more violent Regal early on, cutting off Toi in different ways with knees to the face, punches, headbutts to the side of his head etc. Soon Goto was chucking tables at Tois head and bloodying him. Toi made the most of his brief offensive runs catching Goto with some kicks to the chin. Goto mostly catches them and continues the beatdown so when Toi finallly slowed him down with his gnarly solebutt to the face it felt rewarding. Of course Goto soon just dropped him with a Hashimoto level brainbuster and pinned him. For how one sided the match was, it was pretty great.

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

Merciless, Necro-level one sided beating by Goto to Taniguchi. Taniguchi isn‘t very good and his one comeback is pretty lackluster so it was probably for the better he barely got any offense. Goto did it all here, chucking chairs, tables at him, beer bottle, violent lariats and punches. He also beats on referees and ring announcers after the match, I‘m not sure of the monster Tarzan Goto run ever happened in Onita Pro but it looked promising here.

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