Takeshi Ono vs. Takashi Okamura, PWFG 8/12/1995 - FUN
Okamura is the guy with the craziest mullet from Kitao Dojo, and he is a fun opponent for Ono. This was a straight shootstyle 4 minute match than the hybrid craziness this match would have been in 1997 or 1998, but it was good. Okamura works this as a bigger guy with some crazy kick variations, and Ono has to slip past that to try and tap him out. Onos slickness is great, he would lock in a submission and then he would counter Okamuras counter attempt into another submission. Really nice finish too with the crazy belt throw.
Takeshi Ono & Daisuke Ikeda vs. Hikaru Sato & Kengo Mashimo, Futen 1/22/2012 - EPIC
Another FUTEN main event, another 20 minute round of 4 lunatics just beating the life out of each other. This had a great build, as we start with some cautious Ono/Sato exchanges where neither guy wanted to make a mistake, before Ikeda tags in. Sato and Mashimo immediately take to isolating Ikeda and just slapping the dogshit out of him, which sets up the crazy frenzy that would be the second half of the match kicked off by Ikeda running and punting Mashimo in the face. Sato was just being introduced to the crazy world of FUTEN here, but he did good bringing the violence. He'd punch and palm Ikeda really hard, and finally they engaged in some brink of survival-level headbutt exchange topped by Sato kicking Ikeda in the face hard. After that gruelling caveman slugfest we get the much finer but still extremely violent Mashimo/Ono ending section. Really almost any Ono ending section in a quasi-shootstyle match is gonna be really great and these two looked awesome killing each other, this is just the coolest pro wrestling on earth. Mashimo looked really great too, big deadlift suplex, whiping out Onos leg with a badass sweep, I can only imagine how good their singles matches were. Ono is as great as you want him to be, throwing awesome punches and kneese, a crazy flying headscissor plus almost ripping Mashimo in half with the Octopus Stretch. On top of all that you get the trademark brutal partner saving spots. Really dug the moment where Mashimo went for the brainbuster only for Ikeda to take his leg out, still causing Ono to take a nasty bump. Finish was excellent stuff. Says a lot that this might be the least of FUTEN main events, because it was still an insanely great match.
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