Tarzan Goto Documentation #13

 

Tarzan Goto vs. Great Punk, FMW 9/23/1993 - FUN

Punk is Katsutoshi Niiyama. He rushes Goto at the start but things go awry for him quickly and Goto starts kicking him in the face and dumping tables on his head. Goto delivers a really great beatdown as he has so many different cool ways to kick the shit out of you, headbutts to the face, huge superfly splash off the top, slapping the hell out of Niiyama etc. It's weird though, if this was Tully Blanchard or whoever delivering this kind of bloody beatdown on someone it would be legendary and epic but since Goto has a great beatdown in pretty much every match he's in it feels like it's another match for him. So it depends on what Niyaama brings to the table, and Niyama doesn't bring much except some weak looking uranages and rollups. Still, a solid by the numbers match with Gotos numbers being really damn high.

Tarzan Goto vs. Masashi Aoyagi, Shin FMW 9/29/97 - EPIC

This delivers the kind of freak violence this matchup promises. Basically Goto hacks up Aoyagis face causing him to bleed like crazy almost immediately. Aoyagi in turn busts out a barbedwire kickpad and tees off on Goto, kicking him in the face and just tearing up his leg. The barbed wire kick spots hold up about as violent as anything else in deathmatch wrestling history, I'd rather take a lighttube over the head than get kicked by Aoyagi, the barbedwire just makes it way worse. I would have liked Goto to throw more punches but retaliating against the superior striker by chucking barbed wire boards at him works fine. This didn't have any kind of deep story or great transitions but the gore aswell as a pretty big finish and both guys being willing to take crazy punishment made it really engrossing.

 

Tarzan Goto Master List

Shin-FMW 6/17/1997

 Tarzan Goto vs. Katsutoshi Niiyama - FUN

This was a show where Tarzan Goto was in every match. Pretty insane idea, but our man Goto can pull it off no problem. Unfortunately they clipped all the matches, but every match brought something different and worthwhile to the table. This went close to 15 minutes which is a main event for most wrestlers but basically a warmup for Goto. Some fun opening chain wrestling which is always awesome to see Goto do and Niiyama gets in some fun kicks against Goto. That's about all we get from this.

Tarzan Goto vs. Takashi Okano - FUN

Okano is Winger. Pretty much the most enjoyable match you're gonna get out of Winger, as it's clipped down to him brawling and hitting his high spots and Goto bleeding, starting his blood loss 2 matches into this 6 match marathon.

Tarzan Goto & Ryo Miyake vs. Ichiro Yaguchi & Nobukazu Hirai - FUN

Ryo Miyake joins the fray! This was pretty much the Hirai show. He is in his weird joker face paint and kind of rules brutalizing guys with ECW-ish chair spots. He hits a really great elbow drop for the pin on Miyake too. I think Miyake started bleeding immediately, too. Yaguchi was mercifully clipped out of this match. Nevermind that: HIRAI~!

Tarzan Goto & Ryo Miyake vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Rikio Ito - FUN

Reckless kicker Mochizuki ruled. It baffles me how awesome the karate guy who kicks hard and fast, all the time wearing a black gi act is and how nobody has stolen it. Plenty of Goto/Mochizuki interactions here, with Mochizuki kicking Goto hard in the blubber and Goto firing back with lariats and headbutts. That is kind of a dream match, and we basically get the clipped WCW syndicated match version of it. Rikio Ito is mercifully largely clipped out of this match up. Miyake gets pinned once again, continueing his arc.

Tarzan Goto & Ryo Miyake & Mitsunobu Kikuzawa vs. Kishin Kawabata & Katsuhiko Matsuzaki & Shigeo Okumura - FUN

Kawabata/Matsuzaki/Okumura is one hell of an indy scum murderers row. Kikuzawa joins the fray and is really spry and fun here, hitting suicide dives that put the "suicide" in suicide dive, full bodyweight senton and even busting out the Gannosuke Clutch. Everyone on the non-Goto team was fired up and they trade stiff beatings in some surprisingly great exchanges with Miyake. Matsuzaki also bleeds and we get glimpses of a classic Goto bloodletting. Also, pretty violent finish with everyone on the Kawabata team dropping their meanest flying move on Miyake. That would be cute in a junior match but since it's all tubby heavyweights landing on him it looked brutal. Damn I wish we had the whole match because it looked great.

Tarzan Goto vs. Ryo Miyake - FUN

This was a barbedwire ropes and boards match and a pretty gruel ending to the tour the force Miyake had to go through. Goto just brutalizes him here, non-pulled punches and lariats, and making him bleed like a pig in the barbedwire. Goto bled like mad, too. Miyake gets a handful of hope spots but Goto just slaughters him. Looked great and gory. After the match Miyake looks dead while Goto looks like he could do another 6 matches.

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