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 Riki Senshu vs. Osamu Kido, Riki Office 2/11/2007

Choshu imitaro Riki Senshu is questionable, but him booking himself against puro legends provides entertainment. Kido is really old here but quite the maestro, he has some really fun and spry armwork and a cool reversal of Senshus Fake Scorpion Deathlock. Senshu clocks him with a pretty hard lariat but falls to the Kido clutch. I think this went 7 minutes or so but it was a cool match for Old Man Kido.

Riki Senshu & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Yuki Ishikawa, Riki Office 9/25/2011

Another entertaining Senshu match. Fujiwara and Fujinami were definitely collecting paychecks here, but their sections are still fun. And Senshu came across like an eccentric guy who was far weaker than Choshu but using his style effectively. He also took a beating from Fujiwara. Ishikawa had some decent sections against him but the match was a bit too short to make room for another transcendent Ishikawa performance. Still fun to see.

Riki Senshu vs. Kenji Fukimoto, Riki Office 1/14/2008

These two are Kurisu trainees and they produce a really great, serious sleaze brawl with old school psychology, the first real gem of this last footage motherload. Opening was a lot of fun with Senshu smacking sleazeball Fukimoto around and hitting cool  neck chops, establishing him as the more dominant force. As soon as they spilt to the floor they went to town with absolutely hideous chairshots on each other. Fukimoto was able to brutalize  and bloody Senshu but because of Senshus bomb dropping style Fukimoto quickly became the underdog. I have to say Senshu looked great here, his mixture of head trauma and slowly bleeding out selling kept things interesting and made him look vulnerable, and his out of nowhere backdrops and lariats ruled. It builds to a hard fought bomb dropping war with some neat learned psychology that was done right and leads to an absolutely crazy bump that was sold perfectly and added to the match. Also have to say Senshus slow, half dead kickout was one of the best I've ever seen. I really have to give these two a ton of credit here, for two indy sleazeballs they really went all out to create their masterpiece here, it easily could have been a cringy mark show but it ended up violent and engrossing, they nailed it.

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Kaoru Nemoto vs. Takeshi Michibata

For a low level regional indy opening match, this was pretty fun. Nemoto is this cool thickly built old dude with a suck mullet and cool skull trunks design, who wrestles like kind of a tribute to a Hiro Saito being a troll with a nice backdrop suplex. I enjoy that kind of heel act and he did a decent job punishing Michibata who is as generic an indy junior as they come.

Michio Kageyama vs. KB

Kageyama is the next nice surprise on this show. He looks like a mini-Gannosuke but was really good working over his opponents arm here and picking him apart with kicks. KB looked quite pathetic and untrained, like a middle aged businessman randomly decided to get in the ring and got booked by paying the ring rent, but his offense was restricted to a minimum. I want to see more of this Kageyama guy.

Toru Sugiura & Dyna-Mido & AK vs. Hideaki Sumi & Takeshi Irei & Naoki Ito

This was also pretty good for a midcard 6 man tag. The trio around Dyna-Mido did a good job playing enforcers and putting a beatdown on young Naoki Ito, who did a decent fired up black trunks youngster performance. I especially enjoyed Sugiura just working people over with kicks. Sumi is this grouchy karateka who doesn't pull his strikes at all and he's great. He hit this cartwheel kick to a guys face and it was awe-inspiring. Really want to see more of that guy. Irei is a thickly built guy with nice suplexes who apparently came from Apache Pro. I remember absolutely nothing about AK but when your name is "AK" I guess you just set up not to be memorable.

Yuji Yoshida vs. Masao Ando

This was a nice surprise. Two tubby guys with kickpads hitting each other hard and basically doing a sleazy WAR match. No stupid back and forth strike exchanges, they just battered each other with kicks and elbows. I wonder about Andos background because he shows up consistently on sleaze undercards and is a cool fatboy shooter. I've never heard of this Yoshida but he's old, very lumpy and takes and gives punishment well. There was a gnarly moment where Ando lifted up Yoshida for a waterwheel throw and just dumped him on his head. Too bad Yoshida just did a shitty looking single leg takedown to comeback. The finish was fun though with Ando getting dumped with some big suplexes, way bigger bumps than you'd expect from a local show in front of 50 people. Not polished but it was fun.

Kenji Fukimoto vs. SATOSHI

Fukimoto is a Kurisu trainee who can be a really great sleaze brawler, but he was paired with a guy who seemed green and brought absolutely nothing to the table. Fukimoto just carefully strung this dude through the match. A waste of Fukimoto, but at least he wore some really cool facepaint.

Tadanobu Fujisawa / Daisuke Masaoka vs. YU-ICHI / KENJI

Fujisawa looked damn good here. Apparently he's another Kurisu trainee and he gave a 100% Kurisu performance. He was punching and kicking people flush in the face and cracking them with grueling headbutts and chairshots. He displayed good timing and selling too, so he wasn't just a crowbar. Brawling around the ring was actually good and closer to IWRG than the lazy shit you usually get on Japanese indy shows. The other people in the match weren't bad, but nothing to write home about either. But the match had a structure where the veteran team of Fujisawa and Masaoka were isolating their opponents and killing them, and I was into that. I lost a bit interest with the trained monkey stuff of Yu-ichi and KENJI, but fortunately Fujisawa was there to run in and tag people with Takaiwa lariats. The finish was great as Fujisawa just kicked the guy in the face hard. No theatrics or setup, just kicked him in the face and pinned him. As far as I'm concerned Fujisawa is another candidate for the list of must see Japanese sleazeballs, but his tape history is extremely limited.

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