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Post by elliott on Oct 21, 2019 2:37:36 GMT -5
Rick & Scott Steiner vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Tayayuki Iizuka (WCW Wrestle War - 5/17/92) One of the more famous Steiner brother tag matches and almost certainly the most outrageously violent. Holds up as a massacre almost 30 years later.
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Post by microstatistics on Aug 8, 2020 16:00:20 GMT -5
Second. Really good stuff, one of the more memorable US tags.
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Post by Cap on Aug 10, 2020 20:21:30 GMT -5
Third
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Post by mvz on May 30, 2021 11:01:26 GMT -5
Watching this for the first time in a while was a strange experience. Rick is holding Fujinami in the chinlock and asks if Iizuka is ok after creaming him off the top rope, but the brothers don't hold anything back afterward and some moments felt uncooperative in a dangerous way. There was a moment when Scott snapmared Iizuka into the corner and I thought that he and Fujinami were going to really go at each other. I didn't guess we were going into a double wristlock/double clothesline spot.
Worth watching as a curiosity and a bombfest, not sure how to assess it though.
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Post by mrjmml on Sept 2, 2023 14:18:49 GMT -5
Rick & Scott Steiner vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Tayayuki Iizuka (WCW Wrestle War - 5/17/92)
It’s the first time I write about a regular tag team match in my Fujinami retrospective, I talked about tags and gauntlets but there were many people involved in those, this match is a 2v2 instead of the 4v4s or 5v5s like the famous multi-man matches of 80’s NJPW, if you want to watch a multi-man this show had Wargames in their main event, a match that I love so much that I included it in my GME list of 2023, Sting's Squadron (Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes & Nikita Koloff) vs The Dangerous Alliance (Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko & Bobby Eaton) watch it if you haven’t it already, I think this match overshadowed the main event in the violence department, I have to give credit to Jesse Ventura and Tony Schiavone for how they treated Lizuka and Fujinami here, they are completely aware of how the average american would react when watching japanese guys that he has never heard about ( it applies more for Lizuka, Fujinami had appeared in other WCW shows at that point), they praised them for their effort in a way I didn’t expect, specially Jesse Ventura considering how he behaved in the commentary box, the match isn’t only violent is also well structured, the Steiners were the better team but Fujinami and Lizuka struck back in multiple occasions, their comebacks were convincing enough to have the WCW crowd chanting USA at some point but the result was clear from the beginning to be fair the japanese team had no business winning but they proved their worth to the american crowd that’s for sure, Lizuka nose bleeding and overall a great match full of hard hitting action throughout, highly recommended.
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