Sasuke/Shiryu/TM4 vs TAKA/Naniwa/Delphin (M-Pro - 3/16/96)

This match is many things but mainly a cause of contention in the wrestling community as a whole, their style is divisive to say the least, how they sell or most importantly how they don’t sell may infuriate some people in the wrestling business and I see where they are coming from, how they implement comedy in their matches, the wrestling traditionalists the most famous of which being Jim Cornette hated the way they wrestled, there’s a famous clip of Bruce Pritchard talking about the promotion, from Sasuke’s ownership and how they convinced some of their workers to be in that famous 6 man that happened in ECW Barely Legal 97 and I love how opposite to each other their opinions are, that’s something beautiful about wrestling you can have an opinion completely opposite on another person’s and both of you can be right because there’s no right way to watch wrestling, you watch what you think you’re going to like and if you don’t like something it’s because the match just didn’t work for you but it may work for another person, nothing is unanimous in professional wrestling and that’s something to celebrate because it opens the possibility of dialogue and debate, there’s no other art form capable of doing the same thing, in classical music no one is disputing the status of Richard Strauss’ first opera, it’s bad and it’s a widely accepted fact by the general public meanwhile in wrestling almost every match and style has a legion of supporters making the case for it, Michinoku Pro was and still is divisive among the wrestling fandom, some say it’s innovative and exciting while others argue it isn’t proper wrestling ( if such a thing exists) this match is the best version of a Michinoku Pro multi-man from 1996, I personally think that they were the impressionists of the wrestling world and I think that they have to be viewed as such, visionaries for better or for worse, anyway I recommend you check out this match if you are into their work.