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Post by nintendologic on Apr 6, 2021 15:51:36 GMT -5
Fujinami and Hase don't seem like the likeliest candidates to adapt to WAR-ism, but they manage to do just fine. The tone is set early on when Tenryu moves out of the way of a Fujinami tope attempt only for Hase to jump him and roll him back in the ring (the camera doesn't catch what exactly Hase does, unfortunately-it's a handheld). What this lacks in classic tag structure it more than makes up for in hatred and violence. This could very well be Fujinami's best performance of the 90s as he manages to come across as genuinely dangerous rather than simply a skilled wrestler. One of the match's highlights was him putting Ishikawa in a dragon sleeper and then turning toward Tenryu so he could talk trash. Tremendous finishing stretch as all seems lost for Team WAR on two separate occasions. First, Ishikawa wipes out on a plancha to nowhere, leaving Tenryu alone to be double-teamed, uranaged, and suplexed into oblivion. Later, after Ishikawa rises from the dead to rescue Tenryu from Hase's onslaught, he accidentally nails Tenryu in a sandwich lariat gone awry. However, he manages to redeem himself, as he recovers to break up a Hase German suplex and then detains Fujinami long enough to allow Tenryu to score the win with a powerbomb. The only real off note was Tenryu putting Fujinami in an abdominal stretch after his first powerbomb of the match, which served no real purpose other than to give Hase enough time to come in and break it up. Amazing match, right up there with the very best of the NJPW/WAR feud.
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Post by nintendologic on Oct 28, 2021 19:21:08 GMT -5
Bumping so this can hopefully be moved to the Nominees section.
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Post by elliott on Oct 28, 2021 21:02:03 GMT -5
2nd.
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Post by mvz on Oct 29, 2021 2:19:30 GMT -5
Third. Crowd was hot in the run to the finish and rightfully so.
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Post by mrjmml on Sept 4, 2023 12:07:36 GMT -5
Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Hiroshi Hase & Tatsumi Fujinami
WAR Great History 02.14.1993
We start Fujinami’s 1993 with a banger the kind of match you’d expect out of these four, they delivered an amazing bombfest but I have to say that the match lacks a clear structure instead we got a lot of violent exchanges between these four, I don’t think it balances out, Tenryu is made for these kind of matches and his performance alone makes the match a lot more enjoyable but everyone else while not being bad they weren’t convincing either, I still appreciate Fujinami’s effort to keep his character fresh, he’s still a technical wizard but in matches like this one he proved he is way more than that, the role of Ishikawa and Hase during the match was very simple it’s a master and apprentice relationship with their partners and it works, Fujinami and Tenryu were always the focus of the action with the other two trying to steal the show, it’s clear that both WAR and NJPW were slowly preparing for a passing of the torch, their rivalry during this time is legendary and a lot of people love it and this match is one of the greatest the whole feud had to offer, the other great contest its known for is the elimination match two days later I’ll probably write about tomorrow, as I said before this match doesn’t have a clear structure, if you’ve read my Rock ‘n’ Roll Express reviews you’ll know that for me the most important part of a tag team match is its structure so I’m not the biggest fan of this match, it just isn’t for me, if you are into japanese indy bombfests you’ll enjoy it, everyone did their job pretty well, I don’t have any problems with the individual performances but the result was disappointing.
Fujinami proved he could keep up with the best wrestlers in the world once again.
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