Atsushi Onita vs Great Sasuke (M-Pro - 10/30/94)

First time watching this. This is only my third foray into the fabled 'exploding barbed wire death match' genre. This one has a timebomb and also landmines. Good to keep things fresh.

We open with Great Sasuke in a helicopter and that's an excellent way to start anything. Ref isn't wearing the nuclear radiation shielding the ref in the Funk match had. That's a shame.

Teasing the wire early always smart. Sasuke tries to submit Onita before anything has blown up, crowd aren't buying that. Ah, an explosion, that's more like it. Not sold as being quite as deadly as in the other matches I watched. I'm sure it still sucked to take though. It's nice to see the ref bump for the blast irrespective of how close he is to it.

Kick to Onita into the landmine wasn't hit too cleanly but the resulting explosion was pretty. The (literal) pyrotechnics here are impressive as you'd expect but I'm not getting much from the work in between. These are two really charismatic guys but their personalities aren't shining through much, they're just two 'guys in death match' at the moment.

Hold on, Sasuke just hit a space flying tiger drop over the barbed wire. That was great!

Back in the ring and Sasuke leaps at Onita to knock him into the landmines on the other side now. Onita counters and throws Sasuke into them instead. Wait, I thought he countered but he seems to have climbed down to join Sasuke in the explosions too. That's very sporting of him I guess.

No gimmicky countdown but it looks like we're getting near the time limit. Will there be a finish before the big explosion?

Ok, that was an impressive final explosion. Ref maybe could have used a radiation suit after all. This is the weakest exploding barbed wire match I've seen, but the other two are classics and this was still fun. I did like it when stuff exploded.