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Post by nova on Dec 27, 2021 0:27:12 GMT -5
So this might be the best 5 minute match ever. Even calling it a 5 minute match is a stretch, the first minute in a half is Fujinami being a confused old man that REFUSES to put on gloves, uncomfortable with the winds of change in the puro landscape. The action is 4 minutes of nonstop brutality, Fujinami only throwing strikes with the gloved hand as even when met with the confusing times, he sticks true to himself and his morals when he could've easily punched with his uncovered hand. The 2002 MOTY.
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Post by microstatistics on Dec 28, 2021 21:43:38 GMT -5
Second. I'm impressed by how much they managed to pack into 6 min or so. Balls to the wall brutal stand-up fighting, infused with submissions and the occasional pro-style move, and a nice story. It just about misses the great mark for me but still feels like a safe low-end MOTYC pick for 2002.
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Post by Cap on Dec 29, 2021 15:20:43 GMT -5
FUCK YES
This is a JAM PACKED 5-6 minutes. Cranky old men, obliterated noses, not at all cooperative grappling. I'm not 100% sure this is something that makes my list, but it is something that everyone should check out because it is about as good as 5 minutes of wrestling gets.
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Post by mvz on Jan 1, 2022 15:31:09 GMT -5
Happy that I started my year of wrestling viewing with this one, Fujinami is a favorite and it was cool to see him in this setting. I enjoyed the mix of strikes, submissions and traditional moves, and popped right along with the crowd for the dragon screw legwhip.
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Post by enviousstupid on May 31, 2022 8:48:39 GMT -5
Efficiency is the name of the game with this one. Fully encapsulates a theme in such a short amount of time. There's literally no good reason not to watch it.
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Post by mrjmml on Sept 7, 2023 12:27:01 GMT -5
Tadao Yasuda vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW - 7/19/2002)
We’re getting closer to the end of Tatsumi Fujinami’s career, the match I‘m going to write about today is a far cry from 70’s Fujinami but as I said in previous reviews it isn’t necessarily a bad thing, this match is pure Inokism, the MMA-like presentations and the structure of the match itself looks like something out of an early PRIDE main event, in pro wrestling it works, it’s a short match, in fact, it’s the shortest match I’ll review in this project, it hardly goes 5 minutes considering that one and a half minutes are spent convincing Tatsumi Fujinami to put on his MMA gloves, you know his match against Inoki in 1988 the opposite, in this match Fujinami looks like an old man that has no idea how a shoot style bout works and that’s amazing, he’s from another generation and playing with that was a very intelligent choice made by NJPW creatives, I think it’s the first time I praise them in this project, as you could expect they went at it hard, they didn’t waste a second both wrestlers did a great job selling the sense of urgency, they are trying to finish each other as quickly as possible, no sportsmanship either, I love how Yasuda looks an asshole heel the whole way through, he had a better performance than Fujinami, he had the night of his life against one of the greatest wrestlers in the company’s history, he should be proud of this match, he looked like a million bucks, this is without a doubt my MOTY of 2002 just for it’s uniqueness alone, probably the match that resembles this one the most is Daisuke Ikeda vs Takeshi Ono (Futen - 9/26/2010) but that one was just two dudes hitting each other very hard, in this one there’s a clear narrative with Fujinami not being able to keep up with younger talent, the word I’d use to describe this match is necessary, time passes for everyone.
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Post by elliott on Sept 20, 2023 18:06:21 GMT -5
Gotta say I don't really get it. Fujinami does bleed a lot though.
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