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Post by fxnj on Mar 14, 2019 3:50:27 GMT -5
One of the best short matches. Very simple structure essentially consisting of Choshu getting the upperhand early on and then Shinya murdering him, but it's so god damn great. Like their more famous 1996 match, the show a deep understanding of the theatrical side of pro wrestling. Fantastic example of minimalist wrestling.
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Post by shodate on Sept 3, 2019 18:40:43 GMT -5
This is one of the best sub-10 min bouts that I've ever seen. Starts off very urgently with Choshu going for the kill with his lariats. He even does a dropkick to put over his desperation. Hash proceeds to put quite a great beatdown on Choshu, absolutely brutalizing him with kicks to arm, chest, etc. With a thud. One was so hard that you can hear it even in the handheld format. He just destroys the arm. The match becomes about the slow demise of Choshu. Choshu does some excellent selling with collapsing and struggling to get up, like a wounded beast not giving up. He gets beaten down with a high level of violence, so much so that Masa Saito even throws the towel. Choshu, in a badass character moment, throws it away. All his comeback attempts were already shutdown, though, and he gets completely squashed with a sumengiri. Amazing crowd heat and excellent selling. Brutal stuff. ****3/8
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Post by KB8 on Sept 13, 2019 10:54:52 GMT -5
Third
Man, I don't know if it's just the grainy handheld footage, but this might be the most badass Hashimoto has ever looked. The goatee, the headband, the fur shoulder cloak; he looked every bit the shogun of yore. This was a story of pride and how even possessing mountains of it can't fend off the ravages of time. Choshu comes out the blocks flying with a lariat, then follows up with a dropkick like he knows he needs to put this to bed early. Except he's not the big dog anymore while the other guy is pretty close to being just that. Choshu winds up for the second lariat...and Hash cuts him off and never looks back. Hash just kicks Choshu half to death for the next few minutes and Choshu's selling was so great. He sold the shoulder, the arm, the ribs, everywhere he took a kick, but he refused to stay down. He didn't know how to and kept coming, with greater and greater degrees of difficulty, intransigent till the end. The spot where Hash fucking decapitates him with a roundhouse about had me off my seat. And I loved someone throwing in the towel only for Choshu to throw it right back, determined to stand up and face his demise head on. He knew what was coming, but he'd take the warrior's death. This was the kind of match both these guys were the very best at and I'd absolutely throw it in the pile as 'best sub-ten minute match ever' candidate.
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Post by bossrock on Sept 13, 2019 12:07:15 GMT -5
This might surpass the '96 match as my favorite between the two.
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Post by elliott on Sept 9, 2023 12:13:22 GMT -5
Just an epic war from these two as usual.
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Post by enviousstupid on Feb 17, 2024 0:30:08 GMT -5
Honestly, couldn't think of a better way for Choshu to put over someone like Hashimoto at this stage in their careers. Saw it as like a passing of the torch for the type of wrestlers they were. A warrior's death indeed.
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Post by makaiclub on Feb 17, 2024 9:12:43 GMT -5
Hashimoto destroys Choshu in this. Choshu who is 0-2 before this match isn’t going to allow himself to lose again so easily. He absorbs a hell of an ass kicking in the form of brutal Hashimoto kicks. Choshu got some offence in the beginning, trying to end it early but it was the way he started that formed his end. Hell of a match. ****1/4
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