PRO WRESTLING FUJIWARA-GUMI SHOW #14 7/27/92

Dieuseul Berto v. Ryushi Yanagisawa

PAS: Berto's son Andre is currently a top boxing prospect at 140 pounds. His dad needs to learn to keep his hands up, as Yanigasawa KO's him in 1:30 with a nice high kick.

TKG: Dieusel looks tiny next to tall Yanigasawa. Deiusel starts this working stiffer than he has before and lands some nice looking kicks. He then gets absolutely walloped by Yanigasawa.

Yuki Ishikawa v. Kazuo Takahashi

PAS: This was Ishikawa's first awesome match in an awesome career. Takahashi really brutalizes him in the way you should brutalize rookies, including some nasty shoot headbutts, and hard slaps. Ishikawa fights back and lands some big shots of his own, and it actually gets pretty competitive for a minute, until Takahashi nearly rips his leg off with a one leg boston crab.

TKG: Yeah, Ishikawa vs. Suzuki started more competitive. This was awesome as Takahashi absoutely disrespectfully abuses Ishikawa. Shoot headbutts, face slaps, grinding his elbow into Ishikawa's nose, grinding his fist into Ishikawa's mouth, slow on rope breaks, nasty nasty punches to charlie horse the thigh, refusal to lock up when standing etc. Ishikawa just takes it and eventually comes back with a nasty shot to Takahashi's kidney and all of a sudden its on. Ishikawa tries to return the headbutts in kind. Takahashi starts to kind of punch himself out and really the kidney shot slows him a bunch. All of a sudden Takahashi is forced to accept Ishikawa and agrees to lock fingers when they get back to their feet. But the moral victory doesn't mean an actual victory. Still fucking neat neat story told through really brutal shots.

Johnny Barrett v. Yoshiaki Fujiwara

TKG: Barrett has gotten huge. I mean he was big before but now he looks like Tugboat Taylor. He also has balded some more and grown some facial hair. His face has grown really dignified. Like a head chef at a fancy restaurant. His body meanwhile looks like a fry chef at a bowling alley. They do this opening section where Fujiwara counters a judo throw into an ankle lock which was awesome. They do a Super Porky in the partier section where Barretta rides Fujiwara and Fujiwara can't get out from under the weight while Barrett isn't able to hook in anything. Fujiwara takes Barrett down. Barrett tries to get up from partier but crafty Fujiwara slips on arm bar using his leg. Whole thing is just awesome 4 minute match.

PAS: I think Barret looks less like Taylor then a mix of Mukhan Singh and Dean Rassmussen. Both PWFG Barrett v. Fujiwara matches have been really short and fun. I get the sense they could have a really great 20+ minute main event. I think Barrett has had a pretty interesting career, he went from Florida indy guy, to WCW jobber, to shootstyle guy, to Chicago indy luchadore. Goodhelemet really needs to make a 10 DVD Johnny Barrett comp.

Wayne Shamrock v. Jerry Flynn

TKG: This had just a bunch of cool things going for it. Flynn's defensive stuff is always neat. there's this point where Shamrock has Flynn down and tries to grab for something. Flynn is able to defensively block every Shamrock attempt at a grab. Shamrock goes for a suplex and Flynn manages to defend while in the air. When Shamrock does have Flynn caught, Flynn makes one or two attempts to break free but always ends up going for the ropes. Flynn can defend but once Shamrock has him he struggles to escape. Its a kind of neat little thing they have going. There also is neat stand up section where Flynn gets a fall which only makes Shamrock more aggressive.

PAS: This was a really fun Monday Night Wars Nitro v. RAW match. I would have liked to see the Dan Severn v. Glacier match that would semi-main this show. Shamrock's body is getting even weirder, his abdomen has weird lumps on it, like his six pack is bottles not cans. Flynn's stand up stuff looked really great here, and I love Shamrock's KO selling.

Duane Koslowski v. Minoru Suzuki

PAS: Koslowski is an Olympic amateur wrestler, and all of his greco pummeling and throws always look good. I have never really seen him adapt to this environment though, so the match was just kind of there. Still at least he doesn't try to call the match.

TKG: I think this was better than Phil is giving it credit for being. but most of the coolest stuff in this was built around stalemate moves. guys trying for things being blocked and then stuck. I remember enjoying this while it happened but really remember nothing other than the way Koslowski is starting to look like what would have happened if you mated Lex Luger and Jack Wagner. And I'm haunted by images of Luger singing "All I Need". I think i'd have better things to say if I wrote this after the match. but I've been writing after every two matches and well.all I need is a little more time to be sure..

Maskatsu Funaki v. Bart Vale

PAS: I have decided that I don't like Funaki, I like the Rock and Roll Express, I like Cena, I like Ricky Marvin, but something about Japanese blow job wrestlers just rubs me the wrong way. There are some fun things in the way too long match, but they are pretty much all delivered by Bart Vale. Funaki is sleepwalking through this, not really selling, not really doing anything interesting with his offense, not engaging me in any way. Vale is fun, I think right around 1992 he turned into a pretty good pro-wrestler. His selling and moves were cool, and he has finally figured out how to throw a nice looking worked kick, but Funaki was killing me here. He did have a nice Jheri Curl though, his hair looked like Eriq Le Salle's from Coming to America.

TKG: I don't like all U.S. blowjob babyfaces. Not a big Von Erich fan. Although I imagine Mike vs. Killer Khan would be better than this. And at this point Vale is pretty good in the Khan role. Yep Vale has learned how to be a pro style wrestler and does enough compelling selling and struggling to make this interesting from about the 20 minute mark to the 25 minute mark. Funaki drags down the other 25 minutes.