Are You Washed in the Blood of Yoshiaki Fujiwara?

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Antonio Inoki/Keiji Mutoh vs. Steve Casey/The Barbarian/Manny Fernandez NJ 10/26/87-SKIPPABLE

There was some individually cool stuff in this match, Casey takes a big bump, Barbarian and Manny have some cool double teams, Barbarian potatoes Inoki. However this match was based around the gaijin beating on Mutoh and he looked like crap. Match picks up a bit when Fujiwara gets the hot tag, but this wasn't good.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Antonio Inoki/Shiro Koshinaka v. Riki Choshu/Super Strong Machine/Kuniaki Kobyashi NJ 8/4/88-FUN

A fan jumps in front of Fujiwara as he is walking down the aisle, and Fujiwara elbows the kid right in the mouth. That was the highlight of this match, as this was the basic NJ six man. Their is a lot of Choshu v. Inoki teases and Fujiwara has some cool exchanges with Kobyashi, but otherwise this was pretty run of the mill.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Zaour Chabadze PWFG 10/4/92- GREAT

TKG: So Chabadze is a Russian champion Arm Wrestler and I was going into this fully expecting a hard head vs. claw match. While that would have been spectacular this was every bit as good if not greater. For an arm wrestling champ Chabadze isn't built like Scott Norton or Big Daddy Goodridge. Instead he has just this huge apelike wingspan as his arms look twice the length of his torso and are filled with just multitude of muscles. Match is really all about Chabadze dominating Fujiwara on the ground through arm strength. Fujiwara tries to keep his arms together and tries to manipulate his center of gravity to keep from just being thrown around by Chabadze' s wings. And eventually Chabadze gets fed up and asks for a standup. there's this huge pop as guy who dominated on ground needs standup. Fujiwara goes to corner wipes the sweat off his body by rubbing himself against turnbuckle. And slaps Chabadze across the face. Man this match rules.....

PAS: The reason this match was better then anything on the show was the way Fujiwara can establish hierarchies. While Malenko v. Galdava was alot of fun as was Koslowski v. Olegg, they were basically worked as two even guys rolling on the mat looking for advantages. Here Chabadze is a monster, he can take Fujiwara down at will as is so strong that Fujiwara is helpless on the mat. So the crowd is super hot because it looks like the aging legend is going to get steamrolled, does he have any tricks left, this is the worlds greatest Rocky 4.

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