Be Joyful in Hope, Patient in Affliction, Faithful in Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Yuki Ishikawa vs. Hiroshi Hase/Yuji Nagata NJ 9/20/93 - EPIC

Hase is one of Fujiwara's all time great opponents, especially considering they didn't match up that much. There are two awesome singles matches and this superb veteran/rookie tag. Baby Ishikawa and baby Nagata were both great in this, but the highlight was really Hase and Fujiwara's brilliant grappling. Hase was a world class amateur and his matwork with Fujiwara always has this wrestler versus submission fighter feel. I love how fast Hase's takedowns are, and how you can see Fujiwara's brain working to find openings to counter. Ishikawa versus Hase was also really fun, as it was worked less equal, but Ishikawa was still capable of finding moments to shine. We get another classic Fujiwara finish here, Nagata comes in and is rolling, throwing kicks to Fujiwara stomach, and dumping him with german suplexes. However at this point whenever I see a young boy getting on a roll against Fujiwara I am just waiting for the floor to fall out, and Fujiwara spins out of german suplex and locks on a painful looking kneebar for the tap.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE FUJIWARA