The Wrestling 101 Match #8
UWA World Trios Title 4 Means Elimination Match: Shin M2K (Dragon Child, Kenichiro Arai & Masaaki Mochizuki) © vs. Loopy MAX (CIMA, Don Fujii & SUWA) vs. Italian Connection (Condotti Shuji, Milano Assortment AT & YOSSINO) vs. Do FIXER (Genki Horiguchi, Magnum TOKYO & Susumu Yokosuka)
8/30/2003
Toryumon Japan
Korakuen Corridor
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Look, I don’t know, man…I really feel such as you simply have to look at this one. There are such a lot of guys, doing a lot stuff, so quick, that the concept of describing this wrestling match feels completely overwhelming. This was an absolute blur of a wrestling match, all flips and dips and interlocking limbs. One wrestler whips an opponent at one other wrestler, just for the second man to hit a headscissors on the third man, flinging the third man into the primary man as one more man bursts into the ring. Every sequence feels extra complicated and indescribable than the one which got here earlier than it.
I’m going to do my greatest, however what I wish to convey is that there was simply manner an excessive amount of motion for one mind to understand because it was occurring, a lot much less to formulate intelligible ideas about it after the actual fact. It took me 10 minutes of re-watching the ring introductions to get to a spot the place I might maintain straight who was who—and which of the 4 trios groups every wrestler belonged to.
And but, I’ve promised myself and my handful of readers 101 wrestling match opinions, and that is quantity eight within the sequence. So, right here goes.
In a manner, this match felt like the following evolution of the newest match I reviewed in The Wrestling 101, the Michinoku Professional eight-man tag crew match between that firm’s high babyfaces and the heel steady Kaientai DX. Or extra exactly, this Toryumon match felt like what would occur in case you put that match on amphetamines.
Just like the M-Professional match, this one makes use of the lucharesu fusion type that mixes the acrobatics, grand gestures, and fast-paced choreography of Mexican lucha libre with the onerous strikes, huge slams, and escalating drama related to Japanese puroresu. However the breakneck tempo of this match leaves its predecessor within the mud. This match has extra wrestlers concerned and twice as many males within the ring at any given time. The slams hit tougher, and the acrobatic sequences are that rather more spectacular.
Greater than the rest, the match stands out for the extraordinary grace and coordination of its performers. For all the performers to do what they did, with that stage of synchronization, and at that velocity, is actually unbelievable. Today, there’s a giant multi-man match on each native indie present or pay-per-view occasion placed on by World Wrestling Leisure or All Elite Wrestling. However what units this one aside isn’t just that the performers do a bunch of loopy, multi-person spots at high velocity, however that they do it so elegantly as to make it look straightforward. CIMA and Milano Assortment AT are simply so clean in every part they do. YOSSINO’s trademark hyperspeed rope working is a sight to see. All the pieces works, and no person stumbles.
The match additionally mixes in a pleasant dose of professional wrestling camp that seems like a predecessor to the large, all-star multi-man matches you typically see at U.S. unbiased wrestling event weekends, reminiscent of Professional Wrestling Guerilla’s Battle of Los Angeles, CHIKARA’s King of Trios, or the outdated Ted Petty Invitationals. There’s a conga line, a sequence the place all the wrestlers line as much as slap Don Fuji, and a type of spots the place all twelve guys line up in two rows of six to do a giant ol’ vertical suplex. Genki Horiguchi, particularly, stands out for his comedic timing and goofball charisma.
All in all, it’s straightforward to see why The Wrestling 101 crew chosen this one for The Canon. The fast-paced, Cirque du Soleil acrobatics and winking-at-the-camera professional wrestling comedy are harking back to the Younger Bucks at their perfect, and you’ll actually see what makes longtime stars like CIMA and Milano Assortment AT so particular. Simply don’t ask anybody to maintain monitor of all of the motion.
