Thursday, June 19, 2014

Kobashi's Indie Is off to a Solid Start

Fortune Dream 1

(2014/6/8)


1. Hayato Mashita vs. Tamon Honda

TAMON HONDA IS ALIVE?! *fuck yes* Wasn’t this suave motherfucking maestro supposed to be dead since, like, 2003? You know, when he got his spine cambered by Ken Takobashi? Here, he schools a total anonymous, and it only took him 3 minutes to do it.

**3/4


2. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Meiko Satomura

Sheeeeeeit, matches like this make me feel disgustingly bad for not watching more of joshi. :( Unfortunately, I just can’t find more free time to squeeze them in. If I were 10 years younger… Anyway, this was killer stuff, watch it.

****


3. Shuji Ishikawa & Koji Doi vs. Kengo Mashimo & Tank Nagai

Going into this, of course my big wish was as much SHUJI vs. KENGO as possible. Derp… Didn’t get it in such capacity, Doi and Tank were the workhorses here, and they seem to be totally good, so it turned out swell, actually. Tank is someone to keep an eye on. Kengo’s vile smirk after submitting Doi with a sick hold was incredible.

***1/2


4. Yankee Nichokenju (Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka) & Kazuki Hashimoto vs. AKIRA, Ultimo Dragon, Yoshinobu Kanemaru

Totally fun and easy-going Junior trio that made me wanna see K-HASH/AKIRA. Of course Kazuki was the MVP of the match, doh.

***1/4


5. Masato Tanaka & Fujita Hayato vs. Akitoshi Saito & Kotaro Suzuki

Good match. The old fuck Saito can still go, even against much more agile predators like Tanaka and Hayato. Speaking of Hayato, his sessions with Kotaro were uh, oh… Singles match, pls.

***1/4


6. Daisuke Sekimoto & Kento Miyahara vs. Kohei Sato & Yuji Hino

Highly disappointing, the worst match of the night. In fact, without the hectic five minute overtime, I’d rate this “bad”. The match had like 300 strike/chop exchanges, I mean, c’mon already… There was barely any cat-and-mouse play, the whole match was one big test of toughness, and not in a good way, at all. Emotionless and buzz killing. There were some nasty suplexes and vicious strikes, but that’s about it. Skip the shit out of this.

**


Good show, fun stuff, but would’ve been excellent with a better main event. Some tags did a good job of setting up potential 1-on-1 clashes, hopefully Kobashi finds a way to book ‘em.

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