Monday, December 1, 2025

Advent of Bronco Day 2 - 2025.12.01 - Mikiya Sasaki vs. TiiiDa times two in Ringsoul!

MeriPro Meriken Friday Night - TiiiDA vs. Mikiya Sasaki 1 - 2025.06.20

We get a muted Mikiya Sasaki entrance?! Big miss! This is the first singles match encounter of both these man. This is one of the first matches in a series of single matches for TiiiDa. They start with some neat grappling on the ground with some light comedy grappling spots from our favourite Bronco. Sasaki goes for the suplex mid match and gets it in, before hitting his signature punch combo. A Spinning Toe Hold gets countered and TiiiDa gets a top-rope foot stomp in! 2 on the pin. Sasaki breaks a submission attempt by a rope break. TiiiDa attempts a cutter, but gets rolled up by Sasaki for the three count! Cool ending sequence!


MeriPro Meriken Friday Night - TiiiDA vs. Mikiya Sasaki 2 - 2025.11.14

This is the second TiiiDa vs. Mikiya Sasaki this year, the second one in Ringsoul and goes roughly the same time as the first one! However this time with a different result, as TiiiDa pins Sasaki in 8 Minutes after a roll up. TiiiDa is on a pretty big role this year. He had more single matches than I can count in Ringsoul this year and continuously gets better the more I see of him!
The match starts with some grappling in the middle of the ring. TiiiDa gets out of a head scissor with a Kip-Up. Sasaki, after going for a suplex to no success, is on the receiving end of multiple offenses from TiiiDa before Sasaki starts his punching combo and tries to hit another one… this time with the same result. TiiiDa goes for a top-rope stomp, but is countered by Sasaki. After another round of punches, Sasaki goes for the suplex again… to no success. I see a trend there! TiiiDa goes for another foot stomp, this time succeeding, and gets a two count on Sasaki. Sasaki counters with a roll-up, also getting a two count. Following this, there are some counter and roll-up sequences, with Sasaki finally hitting the suplex. But he gets rolled up by TiiiDa for the 3-count and the win!
Both of them are now 1:1 on wins, so let’s see when they have their next encounter in Ringsoul! This match had some callbacks to the first one 5 month earlier, as both of them got the win per roll-up. Let’s see where a future encounter goes in the future!

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Advent of Bronco Day 1 - 2025.11.30 - Rare J2000 footage!

J2000 Japan Pro Wrestling 2000 12th Anniversary - Mikiya Sasaki vs. Fuuga - 2016.04.17

The first match of this series might be one of the rarest ones on this list! It takes place on the 12th Anniversary show of J2000 in Combox Komyoike and is for the KWA Championship. I don’t really know Fuuga, also mainly a J2000 wrestler at the beginning of his career, and this is probably the first time I’ve seen him in a match. I really like this venue and it’s one that does come up another time in this series. The match was nothing special to be fair. Sasaki dominates for a fair bit of time, bit Fuuga gets some good offense in, like the Standing Moonsault. Sasaki tries to hit a piledriver, but fails every time. He wins the match with a Spinning Toe Hold! There were some moves that were not as clean and the camera quality is sub-par, but this is probably one of the only Sasaki KWA title defenses available outside of DVD releases in Japan. Alone for that, this is a gem worth watching!

Advent of Bronco: Merry Mikiya Sasaki Christmas! 2025

Advent of Bronco: Merry Mikiya Sasaki Christmas! 2025

Introduction

Hello, it's me, SWalkerDDT. Wow, that rhymes lol. Sadly this whole blog was a very short-lived endeavor, but Christmas season is starting and we got a big surprise in the last couple of weeks. At the beginning of January´2026, the beloved Mikiya Sasaki will hold a Produce Show in the Sportiva Arena in Nagoya and I fear, we will never see it outside of Japan. So I thought, if Mikiya Sasaki does not bring his greatness to the world by himself, I will do it instead. So from today on till Christmas Eve, I will post one or two Mikiya Sasaki matches, that will introduce you to our favourite Bronco. So without any further ado let's get started!

This series will feature a (hopefully) balanced mixture of a few matches from this year and mainly matches from before 2025!

Short Biography

Mikiya Sasaki was born at the beginning of 1989. He debuted on August 7, 2005 on a joint J2000/NPW show in Habikino Coliseum in Habikino, Osaka, teaming with J2000-Hiroaki Moriya in a winning afair. Sasaki, known for a retro, "old-school"-style is heavily inspired by the legendary Dory Funk Jr. Nicknamed the "Dotonbori Bronco", he blends humor, nostalgia and a unique charisma into his wrestling style and often comes to the ring wearing a cowboy hat and a carrying a gateball stick.

In the first 10 years of his career, he mainly wrestled for the (now defunct) Osaka-based promotion J2000. During his time there, he was a two-time JWF Tag Team Champion (with partners Hirohiko Funasaki & Yuta Urano) and captured the KWA Championship on two different occasions. 

He toured different companies during and after his time in J2000, mainly in the Osaka area, before finding a new main promotion in Dotonbori Pro in 2020. For them he was a two-time WDWW Champion as well as a Six Man Tag Team Championship holder alongside Hideaki Sumi & Takaku Fuke. In the recent years, while still wrestling in Dotonbori Pro, he now mainly wrestles on the MeriPro Meriken Friday Night shows in Motomachi Ringsoul while also taking multiple outside gigs, with the amount getting bigger and bigger each year, with appearances in 24 different companies this year alone! This features promotions like ZERO1, DDT, 2AW and Pro Wrestling Up Town.

Index

Sunday, March 30, 2025

SWalker's Weekly 5 (*2) - Shi-En is great, german wrestling, some sleaze & TNT DOA 2025 - (03/17-03/23 & 03/24-03/30)

 

SWalker's Weekly 5 (*2) - Shi-En is great, german wrestling, some sleaze & TNT DOA 2025 - (03/17-03/23 & 03/24-03/30) 

After my big show marathon three weeks ago, I felt a little bit burned out. But the past two weeks I am back strong and tried to find valuable free time while playing Monster Hunter Wilds. But there were some really great matches, so let's get started!

Week 1 - Top 5

Kohei Kinoshita Produce: TiiiDA vs. Kohei Kinoshita

The Main Event of the Kohei Kinoshita Produce KOBE ALL WIN in Motomachi Ringsoul! After earlier apperances from Koju Takeda, Mikiya Sasaki, a crazy bout between Shigehiro Irie & Rey Paloma & Kinoshitas first match this evening in the opener, this was really fun to watch. All in all I wholeheartedly recommend the whole show. Great watch for grabbing a drink & to have a fun time!


Shi-En - Great venue, great tag match: Bomber Okuno & vs. Yuta Ogawa vs. Hiroto Okubo & Tetsuya Goto

This won't be the last time, Shi-En appears in this post. This was basically a little show somewhere in the streets of Osaka. Really great venue & a great match for an opening bout on a more out-of-the-way show, that was basically a prelude to the big Anniversary show! These four had a great match probably the one out of the three of this card! I really, really like Bomber Okuno. Also great showing of Tetsuya Goto & this definetely won't be his last apperance on my Top 5 lists!


Michinoku Pro 32nd Anniversary: Rasse, Yapper Man 2 & Yui Sato vs. Sangre Azteca Jr., Taro Nohashi & Yasutaka Oosera

Michinoku Pro had begun their 32nd Anniversary tour and fortunately, they published the first show of the tour on Wrestle Universe! This 6-man Co-main was great and it reminded me of these former crazy multi-tag matches, Michinok Pro was famous for in the late 90s. Definetely give this a watch, if you have like 15 minutes to spare. This was the match of this first week for me! And if you have half an hour more, also watch the main event of this show!


Catch Factory: Fast Time Moodoo vs. Hektor Invictus

Catch Factory had their big Homecoming 2025 show in January. In front of a sold out crowd at Westbad, hometown hero Fast Time Moodoo defended the Catch Factory title against Hektor Invictus. Great match from my Hometown promotion! Hektor had a big glow up in the past two years. He really developed a lot in terms of character and in-ring and is probably now on of my favourites in the german wrestling scene. He always delivers and brings a great intensity to the ring. Moodoo defends the title and now holds it for over one year. His next opponent in May will be all-time great Axel "Axeman" Tischer and I am pretty hyped about that. Hopefully, I can attend this show live! I also posted it on Bluesky, but big shoutout to Dave Grunewald - great ring announcer and singer!


wXw Post Carat: 1 Called Manders & Thomas Shire vs. Laurence Roman & Elijah Blum

16 Carat is over, but newly crowned winner 1 Called Manders & AMBITION winner Thomas Shire stay a little bit longer, to give us this banger of a match! This basically is a preview for the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship, that takes place in a few days between Manders & Elijah Blum. I am a big Laurence Roman fan and he was overall the best wrestler from the 16 Carat Gold weekend. So no surprise, that this match delivered big time! Pretty surprised about the winners of this match but overall really cool.


Week 2: Top 5-1

Shi-En 15th Anniversary: Opener, Naruki Doi vs. Tetsuya Goto & Hiroaki Taniguchi vs. Kiai Ryuuken Ecchan

It makes me really happy, that Shi-En are releasing their shows really fast! This was a fantastic show, probably one of my favourites of this month. And it had really strong matches. Starting with the Opener, which had Bomber Okuno & Yuta Ogawa squaring up against Bahamut & Joker Fuyuki. And as I said before, I love Bomber Okuno. The crowd was hot, it had great moments and was an overall perfect start to a great show.
The second match of this show I want to point out is Naruki Doi vs. Tetsuya Goto. This match rocked! Everone know, that Naruki Doi is great. His time in Dragon Gate is legendary and with 44 years of age, he is still a really great wrestler. His opponent, with 27 years on the other end of the spectrum of age in wrestling, Tetsuya Goto has a bright future ahead of him. I would really like to see him in more promotions in Japan, because he is really great!
The last show of the match saw Shi-EN owner Kiai Ryuuken Ecchan face of Hiroaki Taniguchi for the Shi-En title! Kiai Ryuuken Ecchan layed out the challenge to Taniguchi a week prior at the show I already talked about in week 1. I am a big fan of Taniguchi. He is one the wrestlers I've seen the most so far this year. This match was a great ending to an overall great show. So I do not want to only recommend these three matches, instead I want to recommend this whole fantastic show!


IMPACT/EXIT/Ginza Pro Tatsuaki Nakano 40th Anniversary U-REMAIN: Nobuyuki Kurashima & Yuki Ishikawa vs. Masao Ando & Takahiro Tababa

Finding this match was really surprising, because I never thought, we've seen footage of this show. Finding a new Yuki Ishikawa match is always special, so him squaring up against Takahiro Tababa, I was really happy to watch it. But overall it let me down a little bit. It was a tad slow and it wasn't really clicking with me. But nevertheless really great find, that deserves a place on this list!


TNT DOA 2025

I've not seen much Deatchmatch wrestling the past few month, even less from promotions outside of Japan. This was an overall great Deathmatch show with some sick spots and a great Parker/Jayne match in the co-main. RSP won the whole damn thing and it was well deserved, as he was the MVP of this tournament. Definetely will check out more shows of them in the future. Production feels good and it overall feels not as trashy as some other Deathmatch events I've seen over the past few years outside of Japan!


The End

Live is really busy right now, so maybe I am not that consistent with my blog! So maybe, see you next week! But keep in mind, always enjoy some more wrestling!


Saturday, March 8, 2025

SWalker's Weekly 5 - RIP Osamu Nishimura, GWF Celebrity Wrestling, Osaka Tag Festival, Big Bear Produce, HEAT UP, FOTR! (03/03-03/09)

SWalker's Weekly 5 - RIP Osamu Nishimura, GWF Celebrity Wrestling, Osaka Tag Festival, Big Bear Produce, HEAT UP, FOTR! (03/03-03/09)

After a really busy last week without time & internet connection (both related to moving to a new flat) we are back strong this week! With new internet connection, a whole week of vacation & a big backlog of wrestling! So let's get started!

For anyone interested, these are the shows I watched only from Monday to Wednesday:
  • 1 GWF
  • 2 Sportiva
  • 3 Meriken
  • 2 Osaka Pro Tag Festival shows
  • 1 Shi-En
  • 1 Burst
  • 1 Pro Wrestling Evolution
  • 1 Big Bear Produce
  • 3 wXw 16 Carat Gold shows
A little bit crazy, right?! So here are my highlights of the week!

GWF - Rene Caselly vs. Metehan

Let's start with a match, that I have in fact not watched this week but on last Sunday. The German Wrestling Federation (GWF) is a promotion from Berlin, Germany and they hold monthly events on the first weekend of the month. This makes for a regular & very fun Sunday evening watch! I've been to both of the RevPro collab shows last year and had a really great time there. This year started strong with the Tihanyi/Ali title match in February. Sadly Tihanyi is injured now & had to vacate both of the big main titles in Germany. Very unfortunate for all parties involved!

Cut to the big event in March - Chaos City & the match of Rene Caselly vs. Metehan. Metehan, formerly Teoman in WWE / NXT UK, is a well decorated wrestler in the German scene, holding the GWF World title 2023 & winning wXw 16 Carat Gold in 2019. His opponent is Rene Caselly, German celebrity, who is mainly known for winning and achiving total victory in Ninja Warrior Germany season 8, winning it again in 2024. He also took part and and won Let's Dance and... TV Total - Promi Wrestling from January this year! There lies the history of this match, The Promi Wrestlin event in January was very fun - celebrities and wrestlers form a tag team and a tag tournament took place, where Caselly & his partner Peter Tihanyi won! On rozte to the win, they also beat Metehan & Fabian Hambüchen (2016 Olympic Gold Medalist). A small social media scuffle later and we got this match. Pretty crazym right?!

Long story short, this was basically Casellys third match in history. In his regular life he is a circus artist so he all the athletic skills to shine in this wrestling environment. This and Metehan as seasoned veteran of the squared circle make this match really good, Some more matches for Caselly & you would not think, that he has fewer matches than I have fingers on one hand. Great presence from Caselly and I look forward to future matches, if he ever decides to return to the ring!


Big Bear Produces - Gajo vs. Tababa

I want to cite @secretwrestlin1's description of this match: "Awesome brutal massacre, just two big monsters charging foreward and trying to tear each other apart." This was really intense, they basically tried to kill each other! So if you have about 10 minutes to spare, can find this match & like two big dudes hitting each other as hard as they can, then watch this!

Osaka Pro Tag Festival 2025 - Huge Recommendation

Osaka Pro released their Tag Festival shows last week. So this week, I've finally had time to watch it. Both shows were absolutely spectacular. I've wrote on Bluesky, that show 2 from the 24th February was top to bottom my favorite show this year so far. Great crowd, great atmosphere, top notch wrestling. It wouldn't be fair to single out a singular match from both of these shows, so I basically recommend: watch them all! Even the 6-man tag from day 2 as well as both the comedy mathes make for a great watch. Both youtube shows clock in at about a combined 3 hours, so almost shorter than your average New Japan show. So give this a watch, if you want something really enjoyable!


HEAT UP! - Amigo Suzuki vs. CHANGO Ladder match

I've also not watched this match this week, but because there wasn't a post last week I decided to take it into this weeks matches, because it really stood out! Really fun Ladder match with some cool spots. This is from the 3rd Anniversary HEAT UP show. So if you have time, I really recommend watching it as well as the main event between TAMURA & Kenichiro Arai! But this Ladder match takes the cake as my favorite match of this show.


Fight of the Ring - Kancho Nagase vs. The Wolf vs. Cedar TAKUYA vs. Eitaro Okuda vs. MIKAMI

Referee Suzuki, the legend who straps a GoPro to his hat and gives us a unique way to enjoy the matches he refs, uploaded another one to his YouTube channel! This 5-way is not the most innovative or special match, but is probably one of the most sleeziest matches you can watch, if you don't live in Japan and go to these shows constantly. It takes place in front of about 20 people, in a small gym on a tiny ring mat. In the background, there is probably some table tennis training going on by the school that owns the gym. It is sub-10 minutes and MIKAMI wins by a Moonsault of a chair. Nothing special, but the visual is freakin' great! So it lands on this list here! :D


wXw 16 Carat Gold 2025

I do not want to go into much detail about this, as I maybe want to do a separat review about 16 Carat Gold and this post probably goes out before the final show of the weekend is concluded. I've writing this, as show 2 is still going on. But till now, this is probably one of the best 16 Carat Gold tournament in the last few years in terms of In-Ring work. So maybe there will be a review in the coming weeks if I have the time!

RIP Osamu Nishimura

On the morning of the 27th I've read, that Osamu Nishimura has lost his fight to cancer and sadly died. This left a huge mark on me for a few days, as he was one of my favorite wrestlers. Just recently, I've watched some of his matches again, as I had a NJPW World subscription after Wrestle Kingdom. I liked him so much, I've made him a long-time World Champion in my TEW safe. Watch his matches if you have time! 


He will be deeply missed! Rest in Peace! Heaven knows!


Sunday, February 23, 2025

SWalker's Weekly 5 - Ryukyu Battle Festa, Catch Factory & Arai/GENTARO (02/17-02/23)

 

SWalker's Weekly 5 - Ryukyu Battle Festa, Catch Factory & Arai/GENTARO from Mutoha (02/17-02/23)

This week, I began working on this post very early! Fearing I don't have enough time on the weekend and seeing some great matches this past monday, I thought it doesn't matter very much. So here it is, the second SWalker's Weekly 5!

Two matches from Ryukyu Battle Festa 2025!

I've seen many great matches last week, so I feared burning out a little this week. Monday was very harsh, I did not sleep well and life was generally very stressful. In the evening, almost before bedtime, I found a a shining, bright light on this rather cold and dark day: Ryukyu streamed their Battle Festa show on YouTube! So I've watched it & enjoyed it greatly! So there are already two of my Weekly 5's covered for this week.

Churaumi Saver & Teelan Shisa vs. Shigehiro Irie & Shuri Joe

I start with the main event: Churaumi Saver & Teelan Shisa vs. Shigehiro Irie & Shuri Joe. This match was really fun. Saver & Shisa had some nice high flying moments. Irie was great as always and he & Joe match wondefully as tag team partners. Interestingly if you would substitute Joe with Kazuaki Mihara, that would basically be a rematch for the Sou Ryuo Tag Team titles from past December. Irie becomes a regular apperance on these Ryukyu cards, netting in a total of 5 matches this year already. In my opinion, Irie excells in this environment and contrasts the high flying abilities of his opponents perfectly. I do not really now, where Shuri Joe is going and who his next oponnent for the Ryou title will be. So hopefully we find out soon. All in all this match nets in at about 14 minutes and is lots of fun! Big recommendation!

Healthy Sandals Death Match - Gurukun Mask & Orion vs. POSEIDON (Mozuku Tominaga & RYUKYU-DOG Dingo)

The second match I greatly want to recommend from this show is the HEALTHY SANDALS DEATH MATCH between Gurukun Mask & Orion vs. POSEIDON (Mozuku Tominaga & RYUKYU-DOG Dingo). Let me try to find the right words, why I recommend this match to all of you - it was dumb, very dumb indeed. But I freakin' enjoyed every minute of it. They had some interesting spots caused by them wearing these freakin' health sandals and it was just fun all the way around. If you like interesting comedy stipulations and generally love some comedy in your wrestling matches, than this is the match for you! 

Also I feel really dumb for not knowing, that Orion is Ryoya Tanaka from Dragon Gate while watching Ryukyu regulary for half a year now... Oh well...

My local promotion - Catch Factory's Homecoming 2025

For 2 years now, the Catch Factory holds events almost monthly in the beautiful city of Leipzig in Germany. And with great success at that. They started in January 2023 holding events in the small & gritty Boxclub Olympia. It is a very intimate venue, that I went two two times in the last year and I had so much fun, that I will probably visit an event of theirs in about 3 weeks again if I have the time. 

Since January 2024, they mostly hold their events in the even bigger Westbad, hosting about 400 to 500 fans 5 times last year. That are really spectacular numbers for a region, where wrestling was mostly more of a side note. Catch Factory uploads the matches on their Patreon, so go check them out, if you have some spare money! :)

Dieter Schwartz & Jan Davidson vs. Baklava Club (Aytac Bahar & Joshua Amaru)

In January 2025 they holded their second anniversary with their annual Homecoming show. On the card was this match for determine the inaugural Catch Factory Tag Team champions. These are probably not the most known wrestlers in the world, or even Europe or Germany, but this match was fun. The Baklava Club (yeah, named after the Turkish pastrie Baklava) are super over with the crowd since day one. They face off again Dieter Schwartz, an 8-year veteran, and Jan Davidson, a 29-year old who was trained by "Bad Bones" John Klinger. In about 13 minutes, the Baklava Club won the tag titles. This was not the most special match, but I wanted to shine a spotlight on this great fed, that gave me many hours of entertainment in the last couple of years. This match is on YouTube, so you can check it out here: YouTube

Bryan Danielson vs. El Generico in Germany

It is Sunday evening. I just moved, have no Internet in my new flat and have not watched much wrestling this week. But I was ready and had a PWG show from Europe in my pipeline to watch. Both these guys where as great back than as they are right now, so there is no surprise, this was really good. This match is on YouTube and you should definitely check it out, if you have time!
On an unrelated note, this was match number 200 I have watched this year so far. Hope for many hundreds more! 😄

Kenichiro Arai vs. GENTARO

This was the match, that kept me up for the last few weeks - the infamous Kenichiro Arai vs. GENTARO Iron Man match from 2023 in Mutoha. I've had this on my hard drive and today I just committed and watched this masterpiece (#199 this year) as the first piece of wrestling I've watched in the new flat.

There were many great words written about this match on various platforms like Twitter, Bluesky and different blogs that highlight every important aspect of this match. And they are all wright! If you have some spare bucks, buy this match, watch this match, enjoy this match. It is one hour long, it is an intense struggle and it ends in a draw worthy of another match in the future. And hopefully it will be an long-ass Iron Man match again, with another intense struggle and maybe even longer than this one!

I will probably do another post about this match on the future, but writing this on my smartphone without Internet connection on my PC is very painful. So have a wonderful start into the new week and fingers crossed I have internet in my new apartment soon! Probably now post like this next week, because time is short. But always know, I will probably spend every part of my free time watching wrestling! As you should too!







 

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Mutoha 02/16/25

Mutoha 02/16/25

Man, Hasegawa is a madman for making these Mutoha shows available so quickly. I pulled the trigger right after I went on a Crusher Takahashi & Kenichiro Arai marathon this week, so I'm really excited for their upcoming matches on this show! The show took place in the Ice Ribbon Dojo TODAY!

Crusher Takahashi vs. Hideya Iso


If you read my first blog post from today, I had two Crusher Takahashi singles matches on that list. Takahashi is a big man who throws great punches and is a really great seller. From Iso I've only seen one match so far (from the first Mumeijuku show).

The match starts with some chain wrestling and mat-based grappling. Crusher and Ito then reverse their opponents' locks in the first great moments of the match. Crusher Takahashi then concentrates on his opponent's legs. He throws some closed fist punches to Iso's head. Iso works from underneath and has to take a lot of punishment from Takahashi until he turns a sleeper hold into an armbar. Takahashi gets out by breaking the ropes. Iso tries for a rollup after missing the German suplex but only gets a 2. After some offence from Crusher, Iso hits a dropkick and enzuigiri and now tries to lock in the manjigatame. After finally locking it in, he gets the win by submission.

Kenichiro Arai, CHANGO & PSYCHO vs. GENTARO, Akira Jo & Taro Yamada

This is a Unicorn-style match. The rules are as follows:
  • There are three matches with a combined 61-Minute Time Limit
  • The first match is a singles match
  • The second match is a tag match with the two remaining participants of each team
  • If no team has won both previous matches, the final match will be a 3 on 3 tag match
After the initial scramble to get into the first match, we get GENTARO vs. Kenichiro Arai!!! I To this day I have not seen their 61 minute time limit match from 2023, but I have already bought it. I want to wait for a special occasion to watch this match. So I was hyped for a little sneak peek from them. Unfortunately, after a distraction from CHANGO, GENTARO gets low blown by PSYCHO before the match really starts and Arai gets the first win for his team with a roll-up. I am sad!

So the second match is PSYCHO & CHANGO vs. Akira Jo & Taro Yamada. I've already seen the Keita Yano / Taro Yamada match from 2015 this week, so I'm pretty hyped to get some more Yamada on my plate with this match. CHANGO & PSYCHO have been a long-running tag team, so it comes as no surprise that they work really well together. Both teams brawl a bit on the outside and the heel team tries everything to get a count out win. This backfires and after a dive by Yamada on both PSYCHO & CHANGO, they fail to get back in the ring. Jo & Yamada equalise the score!

The third match starts with both tag teams clearing each other out of the ring and now we get GENTARO vs. Kenichiro Arai! I am not sad anymore! Here ends part 1 of the video! See you next week!

No, just kidding. Part 2 starts with Arai & GENTARO grappling. Like I said, I haven't seen the 61 minute time limit draw, but I've seen enough wrestling from both men to know what I'm getting into. PSYCHO gets tagged in and he scambles around a bit with GENTARO, Yamada and later Akira Jo. He nicely counters Jos' hold into a submission of his own and tags in CHANGO. After that Jo & Arai face each other. Jo gets Arai into his corner and we are back to him & GENTARO. There are a lot of quick tag outs in both teams, so basically all the individual matches are covered in this part of the match. CHANGO & Yamada have a really cool short mat-based sequence in this part of the match. After a really nice sequence between PSYCHO & Jo where they trade chops and PSYCHO does a crazy looking top rope knee drop from the corner, they are back at it again between GENTARO & Arai. 

I think I know where this is going! The GENTARO/Arai match features prominently in this 6-man tag portion of the match. And yet, after all their meetings in Mutoha, there has never been a clear winner between the two in any of their matches. After Arai's roll-up in the first fall, this has to be the equaliser between these two. Arai escapes GENTARO's submission and then refuses to tap out to either of his teammates, instead giving them a slap in the face. Grappling continues between the two men, with Arai resorting to tactics such as pulling his opponent's hair. Arai tries to cover GENTARO after a diving attack but only gets a 2. Arai goes to the top rope again and still only gets a 2. Arai tries a third time but this time GENTARO counters, rolls Arai up and gets the 3-count for the win! GENTARO, Yamada & Jo win the match.

Overall the 3 vs. 3 was the best part of the match. I was really sad about the first fall, but in hindsight it makes sense to give both GENTARO & Arai a win over each other. Maybe we will see a rematch between them in the future! (I don't speak Japanese, so I would be very interested to hear what Arai said after the match)  

BTW Ref. Suzuki (YouTube | @GambleSurvivor) does wear a GoPro on his head. So I am fairly certain this match will be on his YouTube channel in the future!

Yasushi Sato vs. Shoji Ohno

This is for the Haoh title. Sato is the current champion, having won it last December in a barn burner against Kenichiro Arai. I am not really familiar with Shoji Ohno. He is a guy from EAGLE Pro, so I am quite interested to see where this goes. Before the match they slapped each other in the face before they started to bump fists. Especially Ohno's slap had so much power!

They start with some grappling. Sato is a master of his craft and he and Sato have a nice scramble on the mat early on. Ohno goes for his opponent's shoulder in the early part of the match, but then transitions to the ankle and leg. Sato does a Russian Legsweep into a pin and gets a 2. Ohno then goes for the Legsweep himself and hits it three times on Sato to fire him up. He hits another one in return and it looks great. They trade some hard hitting chops. Sato counters the Irish Whip and hits Ohno with a dropkick. Ohno then escapes the submission attempt on his leg by breaking the rope. Sato locks in the camel clutch but Ohno also escapes via the rope. Sato is getting really mean in this part of the match! 

Ohno gets a roll up pin for a two count and then hits a brainbuster to send Sato to the mat. Ohno is now in control and sends Sato off the apron to the floor with a bulldog variation. Ohno now looks for another submission, targeting Sato's neck and upper back. He gets him into a sleeper hold and transitions to a dragon sleeper and then a pin, but is unsuccessful. 

Ohno tries a lariat into the corner but Sato counters with a body shot. A slam from Sato follows and he is now on top again and hits a legsweep. After a submission attempt, where Ohno escapes over the rope, another legsweep follows, which gets a two count. Sato attacks Ohno in the corner, a sick headbutt follows, but Ohno counters a knee attempt and hits Sato with a big slap to the face. Still only 2 for the pinfall! A Michinoku Driver follows but still only gets a 2! 

Ohno now concentrates on Sato's arm and shoulder and tries for a submission, but Sato escapes with a rope break. Ohno looks to finish the match with another Michinoku Driver, but Sato rolls him up for the win! All in all, a very entertaining match that continues the high in-ring standard of Mutoha's main events!

The End

To conclude, we have had three very entertaining matches. Each had a different style, so there is probably a match for everyone out there. Overall I would definitely recommend the unicorn style match the most, both the tag and the 6 man tag were really good. I hope, that Mutoha does not go to hiatus for a long time and their chairman Yoshino gets well soon!   

I wrote about 5 hours ago that I did not really know when the next post would be on this blog. So 5 hours later, here it is. All thanks to Hasegawa-san and his damn fast video editing skills! Have a nice week! :D

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