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Into the Indies 02.16.10: Big Japan vs. CHIKARA (Part 2)

February 16, 2010 | Posted by Ryan Byers


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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Into the Indies, the column by the only man capable of turning a joke about Hillbilly Jim into a debate about socialized medicine.

Last week, I regaled you all with the tale of America’s CHIKARA promotion hooking up with Big Japan Wrestling in 2008 to co-promote a series of shows in Pennsylvania with BJW returning the favor and hosting CHIKARA wrestlers in their home country in 2009. We then looked at the first of those two interpromotional shows, a smaller “showcase” card which pitted CHIKARA guys against one another and against relatively unknown and inexperienced Japanese wrestlers. I don’t have much in the way of background to add to what I provided last week, so let’s go ahead and take a look at the second of the two cards held when CHIKARA traveled overseas, a full-on Chikky Pro versus BJW event which took place in Tokyo’s Shin-Kiba First Ring on June 13, 2009.


Match Numero Uno: Daikokubo Benkei vs. Atsushi Ohashi

Our opener pits Daikokubo Benkei, an ex-sumo wrestler and long-reigning former BJW Champion against Atsushi Ohashi, the undersized former referee who we were introduced to on the show covered last week. Ohashi tries for some forearms early, but they are not sold . . . nor is a pair of dropkicks. A shoulderblock by Benkei easily takes his much smaller opponent down, after which the big man drops an elbow for two. A Benkei headbutt rocks Ohashi, as do some ass bumps in the corner. Benkei misses a reverse avalanche, however, allowing the former zebra to throw even more dropkicks. The last in that series comes off of the top rope, and it even manages to knock Benkei off of his feet for a nearfall. Yet another dropkick, this time to a seated Benkei’s back, follows. Ohashi then connects with the same move to his opponent’s chest and heads up to the top rope once more. Benkei easily sidesteps this missile dropkick attempt and stands on the small man’s back for a while. For a brief second, I thought Ohashi was going to tap out to that, which would’ve gotten a big pop from me. He doesn’t, though, so Benkei gives up on the “hold” and hits a sidewalk slam and another elbowdrop. Daikokubo stands on his man some more and then slaps on a half Boston crab, though Ohashi makes the ropes. A few seconds later, Benkei reapplies the hold at center ring. This time, it gets the submission.

Match Thoughts: I have a hard time knocking this match, because Big Japan audiences are usually into Benkei and this is exactly the type of match from him that they normally eat up. However, his charm is lost on me personally as all I saw was a match featuring a large, immobile man who was only a couple of steps above the modern-day Abdullah the Butcher in terms of his performance. DUD.



Match Numero Dos: Crossbones & UltraMantis Black vs. Shadow WX & Yuichi Taniguchi

Mantis and Shadow start the contest for their respective teams, and the insect opens with a kneelift and a series of forearms to his opponent before calling Crossbones into the ring for the double team. The Order hits a two-man shoulderblock and stomps away before the referee intervenes, with Mantis then working a headlock for a bit. WX escapes and repeatedly tries to bring his man down with a shoulderblock, and he fails on several occasions until he decides that it might be a good idea to kick Mantis low first. That prompts a tag on both sides of the ring. Taniguchi and Crossbones lock up for a bit, with the Japanese competitor unloading several chops and forearms before attempting to slam the heavyweight horror. Crossbones’ girth prevents the first several attempts from being successful, but the last of them connects. It was a pretty weak slam, all things considered. ‘Bones hits his own version of the move which looks significantly better, and, when it looks like Taniguchi might make a comeback, Mantis grabs him from the apron and drapes his neck over the top rope. That sets up a lariat from Crossbones, which in turn sets up a tag to Mantis. The frontman of the Order chokes Taniguchi on the ropes for a bit and ties him up in the corner with the Kevin Nash memorial boot choke. Taniguchi counters by grabbing and biting Mantis’ foot (shades of Gene Snitsky), which prompts Crossbones to run in for the save. Mantis slaps on a chinlock for a while before bringing his partner in as the legal man. ‘Bones first bit of offense is a snap suplex, but Taniguchi rolls into the ropes to bring up the subsequent pin attempt. An avalanche from Crossbones connects, and he even gets two off of the old Chris Jericho “stand on your opponent and flex” pinning combination. UltraMantis returns to the ring and slams Taniguchi’s head into the top turnbuckle several times, but he misses a Stinger splash and gets schoolboyed.

That gives us the hot tag to Shadow WX, who lariats everything in sight, repeatedly taking down both members of the Order. His last shot sends Crossbones out of the ring, leaving him alone with Mantis to hit an axe bomber and a vertical suplex. He gets two off of another clothesline to the bug and immediately transitions into a crossface when Mantis kicks out. Crossbones breaks up the save, leading into another tag to Taniguchi. He lands a pair of thrust shots to ‘Bones’ throat and runs the ropes for a while, repeatedly leapfrogging his prone opponent before hitting a splash for a count of two. The Japanese wrestlers team up at this point, giving a double shoulderblock to Crossbones before Taniguchi ascends the ropes. Mantis grabs his leg before he can leap, however, allowing Crossbones to beal his opponent off of the top. The CHIKARA representative follows that with a FAT senton, and then a two-man flapjack from the Order connects. All four wrestlers brawl for a bit until Mantis flings Shadow WX over the top rope, allowing Crossbones to incapacitate Taniguchi and climb to the top rope. He comes off with a Superfly Splash, and the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple are declared your winners three seconds later.

Match Thoughts: Absolutely nothing stood out about this match. It wasn’t particularly good, and it wasn’t particularly bad. Mantis and Shadow WX are very good at certain aspects of professional, but they are aspects of professional wrestling which aren’t highlighted in midcard tag team matches with no gimmicks to speak of. However, all four of the wrestlers are fairly serviceable when it comes to straight matches, and they meshed well here with no sign of being uncomfortable working with one another or miscommunicating. If it weren’t for the fact that it contained such an odd mix of competitors on such a unique show, I probably wouldn’t remember a single thing about the bout for more than a couple of weeks. **


Match Numero Tres: Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Chuck Taylor

I don’t see this one ending well for Chuck, who has to be outweighed by fifty pounds by the powerhouse Sekimoto. The two wrestlers shake hands at the start of the match, after which Sekimoto manages to take Taylor down out of a lockup and apply a headlock. Chucky T maneuvers his man back to the corner to force a break, but Daisuke goes right back on the offensive with an armbar. Taylor reverses it, though Sekimoto is able to escape by scoop slamming his opponent. This causes Taylor to point at Daisuke and say, “Very strong.” Observant young man, this Mr. Taylor. The FIST representative goes into a waistlock, which is the start of a surprisingly quick series of reversals on the mat before both men pop back up to their feet. A shoulderblock sends neither man down, so Sekimoto decides to use his upper body strength to his advantage, hitting a gorilla press slam for a two count. Daisuke’s next trick is a chinlock, but Taylor is able to regain a vertical base and wind up in the ropes once more. Taylor tries a chop, but it has no effect on Sekimoto’s massive chest. Sekimoto decides to show Racoon City’s favorite son how it’s done, hitting some thunderous strikes before going into a bearhug. That move gets transitioned directly into a brainbuster for a nearfall. Sekimoto sets up for some sort of corner attack, but Taylor gets his boot up and uses the opening to hit a dropkick to the knee. Taylor goes up top for a missile dropkick, netting himself a two count. A headscissors-esque submission is then applied by Taylor, though Sekimoto has no problem reaching the ropes. Once he escapes the hold, he almost immediately reels off a powerslam, but Chuck responds with his falling boot to the face. Taylor then actually manages to slam the big man and attempts a moonsault, though Daisuke avoids it. Another brainbuster is landed by Big Dice K, but Taylor kicks out at two. Breaking out the big guns, Sekimoto goes to the top rope and hits his frog splash, but that ALSO can’t put Taylor away. A deadlift German suplex does the trick, however.

Match Thoughts: This is not what I expected AT ALL when I heard that Daisuke Sekimoto and Chuck Taylor were having a professional wrestling match. Given the difference in size between the wrestlers and the difference in their styles, I figured that they would be able to put together an entertaining near-squash with Sekimoto absolutely destroying the American and Chuck selling some of the early power spots in a comedic fashion before ultimately taking a straight butt-kicking. However, Taylor was actually allowed to be somewhat competitive and kicked out of a fair amount of Sekimoto’s big ticket offense that he normally would not be kicking out of if he were just there to be an enhancement guy. I suppose that technically Taylor did alright, as nothing was horribly botched or mistimed and he bumped well. However, I just couldn’t get over the fact that Taylor and Sekimoto were being booked as near-equals, because, when you look at the two of them, Daisuke looks like a professional athlete while Taylor, though I enjoy his work in the context of CHIKARA, looks like a slightly athletic guy who might be living next door to you. *3/4



Match Numero Cuatro: 2.0 (Jagged & Shane Matthews) vs. Yoshihito Sasaki & Ryuichi Kawakami

Jagged and Kawakami are the first men in the ring, with some armbars starting them off, including Jagged doing some comedic attempts to escape his opponent’s clutches which all fail. Ryuichi runs into a boot at one point, but Jagged completely misses his follow-up offense, namely a second rope cross body block. The young Canadian is slammed, and Sasaki tags in to apply a chinlock. When that’s over with, Yoshitio applies a half Boston crab that Jagged’s partner Shane Matthews has to run in to break it up. Sasaki trades off to Kawakami, and the two men stomp away at the 2.0 member in the corner before Matthews sneaks in behind the referee’s back and clips Kawakami’s knee. Shane tags in and applies a leglock after that, with the BJW making the ropes rather quickly. Matthews then goes to half crab of his own, but the ropes are reached again. Jagged returns to the match at this point, slapping on a figure four after copious “woo’ing.” 2.0 even work in some American style cheating, as Matthews reaches into the ring and grabs his partner’s hands for extra leverage behind the referee’s back. Eventually Kawakami reverses the figure four, but Jagged winds up in the perfect position to tag out as a result of the reversal. Matthews winds up being unable to contain Kawakami, though, and Sasaki runs in to forearm both members of the CHIKARA team.

He sets up for a torture rack on Matthews but Jagged saves, only to set up both members of 2.0 being speared by Yoshihito. Sasaki puts his rack on Matthews after that, but Shane punches him in the head to escape and scores a powerslam. Jagged tags in and follows that with a jumping knee strike in the corner before going to a double chickenwing submission. He quickly rolls the hold into a pinning combination, and, even though Sasaki manages to roll his shoulders off the mat, the hold remains applied. Jagged relinquishes it voluntarily after a bit, but he staggers straight into a second spear to set up a tag to Kawakami. Ryuichi lands several big forearms and a belly-to-belly suplex for a nearfall, though Jagged gets the ropes on the pin attempt thanks to Matthews shoving them inward. Jagged is able to get some offense of his own after that, including a jumping enzuguiri on the kneeling Kawakami. Matthews checks into the ring and he and his partner hit a flurry of double team strikes, capped off with a two-man STO. They also hit their wheelbarrow codebreaker, but Kawakami barely kicks out at two. A fireman’s carry slam from the Japanese wrestler sets up another tag to Sasaki, and he and Kawakami take turns with corner attacks on Jagged before Yoshihito gives the little bugger a superplex. Matthews saves at two, so Kawakami tosses him out of the ring. Sasaki remains in between the ropes with Jagged, and a Michinoku Driver out of a fireman’s carry and a burning hammer are enough to put away 2.0 for good.

Match Thoughts: If you caught last week’s review of the June 12, 2009 CHIKARA in Japan show, you know that 2.0 wrestled Atsushi Ohashi from the opener of this card as well as Motogugo Shimizu, a wrestler from Secret Base, a much smaller company than Big Japan. It was interesting to watch this match almost immediately after that one, because, comparing one to the other, it was a perfect opportunity that, as the old saying goes, it takes two to tango. This match and the Ohashi/Shimizu match followed essentially the exact same pattern, with a slow build to an all-out barrage of MOVEZ~! making up the last four or five minutes. However, this match came off significantly better than the match from June 12, despite the similar structure and the fact that 2.0 was attempting to do several of the same spots during the closing sequence. I chalk that up to 2.0 having a significantly more experienced and polished opponent in the form of Sasaki htere to direct traffic. That change of one man made all of the difference the world, propping up the quality of the match significantly. **1/4



Match Numero Cinco: Takashi Sasaki & Shinobu vs. Michael Nakazawa & Tigre Rojo

We’re sans CHIKARA wrestlers in this match, as Sasaki and Shinobu are BJW regulars while Nakazawa is from DDT and I still have no clue who the hell Tigre Rojo is. We’ve got an interesting gimmick involved in this match as well, as, for some reason, the wrestlers have to stop at random intervals to take shots of booze. I believe I’ve seen similar matches referred to as “Alco-Braws” in American indies, and I have no problem applying that name here.

Shinobu and Sasaki go on the offensive the second the bell rings, with Shinobu taking Nakazawa out of the ring and Sasaki hitting a series of three roll-ups on the Tiger, with each one getting a two count. They soon join their partners on the floor, and everybody runs around the ring for a while until Tigre and Nakazawa collide at ringside. This allows Shinobu to hit them with a pescado, setting up another nearfall by Sasaki. Rojo kicks out and avoids a Sasaki lariat, setting up another sequence with the bad guys bailing and running for their lives. Eventually Takashi catches up with Rojo and gets him back into the ring, but a whistle is blown and the wrestlers have to pause and take shots. For reasons I don’t entirely understand, Sasaki takes forever to down his, though he doesn’t have it completely swallowed before Nakazawa kicks him in the gut to restart the match. Michael winds up taking some spewed alcohol in the eyes as a result, but he quickly regroups. He and Tiger take turns spinning Sasaki around to make him dizzy, and then they bounce him back and forth off of the ropes. Apparently the gimmick is that Takashi Sasaki can’t hold his liquor. Eventually Nakazawa returns to traditional professional wrestling offense with some forearms, but he’s superkicked right in the chops for his trouble.

Takashi is getting ready to make a tag to Shinobu, but then the whistle is blown again and more shots are doled out. Sasaki is down, so Rojo and Nakazawa focus on Shinobu, taking him out with a double clothesline before Nakazawa gives the old airplane spin to Takashi. Nakazawa makes himself a bit dizzy as well, giving Sasaki time to recover. As a result, when the bad guys try to nail him with lariats from opposite sides of the ring, he dodges and they nail each other. This allows Shinobu to reenter the match, and he knocks both heels from the ring. It looks like he’s going to hit his second pescado of the match, but, before he can, the whistle is blown. Everybody drinks, and at this point Sasaki is selling it as though he can barely move. Shinobu slams Tigre Rojo and goes to the top rope as the action resumes, but the alcohol slows him down to the point that the bad guys are able to cut him off and shake the ropes to the point that he falls down. Nakazawa takes over on Rojo at this point, and he’s got his trademark baby oil bottle with him. Michael greases his opponent up and hits his double stomp/senton combo, which the bad guys follow up this time with successful sandwich lariats. Nakazawa puts Shinobu into his patented submission hold, the “Michael No More Cry,” but the whistle is blown before Shinobu can tap.

Another round of drinks is downed, and, for some reason, Sasaki decides that he’s going to reenter the match. He’s apparently recovered a bit from his prior intoxication, as he takes both of his opponents down with a double lariat and drives Nakazawa’s head into the mat with a brainbuster. Takashi sets up for something but stops to dry heave, allowing Michael to school boy him from two. Various other rollups and pinning combinations also earn nearfalls for the DDT wrestler, but he eventually runs into Sasaki’s boot to break up that sequence. The men exchange forearms, after which Sasaki slaps Nakazawa several times. For some reason, this causes Nakazawa to take off his kneepads, and, eventually, his tights. Sasaki gets the oil bottle away from the slippery guy at this point and oils up, which thwarts a double team suplex from the heels. Shinobu reenters the ring out of nowhere, putting Nakazwa’s trunks around his head and hitting a clothesline. Sasaki and Shinobu then incapacitate Nakazawa, grab the bottle that the drinks have been dispensed from, and pour a fair amount of it down his throat. Shinobu locks Nakazawa into a kiwi roll, which makes him dizzy to the point that a ringboy has to slide a bucket into the ring to catch his vomit. Sasaki and Shinobu are courteous enough to wait for him to finish, after which Takashi immediately kicks him in the head and gets a three count.

Match Thoughts: One of these things that I enjoy about the Big Japan/FREEDOMS/DDT crew of wrestlers is that, even though they do some insane, over the top ultraviolent gimmick matches on a regular basis, mot of them are also awesome about coming up with and executing unique, non-hardcore gimmick matches. We saw this previously in this very column with the Philadelphia Banana Deathmatch from Apache Army, and this match was another fine example of it. It’s hard to rate bouts like these because they don’t necessarily follow the structure of traditional contests. However, even if I can’t assign it stars, I can say that it still entertained the hell out of me, as the wrestlers were ridiculously creative in that they were constantly busting out spots that were innovative and played perfectly into the rules that were set forth in the match. My two thumbs go way up for this one, and you should definitely check it out the next time that you’re in the mood to watch a solid comedy match.



Match Numero Seis: Fire Ant, Solider Ant, & Green Ant vs. Jaki Numazawa, Shinya Ishikawa, & Yuji Okabayashi

Green Ant (who, for this tour only, is played by BJW’s Kazuhiko Miyakami) and Okabayashi start the match, with Yuji using his strength to his advantage and repeatedly shoving down the tiny insect. Eventually the Ant goes behind his opponent and attempts a German suplex, but he just can’t get the big man over. The Green one has had enough and tags in Solider Ant, who is successful in taking Okabayashi down and engaging him in a mat wrestling sequence. The BJW competitor eventually pops up and gets to his feet, though, powering the Ant into the corner and tagging out to Ishikawa. Ishikawa and Solider also do some basic mat wrestling, focusing primarily on armbars. Eventually Solider Ant gets his man into an abdominal stretch, even managing to salute with his free arm. Ishikawa is released when the Ant tires of the hold, and, after that, the two do a sequence of fairly standard headscissors/headlock reversals. Solider ultimately turns this into a unique submission, basically using his leg to apply a version of a hammerlock while simultaneously catching Ishikawa’s other arm in a variation of the keylock that forces him to do a Solider Ant-esque salute.

With the mat wrestling clinic at a close, Numazawa and Fire Ant do a quick sequence featuring the Ant taking his larger opponent out of the ring with a flying shoulderblock and faking a dive. For whatever reason, Solider Ant immediately returns to the ring after that, going up against Okabayshi. The larger fellow is taken down, again by a flying shoulderblock, prompting another tag to Numazawa. Green Ant is in as well, and Jaki and company triple team him in the corner for a bit before Ishikawa returns to the ring and begins working a chinlock. A slam follows from Shinya, which sets up Okabayashi’s return to the ring for a big slam of his own and an elbow drop. Now it’s back to Numazawa, who drops a low headbutt behind the referee’s back and also stands on Green Ant’s junk for a while before throwing him out over the top rope. Solider Ant charges in but gets hit right off the bat with a snap suplex from Numazawa, who tags Ishikawa. Ishikawa goes to the chinlock for a bit before Okabayashi returns and uses the human torture rack to his advantage. Solider Ant sells it like a pro, and he does the same for Ishikawa’s follow-up camel clutch.

The insect escapes the clutch by getting his foot on the bottom rope, though now he has to deal with Numazawa. The Black Angel pokes the Ant in his segmented eyes and slams him before going up and missing a moonsault press attempt. Jaki tries to cut off the subsequent hot tag attempt, but solider lands a roaring, saluting elbow and slaps hands with Fire Ant. The former Young Lions’ Cup holder knocks all three of the BJW wrestlers out of the ring, allowing his partners to pick him up and alley-oop him over the top rope for a big tope con hilo on to all of the Japanese folk. Fire and Ishikawa get back in the ring at this point, with the Ant hitting a stunner out of a wheelbarrow position before missing a top rope kick. Ishikawa uses that opening to hit a running palm strike before tagging out to Numazawa. Jaki knocks Solider and Green off of the apron, isolating Fire Ant for a series of corner attacks from Team BJ. Numazawa gives Fire Ant a rana off of the top rope, which Ishikawa follows immediately with a missile dropkick and Okabayashi follows immediately with a brainbuster. The sequence only gets two, so Yuji decides that he’s going to go up top and finish Fire Ant with a frog splash. It misses, allowing Green Ant and Solider Ant to hit corner attacks, including a diving headbutt by Solider Ant to Okabayashi’s crotch. That leads into the triple dropkick in the corner from the Colony, followed by Fire Ant hitting a top rope senton and Solider Ant a swandive headbutt. That would normally get a three count, but Numazawa and Ishikawa save. The Green and Solider Ants dispatch them with ease, giving the Colony an opportunity to land their trademark Ant Hill to earn a pinfall victory.

Match Thoughts: I can’t say enough good things about the Colony. I really can’t. It’s amazing to believe that they, especially Fire Ant, only have three to four years of professional wrestling experience. They move so easily in the ring, can hit so many different moves, and have such an understanding of how to pace a match that they just embarrass ninety percent of their contemporaries. Watching them in CHIKARA alone leads one to question whether they are as good as they appear or whether they are simply in the ring with a limited roster of wrestlers who they are comfortable with, thereby letting them come off as more talented than they really are. However, matches like this one lean towards proving that the Ants are just as good as they appear in CHIKARA, regardless of who they are in the ring with. This match was against three individuals who they would rarely if ever have an opportunity to work against, and it looked just as good as a match that they would have had against three of their regular opponents. I’m also developing quite the soft spot for Okabayashi, who is becoming a great indy wrestling heavyweight in line with his mentor Daisuke Sekimoto. This was an unbelievably fun little match from the six wrestlers, seemingly the perfect way to cap off a show that was all about presenting unique matches and bringing together two companies from opposite sides of the Pacific to revel in the glory that is professional wrestling. ***

It looks like the CHIKARA/Big Japan feud has come to an end when the match is over, as all of the competitors shake hands and make nice. However, before long, Michael Nakazawa is out with Chuck Taylor, the Order of the NeoSolar Temple, and 2.0, leading into an impromptu match pitting a combined BJW/CHIKARA technico team against a CHIKARA rudo team. The result is . . .



Match Numero Siete: Fire Ant, Solider Ant, Green Ant, Jaki Numazawa, & Atsuhi Ohashi vs. Jagged, Shane Matthews, Crossbones, UltraMantis Black, & Chuck Taylor

We have ourselves a ten man brawl to start the match, and it spills all over the arena. The highlight is probably Jaki Numazawa giving UltraMantis Black a DDT onto the bleachers. When two men finally stay in the ring for more than few seconds, it’s Chuck Taylor and Fire Ant, who proceed to do some lucha that is the most polished stuff that Chuck has done on this entire series of shows. Fire dispatches Taylor with a sweet move in which it looks like he is going to hit a moonsault body block but he turns it into a tornado DDT at the last possible second. Soldier Ant and Jagged run in for their respective teams, followed by Numazawa and Shane Matthews. This leads into a nine wrestler headlock chain, which is brought to an end by Solider Ant, who kicks Crossbones (who is at the end of the line) in the gut and gives him a DDT that brings everybody else in the chain down with a DDT. Soldier tries to cover several different people at once, but they all kick out at two. A multiple man headscissors chain is next, which Shane Matthews sees as an opportunity to put a Boston crab on the man at the end of the line. However, he fails to realize that this man is his partner Jagged, leading to some words between them when the spot comes to a close. The craziness next focuses on Crossbones, Jagged, Numazawa, and Ohashi, with the technicos whipping the bad guys into one another. Because of the size difference, that sends Jagged out of the ring, allowing the BJW wrestlers to hit a double dropkick on the heavyweight horror, dispatching him from the ring. Fire Ant and Mantis square off in the squared circle at this point, trading finisher reversals until the Ant scores his Beach Break for the decisive pinfall.

Match Thoughts: There wasn’t much of note here. It wasn’t an actively bad match, but they weren’t attempting to put on an absolute blow-away either. There was an extended crowd brawl, there was a series of finishers, and there was a pinfall. It was all done in a way that got a fun reaction from the live crowd, though it didn’t exactly have the time or structure to stand out as anything more than a treat for the live audience. *

Overall

Last week, I didn’t have much to say that was complimentary about the CHIKARA Japanese Showcase. However, this card was a significant improvement, which makes sense given that it features many more experienced and better known wrestlers from Big Japan. The main event (at least prior to the restart as a ten man tag), was a nice way to cap off a lucha/puroresu/US indy hybrid show, and the comedic drinking match underneath it is something worth going out of your way to see if you’re a fan of off the wall stipulations. Combine that with a surprising undercard match between Sekimoto and Taylor and competently worked action in the two traditional tag team matches, and you’ve to the recipe for a very fine representation of CHIKARA in front of a legitimate Japanese crowd. It may not necessarily be a blow-away, must own show for the average fan, but, if you already have an interest in either BJW or CHIKARA and want to see some of your favorite wrestlers in a slightly different context than what you are used to, this is a show that you absolutely have to check out.


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