Michinoku Pro Wrestling

It wasn't FMW.

It was Michinoku Pro.

So it was just an amazing match to see.

Dangerous as a motherfucker.

I know a lot of people like to automatically go to Abby or they'll go to funk cactus, which rightfully so FMW has a plethora of matches.

But, and I'm talking about Japanese wrestling, you know, in the United States, you got CZW and others, but go check out this match.

Michinoku pro 1994 Onida versus great Sasuke.

Absolutely fucked up.

We got...

Tsuji Mura, Bushi, Hiroya Namiki, who won a really great match over Koyanagi to get in the tournament, Alejandro, Kid Lycos 2, Yoki Sato from Michinoku Pro, Daiki Odashima, Masaoka, Shuji Kondo, Yohei, Tadasuke, Hiroki, Cindy Aki, making his NOAH debut, Kid Lycos number one, well, Hayata, but they haven't announced a replacement, have they? Yeah, they have.

It's Black Manta Ray.

Oh, Black Manta Ray.

Apparently, the deal was pretty well finalized on January 17th with contracts signed on the 20th.

The main matches on the show will be Sabu vs. Taz, a triangle match with Terry Funk, Sam Mann, and Stevie Richards, with the winner getting a shot at Raven's ECW title later that night, Shane Douglas vs. Pitbull No. 2 for the TV title, and very likely some kind of match involving wrestlers from Michinoku Pro Wrestling.

The suggested price of the event is $19.95 with a $24.95 price tag the day of the event, although the price is really up to the local cable companies.

Dave also writes, in addition, there will be some sort of angle or situation involving the mask or Rick Rude either coming off of or being at stake, probably in the Pitbull versus Douglas encounter.

This is February 4th, 1997.

Dave says weekend house shows in 214 at Webster, which drew about 300, and Revere, which drew about 950, are just shy of a sellout.

The talk of both shows was the six-man tag from the Michinoku Pro Wrestling Guys with Sasuke Hamada and Nanawa.

versus Taka Togo and Terry boy.

Now, what I will say is I saw a lot of great Sasuke that wasn't really his peak.

I have not watched a lot of peak Michinoku pro.

So that is a big deficiency for me.

And I'm not going to sit here and pretend I saw him in the nineties.

But I just think he falls a little short for me with specifically with the work.

Yeah, I think Sasuke I would vote for.

Sasuke, his work, I mean, like, again, yeah, like, missing that peak Michinoku Pro, like, definitely.

Like, I think that could be something that would shift your opinion, to be quite honest.

The idea being the champion would be the wrestler could throw the most dropkicks in a 45-second time limit.

Our winners were, we have a split winner here, Michinoku Pro's Super Delphin and All Japan's Kataro Shinga, who both tied with 15 dropkicks each in 45 seconds.

That's some pretty impressive cardio.

I've never seen this.

Well, no, she...

Okay, she was...

Tajiri wasn't on the Michinoku Pro Show, but Taka was in the main event that she was at a week and a half earlier.

Yeah.

Is that just him? Like, it's not affiliated with any company?

Michinoku Pro Wrestling.

Okay, so that, yeah.

So

Well, my, my hang up on,

because I would think the natural conclusion is, for those days which by the way new episode of those days coming next week where we talk about Michinoku Pro's first foray into America and we also close out 1996 and talk about one of the best matches that Michinoku Pro was ever involved in on a battle art show but one of my hang-ups for me the reason that I felt like Michinoku Pro was so doable was one I knew there was a finite amount of time that I wanted to cover I wanted to cover a very specific era of the

promotion

the other thing was because of the popularity of Michinoku Pro and the It helps that they had just a brief glass of water in America, which caused more coverage of it.

But there's a lot to read about Michinoku Pro.

Dave covers it in real time from the beginning.

Dave is watching a lot of it.

Sort of like he would do with Toriumon and Drangate, where there are certain years where Dave is locked in on Michinoku Pro footage, and there are certain years where Dave's not watching any of it.