ORIGINAL TAPES/DVDs - PWFG
Yusuke Fuke vs. Wellington Wilkins, Jr. Lots of rolling around on the mat, but not much happening. Neither man was bad, but they also weren't impressive in any way. *1/4
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Johnny Barrett. Barrett was at least 75 pounds overweight. All he wanted to do was lie around on the mat. They did nothing, and it was boring as hell. DUD
Wayne Shamrock vs. Minoru Suzuki. This wasn't the smoothest match and it didn't have the best sequences, but they definitely tried to evolve the old U.W.F. style. They were always trying to counter each other. The match was too long, losing originality as time went on and going back and forth between excellent portions and lulls. Shamrock did a Minoru Tanaka northern lights suplex with a float over, but that was about the only move that wasn't legit. They hardly did any striking in the first half, but they did a lot in the second half, with Suzuki doing a few really nasty ones. ***1/2
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Bart Vale. This was a style clash with the technical master Funaki going against the sluggish striker that lacks stamina in a pretty long match. Vale, not surprisingly, did most of his damage with kicks, but his kicks generally don't look that great. He did do an Owen Hart style enzuigiri that looked damaging, particularly due to the way Funaki sold it. **
Minoru Suzuki vs. Kazuo (Yoshiki) Takahashi
Yusuke Fuke vs. Bart Vale
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Wellington Wilkins, Jr.
Naoki Sano vs. Wayne Shamrock
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Johnny Barrett
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Kazuo Takahashi vs. Mark Rose
Bart Vale vs. Lato Kiraware
Wayne Shamrock vs. Duane Koslowski
Ishu Kakutogisen: Yusuke Fuke vs. Rawei Nabataya
Minoru Suzuki vs. Naoki Sano
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Masakatsu Funaki
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Duane Koslowski vs. Kazuo Takahashi. This went pretty much like I'd expect if it was legit with Koslowski controlling the match with his far superior wrestling skill. Unfortunately, that didn't make for a particularly exciting match.
Jerry Flynn vs. Bart Vale. It looked like it was going to develop into a good match, but then just ended out of nowhere.
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Lato Kiraware (sp?). Kiraware had the Tugboat Taylor "physique" and really sucked, but that made it kind of funny. Even Fujiwara was having a hard time keeping a straight face in points. Fujiwara decided he was going to use this match to prove that he could strike, so he pretty much made Kiraware into his punching bad. The striking wasn't good from a technique sense, but it had a lot of action. Not a good match, but entertaining in a somewhat perverse way.
Ishu Kakutogisen: Minoru Suzuki vs. Lawi Nabataya. Nabataya threw a few hard kicks, but it was over once Suzuki got the Muay Thai fighter to the ground.
Masakatsu Funaki vs. (Ken) Wayne Shamrock. U.W.F. style. Stiff and very intense. Funaki was excellent. The standing portion was excellent because they made it look real with the speed and power of the blows to go with the intensity. The mat was kind of dull though because it was slow and they didn't really chain anything together. Still, it was a very good long match.
Kazuo Takahashi vs. Lato Kiraware (sp?)
Yusuke Fuke vs. Wellington Wilkins, Jr.
Naoki Sano vs. Bart Vale
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Mark Rose
Wayne Shamrock vs. Minoru Suzuki
Yusuke Fuke vs. Jerry Flynn
Wayne Shamrock vs. Wellington Wilkins, Jr.
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Kazuo Takahashi
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Mark Rose
Minoru Suzuki vs. Bart Vale
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Kazuo Takahashi vs. Wellington Wilkins, Jr.
Naoki Sano vs. Jerry Flynn
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yusuke Fuke
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Bart Vale
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Wayne Shamrock
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Highlights of the best bouts from every show
3/4/91 - Fuke vs. Wilkins, Fujiwara vs. Barrett, (Ken) Wayne Shamrock vs. Suzuki, Funaki vs. Vale
5/16/91 - Suzuki vs. Takahashi
7/26/91 - Fuke vs. Nabataya, Sano vs. Suzuki, Fujiwara vs. Funaki
Fujiwara demonstrates submission holds
8/23/91 - Suzuki vs. Nabataya, Funaki vs. Shamrock
9/28/91 - Suzuki vs. Shamrock
10/7/91 - Funaki vs. Takahashi
Suzuki demonstrates super sparring, chain reaction, & stack stance
11/3/91 - Fujiwara vs. Suzuki
1/15/92 - Suzuki vs. Fuke, Funaki vs. Shamrock
2/24/92 - Funaki vs. Shamrock
3/20/92 - Funaki vs. Rose, Takahashi vs. Yuki Ishikawa, Fuke vs. Yanagisawa, Fujiwara vs. Flynn, Shamrock vs. Suzuki, Funaki vs. Roberto Duran
Deisuel Bert vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa
Jerry Flynn vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Minoru Suzuki vs. Kazuo Takahashi
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Yusuke Fuke
Bart Vale vs. Wayne Shamrock
Don Nakaya Neilsen vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
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Jerry Flynn vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Kazuo Takahashi
Bart Vale vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Jerry Flynn vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Johnny Barrett vs. Galtaba Georgie
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Mark Rose
Wayne Shamrock vs. Kazuo Takahashi
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa
Minoru Suzuki vs. Joe Sorkof
10 count for Mr. Soronaka
10 Minute Exhibition Match: Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Shinobu Kandori. Fujiwara gave Kandori a lesson in humility 101. He just let her attack him then countered with a submission. Kandori tapped more times in 10 minutes than in the rest of her career combined. Fujiwara made a joke or two and kissed Kandori at one point, but otherwise it was a serious exhibition.
Jerry Flynn vs. Diusel Bert. Flynn put on a pretty good show, but Bert is pretty colorless. Standup had some nice strikes, particularly from Flynn, but the ground wasn't very good.
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Carl Greco. Technically sound, but not the most exciting match you'll see even though there were a lot of escapes and some hard blows.
Mark Ashford vs. Bart Vale. Good standup. Vale did this one jumping high kick where he (I guess accidentally) nearly killed Ashford dead. I mean, it wound up being full force and you could here a loud pop on impact. Ashford somehow got up, and Vale gave him another one of these kicks later, but this one wasn't insane.
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Joe Malenko. All matwork. Malenko is a good solid technician, but Fujiwara was still his boring self that doesn't put his opponents over and more than he "has to." A lot of weardown and positioning, but not a lot of near finishes.
Carl Greco vs. Mark Ashford
Jerry Flynn vs. Charlie Anderson
Bart Vale vs. Joe Malenko
Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Duane Koslowski vs. Yuki Ishikawa
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Carl Greco vs. Shoichi Funaki
Don Arakawa vs. Daisuke Ikeda
Deisuel Bert vs. Katsumi Usuda
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Charlie Anderson
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Glenn Jacobs
Sparring: Antonio Inoki vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Minoru Tanaka
Carl Greco vs. Shoichi Funaki
Glenn Jacobs vs. Daisuke Ikeda
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Katsumi Usuda
Man & Woman Mixed Tag Match: Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Thunder Crack vs. Jol Malenko & Shinobu Kandori
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Geguero vs. Takeshi Okamura
Apolo Sugawara vs. Hiroaki Hatanaka
Hiroaki Junshima (?) vs. ? Kikawada
Tsubo Genjin vs. Don Arakawa
Masao Orihara vs. Onryo
Street Fight Death Match: Dick Slater & Masanobu Kurisu vs. Mr. Pogo & Toryu
Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Dick Murdock
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