10 years ago I'd have avoided this like the plague. Going through the old 90s yearbooks, just about anything with these two was fast forward material, and joshi street fights were probably my least favourite match type. I've mentioned this before and to be fair it's probably time I move past it, but the Ozaki/Takako Inoue street fight on the '96 yearbook was so bad it basically turned me off wrestling for weeks. I'm not in a hurry to watch that particular match again but this one was significantly better and I thought both women were really good in it. I come around on Ozaki a little more with every match of hers I watch, probably because she is a nutjob and when she wraps a chain around her fist and punches people in the neck I get the sense she would legitimately like to kill that person. The chain-wrapped punches here were brutal and every single one of them made me wince. Actually everything they did with the chain was nasty as fuck. It's hard for me not to judge most stuff in wrestling involving a chain on the Piper/Valentine curve, but this scored well and if you're going to drag someone around the arena by a chain around their neck then this is the way to do it. Kansai turned it into a leash and stepped on Ozaki's head, then pulled the free length of chain like she was trying to crush Ozaki's throat like an empty Sprite can. They fight their way down an escalator and brawl outside the building for a minute, which could've come across as some Road Dogg/Hardcore Holly type tomfoolery but managed not to. Things take a turn for the disgusting when Ozaki whomps Kansai with a chair and the latter taps a full Puerto Rico gusher. I typically think of Kansai as a strike machine, but her blood-loss selling was great here and there were points where it looked like she could barely stand up straight. Of course she could stand up straight enough to wrap that chain around her foot and kick Ozaki in the mouth. Your mileage may vary on the finish, especially with it coming straight after a crazy piledriver through one of those thick bastard tables, but it felt like a last ditch bit of desperation to me and if you're outgunned in a gunfight then your best weapon is an inside cradle. My great grandmother always did say so.
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