Friday 23 April 2021

Revisiting 90s Joshi #33

Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto v Combat Toyoda & Megumi Kudo (FMW, 9/19/92)

Big Match Inter-Promotional Joshi. This wasn't quite as molten as some of the AJW v JWP/LLPW stuff, but it was Bull and the Dangerous Queen rocking up to big dog it in someone's own house. Lots of heat, lots of niggliness, lots of posturing, lots of potatoing. Bull was mostly in steamroller mode but there were a couple moments where the FMW duo caught her unawares to a big reaction. Some of her lariats landed more with wrist and forearm, flung with abandon and often connecting across the ear or temple, which I imagine would not be fun to be on the end of. Her exchanges with Toyoda were very beefy, and even if you never really bought Toyoda having a chance you can't deny she was game for a scrap. Hokuto was a fun presence all the way through, always menacing even when she was on the apron. The handheld view of this means you can always see what she's up to and I don't think there was ever a point where it didn't look like she was ready to spring to action if necessary. She practically lived in a crouch, one foot over the bottom rope just in case. Of course when she was in there she ruled too. At 15 minutes they never went balls to the wall with the finish, but it had a red hot closing stretch and they didn't piss about trying to build tension early. It was the last thing they needed to build considering the crowd were on board from the jump, so I appreciate that they went for the throat straight away. 

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