FMW fan cams, at least to this point, are weird things.
They’re often shot from a little farther away than those from other promotions you find around the same time, or if not, they feel like they are because these are less packed buildings than in your NWA/AJPW/NJPW fan cams from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The style is also less conducive to translating to fancams in the way a bigger style often can be, focusing more — at least in a match like this — on the basics and cool little things. Knowing these guys, save the masked Shooter #1, I know the punches are probably all sick as hell, but all that really translates from far away is how hard Kurisu is hurling those hands and feet, and the few chair shots given out.
So, this unfortunately is not half the viewing experience that it likely would have been if seen on a professional tape, or even just an amateur one from the third or fourth row.
Fortunately, it is still a match with Masanobu Kurisu in it, and to a lesser extent (as he does less), also a match with Tarzan Goto in it.
Every time one of them does anything, it rules, and breaks through even from so far away. Sometimes, that’s less obvious and comes quieter, all through visual qualitty. Sometimes it’s Kurisu selling for big ass Sambo Asako, or the Tarzan Goto tags and big punches. Other times, it is the easiest and, literally, loudest thing in the world, like Kurisu and Goto wailing on the other guys with chairs, or Kurisu beating the absolute shit out of Asako. It isn’t exactly the Kurisu rookie beating, but it is loud in an environment when that is ultra impressive and visually fantastic too. The headbutts, the chops that feel like the most disrespectful chops of all time, and most of all, one of the meanest kicks ever right to the middle of Asako’s gigantic ass to break up a pin. It’s beautiful violence, yet again, that makes this all worth watching.
Sambo Asako eventually taps The Shooter out, but that feels secondary.
It’s hard to call it a successful build up tag, given that one is left dying to see a totally different match (Goto/Kurisu) than the one this is theoretically building up for the end of the tour (Kurisu/Asako), but it’s still a match full of some awesome awesome work from two of the more awesome wrestlers alive.
No match where Masanobu Kurisu kicks a giant man as hard as possible in the asshole can truly be written off, after all.
HANDWERK 