One of the talking points on this board I've found eye-rolling has
been OJ's that UWFi was "fake" shoot style and RINGS was the real deal.
He has his stylistic preferences and maybe he just deems the RINGS crew
better workers, but until the Vader/New Japan stuff kicked in the RINGS
stuff is every bit as if not more flashy than UWFi. You see it in the
way they built drama, the use of rope breaks, knock downs, numbers of
convoluted submissions used in matches and ways they're set up and so
forth. I mean Volk Han matches are awesome but they're not how real
combat looks. This felt like the match from the RINGS OJ was talking
about. I've laid out my suspicions on some of Tamura's MMA matches being
works or at least having worked elements (the RIZIN tag and his fight
vs Hideo Tokoro) but this is really a match that should at least be
properly discussed and remembered. A very sophisticated attempt at using
all the new knowledge they'd acquired at the time in how real fighting
works and using that to try and con people into making them think what
they are watching is real but still allowing them to manipulate their
emotions. So yeah-pro wrestling, but at a level unseen anywhere else.
Most of the match is almost completely devoid of drama-the focus is on
on how they defend against submissions and get into positions for them
as much as it is on the techniques themselves. The pace and the
disposition of the action mimick a fight very well and they walk the
line of not doing stuff that would make it look fake and doing enough
stuff to keep you both invested and entertained perfectly. Tamura's
flurry ruled, and Kohsaka's selling was more reminiscent of a boxer
going down from a body blow than Volk Han doing the same thing. The
finish fascinates with its simplicity-it may be the greatest comeback
I've ever seen in a wrestling match. The reaction it garnered was
amazing, as was the execution of the whole thing. I can see some stuff
here being a little hard to get into for people who aren't big on real
grappling but the finish is something that I can't see not universally
resonating with fans of pro wrestling. ****3/4
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