How It All Began For Me: Japanese Pro-Wrestling, Part 2 - Cactus Jack vs W*NG Kanemura - Sledge's Wrestling Journal

Having just gotten into Japanese pro-wrestling with the Small Town Street Fight, I was in a death match frenzy.  ECW was still on the air Friday nights at 2a.m. on MSG during this time, and was often the closest thing.  But I wanted to see more of the insane Japanese variety of weaponized puroresu.

I knew of Cactus Jack from seeing fleeting clips of WCW, and having seen some of the many evem then classic ECW clips for the tapes they were advertising every week on ECW TV.  So when I saw that there was this crazy Japanese match with a US wrestler I had started to become familiar with, I wanted to see it.



UPDATE:  The video has been removed by the uploader.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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How It All Began For Me: Japanese Pro-Wrestling, Part 1 - The Small Town Street Fight (BJW) - Sledge's Wrestling Journal

It's unbelievable looking back at this match, and realizing that THIS was my FIRST exposure to Japanese Pro-Wrestling... EVER!

Let me put it this way. This is how I thought MOST puroresu was!

Just amazing how much things can change! Still, this is an amazingly nostalgic match!

Here is a blurb from TheWrestlingMania that I think says it all:

Kendo Nagasaki Vs. Bruiser Okamoto Vs. Seiji Yamakawa Vs. Yosuke Kobayashi Vs. Yuichi Taniguchi (July 1, 1995) BJW Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 5-Way Elimination Grocery Store Death Match A fridge, a toaster, a toy dispenser, a fishing net, a broom, bags of rice, cardboard, beer bottles and crates, an avocado, a bicycle, raw ham, cash registers, water melons, a large fish, and the most useful of the offensive weapons, whipped cream. If these are all items you desire to be used as weapons in a pro-wrestling contest, then this is for you. When Kendo Nagasaki gets tired of watching two youngsters fight in a make shift ring in the middle of a shopping complex in Japan, all Hell breaks loose. With hilarious production sound effects and music. An array of bemused, confused, and scared onlookers watching on. This is a death match that could only happen in Japan. Nevermind your Steve Austin and Booker T supermarket tussle, this has it all. Not to be down played by the humour though, this is brutal

Honestly, my favorite part of the match has to be a tie between the three-piece band and the cheerleaders!

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Ok, it was the cheerleaders.

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