Matches I've been watching 9/22/09 Japan version

So I have a whole bunch of Puro matches on my comp that I haven't watched, here are some of them:

The Destroyer vs Mil Mascaras July 25th 1974

Old school Puro right here. I've always liked the little i've seen of Destroyer and haven't been too keen on Mascaras. He's always been known as the main luchador to come out of Mexico but I've found him to be pretty boring. I figured this was going to be a match that is 99% on the Mat and I was right but there is hardly ever been a better mat worker than Destroyer. It's a 2 out of 3 falls match so Destroyer wins the first fall with a nice looking(for it's time) knee drop from the top rope. The second fall is shorter with Mascaras doing a lot of nice highflying moves and wins the second fall with a top rope body press. The third fall is what really makes this a classic. Destroyer keeps trying to put on his famous leg work but Mascaras keeps getting out of it. When he finally does put it on, the place goes crazy with Photogrophers(including one that looks like about 7 or 8} getting on the ring apron taking pictures and the young boys pushing them away to leave. The end of the match features Mascaras getting injured about a Destroyer headbutt to the leg and forfiting. Kind of a let down ending yet drama filled. Great match though and a must see.

Stan Hansen, Johnny Ace and Dr. Death Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa and Kikuchi May 18 1994

A lot of people say that All Japan 90's might be the best era of wrestling ever. I'm not one of those people but I admit they had some great matches. Hansen and Dr. Death are Japan legends and well Johnny Ace is known as head of talent relations in WWE and riding a skateboard with Shane Douglas. However, I've been told he was great in Japan so I figured I would try this match out. The Problem with a lot of these 6 man All Japan matches to me is they all blend together and few rarely have something that stand out. That's not to say they are bad but they just aren't that interesting to me. I wanted to like this but it was just to run of the mill type stuff. It wasn't bad but nothing stuck out. The finish was nice as Hansen hits a brutal looking Lariat on Kobashi and Misawa lands on his head after a Dr. Death backdrop driver for the win.

Hansen vs Misawa from the Champions Carnival 1991 JIP

This is joined in Progress and only ten minutes is shown. Now this is a great match for what's show. It's hate filled and has tons of drama. Plus they go in the crowd and scare the women and people throw stuff and Hansen. Hansen wins the match after a few lariats and a sick looking Samoan Drop where he puts all his body weight on Misawa's cheast. I'd really like to see the full match though but what's show is great.

Triple Crown match: Stan Hansen vs Misawa August 22nd 1992

Hansen is the champ coming in. It gets off to a slow start but the crowd is hot and that helps things a little bit. The match had a epic feel going into the final stretch the announcer going absolutley crazy and the fans too. Misawa hits a insane forearm and knockouts of Hansen for the 3. The problem is right after that Hansen gets up and leaves not selling anything. The hell man?

Satoshi Kojima, KAI & Hiroshi Yamato vs Kenta Kobashi, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Akihiko Ito All Japan August 30th 2009

This is Kobashi's return to All Japan after almost a decade when he left for NOAH. Kobashi now reminds me of 2008 Ric Flair, sometimes he can pull out some ok matches but he's pretty much a one trick pony now and it's sad. All he does anymore is chops. I respect the guy for coming back from Cancer and other problems but man he should really retire. Especially after what happened to Misawa. To me Japanese wrestling is hard to watch these days. It's mostly just spots, Forearms, kicks and FIGHTING SPIRIT. That can work at times when the right guy do it but after a while it just gets boring. After saying that, This match was great. Maybe because I'm a Kobashi mark and seeing him back in All Japan makes me giddy but i loved this. All the guys brought their A game to the table especially Kobashi and Kojima. Kikuchi as always looks great and I"m a big fan of KAI. It was almost like for one night the old Kobashi came back. Sure it's a little bit slower but it's still Kobashi. The match has a nice ending stretch with Kojima just killing Ito with a Hansen like Lariat. Fun match to watch if you are a Kobashi fan.