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Slam Sekai Brass Knuckle Oza Kettei Koshikileaguesen: Hayabusa vs. Hisakatsu Oya 8/31/95 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2 (2,100 sellout) From FMW OFFICIAL VIDEO 2nd Daiikkai Grand Slam Part 1 Commercial Tape |
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This was similar to their 6/27/95 match where Hayabusa won the vacant title, but the spots were ordered much better. In that match, Hayabusa was on offense early doing all his highspots and then later on Oya made a big comeback and his lack of big spots was really apparent due to what Hayabusa had already done. Oya did a good job of carrying Hayabusa in that match, but he did that much of a better job here that it was the difference between a very good match and an excellent match. As in their previous match, they went to the mat right away. It was fine, but not particularly interesting until they did what they didn't do in the previous match, which was develop a focused storyline. At 6:30 Oya hit his finisher, the backdrop, and both men sold for a long time, already putting over the previous damage. I think you'd be hard pressed to find other FMW matches where they are putting over the toll of the match about 1/5 of the way through. Oya got a 2 3/4 count with a DDT, then launched an all out attack on Hayabusa's arm. This went on for 7 minutes with Hayabusa showing that the damage was adding up, causing his arm to get progressively worse. Hayabusa finally came back with cool kicks and a tope con hilo, but was putting the arm over huge the whole time. The fans had been quiet, but they reacted to Hayabusa's flying. Hayabusa nearly pinned Oya with his shooting star press at 15:45 (of what was shown), but then Oya reversed his Irish whip and came back by dropkicking the bad arm. I liked the comeback in and of itself because going back to the weakened point gave Hayabusa reason to lose the offensive so easily. However, I felt that this wasn't the time to come back in this manner this comeback was bad because Hayabusa was peaking offensively and Oya was almost beat. I would rather have seen Oya roll out of the way or collapse to avoid a flying move, causing big damage to Hayabusa because I'm wondering where Oya found it in him to do the reversal and why Hayabusa wasn't able to just hold onto the rope when he was in dominant command. The reason it can be justified is that Hayabusa had been selling his arm so much, so while he was in control, he certainly hadn't recovered. It was a really good thing that Oya went right back to abusing the arm because Hayabusa had kept this problem fresh in the fans minds. The only problem I had with Hayabusa's selling was that at this point he should have been putting the arm over like crazy when Oya had him in legit finishers like the udehishigigyakujujigatame and wakigatame, but instead Hayabusa sold them as if they were no more deadly than the restmissions that were used in the first few minutes of the match. Oya saw that Hayabusa wasn't going to submit no matter what, so he moved to his regular finishers. Oya was the only really solid worker in the company at this point, but his one problem is that he really doesn't have any offense. Most of the other guys had nothing but spots (not necessarily that they were spot machines, but they just did whatever moves they had with little to no rhyme or reason) and a willingness to take punishment, but Oya had a good brain, a few submissions, a backdrop, a lariat, and a DDT. Oya did one too many lariats, as Hayabusa came back by turning one into a wakigatame. Hayabusa really didn't use any low level moves in this match to wear Oya out, he just used upper mid level flying moves and finishers. At this point it didn't really matter because Oya was worn down mainly from expending energy in failed attempts to put Hayabusa away. Although he was on offense, Hayabusa surprisingly was still acting worn down. Hayabusa did a beautiful moonsault attack to the floor. After a series of finishers, Oya rolled out of the way of Hayabusa's phoenix splash and came back with another lariat. Hayabusa turned Oya's reverse neckbreaker into a backslide, but Oya went into a wakigatame after he got his shoulder up to bring back the arm storyline for a near submission. Both men were dead and Oya hit his backdrop, but Hayabusa got his shoulder up at 2 9/10 for a dramatic near fall. Oya tried another backdrop, but Hayabusa landed on top and made his comeback with powerbombs for near falls. They did their best in the last few minutes to not give away that they were going the distance. Both men acted so dead that it was believable that the next move could end the match, especially after the double KO spot where both men lariated each other at the same time. Oya was a little stronger in the final minute, and managed to hit another backdrop in the last 10 seconds, but Hayabusa kicked out a few seconds before time expired. There were big Hayabusa chants, but they eventually turned to Oya chants out of respect for the show both men had put on. This match showed the potential Hayabusa had because Oya got him to be more than just a spot machine. It's really about the environment a wrestler is in. In FMW, pretty much everyone did high spots, brawled, and bled. I suppose it was a combination of what they were capable of doing since their training was poor and what they could do to keep fans coming since it was different from the style the leagues above them in popularity used. Had Hayabusa been wrestling in another league or had there been more Oya's in FMW, he might have become an excellent all around wrestler by 1997 instead of a guy that was really broken down for his age. Eventually he got smarter, mainly out of necessity like Ultimo Dragon because his body wasn't going to hold up for many more years of the glamorous style he was wrestling. Unfortunately, to some extent that made him less interesting to watch since he hasn't been able to come close to the Ultimo level of smart where less craziness is a plus because the effort has to go into making the match stand on it's own without needing the stunts to get people to like it. 30:00 (28::00 shown)
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