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Kanaami No Referee Death Match: Bull Nakano vs. Aja Kong |
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A classic grudge match. This was a brawl with one gimmick spot after another. However, it made sense for them to take things to this level because they hated each other that much. It's not like they were just hitting each other with garbage cans for the hell of it or to prove they deserved the title more than Hardcore Bischoff, this feud had been escalating for a while and there was no end in sight. Aja wouldn't wait for the ring introductions, she attacked Bull during her prematch interview. Aja wouldn't wait for the bell, she attacked Bull before she could even make it into the cage. For the next 22 minutes, they just beat the hell out of each other. It wasn't pretty, but this kind of hatred isn't supposed to be. It was stiff, bloody, and brutal. It's one of those matches where the WWF announcers would talk about how these two would never be the same, and in the case of Aja's arm they would actually be right (a first) because Bull scarred it up when she got a bit overzealous chopping Aja with the scissors. These are two huge woman with an incredibly high threshold of pain. Bull took uraken after uraken, but just kept getting up. Aja took lariat after lariat, but just kept getting up. They bent cans over each other, hit each other with weapons such as nunchucks, chains, and scissors, but they just kept coming. Even though they were taking an ungodly amount of punishment, I don't want to make it sound like they were a couple of Undertakers. They did sell the moves, although they weren't exactly Misawa & Kawada either. The thing that made this match great was there was actually focus to these gimmick laden attacks. Bull used the gimmicks to try to disable Aja's uraken arm, while Aja attacked Bull's leg to try to take away her flying and kicks. Even though it was an all out brawl, they still used wrestling moves, for instance the piledriver, and Bull did all her flying moves. The biggest flaw of the match was that some of the blows barely hit and others missed completely. The seconds played a big part in making it dramatic because the were always fighting each other for the opportunity to help their wrestler out. They would give her foreign objects when possible and try to stop the other wrestler from escaping. They'd even try to climb into the cage to get into the thick of things, but they'd always wind up getting pulled off the cage before it came to that. One funny part was when Bull thought she had the match won because she tied Aja's arm to the ring with a rope. Bull did such a good job of tying Aja up that she was still on the ropes when Aja slipped her arm out of the noose and grabbed her leg. Madusa helped out by hitting Bull's fingers with a pole so she'd lose her grip. They continued pulling each other off the cage until it was clear that neither wrestler was damaged enough for the other to escape. The lowlight of the match was when Kyoko gave Bull a chain and Bull tied it around Aja's neck then tied one end to the top of the cage and the other end to the ropes. Unfortunately, it wasn't tight enough to do any damage or keep Aja stuck in one relative area so Bull could escape. Aja was able to avoid Bull's guillotine leg drop and abuse her with a big pole, but Kyoko stopped Aja from jumping off the top with the pole. This gave Bull time to recover and pull Aja off the top, basically letting her fall onto her head from piledriver position, which was pretty nasty. This set up Bull ascending to the top of the cage and doing the legendary guillotine leg drop off the top of the cage before climbing out for the win. This was one of the stunts that set the tone for how all future cage matches would "have to" end. Even though Bull was the bigger star, she still heavily celebrated this win because it was such a hard fought victory over her top rival. Aja's regular tag partner, Bison Kimura, started screaming at Bull and challenged her to the double hair tag match. Bull needed a partner, and Kyoko was practically jumping up and down saying "me, me, me," so Bull gave her the gig. Jerome's review: The cage match is usually used when the hatred between two competitors is too intense to be contained in a regular environment. In this case, the metal structure would become a hell pit for the two greatest monster heels of the decade to beat the living shit out of each others. At this point, Aja was the young leader of the Jungle Jack team. Her ugly "Punk's not dead" shirt told us all we needed to know about her nasty street thug character. She was not nearly as great as she would become, but she was in the ring with a Bull Nakano at her peak. Bull was the 3WA champion, and looked like the empress of a fucked-up world. Her huge body, her horrible venous makeup, her blue and gold hair raised over her ever grinning face made her one of the most intimidating and disturbing wrestlers of all time. She was not a technical monster with precise blows and spots like Aja would become, and her style was the opposite of clean, but she was a chaotic and brutal brawler. That was what the match was about; chaos, brutality, blood, weapons and brutality again. She was so great that it didn't matter that Aja was still learning, and these kind of matches with the queen herself certainly taught her a lot. Aja was the first one entering the cage, but she jumped Bull outside of the ring before the introductions, hurling her into the audience and stabbing her face with scissors. Of course, Nakano bled some, but it was only the beginning of this, as she went on to juice a gusher during the next 20 minutes. Once they got into the cage, it was brutal abuse back and forth. Bull worked stiffer than Aja, who had some trouble with a series of urakens because she spinned too slowly for them to look good. That was one of the only liabilities of the match actually; some shots, especially weapon shots, didn't connect hard enough and some totally missed their target. That said, it didn't hurt the match too much because it was chaos to begin with. The other problem was the few times Bull tried to tie Aja up, once with a rope then with a chain. Basically it didn't work at all and Aja was forced to sell too much and too long. With the exception of these little flaws, the match was perfect. Even though no one really took the upper hand, they both put over the punishment they recieved very well, with excellent facials from both parties. They used tons of weapons, not for the sake of it, but because they wanted to hurt each other badly. Bull avenged the first assault by scaring Aja's right arm with stiff scissors shots. It also hurt her capacity to use the uraken. The seconds were very active outside the cage, fighting among themselves,
throwing weapons to their respective leader, interfering to prevent
an escape. At one point Aja was ready to jump from the top rope with
a big pole, but Kyoko blocked it from behind, giving her senpai the
opportunity to drop the monster on her head. Like this last spot, the
wrestling itself was very stiff for the most part, and Bull delivered
her share of strangely executed yet lethal spots, as usual. Of course,
she ended this hellish experiment with her legendary and insanely beautiful
guillotine legdrop from the top of the cage. The post-match was typically
great, with both women looking even more like hell than usual, and Bull
celebrating with her cohorts before confronting the fallen Aja Kong
once again inside the cage. Awesome match. Bull Nakano at her best :
grotesque and extremely brutal. 20:54
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