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Post by Smacked Ass on Jul 14, 2006 8:58:25 GMT -5
I think you're right about Mr. Purple pants! If we'd have seen a front view when Lyger had his "Goose" moment on the ladder, we could have seen if Little Mr. Purple pants had a mini puro-skunk mullet and verified the Tenzan identity.
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Post by Smacked Ass on Jul 19, 2006 0:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by Smacked Ass on Jul 19, 2006 0:54:44 GMT -5
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Post by orochigeese on Jul 19, 2006 1:08:48 GMT -5
Nice vids! That powerbomb, especially, was SICK
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Post by Spunk on Jul 24, 2006 12:40:29 GMT -5
To that Mi-Suzuki pic it wan't a Spaceman, it was THE MUMMY.
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Post by mike on Jul 24, 2006 13:49:57 GMT -5
Mummy...spaceman, what the fuck ever. I see a jet pack and an air hose, I say spaceman.
Wait a minute.....
SPACEMUMMY!
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Post by Spunk on Jul 24, 2006 15:51:29 GMT -5
The Mummy has a long and storied history in Japan Sleaze.
The Mummy wa the character that fueded with New Japan Dojo Drop-Out turned hardcore legend, Poison Sawada in IWU. Come IWU Christmas Chaos '95 it was high time for their Snake Deathmatch, which if memory serves me right, Sawada won with his DEADLY DDT, but not without taking on for the team; he was bitten by a venomous rattle snake. For a while what stirred inside him lay dormant, until working in DDT the Jakai Spirits summoned for him to leave behind his ways of good and turn to the evil that has been growing inside of him since that faithful Christmas -- THE SNAKE POWER OF JAKAI. From there Poison Sawada BLACK was born into the world, and to rebel against DDT, he created the IRON MAN HEAVYMETAL CHAMPIONSHIP. The Ironman Title was akin to WWF's Hardcore title, as it could be defended anywhere, anytime. Sawada's hunch was correct, and it led him to the promised land of KO-D Championship challengerness. But Kurokage at the time was mimmicking PSB, which led for Sawada to have an identity crisis, which turned him into the LEGENDARY POISON SAWADA JULIE. This meant cross-dressing, dancing, kidnapping elderly men and injecting them with rattle snake venom and turning them motherfucking EVIL as well as planting rattles in the crowd to which he could summon snake powers with to control the feeble minds of his opponents. One time things didn't turn out as well as he would of liked, as former KO-D champion and Shoot-Fighter Koichiro Kimura was kidnapped by Jakai Tensho and poisoned with snake venom to become SUPER UCHU POWER~! Uchu of course carried the warrior spirit of Koichiro, so he would not surrender to Sawada's snake powers, and became a rogue ronin destroying everything in his path. Can't win 'em all.
An injury was set to sideline Sawada (that is breaking some kayfabe, wtf), and he was warring with the former members of Jakai Tensho; Kurokage, Toguro Habukage (now indy phenom KUDO) and the teetering-on-turning-on-him Naomi Susan. It was a brief and brutal match between him and Kurokage that ended with the MOAI OF EASTER that led Sawada to feel emotion and invited Kurokage and Habukage to challenge the evil Moais of Easter Island for the power of Jakai. Upon taking them to the spirit realm (A SEA OF FIRE), the evil Jakai Spirits challenged Sawada and punished him for his insolence; turning him into stone and banishing Habukage and Kurokage from the promised land. The only problem was that Sawada's head somehow became dislodged from his body, and the only way to return him to life was to find the head of Sawada. At the same time, Kurokage and Habukage had their memory's erased by the spirits. Kurokage was convinced by the evil Sanshiro Takagi to join STRAWBERRY JAM (his heel group) while Habukage was found by Naomi Susan (who dedicated her life now to finding Sawada's stone head and returning him to life) who wa telling him who he was, to no avail. This brought in HERO! who took him in, renamed him to KUDO and teamed with him.
Time passed, and things in DDT changed a lot, but it came down to a good Sanshiro and an Evil Shoichi Ichinomiya searching for the head of Sawada to bring him back to help their respective causes. They found the head in a duffel bag in a park, and thus the battle was on for Sawada. Thus spawned a tag ladder match between Sanshiro and Ito vs Shoichi and Miwa for Sawada's head. I believe Shoichi ends up getting the head, but who cares? You cannot control the spirit of Poison Sawada JULIE. Sawada respawns, and it turns out he is more jacked than before and has been training in EGYPT in a new way to summon his snake powers and become more powerful. From here he tricked Takashi Sasaki to be his underling and declared war on all that oppose him. Time went by again, and things cooled down a bit, Takashi left, Sawada became PSJ (akin to JBL) and was the evil top heel of DDT, as the King of DDT (its.. a tournament) and KO-D Champion. After a while it became clear that Danshoku Dino was the next in line for DDT stardom, and their fued took over. It all came down to a captain's fall tag match; the losing captain must become NORMAL. Yes, NORMAL. Sawada's ragtag team lost, and Sawada was forced to become Poison Sawada of yesteryear. Anytime he'd attempt to use his powers he was punished, and he tried to forget about it. But of course, the crafty faces never wanted him to forget where he came from, so they continually mocked him. This brought about the second SNAKE DEATHMATCH, where MUSCLE Sakai had been dressing up as the MUMMY in recent weeks to piss of Sawada, and it was on; THE MUMMY vs POISON SAWADA. It turned out just to basically be a gang beatdown on Sawada.
That is pretty much where I left off on my DDT watching for last year, and since then Sakai has been dressing as the Mummy again in a bunch of places, and MUMMY-FEVER is back in Japan.
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Post by mike on Jul 24, 2006 16:10:51 GMT -5
Good god, that is the greatest angle in the history of wrestling.
And here I thought the VWA was too strange for most of you...
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Post by Spunk on Jul 24, 2006 16:23:46 GMT -5
Whats funny is that is me only grazing PSJ's career. The kidnapping of Showa-Ko through use of teleportation and the only person that could come to the rescue was the super babyface Takashi Sasaki who Sawada had tempted to the dark side, but refused leading to an epic fued. The cloning of MIKAMI as Clone Boy JAMI to be his tag partner in the KO-D Tag League after MIKAMI refused him, as well as using him for training to take the KO-D title off of MIKAMI, and then when Shuji Ishikawa mistakingly killed JAMI he had to get more DNA from MIKAMI to make another clone.. Well, he fucked up, and got Dino's DNA, and made a homosexual Clone Boy JAMI.
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Post by mike on Jul 24, 2006 19:48:31 GMT -5
So, does DDT present all their angles in the ring or do they run an occasional vignette to get the more wacky stuff across?
Also, the language barrier a huge problem in figuring out what's what?
My interest is piqued if you can't tell.
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Post by Smacked Ass on Jul 24, 2006 22:08:37 GMT -5
No shit, yo. How the fawk did you figure all of this shit out?
And yo, that's no mummy, that's a fucking spaceman.
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Post by Spunk on Jul 25, 2006 0:11:34 GMT -5
Well, right now in Union Pro its Mecha Mummy.. So, no, no Spaceman. DDT's stuff is mostly presented in-ring with backstage stuff to fill in the gaps. The usual DDT show starts off with a backstage thing and it'll progress to in-ring. Think Attitude era WWF, but only funny. As for the language barrier, I don't think its a problem, at all. Sure, you don't get everything out of the promos, but Sanshiro Takagi (booker, owner, editor, wrestler) does an amazing job with video packages and most of the storylines are done so visually and through the action that the words mean very little. Most of the fun stuff I described was 2002 DDT, which was IMO (and many others) their best year, hands down. They started in '99 and ran on and off until around late 2000 when they got more regular, and now run a few times a month, which is just enough to fill their weekly one hour Samurai TV slot. I should also add that Sanshiro is a real up-front dude who has really good english. I've e- led back and forth with him a bunch of times and he is always really excited to hear opinions of people outside of Japan (hell, I'm sure inside of Japan as well), and you really get a feel for how he runs the company -- out of his house with his wife. One of my favorite DDT video packages was for his wedding special where at the end it shows him at his laptop editing a TV show and answering e- l as his wife films him, and you can just tell the dude loves what he does.
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Post by motosada on Jul 25, 2006 1:31:06 GMT -5
See, now, that's awesome. That's what Pro Wres is meant to be; fun. I hope one day, we can all get it right.
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Post by motosada on Jul 27, 2006 0:55:29 GMT -5
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Post by Smacked Ass on Jul 27, 2006 8:41:28 GMT -5
Gotta Catch 'em all!
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