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https://twitter.com/ReneePaquette/status/1362235731171631104?s=20 Death matches aren't for everyone, this thread is likely to be between "Not Safe for Work" and "Not Safe for Life" With Big Bicep Tony bringing the Exploding Barbedwired Deathmatch stipulation to US mainstream Wrestling for the first time in a long time, I wanted to make a thread for both old fans and the morbidly curious new ones who want to know exactly what they're in for in the upcoming Revolution PPV. Probably the most famous of all time was the culmination of the legendary Cactus Jack vs Terry Funk in the finals of the IWA King of the Death Match from 1995. In terms of explosions, this match was a little of a wet fart. I remember being in middle school at my friend's house and we were downloading "Hardcore Matches" off the old filesharing websites amongst other things like the Mass Transit Incident and "Owen Hart Fall" (Which was actually just New Jack throwing Vic Grimes off a scaffolding). I was still very squeamish at the time and averted my eyes through most of those, but the Foley/Funk match really captivated me, all the way until the end. When I just started laughing until I couldn't breathe. Here's the match narrated by Mick Foley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFI3gG_POCk It was a while longer before I actually started getting into Deathmatch Wrestling. After the success of ECW's One Night Stand in 2005, I started to get more curious and would look up more matches from FMW. I remember finding music video tributes to Hayabusa and seeing those insane exploding cage matches from the promotion. These were a MUCH bigger spectacle, because it was like watching a steel cage match wrapped in barbed wire, where every side of the cage would explode on contact, and when the timer was up, the WHOLE ring would light up. The explosions weren't that intense, they used smoke to make it look like the apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9dKnknv8k After binging through Hayabusa and Onita's backlog, I started to find some of the more brutal women's matches from FMW. I fell in love with Megumi Kudo, and thought it was horrifying to watch this small, attractive woman who dresses like an idol competing against monsters like Shark Tsuchiya and Aja Kong in such brutal matches. Even in Kudo's commentary, she's a very quiet, soft-spoken woman which completely contrasts the amount of pain and punishment she would go through in matches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkeOiaDtCk Although the most VIOLENT exploding barbed wire match I've ever seen is the FMW Electrified Pool match. Not neccesarily because of the explosions, but because it looked like Pogo was really digging inches deep into people with his signature sickle weapon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57y1EhF5D5w&t=5940s Probably the last biggest/famous exploding barbed wire death match was between Onita and Chono. Both guys had some of the best entrances in wrestling history in this single match and the crowd was huge and WILD for the whole event. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ajas8 After the mid-late 2000's the exploding death matches slowed down a lot. There were some crazy ones in the 666 Promotion and some really sad ones in CZW (I think they just hooked car batteries up to a normal steel cage) The Exploding Bat Death Match has caught on against in the last 5 years, with Io Shirai competing in one just before signing to the WWE in STARDOM, and DDT have done a couple (Albeit mostly comedy-based) Anyone who's better at googling than I am, try and lookup the following: *The pathetic CZW Car Battery cage match *Sanshiro Takagi in an exploding barbed wire death match that was somehow a comedy match Both men forgot that it was a death match, and tried to run off the "ropes" and blew themselves up *Some of the insane 666 Promotion firework scaffolding matches Also, we'll use this as a catch-all Deathmatch thread, since it's a pretty unique style that not everyone's going to be into. Although the exploding deathmatches are mostly smoke and mirrors and aren't as dangerous as you think, there's a lot of really gruesome deathmatch wrestling out there. So PYF death matches. Please do not post actual wrestling deaths or career ending injuries in this thread, thanks. RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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DeathChicken posted:I'm to this day not really sure how Pogo faked jamming a sickle into someone's gut and drawing blood. So I assume he just didn't and wrestlers are crazy Either Onita gigged his stomach for the spot or Pogo just impaled him in that Pool match and I really don't know which is more unsettling. BrigadierSensible posted:My Deathmatch story is I once got to shake the bloodstained hand of Jun Kasai after a Flourescent Light Tube match at Korakuen Hall. I also pocketed a bit of the broken table that he had thrown himself through from a great height. Which was not the finisher to that match. There are reasons the man is missing teeth and is covered in scars.
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A couple years back a friend of mine invited me to a Halloween party as her date. She ended up leaving a little early because she's not a drinker/sleeps early but I ended up staying and while all these friends/couples were asking me what type of stuff I liked and I just mentioned wrestling off-handedly and one girl there said she was a huge ECW fan when she was a little girl and loved the barbed wire and blood, so I pulled up a Jun Kasai match with a scissors board and the people at the party were EXTREMELY into it. One guy from the party added me two weeks later on FB and asked where to find more of that type of wrestling. I thought that'd be the end of it, but I went to a death match tournament locally and almost the whole crew from that party had drove up together and none of them had been watching wrestling in 10+ years before that Jun Kasai match
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Critical posted:woulda tapped out. can't do fuckin scissor boards.
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