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MassRafTer posted:CZW gets a relationship with Big Japan early on which leads to CZW guys going to big Japan. This relationship falls apart due to Zandig being so hard to work with, but you get a period where CZW guys are doing tours with Big Japan and Big Japan belts are in the US. Still so loving salty about this feud. The booking was terribly one sided in CZW's favor and Zandig was always going over. Terrible. BJW in 2000 had the trio of Honma, Ryuji Yamakawa and Shadow WX who could reliably put on banger deathmatches in any combination (the Honma/Yamakawa Nail & Barbwire Board match from 2000 is one of my all time favorites and far ahead of its time in terms of workrate) but the CZW invasion kind of put a stop to that for a few years. Honma moved on to AJPW and then NJPW and quit doing deathmatches, Yamakawa took time off in 2001 and 2002 due to injuries and was never the same, and WX couldn't carry it all on his own. Took a few years of Zandig v. Matsunaga until the next crop of Ito, Kobayashi etc. were ready. And now BJW's deathmatch division is in a state where they're clearly afraid of letting younger talent go over & shine, so as far as match quality and freshness goes FREEDOMS is probably the premiere Japanese deathmatch indy at this point.
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