Big Japan Pro Wrestling
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore VI December 24th 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore V August 24th 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Death Match at Kojika's House August 21st 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore IV March 30th 2003 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore III September 23rd - December 12th 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore II August 18th 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Harder Than Hardcore I March 7th & 8th 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW New Year Great Series 2002 January 2nd 2002 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Ante Up PPV December 2nd 2001 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
BJPW King of the Death Matches Tournament 2001 April 28th - May 4th 2001 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
BJPW Death Match Bible (Volumes 1 & 2) April 29th - August 6th 2000 £9 vhs / £10 dvd
BJPW vs FMW Future Shock March 2nd 2000 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Excite Series 2000 February 22nd 2000 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW New Year Great Series 2000 January 2nd 2000 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Wonder Big Japan '99 December 4th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Tag Team Death Match Tournament '99 October 28th - November 11th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW October Bloodshed '99 October 3rd - 10th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Excite Series '99 June 20th 1999 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Matsunaga vs The Crocodile September 23rd 1998 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW King of the Death Matches Tournament '98 June 8th - August 9th 1998 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW New Year Great Series '98 January 2nd 1998 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Falls Count Anywhere Death Match October 1st 1997 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW 8,000 Volt Electric Shock Death Match April 1st 1997 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Circus Death Match January 2nd & 6th 1997 £7 vhs / £8 dvd
BJPW Desert Death Match November 20th 1996 £5 vhs / £6 dvd
BJPW Lights Out Death Match September 30th 1996 £5 vhs / £6 dvd
BJPW Night of the 30,000 Thumb Tacks May 22nd 1996 £5 vhs / £6 dvd
BJPW Street Fight Death Match March 19th 1996 £5 vhs / £6 dvd
Est. 1995
Big Japan's Eighth Anniversary Show, with all the top Japanese indie sleaze in attendance. Nosawa vs Junji Tanaka vs Hyoma (three-way dance)… Yuichi Taniguchi vs Mr. Big Japan… Shadow WX & Gosaku vs Gentaro & Chocoball Mukai… Hido vs Shunme Matsuzaki (barbed wire baseball bat death match)… Mens Teioh vs Ricky Fuji (BJPW Heavyweight Title Match)… Daikokubo Benkei & Yuki Ishikawa vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Manabu Hara… Ryuji Ito vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (BJPW Heavyweight Death Match Title - Light Bulb, Barbed Wire Board & Broken Glass Death Match)
In addition to the bloody madness that's expected of Big Japan, this summer supercard has a nice slice of workrate - a handy half-hour tag match, with ex-Kaientai members Taka and Teioh on opposing sides of the ring. Hiroyuki Kondo & Katsumasa Inoue vs Junji Tanaka & Hyoma… Bancho Matsuzaki vs Shinjuku Same… Mr. Big Japan & Mike Samples vs Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Yuichi Taniguchi… Mr. Pogo & Shadow WX vs Mad Man Pondo & 2 Tuff Tony (free weapon streetfight)… Daikokubo Benkei & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi vs Hido & Gosaku… Mens Teioh & Daisuke Sekimoto vs Yuki Ishikawa & Taka Michinoku (30-minute draw)… Kintaro Kanemura vs Ryuji Ito (BJPW Heavyweight Death Match Title Change - Cage Death Match)
Recalling the insane concept matches of Big Japan's past, this entire card takes place in and around a house (yes, an actual house) erected inside Korakuen Hall - for the sole purpose of being trashed. Easily the most bizarre tape of 2003, and not without its humorous moments. Which I won't spoil here. Mad Man Pondo vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (scramble bunkhouse kitchen death match)… Daikokubo Benkei vs Mike Samples (toilet chain death match)… Hido & 2 Tuff Tony vs Mens Teioh & Ryuji Ito (first floor violence death match)… Mens Teioh, Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi, Daikokubo Benkei & Ryuji Ito vs Mad Man Pondo, Mike Samples, Hido & 2 Tuff Tony. Also includes an hour-long Hiroshi Tanahashi Documentary. Tanahashi is the 'young lion' who famously had a knife plunged into his back by his girlfriend in 2002.
The blood and gore tour continues. This card features only four full matches - but, if you like wrestling with guts, there's plenty to get to grips with here. Hido & Mad Man Pondo vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Gosaku (dark light bulb death match)… Ryuji Ito & Daisaku Shimoda vs Daikokubo Benkei & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (WEW Hardcore Tag Team Title Change)… Mens Teioh vs Daisuke Sekimoto (BJPW Heavyweight Title Match)… Kintaro Kanemura vs Shadow WX (BJPW Death Match Heavyweight Title - light bulb and glass death match)
This is a commercial tape of the entire Harder Than Hardcore III tour. In addition to the 'more death matches for your money' factor, this tape boasts an opener that thinks it's an All Japan match - no blood or death, just high quality action. Which makes it the most unlikely thing you'll ever see in BJPW. Daisuke Sekimoto vs Mens Teioh (BJPW Heavyweight Title Change)… Shadow WX & Winger vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (chestnut, kumquats, sheave lease and light bulb death match)… Mad Man Pondo vs Jaki Numazawa (highlights of barbed wire board death match)… Shadow WX & Winger vs Jaki Numazawa & Gosaku… Daisaku Shimoda vs Bancho Matsuzaki… Daikokubo Benkei vs Ryuji Ito… Ryuji Yamakawa & Kintaro Kanemura vs The Great Kojika & Mens Teioh (light bulb death match)… Daisuke Sekimoto vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi
From a sold-out Bunka Gym, this show has two of the best moments of the Harder Than Hardcore series: Daisuke Sekimoto rescuing the Big Japan belt from waddling disaster Daikokubo Benkei, and the dazzling final of the World Extreme Cup. Hido vs The Great Kojika & Katsumasa Inoue (handicap match)… Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs Bancho Matsuzaki… Mens Teioh vs ODD… Big Japan Death Match Rumble (featuring Shadow WX, Winger, Abugold Bayashi, Mad Man Pondo & Homicide)… Daisuke Sekimoto vs Daikokubo Benkei (BJPW Heavyweight Title Change)… Ryuji Yamakawa vs Kintaro Kanemura (World Extreme Cup Final - glass death match)
Shadow WX vs Ryuji Yamakawa (barbed wire death match)… Winger vs Marcella… Willie Takayama vs Hideki Shioda… Mens Teioh vs Jun Kasai… Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi vs Daisuke Sekimoto… Hido vs Jun Kasai vs Winger… Ryuji Yamakawa, Kintaro Kanemura & Mens Teioh vs Jun Kasai, Hido & Winger
Big Japan finally produces a very respectable card without a single outrageous death match. What is the world coming to? Winger vs Shadow WX vs Hido (three-way dance)… Daikokubo Benkei & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi vs Shunme Matsuzaki & Kamikaze… Kamikaze vs Daikokubo Benkei (highlights of BJPW Heavyweight Title Match, January 6th 2002)… Ryuji Ito & Fantastik vs Mark & Jay Briscoe… Justice Pain vs Jun Kasai… Daisuke Sekimoto & Mens Teioh vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Kintaro Kanemura (WEW Hardcore Tag Title Match)
Big Japan's first ever pay-per-view, featuring the returns of Ryuji Yamakawa and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, guest spots by Shinjiro Ohtani (hey, they needed a good wrestling match) and Terry Funk, and some gruesome bloodletting. The exploding glass death match is particularly nasty. Ryuji Ito & Hiromi Yagi vs Fantastik & Marcella (mixed tag team match)… Trent Acid vs Winger vs Ruckus (CZW Junior Heavyweight & BJPW Junior Heavyweight Double Title Match)… Daikokubo Benkei, Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi & Naoki Numazawa vs Kamikaze, Hideki Hosaka & Shunme Matsuzaki… Hido vs Shadow WX (barbed wire board death match)… Jun Kasai vs John Zandig vs Wifebeater vs Mad Man Pondo (four-way dance)… Justice Pain vs Nick Gage (CZW Heavyweight Title Match)… Terry Funk & Terry Boy (Mens Teioh) vs Kung Fu Lee (The Great Kojika) & Mil Mascaras… Shinjiro Ohtani vs Daisuke Sekimoto… John Zandig vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (BJPW Death Match Title Change - Exploding Glass Death Match)… Mens Teioh & Daisuke Sekimoto vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Kintaro Kanemura (BJPW Tag Team & WEW Hardcore Tag Team Double Title Match)
In the absence of Ryuji Yamakawa, a wildly resurgent Kintaro Kanemura is the star of Big Japan's second KOTDM tournament. If FMW hadn't changed direction, Big Japan would have certainly usurped it by this point. Kamikaze vs Jun Kasai (no rope, barbed wire death match)… Winger vs Shadow WX (barbed wire board death match)… Kintaro Kanemura vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (Quarter-final - barbed wire board, strap death match)… John Zandig vs Mad Man Pondo (Quarter-final - 200 light tube death match)… John Zandig & Jun Kasai vs Mad Man Pondo & Wifebeater… Justice Pain vs Kamikaze… Winger vs Wifebeater (both Quarter-finals - barbed wire board death matches)… Kintaro Kanemura vs Winger… John Zandig vs Justice Pain (both Semi-finals - barbed wire board death matches)… Ryuji Yamakawa announces his retirement… John Zandig vs Kintaro Kanemura (Final - Caribbean rules, barbed wire, light bulb board death match)… Shadow WX & Shadow Winger vs Mens Teioh & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (highlights of fire road super death match - incredible)
Living up to its title, this tape has a death match for every occasion. Several are outstanding, many are good, the first is embarrassingly bad, and the last is realistically beyond description. Perhaps the best introduction to Big Japan and CZW. John Zandig & Wifebeater vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Mike Samples… Shadow WX vs Tomoaki Honma (light tube, barbed wire board death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Jun Kasai (light tube, barbed wire board, bare feet death match)… John Zandig vs Winger… Shadow WX vs Wifebeater… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Jun Kasai (fire death match)… Shadow WX vs John Zandig (light tube, barbed wire board, lemon and salt death match - Extreme Cup Final)… Trent Acid vs Winger ($100,000 match)… John Zandig vs Tomoaki Honma (light tube, barbed wire board, lemon, salt and mustard $100,000 death match)… Jun Kasai vs Ryuji Yamakawa (fire road death match)… Nick Gage & John Zandig vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Jun Kasai (fire road super death match)
Features a BJPW vs FMW six-man main event, and a tournament final to decide Big Japan's representative in the third Super J Cup. Mens Teioh vs Masayoshi Motegi (Big Japan Zone Super J Cup Final)… Dynamite Kansai vs Kiyoko Ichiki (highlights, February 22nd)… Devil Masami vs Kiyoko Ichiki… Jun Kasai vs Daisuke Sekimoto… Chihiro Nakano vs Malsera… Kamikaze, Shunme Matsuzaki & Fantastik vs Mike Samples, Guerrero de la Futuro & Ryuji Ito… Abdullah the Butcher & Crazy Shiek vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi & Daikokubo Benkei… Ryuji Yamakawa, The Great Kojika & Winger vs Kintaro Kanemura, Gedo & Jado (BJPW vs FMW)
Just three matches, but not short on talking points. The opener and closer are quality brawls in the 'new tradition' of Big Japan, while the match in the middle features the 'Fire Incident' - in which Shadow WX suffers 3rd degree burns. It's the most disturbing incident since Yukihiro Kanemura's run-in with the hot stuff in W*ING seven years earlier - but it happened, so it's here. The tape begins with a press conference announcing the imminent BJPW vs FMW series, which gets underway with… Kintaro Kanemura vs Ryuji Yamakawa (WEW Hardcore Title Match)… Shadow WX vs Mike Samples (BJPW Grand Prix Final - lights out, barbed wire board death match)… Tomoaki Honma vs Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (BJPW Death Match Title - ladder death match)
Features Honma-Yamakawa II: the best death match in the world… ever? Masayoshi Motegi & Daikokubo Benkei vs Ryuji Ito & Fantastik… Kyoko Ichiki vs Tomoko Watanabe… Mens Teioh & Jun Kasai vs Abdullah the Butcher & Crazy Sheik… Daisuke Sekimoto vs Takeshi Sato… Chihiro Nakano vs Marcela… Mike Samples vs Guerrero del Futuro… BJPW Arm-Wrestling Tournament (highlights, with Matsunaga, Samples, Benkei, Sekimoto etc)… Shunme Matsuzaki & Kamikaze vs Winger & Shadow WX (BJPW Tag Team Title Match)… Ryuji Yamakawa vs Tomoaki Honma (BJPW Death Match Title - barbed wire board, light tube, bed of nails, triple hell death match)
Big Japan's Fifth Anniversary Show, taped at Bunka Gym. The main event is absolutely vicious - Ryuji Yamakawa's back becomes so badly lacerated that, by all rights, his kidneys should've dropped out right there in the ring. If that's your sort of thing. Chihiro Nakano & Tanny Mouse vs Lady Magic & Marcela… Daikokubo Benkei & Kato Kung Lee Jr. vs Ryuji Ito & Winger… Fantastik vs Winger (BJPW Junior Heavyweight Title Match)… Mike Samples vs Black Samples… The Great Sasuke vs Minoru Fujita… Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki vs Mens Teioh & Jun Kasai (BJPW Tag Team Title Match)… Tomoaki Honma vs Abdullah the Butcher… Shadow WX vs Ryuji Yamakawa (BJPW Death Match Title - light tube and barbed wire boards death match)
The title is pretty self-explanatory. Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki vs Mike Samples & Jun Kasai… Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa vs Mike Samples & Jun Kasai… Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa vs Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki… Shadow WX & Winger vs Mike Samples & Jun Kasai (all barbed wire board death matches)… Daisuke Sekimoto vs Takeshi Sato… Tanny Mouse & Chihiro Nakano vs Yoshiko Tamura & Marcela… Jun Kasai & Mike Samples vs Daikokubo Benkei & Black Samples… Chapinger & Fantastik vs Mens Teioh & Ryuji Ito… Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki vs Abdullah the Butcher & Crazy Sheik… Kamikaze & The Great Kojika vs Abdullah the Butcher & Crazy Sheik… Tomoaki Honma & Ryuji Yamakawa vs Shadow WX & Winger (BJPW Tag Team Death Match Tournament Final - barbed wire board, light bulb death match)
Bookended by two Honma death matches, this tape does exactly what it says on the tin. Even if it doesn't actually come in a tin. Winger vs Tomoaki Honma (barbed wire board death match)… Ryuji Yamakawa & Ryuji Ito vs Jun Kasai & Daisuke Sekimoto… Yuka Nakamura vs Chihiro Nakano… Masayoshi Motegi vs Mens Teioh (BJPW Junior Heavyweight Title Match)… Kamikaze & Shunme Matsuzaki vs Abdullah the Butcher & Daikokubo Benkei… Shadow WX vs Mike Samples (light tube death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Ryuji Yamakawa vs Jun Kasai & Winger… Shadow WX vs Tomoaki Honma (BJPW Death Match Title - ladder death match)
Includes the first instalment of the staggering Tomoaki Honma-Ryuji Yamakawa series. This feud elevated suffering to an artform, and put death matches in the running for Match of the Year for the first time in eons. Also features Mens Teioh's first match as Terry Boy since 1996, and the best wrestling match ever involving a man dressed as a bear. Take that, A-Train. Minoru Fujita vs Tomoaki Honma… Kiyoko Ichiki & Andromeda vs Chihiro Nakano & Malsera… Black Bear vs Kamikaze… Fantastik vs Sere Beluro… Winger & Chapinger vs Shunme Matsuzaki & Jun Kasai… Shadow WX vs Mike Samples… Terry Boy & Dory Boy vs Abdullah the Butcher & Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi… Highlights of Shadow WX vs Tomoaki Honma… Ryuji Yamakawa vs Tomoaki Honma (BJPW Death Match Title - barbed wire board, light tube, bed of nails, triple hell death match)
The first part of this tape is the Mitsuhiro Matsunaga 'Death Match Lecture' - a potted history of Big Japan, with clips of 15 death matches from May 22nd 1996 to May 1st 1998. Free samples, so to speak. Part two is the full 23/9/1998 card with the loser-faces-a-crocodile death match. Yes, it is a real crocodile, but there is a happy ending. Part One: Axl Rotten & Shoji Nakamaki vs Kendo Nagasaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (balloon thumbtack death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Shoji Nakamaki vs Kendo Nagasaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (scaffold death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Kendo Nagasaki (piranha death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Shoji Nakamaki (lights out death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Shoji Nakamaki (desert death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Great Kojika vs Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (circus death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Tarzan Goto vs Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (electric shock death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Ryuji Yamakawa (firestones death match)… Tarzan Goto & Mr X vs Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (glass death match)… Great Pogo vs The Great Kojika… Great Pogo, Shadow WX & Shadow Winger vs Great Kojika, Shoji Nakamaki & Jason The Terrible (coffin match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Shoji Nakamaki & Jason The Terrible vs Great Pogo, Shadow WX & Shadow W*inger (cactus death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Great Kojika, Shoji Nakamaki & Jason vs Great Pogo, Shadow WX, Shadow Winger & Shadow VII (BJPW vs W*ING crisis big born death match). Part Two: Makoto Saito & Osamu Kawahara vs Shunme Matsuzaki & Kishin Kawabata… Shoji Nakamaki, Masayoshi Motegi & Ryuji Yamakawa vs Minoru Fujita, Isao Takagi & Echigo… Great Pogo, Shadow WX, Shadow Winger & Daikokubo Benkei vs Jason, La Mascara, Mr. Gannosuke, Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi & Masked GK… Katsumi Usuda vs Tomoaki Honma… Mistuhiro Matsunaga vs Shadow WX (barbed wire and light tubes, bed of nails, loser faces a crocodile death match)… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs The Crocodile (coffin match)
Otherwise known as 'Big Japan does the Inevitable'. Featuring a mix of old hands (Matsunaga, Pogo) and new blood (Honma, WX) this tournament holds its own against the IWA original in terms of good, old-fashioned insanity. The final is a gimmick extravaganza. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Jason the Terrible… Kato Kung Lee Jr. vs The Great Pogo (both Quarter-finals - barbed wire board, barbed wire baseball bat death matches)… Shadow WX vs Tomoaki Honma… Shadow Winger vs Shoji Nakamaki (both Quarter-finals - barbed wire board death matches)… The Great Pogo vs Shadow WX… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Shadow Winger (both Semi-finals - no rope, barbed wire death matches)… The Great Pogo vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (Final - no rope, barbed wire, barbed wire baseball bat, coffin, plate glass and fire death match)… Terry Funk vs Tarzan Goto (mass brawl)
Features guests from Battlarts, FMW and MPW. Neftaly vs Miho Kawasaki… Shunme Matsuzaki vs Shadow VII… Yone Genjin vs Naohiro Hoshikawa… Katsumi Usuda & Ikuto Hidaka vs Tomoaki Honma & Minoru Fujita… Kendo Nagasaki & Yosuke Kobayashi vs Masayoshi Motegi & Makoto Saito… Gedo & Jado vs Yoshihiro Tajiri & Ryuji Yamakawa (BJPW Tag Team Title Match)… Jason the Terrible, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Shoji Nakamaki vs The Great Pogo, Shadow WX & Shadow Winger (falls count anywhere match).
You can guess the main stipulation here. Tomoaki Honma vs Goku… Shadow VII vs Minoru Fujita… Neftaly & Nana Fujimura vs Aya Koyama & Miho Kawasaki… Takashi Ishikawa & Shume Matsuzaki vs Yosuke Kobayashi & Takashi Okano… Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Zumbido… Kendo Nagasaki & Kishin Kawabata vs Yuichi Taniguchi & Ryushi Yamakawa… The Great Nakamaki & The Great Kojika vs The Great Pogo & Shadow WX (falls count anywhere match). This tape also includes FMW King of Fight II. Details on the FMW list.
The main event takes place in a ring filled with electric heaters. It's likely that the figure of 8,000 volts was worked out as an accumulator, but that only makes it marginally less crazy. Improving on the shorter commercial tapes of yore, all matches are complete. Shigeo Okamura vs Yosuke Kobayashi… Takashi Ishikawa vs Yuichi Taniguchi… Kendo Nagasaki vs Kishin Kawabata… Crusher Takahashi vs Satoru Shiga… The Great Kojika vs Kazuhiko Matsuzaki… Yoshihiro Tajiri & Minoru Fujita vs Goku & Fantastik… Mitushiro Matsunaga & Tarzan Goto vs Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (8,000 volt electric shock death match)
Double commercial tape; picture quality and sanity are both below average. Shoji Nakamaki & The Great Kojika vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Ryuji Yamakawa (lights out, barbed wire boards, light bulbs double hell death match)… Rocky Santana vs Satoru Shiga… Jason the Terrible vs Taurus… Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Dr. Wagner Jr… Kendo Nagasaki vs Tornado Juice… Yuichi Tanaiguchi & Grey Skull vs Dr. Wagner Jr. & Jason… Tornado Juice vs Taurus… Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Rocky Santana… Kendo Nagasaki & Satoru Shiga vs Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & The Great Kojika vs Shoji Nakamaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (scaffold, barbed wire spider net, circus death match)
As the top match is a bit of a letdown (the 'pit of poison scorpions' stipulation is ridiculous), this is also available with the much better BJPW Lights Out Death Match on the same tape, for £7 vhs / £8 dvd. Yosuke Kobayashi vs Yuichi Taniguchi… Rocky Santana & Fantastik vs Yoshihiro Tajiri & Goku… The Jester vs Satoru Shiga… Grey Skull & Tornado Juice vs Kendo Nagasaki & Ryuji Yamakawa… Press conference announcing BJPW vs NJPW feud… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Shoji Nakamaki (pit of poison scorpions and cactus plants death match)
The most visually attractive death match ever, with ring ropes replaced by garlands of live electric lightbulbs. Patently insane, but really rather pretty. The pick of the undercard is a great lucha match between Dr. Wagner Jr. and Tajiri. Also available with BJPW Desert Death Match on the same tape, for £7 vhs / £8 dvd. Yosuke Kobayashi vs The Eagle… Ichiro Yaguchi vs Masahiko Kochi… Yuichi Taniguchi vs Satoru Shiga… Ryuji Yamakawa vs Black Warrior… Yoshihiro Tajiri vs Dr. Wagner Jr… Kendo Nagasaki & Bruiser Okamoto vs Ian Rotten & Dances with Dudley… Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs Shoji Nakamaki (human chandelier, scramble drum and barbed wire baseball bat, no rope, barbed wire, street fight, double hell death match)
The titular death match takes place with six enormous balloons suspended above the ring, each one filled with 5,000 thumbtacks/drawing pins. The balloons explode at the eight-minute mark, showering the ring with the offending stationery. Yuichi Taniguchi vs Yosuke Kobayashi… Satoru Shiga vs Masahiko Kochi… Ichiro Yaguchi & Ninja Hayate vs Crusher Takahashi & Aquarius (Yoshihiro Tajiri)… Sabu vs Hack Myers… The Great Kojika vs Mr. Pogo… Axl Rotten & Shoji Nakamaki vs Kendo Nagasaki & Ryuji Yamakawa (thumbtack balloon, streetfight death match)
Masahiko Kochi vs Satoru Shiga… Takeshi Ono vs Satoshi Yoneyama… Aquarius (Yoshihiro Tajiri) vs Unicorn… Ryuji Yamakawa & Yuichi Taniguchi vs Yosuke Kobayashi & Crusher Takahashi... Toshie Sato & Toshie Uematsu vs Chikayo Nagashima & Meiko Satomura… Yoshiaki Yatsu & Bruiser Okamoto vs Dances With Dudleys & Bull Pain… Sabu vs Jason Knight… Mr. Pogo & Shoji Nakamaki vs Kendo Nagasaki & The Great Kojika (barbed wire board, street fight death match)
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