Loss Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 As with most Muta matches, this is a crazy, gory spectacle and a fun to watch brawl. Kabuki is ancient by this point, but his facial expressions are awesome and Muta carries it. Kabuki takes the facecrusher on the floor after Muta lifts the padding. This is pretty much a total Muta squash until the last few minutes when Kabuki starts raking eyes and doing running clotheslines. I don't know that I'd go back and watch this repeatedly, but I'm glad I saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Franklin Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 This is a fun brawl, not much more to it than that. Both men bleed buckets, and there are some really cool visuals,mwhich is something that big Muta matches usually give you. Kabuki is quite limited in what he can do, but Muta does as good of a job as he can in making his offence look decent. Wild postmatch, with Kabuki threatening to murder Muta! Not essential viewing and I probably wouldn't have any desire to see it again, but decent enough for what it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Muta does his running the aisle/ramp move and ends up charging almost into the ring post. Blood for both guys. Not really a good match and not sure why Muta ain’t going over as we get a DQ finish instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 This is an IWGP title match? What the fucking fuck did Kabuki do to earn a title shot? I groaned when I saw these two, but this turned out better than I thought. Very much a WWF-style comic book match in a New Japan setting. For a guy who people barely ever know was ever a babyface at all, Kabuki has always made for a very good one. Muta does his standard spots before Kabuki makes a comeback, then mists the referee and goes nuts with a chair. Laaaaame finish for an IWGP title match, but pretty well-done in a vacuum. Kabuki gets on the stick and threatens (in English) to kill "my son"--hey, they're still clinging to that story. This was okay for what it was but I'm not sure this really needed a rematch, which is what they're apparently building toward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 This is an IWGP title match? What the fucking fuck did Kabuki do to earn a title shot? Two fold: As you touched on in the elimination match, and pretty much everyone else has since WAR vs NJPW happened, the WAR side pretty much dropped off the cliff after Tenryu in terms of anyone having real cred against the top NJPW guys. So if you're going to book a Mutoh/Muta vs WAR match with someone other than Tenryu, you've got to find someone. Kabuki got the call. Then they worked opposite each other in a fair number of tags, and had this which Kabuki "won" the month before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Q3sf9nxd8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Not a bad spectacle type match but not a lot of great execution. One of those matches that you are glad to see once but also feel that is enough to satisfy for a lifetime. Muto has took a rep drop overall for me with his 90's stuff. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR Ackermann Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 So is Muta some a kind of dark comedy character? Cause he wrestles like one. No one mentioned Muta tapping Kabuki with worst the worst title belt shots I've ever seen or his goofy toddler run down the aisle. Kabuki is the superior wrestler here. At least his offense and selling doesn't look like a kid playfighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted September 11, 2016 Report Share Posted September 11, 2016 I was ready to really hate this until Kabuki made his comeback. Then it got iinteresting in a weird sort of way, seeing the ancient Kabuki beat the living hell out of the reigning IWGP champion. My favorite part was when Kabuki came back in after his promo during which he threatened to kill Muta and then proceeded to try just that with his nunchuks. I was a bit surprised that Kabuki spoke in English, and that NJPW was going along with the father/son stuff. I thought that was just a device Gary Hart used in WCW to make sure that Muta got over with American audiences. Come to think of it, could Kabuki have been looking to get one last brief stateside payday from WCW? That may have been why he spoke in English. Kabuki was part of WAR? I wonder why we haven't seen him on a Yearbook before this. He must have been working a very limited schedule. I'm with the people who enjoyed this once, but don't really need to see it again. It was fun to see how far these two would go in order to hurt each other and make each other bleed, though. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted January 11, 2018 Report Share Posted January 11, 2018 IWGP Heavyweight Champion The Great Muta vs The Great Kabuki - NJPW 6/15/93 So while Hashimoto gets Tenryu in the WAR feud, Muta is stuck with Kabuki but it makes sense given their past history and they even play on their father/son Kayfabe relationship. Muta kicks the ref in the balls, mists Kabuki and then busts him open with the championship. This was a pretty good Muta squash while Kabuki bled and Muta but him. All the usual Muta spots bulldog into concrete and running lariat. Kabuki makes his comeback when Muta misses the back handspring elbow. Kabuki busts Muta on the ring post. Kabuki bites Muta. Muta gets back breaker but no moonsault. Muta gets a chair. Kabuki mists the ref, poor ref, and beats up Muta with the chair. Ref calls it off. Muta is bleeding big time. Kabuki threatens to kill his son in ENGLISH! Then chokes him with nun-chuks. Before everyone pulls him off. Good double juice Muta brawl. *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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