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Has anybody here seen much of this? This was one of the promotions that came out of the ashes of UWF when it went out of business in 1990, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Karl Gotch took Minoru Suzuki, Masakatsu Funaki, and Wayne Shamrock with them from the UWF and they put on some damn good shows. Shamrock vs Sano is one hell of a match, also I love Napataya the thai boxer that murks the japanese wrestlers(until he fights Suzuki).
They really blurred the line between work and shoot a lot better than Rings or UWFI did and as far as the technique they were using they were freakishly ahead of their time for 1991(I seen Suzuki go for a twister in one match). Funaki, Suzuki, and Shamrock broke off from this org and started Pancrase in 1993 as I'm sure you already know. I watched the King Of Pancrase tournament from December 1994 and honestly every single match on the card looked worked ala PWFG, even Frank vs Bas kinda looked like a PWFG match. So was Pancrase worked? I mean a good bit of that first round of that tournament was obviously worked for sure, no doubt about it.
They really blurred the line between work and shoot a lot better than Rings or UWFI did and as far as the technique they were using they were freakishly ahead of their time for 1991(I seen Suzuki go for a twister in one match). Funaki, Suzuki, and Shamrock broke off from this org and started Pancrase in 1993 as I'm sure you already know. I watched the King Of Pancrase tournament from December 1994 and honestly every single match on the card looked worked ala PWFG, even Frank vs Bas kinda looked like a PWFG match. So was Pancrase worked? I mean a good bit of that first round of that tournament was obviously worked for sure, no doubt about it.
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