Posts Tagged ‘combat’
Vote for the best FCF wrestling match of 2013
Posted: December 21, 2013 in Professional WrestlingTags: action, brawl, combat, contest, FCF, fight, Fight Club Finland, grappling, match, Pro Wrestling, sports, StarBuck
StarBuck against the “Lovable Bastard” on June 8
Posted: June 2, 2013 in Professional WrestlingTags: combat, Conny Mesjel, DOMination 9, FCF Wrestling, fight, Finland, Helsinki, King Gustav, Kristian Kurki, match, New Blood Rising, StarBuck
What can you say about a man who has the gumption and guts to throw a pie into the face of his country’s king on national television? As you would expect, this perpetrator was put on the ground by the king’s bodyguards in the bat of an eyelash and apprehended. He was sent to the monkey house and after his release, he got beaten on several occasions by the neo-Nazi’s and skinheads in his area, for the “crime” he carried out.
Who is this man, you ask? He is none other than Sweden’s very own Conny Mesjel, also nicknamed the “Lovable Bastard”. I will be locking horns with him in under one week at FCF Wrestling’s DOMination 9: New Blood Rising event in Helsinki.
Conny Mesjel first appeared in Finland back in March of this year, and he managed to get over with the fans immediately. The man has a strange, albeit beligerent charisma, that people just latch on to. His take-no-prisoners wrestling style and MMA background make him a hard bone to pick in the ring, too.
What was originally penned to be Yours Truly, as the brand new BWA Catchweight champion, against Sly Sebastian on June 8 in Helsinki has now been changed by FCF Wrestling General Manager, Kristian Kurki. Now, Sly will face the man from whom I took the BWA title, Valentine, at DOMination 9: New Blood Rising.
I have to believe that it will be a rough-and-tumble match next Saturday in downtown Helsinki, when Captain ‘Buck tangles with Herr Mesjel. This is once again the age-old Sweden-Finland rivalry … with a twist!
Kicking ass in Japan
Posted: May 29, 2013 in Life, Professional WrestlingTags: AKIRA, Antonio Inoki, combat, El Samurai, European Champion, fight, Japan, match, Michael Kovac, Mohammed Ali, Pro Wrestling, Rikidozan, StarBuck, Synapse, Syuri, Tony Halme, WNC
The other night I just landed back home after my latest tour of the “Land of the Rising Sun” this past week, wrestling in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. The Wrestling New Classic (WNC) cards that I fought on with my team Synapse (StarBuck, AKIRA, Syuri) also featured some interesting new acquaintances: 62-year old legend Gran Hamada, Zero-1/ECW star Masato Tanaka, MMA star Koichiro Kimura, former NJPW Jr. Heavyweight Champion El Samurai and current WNC Champion Osamu Nishimura.
At 62-years of age, Gran Hamada is a legend in his own time (especially in Mexico)!
On May 24 in Tokyo, I teamed with AKIRA and Syuri to defeat the trio of WNC Champion Nishimura, TAJIRI and WNC Women’s Champion Lin Byron. AKIRA pinned TAJIRI after a Musabi Press off the top rope, right after I hit the spike-piledriver on “The Japanese Buzzsaw”. I have to say that Osamu Nishimura is a heck of a wrestler, and I thoroughly enjoyed wrestling against him, as our styles meshed very well. Nishimura expressed interest in joining our Synapse contingent after the match, after some miscommunication in the six-man match, after TAJIRI mistakenly thrust-kicked Nishimura late in the bout. We didn’t commit to his wish as of yet, but Nishimura did say that he is bringing my old arch-nemesis Michael Kovac of Austria to Japan next month. Kovac beat me for the TopCatch European Championship back in September 2011, and there’s still a good deal of heat between our parties, so I am not too excited about the developments that Nishimura is looking to push with his personal agenda now…
A show of respect between WNC Champ Nishimura and myself after our match.
We hit the road for Osaka on May 25, where AKIRA and I lost a heated match-up against The Big Guns (Zeus and The Bodyguard), who are almost like Japan’s version of The Road Warriors. The Bodyguard pinned AKIRA after the opposition hit a double-chokeslam on my tag team partner and I was unable to break up the pin.
On the WNC tour bus, AKIRA awaits arrival in Osaka, where we have our next match.
Former WNC Women’s Champion Syuri washes some midnight laundry in Osaka.
May 26 saw us land in Nagoya, where I teamed with Syuri in a mixed tag encounter, against rookie Masaya Takahashi and Makoto. I pinned Takahashi with my spike-piledriver in about nine-minutes to bring our team to victory once again.
Having a good time at Rikidozan’s former chef’s restaurant in Tokyo.
I also had the pleasure of dining at the famous Hong Kong restaurant, headed up by the former chef of Rikidozan, Japan’s pro wrestling pioneer from the 1950s. The photos on the establishment’s wall tell of the famous Antonio Inoki vs. Mohammed Ali match from 1976. The real catch in that tale was the astronomous amount that New Japan Pro Wrestling, under whose banner the match was held, had to pay to Ali, to the tune of 10 billion Yen. That equates to about 10 million USD. New Japan paid off their debt a couple of years back, after over 35-years of carrying that financial monkey on their backs. Talk about someone leveraging themselves into a huge personal win situation!
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