TAPE REVIEW: The Great Nita

[TFHLarz]

This is an old review that I did for the commerical tape "The Great Nita" feedback is appreciated!


-We start off with an 8 Woman Tag Match, but since Rule #1 in the Larz Richards’ Guide to Reviewing Wrestling Tapes says I don’t recap women’s wrestling I’ll just tell you to go visit www.violentjtapes.com now! Remember 3 Mat Mayhem’s for $42. That’s 6 tapes for less than $50!

1. The Great Nita and Ho Chi Win Vs Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya ( No Rope Electric Barbwire Tornado Street Fight Bomb Death Match)

Well to start off the stips basically mean that everyone is in the ring at the same time and anything goes, while there are two sides of the ring that have electric barbwire while the other two sides have no ropes at all and on the floor there are beds of barbwire with bombs underneath. Oya was a really talented worker from 94-97ish, but age has brought him down now a days. Ho Chi Win is better known as Tarzan Goto, who created the Ho Chi Win gimmick based off of The Great Nita. This was actually his only appearance doing the Ho Chi Win gimmick. Ho Chi and Nita mist Pogo and Oya right at the start and we pair off as Nita and Pogo go at and Ho Chi takes Oya. They tease Pogo going into the bombs a few times, before Mr. Pogo gets down to business and nails Nita with his boots. This has no effect on Nita however as he just no-sells it and slaps Pogo and DDT’s him for 2. The pairs go back and forth, but Nita manages to nail Pogo with a big headbutt that almost sends him into the electric barbwire, so Nita tries to charge and nail Pogo with a headbutt, but Pogo ducks and Nita ends up crashing into the electric barbwire. Mr. Pogo quickly gets down to business and grabs a sickle(!) and drives it into Nita’s back cutting him open. Oya feels sort of left out so he grabs a barbwire-covered piece of wood and pounds Ho Chi Win with it. Pogo gets a little bored just driving the sickle into Nita’s back so he decides to really twist it into there. Disgusting. Mr. Pogo is feeling pretty good about himself, but suddenly the crowd starts up a chant for The Great Nita and he Nita’s Up brother. Nita mists Pogo again and grabs the sickle and goes to town with it on Pogo drawing some blood. Oya keeps nailing Ho Chi Win with the barbwire board, but he no-sells and goes berserk on Oya unleashing headbutts and a lariat, while the crowd goes wild. Nitamania is running wild! Nita DDT’s Pogo again for 2. Ho Chi uses the barbwire board on Oya, but Oya manages to get a hold of it and nail Win and Nita. Oya then goes back over to Win and rakes the barbwire across his face, while Pogo takes out his anger on Nita by raking the sickle across his head. Oya tries to choke Ho Chi Win with the barbwire board, but Ho Chi breaks by backing him up into the electric barbwire. Pogo has had enough of all of this so he stops torturing Nita to go take a big old sip of kerosene and blowing a HUGE fireball at Ho Chi Win. Ho Chi rolls out of the way of the fireball, but ends up rolling right to the outside onto the bombs. *** I love Mr. Pogo. Speaking of Pogo he tells his buddy Matsunaga to go get him a barbwire bat, Matsunaga carries out his order then takes it a step further by lighting the bat on fire creating a FLAMING BARBWIRE BAT! Oh my ***! Pogo nails Nita with the bat for 2, and trust me it was no WWE wussied out shot, he really made contact. Oya holds Nita from behind and Pogo is just about to send him back to the grave with a huge flaming barbwire bat shot, when Ho Chi Win suddenly reappears by charging and shoulder blocking Pogo into the other set of bombs. Ho Chi tosses Nita the flaming barbwire bat. Nita nails Oya with it sending him into the electric barbwire. Nita then puts him out of his misery with a power bomb for the pin. Match was absolutely insane with blood, bombs, barbwire, fire and weapons. The crowd was also really hot for this, which made it all that much better.
Winners: The Great Nita and Ho Chi Win via pin fall
Rating: ****

- We see highlights of Ricky Fuji beating The Great Sasuke in an Independent Junior weight Title Match. Kind of looked like Sasuke was just going through the motions there.

-We see highlights of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Hideki Hosaka & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido vs.
Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa & Gosaku Goshogawara & Katsutoshi Niiyama in an Elimination Match. Matsunaga’s team wins.

-We see highlights of Oya beating Tarzan Goto

2. The Great Nita Vs Mr. Pogo (Lumberjack Match)

I haven’t seen a lumberjack match in quite a while, I think the WWE might want to consider bringing it back since every other gimmick match they have either can’t deliver (Hell In The Cell) or is overdone (Ladder match). Sometimes less is more in terms of the gimmick. Pogo’s lumberjack’s are Pogo’s Army/W*ING Alliance while Nita’s lumberjack’s are the FMW good guys. They lockup to start as Pogo forces Nita down in the corner and stomps him. Pogo soon takes off the boots and tries to use them, but Nita no-sells it and slaps him as he did in the last match. Nita tosses Pogo to the outside then comes out himself to piledrive Pogo through a table. Back in the ring, Nita alternates between posing to a huge ovation and headbutting Pogo. Nita bites Pogo, then releases and makes the mistake of turning his back to Mr. Pogo, allowing Pogo to get his trusty friend Mr. Sickle, which he uses to nail Nita. Pogo whips Nita into the ropes and plans to strike Nita with the sickle, but Nita blocks and takes the sickle. Pogo starts to beg off, but Nita has none of it and casually drives the sickle into Pogo’s skull causing massive amounts of blood to pour from Pogo’s forehead. Nita then scares me by placing the sickle around Pogo’s throat and pulling back on it. This is beyond brutal. The ref finally takes the sickle away from Nita, so Nita starts up with the headbutts again. Nita charges at Pogo, but Pogo sidesteps him and tosses Nita to the outside where Pogo’s lumberjacks stomp Nita triggering a huge brawl between the lumberjacks where Mike Awesome lays out everyone. While this is going on Pogo ups the ante of the match by getting one of his lumberjacks not involved in the brawl to heat up the sickle blade with a blowtorch! Nita gets tossed back in and Pogo uses his heated up sickle to cut Nita’s back like a hot knife through butter, while Awesome screams such good advice into Pogo such as “You’ve got him Pogo you’ve got him!” whew what would he do without Mike Awesome? I should mention at this point that The Great Nita’s white karate gi is stained blood red. Nita starts to Nita Up, while Awesome wrestling’s equivalent to history’s greatest general shouts “No no don’t let him do it Pogo, don’t let him do it!” I don’t know what’s funnier Onita’s parody of The Great Muta or Awesome’s sound advice. Anyway Pogo obviously doesn’t follow Awesome’s advice and Nita, Nita’s Up and mists Pogo. See that’s what happens when you don’t listen to Mike Awesome. Pogo quickly tries to correct his error in judgment by stabbing Nita with the sickle, but The Great Nita grabs a nearby piece of broken table and uses it to block the shot. Nita then pounds Pogo into a quivering mass of goo by smashing the piece of table over Pogo’s head until it breaks. This only gets two however so Nita DDT’s Pogo for another 2. Pogo breaks Nita’s momentum by nailing him with a barbwire-covered board. Pogo tosses Nita outside and that triggers a brawl between the lumberjacks again. Nita gets tossed back into the ring, where Pogo quenches his thirst by taking a sip of kerosene and scorching Nita’s already cut open back with a fireball. This only gets 2 however, so Pogo goes back to his old W*ING finisher and piledrives Nita onto two chairs, but it only gets 2. Pogo gets all extreme and his lumberjacks hand him a flaming barbwire bat. Good lord. Pogo nails Nita with the bat for 2. Nita gets sent into the ropes, but saves his own um-reincarnated life by misting Pogo. Nita grabs the flaming barbwire bat and nails Pogo with it and then sets it up on a chair. Nita bulldogs Pogo into the fire and covers, but pulls him up at 2. Oh man just put the poor guy out of his misery. Nita repeats the bulldog into the fire, but again pulls Pogo up at 2. Three times is the charm it seems as Nita hits another bulldog and nails Pogo with the flaming barbwire bat one last time before pinning him. Match actually topped the last one in terms of brutality and trusts me that’s a scary thing.
Winner: The Great Nita via pinball
Rating: ****1/4

-We see highlights of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Hisakatsu Oya & Yukihiro Kanemura vs. Tarzan Goto
& Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Gosaku Goshogawara. Goto is once again foiled as Matsunaga’s team wins. Kuroda and Gosaku didn’t look too good in this one.

[TFHLarz]

I guess my review was too big so here is the rest of it.

3. The Great Nita, Katsutoshi Niiyama, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka vs. Mr.
Pogo, The Gladiator, Hideki Hosaka and Hido (Street Fight)

The Gladiator is Mike Awesome, Niiyama is now retired, Tanaka you probably know and Nakagawa is now GOEMON. Hosaka still wrestles on the indys as does Hido who is married to former FMW woman’s star Megumi Kudo. Nita attacks Pogo before the bell and everyone pairs off and brawls outside except for Nita and Pogo. Pogo manages to stun Nita and tries to use his boot, but by now you can pretty much guess what happens. Nita gets a DDT on Pogo then starts up with the headbutts causing Pogo to go for the sickle. Nita gets whipped into the ropes, but blocks Pogo’s shot and take the sickle and uses it on him causing much blood to flow. Nita puts the sickle in Pogo’s mouth and tries to fishhook him with it. Nita tosses Pogo to the outside and they brawl through the crowd, while in the ring Gladiator clothesline Nakagawa for 2. Niiyama comes into the ring, but The Gladiator nails him with a chair. Hido and Tanaka brawl on the outside. This is too chaotic. Gladiator power bombs Niiyama through a table in the ring for 2. Niiyama comes back with a quick uranage for 2. Everyone heads back into the ring and brawls, Pogo gets a hold of a barbwire bat and uses it on Nita. Of course Nita ends up with the bat and he uses it on Pogo then bulldogs him for 2. Nita grabs a piece of a table and smashes it over Pogo’s head, but he’s still up because he’s a real man. Nita solves this problem by slamming the table into his skull a few more times. Nita and Pogo brawl on the outside again. In the ring, Gladiator and Niiyama brawl and Tanaka hits a missile dropkick on Hosaka. Tanaka charges at Hosaka, but Gladiator catches him with a clothesline. Pogo makes it back into the ring and drinks his kerosene, while Hosaka holds Nita down. Pogo tries to turn Tanaka into the Japanese Human Torch, but Nita intervenes and mists Pogo. Nita hits a DDT and he and Pogo brawl outside again, where Nita lays him out. Nita comes back into the ring, where Hosaka charges at him, but gets nailed with the barbwire bat. Nita DDT’s Hosaka onto the barbwire bat and covers, but pulls him up at 2. Gladiator charges, but Nita nails him with the barbwire bat, then power bombs Hosaka for the pin. Match suffered from a lack of heat because it was too chaotic and the crowd couldn’t just concentrate on one thing at once. Of course there was no way they were going to top that lumberjack match anyhow.
Winners: The Great Nita, Katsutoshi Niiyama, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka via pinball
Rating: ***

Overall: Unless you’re squeamish go pick this up now, trust me you won’t regret it. The highlights show some bloody, stiff action from early FMW and The Great Nita stuff is really a must have for any collection. If you’re a fan of FMW, ECW, Big Japan or death matches you’ll love it because it delivers with the content. Violent J Tapes also has other cool stuff including non-death match stuff for those who are squeamish. So go check it out at www.violentjtapes.com and post on his message board and buy his tapes and stuff. Remember 3 Mat Mayhems for $42 means 6 tapes for less than $50! Need I say more? Feedback as always can be sent to phantomlordlarz@aol.com.

[jstonek]

question, why did onita portray the "great nita"?

[TFHLarz]

Not really sure on that one, but I'm guessing they just did it just to do the parody. I don't know though.