#291: Masashi Takeda vs. Kenji Fukimoto, FREEDOMS Death Match Carnival (7/13/2016).
This was a request brought to me by one of my buddies. I was shocked to find out he knew anything about FREEDOMS.
When I went to find this match online, I asked him “is it the Scissors Death Match?” He said Yes, and if only I knew what I was in for.
They exchange beers at first, and then hit each other in the head with the cans. Takeda dropkicks Kenji into the cheese graters on the ropes. He grabs a light tube, and hits him in the head at ringside. Takeda grabs another tube, and smashes it across Kenji’s head. Kenji then grabs a grater, which I don’t think is for cheese now that I look at it, and rakes it across Takeda’s head. He grabs another, and goes to hit Takeda with both, but instead it gets countered and both get smashed into his own head.
Takeda goes under the ring, and grabs multiple pairs of scissors that have been taped together, blades out. He stabs it into Kenji’s head. In the ring, Takeda grabs another grater, and stabs it into Kenji’s arm. Yikes. More graters to the head, and now one is stuck in Kenji’s forehead. Takeda with an irish whip to Kenji into the light tubes in the ropes. They exchange chops in the middle of the ring, until Takeda grabs another tube and smashes it across Kenji’s head.
Takeda places the scissors across Kenji’s back, and tries to smash a chair into it, but it won’t stay balanced. Kenji fires back by powerslamming Takeda onto the scissors! He grabs one of the pairs, and begins stabbing it into Takeda’s forehead. Kenji headbutts a tube into Takeda’s head, and then starts eating the glass. Hey, why? He rakes the glass on Takeda’s arm, and head. There is blood everywhere, if you can believe it.
Back suplex by Kenji. Now he grabs the board of graters, and gets back body dropped onto it by Takeda. Running knee by Takeda, and he places two light tubes on his chest. Double running knees break the tubes into Kenji. He gets a two count off of that. Takeda swings a chair into Kenji’s head, and he kicks out again. Kenji fires back with a huge Urinage onto the graters! Takeda fires back with a German Suplex out of nowhere.
Powerslam by Takeda, and he places the graters across Kenji’s chest. Kenji avoids an aerial attack and tosses the graters at Takeda’s head. Kenji looks for the package powerbomb, and hits it in the middle of the ring. He places two chairs in the middle of the ring, and places the graters on them. He lifts Takeda up and places him on the top rope. They battle for control, until Takeda takes over and powerbombs Kenji on them! He kicks out at 1!
They engage in a battle of elbows, until Takeda hits an Angle Slam for 2. Shining Wizard into the graters in the chest, and Kenji kicks out again. Takeda goes to ringside, and grabs a board of scissors from underneath the ring. He grabs Kenji, and gives him a side walk slam into the scissors, and one of them very clearly punctures Kenji’s back. Takeda pins to win the match. Welp, my friend was not lying when he said that was one of the nastiest spots he’d ever seen in a match. That was just gross. The match itself was typical FREEDOMS stuff, but seeing a pair of scissors go right into a man’s back is fucking nuts.