Pro Wrastling!

PSA: Some content in this entry may be too extreme for young audiences.
So I've been in Japan for about 2 months now (almost typed 2 weeks lol) so you might think that I have a pretty good idea about what Japanese people do for fun. Well turns out they do some pretty funky stuff. And I don't mean weird funky, I mean, EXTREME PRO WRESTLING!! RAWR!!

But really, last weekend I went back to the ever dirty men's dorm (keiteki) where they were hosting a pro wrestling match. It was pretty cool. They had constructed their own ring, rigged up a sound system, and had a projector on, showing clips of from videos and such. It was pretty well done.

The leader of this whole shabang is a senior who has lived in the men's dorm all 4 years, and I guess he created THE OFFICIAL Hokkaido U. Pro Wrestling Club last year. Everyone that was in the club was running around wearing purple sweatshirts and such, so it seems like they were pretty organized, AND pretty serious. After a pre-game talk, everyone was set to go, and the killed the lights, and cued the first video. I say first video because there were 5 fights, and each one had a video ranging from 5 minutes to 10 minutes, with some pretty spiffy special effects. It was super cool.

The first video showed the results of the last session, where this one guy won, and this other guy lost. But the guy that won gets assassinated, but in the process of burying his body, it suddenly...DISAPPEARS!!! That video was about 10 minutes long, and was actually really well done. I was so surprised.

That video ended, and then a new one began. This one depicted 2 guys camping out in a tent, and then a giant gorilla starts chasing them and messing with them. It was pretty funny. The video ended and the Mario and Luigi came running into the room and jumped into the ring. The gorilla followed shortly.

The match began with mario and luigi back slapping the gorilla whilst making all the mario and luigi (wha-haaa) sounds, which was really funny. Then the gorilla picked one of them up and threw him, which ended up actually killing luigi. But mario ran over to a bag, grabbed a mushroom, and fed it to luigi, thereby reviving him, just like in the games. win! lol. After a couple more minutes of fighting luigi whipped out a 100 ton hammer and smacked the gorilla, and then mario and luigi grabbed a gun and kanata (???) and went to work, chopping and shooting the gorilla, only to have him get up in the middle of all of this and once again throw each of the mario brothers, and win the match lol. pretty epic

The next battle was a 2v2 tag team match. The video and characters were all from some Japanese show, and the fight itself was pretty terrible. That's enough of that lol.

The third fight's intro video was pretty crazy. They showed some nazi videos and such, and yeah pretty crazy things in that nature. And then cut to a scene with 2 kids sitting on the ground in the middle of a forest and several nazis standing around them. They were saying things and I could only pick up a little bit of the Japanese (I think the 2 on the ground were brothers), but after 2 minutes, one of the guys on the ground got up and walked a couple of yards away, where he was given a gun and then he shot himself in the head (insert crazy special effects). The other brother then goes crazy and the video ends, leading to the match. Pretty..um...ridiculous to be honest.

The 4th fight was a 1v1v1 between 3 girls, and the intro vid was pretty epic. I couldn't understand too much of what was going on, but it seemed like a Lord of the rings parody, where 2 of the chicks represented each of the 2 towers (sauron and saruman) and then the third chick was like...some random chick yeah I didn't catch that part. But they had crazy shots of like this one chick standing on a roof looking into the distance with the 2 towers actually in the distance and the sky looked like the sky in the real world of the matrix, it was actually a really well done. Their fight was super boring though.

The final fight would have another video that extended on the first one, showing the guy who disappeared training in a rocky sort of manner which was pretty funny. Then the fight began. These 2 guys were really the founders of club, so the things they did were way more extreme than anyone else. They flipped each other, kicked each other, threw each other into the corners of the ring, picked each other up, jumped OUT of the ring onto each other, and the one guy threw the other guy off a staircase lol. Pretty intense.

I've got a bunch of pictures up on facebook, but I will add some here, the first is the ring itself that they made. And the second is the best picture of the night, from the final fight.

I will also be uploading videos onto a youtube channel so that I don't have to worry about how much room I have left here on the blog, the channel is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/escaflenix36#p/u