So last month a project was vaunted in which people would write articles about one wrestling match which they felt somehow summed up life and meaning within its parameters, the results of which would be collated somehow and sold. This created a bit of a ruck in some quarters of the online content provision quarters, with some feeling that recompense automatically be granted to anyone who stumps up the requisite insight and wordcount.
What those moaners did not grasp is that this project was to benefit the great Terry Brunk, known to you and I as wrestling (I hesitate to use this word sometimes but it is applicable) legend Sabu. This man who has undoubtedly sacrificed everything in his body for our amusement/bemusement has hit hard times and it was to be our way of paying back.
As things are wont, the project went south. Nonetheless, I wrote an article I think I may as well share. If you'd like to donate something, anything, to Sabu, then follow this link.
And without further ado...
MASAKATSU FUNAKI vs. TATSUO NAKANO
UWF Fighting Square Hakata, Fukuoka
July 1989
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Where carefully-cultivated fakeness exists and overwhelms, the insertion of violent reality (or the illusion of said) is the most thrilling thing. In wrestling, The Montreal Screwjob, CM Punk and his pipebomb, or Andy Kaufman getting slapped across the chops by Jerry Lawler may spring to mind.
