The Flying Hammerlock Video Review #60: Bull Vs. Bennett

 

Bull Nakano vs. Reggie Bennett, AJW, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan, April 3, 1994.
 

They face off in the middle and Bull offers a handshake and Reggie accepts it and they return to their respective corners to wait for the bell.  They circle each other and tie up and Bull pulls away.  They circle each other again and tie up again and Reggie powers Bull into the ropes.  Reggie chops Bull and Bull retaliates with a forearm.  Reggie responds with a forearm of her own and Bull does the same.  Reggie responds with four big forearms and whips Bull into the corner.  Reggie charges in but Bull gets out of the way.  Bull gives Reggie a hair mare and then another one.   Bull tries for a third one but Reggie blocks it and snapmares Bull.  Then another snapmare.  Into the ropes and Bull runs off and Reggie grabs her by the hair and gives her a facebuster.   Back up and Reggie grabs an arm wringer.  Bull comes back with an arm wringer of her own.  Then a kick to the midsection and a clothesline that sends Reggie backwards into the ropes.  Then another clothesline.   Then Bull gives Reggie a screaming hair mare.   Bull goes for the pin but only gets 2.  Bull grabs Reggie's legs and goes for a Boston Crab but Reggie blocks it.  Bull tries again and gets the Boston Crab.   Reggie powers out of the hold but Bull grabs Reggie's ankle.  Bull ties up Reggie's legs and gets the Scorpion Lock (Sharpshooter) on Reggie but Reggie makes it to the bottom rope.  Bull brings Reggie up by her head and whips her into the ropes.   Reggie comes off and Bull hits her with a jumping chest bump.   Reggie runs off the ropes and hits Bull with a chest bump.   Bull is down and Reggie brings her up by her head.   Reggie slams Bull and hits a big splash and goes for the pin but only gets 2.  Bull is down again and Reggie brings her up and brings her down with an armbar takedown.  Reggie turns it into a pin attempt for 1.  Then another pin attempt.  Reggie gets up and legdrops the arm.  Reggie is still putting pressure on the arm.  Reggie brings Bull up and hits a swinging neckbreaker.   Reggie rolls over for a pin but only gets 1.  Bull gets up and takes Reggie down with a double-leg takedown and goes for the pin but Reggie grabs the bottom rope.  Bull goes out to the floor and drags Reggie out with her and sends Reggie crashing into the seats.  A couple of ring attendants help Reggie to her feet.  Bull is back in the ring and the camera catches her holding some kind of weapon behind her back.  Reggie gets up and starts to get back in the ring and Bull hits her with the weapon.  Bull launches Reggie into the ring and hits her with the weapon a few times.  Bull whips Reggie but Reggie reverses it and sends Bull into the corner and follows with a clothesline.  Reggie whips Bull into the ropes and catches her with a tilt-a-whirl slam.   It gets 2.   Reggie whips Bull into the ropes again and tries to catch her with another tilt-a-whirl slam but it gets messed up this time.   Bull whips Reggie into the ropes and catches her with a clothesline.  Bull comes off with a second clothesline that knocks Reggie down to the mat.  Bull gets a third clothesline and goes for the pin but only gets 2.  Bull whips Reggie into the ropes and Reggie comes off and ducks Bull's clothesline.  Reggie comes off the ropes with a dropkick.   Reggie slams Bull and climbs up to the second turnbuckle, yells and hits a splash but only gets 2.   Reggie powerbombs Bull for 2.  Bull gets up and Reggie is outside the ring climbing up but Bull sends her to the floor.  Bull hits a tope suicida to Reggie.   Bull rolls Reggie back into the ring and follows.   Bull slams Reggie and climbs up top and hits the Guillotine Legdrop, one of her finishers, but only gets 2.  Bull climbs up again and hits the somersault Guillotine Legdrop, and that gets the 3. ****
 

Really good female hoss fight.  Recommended and you can watch it here.