The Flying Hammerlock Video Review #77: Tanaka and Homcide Vs. Punk and Anderson

 

Masato Tanaka and "The Notorious 187" Homicide vs. CM Punk and "The Enforcer" C.W. Anderson, WORLD-1 Revisited Tour - Night 1, Academy Hall, Pottstown, PA, April 8, 2004.
 

Homicide and Punk start.   They circle each other and tie up and Punk grabs a rear waistlock.  Homicide gets a wristlock but Punk turns it into an arm wringer.   Homicide trips up Punk and gets a side headlock on the mat.  Homicide brings Punk up but Punk escapes and gets a wristlock of his own.  Homicide gets an armdrag to escape that.  Punk grabs a headlock but Homicide counters into a ground headscissors.  Punk escapes but Homicide grabs Punk's head and shoves it back into the hold.   Punk escapes the hold and tries to sweep Homicide's legs but Homicide escapes that but Punk takes him down and gets an Oklahoma Roll for a 2 count.  Back up, Punk grabs a side headlock.  Into the ropes and Homicide whips Punk across and Punk comes off with a shoulderblock.   Punk runs off the ropes and we get the criss-cross and Punk ducks Homicide's clothesline and gets an armdrag takedown, sending Homicide to the floor.   Homicide rolls back into the ring.  Homicide and Punk tie up and Punk gets a side headlock.   Punk turns it into an arm wringer and whips Homicide off the ropes and hits him with an armdrag.  Then another armdrag.   Homicide gets a go-behind into a schoolboy rollup for 2.  Homicide gets a front facelock and brings Punk up and Punk powers Homicide into the heel corner.   Punk tags in Anderson and Homicide takes Anderson down.   Homicide tags in Tanaka.   They circle each other a few times and Anderson grabs a rear waistlock.   Tanaka escapes but Anderson gets an arm wringer and Tanaka rolls to get out of it and gets an arm wringer of his own.  Anderson grabs Tanaka's leg and takes him down and covers but only gets 1.  Anderson grabs Tanaka's arm but Tanaka takes him down and grabs Anderson's arm in response.  Both guys up and they exchange chops.   Tanaka wins that exchange, forcing Anderson into the corner.  Tanaka whips Anderson into the opposite corner.  Tanaka charges in with a forearm and climbs up to the second turnbuckle for the ten punches, with the crowd counting along.  Tanaka sets up Anderson for the Tornado DDT but Anderson blocks it.   Anderson whips Tanaka into the corner but Tanaka gets his boot up but Anderson grabs it but Tanaka hits him with a forearm.  Anderson charges at Tanaka but Tanaka catches him with a powerslam.  Tanaka stomps Anderson.  Tanaka brings Anderson up and punches him twice.  Anderson comes back with punches of his own.  Anderson powers Tanaka into the heel corner and tags in Punk.  Punk hits a vertical suplex and covers for a 2 count.  Tanaka powers Punk into the face corner and Homicide tags himself into the match.  Homicide chops Punk and he and Tanaka whip Punk into the ropes and Homicide catches Punk with a drop toehold and Tanaka adds an elbow drop.  Tanaka locks on a Camel Clutch and Homicide runs back and forth a few times before stopping to kick Punk in the head.  Homicide snapmares Punk and kicks him in the back.  Homicide covers and gets 2.  Homicide brings Punk up and chops him against the ropes.  Homicide whips Punk across but Punk hangs on to the ropes.  Homicide charges in and Punk back body drops him to the floor.  Anderson attacks Homicide on the floor and sends him into the ring post.  Anderson punches Homicide and grabs a chair and throws it at Homicide's arm.  Anderson rolls Homicide back into the ring.   Punk gets a hammerlock into a side backbreaker.  Punk covers and gets 2.  Punk tags in Anderson.  Anderson punches Homicide, sending Homicide into the corner.  Anderson tries pulling on Homicide's arm but Homicide blocks it.  Anderson whips Homicide into the ropes and Homicide goes for a sunset flip but Anderson blocks it and gets a cross-armbeaker.  Homicide struggles but gets his foot on the rope to break the hold.  Anderson tags in Punk, who comes in and drops a knee on Homicide's arm.   Punk snapmares Homicide and drops another knee.  Then a legdrop to the arm.   Punk covers and gets 2.  Homicide pulls Punk's hair to break the hold.  Punk stomps Homicide's arm.  Punk tags in Anderson and slams Homicide and Anderson comes in and stomps Cide's arm.   Anderson grabs an armbar but Cide punches his way back to his feet.   Cide runs off the ropes but Anderson catches him with the Spinebuster.   Anderson covers but Tanaka breaks up the pin before 3.  Anderson tags in Punk who comes in and stomps Cide in the corner.  Punk gives him several facewashes, including the big running version.  Back up, Punk gets an arm wringer and works on it, including getting on his back and kicking the arm away.  Punk gets a Side Russian Legsweep but only gets 2.  Punk wraps Cide's arm around the rope and tags in Anderson.  Anderson gets in some shots on Cide who fights back, leading to a double-team.  Anderson gets in several more shots and stomps on Cide.  Anderson whips Cide into the ropes and goes for another Spinebuster but Cide counters into a DDT.  Cide gets to the corner and tags in Tanaka, who climbs up and flies off with a missile dropkick.  Punk comes in and Tanaka clotheslines him.  Tanaka brings Punk into the corner and hits him with a Tornado DDT.  Anderson gets up and Tanaka grabs his head and hits him with a Tornado DDT as well.  Tanaka grabs Punk and Anderson and hits Punk with a Stunner and Anderson with a DDT at the same time!   Back to their feet and Anderson retaliates with some punches, sending Tanaka into the corner where he tags in Cide while Anderson tags in Punk.  Cide ducks Punk's clothesline and gets in some shots.   Cide whips Punk into the ropes and catches him with a back body drop.  Cide tries to whip Punk off the ropes but Punk reverses it but Cide hits Punk with an Inverted Atomic Drop.  Cide runs off the ropes and hits Punk with a big boot.  Cide covers and gets 2.  Into the corner and Cide chops Punk.  Cide whips Punk across to the opposite corner and follows but Punk gets his boot up in Cide's face.  Punk comes out of the corner with a clothesline but Cide catches him and hits a T-Bone Suplex into a bridge for 2.  Cide whips Punk into the corner and follows with a clothesline.   Cide tags in Tanaka and sits Punk on the top turnbuckle.  Cide hits a Superplex and Tanaka follows with a frogsplash!  Tanaka covers but Anderson breaks up the pin.  Cide comes in and Punk clotheslines him but Tanaka spears Punk.  Anderson comes in and clotheslines Tanaka.  Punk tags in Anderson and they double whip Homicide across but Cide ducks their double clothesline and clotheslines Anderson and dropkicks Punk.  Punk is standing on the floor and Cide dives out of the ring at him.   Tanaka brings Anderson up and hits him with a forearm.  Tanaka runs off the ropes and nails Anderson with another forearm.  Tanaka goes for the Roaring Elbow but Anderson avoids it and hits a Superkick for a 2 count.  Anderson brings Tanaka up and Tanaka hits him with a forearm.  Tanaka runs off the ropes and Anderson goes for another Spinebuster but Tanaka escapes that and the Superkick and hits the Roaring Elbow for the pin at 13:58!  ****
 

Great match here, everybody delivered.  Recommended and you can see it here.