@Tiriban They will goddamn kill themselves in the ring to give fans a great match. This is why Japanese wrestling will always to me be the very best wrestling in the world. I love the European technical style and respect the Lucha Libre style in Mexico, but Puroresu will always be the best to me.
Kenta Kobashi. A wrestling god made of flesh and bone. That he would take THREE of these drivers...I remember seeing Nigel McGuinness also take three from Morishima at ROH Fighting Spirit.
@CMY187 They need to incorperate the spirit of Japan into the American style. Maybe that would save the business from the sorry state it's currently in.
@Tiriban Kawada and Misawa continued to wrestle despite Kawada's broken arm and Misawa almost being killed. Bryan Danielson and Eddie Edwards wrestled with injured shoulders.
Right now, the only big US wrestling promotion that still treats pro wrestling with respect and prestige like the Japanese do is Ring Of Honor. Have you seen Kobashi's two matches in ROH?
KENTA, Marufuji, Shiozaki, Morishima, Kobashi, Misawa himself...ROH and NOAH working together. Pro wrestling is still alive in the USA.
@Tiriban If you want to watch ROH matches or even entire shows, I can help.
Have you heard of Samoa Joe's 21-month reign as ROH World Champion? Or of Takeshi Morishima's ROH World Title reign that included a Match Of The Year 2007 against Bryan Danielson?
Believe me, ROH is a promotion to really get into. The Joe vs Punk trilogy is LEGENDARY among indy wrestling fans.
Dragon Gate was in ROH too, actually getting a 5-Star, MOTY 2006 in a six-man tag at Supercard Of Honor 2006.
@jhniscolV2 mma fighters get the proper time to recover as well for the next bout, which is about a 3-5 month span depending depending on how they are contracted to. Wrestlers, depending on the promotion especially late 80's/early 90's AJPW where head dropping happened often, got maybe as much as 3 days in between or something like that.
@expertEICHOLZ Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that if it wasn't for professional wrestling, you wouldn't have MMA? Some of the best MMA fighters were also pro wrestlers.
howabout you get dropped on your head there genius...then you come back with a neck brace and all and tell me if that was fake and gay you flaming shit bird.
every time i watch this i think a different one of the THREE was the worst. they were all sick taken individually, together is whole 'nother level of sick
Pay close attention to the replays at the end. On one of them, the Japanese guy intentionally headspiked that backdrop... I thought it was a botch at first but damn. I bet the dude can't swim. His giant brass balls sink him to the bottom of any body of water.
The WWE could learn lessons here on how to get guys over without them having to win matches. They really suck at that these days. Sort of just toss a title at a guy and hope the fans take to it.
@CreepX Correct, Dr Death lets go at just the right moment so that the Uke doesn't have to bear his weight/momentum on their neck as well. Apart from that the victim has to get his free arm over his head and hope.
The song is "I Love It Loud" by KISS. It's on the Creatures Of The Night album. Actually, if you like this song, you'll like the whole album. Do a youtube search for "War Machine" and "Creatures Of The Night".
the beginning of the legend known as "The Kobashi Bump". When Mexican Wrestler Oro passed away from landing on his head later that year, it was because he wanted to sell a Lariat with what he called a Kobashi Bump...in other words he wanted to land the sell like Kobashi here...and he died. O_O
they practice a lot between each other... the guy in orange has got to have great strength on his shoulders and push his head forward as quick as possible every time the guy on red flips him... so that he lands in 1 or 2 seconds on his shoulders....
If that is the case.... why even have a comment system on Youtube? My comment contributed to the discussion about a wrestler putting the life of another man in unneccesary danger. Yours on the other hand is just fucking pointless. All you are saying is that nobody cares what I think. Well apparently you cared enough to comment instead of just overlook it am I right?
It's Japan. They're known for neck dropping and being more realistic about how they wrestle. If you lost respect for Williams then you probably lost respect for a lot of guys like Kawada, Kobashi, Misawa and plenty of others. They've all dropped others on their heads.
Also Kobashi could have tucked his head in to fall on his back (like he did for the last one), he didnt. It was his choice to fall on his head because he knew it would make Death look good.
People blaming Strong Style need to realise SS promotes a more realistic, ground orientated style with realistic holds and stiff kicks. The head dropping is synonymous with 1990's AJPW.
You are missing his point completly he's saying this isn't strong style. Strong Style is NJPW with it's ground work and strikes, realism. AJPW promoted the head drops and death defying spots like this one, AJPW's style was called Kings Road.
Misawa died from a regular backdrop not a Backdrop driver. Honestly they've been wrestling like this for years and the American death rate in wrestlers in much higher.
It was a bockdrop driver, you moron. It was called "death landing" or similar for god's sake. American wrestlers die from drug overdoses and heart attacks, not from taking retarded bumps.
The reports say it was a 7 on the danger scale and that it was Sato's finisher, which is a backdrop driver. Chris Hero was there and said it was a driver. Dude broke his spinal cord. It was a driver.
Regardless I don't think the style has anything to do with his death (as many people are blamming the strong style) since it's been this way for years and the death rate is low. The thing about Misawa is he almost took no time off where Kawada, Kobashi and others have taken years off or taken breaks to heal up.
I don't blame the strong style, I blame the "head drop" style that misawa is famous for inventing (or, at least, credited for). Strong style doesn't mean headdrops. On the other hand, how many people have died in the wrestling ring? I only know of two in the ring (one was a heart attack). Two others were from a dive to the otside and a powebomb on the floor. So death in wrestling is small as it is. You can't say "well it doesn't happen often in headdrops".
I think if it's done constantly than it is deffinatly a factor. Again Misawa was known for barley taking any time off where as Kobashi and others know when they just arn't up to doing it so they take a year off.
others take off when they break a bone or have cancer, not cuz they get a concussion. I don't know of any japnese wrestler that took off to heal up. Consistency is definately an issue. Benoit should be enigh of a case for people to wise up on being dropped on their head and not stepping away for a while.
Well your right about in-ring deaths not occuring often, but the number of actual wrestler deaths is rather large, of course, majority of those are ODs
The problem is that after this match, this kinda became the normal back drop, not this extreme. One a scale of 1-10 this would've been a 9 or ten, they said Misawa's final suplex was about a 6 or 7.
Ah but heres the thing, Misawa had been going for years injury riddled and genuinly not in the best shape. He never stopped and his body just coudln't take it anymore. I mean did you hear the post mortom? He practically internally deapitated himself taking a bump to try and entertain his fanbase. The thing you have to think about is even a "simple" backdrop" after years of headbumps and injuries, can all amount and resurface within a few seconds of a routine move.
Misawa was and is a legend in the truest sense of that word. He died doing what he loved and while it is sad, it is also understandable. Like you said that kinda of punishment scripted or not adds up.
huh? Should he have remained down and gotten pinned after backdrop #1? A big reason this match is so good is cuz of how tough both men are. Watching Kenta keep getting up, crawling around bewildered, hardly conscious, surviving purely on instinct, only to get backdropped yet again is amazing. It just makes the match more exciting.
He didn't sold them? He was lying on the mat as if he was dead after the first one, and what happened after the 2nd one was probably a panic reaction ("OH SHIT I'M DEAD").
@JeffSCorn --There have been 7 or eight burning hammers EVER. He gets to do moves like that because of matches like this, which happened around 5 years before the first burning hammer.
Kobashi is one tough fucker to take them and get up. He was dropped right on his head. There's no way of doing that safely you just have to have a really strong neck and Kobashi's must be made of concrete
yeah it should, it looked like Dr Death was really trying to bring DEATH to Kobashi, I mean he got dropped on the WORST part of the head, next to being dropped on your temple
That move is SICK!!! I would hate to have to put myself through that just for a pay check. Well, they don't exactly do it just for a paycheck it is for the fans too.
That's a tough one, in years of wrestling I've never known of a way to take a backdrop driver without avoiding injury entirely. Unless you fully manage to do a back flip, but then it doesn't look as brutal. Most guys from the Williams/Kobashi/Misawa era (or even now) were actually just willing to land on their heads or necks to show how tough the sport was.
Fortunately, I've never tried to take a Ganzo Bomb, ha.
Kobashi needed a hospital after the first one. I can't believe the match continued, let alone have that done to him twice more! Japan is nuts!
Tiriban 3 months ago 11
@Tiriban They will goddamn kill themselves in the ring to give fans a great match. This is why Japanese wrestling will always to me be the very best wrestling in the world. I love the European technical style and respect the Lucha Libre style in Mexico, but Puroresu will always be the best to me.
Kenta Kobashi. A wrestling god made of flesh and bone. That he would take THREE of these drivers...I remember seeing Nigel McGuinness also take three from Morishima at ROH Fighting Spirit.
CMY187 2 months ago
@CMY187 They need to incorperate the spirit of Japan into the American style. Maybe that would save the business from the sorry state it's currently in.
Tiriban 2 months ago
@Tiriban Kawada and Misawa continued to wrestle despite Kawada's broken arm and Misawa almost being killed. Bryan Danielson and Eddie Edwards wrestled with injured shoulders.
Right now, the only big US wrestling promotion that still treats pro wrestling with respect and prestige like the Japanese do is Ring Of Honor. Have you seen Kobashi's two matches in ROH?
KENTA, Marufuji, Shiozaki, Morishima, Kobashi, Misawa himself...ROH and NOAH working together. Pro wrestling is still alive in the USA.
CMY187 2 months ago
@CMY187 Yeah, I have to try and get into ROH. I'm a lazy American fan, where I forget about a promotion if I don't get to watch it on t.v.
Tiriban 2 months ago
@Tiriban If you want to watch ROH matches or even entire shows, I can help.
Have you heard of Samoa Joe's 21-month reign as ROH World Champion? Or of Takeshi Morishima's ROH World Title reign that included a Match Of The Year 2007 against Bryan Danielson?
Believe me, ROH is a promotion to really get into. The Joe vs Punk trilogy is LEGENDARY among indy wrestling fans.
Dragon Gate was in ROH too, actually getting a 5-Star, MOTY 2006 in a six-man tag at Supercard Of Honor 2006.
CMY187 2 months ago
@CMY187 I would LOVE to watch all that! Any help you can give, would be appreciated!
Tiriban 2 months ago
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micholly 3 months ago
fucking japan wrestling is insane, if my manager says your going to japan to wrestle il tell him to jog on
lordifrit1 5 months ago 4
@lordifrit1 You have a manager?
micholly 3 months ago
@micholly yup
lordifrit1 3 months ago
Hard to believe Williams is the one who's dead.
PenguinJockey 5 months ago 2
He should be in the hall of fame. Him and BamBam Gordy are one the greatest tag teams of all time.
Mrslammie 5 months ago 2
Dr Death should have made it big time in America! He was so awesome!
TheWCWite 5 months ago 2
im sure jr is proud
ru2holmes 6 months ago
I don't know why, but I always subconciously call this move "the misawa killer"
Pcfan11 6 months ago
えぐすぎる
1979197948 6 months ago
That was brutal.
mikey777799 7 months ago
FAKE AND GAY
EICHOLZtheEXPERT 7 months ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT Like ur life :L
pimpcane109 7 months ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT I hope the spirit of Dr. Death Steve Williams haunts you in your sleep with a backdrop driver!
SDBugg 7 months ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT
he landed on the top of his damn head you fucking idiot
jhniscolV2 6 months ago
@jhniscolV2 AWW did the poor fake wrestler get a boo boo? That happends to MMA fighters all the time.and they do it for real.
expertEICHOLZ 6 months ago
@expertEICHOLZ
true it happens to MMA fighters all the time, but MMA fighters fight 3 or 4 times a month. wrestlers go at it 25 times a month
jhniscolV2 6 months ago
@jhniscolV2 mma fighters get the proper time to recover as well for the next bout, which is about a 3-5 month span depending depending on how they are contracted to. Wrestlers, depending on the promotion especially late 80's/early 90's AJPW where head dropping happened often, got maybe as much as 3 days in between or something like that.
newagepun 6 months ago 2
@newagepun
my mistake. i was on angry rant mode there
i watch MMA and I know what you mean
jhniscolV2 6 months ago
@expertEICHOLZ Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that if it wasn't for professional wrestling, you wouldn't have MMA? Some of the best MMA fighters were also pro wrestlers.
4583945 6 months ago
@4583945 Here is an easy one.Brock lesnar
AeroLord117 6 months ago
@AeroLord117 Exactly.
4583945 6 months ago
@4583945 Saku!
AstroZombi36 6 months ago
@expertEICHOLZ JERKOFF.
kevinc32 6 months ago
@EICHOLZtheEXPERT
howabout you get dropped on your head there genius...then you come back with a neck brace and all and tell me if that was fake and gay you flaming shit bird.
theinfamousmrsleep 3 months ago
Dr. Death Steve Williams(RIP) will kill cena using that move.
theinfamousmrsleep 8 months ago 2
is he....dead?
sutishman 9 months ago
every time i watch this i think a different one of the THREE was the worst. they were all sick taken individually, together is whole 'nother level of sick
TheIroncross6 9 months ago
fukking shit this makes wwe look like dancing with stars hahaha
damn son very dangerous moves
can paralyze ore kill !!!!!
reality shit here
sukruoosten 10 months ago 2
Jesus...
fixxxer3456 10 months ago
better than the "attitude adjustment"
hachano24 10 months ago
@hachano24 no shit...
satiata12 10 months ago
Fuck me that second one could have killed him.
Shagrat65 1 year ago
rip kenta kobashi
ChristianDinosaur 1 year ago
Pay close attention to the replays at the end. On one of them, the Japanese guy intentionally headspiked that backdrop... I thought it was a botch at first but damn. I bet the dude can't swim. His giant brass balls sink him to the bottom of any body of water.
Bing88 1 year ago 9
What does soste mean??
ToxsickDeath 1 year ago
Doctor Death was the closest thing we had to Kobashi in the states; a living legend and one of the toughest men in the sport.
evilmidget 1 year ago
I thought the idea was to keep the other guy safe during the moves.
wesclev83 1 year ago
god i miss these days ,rip doc
mcjeff1234 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dr. Death Steve Williams
armandmax 1 year ago
why does most japanese wrestling moves always consist of dropping there opponent on their head?
XCWDrake 1 year ago
0:45 That mother fucker just no sold something that would put most people in a coma!
Cloud2400 1 year ago
This is one of my favourirte matches, absolutely intense! And what a finish.
MAJS444 1 year ago
Man, Kobashi is a good man, he don't deserve that. In fact, I think that NO ONE deserves that!
JMBrainbuster 1 year ago
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That's how you lose and get over. Vince. Look.
DinosaurM1911 1 year ago
This was the best i ever saw.
mandude846 1 year ago
The guy got backdrop-piledriven out of his mind!!!! Crawling around the ring like a baby!!!!!
frtnokr 1 year ago
CHIGNG CHONGG POOOWW !!!!!!!
k0edby22 1 year ago
Kenta seriously is one sick son of a gun! R.I.P Dr Death
26bagel 1 year ago
he should have been dead on the second one!
TwistaG 1 year ago
The WWE could learn lessons here on how to get guys over without them having to win matches. They really suck at that these days. Sort of just toss a title at a guy and hope the fans take to it.
Also, how is Kobashi not dead. o_O
Elusareth 1 year ago
Awesome. RIP, Dr. Death.
Chuloloc 2 years ago 2
What's the proper way to take this move? Tuck your head and hope you don't break anything?
downthesun01 2 years ago 4
There is no "proper way" to take this move... when you get dropped on your head, you get dropped on your head.
CreepX 2 years ago 59
@CreepX There is a proper way to do it though.
Sneezlebob 1 year ago
@CreepX Correct, Dr Death lets go at just the right moment so that the Uke doesn't have to bear his weight/momentum on their neck as well. Apart from that the victim has to get his free arm over his head and hope.
ramanon 6 months ago
@downthesun01 Pray to whatever deity is in your faith.
egg64 1 year ago
Damn, the song at the end is amazing!
daysinthewake 2 years ago
The song is "I Love It Loud" by KISS. It's on the Creatures Of The Night album. Actually, if you like this song, you'll like the whole album. Do a youtube search for "War Machine" and "Creatures Of The Night".
hulkout666 2 years ago 3
RIP Dr.Death
Dr. Death was a excellent wrestler
I like his thing with making powerful moves that were powerful yet would not injure his opponents
EGPMH 2 years ago 4
williams was a great one (like brody) for being incredibly stiff and yet not injuring people. i wish goldberg had learned such lessons.
bladestormviking 2 years ago
goldberg and batista if we say them to do these dangerous moves of japanese wrestling they will botch and kill 100s of pro wrestlers.
both are shit in the squared circles
bharatsermal 2 years ago
jesus
leeperiskwl 2 years ago
the beginning of the legend known as "The Kobashi Bump". When Mexican Wrestler Oro passed away from landing on his head later that year, it was because he wanted to sell a Lariat with what he called a Kobashi Bump...in other words he wanted to land the sell like Kobashi here...and he died. O_O
azrielseclements 2 years ago
after the second one he crawls around the ring in serious pain.
cheenodollars 2 years ago
this is what killed misawa. and kobashi's neck is messed up also
eslubin 2 years ago
wtf he didnt die he kicked out
dragonboy41 2 years ago
Dr. Death passed away a couple of days ago......
TheShadowBrigade 2 years ago
R.I.P
komugikomosu 2 years ago
R.I.P.
im very sad...
つД｀)･ﾟ･｡
Cappo660 2 years ago
RIP
Celuxyn 2 years ago
Rest in peace Dr. Death Steve Williams.
sad0happy 2 years ago
yay chian figthing oh :)
xoxogossipgirl60422 2 years ago
(of Death)
AbyssThumbtackSpot 2 years ago
That's why Kenta Kobashi is the real Mr. Wrestling.
NightwingXX7 2 years ago 3
dr.death steve williams at his best
shoccwave23 2 years ago
they practice a lot between each other... the guy in orange has got to have great strength on his shoulders and push his head forward as quick as possible every time the guy on red flips him... so that he lands in 1 or 2 seconds on his shoulders....
elgdito 2 years ago
How the FUCK is he still alive?? omg that was wicked...
Kerbalf 2 years ago 3
how the hell did he kick out of the first one?
Josta014 2 years ago
@Josta014: Nevermind that, how the hell did he stand up after the second one? Kobashi is one tough son of a bitch.
Speaking of a tough son of a bitch, R.I.P Dr. Death. You will be missed.
marvhartigan 2 years ago
i fucking scared so muchhhhh reallyyyyyy
austin2183 2 years ago
I just came in my pants. That was brutal. I have even more respect for Dr. D.
rizeorfall 2 years ago 3
Respect for him nearly killing Kenta?
paynexkillerAOTF 2 years ago
yup
rizeorfall 2 years ago
*A month passes*
Cool.
paynexkillerAOTF 2 years ago
That is what I was thinking... if anything it made me LOSE respect for him.
TheShadowBrigade 2 years ago
Cool. It's too bad that no one really cares what you think anyways.
CSchruppNMU 2 years ago
If that is the case.... why even have a comment system on Youtube? My comment contributed to the discussion about a wrestler putting the life of another man in unneccesary danger. Yours on the other hand is just fucking pointless. All you are saying is that nobody cares what I think. Well apparently you cared enough to comment instead of just overlook it am I right?
Good day to you.
TheShadowBrigade 2 years ago
It's Japan. They're known for neck dropping and being more realistic about how they wrestle. If you lost respect for Williams then you probably lost respect for a lot of guys like Kawada, Kobashi, Misawa and plenty of others. They've all dropped others on their heads.
CSchruppNMU 2 years ago
Also Kobashi could have tucked his head in to fall on his back (like he did for the last one), he didnt. It was his choice to fall on his head because he knew it would make Death look good.
Its called selling people.
BitCrushingCog 2 years ago
How is that selling?
Selling is not about taking crazy bumps. It's about what you do AFTER taking any bumps.
WillIsSoAwesome 2 years ago
Selling has nothing to do with whether he tucked his head or not.
CSchruppNMU 2 years ago
Mr Unbreakable-san! These guys are just unbelievable!
GiDaOne 2 years ago
People blaming Strong Style need to realise SS promotes a more realistic, ground orientated style with realistic holds and stiff kicks. The head dropping is synonymous with 1990's AJPW.
FireProMMA 2 years ago 3
i hear that. strong style is beast. they had all the best bombs n drivers. the death bomb is beast 2
oplivecrime206 2 years ago
You are missing his point completly he's saying this isn't strong style. Strong Style is NJPW with it's ground work and strikes, realism. AJPW promoted the head drops and death defying spots like this one, AJPW's style was called Kings Road.
KidOmega 2 years ago 3
You're exactly right. Thank you.
CSchruppNMU 2 years ago
Holy Fuck! I can't believe Kobashi took three of those Homicide Backdrops.....especially the first one
StingMontana 2 years ago
lmfao!! well thats what they sign up for
fabulous233 2 years ago
man that guy is lucky he isnt dead
digitalbots 2 years ago
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haha the guys in wwe couldn't take that shit, cept maybe jeff, and rey
craigzombar93 2 years ago
well aparently misawa could take only so many. maybe no one needs to take them
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago 5
Well said. It's a bit weird seeing this now.
skraddypoo 2 years ago
Misawa died from a regular backdrop not a Backdrop driver. Honestly they've been wrestling like this for years and the American death rate in wrestlers in much higher.
TheForgottenFlesh 2 years ago
It was a bockdrop driver, you moron. It was called "death landing" or similar for god's sake. American wrestlers die from drug overdoses and heart attacks, not from taking retarded bumps.
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
Did you see the video of Misawa taking the bump? All the reports say it was a normal standard backdrop
TheForgottenFlesh 2 years ago
The reports say it was a 7 on the danger scale and that it was Sato's finisher, which is a backdrop driver. Chris Hero was there and said it was a driver. Dude broke his spinal cord. It was a driver.
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
That's odd. I'm probably wrong since I've heard like 20 different versions of what happend.
TheForgottenFlesh 2 years ago
Translation of the japanese text is to blame.
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
Regardless I don't think the style has anything to do with his death (as many people are blamming the strong style) since it's been this way for years and the death rate is low. The thing about Misawa is he almost took no time off where Kawada, Kobashi and others have taken years off or taken breaks to heal up.
TheForgottenFlesh 2 years ago
I don't blame the strong style, I blame the "head drop" style that misawa is famous for inventing (or, at least, credited for). Strong style doesn't mean headdrops. On the other hand, how many people have died in the wrestling ring? I only know of two in the ring (one was a heart attack). Two others were from a dive to the otside and a powebomb on the floor. So death in wrestling is small as it is. You can't say "well it doesn't happen often in headdrops".
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
I think if it's done constantly than it is deffinatly a factor. Again Misawa was known for barley taking any time off where as Kobashi and others know when they just arn't up to doing it so they take a year off.
TheForgottenFlesh 2 years ago
others take off when they break a bone or have cancer, not cuz they get a concussion. I don't know of any japnese wrestler that took off to heal up. Consistency is definately an issue. Benoit should be enigh of a case for people to wise up on being dropped on their head and not stepping away for a while.
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
Well your right about in-ring deaths not occuring often, but the number of actual wrestler deaths is rather large, of course, majority of those are ODs
billywitchdocter 2 years ago
ABsolutely. OD's or heart attacks resulting from millions of things including doping.
GhostlyPapaya 2 years ago
The problem is that after this match, this kinda became the normal back drop, not this extreme. One a scale of 1-10 this would've been a 9 or ten, they said Misawa's final suplex was about a 6 or 7.
KidOmega 2 years ago
Ah but heres the thing, Misawa had been going for years injury riddled and genuinly not in the best shape. He never stopped and his body just coudln't take it anymore. I mean did you hear the post mortom? He practically internally deapitated himself taking a bump to try and entertain his fanbase. The thing you have to think about is even a "simple" backdrop" after years of headbumps and injuries, can all amount and resurface within a few seconds of a routine move.
EpicProWrestling 2 years ago 14
Misawa was and is a legend in the truest sense of that word. He died doing what he loved and while it is sad, it is also understandable. Like you said that kinda of punishment scripted or not adds up.
Kokushi666 10 months ago
but only a handful of americans have died in the ring, and even less from an injury in the ring. and i'm counting all north americans here
bloobloo78 2 years ago
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wwe is best ever it can hold anything
200xw 2 years ago
You must the biggest asshole in the world
knightrrider 2 years ago
すごい～！
小橋！！
AllegroTony 2 years ago
anybody else think kobashi was an ass for taking so many backdrops and not really selling them as well as he could?
blacksdocrack 2 years ago
huh? Should he have remained down and gotten pinned after backdrop #1? A big reason this match is so good is cuz of how tough both men are. Watching Kenta keep getting up, crawling around bewildered, hardly conscious, surviving purely on instinct, only to get backdropped yet again is amazing. It just makes the match more exciting.
DingusStudley 2 years ago 29
@DingusStudley it's part of the glory of japanese wrestling. it truly is the best in the world, at least in my eyes, and the eyes of many others.
it's just so fuckin epic, guys kicking out of moves 10x more brutal than most anything you see in the NA [unless it, too, was adopted from Japan lol]
it's just awesome. and nobody can deny it. i think Japan got it right when it came to grappling. lol
ChaostheClown 1 year ago
He didn't sold them? He was lying on the mat as if he was dead after the first one, and what happened after the 2nd one was probably a panic reaction ("OH SHIT I'M DEAD").
Jetlag666 2 years ago
This is how someone can get more popular while still losing. It only made both men more marketable.
KidOmega 2 years ago 4
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yea that move was gay...
ShutTheFuckUp0809 2 years ago
Kobashi takes a few of the greatest bumps ever in this clip!
frrrrrunkis 2 years ago 2
Baku Dropa Drivaaahh!
beatnix 3 years ago 7
roflmao
markopher16 3 years ago
That's what Kobashi gets for hitting Burning Hammers and Lariats on everyone.
JeffSCorn 3 years ago 13
@JeffSCorn he hit 9 burning hammers at the most ever.
GhostlyPapaya 1 year ago
@JeffSCorn --There have been 7 or eight burning hammers EVER. He gets to do moves like that because of matches like this, which happened around 5 years before the first burning hammer.
MAJS444 1 year ago
@MAJS444 And? You obviously missed the joke that the others picked up on.
JeffSCorn 1 year ago
Two future cancer survivors trying to kill one another...
Fantastic match though.
georgewynne69 3 years ago 6
What's the song at the end ? I know it, I'm just having a brain fart.
dennisbergkamp17 3 years ago
Kiss - I Love It Loud
AngeTheDude 3 years ago
Oh yeah, thanks man.
dennisbergkamp17 3 years ago
Heheh, good ol' Dr. Death!! That first Murder Backdrop wasn't too bad. But that 2nd and 3rd one just ended Kobashi and whatever he had left in him.
Lunacyk 3 years ago
That ain't no Back Suplex, he drove his head right into the mat!
Mistertbones 3 years ago
Ouchies
mrjasonrowland1986 3 years ago
good stretching before match prevents disasters
juke52 3 years ago
I must've seen this a hundred times and it's still probably the most fucked up thing I've seen in wrestling in which someone wasn't seriously hurt.
sunsaz 3 years ago
BACKDROP PILEDRIVER !!!!!!!!!!!
Masterajit43 3 years ago
and with that the ledgend of kobashi emerged.
busterdog321 3 years ago
Mother Fuck!!!
Kobashi is one tough fucker to take them and get up. He was dropped right on his head. There's no way of doing that safely you just have to have a really strong neck and Kobashi's must be made of concrete
vdd 3 years ago 2
Kobashi has been beaten up so much during his matches, I wonder how can he still be alive. I mean, this move is fucking sick!!
kossttass 3 years ago
BACK DROP DRIVAAAH! BACK DROP DRIVAAAH! BACK DROP DRIVAAAH!
The second one should be illegal tbh.
AmyInChains161 3 years ago 3
yeah it should, it looked like Dr Death was really trying to bring DEATH to Kobashi, I mean he got dropped on the WORST part of the head, next to being dropped on your temple
hughezthagodfather 3 years ago
i think he need some water after that!...
awesome his head can take it!
mbsehje 3 years ago
dr death is notorious for breaking wrestlers.
remember shawn michaels?
mightycowhero 3 years ago
Insane! This commentator rules by the way.
shiningwizard327 3 years ago
wow!!!
Kobashi survive 3 Brutals BackDrop Drivers ... he fn' rulz ... dr. death rulz too xD!
c4rl0sDx 3 years ago 3
and then he survived his knees and cancer
DRodri90 3 years ago
FUCK, that was brutal!
SweetDaddyBugg 3 years ago 2
Now that's some nasty shiz
WebbanationX 3 years ago
That move is SICK!!! I would hate to have to put myself through that just for a pay check. Well, they don't exactly do it just for a paycheck it is for the fans too.
Haner388994 3 years ago
LOL Yeah eccept in Japan all of Dr. Death's victims have taken one. This is the most brutal however.
TheForgottenFlesh 3 years ago
jesus that's mad, i got banned from using the backdrop driver ... i guess it was with good reason though.
xavier777raine 3 years ago
Kenta Kobashi is insane for taking 3 of those in a row like that and still having his head attached to the rest of his body.
georgyfontaine28 3 years ago 4
holy shit!!!!!!!!!! nice
ContinentalPilot26 3 years ago
If I were a wrestler my two finishers would be the Backdrop Driver and The Ganso Bomb (or Kawada Driver). LOL Two fucking dangerous moves.
I'm sure there is a way of doing the move tho without actually really hurting the guy
TheForgottenFlesh 3 years ago
That's a tough one, in years of wrestling I've never known of a way to take a backdrop driver without avoiding injury entirely. Unless you fully manage to do a back flip, but then it doesn't look as brutal. Most guys from the Williams/Kobashi/Misawa era (or even now) were actually just willing to land on their heads or necks to show how tough the sport was.
Fortunately, I've never tried to take a Ganzo Bomb, ha.
Bw207 3 years ago
I always thought at the last minute you put your forarm or the other guy puts is elbow out quickly to look like it actually landed on their head.
But yeah those guys are probably just so tough they could handle anything.
TheForgottenFlesh 3 years ago