8 Major Talking Points From NJPW Dominion In Osaka
7. The Guerrillas Of Destiny Might Be The Most Underrated Act In Wrestling
The Guerrillas Of Destiny vs. War Machine match was a relentless tour de force, virtually a tornado tag team match.
War Machine were the usual brutish, brilliant selves, but the Guerrillas tandem of Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa - who will not in all likelihood crack any wrestler of the half year lists, even as honourable mentions - anchored the action with their sadly unheralded character work.
Tama Tonga in particular has immense singles credentials. His Baron Samedi paint job makes him look like a killer, as do his savage grunts and leaping, animalistic offence. He can turn himself inside out when the hope spot demands it, too. He is a great midcard heel capable even of entering the wall to wall brilliant upper midcard heavyweight ranks.
There was an excellent no sell German suplex sequence between Raymond Rowe and Loa, who continued to turn the airwaves blue as f*ck with a constant stream of expletives. Even better was the sequence in which Tonga delivered a succession of forearms to Rowe, a slow burn then revealing that Rowe was delivering headbutts to Tonga’s forearm.
It was a ludicrously fun and furious ten minutes. Sadly, but understandably, it was completely overshadowed.