Zero One Wrestling - 2007 - Final

Hi folks! This is the the last post for Zero One Wrestling in 2007. You're really missing out if you're not checking out this stuff. This has been an absolute revelation to me. And hey! I get it, I didn't watch Zero One for like 15+ years. A big reason is that no one talked about it. Or the internet wrestling taste makers didn't like it at the time. Screw that 😀 This is some fun smash mouth wrestling. Now that there's a wealth of wrestling posted online, this really is worth watching especially if you're into 2000's wrestling.

Masato Tanaka v Kohei Sato (07/31) Good 12 minute tournament match. The arm work section kinda lost me for a little bit in the middle. Clearly it was just to eat up some time. They started going for big moves and this picked up in a big way. Sato's Falcon Arrow from the middle rope was sick for instance! Re-watch: So I took my advice and watched this again knowing that the arm section was padding and there's awesome stuff afterwards. Much better on the re-watch. Very good match.

Daisuke Sekimoto & Kohei Sato v Takao Omori & Yoshihito Sasaki (08/02) Holy crap! That is how you do an under 15 minute barn burner. Keep it intense and keep the pace moving. This way it feels like a fight. And this felt like a fight. Great match, near classic to be honest. There's no reason a match needs to be longer if the wrestlers can do so much with less time.

Dick Togo, Masaaki Mochizuki & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Minoru Fujita, Munenori Sawa & Takuya Sugawara (08/02) - I realized I was watching the same few guys over and over so, I wanted to mix it up. This was very good 6 man wrestling but stick with it. I thought the first couple minutes were average and nearly lost my interest. Not that they were boring, I just have a lot of wrestling to watch & I can't blow 15 minutes on something that doesn't grab me. I'm glad that I hung with it because this was really exciting. There's a good mix of styles here so everyone brought a little something different. That's what I was looking for 🙂

Masato Tanaka v Dick Togo (09/30) Good gawd! 90's indie dream match fulfilled. This was was so good. It got going with a bang and never quit. Lil ECW at times and both guys may have been bleeding the hard way. This was representative of the intensity. They brought it back into the ring and really surprised me. There was legitimate near falls in this match. It was part of a Jr. tournament so anything "big" felt like it could end the bout. That fact added on top of their great work made this a near classic match...if you're interested in seeing this then you should watch it. 

Takao Omori v Masato Tanaka (10/26) Well that was awesome! These Zero One cats don't play around! This was fantastic stuff and all under 15 minutes. They had one high spot that I absolutely popped for but the rest was just hard hitting no nonsense puro. Omori was a nice change from Sekimoto or Sasaki as he has more variety to his moves. I felt this mixed things up. I don't have much more to say. Zero One Wrestling in 2007 has been pretty amazing with these dream match ups. I'm going to say this was a near classic but I'm being conservative. I really dug this!

Daisuke Sekimoto v Yoshihito Sasaki (11/13) Oh man, that was some finish! That was some match. I may have dug their Fire Festival match more yet this was still great. You might like this more that the F.F. match so I definitely recommend watching both! If you know these two then you know what to expect... they deliver.

Masato Tanaka & Ryouji Sai vs. Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata (11/13) Lots of animosity in this match. Every pin or submission was broken up with nastiness. Sai was a very good pupil for Tanaka. They were right in there with Otani and super star Nagata. Those two were especially vicious with their kicks - tandem kenka kicks in the corner and a fierce sandwich enzuigiri. 

Masato Tanaka v Yoshihito Sasaki (12/24) This match was called Best of 2007 because these two were the best Zero One Wrestling had to offer. They did not disappoint me. There was good wrestling on the mat. Tanaka tries to weaken Sasaki's arm seeing as the lariat is a big weapon of his. But let's be honest, this is not the point of the match. No, there was fighting on the floor, there are big moves and very hard strikes were there too. Sasaki got busted open the hard way from a table thrown by Tanaka. So he was bleeding most of the match. What really put this above just another great match was the counter moves. There were a few choice moves that really surprised me. It made this really feel like two of the best that Zero One had to offer. By the end both men were loopy and although only one man got his hand raised, both were winners in my eyes. I would call this a classic and highly recommend it. Couldn't ask for a better way to close out this brief look at 2007 Zero One Wrestling.

I cherry pick the matches that I want to watch but I think there's full shows totally worth watching or buying on DVD. Looking at my notes, I think the following shows from 2007 are worthwhile: 03/08, 05/27, 07/31+08/02 (this one I own) & 09/30/07. 

Masato Tanaka, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki were the all stars of 2007. I wouldn't recommend watching all of their matches in one sitting or even in the course of a week. The brutality of their matches require a little bit of variety & down time to fully appreciate. That said, I definitely highly recommend them! Takao Omori had a real stand out year with his mini feud with Takayama in the beginning of the year and great matches as the year went on. 2008 Zero One is definitely planned for the near future. Go watch some Zero One Wrestling in the meantime!!! Thanks for reading!