#hideki okatani

[elitehanitje]

The Pro wrestling debut of Kaisei Takechi, part of the Rampage from Exile Tribe, a subgroup of Exile Tribe, a J-Pop group.

[schadentekkers]

[scarskelly]

"Oka-chan, Happy Birthday ☺️🎊✨"

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credit: u_u215

[realgraps]

[kopw]

[37kamiina]

Tanabata Special 2023.07.07

[fagcrisis]

absolutely obliterated that cactus

[fang-revives]

Just found out about Okatani's ACL tear injury nooooooo

[romiswired]

Shunma Katsumata (c) vs. Hideki Okatani (DDT Judgement 2024 - 5 Hour Special in Korakuen)

For the love of the game.

I was going to review this match before, but I didn't do it because I couldn't find the words to describe it correctly. This last week I did something kind of stupid: I entered an app known as a "femcel dating site", and I realized two things during my stance in said app. The first one is that cis men are fucking desperate because I found so many weirdos telling me I should strangle them or break their dicks, and are willing to hear me talk about pro wrestling for an unhealthy amount of time. The second one is that the best pro wrestling to introduce someone to this wicked sport is the one that comes from the heart. When I say that, I don't mean any kind of wrestling that plays the safe route and doesn't challenge its own viewers to consume something different for once, so you know already that I didn't show people Will Ospreay matches once they gave me their Discord users. I showed them Shunma Katsumata matches, specifically this one because I think it embodies Katsumata's spirit pretty well.

I think that the wrestling I like is the one that, for most parts of the community, would "scare the hoes" (as if wrestling didn't do that already) but I found myself realizing that this kind of wrestling not only does not "scare the hoes" but makes them realize why so many people are into it. In between all the weirdos that I found in that app, I found a guy who seemed like a normal and functional human being (Hi Tauro!) and he told me he wanted to hear me talk about pro-wrestling because he wanted to see people "beating the shit out of each other". He knew WWE was the mainstream option but as a member of a hardcore band in the Argentinian underground scene he didn't want anything to do with it. Luckily, he found someone who does not consume WWE as other people would do and is certainly disgusted by some things the company perpetrates, so I showed him *this* match in hopes of maybe igniting something inside of him.

When I put this match on I asked him what he thought when I said "Jungle Deathmatch" and while he gave me his thoughts which are valid and interesting, I'm in the position to say he was shocked by how the match came to fruition. I explained a little bit this match was actually a rematch of another match that couldn't be done last year, and he was practically on board with the whole thing. I realized while showing him this match that the best perception of pro wrestling is given by a person who doesn't know it as much as others do. Because if a match awakens some kind of emotion from a person not accustomed to watching wrestling, then that shit is special. The more time passes, the more I think we're domesticated to feel emotions from something like wrestling, in any of its forms. I could dedicate another post to explaining that feeling, but what I can gather in the review of this match is that I don't feel "forced" to feel something. The pain in seeing two guys beating the absolute shit out of each other is natural, because there's something that any human would comprehend without the need for context: Violence.

Violence lives in our history as a choice, a solution, a consequence, and even entertainment. Wrestling is not the only form of entertainment that embodies something as violence to deliver its message, but when you have something as unique and as raw as the best pro wrestling you can think of, that idea of violence goes through the screen and becomes something you love. You love to see violence done on that platform, and what you love more than violence is people willing to show you their pain just because they love what they're doing. This match gets that and becomes the most honest demonstration of "love for the game" you can get out there because this is not that I'm saying, this is what Tauro said when he saw Okatani and Katsumata fall into the thumbtacks like two sickos.

In an industry where wrestling fans are falling into merely accepting everything that sells more over their own desires and who they want to see at the top of the mountain, you have this match. Katsumata and Okatani are not even in the Main Event of this show. One could argue their real importance in DDT and how much merch they sell, but fuck man, they're the two most raw wrestlers I saw this year because they choose to be hurt. They choose to defy our perception of pro wrestling by creating a match that you have never seen before. And even if it's a common Barbed Wire Deathmatch with some kind of feathers in the ropes and a fake snake in the middle of the ring, the action you see in this match defies every expectation you could have. I know this for a fact because I still hear Tauro screaming out of excitement and fear while watching this.

Wrestling content creator Four Pillars from Hell once said all modern wrestling on TV is infected with a miasma of all-around decency. The more time passes I find myself analyzing his video on "Hauntology in Wrestling" and I realize that I'm actually feeling hauntological about modern wrestling because I can't stand how fans are trained to eat everything they're served without questioning something, anything. It's almost like we're being forced to eat shit that tastes like shit, and all of this could be because wrestling is doing a deep dive into the capitalist machine. There's no interest in defying or doing something risky. The attempts at doing that are just wolves dressed as sheep because they push a vision of pro wrestling where there's little to no care about the quality of something, but how much money it makes and how much can they produce. It's a sick vision of what it means to entertain somebody. It's a sick vision that limits what pro wrestling can and should be, perpetrated by the two biggest companies. This, on the other hand, is one of the reasons why I tend to like DDT more than any other company.

Because this shit is done "for the love of the game" and it rules.

[torukun1]

10/22/2023 - God Bless DDT 2023

Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani) vs. Chihiro Hashimoto and Saki Akai

The THICC must protect the skinty...

[schadentekkers]

[scarskelly]

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credit: u_u215

[shotaumino]

Hideki Okatani is a very handsome wrestle man and I like whenever I see him. Need to find a match with him and Hirata and I realized I judge how much I like a DDT wrestler by how fun their match with him is.

[jasvvy]