Best Of Cewsh Reviews – HUSTLEMANIA 2008

Bymobanmarket January 7, 2021

Goooood afternoon, cats and kittens, and welcome to yet another bonus installment of Cewsh Reviews. As you’ve no doubt noticed, the long wait for Wrestlemania makes the Cewsh Reviews team a little itchy and leaves us with nothing to do, so in the pursuit of the very finest in entertainment for you, our loyal readers, we have scoured the globe looking for the very best in wrestling spectacle. And boy did we find it. We’ve reviewed Japanese wrestling shows before, but before we get started I don’t want any of you to have any illusions, HUSTLE is different. Wayyyy different. Consider yourselves warned, kick back, and get ready for us to rock your face full of chewy review goodness.

Cewsh: I already love this show so much. Just so kooky and fantastic. We get little snippets of some of the highlighted guys in the promotion, and a more motley collection of ridiculous people you are not likely to find. Just from the quick glances, I know that we have a guy dressed like M. Bison from Street Fighter who does pelvic thrusts, a leather glad gentleman known as Hard Gay (HG), and TAJIRI, formerly of the WWE. I’m so excited for this show, I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl.

After the video, a bunch of people in tuxedos are standing next to a really hot young Japanese lady as she reads her cur cards awkwardly and interviews him. I think the people who are dressed up are important, and this is intended to show that this is HUSTLE’s Wrestlemania of sorts. I think. I honestly have no idea, Japanese is a funny talk. And then they do the little pose that reminds me so much of Ninja Warrior on G4 that I, for a moment, am afraid that we’ve downloaded the wrong show. Luckily not though. I’d hate to miss the rest of this.

Then they show ANOTHER opening video, this time in comic book style, with people falling off of the sets, blowing up, landing on ladders, and lots and lots of dancing. There are some times in life that you just look at something and have to laugh because its just so beyond the ordinary that your brain simply tries to reject it. M. Bison doing pelvic thrusts with flamenco dancers immediately segweying into a guy covered in light bulbs getting super kicked and the light bulbs exploding was one of those moments. Try to imagine a wrestling promotion that thinks that these two acts are EXACTLY THE SAME, and you’ll see what we’re dealing with here. Brilliance. Utter brilliance.

The words, “Opening Video fever” have never been so appropriate.

Vice: From the second the opening video starts, you know you’re in for a crazy ride. I really can’t sum it up with words.

Going into this, I really have no idea what to fully expect. I know HUSTLE is full of ridiculous gimmicks and characters, which should make this a fun watch. It also has a Most Extreme Elimination Challenge/Ninja Warrior feel to it, so combine that with wrestling and you have the makings of AWESOME.

Vice: Tajiri is in this, so it’s already groovy. I really have no idea who the other people are, so I can’t be helpful when it comes to details. It’s a surprisingly great match to kick the show off, and gives this show a lot of promise. Tajiri is his usual self, and there are two really other cool people—one is a young guy with white pants and the other is in some wacky bug costume or something. One is high flying, the other is very psychological and awesome, and plays his possible insect character really well. He also appears to shoot silk.

I enjoyed the match a lot. Very fun stuff.

This show is off to a lovely start and I think I’m already a fan of this promotion. The set is also fabulous, which is pretty crazy considering this promotion. It seriously rivals WWE.

Cewsh: Right off the bat I have to tell you that the production values here are better than anything I’ve seen from TNA or NJPW ever. This show actually legitimately looks like an enormous and prestigious show. Its insane. Then some guy comes out who is enormously popular with the crowd but I have no idea who he is. He introduces some older guys in tuxes and they stand around for a few minutes talking and playing to the crowd, who are completely laughing their asses off like they’re the funniest bastards in the world. I would kill to know Japanese. They lead the crowd in some crazy black power saluting and then leave, leading up to the match.

Alright, let me try to make sense of this for you, the intrepid reader. On one side we have TAJIRI, a chick, and a really, really young dude. On the other side we have a really sketchy looking bastard, a guy in a ripped shirt and camouflage short shorts, and a guy in some kind of bat costume. Bat? Probably a bat. Maybe raccoon? Maybe cat? I could spend all match just speculating on what he is supposed to be. TAJIRI and his cronies are the faces here, I think, even though I’m pretty sure TAJIRI was an enormous heel the last time I saw him in this promotion.

This match is interesting for a lot of reasons, aside from its awesomeness. You have the girl, KUSHIDA, entirely holding her own with the guys, you have the babyfaced kid with the annoying to type, but awesome to read name of (^o^)/ Chie actually looking like a fantastic young talent, and then there’s the strangest thing about this match. The fact that its actually good. It would be easy to look at all the wacky gimmicks and write this show off as ridiculous nonsense, but it isn’t. These guys can actually wrestle quite well, and this is legitimately a really fun opening match to watch.

I came into this match expecting to make joke after joke, but it doesn’t seem right here. These guys busted their asses, had a great, fun little match, and the crowd ate it up (as much as Japanese fans do). By far my favorite part of this match is when everyone is doing their assorted jumps over the top rope onto each other, and the kid run out of the ring, all the way up the ramp, almost out of the building, then turns around and runs back at full speed leaping onto everyone as the crowd loses it. Just fantastic, entertaining stuff. Really opened my eyes. Oh, and the guy was a a spider, because he actually THREW WEBS FROM HIS HANDS. What a fucking show so far. Absolutely amazing.

77 out of 100.

Cewsh: This is filmed and acted exactly like one of those old Eric Bischoff/Jonathan Coachman segments where the GM natters on about his master plan and then sends the assistant off on some errand. These guys could have been the President of Japan and the HUSTLE World Champion for all I know, that’s just the impression that I got. Based on no comprehension of the Japanese language whatsoever, I’m going to assume that the spiky haired young on asked the used car dealer looking older one for something, and did not get it, and then was booked in a match. Possibly against Godzilla. Seems like that’d be a viable punishment out there.

Cewsh: Two girls, both of whom I would bet my life own Hello Kitty merchandise, are at what appears to be some kind of hospital or something talking. Then, as if conjured by my most earnest wishes, RG shows up and starts trying to get them to touch his gut protruding out from his S&M leather outfit. The girls both shrink away like he’s the creepiest, unsexiest man alive, and do the same when he flexes his bicep at them. Then he apparently decides to impress them with some intricate break dancing, but just ends up turning in circles on his stomach on the floor. Then the girls leave. Did I mention that RG stands for Rasta Gay, so he has long purple dreadlocks in addition to his S&M gear? I don’t understand what I’m watching here, but at least it seems sane to some degree…

Cewsh: That was my exact quote to Vice upon watching this segment. Allow me to try my absolute best to explain. We are first greeted with the image of HG (Hard Gay) strapped to a table in some kind of evilly lit medical room, with a creepy doctor standing over him with an enormous syringe, surrounded by bodyguards in luchadore masks.

My understanding is that HG and his band of followers are the group of good guys fighting against the evil Monster Organization. HG himself, who’s every move involves touches his opponent with his dick, is portrayed as half superhero and half James Bond in his fight against this organization. HG apparently manages to escape, and his first order or business, or course, is to have his precious dick checked by a non crazy evil doctor to see if it was tampered with.

According to the doctor, he checks out just fine. But then, after a successful match with his friends, he collapses backstage! They have marked him with their evil symbol!

Which of course, prompts these reactions:

Then, when things are looking their bleakest, and the fight seems to be almost impossible to win, an awesome angel shows up out of nowhere to some swanky jazz music and proclaims that he is a secret agent and has had enough of Monster’s shenanigans.

HG and this new fighting force join forces to put down the threat of Monster once and for all.

But will it be enough to stop the evil doctor and his Monster cohorts? Especially now that they’ve added the immortal GIANT SILVA to their ranks?

I have no fucking idea. I need to go lie down for a bit.

Cewsh: Before the match starts, the evil doctor uses he special wrist cell phone communicator to summon his ultimate evil assassin THE GIANT SILVA. Not only Giant Silva, but Giant Silva with an enormous radar dish on his head, rotating slowly. Some of you may remember Silva as a member of WWE’s ill fated Oddity stable. If not, he’s roughly 8 feet tall, and has a face only a shovel could love.

I don’t know if my feelings have come across properly with this review, but this feud is the coolest thing ever, and HG is my favorite wrestler of all time already. The fans love him, he’s absolutely hilarious, and this whole thing is so over the top and crazy that it somehow circles back around to awesome on the crazy meter. Its actually TOO over the top to be over the top. I love this whole thing to bits, and all the more so for the fact that every single person involved lives it like this is every bit a real thing that is happening and it all comes off, basically, like a real life anime. I can’t say enough about it. I’m in love.

Vice: Giant Silva is here. Many of you know him from the Oddities from the Attitude Era. His entrance is just awesome. He has a wacky scientist call him out, and he’s wearing a spinning radar type of mind control device, which gave me a great chuckle. I think mth would get a kick out of it, and I certainly don’t mean that in a bad way. Update: he also WRESTLES with it on. I wish I had a cool spinning helmet. 🙁

Look at it!

Such an awesome gimmick.

The match fairly entertaining, but just kinda of there. Until…

(Cewsh Note: The original video has been lost to the sands of time. You can see the transformation in the video above, however, starting at about 0:47.)

One of the most absolutely ridiculous things I’ve ever seen in wrestling. Seriously. I could use 60,000 words and still not sum it all up. So just do yourself a favor and watch the YouTube video I have uploaded for all of you. It’s THAT crazy. And incredible. I’m thankful that I took a piss before this match, otherwise who knows what might have happened.

Cewsh: The match starts off with HG vs. Fake HG. Which is a little confusing. Then we move on to Alan Kuroki against the Wolf Man, which is great because Alan is basically Batista in this arrangement. And then Giant Silva gets tagged in, STILL WITH THE RADAR DISH ON HIS HEAD, and Alan tags in RG, who’s dreadlocks turn out to be a wig, and who is basically the crappy sidekick to HG. The Jimmy Olden to HG’s Superman, so to speak. He, uh, yeah. He gets his ass kicked. They all do, because Giant Silva is a fucking giant with a goddamn radar dish attached to his head, theoretically so that he can be controlled by the evil doctor like a remote control car.

The absolute best part of this match is how into everything that the crowd is. Most of the time Japanese audiences are quiet in between moves, but not so here. They go crazy for everything, from Giant Silva and his epic hat, to RG’s feeble attempts at offense, to the reverse 69 HG and fake HG get into. But that’s not the story here. Halfway through the match, when HG has everything well in hand, when a ton of purple mist billows up, a video plays showing HG’s marking transforming him, and when the mist fades, HG is there, with no mask, a cyborg piece over his eye, and he proceeds to annihilate his friends. He is now SUPER HG. When Alan tries to talk some sense into him, HG absolutely destroys him, allowing Fake HG to get the win for Monster. HG has been turned to the dark side against his will! What will his friends do now, with their leader and friend now a puppet of the evil empire?!

Just when things look their absolute bleakest, a wildcard enters the fray, as a new man in a cape and a bamboo mask shows up to confront the new HG on how he turned his back on his friends. HG beats him down, and gives him the Dick Hump Tombstone Piledriver (think the Undertaker humping their face right before dropping them). The bad guys have triumphed on this day, but the good guys will live to fight another day.

I don’t care if you don’t like it, I have never seen anything like this in my life, and it was incredible.

85 out of 100.

Cewsh’s Download Seal of Approval.

Cewsh: Yes, you did read that right. Here we have featured a Japanese pop star (the level of her actual success, I have no idea), against the old dude (not the doctor) in charge of the evil Monster organization. Not only that, but An Jo brings an actual pig to ringside to taunt Yasuha. What a jerk! I wouldn’t put anything past a guy who would do something like that. Not even kidnapping a guy and letting my evil doctor friend implant mind control devices into him.

Wait…

Anyway, this match came to be because Yasuha was making an appearance for HUSTLE, and An Jo goaded her into accepting it. Yasuha is no wrestler, and An Jo spends the whole time taunting her feeble strikes, because she’s entirely incapable of fighting back, and throwing VICIOUS slaps that knock her like 4 feet off the ground. He just beats on her to an almost unwatchable extent for awhile, having, seemingly, the time of his life, with the crowd clapping and cheering her on to no avail. Then she kicks out of a pin, much to the crowd’s approval, and her friends runs in to help, and promptly gets bitchslapped right out of the ring.

Then, after beating her some more, he tried to force her to kiss the pig (who looks terrified), until her friend (who is the guy from the earlier GM segment, and who has been completely silent and weak the whole time), Hulks up and nails a tornado DDT on An Jo. The reverie is short lived though, as An Jo turns his vicious attentions to the guy. Then, in something that was just about too much for me, he starts Singapore caning the woman gently, until the friend gets pissed, grabs a chair, and just starts whaling away on An Jo with it. Then, somehow, Yashua finds the strength to roll An Jo up and…

This match can’t get a good rating, because it wasn’t very good, but it wasn’t really intended to be. This was a publicity match. Your Mayweather/Big Show, so to speak, and the crowd seemed really, very involved in it, and very appreciative of both her and her brave companion. It was what it was. I don’t like seeing a woman get beaten up to that degree, but it all worked out well in the end, and there wasn’t a scratch on her when it was over.

45 out of 100.

Vice: This was actually kind of hard to watch. Not so much because of match quality, but because the dude is a LOT bigger than the girl, and she took one hell of a beating. Everything was delivered with force and at times I was almost concerned for her safety. Not really much of a match here.

At match’s end, she was well enough to sing a good ol’ fashioned J-Pop song, which was pretty wacky.

Cewsh: Post match she regales us with a very emotional song and dumps a bucket of water on herself. Without a doubt the most unique musical performance I’ve ever seen. But honestly rather good for all of that. Good stuff.

Cewsh: Akebono is backstage hanging out (…of every piece of clothing he has on), and some guy walks in. He starts talking wackily to the Big Bono, and every time the cameras shifts to Akebono, the guy changes costumes. I assume he’s a stand up comedian of some kind, but his shtick is kind of lost on me here and I don’t really go for immature humor of that sort.

Heh. I said Bono.

Cewsh: Alright. Hustle Kohmon is an animated character of a nice old man. He comes out in a big huge costume of the character, sinks down into some green smoke, and reemerges as a smaller, human shaped version of himself. He walks like an old man, seems to have considerable arthritis, and has the nicest, most peaceful entrance music in wrestling history. Monster C is a guy in a luchadore mask with a big “C” on it, who evidently fucking LOVES the letter “C”. He chants it, shapes it with his hands, puts it in sandwiches. Everything imaginable. So we have an old man, and a “C” enthusiast.

Starting off, Monster C wants Kohmon to do C’s trademark C Pose, but he just stands there stroking his beard. Then Kohmon effortlessly twists C into a pretzel and does his own trademark pose. Then C gets him in another predicament, and Kohmon strokes his beard and effortlessly disposes of him again. Then C slaps that old man, and we are treated to a button being stuck on Kohmon’s eye to simulate huge anime eyes, before he Flair Flops. The C starts beating on the poor old man, just generally being a jerk, and a disrespectful young whippersnapper. It is at this point that I realize that Kohmon is moving his button eyes around to simulate different facial expressions. Amazing.

Monster C seems solidly in control after a series of hard slaps to the face. But he underestimates the wily old man! Silly young C enthusiasts. They should respect their elders. Especially when their elders are the funniest, most amazing wrestlers in the world. This match was hilarious. I know that word gets tossed around a lot, to be applied to anything even remotely amusing in the world of wrestling, but that’s the word that applies here. I spit soda on my screen so many times, that I had to go get some Windex. Kohmon was just so absolutely committed to his craft, and perfect in every way. Just top notch comedy here. Not enough of that in wrestling. Not nearly enough.

Fuck it. This is my review, I can do whatever I want.

80 out of 100.

Cewsh’s Download Seal of Approval.

Vice: This was seriously one of the funniest matches I’ve ever seen. I spent a lot of time laughing. Not haha chuckles or anything like that—actual LAUGHING. The old man is fucking phenomenal. He was a lot like Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid movies in the way his character wrestles. Man, just a funny as hell match. He had some great Flair flops, too. At one point he gets slapped in the face, stands there straight as a board as the camera zooms in for a close-up of the guy for like 15 seconds and then he just flops onto the canvas. Glorious. I actually had to stop drinking my delicious ice cold Diet Pepsi to avoid it ending up all over my monitors. This is definitely up there with Spanky/Cabana, Joe/Evans/Delirious/Kikotaro, Delirious/Generico and other hilarious matches.

If you can’t tell, I loved it.

Vice: This match involves Tenryu, Rene Dupree, possibly Lance Cade, someone getting run over by an old man in a wheelchair and getting a crutch shoved up their ass. Need I say more?

…probably. But I’m not going to.

Cewsh: Alright, Tenryu really is one of the true legends of professional wrestling, and Koshinaka isn’t too far behind, but its makes no difference, because they are up against the combined might of Rene Dupree and Lance Cade, so they are destined to be overwhelmed. These two teams have fought before, and that time, the masked Americans use brass knuckles to steal a victory for their awesome wheelchair bound referee.

The match proceeds in predictable brawl like fashion, with a lot of great showboating on the Americans’ side, and a lot of good fire and fan support for the faces, but the greatness is when the manager shows up and RUNS HIS WHEELCHAIR OVER TENRYU’S FACE. Just incredibly painful looking, and funny at the same time. Then he gets near the other guy, so he takes his crutch and literally tries to shove it up his ass. Now THAT’s interference. Take some notes, managers of the world. If you want your team to win, don’t be afraid to resort to monster trucking and anal violation.

The match goes on for a bit, is fairly entertaining, and the ending seemed abrupt, but was what it needed to be.

More Cade and Dupree, please!

70 out of 100.

Cewsh: The hype for this match all centers around Bono’s relationship with his sort of mother and demon father and his subsequent face turn and expulsion from the Monster Organization following his emotional collapse. I think that’s how it goes at any rate. Toshiaki Kawada, on the other hand, is one of the greatest and most reputable wrestlers in wrestling history. His list of five star matches is a mile long, and his feud with Mitsuharu Misawa especially is among the best things professional wrestling has ever produced. So it makes complete sense that he’s working a dancer gimmick and is now wrestling matches with an 80 year old man who may or may not be his father.

See, Kawada was a face, but following his father’s heart attack, he aligned with the Monster Organization to save his father’s life. Now their unwilling slave, he is tasked first with beating their latest departure (Bono) and the biggest thorn in their side (Muta). With a new lease on his life, his father has sworn to help him in all of the trials to come until he has fulfilled his obligation to his son for sacrificing his freedom to save his father’s life.

Everybody got that? Alright then.

The two teams arrive, except for Muta who doesn’t show, and right off the bat, Old Man Kawada (hereafter referred to as OMK) wants a major piece of Akebono. Of course Younger Kawada restrains him and starts off the match, wearing down Akebono, despite Bono’s huge power game. The Kawada’s get the upperhand, until the lights go off a gong sounds, and the Undertaker arrives. I mean Super Gay arrives. I MEAN the Great Muta shows up for his scheduled match. Way to be a bad partner Muta. Though it is worth mentioning that he’s booked, essentially, as a genie in HUSTLE. So bear that in mind. Muta starts nailing people, and OMK gets involved, and promptly gets a load of Green Mist directly in the face.

Following this, the lights go out AGAIN, and we get a promo from Takada, the evil M. Bison leader of Monster, and then Rocky IV music hits, and a hooded figure emerges. WHO IS IT? WHO COULD IT BE?! Muta and Bono are stunned at the new arrival! Who is it?! ITS SOME GUY! I honestly have no idea who he is! He takes out Bono immediately and then has a stare down with Muta. He’s got a small mask, and is wearing an awesome futuristic bodysuit. They have an intense staredown, and Muta backs away around the ring from the new arrival, clearly frightened of him. Muta finally attacks, and is effortlessly repelled. The new guy then cocks his fingers, points them at Muta, and then as Muta ducks out of the way, an explosion of pyro happens where he had been standing.

Compelled now to act, Muta attacks with everything he has, and locks in the Figure Four leglock on the guy. The guy, looking very robotic, sits up, right out of it, and cocks his fingers again, causing Muta to roll away to escape. Then Akebono attacks from behind, and Muta comes to help, but the strange man cocks his fingers again and blasts the chair right out of his hand. Finally the masked man cocks his fingers one last time at Bono, but Muta won’t let him go, they struggle, and Muta drags the masked man down into the mist with him.

After they disappear, Kawada continues the assault on Bono, who is helpless after the masked man’s attack, determined to make good on his promise to the Monster Organization. Unfortunately for him, the gentle giant has had enough, and gets angry as hell, suplexing Kawada practically through the mat and Samoan Dropping him with his full weight on top. Game…set…match.

How in the hell do I rate this?

75 out of 100.

Vice: I honestly don’t know what to think or say about this match. It was incredibly quirky, and I honestly don’t know if it was amazing or completely retarded. It involves Muta and Kawada, so it can’t be bad, right? Well, the idea of Kawada’s father fighting alongside his son is funny, but he hits as hard as Mr. Burns when he gives someone a thrashing of a lifetime. And then there’s the 900 pound Akebono who has breasts the size of all the WWE divas, TNA knockouts, and JBL combined. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because we saw waaaaaay too much of him at Wrestlemania in the sumo match versus Big Show.

So, the match starts off without Muta, who shows up fairly late. Traffic, I’m guessing. So then a few minutes later the match cuts to Vega from Street Fighter, who cuts a promo of some kind with a cigar in his hand, then unleashes some lightning from his finger tip.

Then it cuts back to the ring as the Training Montage theme from Rocky IV starts blasting. Out comes a man in a hooded coat, who slowly makes his way to the ring. He takes his hood off to reveal…

HIM! I don’t know who he is. But he’s sort of dressed like a Power Ranger villain. He also uses his fingers to shoot people (complete with futuristic sound effects and explosions). So the next like 15 minutes of the match is him replacing the Kawadas, while wrestling in ominous blue lighting. Think of the Undertaker’s “spooky” lighting and you won’t be far off. It’s a spectacle for sure, but I don’t know if it’s a good or bad one. It’s very slow and ends with the noble futuristic fingerblasting hero sacrificing himself to take Muta out of the match by descending through the stage, Muta in his arms, while fog surrounds them. Or something. Then Kawada comes back out and throws down with Akebono.

It was just an odd fucking match.

Cewsh: Post match, Bono cries out for his ex-love again, only to be answered by M. Bison again. He talks for awhile, and then gives a huge evil laugh, and Bono swears to rend him limb from limb if he ever lays hands on him. A few things seem implied here. First, that Bono accidentally killed his love with a splash intended for someone else during one of his rages, and second, that Muta just died saving Bono’s life from that mysterious masked man. They then show a video paying tribute to Bono’s fallen little family. When the video ends, all of the other faces in HUSTLE are in the ring trying to console Bono for his losses, and try to get him on his feet to fight the real enemy, Monster. All of the faces are gloomy themselves, but they try their best to rally the gentle giant.

Finally Tajiri gets a smile out of him, and RG psyches him up even further before making one crack too many, so Tenryu smacks him in the face with the microphone and gives a peptalk of his own to Bono. This finally gets Bono to his feet, and he shakes the hands of his friends, of his new family. Or something.

This brings the monster men and their leader, decked out in a radiant red peacock outfit, out to address what few enemies they have left. He talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, and one of his henchmen talks, and then he goes back to talking, and talking , and talking some more. One by one the faces refute him, and then he goes RIGHT BACK TO TALKING. This goes on for, literally, half an hour. That’s half an hour of me having no idea what is going and or what is being said. All of this seems to be over trying to convince Bono to return to the winning side. He, understandably, refuses. Takada responds by telling them all that any one of them could be next, and that the clock is ticking. The show ends with Takada getting the last word. And the first word. And all the words in between.

And then of course, before the shows goes off the air entirely, the whole roster joins in group pelvic thrusting in honor of HUSTLE, HUSTLE, HUSTLE. I’m not going to lie. I joined in.

Cewsh: Christ, what can I say about this show? I had no idea what I was getting myself into when we decided to watch it. The entire thing seems to be treating wrestling as a backdrop for actual storytelling. Not just wrestling storytelling, but STORYTELLING, like you’d find in anime, or some of your more convoluted tv shows. It probably sounds really stupid to hear it described, but I’m left with the feeling that what they have here really, actually works. They’ve taken a concept that should be impossible to take seriously, and made it all so endearing that you want to believe in it. It’s a very strange experience to be part of, but I have to tell you, they’ve made a fan out of me. Now if you’ll excuse me, CG (Cewsh Gay) needs to go pick himself out a leather dominatrix onesie.

Vice: I thought the show was pretty great. From the serious wrestling to the ridiculous gimmicks and comedy, it was all around very enjoyable to watch and I had a blast. The only massive downer was the main event which completely lost me and went on forever. Another problem, which I can’t rate against the show, is that I don’t understand Japanese. With a 3 hour show and only 6 matches, and many of them not being very long, there was a ton of backstage segments and in-ring promo type stuff. And I really had no idea what was going on. Chances are I’d have enjoyed it even more if I knew what they were saying.

Definitely worth my time and I hope to see more HUSTLE in the future.

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