Secret Base: Volume 5

Alliances are cemented as Secret Base’s tag team scene overshadows all the other dreck on the show.

June 22, 2009 – Warabi, Japan

Takeshi Minamino {TX} vs. Fujiso {ED}
Minamino powers Fujiso to the ropes to start. Fujiso hits a head scissors takedown. He hits an armdrag and a plancha. He hits a DDT for 2. He hits a spinning Ace Crusher for 2. Minamino comes back with a powerbomb. He hits a headbutt. He hits a vertical suplex for 2. He hits a back suplex. He puts on a chinlock. Fujiso gets to the ropes. Minamino hits a back elbow. Fujiso comes back with elbows. Minamino puts on a leglock. Fujiso gets to the ropes. He hits an armdrag and a dropkick to the leg. He gets a small package for 2. Minamino hits a dropkick. He shoots Fujiso to the floor and jabs him with a chair. Back in the ring Minamino hits a bodyslam for 2. He hits another for 2. He hits a dragon screw. He hits two Death Valley Drivers for the win at 10:29. Minamino was actually the one dragging this match down. Stalling forever between hitting his moves and going for pins made this so slow. He was in control the entire time, which makes me wonder why they stretched this out to ten minutes. After the match he takes off Fujiso’s mask, but a ring boy (girl?) immediately throws a towel over his face.
Rating: ½*

Kinya Oyanagei {T2P} vs. Masahiro Takanashi {DDT} vs. Masaki Okimoto {TX}
Everyone is cautious to start. Okimoto and Takanashi control Oyanagei with headlocks. Takanashi hits Oyanagei with a head scissors takedown. He hits Okimoto with a dropkick. Oyanagei stretches him out on the mat. He hits Okimoto with a European uppercut. Takanashi puts on a chinlock and Okimoto grabs a half crab but Oyanagei won’t quit. Oyanagei comes back with a leg submission on both opponents. Okimoto hits an enziguiri. He and Takanashi hit a thrust kick sandwich. That gets 2 for Takanashi. He hits Okimoto with a superkick. Okimoto rolls up both opponents at the same time for the win at 10:38. Goofy ROH year-one stuff.
Rating: *

Mototsugu Shimizu {T2P} & Manjimaru {TX} vs. Spark Aoki {TX} & Kamui {WMF}
Aoki and Manjimaru start. Manjimaru looks like less of a Nazi with long hair. He and Aoki trade holds on the mat. Kamui hits Shimizu with armdrags. Shimizu throws Aoki to the floor where Manjimaru goes to work on him. In the ring Shimizu hits Kamui with a dropkick and puts on a chinlock. He puts on a surfboard stretch. Because Secret Base only has a hard camera they can’t really show the action on the floor at all, making Manjimaru’s presence in the company largely pointless. Shimizu hits Kamui with another dropkick. Manjimaru hits a knee kick. He hits a snap suplex and a kneedrop. Shimizu hits a legdrop for 2. Manjimaru hits a piledriver for 2. He puts on a Lion Tamer. Kamui makes the save. Aoki hits a wild DDT. Kamui comes off the top with a crossbody. He hits a leg lariat for 2. He hits a back kick. He hits a Death Valley Bomb and an Arabian press for 2. He and Aoki hit a knee kick sandwich for 2. Aoki hits a running knee for 2. Shimizu hits the Breakdown. Manjimaru hits a dragon suplex for 2. Shimizu hits the fisherman DDT and Manjimaru hits a thrust kick for 2. Shimizu hits a dropkick for 2. He and Manjimaru hit a double Darkness Buster for 2. Manjimaru hits a German suplex and the Manji Otoshi for the win at 10:23. Manji and Shimizu looked good as a team, and the other two functioned well as the jobbers they were meant to be.
Rating: **½

Go {DG} & Satoshi Kajiwara {TM} vs. CHANGO {TX} & Amigo Suzuki {TM}
Suzuki and Go start. Go hits an armdrag. CHANGO hits Kajiwara with a shoulder tackle. He hits a trust kick. Kajiwara hits a dropkick. He puts on a chinlock. CHANGO hits a stunner to escape. Go hits a back kick for 2. Suzuki hits a headbutt. He and CHANGO hit dropkicks. Kajiwara puts Suzuki in a seated abdominal stretch. Suzuki gets to the ropes. Go chokes Suzuki in the corner. Kajiwara hits a bodyslam for 2. He hits a vertical suplex for 2. Go puts on a chinlock but Suzuki gets to the ropes. Suzuki comes back with a dropkick. CHANGO hits Go with an elbow. He hits a DDT. He hits Kajiwara with a facebuster on top of Go. He hits Kajiwara with another facebuster. He hits a double stomp and a dropkick. Kajiwara hits a dropkick. Hey hits a monkey flip. Suzuki hits a dropkick. He hits a spinebuster. He powerbombs CHANGO onto Kajiwara for 2. CHANGO hits a Samoan drop. He hits a legdrop while Suzuki hits a diving headbutt for 2. Kajiwara comes back with a Death Valley Bomb. He and Go hit a double spear. They hit a double vertical suplex. Kajiwara puts on a half crab. CHANGO gets to the ropes. Kajiwara hits an enziguiri. He and Go hit a big double-team facebuster for 2. Go hits a clothesline on Suzuki for 2. He puts on a sleeper hold. He hits a chest kick for 2. He hits another clothesline. He hits the Black Stone for the win at 15:39. This was solid stuff, but not as interesting as the main events from the last two shows. Still, as long as the mains can remain more interesting than the brutal undercards I’ll be able to keep from quitting Secret Base.
Rating: ***

Go and Kajiwara brag a bit after the match. Manjimaru and Shimizu come out and challenge them for a match in the main event of Volume 6. Go agrees.

Class Key
{TX} – Toryumon X
{T2P} – Toryumon 2000 Project
{TM} – Toryumon Mexico
{DDT} – Dramatic Dream Team
{ED} – El Dorado
{DG} – Dragon Gate
{WMF} – Wrestling’s Marvelous Future