Thunderstruck #5: Jushin Liger vs. The Great Muta (10/20/96) w/ Matt McEwen

system · November 24, 2019, 11:30am

Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2019/11/24/thunderstruck-5-jushin-liger-vs-the-great-muta-10-20-96-w-matt-mcewen/

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD

WH Park and Matt McEwen discuss that time Jushin Liger faced off against The Great Muta on October 20, 1996 in Kobe and someone by the name of Kishin Liger made his first appearance.

Click here to watch this match on YouTube.

Next week on Thunderstruck: Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (4/30/92)

WH Park and a special guest look back at the greatest matches of Jushin Thunder Liger’s career in Thunderstruck, a limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling. New episodes every Sunday.

Music: https://filmmusic.io | “Neolith” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) | License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Follow WH Park on Twitter

Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com

Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

Contrasoma · December 1, 2019, 5:17am

Hell of a match. Obviously this is remembered for the Kishin Liger appearance, now, but holy shit this featured some god-tier heeling from Muta. Proof that slow and methodical monster heeling doesn’t have to be boring. I am forever searching for matches which fit Roland Barthes’ archetype of a match: a hero and a villain emerge, and we know what each represents as soon as we see them, without word or action. The villain will cheat and be a coward and eventually the hero will have to break the rules in an attempt to pay the villain back. This perfectly fits that mold.