FREEDOMS 12/25/2021 - Blood X'Mas 2021

FREEDOMS 12/25/2021 - Blood X'Mas 2021

Ah Freedoms. I legitimately always forget this promotion exists since it doesn't get much talk online and I usually don't notice it except for their yearly christmas event.  

Tokyo Desert Homeless Human Closed Death Match - Kenji Fukimoto & SUSHI vs. Brahman Brothers (Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu)

Sushi and Kenji get salt in the eyes to start and Sushi suplexes one of the Bros through cardboard box contraption. Kenji rams a small shopping cart into Sushi when a Brahman moves. They then shove giant spike up Sushi's butt and hit the spike with a stop sign.

Sushi gets a suitcase rammed into his nuts then a bowling ball is thrown and pushes the suitcase further in. A Brahman has his arm wrapped in something metal and accidentally lariats his partner with it. Sushi then grabs the metal things and lariats both Bros.

Kenji gets put in a sleeping blanket then is double kicked. The Bros accidentally throw salt in each others eyes. Sushi hits a short ddt on a Bro then puts Kenji on him for the win.

The ending was just very weird, but the Brahman Bros are weird. This had the usual Brahman shenanigans but was real short at 6 mins.

GENTARO, Rekka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Dragon Libre, Kengo & Yuya Susumu

Gentaro and Yuya do some mat wrestling to start. Dragon goes over the shoulder for a nice armdrag and dropkicks Rekka. Gentaro neckbreakers Dragon for 2 then Rekka flying single leg dropkicks Dragon in the corner.

Takaiwa hits a lariat on Dragon then gets codebreakered. Takaiawa takes a doubler superkick then is double dropkicked. Rekka then gets double suplexed then Takiawa hits a double lariat on Kego and Yuya.

Dragon top rope crossbodies Rekka for 2. He goes for a top rope splash but Rekka gets his knees up then takaiawa death valley drivers him. Rekka hits a headlock driver on Dragon then a firemany's carry into an Emerald Fusion to win it.

The crowd wasn't support into it, it was a lower card match and the work wasn't super special. 

Super Crazy & Takashi Sasaki vs. Mammoth Sasaki & Takahiro Katori

Sasaki and...Sasaki trade chest chops early, then they do a little stand off. Katori springboard crossbodies Crazy then headscissors him. Crazy comes back with a pop-up facebuster. Katori bends over the middle rope and Mammoth bangs his head off of Takashi's gut. Crazy and Takashi rolling leg hold Katori then Crazy surfboards Katori.

Katori is in treee of woe then Crazy steps on his crotch. Takashi and Katori trade forearms then Takashi superplexes Katori. Katori comes back with a suplex and then Mammoth clears off his opponents. He hits a sky high on Takashi then Crazy does a flying double chop on Mammoth. Mammoth chokeslams Crazy then Katori hangs off of crazy with an upside down octopus stretch.

Katori climbs Mammoth's back and they splash Crazy. Crazy 2nd rope moonsaults Katori for 2 then Crazy rolls up Katori for the win.

This wasn't anything special with a bunch of guys whose best days are behind them. They weren't lazy or anything, just this was never going to be a real good one.

King of FREEDOM Tag Titles - Barbed Wire Boards and Stone Ocean Self Produced Weapons Death Match - ERE (Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda) (c) vs Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura

Ueki's head is wrapped in barbed wire and Toru tries to headlock him but pays for it. Toru then tries to headscissor him but gets the barbed wire again. Ueki misses a falling headbutt and hurts himself with the barbed wire.

Sakuda and Hirata trade forearms then duel chairs. Hirata wins and chairs Sakuda then takes a barbed wire headbutt from Ueki. Ueki gives a great evil laugh while he does it too. Ueki headbutts him more then drops his body on a barbred wire board that is on Hirata.

Hirata hits come nice chest clubs to Ueki but is kicked in the groin. Ueki then kicks his own partner in the gut, picks him up and Sakuda rolls him into a barbed wire headbutt on Hirata. Toru grabs a gigantic mallet with spikes coming out and Ueki puts it in Toru's head. Sakuda puts Hirata's hands between a ladder and slams the legs on it. He then puts Hirata's head on a chair and chairs it, then standing moonsaults him for 2.

Ueki grabs some cement blocks and breaks one over Hirata's back.  A spike board is brought in and Hirata's head goes in it. Sakuda gets tripped and his chest goes into it, then Hirata chairs him further down on it. Hirata spears Ueki. Toru gets whipped into the corner but jumps up top and crossbodies both opponents. He puts the spike board on Sakuda into the corner and hits it with the mallet. The mallet goes right into Sakuda's ribs and has to be gimmicked or else that guy would be dead.

Sakuda throws a ladder at Toru and Ueki tries to battering ram Ueki with the barbed wire crown but kind of misses. Ueki and Toru headbutt each other hard and Toru goes down. Ueki puts the barbed wire board on the ropes and both kind of ram through it. Hirata top rope dropkicks both opponents.

Ueki takes shots from both opponents and is sandwiched with forearms. Hirata is on Ueki's shoulders and Sakuda top rope footstomps him then Ueki samoan drops him. Sakuda is on Toru's back and he flips him up for a suplex by Hirata. Sakuda then hits a panama sunrise on Toru but takes a guitar shot from Hirata then gets tope'd.

Sakuda puts a metal rod through Hirata's mouth then 619's him. Hirata takes a powerbomb/shiranui combo for 2. Sakuda then is suplexed off the apron onto some barbed wire board pieces by Toru. Ueki ddt's Hirata on concrete blocks but also lands his back on the blocks. He then puts a concrete block on Hirata's gut and picks him up like a piledriver and drops him forward on it.

Ueki goes up top and tries to drop a block on Hirata but misses and takes a big lariat. Hirata pulls the rod out of his mouth and german's him for 2. Hirata hits a moonsault off the top on Ueki for the win at 21:43.

They did too much as expected but Hirata did sell. It wasn't a great match but Hirata got beat on for a lot of this then came back and got he win, so it worked in some aspects. This is about the best you can hope for in an Ueki match, so I think it's a win.

King of FREEDOM Title - Lighttubes, Glass Board and Alpha Death Match - Violento Jack (c) vs Jun Kasai

Jun light tubes him early in the head and sends him into the tubes. They trade forearms and Jack kicks some tubes into Jun's chest. Jack then slingshot ddt's him. Jack stabs Jun with tubes then puts a chair around his back and slams him.

They set up a glass pane next to the buckle and Jun german's Jack through it. Jun puts him on his shoulders then drops him on tubes that are bridged across the top rope. He then lariats him. There's some kind of metal board set up on two chairs outside, then Jun sets up two chairs with tubes on top of it. Jack then package piledrivers Jun through all of it off the apron to the floor.

Jack gorilla presses Jun into a gutbuster then he swantons him off the top for 2. Jack brings out a bunch of wooden spikes on styrofoam. Jack is on the 2nd rope and Jun powerbombs him onto them. Jun headbutts some tubes into Jack's head for 2.

Jun puts the metal board on the top rope and sets up a glass pane on some chairs. They stand on the metal board and Jack hits a forward flipping fireman's carry on Jun through the glass. Jack then puts tubes behinds Jun's back and uranage's him, then kicks a couple tubes in his face for 2.

Jack goes up top on the board and Jun hits him with tubes. Jun then superplexes him off the board and hits a one winged angel for 2. Jun then hits his splash off the board onto tubes on Jack, but Jack no sells it then is suplexed. June does some unusual seated double arm hold on him then gets german suplexed. Jun then gets electric chair dropped for 2.

A bunch of tubes and wooden spikes are brought out and Jun gets package piledrivered onto them...but kicks out at 1. They trade lariats and Jun straightjacket piledrivers him for 2. Jun then double underhook piledrivers him and Jack kicks out at 1. Jun hits another double underhook piledriver and wins it.

This was really bad. They did some of the worst no selling I've ever seen here and it was nothing but a spot fest. Horrible match with little wrestling and no real logic.

Overall thoughts: I did skip one match as I don't watch intergender stuff but the hardcore tag team match was better than I expected while the main event death match was just an awful mindless match.