[image ID: an oil painting of Atsushi Onita during a match, painted on a square panel in the middle of a black penwork border.

Onita lies on his back, his face turned towards the viewer in three quarters view. struggling, his mouth is open and his eyes are squeezed shut. his opponent's left hand presses down on Onita's throat, and he grasps at it. his opponent's right hand is by his collar. his left arm is raised to grab his opponent. his face is covered in specs of blood, which also drips down his forehead and onto his left cheek. his and his opponent's arms and chest are bloody, too.

the panel is framed in pen. on the top and bottom are semicircles, each ornamented differently. the top semicircle is a series of three concentric bands, the outer decorated with a letter א, the middle with the word "hardcore" in block capitals, and the inner with a simplistic drawing of an eye. the bottom semicircle is split in three parts, two thinner slices on each side and a thicker one in the centre. the thin slices are each decorated with a leafy branch, the centre slice with three simplistic fish.

outside the frame, the page is split into six sections. three contain various stages of surgical operations. the other three contain an open human mouth from various angles. the sections alternate, such that no segment borders one of its own kind.

the penwork is dense, and the painting is quite detailed and vivid. /.End ID]

got carried away while sketching at night. this took forever to dry.

"Terry Funk was my big brother and my teacher.”

Atsushi Onita pays Tribute to Terry Funk on August 26, and afterwards, a rainbow appears in the sky. ❤️

Atsushi Onita

Ah yes, my favourite genre of image: wrestlers fucking exploding

jun kasai + atsushi onita

Pro Wrestling Illustrated: October 1993

HOT SHOT

Big Titan introduces Atsushi Onita's head to a spiky length of barbed-wire. But this was no ordinary barbed-wire bout: Note that there are no ropes around the ring! Titan and his partners, The Gladiator and Ricky Fuji, battled Onita and Tarzan Goto in this handicap barbed-wire no-rope street-fight death match in Kofu, Japan. Onita and Goto emerged victorious, but none of the five men emerged unscathed.

throwing a fireball in a match where THE ENTIRE RING IS ENGULFED IN FLAME is badass. 

The Original Sheik, Wrestling's Fireball Throwing Madman

The Original Sheik, Wrestling's Fireball Throwing Madman

Robert Segedy If one would look up the term “heel” in the encyclopedia of  Professional Wrestling terms, there should be a photograph of the fire ball tossing, Arabian madman known as The Sheik. His real name was Ed Farhat, and he had a career that spanned five decades ,but the truth behind the real man’s identity was something that was fiercely guarded. The Sheik never gave a single interview…

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