AJPW 1/25/86

AJPW 1/25/86 Mill Mascaras vs Mighty Inoue In my somewhat limited viewing of Mill Mascaras bouts this is the best bout I've seen him have. He gave a ton of offense to Inoue! They exchanged arm drags and Pulling their opponents arms behind their backs in the "Surfboard" position(a standard move in Lucha).The matwork and transitions in this match were crisp and wonderfully pulled off. The two exchanged smashing the other's head into the ringside table at one point. Inoue attempted the Mascaras flying "cross chop", Mill ducked and Inoue went hurdling out over the top rope. Mascaras quickly took advantage of the miscue by hitting a beautiful cross body on Inoue from inside the ring to the floor. Finish saw Mascaras jump over Inoue who was on his stomach leap(I guess)to the 2nd turnbuckle on the inside and hit Inoue with his famous backwards Cross Body block for the win!
      Match #2 Tenyru and Tiger Mask vs Great Kabuki and Ashura Hara Joined in progress As we join the bout Hara is being worked over. Soon Kabuki comes in without a tag and gives Tenryu a thrust kick that gives the advantage to his team. Hara throws him outside the ring, and whips him into the barricade. Picks up a chair and uses it twice once on Tenryu's throat and once across his back. Tenryu manages to escape the Hara sleeperhold by reaching behind him and flipping Hara over his head. Tenryu hits a dropkick throws Hara outside, tags Tiger Mask who promply springs of  the ropes flies over them flawlessly and hits Hara with a perfect flying crossbody. Smashing his body and skull against the guardrail thus turning the tide for the third time in 5 minutes. The heels eventually get Tiger worn down and beat him up for several minutes. Cutting him off repeatedly when he tries to make a comeback. Kabuki has him down and attempts his famous walk-the-ropes karate thrust but as he is about to hit the move Tenryu hits a perfect head kick (I have no idea how to spell the Japanese term I searched for thirty minutes!) With Kabuki on his knees Tiger Mask climbs up top. As he is flying thru the air Kabuki sprays him with the "green mist"in the face! Forcing the ref to call for a DQ! Kabuki hits Tenryu with a 2nd round of mist and a all out brawl breaks loose as Kabuki tries to rip of the mask of the cartoon hero! Hara is choking Tenryu half to death while all this is happening. A wild scene indeed!
     Match #3 Animal Hamaguchi and Riki Choshu  vs Jumbo Tsuruta vs Takashi Ishikawa Choshu came to the ring with the left side of his rib cage heavily taped. Match starts super fast(as you might expect with the heat of this feud no feeling out needed!) All four square of center ring before the bell Choshu ducks a Tsuruta elbow and hits a stiff lariat sending Jumbo to the floor. Choshu posts Tsuruta then goes back in to help Hamaguchi double team Ishikawa. They beat him down until he manages a back suplex and tags a highly pissed off Jumbo. He takes control until he gives a tag back to Ishikawa who climbs to the top rope gets cutoff by Choshu who promptly superlexes him. Ishikawa gets spike pile driven and suffers 2 stiff(there are no other kind!) Choshu Lariats! Choshu then locks on his Scorpion Death Lock submission hold while Hamaguchi drops repeated elbows on a lifeless Ishikawa! Jumbo can take the blatant double team no longer grabs a chair from ringside and goes berserk! Hitting both of his foes multiple times! They return the favor by giving Hamaguchi a spike piledriver on the floor. Jumbo gets disqualified for shoving the ref out of the ring Yoshiaki Yatsu runs in and attacks Tsuruta. Then Tenryu shows up and brawls with Yatsu! This was a very heated compelling mess of a bout, Massively entertaining feud however!