AJPW 1/14/86 Four bouts will be reviewed in the blog entry. Match #1 Tiger Mask/Haru Sonoda vs Kuniaki Kobayashi/Norio Honaga. I was let down by this match a bit, I gotta be honest! In the 7 and a half minutes we get to see(it was joined in progress) it was kinda sloppy and just there really! Kobayashi and Tiger Mask had spectacular chemistry and a great singles feud, but it didn't feel like that in this tag bout! Tiger did do a beauty of a high-crossbody but not much else to report. Kobayshi and Honaga won when he reversed a simple small package to score the pin over Sonoda. The other members of both teams were fighting on the floor at the time of the fall.
Match #2 Mill Mascaras vs Fuimihiro Niikura (bet you can't figure out who won this match) They showed Mascaras's long full entrance but cut several minutes out of the bout! The most interesting thing in this match happened during that ring entrance. The fans were so jubilant that the masked legend barley made it to the ring in one piece. He looked shaken/pissed off when he made it in the ring! Basic Mascaras bout as he did two surf boards and did not sell a damn thing this kid did to him for more than a half a second! Easy crossbody for the win!
Match #3 Isamu Teranishi/Riki Choshu vs Jumbo Tsuruta./Takashi Ishikawa For 14 minutes the match was wild told a compelling story and was action packed and brilliant! Tsuruta attacked Choshu before the opening bell with a chair busting him open and forcing the ring attendants to take him to the dressing room! Yoshiaki Yatsu then appeared and demanded he take Choshu's place! It was agreed to and the match legally began. Every time Yatsu and Jumbo touched it was a brawl! Oddly enough the bout ended when both men were calmly on the ring apron. As Ishikawa countered a body slam attempt by Teranishi with a beautiful backslide for the victory. Their were two separate pull apart brawls post match, Plus Jumbo and Yatsu getting on different house mics and making bodily harm threats(A reasonable assumption on my part I believe!) Just great stuff all the way around! If you have not seen this match Go to the All Japan Archive on Google share and find it!
The final bout of the evening Barry Windham/Mike Rotunda vs Giant Baba and Tenryu! A solid tag bout with several false finishes. Windham worked well with Baba for the most part, not an easy feat at this point! Baba sold a double dropkick like he was dead on the outside! All four ended up outside for the standard double countout(translation we don't want to beat anybody!)
Worth the time to see Jumbo and Choshu go at it!
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