AJPW 2/22/86

AJPW 2/22/86 Ashura Hara/Great Kabuki vs Mighty Inoue/Tiger Mask Kabuki/Tiger get into a pre-match shove-a-thon. No one is able to get and maintain an advantage for very long. Until Tiger starts to work on Hara's arm several minutes into the contest. Hara attempts to throw Tiger Mask between the ropes to break the armbar but Tiger holds on to the hold yanking Hara to the floor with him. The camera sadly did not pick this up very well, but I believe Hara landed on top of Tiger Mask! Tiger rams Hara into the ringpost and throws him back in the ring. Hara manages to land two solid headbuts to Tiger and tags Kabuki. He grabs a side headlock Tiger quickly pushes off and hits a beauty of a dropkick. Kabuki gets the momentum back as Tiger follows a whip into the corner and Kabuki meets him with a strong lariat! Tiger counters a back suplex with one of his own. Then climbs to the top and hits a missile drop kick. Kabuki hits a knee  to the mid-section and gets a much needed tag to Hara. Tiger mask fights out of a chinlock and tags Inoue. Inoue immediately takes over on Hara with a flying shoulder tackle and a dropkick. Both Inoue and Tiger utilize single leg Boston crabs. Kabuki gets the tag but Inoue goes after the leg with an inside toe hold and then locks in a figure four! Kabuki manages to reverse the hold, but Inoue rolls thru and Kabuki must grab the ropes to break the hold. Tiger takes the tag and clamps on the same hold. Hara runs in and drops a leg across Tiger. Inoue tags back in and spins into an Indian Death Lock(Kabuki's leg is being slowly taken apart!) Tiger gets the tag and slaps on a Boston Crab. Hara runs in again for the save and shoulder blocks Tiger mask. Kabuki fires back with his uppercut blows and tags Hara! Hara takes back suplexes from both his foes! Inoue runs at Hara who sidesteps him and he flies over the top rope. Kabuki goes outside and whips Inoue into the guard rail, Tiger hits Kabuki with a great Plancha on the outside. Inoue sunset flips back in the ring Hara kicks out at two. Inoue attempts a O'Connor roll, Hara blocks by holding on to the rope. Inoue goes down when he comes up Hara hits him with a lariat and gets the pin! Meanwhile Kabuki and Tiger mask continue to brawl!
  Match #2 Jerry "Crusher" Blackwell/Harley Race vs Isamu Teranishi/Killer Khan Joined in Progress The clip showed about 5 minutes of wrestling. Nothing really happened Killer Khan and Race were battling the referee tried to step in and Khan threw him down twice! The Official dq'd Khan so your winners Blackwell and Race!
     Match#3 (This is a sentence I never thought I would see much less write) Tenryu vs One Man Gang. Gang coming to the ring looking like he did with that black skull and crossbones flag is a sight to behold! This match was 90% Gang as he just beat the Piss outta Tenryu. Throwing him outside and hitting him with what I think was the ring bell! Tenryu had one brief moment of a comeback when he hit his headkick and a staggered Gang stumbled to the corner. Gang quickly regained the upperhand and hit his 747 splash. He then attempted the same thing from the corner, Tenryu moves and uses the biggest small package ever seen for the win! Gang beat up all the young boys and threw chairs in the ring during his post match hissyfit!
     Match #4 Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs Jumbo Tsuruta/Takashi Ishikawa This was a wild crazy seven minute bout! With almost minute by minute momentum changes! It started by Yatsu being distracted by Tsuruta on the apron. Ishikawa attacked Yatsu threw him out of the ring. Jumbo grabs Yatsu around the waist and holds him up and out as Ishikawa comes off the apron with a huge kneedrop to the throat! Not gonna go move by move it would take twice as long to write as to watch!  The finishing sequence saw Tsuruta and Choshu battling outside. Ishikawa hits Yatsu with a superplex in the ring, meanwhile Choshu takes Jumbo to the post. Riki climbs in the ring when Ishikawa gets up Choshu hits his lariat and gets a three count! Quite the show!