SEGUNDA CAIDA DECLARES WAR!!! 3/5/93

WE DECLARE WAR

Yuji Yasuraoka vs. Ultimo Dragon

Fun competitive squash. Yasuroka gets in some stuff, but it is mostly Ultimo running through his spots. Everything was hit cleanly, and he nukes him with a cross arm powerbomb which looked nasty.

Hiroshi Inomata vs. El Samurai

No idea if Inomata ever did anything after this. Kind of an odd match as Inomata gets a bunch of pretty basic juniors offense, and really dominates the opening part of this match. Then it is was like a switch flipped, and Samurai kicked him in the face a couple times, German suplexed him and pinned him. It felt like Samurai was getting paid either way, and wasn't going to exert himself more then necessary.

Haku vs. Yoshiro Ito

Ito is one of the most roided Japanese guys I have ever seen. He looks 1992 WWF Scott Casey level juiced. He and Haku just stand nose to nose and just crack each other. If you aren't good, at least be stiff, and Ito seems to have that down. This is right in Haku's wheel house as he just whales away at Puroresu Ted Arcidi, and I dug it. Not good or anything, but very WAR.

John Tenta vs. Rio Lord of The Jungle

Very similar to their other match. Tenta is a pretty good wrestler, and every once in a while Renegade will do something physically impressive (he gets crazy ups on a leapfrog). Still there were other moments where Renegade would do something embarrassing, and this match was a little longer so it had more of them, he threw one of the worst clotheslines I have ever seen and he couldn't come back from that.

Masashi Aoyagi/Kuniaki Kobayashi vs. Koki Kitahara/Nobukazu Hirai

Fun match that got really good whenever the kickers were kicking people. Aoyagi was great he laid in a bunch of cool kick variations, including some really nasty shots to the ribs of Hirai when Kobayashi had him in a abdominal stretch. Kikihara was also coming in and laying into people. He kicked Kobyashi's brain out of his nose with an enzigiri. Most of the match was focused on Hirai v. Kobayashi which was much less exciting, although I did like their finishing run. Match had a bunch of heat too, as the interpromotional deal really fired up the crowd.

Takashi Ishikawa/Kodo Fuyuki vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Michiyoshi Ohara

Man was this good. Hashimoto is tremendous in this setting, he is a total berserker in this match. He spits in Ishikawa's face, and chops Fuyuki and Takashi into oblivion every time he tags in, he also makes some brutal saves. However the WAR team smartly focuses on Ohara, busting him open and painting the mat with his blood. Ohara does a real good job of being beaten and bleeding, and Ishikawa is really good at beating the shit out of someone. Hashimoto is kept away, outside of explosions of violent frustration. We don't get the Hashimoto we want, which really makes you want to see him unleashed.

Genichiro Tenryu/Ashura Hara/Masao Orihara vs. Great Kabuki/Shiro Koshinaka/Kengo Kimura

This match was structured a lot like the previous match, with Tenryu being the guy bottled up and frustrated. The HI team isolates Orihara and kicks and stomps the fuck out of his belly. Koshinaka got some grief from folks during the NJ 80's set, but I think he is pretty unimpeachable as a douchebag fucking someone up. This was another great Kabuki performance, as he unload some nice Kabuki uppercuts and a couple of beautiful superkicks. Orihara is at his best getting beaten up, and he gets beaten up here. Still hard to be too high on a Tenryu match with this little Tenryu.