Masashi Aoyagi Don't Read that Daily News

Masashi Aoyagi/Kengo Kimura/Great Kabuki/Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroshi Hase/Kenji Muto/Masahiro Chono/Tatsumi Fujinami NJ 8/2/93s-sGREAT

I pretty much universally enjoy a Heisei Ishingun multi man match. You get a lot of moving parts, doing things, some gang beatdowns and a dope Kabuki uppercut or two. Aoyagi was really fun in this, he gets his eye bruised up at one point, at seems to be adding some mustard to his shots afterward, he really brain kicks Chono at one point. He also ends up eating all of the big moves to lead up to the Dragon Sleeper submission. Hase had a couple of big throws, Koshinaki hit some guys with his butt, the crowd got into it, overall some fun stuff.

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Great is the Fury of Yoshiaki Fujiwara That is Kindled Against Us

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Riki Choshu/Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/Tatsutoshi Goto NJPW 3/16/94 - GREAT

This was a Heisei Ishingun invasion trios and had some more spitfire then your normal undercard tag. Choshu was on the other side of an invasion force, but certainly knows how to work one of these. Choshu ends up bloodied, until he is able to hit a lariat or two and tag out. Really enjoyed Fujiwara as a cheap shotter, he got so excited to come in and punch a guy in the back of the head. Finish had Fujiwara damn near rip Kimura's arm off as the NJPW team cut off the thug squad. Fun stuff, although didn't reach the insane level of some invading group matches.

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Yoshiaki Fujiwara Cannot Carry All The People Because It is Too Burdensome For Him

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Tatsumi Fujinami/Riki Choshu/Keiji Muto/Hiroshi Hase vs. Great Kabuki/Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/Tatsutoshi Goto/Michiyoshi Ohara NJPW 3/21/94 - GREAT

This is a 10 man 2/3 falls gang fight, with Heisei Ishingun facing off with the New Japan boys. The NJ 10 man matches are always great (at least the 20th Century version, fuck if I am going to watch some Bullet Club mess). Really enjoyed Muto in this, this is a match with a lot a clubbing brawlers, so having an infusion of high level athleticism really brings something different. Of course I love some clubbing brawlers and there was a lot of great clubbing here. Our boy Fujiwara is great in these matches, you aren't going to see any of the high level mat work, but you are going to see him choking Koshinaka with a rope and headbutting him in the temple. I think this needed the heat of the Fujiwara v. Saito singles match, that most of this was more wrestling match then blood war. Still the wrestling was good, and I was really surprised at HI going over like that, with Goto hurling Muto off the top rope with a nasty uranage.

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