February 1995

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This is for Harlem Heat's WCW World Tag Team Championship. You can plug any middling heel team with Savage/Sting and they'll drag you to something solid. Of course in classic WCW fashion, we get another overbooked finish as Harlem Heat tries to do the twin switch, but it doesn't work, and & Sting win the titles! But, wait, the referees reverse the decision post-match because Stevie Ray technically wasn't tagged in, and it's all rah-rah bullshit that isn't entertaining in 2023. **3/4

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I put this on just to have something running in the background but they grabbed me pretty quickly with the awesome Akiyama/Fuchi sequence in the beginning and I ended up dropping what I was doing to watch the whole thing. Fuchi is awesome here, looking like he's relishing this as a sadly increasingly rare opportunity to showcase his 6-man tag chops. Watching him stretch the shit out of Akiyama and Kikuchi was the highlight for me. The match is also interesting for being one of the few Misawa/Kawada 6-mans where Kawada is coming in as champ, which leads to Kawada looking a little more confident and Misawa being a little less dismissive of him than usual. We still do get an…

Rules are if you're pinned, you're eliminated, and the winner also has to leave the match but will get an opportunity to represent AJW at the 4/2 Tokyo Dome show. This is an excellent match from front to back, but it really distinguishes itself in the final fall between Hasiegawa and Yoshida -- two lower-tier wrestlers going back-and-forth with palpable urgency and desperation to get that last spot on the Dome show. Takako doing her sisterly best to secure Kyoko's spot on 4/2 by backstabbing Toyota was maybe the wholesome moment of the year. I think part of the reason this was such an easy watch despite it being 34 minutes long was because this felt like four short storie…

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Kojima is on excursion, has his face painted and long pants in what I took as an homage to the Great Muta, and is billed as "Suzuki Kanemoto." McDonald is doing his Ultimate Chippendale schtick. The match itself is rather basic, but I enjoyed a look at Kojima in an early stage of his career and trying out a gimmick that I never even knew existed for him. Here's a link to my full review, as part of the 365 Wrestling project.

Lex Luger vs Tatanka - WWF RAW 2/27/95 It is the blowoff the world has been waiting for! I think more than anything, Luger should have known the writing was on the wall when this match did not get booked for WrestleMania. The fact that this had basically started right after WrestleMania X with DiBiase sitting and watching his match with Martel. There were weeks of buildup prior to Summerslam. This should have been a slam dunk WrestleMania match. The fact he got thrown into a tag team with British Bulldog he shouldve known it was over. I will say even though Vince bills this as the blowoff match it is not. It is actually a match that happens on Sunday Night Slam (had …

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