Posted July 10, 201015 yr comment_5452981 DVD #5 2/21/87 (taped 2/20) 1. Tiger Mask/Toshiaki Kawada/Giant Baba vs. Rusher Kimura/Goro Tsurumi/Ashura Hara (8:34 of 10:59 shown) - It was kind of a kick to see Misawa and Kawada together at that age. They did one neat spot where Misawa faked a dive, causing Tsurumi to move over a few steps into perfect position to eat a plancha from Kawada. It wasn't a standout match overall. 2. Jumbo Tsuruta/Hiroshi Wajima vs. Art Crew/El Olympico (5:28 complete) - Reviewed on Classics. 3. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Animal Hamaguchi vs. Terry Gordy/Mike George (13:08 complete) - Solid match with Gordy and George trying to rough up the natives, and Hamguchi responding with some neat amateur takedowns and holds. Hamaguchi also showed the most fire in the finishing stretch which led to all four guys brawling to a countout. No vote but a fine way to spend 13 minutes. 4. Road Warriors vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa (2:27 complete) - The Warriors let Tenryu get in a couple of moves and then squashed Ishikawa. 2/28/87 (2/24) 1. Tiger Mask/Jumbo Tsuruta vs. El Olympico/Ashura Hara (10:03 complete) - They did one cool sequence in which Jumbo blocked a Hara lariat, drove him out of the ring with two high knees and then tagged Misawa, who sprinted to hit the still-staggering Hara with a prefect dive. In general, this was pretty good when Hara wrestled and a total toss-off whenever Olympico entered. Unfortunately, it ended on the note of Misawa casually beating Olympico with a German suplex. 2. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Terry Gordy (11:10 complete) - For some reason, they spent most of the 11 minutes working holds and produced a heatless match. They started to pick it up but then tumbled outside after struggling over a power bomb and went to the countout. Pretty disappointing stuff. 3. Hiroshi Wajima vs. Art Crews (5:00 complete) - Reviewed on Classics. 4. Road Warriors vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Animal Hamaguchi (5:39 complete) - Yatsu actually got in a nice run of offense after a hot tag. That made this a hotly contested match by Warriors standards. Animal's finishing powerslam off the second rope at least looked badass.
