Posted August 10, 201015 yr comment_5454278 DVD #13 6/12/88 (taped 6/10/88 ) Great Kabuki vs. Rip Rogers (5:28 of 6:44 aired) - Reviewed on Classics. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Dan Spivey (10:58 of 13:30 aired) - It was fun to watch Tenryu chop away at Spivey but nothing I'd revisit. Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Road Warriors (13:48 complete) - Big-match feel fueled by a hot crowd and both teams blasting away with high-impact moves in the early going. The Warriors actually sold for Jumbo, or at least his moves were strong enough that they had to go down. I was shocked when they settled into an actual tag match with control sections and limbwork. Then Hawk had to derail the action by slipping off the top rope before he could deliver a flying elbow. The Warriors tossed Higuchi out of the ring, so another ref came in to count Jumbo out after he ate a top-rope clothesline from Hawk. The whole thing ended in confusion with both teams claiming victory and the refs arguing. This was one of the better Roadies matches from All-Japan but when I compare it to all the great tags we've nominated, I can't see it on the set. For all their aura, Hawk and Animal just weren't that good. 6/19/88 (taped 6/9/88 ) Tiger Jeet Singh/Jesse Barr vs. Hiroshi Wajima/Takashi Ishikawa (10:01 of 12:14 aired) - This earned a bit of fast forwarding. I felt bad for Ishikawa, who at least tried. Genichiro Tenryu/Ashura Hara/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Tiger Mask/Isao Takagi/Ahinnichi Nakano (15:41 complete) - Team Tenryu hit Nakano with some quality violence and Misawa had his moments. But this never touched the pace or excitement of the best six-man tags, and it petered out with Tenryu submitting Takagi. Road Warriors vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu (7:56 complete) - More of a typical Warriors match, though Yatsu got in a nice run of offense before they pinned him with a powerslam.
