Posted October 11, 201014 yr comment_5457115 Mighty Inoue vs. Johnny Mantell - JIP. Inoue hit his nifty flip senton, and then they spilled outside off a cross body. Mantell tried a piledriver on the floor, but Inoue countered with a backdrop. Good struggle on the apron as Mantell tried to get back in, and they popped the crowd by fighting over pinning combinations until Inoue won with a roll-up. Decent action overall. Tenryu vs. Smirnoff - The crowd was pretty into this, oohing and aahing when Smirnoff leapfrogged Tenryu and caught him with a big boot right on the button. A few moments later, Tenryu finished the Russian with three straight enzuigiris. They didn't do enough to make me think nomination, but it was a solid, hard-hitting match while it lasted. Kabuki/Magic Dragon vs. Dick Slater/Johnny Sharpe - Your heelish Americans spent most of the match cutting off the ring on Magic Dragon, which got kind of boring because Dragon sucked. The match picked up considerably whenever Kabuki got in his bursts of offense. But this isn't something anyone else needs to see. Jumbo/Tenryu vs. Hansen/Smirnoff - Hansen and Tenryu heated things up with a vicious exchange a few minutes into the match. Tenryu then endured a peril section but made the hot tag after hitting an enzuigiri on Hansen. Fired up Jumbo hit some big knees on Smirnoff and proceeded to do solid work on Hansen's lariat arm (didn't go anywhere unfortunately.) Tenryu got himself back in peril, with Stan stomping the shit out of him from the apron and pitching him into the crowd. After Tenryu re-entered, all four guys brawled in the ring, and Stan accidentally landed the lariat on Smirnoff to set up the fall. Despite some cool moments and good crowd heat, this never built into a high-end match.
