Posted July 1, 201213 yr comment_5508723 Wow, Flair never gets put over this strong. It's kinda weird, but it's cool to see this aggressive side of him. Tenryu puts on a nice selling performance and Flair seems to enjoy not having to make someone during a main event for a change. He takes 90% of the first fall and is on his way to doing the same in the second fall ... until he goes up top. It's like he never learns. Tenryu ends up taking the second fall with a press slam and a powerbomb. This is different from 80s Flair in Japan. 80s Flair in Japan was a bit more stoic and wrestled by the rules most of the time. 90s Flair isn't afraid to swing a chair, yell at the ref or tell a Japanese fan that he'll take his wife home and make a woman out of her. He's not afraid to beg off. That they respond well to the American heeling is pretty cool. Tenryu rallying to turn over the figure four and failing gets an audible sigh of disappointment from the crowd each time. Finally turning it over gets a nice reaction because they built to it so well. It's a strange complaint about a Flair match, but my only problem with this is that I wouldn't have minded seeing Tenryu get more offense. He does make a nice rally in the third fall and takes the match with a single powerbomb. And the crowd pops huge because he took such a beating for most of the near-25 minute match. So it's not even a major complaint. Call it more of a wish.
