February 28, 201312 yr Author comment_5537287 Not a particularly good match, but Hogan gives another excellent performance. 1991 has been the best in-ring year he has had on a yearbook so far, and we still have more Slaughter matches and the Flair series to come. I don't think this really worked as a main event because it wasn't long or dramatic enough, but it was a perfectly fine match nonetheless. Hogan's chain wrestling always looks good when he dusts it off.
March 9, 201312 yr comment_5538313 Pretty much a match to show that Hogan has some mat work he can break out.
March 20, 201312 yr comment_5539534 I hope JVK gets to this match eventually. I'm sure he'll be gladdened just to know that it exists. Hogan's matwork sequences always come off as kind of rote and rehearsed, as evidenced by him doing the same headlock-drop toehold-half nelson sequence twice. But it's still a novelty to see Hogan working so differently from the U.S. formula. We get those sarcastic Japanese cheers when Yatsu makes his comeback. Really awesome sequence where Yatsu somersaults through the Axe Bomber and then catches Hogan with the wonder suplex when he comes back for a second attempt. That's the highlight of an extended squash, but a pretty decent one.
March 20, 201312 yr comment_5539571 This and the other WWF/SWS match this day were in Kobe, not the Tokyo Dome. The 3/30 was the Dome card. John
April 5, 201312 yr comment_5541020 Hogan’s repertoire in the Japan is so much better. It’s entertaining to see him bust out all these armbars, go behinds, drop toe holds. Yatsu didn't really do much though and match was on the short side.
June 17, 201312 yr comment_5548210 Too short to be anything substantial but a great, holy crap these guys wrestled match and Hogan looke really sharp considering he was just in a beefy brawl the night before. Good technical stuff but Yatsu really lost a lot of his substantial stature from 1989 to here.
May 17, 201510 yr comment_5668465 This one almost felt like an exhibition match designed to get Hogan on the card more than anything else. It was a treat to see him doing amateur sequences as a change of pace from the wars he's had recently with Slaughter and the LOD. Yatsu didn't do much that was effective, as Hogan always seemed to be a step ahead of him from start to finish. According to Graham, Tenryu, the closest thing SWS had to an ace, wrested and beat Randy Savage that night. You'd think that they'd have booked Tenryu against Hogan instead, especially since they knew in advance that Randy was going to lose at Mania VII.
October 30, 20177 yr comment_5818270 Hogan really looks good. Crowd was NOT buying into Yatsu one bit.
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