Posted August 19, 200817 yr comment_5434117 New Japan Pro Wrestling TV (March 25th & April 15 1983) 1. Tiger Mask vs Miles Zrno (24/3) - This was more of a music video of Tiger Mask highlights from this match. 2. Masa Saito & Riki Choshu vs Adrian Adonis & Tony P (24/3) - I'm not sure I'd ever seen Tony P before. Anyway, this was forgettable except for the oddity of watching Saito play face in peril. He was normally such an ass kicker. 3. Tatsumi Fujinami vs Rusher Kimura (24/3) - I didn't think much of Kimura's work against Inoki, but he was much better in this match. Maybe he just needed a younger, lower-ranked opponent to look like a proper prick. Unfortunately, his crew jumped in and caused the DQ right when this was getting really interesting. I'm all for a purposeful non-ending, but here, it just killed a nicely built match. 4. Antonio Inoki vs Killer Khan (24/3) - Khan didn't play to his strengths as he chose to work holds with Inoki. He just looked slow and fairly harmless on the mat. I wanted a crazed, brawling Khan. This was OK. 5. Tiger Mask vs Kuniaki Kobayashi - Another solid match in their series, but it just sort of ended out of nowhere without building much heat. 6. Riki Choshu vs Paul Orndorff - OK, I don't want to watch Riki Choshu and Paul Orndorff trade shitty mat holds. I just don't. 7. Antonio Inoki, Seiji Sakaguchi & Kengo Kimura vs Rusher Kimura, Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi - Six-mans of this period that didn't include Choshu's Army tended to be lost causes. This one did not break that rule.
