I was shocked how much I enjoyed this, and a lot of the credit goes to Orton, who held together a team that didn't make much sense on paper. Superstar kind of sucked on his earlier tour, but as the violent thug in the trio, he did just fine. Blair handled the mat segments and took abuse from Inoki and crew. Orton bumped around and coordinated his squad's double teams with aplomb. I'm sorry he was stuck working in the WWF for much of the decade, because Orton has been a ton of fun when he he's popped up in NJ. Great tag worker. Anyway, Fujinami and Inoki gave energetic performances as well (Inoki's enziguiri looked notably vicious.) I'll nominate this, because they pulled me into a match that looked utterly skippable in the listings.

Crowd is really fired up here. Beginning is solid if unspectacular with a few awkward moments such as Blair and Fujinami colliding but not knowing where to go next. Also, I thought they were going to start attacking the leg but both teams just dragged their opponent by the leg to tag out. It looked like the gaijin were going to go on a nice run with some cool offense before Fujinami no-sells it and gets back to his corner. Damn, it was like Orton was trying to save the match while Blair tried to ruin it. The Inoki enziguiri looked fucking swank but the match was a no for me.

I liked this a bunch Orton is bumping and flying around and Superstar is clotheslining the fuck out of people, lots of six mans on this set and this isn't anything I would fight for, but I am giving this a thumbs up.