Posted October 31, 200816 yr comment_5435479 DVD 14 7/11/86: Seiji Sakaguchi & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Kendo Nagasaki & Mr. Pogo - Still not digging Pogo and Nagasaki. Generic tag match. Kengo Kimura & George Takano vs. Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido - Kido and Kimura looked pretty terrible exchanging holds early on. Crowd was stone silent and understandably so. Heat picked up whenever Maeda came in to unleash some kicks. Ultimately, they played off the ending of his Fujinami match, as he busted Takano with the same spinning kick (well, Takano bladed after the kick.) They ended up brawling into the crowd for a double-countout. This picked up late but certainly wasn't a standout from the UWF-NJ feud. Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Williams & Alexis Smirnoff - Again, they focused on getting Williams over. Decent tag but nothing exceptional in it. 7/18/86: George Takano vs. Johnny Mantell - Takano tried less stupid stuff in his non-Cobra identity. But he still treated the fans to a ridiculously sloppy exchange of near-fall roll-ups. Akira Maeda & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Kendo Nagasaki & Mr. Pogo - A better performance by Nagasaki and Pogo. They portrayed themselves as unable to compete straight up with the UWF guys. But by way of low blows, chokes with foreign objects and interference from Wakamatsu, they controlled much of the match. I was hoping for some supremely violent retribution from Fujiwara and Maeda but it never really materialized. Still, I could stand to watch another match between these teams. Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Bad News Allen & Steve Williams - This was really all about Williams as a powerhouse. From suplexes to powerslams to shoulder blocks, he killed the company's top natives with all of his high-impact offense. Unfortunately, they didn't show the ending, which from the credits, appeared to leave the top rope snapped and Inoki/Fujinami badly battered. Match did what it was supposed to for Williams but it's hard to say how good it really was, so it can't go on.
