Posted January 25, 200916 yr comment_5436893 Big Van Vader/Italian Stallion vs. Antonio Inoki/Takayuki Lizuka Not enough Inoki v. Vader, and too much Stallion v. Iziuka. Jushin Liger vs. Shiro Koshinaka 9 minutes of fine Nitro style juniors wrestling, which is worth watching, but this isn’t the kind of thing which is going to distinguish itself. Riki Choshu/Masa Saito/Kengo Kimura/Tatsumi Fujinami/Osamu Kido vs. Victor Zangiev/Vladimir Berkovich/Wakha Evloev/Shota Chochyshvili/Salman Hashimikov This was a series of singles matches, not a gauntlet. Your first two matches were pretty bad, I am going to go ahead a nominate Zangiev v. Kido, which was about 7 minutes and all really goofy tricky mat work. Zangiev has a bunch of cool looking reversals which aren’t what you would expect. Hashmikov v. Saito was fun too, but not a set match.
January 26, 200916 yr comment_5436903 Big Van Vader/Italian Stallion vs. Antonio Inoki/Takayuki Lizuka What a weird match-up. The guys you'd actually want to see didn't do nearly enough. Jushin Liger vs. Shiro Koshinaka I think I liked this more than Phil, because they really hit their stuff and hit it hard. But at the same time, it went less than 10 minutes and didn't build to any moment that felt important or special. I assume we'll find better examples of newly costumed Liger. Riki Choshu/Masa Saito/Kengo Kimura/Tatsumi Fujinami/Osamu Kido vs. Victor Zangiev/Vladimir Berkovich/Wakha Evloev/Shota Chochyshvili/Salman Hashimikov It was disappointing that they didn't structure this so the matches would relate to one another more. The Zangiev/Kido and Saito/Hashimikov matches were the definite highlights. I'm on the fence about Kido/Zangiev. I want at least one Zangiev match on the set and this had some nifty matwork. Pretty good ending too with Zangiev murdering Kido by suplex. I'll give it a nod for now but could see dropping it if I see a Zangiev match I strongly prefer.
