Posted February 4, 200916 yr comment_5437054 DVD#8 ---------------------------------------------------- June 10th: The Hiroshima prefectural gymnasium Adonis, Murdoch vs Gaspers - The Gaspers sucked. IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship / Hart vs Yamada - Some impressive, athletic stuff here, especially from Yamada. But again, it's JIP and only goes about five minutes, so it's hard to say it should be more than an extra. IWGP Tag Championship / Kimura, Fujinami vs Saito, Choshu - They put together a solid match but nothing I haven't seen from these guys before. June 17th: Gosen citizen hall IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship / Hart vs Kobayashi - More JIP Hart and he didn't seem to click as well with Kobayashi as some of the others. Fujinami vs Murdoch - These guys were never bad together. Murdoch did a lot of solid arm work and threw in some trademark strikes. Fujinami sold well, and everything he did looked good. All the same, this wasn't their best work together. Murdoch came off less vicious than he did when he was more of a heel, and the ending came off more as a flukish copout than the conclusion to any kind of story. Worse matches might make the set, but I've nominated several better ones from these two, so I'll pass. Saito, Choshu vs Gaspers - The first five minutes featured pretty predictable offense from Choshu/Saito. But the Gaspers managed to isolate Saito on the outside and bust him open with their pirate swords. The match got more interesting after that as Saito bled buckets and rallied with a great flurry of headbutts on both guys. Great three minutes, maybe, but the Gaspers contributed little and I can't say the match would stand up that well overall.
