8/4/88 Antonio Inoki/Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Riki Choshu/Strong Machine/Kuniaki Kobayashi (Sky A 107)

- Man, this is going to be a mother trying to decide which six man tags get put on this set. Early on, good stuff with Koshinak a getting abused. Hell, Chooshu has him in a headlock and is staring at Inoki the entire time. Classic. Shit, Inoki punching Choshu in the had was a sight to behold. When these guys tangled up, I was digging how each guy looked like he wanted to rip the skin from the bone. Everyone else was fine in the match and there were some good sequences but it all took a backseat to the Choshu-Inoki feud which really burns this match into my memory. However, the match was criminally short. I was digging it but it didn’t last very long which might bump it off. Still, lets move it forward and see where it goes.

 

NJC 305

This featured a fun brawling section between Inoki and Choshu and generally fine work. But nothing pushed it into the class of all the great six-mans that will make this set.

Some nice stuff, and I enjoy watching all Fujiwara, but outside of some Choshu v. Inoki exchanges and Fujiwara elbowing a showboating fan, nothing stood out.