Posted May 15, 201015 yr comment_5450859 Dan Kroffat, Doug Furnas & Ken Shamrock vs. Kenta Kobashi, Joe Malenko & Shinichi Nakano (9/30/89) - This featured some fine action, but they went around and around in a loop without finding another gear or focusing in on one issue. So it felt like less than the sum of its parts. Stan Hansen/Ricky Fuyuki vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Akira Taue (10/1/89) - When Yatsu and Hansen were trying to tear into each other, this was pretty good. When the secondary guys were in, not so much. I like Taue a lot, but lord did he look lost at this point. Really, Hansen was too great a force to fit into this match. So it was no surprise when he took the win with a lariat on Taue. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Shunji Takano (10/1/89) - I enjoyed the Kawada-Jumbo interactions, but Tenryu didn't play enough of a role in the match. He and Jumbo were in the middle of a promotion-defining feud and yet they hardly engaged, so it was hard not to feel disappointed. Given the volume of great matches involving these guys, it's easy to toss this aside.
September 17, 201015 yr comment_5455845 Kenta Kobashi, Joe Malenko, & Shinichi Nakano vs. The Can-Am Express (Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat), & Ken Sharmock (9/30/89) Shamrock is jacked to the gills here and these are quite the teams. This had some fun stuff but the match as a whole felt like it was just 6 guys doing spots with no real rhyme or reason which was fine but isn't a match that is worthy of a nomination. Ricky Fuyuki & Stan "The Lariat" Hansen vs. Akira Taue & Yoshiaki Yatsu (10/1/89) Hansen was good here and his exchanges with Yatsu were fun but that's about it here. Toshiaki Kawada & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shunji Takano & Jumbo Tsuruta (10/1/89) This was a good match but I was hoping Tenryu would've been in the match longer than he was although Kawada was really good in his role. They kept the match moving at a good pace but this felt like a house show match more than a match that should be on the set.
