This was a short spirited sprint of a match. This was joined in progress and it was all action until Kabuki picked up the win. This was probably the best Kabuki match I've ever seen even with it being clipped.
Steve Olsonoski has been a really fun guy to watch on this tour. He's put good matches on with Jumbo and Kabuki in singles matches. His offense is believable and he's had good chemistry with most of the guys. He also works the formula well of getting his stuff in but making AJPW regulars look amazing in the process.
Genichiro Tenryu vs. Umanosuke Ueda - Double DQ
There was never any match here. Ueda attacked as he came out and this just turned into an absolutely wild brawl. They brawled all around the ring until the referee had enough and disqualified both of them.
This was a highly entertaining brawl, They kept it pretty intense for the duration and it was a nice change of pace with a lot of the other matches to this point.
NWA International Tag Team Title Match:
Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (c) def Fabulous Freebirds
This was a really good tag team main event this week. Good energy and pace throughout the whole match. The crowd was also really into this one. The only downer in this match was Giant Baba. I compliment his 1970s work a lot but he's really starting to decline as a worker. His offense is just awful at this point in his career. You can just feel the labor that he goes through just being in there and it's not pleasant.
I'm going to add this one to my notable matches list. It was a really good match especially when Tsuruta was in there working with Gordy. It was a title match and they made it feel like there was that championship level importance to the match.
Overall Thoughts:
Really good show this time out as all of the matches were entertaining. The 45 minutes just flew by with good wrestling. I would call this the best of the 4 episodes I've watched so far.
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