[1997-01-17-AJPW-New Year's Giant Series] Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Last few minutes of a pretty heated match. Ace had a short haircut in November matches and it's long again here, so I'm confused. Kawada and Taue win the double tag titles.

[soup23]

Taue had me worried on that powerbomb to Ace but it turned out ok. I look forward to their singles match later on in the year. Finish was pretty heated and might be fun to watch in full. Ace was pretty resilent before falling down to the offense of Taue.

[jdw]

The full match is pretty mediocre and disappointing. Kind of a sign that Doc was falling off the form of 1996, which was behind his 8/93 - 3/95 peak.

 

John

[Kevin Ridge]

Johnny performed the Ace Crusher better over time. Williams was not much involved from a the few minutes that was shown.

[PeteF3]

So, did Kawada & Taue *not* win the tag titles at the end of the '93 League? Okay then. Squint and you'd be forgiven for mistaking Ace for Greg Valentine here. Ending stretch is basically a Taue-Ace singles match with Kawada and Doc as NPCs.

[KB8]

Yeah, this looked alright, but I don't fancy seeking out the full 26 minutes. What we got was mostly Taue v Ace and I dug Taue's exhaustion selling.