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He was the second or third best guy in the big NJPW 5 on 5 gauntlet from 84. That says a lot considering the match was ranked number one on the DVDVR NJPW 80s ballot results. He was in Fujinami's heavyweight debut which was great too, but that's all he was in on the set. Footage is definitely an issue but I've seen some stuff here and there that wasn't great, but he himself was good in. Definitely worth going back and looking at his IWE stuff and whatever else there is to see where he stands.

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Don't think he was as consistently good as Kantaro Hoshino, or Hamada, or even Kobayashi. Been a while since I watched his IWE stuff but I remember him being technically sound but not afraid to grind a match to a halt, either. That said, the Fujinami match was a revelation. I can't really see voting him ahead of the other early-'80s juniors, though.

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