[1994-04-04-NJPW-Grand Cross in Hiroshima] Riki Choshu & Genichiro Tenryu vs Keiji Muto/Great Muta & Masahiro Chono

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Choshu & Tenryu beat up Mutoh at the start, toss him outside, punk him out & then Tenryu gets on the mic saying they want Muta instead. Frustrated Mutoh walks off to the back to go get him. Not sure if he's ever done the switch mid match before but it's my first time seeing it which is cool. After a few mins of Chono getting beat up Muta comes out and chaos errupts, mist mist mist, elbow, mist, elbow, somehow along the way Choshu gets sprayed which causes him to immediatly pin Chono afterwards because he's Choshu and he can do that. Post match Muta ups the crazy as he's want to do and single handidly beats up Choshu & Tenryu. Mist mist mist mist mist, yellow mist, green mist, stab your head with a giant pole, red mist, chair, mist, destruction. Chono tries to calm him down and gets tossed aside so he walks off hands up. Young boys try to break it up and get tossed around. Shirtless Inoki wanders out and gets misted too. As a match this is pretty decent, as an angle & crazy spectacle it's quite bad ass. Came away wanting to see Muta fight everyone involved in this one on one including Chono.

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Outside of the Dome show and the Hash/Tenryu match it's been a quiet first quarter for New Japan. Choshu & Tenryu as partners is just weird. And we must be in the Sportatorium, as Tenryu WORKS THE STICK in the middle of the match, inciting Muto with something before dumping water on him just because he can. Muto bails and Chono decides to take on both opponents with a chair as equalizer. That doesn't last long, as Tenryu & Choshu are working better together as former enemies in the early going than Hokuto & Kandori did. Things take another left turn as MUTA emerges from the locker room. He destroys Tenryu on the apron but can't seem to tag in legally, as the opponents more or less keep Chono isolated in the ring. Muta eventually has enough and nails both guys with the mists and somehow Choshu pins an apparently comatose Chono anyway. Muta lays waste to everything that moves afterward, misting the opponents about 37 times each and beating the shit out of Tenryu with a stretcher from under the ring. This match pretty much defies a traditional star rating but it was entertaining bullshit.