[1979-01-29-IWE Japan] Kantaro Hoshino & Kotetsu Yamamoto vs Mighty Inoue & Animal Hamaguchi

[Jetlag]

Long junior tag from 1979! Hard not to love a match that has these stocky juniors doing all their awesome offense. Awesome takedowns, knee drops, punches, sumo slaps and flying headbutts a plenty. Match also had a really smart layout and clever use of double teams. Starts in a rush and then turns into a long uphill battle. The 2nd fall of this match alone as better than a lot of 1 fall singles matches. I guess the match peaked early when Inoue and Hoshino get into serious fight in the middle of the match, but that was an amazing moment and the rest of the match was still impossibly cool.

[Zero]

Enjoyed this. I was a little worried about the runtime, but it flew by. 2nd fall was a treat, the 3rd fall finish was a bit lackluster.