Superstar Sleeze Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs Ultimo Dragon & Masao Orihara - WAR 4/2/93 In the midst of the NJPW vs WAR feud dominated by Tenryu vs Hashimoto in Co. there was the junior analog to the feud with Jushin Liger facing off against Ultimo Dragon. Their big singles match happened at the 1/4 Dome show but was marred by a dead crowd and botches. Here the crowd was electric everytime these two men squared off the ring. Often, Liger is so head and shoulders more over than his opponents it was nice for him to be in there against an equal. Liger was on fire in this match. He just brought an insane energy to this match. He had so much pep in his step. He was kinda dick the whole time because he was the invader on WAR's turf, but people were eating up his hip swiveling, arm swirling taunting. When Liger & Dragon both went for the cup the ear taunts I marked out. Liger's kept up this energy throughout the match. The match did vacillate between chippy and meandering though. I thought Samurai had some good moves like a couple piledrivers, some awesome dives and a reverse suplex that gave Liger a hot tag, but he was not bringing the passion. It was just going through the motions. Orihara was your good little dick underling that's such a great Japanese trope. Dragon was way better against Liger than Sammy. He kinda slummed it with Samurai, which is weird because they apparently had a classic in WAR a couple weeks before this. Dragon was definitely up for wrestling Liger. The double team moves were great. I LOVED the dive train! The finish stretch was great with Liger nailing a Ligerbomb but Dragon making the save. Diving headbutt save and when Sammy finally takes out Dragon, Liger eats feet on diving headbutt so this creates some drama, but Liger wins with Frankensteiner. Take home message is this is where Liger vs Dragon the singles match should have taken place! Hot crowd and both men were on. Liger was oozing charisma. He was kicking ass. He showed enough vulnerability to make it interesting but you knew he was taking home the win. I thought as a tag match just too uneven. Samurai had some good offense, but lacking the fire. Dragon was carrying himself like a star, but oddly enough was not supplying the cool moves. This could really could have a heat segment or something to build drama. I wish this was better just because Liger looked awesome here. ***1/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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