[2000-10-21-AJPW-October Giant Series] Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi & Shiro Koshinaka vs Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Hiro Saito

[soup23]

Time for another dose of NJ vs AJ and I am all for it. Koshinaka shows more fire here than at most parts in the 90’s and he actually integrates the ass based offense in a fun way culminating in the climax of the match where he neutralizes Tenzan with a butt butt off the apron. Fuchi is a prick like usual and the Chono vs Kawada segments are electric. Everything surrounding the buzz of the match helps pick up Saito and Tenzan execution in ring. I thought it was a clever way to show Kawada in danger after the STF and triple team only for the AJ trio to make a comeback and Saito being the most likely person to be prone to a pin being in there with Kawada and losing to the powerbomb. This feud is still crackling. **** (7.9)

[superkix]

Yeah, this was a lot of fun, everyone was pulling their weight, the pissy little slap exchange between Saito and Kawada was real good but everything between Kawada/Chono was super hot. A cool dynamic to the classic AJPW six-man structure with Team 2000 being a bunch of dicks.

[ohtani's jacket]

Fun match. I wasn't expecting much but they kept it simple with bruising action. This New Japan feud sure has lit a fire under Kawada's ass.