[2000-11-26-NJPW] Yutaka Yoshie & Manabu Nakanishi vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima

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It is comical that Dave has TenKoji on the WON HOF ballot as a tag team as here we are in the peak of their run as a team and they are fine to good but not even close to one of the best cohesive units we have seen in 2000 much less an all timer team. This match exemplifies that. Yoshie and Nakanishi are both limited workers but they can rise to the occasion based on their opponents. TenKoji raises them up to the level of this being a good match and nothing more with not a lot of tangible story to really grab hold too. The power moves and ebbs and flows are fine as standalones but they never really develop into a great match that reaches a fever pitch in the back third of the match. Tenzan and Kojima end up running through a lot of offense at the ending stretch and Tenzan puts Yoshie away at just shy of 16 minutes. *** (5.9)