[2001-01-04-NJPW-Wrestling World 2001] Shinjiro Otani & Keiji Mutoh vs Jushin Liger & Manabu Nakanishi

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Really random match. Only goes about five minutes but never lets up throughout.  I don’t think Mutoh will be a serious contender for WOTY and at the onset think his resurgence may be overrated, but I don’t like HHH as a worker and his 2000 held up well for me, so there may be hope yet.  You weren’t really able to get a read either way with what we saw here.  This was more a Raw style to get his feet wet back on the NJPW scene.  Biggest development to me was the ease that Otani puts Liger away with the choke here at the finish.  That was a contrast to Liger steamrolling at the onset of 2000. *** (5.9)