[2001-01-02-AJPW] Darkness Dragon & Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda vs Gran Naniwa & Nobutaka Araya & Ryuji Hijikata

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Really random match on paper and I was pleasantly surprised to see it in full here.  You don’t really think of Hijikata being around at this point and he’s someone that I don’t have much of an opinion on now so we will see if that changes.  They worked the pairings well  with Araya being shown as the dominant person beyond all six. I still think Susumu was learning where his place was at spots and Kanda looked in better position throughout the match.  Hijikata lived up to his description up above of not being bad but not being exactly good either. I thought Naniwa was a good person to have isolated for that team. Ending come when Kanda does a huge tope nearly missing Araya and then after a minute or two of control, Araya is able to recover and pick up the win for his team. *** (5.9)