[2001-01-02-AJPW] Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada & Shigeo Okumura vs Jim Steele & Mike Barton & George Hines

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Another fun match and overall this ½ AJPW show looks pretty good on paper.  Hines and Steele and Barton usually don’t do much but they do have glimmers like the RWTL final at the end of this year and this showed that. I will perhaps be seeking them out more as when it comes to bruisers like Tenryu and Kawada they mixed it up well and they brutalized Okumura appropriately.  Kawada is probably going to end up being a WOTY contender and this was a strong first showing for him.  Wish we had this in full as well. *** (6)