[1997-09-22 Toryumon] SUWA vs Dragon Kid (Mask vs Hair)

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From a wrestling standpoint, SUWA always had to take the majority of the offense in this match.  And he did, which is not a bad thing.  For being one of the resident bruisers, he is surprisingly athletic and has a lot of interesting offense between the low blows and cheating.  The false finish may have gotten me the first time I watched the match, but I know very well that DK has a mask much later on, so......not so much.  DK did show some good fire, it's just hard to believe some of his strikes would faze SUWA much with the huge size difference.  Post-match was really entertaining.

One thing that I will say about the Toryumon (and future DG) ref.  He is 100% useless unless somebody is making a cover or submission.  The times you see rudos actually forced to stop cheating you can count on one hand after 5 matches.  And they are doing it blatantly in front of him.  All you need to do is point in the general direction of the tecnicos at ringside and he will be gone for about 5 minutes.  Either it's a comedy bit or he was actually supposed to be on the side of the rudos.