Watch Along: Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue (AJPW Summer Action Series II 1991)
Added 2025-10-06 15:49:07 +0000 UTCCome watch Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue at AJPW Summer Action Series II in 1991 with me!
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- Though a lot of early All Japan's style was adapted from the traditional NWA style, by the time the kings road style had rolled around the company had moved away from that direction, so tag matches didn't exactly take on the traditional southern tag formula (ie cutting the ring, building to the hot tag) that modern American tag wrestling is built on. It is a very stark contrast when you're used to that and that only. - The Kawada falling reverse elbow drop is a homage to Tenryu, who was Kawada's mentor, they tagged together in the late 80s, Kawada wore yellow because of him, too. - As ElSche said Jumbo submitting was insane. Baba hated submission finishes, you could count the amount of them to happen during the 90s on probably one hand, and when they did happen a lot of times the crowd didn't know how to react lol. So, this was a crazy finish right here. - Also, often times the tag titles were considered on par if not more prestigious than the world title. The most important tour, and often most attended tour of the year for All Japan historically was the year end world tag league (the world tag league is basically a tag team G1). That's why throughout your kings road watch along you'll notice that not only are the single stars in singles action, often times they're the focus point of the tag division as well.
Rhys Withhisspoon
2025-10-12 04:31:20 +0000 UTCYeah, sometimes you gotta turn off your brain a bit in regards to when guys interfere and when not in AJPW. By the way Jumbo tapping was huge. In AJPW, submission finishes are absolutely rare esp. in Main Events.
ElSche
2025-10-06 20:37:23 +0000 UTC
