Stan Hansen vs Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW - 3/27/1988)

This is more of a "decente match with some good stuff in it" than a overall good match. It's the pacing that's awfully off here, because the strikes, the selling, the crowd, all cool, but they slowed the match too many times for how short it was and how much their strenghts asked for a sprint. But man, did it rule when they worked like that here and there.

I hated the ring awareness in here too. There were some key nearfalls that didn't work because they didn't bother to keep the oponent far from the ropes. It's specially dissapointing when Tenryu starts his comeback with two great slaps and a brutal lariat that knocks Hansen out: he inmediately goes for a pin, when Hansen's half body was on the apron, basically.

The finish sucked as well. Hansen had the match and the titles won, but he instead prefers to force the ref to DQ him. Not good.