SWS TAPES
10/18/90 Kanagawa Yokohama Arena
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Tag Tournament Final: Genichiru Tenryu & The Great Kabuki vs. George Takano & Shunji Takano. Not much different from what these guys did in All Japan. It was stiff, solid, hard fought, and unspectacular. Tenryu & George carried it. Tenryu brought intensity to the match, while George brought a lot of fire and energy. The match was not that long for a final (the semifinals were earlier in the night) and the finish was more surprising than convincing, but overall it was quite good because of the team leaders. ***1/4
10/19/90 Kanagawa Yokohama Arena
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Genichiru Tenryu vs. George Takano. Takano was still trying to wrestle like a junior and Tenryu followed suit. I appreciated a lot of what they were trying to do, but the execution left something to be desired. The structuring of the match was quite good though. Tenryu did as much as he could to get the fans to believe in Takano. It was also an entertaining match, so with Takano being shown to have a chance it was easy to see why the fans could get so into it. Takano provides a lot more action than Tenryu's other SWS opponents. He even did three different dives, for instance. Tenryu did some flying as well as selling for Takano a lot and eventually giving Takano his usual ass kicking. The psychology wasn't great, but all the big spots made up for it for the most part. It seemed a little contrived at times, but even if it wasn't the smartest match the idea of what they were going for was good. ***3/4
Sano vs. George Takano-excellent match, Power & Glory vs. Tenryu & Savage, Yatsu & Haku vs. Tenryu & Savage, Onita vs. Pogo-Barbed Wire Landmine Death Match, Fantastics vs. Footloose (Kawada & Ricky Samson Hiromichi Kodo Fuyuki), 1/5/90: Sano & SS Machine vs. Koshinaka & Chono-Chono & Koshinaka win NJ Tag Tourney in an excellent match, Takada vs. Maeda, Tenryu & Kawada & Fuyuki vs. Tsuruta & Kabuki & Inoue, Windham vs. Taue, more!
SWS on WOWOW
Takashi Ishikawa & Tatsumi Kitahara & Samson Fuyuki vs. Great Kabuki
& Shinichi Nakano & Koji Ishinriki
Naoki Sano vs. Paul Diamond
Genichiru Tenryu & George Takano vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & King Haku
SWS on WOWOW taped Fukuoka Kokusai Center
Naoki Sano & Masao Orihara vs. Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka
SWS & WWF Junior Title League: Naoki Sano vs. Tatsumi Kitahara. Highlights
SWS & WWF Junior Title League: Tatsumi Kitahara vs. Akira Katayama
Bestia Salvaje vs. Yoshihiro Asai
Kendo Nagasaki vs. The Barbarian
Masao Orihara & Bestia Salvaje vs. Yoshihiro Asai & Tatsumi Kitahara
Genichiru Tenryu vs. George Takano
Rockers vs. Harts, Sano vs. Funaki, Mr. Perfect vs. Texas Tornado, Ishinriki & Yatsu vs. Barbarian & Snuka, George Takano vs. Savage, Road Warriors vs. Hogan & Tenryu, Ultimo Dragon vs. Jerry Estrada, Rockers vs. Takanos, Sano vs. Martell, Hogan vs. Tenryu, Tenta vs. Kitao-no cooperation turns to shoot, George Takano vs. Bret Hart, Yatsu vs. Hogan, more!
Orihara & Ishinriki vs. Kitahara & Hatanaka, Sano vs. Nagasaki, Power & Glory vs. Rockers, Tenryu & Savage vs. Power & Glory, Tenryu & Savage vs. Yatsu & Haku, more!
Williams vs. Hansen, Misawa vs. Gordy, Kobashi & Kawada vs. Tsuruta &
Ogawa, Misawa vs.
Hansen-Champion Carnival Final, Ultimo vs. Satanico, Sano vs. Chavo Guerrero,
Flair vs. Tenryu, Liger vs. Honaga, 4/30/92 Best of the Super Jr. Final Liger
vs. Samurai-Liger wins Super Jr. *****, Kobashi & Misawa & Kawada vs.
Ogawa & Fuchi & Tsuruta, Hase & Muto vs. Vader & Bigelow, Yoshida
& Takako Inoue vs. Hasegawa & Malenko-Yoshida & Takako win tag titles,
Toyota vs. Kyoko Inoue-Toyota wins IWA Title in a great match, WWWA World Single
Title: Bull vs. Aja