Akira Taue vs. Jinsei Shinzaki

[6.0] "Clipped to about five minutes and a half of the original runtime. Shinzaki seems to be working through injury as he has a taped up stomach and noticeably seems to be in pain when he's pulling off his usual moves, which is unusual because he's typically rather expressionless. He spams top-rope moves to keep Taue down for near falls until Taue just easily escapes a powerbomb attempt and bumps pretty badly for the spinning dragon screw spot. Shinzaki lands a good top rope jumping kick as almost a dig at Taue for doing the same move. The two have a fairly fun sprint as Shinzaki arm-drags out of a chokeslam before running right into a Baba-style neckbreaker, also turning a Dynamic Bomb into a goofy Frankensteiner (which Taue no sells the shit out of with a one-count fall) before the finish has Taue catches him doing a fancy roll and turns it into a pair of big chokeslams for the finish. Not amazing for a match as short as this but the two have some good work together as Shinzaki can do all of his cool spots while Taue lumbers around eating them or trying to get his huge bombs off. When his faster opponent has to slow down however, it's pretty much done and dusted. Bit of a slow start but this got pretty fun at about the halfway mark. Worth a watch just to see these two interact but they put on a good show here."