Giant Kimala & Kendo Kashin vs. Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya

[4.0] "KIMALA! Man I love Kimala lol. Even though at this point he was not in the best of shape and clearly had slowed from his 90's days, it's nice to see him in this typically unfamiliar new Pro-Wres Love era of AJPW. This is more or less a comedy match as Hirai and Araya resort to stamping on Kimala's feet and pinching his stomach and there's not a ton of high impact stuff here at all: the placing in the card essentially makes it a cooldown bout as this is also between the Tag Team Title Tournament final matches; basically a way for the wrestlers involved in said matches to get a breather. Your taste in Kimala nonsense essentially dictates a lot about the quality given he is pretty polarising, and that was when he was in his prime and could actually wrestle half-decent. Speaking of polarising: Kashin also has that same effect but he's mostly bumping and selling here so it isn't as bad. Hirai and Araya gang up on him with decent strikes and slams. Kashin also gets in his typical spots but they aren't done with much snap to them and feel lethargic. Kimala lands a "hot tag" but it's pretty slow all things considered, involving some terrible chops. That said, he does land his big flying clothesline bit just fine so fair play? He also eats a double suplex which was pretty impressive. Finish has Kimala land a splash and a leg drop (which was fairly funny given Kashin had a cross armbreaker on at the same time and was begging the guy not to do it) before dumping Araya with a second one for the pin. Perfectly fine comedy bout if a bit slow in places. Hirai and Araya are a fine enough pair of hands in these conditions, managing to work around Kimala's limitations just fine while playing along with his typical guff. It's definitely not GOOD by any means, but if you fancy some more Kimala in your life it'll suffice."