Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka vs. Osamu Nishimura & Shinya Hashimoto

[5.0] "Very short match but neatly paced. Nishimura is pissed off with Yamazaki's shit and just stomps and chokes him for a minute or so. Yamazaki just shakes it off and destroys him with a cool strike combo. We also get a ok exchange between him and Iizuka. The REAL attraction here is Hashimoto though who immediately squares off with Yamazaki in kicks and holds. Yamazaki uses a dirty break to get the advantage with some shots to the body and then a Fujiwara armbar attempt that gets blocked. A sleeper also gets a Judo throw response and then a cross armbreaker. Despite a Achiles Tendon attempt Hashimoto counters into a heel hook, which immediately causes them to roll to the ropes. We get some meaty kicks to the head before Hashimoto throws body shots to knock the guy down. The finish is funny as anything as Nishimura lands a top rope dropkick, gets fired up, then Yamazaki almost instantaneously goes for a successful Fujiwara armbar forcing the poor lad to tap out. Hashimoto's look in the post match is just resigned rage at this UWF goober stealing a win. But yeah, a very short match that gets over what it needed to do so fairly well: Yamazaki is a good worker and Hashimoto does well under his pacing with a lot of kicks between the pair. That said, this was firmly established as a build-up match for their feud more or less with Nishimura as collateral. Him and Iizuka get their roles over fairly smoothly but they definitely aren't of much interest here."