Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Vader & Steve Williams vs. Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 2/20/00)

Love Vader preempting the match with a double bird “Fuck you!”. The first half of this match was solid enough, with Williams half-rolling around the mat with Akiyama, and Akiyama and Kobashi working over Vader’s knee. At one point, Kobashi has Vader in the half crab and Akiyama dropkicks the knee a couple times -- good subtle selling from Vader throughout. The match picks up as Akiyama gets put on the rocks and suplexed around by Vader and Williams. Even when Kobashi gets the hot tag, he’s only able to get in so many chops before he finds himself in a bit of trouble. I thought Williams connected with some good stiff clobbering blows and the final minutes of the match heading toward the finish was full of big boy bombs, including Exploders from Akiyama, powerbombs and powerslams, and Vader landing the Vader Bomb onto Kobashi for a terrific nearfall. Kobashi’s able to level Vader with a lariat but Williams sneaks in, ducking the spinning backdrop and dumping Kenta on his head with a brutal dragon suplex, which allows Vader to chokeslam him for the win. Good stuff.

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