Rick & Scott Steiner vs. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW, 5/31/91)

This was a STEINER BROTHERS tag team match, with little finesse but lots of discomfort for the opposition. To open, they’ve got Kensuke Sasaki on the rocks, slamming and suplexing and clobbering away, slanging their meathooks in between fresh tags. When Kensuke’s finally able to turn it around, does he make the hot tag? Hell nah, dude, he puts Scott in the Scorpion Deathlock! And then he gets dropped with a tiger driver and one of Rick’s ugly slams. But when Hase does get that hot tag, oh baby, he runs straight into a tilt-a-whirl slam and a Samoan drop off the top rope.  He’s able to deliver a uranage and the Northern Lights suplex hold but Rick breaks it up and it’s all downhill from there, as Scotty hits a Doomsday DDT and botches a frankensteiner for the win.

Rick & Scott Steiner vs Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW/WCW Supershow, 3/21/91)

STEINERZZZZZAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!! Hey, I love a good suplex and the Steiners know how to toss a few. This was about 80% Steiner domination over poor Hiroshi Hase with shitty matwork but you ain’t paying the Steiners to paint the canvas – no way, baby, you get tiger drivers, suplexes, superplexes, and superduperplexes. When Hase hits the uranages on both Steiners, the crowd loses their collective shit for the Kensuke Sasaki hot tag! They work a little magic, with Sasaki superplexing Hase onto Rick and Hase executing that beautiful Northern Lights suplex of his. But alas, our heroes fall to the best meatheads after a double team bulldog and the Scott Frankensteiner.