Glass Hand Disolving: Genichiro Tentry & Ashura Hara

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Vs Super Destroyer & Umenosuke Ueda (Real World Tag League 12/13/1982)

Ueda comes in with a stick and just goes to town, with Super Destroyer joining in. They isolate Hara and get to work. After the hot start, Ueda works an abdominal claw and things come to a screeching halt. Tenryu eventually tags in, but he gets cut off shortly thereafter after. The faces get another tag, but get cut off again. Eventually, Tenryu mounts some offense, and Revolution wins, only to again get pelted with Ueda’s stick. This didn't really work, the hot start was great, but Ueda and Super Destroyer take a lot of the match, to pretty little effect. The second they lose control, they pretty much lose. 

Vs Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase (Summer Action Series 7/23/87)

You really can't put Hansen & Tenryu in a match and have it be anything other than all about Hansen and Tenryu. DiBiase is setting some sort of injury to his side, which is bandaged up, and means that Hara and Tenryu can pretty effectively focus on Hansen entirely, which, again, mostly means it is just a Hansen and Tenryu rock fight, with some tag team stuff scattered around it. 

Vs Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (Summer Action Series 8/30/88)

I would say that is verges on overhyped. I liked it, but didn't love it. Jumbo and Tenryu, and to an extent, Yatsu are all pretty good in spots, but I never got super into this, and the finish is just way too many back drop drivers for me. It's good, but not anything I'd stack up against even the 3rd tier of All Japan matches. 

Vs Demolition (SWS 9/17/1991)

This is fairly staid. Nothing much happens that should illicit much of a reaction. In particular, Crush is just kind of boring. Smash is actually pretty good; his offense verges on brutalizing in the way a guy can be in an 11-minute match. Hara hitting the lariat and getting the pin is kind of telling here, if it mattered, in SWS for sure, Tenryu would have factored in a lot more than he does in this one. 

Vs Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto (WAR 3/2/94)

This is a main-event tag match, typified. You've got the two big stars on opposite sides, their partners lesser, but contributors to the match, and it eventually devolves into a rock fight. Tenryu is the star, obviously it's his promotion, but Onita is pretty much on equal footing, but the disparity between Goto, still a bruiser and intimidating, and Hara, old, game, but old, gamey even, eventually catches up with Revolution, and Onita pins Tenryu. Pretty good, solidly conceived match. 

Verdict:

Tenryu is a great wrestler, he's also a star wrestler. He really pops in pretty much all of these matches. Hara isn't here to stand out, really, and he doesn't really ever do anything to draw attention away from Tenryu. I would have expected to come away from this with a lot higher opinion of the team, but really, the matches here don't really back that up.  


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