At this point I'm convinced any Tenryu v Kabuki interaction is worth the price of admission. Throw in the small matter of Tenryu and Jumbo trying to put each other in the hospital and how could this not be good? It stood out from other Jumbo v Tenryu tags as by the end you had three quarters of the participants dealing with an injury, while Kabuki was left unscathed (relatively) and untethered and free to skulk about hitting thrust kicks and uppercuts. Hara was playing up a rib injury from the very start, then in the back half Tenryu got bounced into the guardrail and had to deal with a cut forehead, and then towards the end Jumbo was hobbling around on one good leg after kneeing the turnbuckle bolt. The way it was structured meant we got a few mini runs of peril, and even if usually I'd have preferred one longer heat segment, I'm not sure that would've fit quite as well with the story on the night. I mean the intensity certainly never dropped, and everything that was focused on those particular injured body parts was good stuff. How can you watch pro wrestling and not love someone punching an opponent in their bloody forehead? How can you not love Jumbo slapping on an abdominal stretch and using his free hand to dig the knuckles into Hara's side? What is pro wrestling if not a man flinging a full fucking table at another man's injured leg? Nothing, brothers and sisters. It is nothing.
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