Your Ten Personal Favourite Tag Team Bouts Ever?

[El Fiasco]

Just list your ten favourite Japan-based tag matches ever, and lets see what bouts seem to re-occur the most. I used to think tag team wrestling was boring, but as soon as I got into Puro and Lucha I realized how great it was(prolly because American tag style is so lame). Anyhoo, lets get on with the lists...

In no particular order:

- Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaka Kawada v.s. Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue(6/4/99)

- Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu v.s. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaka Yatsu(12/6/89)

- Keiji Mutoh & Hiroshi Hase v.s. Jyushin Lyger & Chris Benoit(10/5/93)

- Keiji Mutoh & Taiyo Kea v.s. Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura(10-28-01)

- Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi v.s. Toshiaka Kawada & Akira Taue(12/3/93)

- Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori v.s. Jinsei Shinzaki & Hayabusa(6/4/99)

- Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada v.s. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka(3/26/87)

- Vader & Steve Williams v.s. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama(2/20/00)

- Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v.s. Toshiaka Kawada & Mitsuya Nagai(9/16/01)

- Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy v.s. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaka Kawada(12/16/88)


I'm sure I forgot a few, but off the top of my head, those are my ten favourites.

[emlyn]

the Misawa/Kobashi vs Kawada/Taue match when Tosh scored his first pin on Misawa, around '95. I would have remembered the date a few months back!

[Souder]

TenKoji vs. Barton/Steele G1 Tag League Final

Chono/Tenzan vs. Nishimura/Nakanishi 60 min. draw

[Mantis X]

Somebody make a tape of those 12 matches and I'll buy it...

[EvilMidnightBomber]

That's a great list, but it's almost entirely heavyweight matches. I'm curious to see what some other fans' favorite junior tag matches are. Any takers?

[Rubio MHS]

Forgive me if I don't post dates, because I haven't seen these matches in ten years or more:

-Hansen and Tenryu vs. Tsuruta and Yatsu, 1988 (the one where they spray Tsuruta's ankle afterwards)

-The Malenko brothers vs. the British Bulldogs, 1990

-The Steiner brothers vs. Hase and Sasaki, 1991

-Gino Hernandez and Chris Adams vs. Kevin and Kerry von Erich, no DQ hair vs. hair, 1985

-Danny Kroffat and Doug Furnas vs. Kawada and Fuyuki, 1989

-The Hellraisers vs. the Steiner brothers, 1993

-The Steiner Brothers vs. Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow, 1992

-Misawa and Kawada vs. Tsuruta and Taue, 1992

-Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda vs. the Fabulous Ones, 1986

-Blanchard and Anderson vs. the Midnight Express, 1988

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Originally posted by Rubio MHS
-Gino Hernandez and Chris Adams vs. Kevin and Kerry von Erich, no DQ hair vs. hair, 1985

-Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda vs. the Fabulous Ones, 1986

-Blanchard and Anderson vs. the Midnight Express, 1988

El Fiasco said:

Just list your ten favourite Japan-based tag matches ever