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Super J Cup 1994This New Japan show is one of the best major shows of 1994, if not the best. It's also among the best major shows of all time.
1. Dean Malenko vs. Gedo. This was a good match. Some pretty good technical
maneuvres were displayed. Malenko is a pretty good worker and Gedo is better
than average. Gedo, from the WAR promotion, won the match with a powerslam
after a little over eight minutes.
2. Shinjiro Otani vs. Super Delfin. This was a really good match. It was
solid with some good technical wrestling and a couple of exciting moves in
the match. Both men were excellent. Delfin has a nice dropkick. Otani was
still very young here and not the New Japan junior heavyweight star he
turned out to be later in his career. Super Delfin, from the Michinoku Pro
promotion, won with the Delfin Clutch after a little over eight minutes.
3. Black Tiger vs. Taka Michinoku. This was really good. Black Tiger is Eddy
Guerrero with a mask on. Taka Michinoku is from the Michinoku Pro promotion
and was very young here and he wasn't as well known as he turned out to be
later in his career, but he was already really good. This was an exciting
match with some spectacular high flying moves. Tiger was great. Taka did his
famous no hands springboard plancha. Finally, Black Tiger won with a
swinging DDT after almost seven minutes.
4. El Samurai vs. Masayoshi Motegi. This was a good match. Motegi is from
his Wrestle Dream Factory promotion. He is an average wrestler while Samurai
is really good. Motegi was a little sloppy. Samurai was solid with some
pretty good moves. Samurai won with a power bomb after a little over seven
minutes.
5. Negro Casas vs. Ricky Fuji. This was a good match. Casas is from Mexico
and Fuji is from the FMW promotion. It was a basic match with nothing really
spectacular. Casas displayed some good technical wrestling. Fuji is an
average worker while Casas is very good. Fuji won with a Liger Bomb after
almost six minutes.
6. Jushin Liger vs. Hayabusa. This was a really good match. Hayabusa is a
better than average wrestler from the FMW promotion and Liger, ofcourse, is
the great wrestler from New Japan who booked this tournament. He did a great
job as booker here. Liger, the top star of the New Japan junior heavyweight
division, was the IWGP junior heavyweight champion at that time and perhaps
the best junior heavyweight in the world at that time. Hayabusa was pretty
new here, but he showed some spectacular high flying moves. He was still an
unpolished worker though. Liger, obviously, carried this into a solid match.
Hayabusa got enough opportunity to show some of his stuff. Liger won after a
little over ten minutes.
7. Super Delfin vs. Gedo. This was a good match. It was the first match of
the second round. Delfin carried this into a pretty solid match. Some pretty
good work here. Gedo won when he countered the Delfin Clutch after a little
over eight minutes. I don't like to see Gedo go over Delfin.
8. Wild Pegasus vs. Black Tiger. This was really good. Wild Pegasus (Chris
Benoit) got a bye into the second round. Pegasus, ofcourse, is a great
worker. The two top gaijins (foreigners) of the tournament wrestled an
exciting match with some pretty spectacular stuff. Like most matches on this
show, it could have been better if it lasted longer. Tiger did a cool move
where he, while holding Pegasus, ran across the ring, jumped on the top rope
and executed a huracanrana in the ring. Pegasus won when he arm-dragged
Tiger when Tiger came off the top rope after a little over ten minutes.
9. El Samurai vs. Great Sasuke. This was an excellent match. Sasuke got a
buy into the second round. The Great Sasuke is great. Sasuke did some of his
famous moves including his beautiful Sasuke Special (Space Flying Tiger
Drop, invented by Tiger Mask I). Samurai did well in this match and worked
hard too. He also did some high flying including a somersault plancha.
Sasuke won after almost twelve minutes.
10. Jushin Liger vs. Ricky Fuji. This was good. Obviously, Liger carried
this. Fuji did nothing really special here. Liger did a cool double foot
stomp off the top rope to the outside. Finally, Liger won after almost eight
minutes.
11. Wild Pegasus vs. Gedo. This was a good match. It was the first
semi-final. Pegasus was great. Some good moves in this match. After a
powerbomb, Pegasus went to the top rope for the Dynamite Kid like diving
headbutt (Pegasus idolizes Dynamite) and won after a little over six
minutes.
12. Jushin Liger vs. Great Sasuke. This was a great match. Both men were
great here and there was a lot of crowd heat. Liger did some great technical
stuff early on. Sasuke did a beautiful Asai moonsault (invented by Ultimo
Dragon) and a beautiful somersault plancha from the top rope to the outside.
Many near falls in this match as well. Sasuke, standing on the apron, tried
to execute a springboard move, but he slipped off the top rope. Liger
clapped his hands and turned around. When he turned back, Sasuke
huracanrana'd him for the win after a little over 18 minutes. Liger showed
that he is an unselfish booker as well as he put over the Great Sasuke in an
upset to make Sasuke a big star.
13. Wild Pegasus vs. Great Sasuke. This was a great, must see match. This
was the final of the Super J Cup. It's one of the best matches of 1994, one
of the best matches of all time and perhaps the best junior heavyweight
match of all time. They did tons of hot moves in this match and they worked
really hard. Both men were great here. Sasuke did his beautiful Sasuke
Special even better than earlier in the evening. He also did a dangerous
dropkick off the top rope to the outside. Pegasus also did a dangerous move
as he ran across the ring, jumped off the second rope in the corner onto the
apron where Sasuke was standing and both men landed on the floor. There was
tons of great heat as well during the match. A great atmosphere too. In the
end, Pegasus executed a gutwrench suplex from the tope rope for the win
after almost 19 minutes. Tremendous. The finish of this match was similar to
the finish of the Dynamite Kid vs. Cobra match ten years earlier which took
place in the same building. Winning this tournament was perhaps Pegasus
biggest victory and that match ten years earlier was Dynamite's biggest
victory when he became the junior heavyweight champion. Reviewed by: Pegasus Kid
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