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Wild Pegasus vs Black Tiger II
I always enjoy matches like this, where you get a glimpse of talent who would later become especially celebrated workers in a much more raw form. It's fun to pick out the aspects that remain across their careers even as they get more and more refined. That sort of thing is definitely on display here - Tiger's fluidity and smoothness and creativity are all very much on display - that springboard rana almost ends in disaster a couple of times, but that sort of thing is forgivable since, as Ed said, you didn't exactly see a whole lot of that in '94. And that all contrasts quite well with the violent straightforwardness of Pegasus's work. Every one of his suplexes or even just movements have a little extra snap to them, and it all just feels very deliberate and purposeful. I imagine I could pull up a Benoit/Guerrero match from a good decade later, across multiple countries and companies, and find that it looks quite a lot like this one, and that's pretty cool to think about.

I don't have a whole hell of a lot to say about the match itself beyond that, as the structure and so forth is pretty much what you'd expect from the ten-minute semifinals of a one-night tournament. Like everything else I see from outside of 2020 these days, it just makes me miss regular crowds. The finish was great and, even with awareness of the short runtime, caught me a little off guard in a good way. Always cool to see the flyer just getting caught eventually.

Guerrero just has hidden gems like this everywhere, doesn't he? Very good match, short and sweet, definitely will have to think about watching the rest of the tournament sometime.

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