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[1996-07-17-NJPW-Summer Struggle] Randy Savage vs Jushin Liger


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Savage comes in limping, having done a clean submission job to Ric Flair the previous night in the same arena. Unfortunately for such a weird novelty of a match-up, this is every 1996 Savage match you've ever seen--Randy gets the crap kicked out of him, hits three offensive moves the whole match, and wins with the elbow. To his credit, Savage takes the Liger Bomb, fisherman buster, and Shotei like a pro. But the match is fairly empty, with Liger logically targeting Savage's bad wheel but completely going away from it in the second half of the match. Not a waste of time because of the "yeah, this actually happened" factor but not really much of a match.

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Saw this topic and said "Oh shit I didn't know they ever wrestled each other" but then I read your post and my desire to actually watch the match has now dissipated :(

 

I guess this just goes on the pile of all those other 1996 Randy Savage matches that look interesting on a match list but are all exactly the same.

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Savage comes in limping, having done a clean submission job to Ric Flair the previous night in the same arena. Unfortunately for such a weird novelty of a match-up, this is every 1996 Savage match you've ever seen--Randy gets the crap kicked out of him, hits three offensive moves the whole match, and wins with the elbow. To his credit, Savage takes the Liger Bomb, fisherman buster, and Shotei like a pro. But the match is fairly empty, with Liger logically targeting Savage's bad wheel but completely going away from it in the second half of the match. Not a waste of time because of the "yeah, this actually happened" factor but not really much of a match.

 

Yep. Pete's spot on. There are moments in this that were a lot of fun but Savage was such a waste in 95-6. He might have the worst formula in wrestling history that year, while, at the same time, probably feeling like he was very giving. I felt like I wasted fifteen minutes when I was done with it.

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