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[2000-01-08-Toryumon] El Hijo del Santo & Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi vs Blue Panther & Kenichiro Arai & Bombero Infernal


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This was cool to see as a novelty, but it's a total disjointed mess. Everyone is kind of off in their own universe and the Toryumon guys are still too green to be wrestling next to Santo and Panther (and the awesome Bombero Infernal) without looking outclassed. There is really nothing pulling all of this together as a coherent match. The Toryumon guys don't come across as out of their league when wrestling each other at all, but they are exposed sharing a ring with world class veterans.

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I thought Genki looked good here hitting his special moves and breaking up pins. He is a guy in Dragon Gate that relies a ton of charisma and timing and it seems that he had those fundamentals down at an early stage. Arai is someone that is tough for me to get a read on and I look forward to seeing if there is a prospect there before he becomes the lower card fodder that I am most familiar with. Dragon Kid was made to look like the star here with the moniker, flash and pinfall. Unfortunate he has an awful night botching a ton of stuff and whiffing on almost all of his kicks. Santo and Panther are kind of working a one off of their long standing feud and don't really interact much with the other competitors. This felt really thrown together and suffered as a match overall because of that. **

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Did this take place at Arena Nacuplan? It sure looked like it. I likedl this more than you guys I think. Weird seeing Genki with a full head of hear. Dragon Kid looked green but had a lot of potential. Didn't really notice Arai that much. Panther/Santo was the highlight for me. Santo's dive over the barracade was nuts. I mean I know that usually happens every sure but it's different seeing Santo do it. Even though the finish was botched, it was still impressive. Fun match.

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Dragon Kid was made to look like the star here with the moniker, flash and pinfall. Unfortunate he has an awful night botching a ton of stuff and whiffing on almost all of his kicks.

I agree, Dragon Kid looked the worst by far of the Toryumon guys. I thought Arai looked the best of the trio, he had his stick already down pretty good.

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This was disjointed and awkward at times. I didn't think Dragon Kid was too bad in this though. However, he did do an awful looking kick that missed by a mile. It seemed obvious that they were trying to make Dragon Kid out to be the star. Kenichiro Arai impressed me out of all the green Toryumon guys though. This match was at its best when Santo and Panther faced off.

 

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Aside from the Santito and Blue Panther exchanges, this was pretty bad. I like the Toryumon guys more than most people, but they looked pretty bad here I thought, namely Dragon Kid and Genki. Genki standing around playing to the crowd while Dragon Kid is getting piled on by the other 3 made him look like a buffoon.

 

Blue Panther whaling Santito with a chair early on and then clotheslining over the guard into the crowd was fantastic, as was Santito's tope into the crowd.

 

I thought Arai looked better than Dragon Kid and Genki, but he was also paired up with Blue Panther and Bombero Infernal, so it was going to be a bite difficult for him to not look decent at worse.

 

Forgettable.

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