>>17837324>>17837351Marks always try to frame it as a great example of great heat on Vader but that's bullshit.
The fans showed up to see Inoki vs Riki Choshu but were met with an opening promo where they did a bait and switch and had Inoki face Takeshi Kitano's monster Vader while Choshu worked a tag match.
The crowd hijacked the tag match, chanted loudly for it to be stopped and threw garbage into the ring. It ends kind of abruptly, then Choshu gets on the mic and demands Inoki come out to wrestle him to appease everyone. After like an hour of 1 guy leaving as the other guy came out (over and over again, longer than the impending match), the match actually happened. A 4-minute match took place with Choshu getting juice and no offense whatsoever before ends in a shitty DQ.
The Vader match is still happening so he comes out. Match is dogshit, Inoki gets no offense and gets pinned. It takes a while for the fans to truly go super "fuck this" but then more garbage and other shit starts flooding the ring a bit before the cameras cut. NJPW World actually bundled all 3 matches together but I'm too lazy to search dailymotion or whatever the fuck for uploads of it so
https://watch.njpwworld.com/details/37845They got banned from Sumo Hall for like a year or 2 and put into a worse timeslot on TV Asahi which meant less money.
