- Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru

All Japan Pro Wrestling New Year Giant Series 1997 Matsumoto City Gymnasium 1997 is a different sort of year in the All Japan archive. In all the ones that we’ve went through up to this point, it’s largely just been matches clipped out of the TV episodes, sometimes from commercial tapes, or the uncommon HD rips of G re-airings or such. However, 1997 saw the airings of ’’The AJPW Hour’’ which obviously gave them more time to air more stuff. Thus we get this: The first match of Yoshinobu Kanemaru that we have come across. Look at his bowlcut. There’s a junior ace in the making, if I have ever seen one.