嵐 Arashi match compilation (AJPW All Japan TV 2002)

A comp I made of Arashi, who I always felt was an underrated big man wrestler & deserved more of a singles push in the early 2000s. His character always reminded me something of a Japanese Marc Mero mixed with Tenryu's style, where Arashi doing well in the card & incorporating his real-life sumo background into his persona (like what Mero did with amatuer boxing). Great theme song too. I remember Arashi's tag-team champ win with Keiji Muto in 2003, and I'll hopefully start putting together his 2003 compilation sometime next month. Fun thing to note, Arashi was/is a viewer of my channel, but I can't find his Youtube account anymore. Last time I heard from him in the Youtube comments was about a year ago, so I hope everything is okay with him. So if you see this video, I hope you enjoy what I put together. Matches in this compilation: 00:00 Arashi & Koki Kitahara vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Yoji Anjo (AJPW TV 01 14 2002) 09:27 Arashi appears for Champion Carnival '02 trophy intro by Stan Hansen 14:20 Arashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW TV 03 23 2002) 20:41 clip of Arashi vs. Mitsuya Nagai (AJPW house show 03 26 2002) 21:52 clip of Arashi vs. Jim Steele (AJPW house show 03 28 2002) 23:30 clip of Arashi vs. Yoji Anjo (AJPW house show 04 03 2002) 25:28 Arashi vs. Satoshi Kojima #1 (AJPW TV 04 05 2002, taped 04 01 2002) 42:48 Arashi, Genichiro Tenryu & Nobutaka Araya vs. Keiji Muto, George Hines, & Kaz Hayashi (AJPW TV 05 12 2002) 57:18 Arashi & Nobutaka Araya vs. Mitsuya Nagai & Shigeo Okumura (AJPW PPV 04 13 2002) 1:16:50 Arashi, Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya vs. Dr. Death, Mike Rotunda & Yuto Aijima (AJPW PPV 07 17 2002) Not that this "07 17 2002" is not the syndicated TV episode that aired very early that same date/morning. Two shows aired that day. 1:29:57 Arashi, Nobutaka Araya & Yuto Aijima vs. Yoji Anjo, Mitsuya Nagai & Shigeo Okumura (AJPW PPV 08 30 2002) 1:46:11 Arashi, Dr. Death, Tenryu, Koki Kitahara, & Masao Orihara vs. Keiji Muto, Hiroshi Hase, Jinsei Shinzaki (Hakushi), George Hines & Kaz Hayashi (AJPW PPV 08 31 2002) This one above is my personal favorite match in the comp. It's like "team AJPW" & "team WAR" team up to fight "team Muto" & "team NJPW". Great selection of opponents and I like that Arashi and Doc win in the end, with Doc getting the final pin on Muto. 2nd time in a row Doc pinned Muto clean. The last time it happened was in March in a TV main event, that aired a month & a half later in May. This was a PPV main event that went on last, just after the Goldberg vs. Taiyo Kea match. 2:41:25 Arashi vs. Satoshi Kojima #2 (AJPW TV 10 14 2002) 2:51:31 Arashi, Nobukazu Hirai & Nobutaka Araya vs. Bart Gunn, Jim Steele & George Hines (AJPW PPV 10 27 2002) This was Bart Gunn's & Jim Steele's last match in AJPW. They went to NJPW right after this. This was also the last show to have the Giant Baba entrance banner, IICR. 3:12:30 Arashi & Nobutaka Araya vs. Road Warrior Animal & Keiji Muto (AJPW TV 11 23 2002) 3:19:31 Arashi, Tenryu & Nobutaka Araya vs. Keiji Muto, Taiyo Kea & Tomoaki Honma (AJPW house show 11 25 2002) 3:36:53 Arashi & Nobutaka Araya vs. Mike Awesome & PJ Friedman (AJPW house show 11 26 2002) 3:46:56 Arashi & Nobutaka Araya vs. Earthquake & Tenryu (AJPW house show 11 27 2002)