(06/10/1988) Jumbo Tsuruta & Yokihashi Yatsu (PWF tag team champions) def. Road Warriors (NWA international tag team champions) by DQ in 13:48 to become the first Double Crown World Tag Team Champions. 

After watching the first Triple Crown match yesterday, I thought it would be fun to do the same with the tag titles. The match was your typical Road Warriors Japanese spectacle match—many power moves, no-selling, and some long restholds by the Roadies. Hawk sold more than Animal, but also worked in his traditional no-sell of a piledriver spot when Jumbo gave him the move. If Animal took a move and got covered, he usually responded by giving the press slam kick out with his big barrel chest. Yatsu and Jumbo had a stretch where they worked over Hawk, including with a few of their signature double-team moves. Hawk was still doing a drunk sell thing in this era, but it was effective. The difference between Hawk and Animal working a hold and the Japanese is that they used it mainly as a chance to rest instead of constantly moving on the ground. They did a spot where it looked like Hawk would come off the top on Yatsu’s leg, but he fell off the top and punched him instead. Not the smoothest of times. Jumbo got the hot tag and lit Animal up with a clothesline for a near fall, but Hawk went batshit and threw the ref over the top like an actual sack of shit. He hit Jumbo with a clothesline from the top for the win, but the original ref DQ’d LOD for Hawk assaulting him. This is what happens when one of your biggest teams refuses to do jobs – You have a DQ Dustyish finish in a title vs. title match. This was fun sometimes, and the crowd was into it, but it was mostly okay at best with the Warriors’ limitations. *1/2