All Japan Diaries: Match #135
Match #135: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (8/29/89) There first two matches of the year are both in my top 40, the 2/23/89 match in my top ten. They hook up one more time. Next.
Match #135: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (8/29/89) There first two matches of the year are both in my top 40, the 2/23/89 match in my top ten. They hook up one more time. Next.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Match #134: Joe Malenko vs. Masa Fuchi (7/28/89) Joe knows mat holds. Fuchi is one of the best mid card juniors from 80s All Japan. They hook it up and I watch.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Match #133: Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen (7/15/89) A young Kobashi, future legend of the 90s, is thrown into a tag with the All Japan 80s legends.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Match #132: Joe & Dean Malenko vs. Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers (7/15/89) A bit of American flavor hits Japan as the technical wizards of the Malenko family take on Southern tag team the Fantastics.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Match #131: Joe Malenko vs. Dean Malenko (7/11/89) Brother versus brother in a technical bout.
Monday, November 7, 2011
In Part 2, we try to keep our heads amidst the Tag Team Turmoil, and hop on the bandwagon to talk about a big night for the Bravados and many of ROH’s other young gentlemen. [display_podcast]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Bockwinkel vs Robinson got bumped up several slots after I realized I slightly under-rated it. Ballot After 12 Disks 1. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu Yoshiaki Yatsu (1/28/86) 4 ¾ stars and 9.6/10 2. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Ric Flair (6/8/83) 4 ¾ stars and 9.5/10 3. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Disk 12 Rankings 1. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (6/5/89) 4 ½ stars and 8.7/10 2. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (2/23/89) 4 ¼ stars and 8.5/10 3. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Genichiro Tenryu (1/22/89 TV) 3 ½ stars and 7.3/10 4. Masa Fuchi [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #130: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Stan Hansen & Toshiaki Kawada (6/8/89) Fun little match as Hansen has the unlikely partner in Kawada to take on the established Jumbo/Yatsu team.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #129: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (6/5/89) This is the match that was pegged as the consensus favorite to take #1 going into the decade review. Lets see if this holds up to that standard.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #128: Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki vs. Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (6/5/89) After the previous six man, Footloose takes on Furnas/Kroffat in a straight up tag affair.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #127: Dan Spivey, Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas vs. Genichiro Tenryu, Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (5/21/89) The Revolution crew takes on Spivey and the Canadians.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #126: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (5/20/89) We’re in for a war, and I’ll give you a penny if you can figure out which team is going to be selling for most of this.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #125: Stan Hansen vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (4/16/89) Their 4/86 match was a disappointing double countout. Hansen too the 7/86 match in an improvement that still didn’t blow me away. 10/86 they really hit their stride, as Jumbo beat Hansen in twenty minutes. Now they meet again in 1989, older, wiser, and meaner. Oh yeah, [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #124: Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuo Momota (3/29/89) A change of pace again, as the passionate Fuchi shows up again in our series.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #123: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (2/23/89) The rematch. Let’s see if young Kawada has learned his lesson from the last time. Jumbo/Tenryu have tag belts, and Tenryu/Kawada want them.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #122: Yoshiaki Yatsu & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Genichiro Tenryu (1/22/89 TV) A rivalry is renewed, with Kawada taking the slot of Hara. Our first of two straight tags with these two teams.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Match #121: Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. John Tenta & Shunji Takano (1/5/89 TV) Tenta, a bigger belly than before, makes his second appearance on the set in a tag with the tall Takano. I can see this really working with the smaller Kawada. Bring on the Tenryu chops.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Many current and former ROH wrestlers have used the Best in the World tag, so it seems like an appropriate name for the show which saw Davey Richards’ ascendance to the official summit of the company. As we discuss in our DVD review, there just might be some other best-ofs associated with the show, so [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
We’ve survived Bound For Glory, and it’s back to the familiar topic of Ring of Honor (with a bit of BFG on the side). With one month of television shows in the books, we’re taking an overview of what we’ve seen so far, and looking ahead with a spoiler-free run-down of the most recent set [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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