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.
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All Japan Diaries: Match #133
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #130
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #129
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #126
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #125
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, [...]
All Japan Diaries: Match #123
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #122
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.
All Japan Diaries: Match #118
Friday, October 14, 2011
Match #118: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (10/28/88) The feud continues in singles, as Jumbo attempts to regain his dominance over Tenryu after a good series of tag matches in the last year.
All Japan Diaries: Match #116
Friday, October 14, 2011
Match #116: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (9/15/88) The history is Jumbo being the top native after Baba and teaming with Tenryu. As the eighties wear on these two have great battles with Choshu/Yatsu. Then Tenryu goes heel, starts Revolution, while Jumbo teams with Yatsu. Tenryu vs Jumbo becomes [...]
All Japan Diaries: Match #114
Friday, October 14, 2011
Match #114: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (8/30/88) The rematch from the amazing tag title change the night before.
All Japan Diaries: Match #113
Friday, October 14, 2011
Match #113: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (8/29/88) The first of two straight days where these teams square off, the rivalry still in focus for these four men and factions.
All Japan Diaries: Match #109
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Match #109: Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara (6/4/88) Jumbo is back with a more suitable partner as he tries again to take down Tenryu and out-tough Hara.
All Japan Diaries: Match #108
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Match #108: Jumbo Tsuruta & Hiroshi Wajima vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara (4/21/88) Tenryu and Hara are rolling along, but poor Jumbo has to put up with Wajima as his partner. Well, if it’s on the set it may surprise me.
All Japan Diaries: Match #107
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Match #107: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Bruiser Brody (3/27/88) This is for Jumbo’s International Heavyweight championship, and Brody looks as maniacal as ever.
All Japan Diaries: Match #105
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Match #105: Jumbo Tsuruta, Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa vs. Ashura Hara Toshiaki Kawada & Ricky Fuyuki (3/11/88) This is Jumbo’s team, with Jumbo, versus Tenryu’s team (I think), without Tenryu. Six man action next.
All Japan Diaries: Match #103
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Match #103: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Tiger Mask (3/9/88) Over two years away from their famed matches, Jumbo takes on one of his young proteges that would become more famous under his real name: Misawa.
All Japan Diaries: Match #99
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Match #99: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Hiroshi Wajima (1/24/88) We’ll see what a stiff like Wajima can do when interjected into this great Tenryu/Jumbo faction feud.
All Japan Diaries: Match #96
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Match #96: Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (12/5/87) The rivalry between Tenryu and Jumbo is still boiling, and now Yatsu and Tenryu are on different sides of the ring. This one should have fireworks.
All Japan Diaries: Match #95
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Match #95: Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu (11/26/87) Jumbo forms a team with former rival and Choshu lieutenant, Yatsu, to take on the big man team of Hansen/Gordy.
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