AJPW 3/4/86 Tiger Mask vs The Great Kabuki Tiger took fast control as he hit a dropkick at the opening bell. Rammed Kabuki's head into the turnbuckle, hit a nice vertical suplex went for a cover got a two count then clamped on a reverse chinlock. This was taken from the weekly tv show, so they went to break. When they come back Kabuki has taken over hitting his trademark uppercut punches. He then puts tiger on the mat and hooks in a short-arm scissors. Tiger rolls thru the hold they get tangled in the ropes and the referee forces a break. Tiger starts to kick Kabuki but the mist maker hits a kick to the side of Tiger's head then one to the chest knocking him down. Then Kabuki puts on a armbar. After several minutes tiger manages to counter the armbar with a fireman's carry into an airplane spin. Then he nails a beauty of a hook N' ladder lariat. He hits a spinning leg lariat, fails to get the pin and goes back to the reverse chinlock. Tiger hits a dropkick that sends Kabuki flying thru the ropes to the floor! Kabuki comes back in and when Tiger whips him into the Turnbuckle Kabuki sprints out and hits a hard lariat on the oncoming Tiger Mask. Kabuki's attempt at a back suplex gets countered by Tiger who hits one of his own. Both men are down center ring! (this is the best singles bout I've seen these two compete in)! Tiger gets to his feet 1st and hits a great Missile dropkick off the top. He smashes Kabuki with another dropkick sending him outside once again. Tiger hits a backsuplex to bring Kabuki back in the hard way. He sprints up and hits a baseball slide to force Kabuki back to the floor. However when Tiger Mask tries for the plancha over the ropes Kabuki hits him in the face with the mist and there's your DQ!!! This match was so well worked i'm not even that upset about the finish!
Match #2 NWA International Tag Title bout Champions Yoshiaki Yatsu/Riki Choshu vs Tenryu/Jumbo Tsuruta. (Fair Warning there is a huge rant coming! I worked on my review of this bout for almost an hour! I love doing this blog! I look forward to it every day! So I started and stopped this match numerous times to get every nuance and sequence perfectly and after all that this great match ends in a double countout "FUCK Finish! This bout was stellar with near falls and crowd heat! My fault for not watching the match 1st I guess! But I didn't want the great wrestling fans who share my passion for wrestling to get invested as I did in a match with that for a finish! I truly am thankful for every single one of you that take time to read this and I value your readership! I must be honest I deleted all that I had written and decided to vent! Will not happen again lesson learned! back to the match tremendous but the ending made me lose it!!!
AJPW 3/10/86 NWA International title bout Terry Gordy vs Champion Jumbo Tsuruta As we join the bout early on I assume, Gordy Takes Tsuruta over in a side headlock and grinds it out for several minutes. Until Tsuruta backs him into the ropes forcing a break. They exchange chops and punches on the break and both circle each other mid-ring fists raised. They do the strike exchange once again(they were laying them in folks make no mistake). Jumbo grabs a side headlock of his own, but very quickly drops that. Instead dropping two elbows to the back of Gordy's neck. Then he begins to chop, elbow, and Euro uppercut Gordy from one side of the ring to the other. Tsuruta whips Terry into the corner and tries to hit his high knee. Gordy moves Jumbo goes into the buckle knee first. Gordy very quickly slaps on a figurefour. After some struggle Tsuruta manages to undo Gordy's legs from the hold and stand up reigning down stomps on Gordy. Jumbo hooks in a reverse chin lock(throwing in a couple site forearms for good measure until Gordy stand up Jumbo transitions to a headlock and Terry counters that with a hard back suplex! Gordy hits a legdrop then after sending Tsuruta into the ropes hooks on a sleeper hold. Jumbo eventually spins into the hold and counters out of it with a hammerlock he then turns into a three quarter nelson pining combination. Gordy gets the advantage again by countering a sunsetflip attempt with a punch to the head. Then hits a piledriver Tsuruta kicks out of the pin and Gordy goes back to the reverse chinlock Jumbo counters once more into a hammerlock and slides that into a standing armbar. Gordy escapes via blatant forearm to underside of ballsack(that moment when you realize what you just wrote!) Both men are down. Tsuruta gets to his feet and hits his flying knee off a whip. But when he tries it in the corner Gordy meets him with a hard lariat. Gordy hits a flying bodypress and gets two. He sends Tsuruta in for a second lariat, Jumbo ducks and hits his own flying bodypress. Gordy somehow manages to catch him, but both go tumbling over the top rope to the outside. Jumbo delivers a back suplex on the floor! As Gordy shakily gets back in the ring Tsuruta is poised on the top rope. He hits his flying knee and gets the pin!!! A solid title bout!
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