November 1983

Match barely crosses the "good" threshold for me, so I can't recommend it as being worth its 45 minute runtime, but it's still an interesting look at all 4 involved at this point of time. The pace/style/quality is heavily dictated by whether Dory or Baba is in the ring. I feel Dory's performance here gives a lot of ammo to his detractors. He tries to pull off his old stoic master character and it doesn't really work. Reasons being 1. the matwork he does is incredibly basic and grinds the match to a halt 2. Jumbo kinda sorta not really makes things work by channeling some of his young Jumbo mannerisms but Dory has no chemistry at all with Tenryu on the mat, and the crowd o…