August 1985

This is easily my favorite UWF match, and probably Yamazaki's best one. Their mat exchanges are great, and Fujiwara has no problem going 50/50 on the mat, and selling big to make it seems like Yamazaki would be able to knock him off. The finish is Fujiwara blocking a German suplex, and countering into the Fujiwara armbar, which is a hell of a lot better than what others had been doing, which was taking the suplex and then going to the hold.

I really got into this when the right arm work kicked in. Not that it wasn't good in the beginning...it just got really good. Jumbo with some nice selling and Tenryu is fired up wanting to impress Jumbo. I like how he looks to him for approval and/or adulation before hitting a big move. There's a really sweet lariat from Hansen onto Tenryu when Tenryu tries to break up a double team. Really good match!