January 1976

Oh, Tiger, you and your goofy rapier. Tiger ambushes Inoki and pummels him in the face with the butt of his rapier like a goof. Inoki bleeds immediately and Singh goes to town on him throwing chairs in his face and drinking his blood like a vampire. Jeet Singh may be not as intense a brawler as the Sangre Chicanas and Perro Aguayos of this world, but he does the same things they would do: punching and kicking a bloody Inoki in the head, dumping row of chairs on him, etc. Inoki makes comeback by nailing Singh with a random bottle and then throwing punches. You don't think of Inoki as Jerry Lawler but he throws awesome punches and there are some cool exhausted exchanges fro…

This is interesting just because it's footage of Wright and Wanz from the mid 70s baby! The match wasn't much, because the japanese guys treated the europeans like nothing special at all. The match starts with the japanese guys working chinlocks on Otto which is not really what you want. Wanz and Wright tried to work as a heel team, double teaming the natives, but their attempts were thwarted. Wright didn't do any matwork or flashy stuff here, but you could tell from the way he moved and executed basic moves like a takedown that he was the real deal. Another interestig thing was Wanz throwing punch combos. He would bully his opponent into the ropes or corner, and then att…

WWWF Heavyweight Champion Bruno Sammartino vs Superstar Billy Graham - WWF 1/12/76 Superstar Graham is such a magnetic personality that it overcomes almost all his limitations in the ring. I really enjoyed the title change so I am going back to their first encounter at MSG. According to Cagematch this is the correct date and the date I saw on the video of 10/13/75 belongs to Ivan Koloff. The crowd heat for this match is off the charts. There is a very vocal quarter or third of the crowd that is chanting for Superstar. There is a loud Bruno chant to drown them out early. The crowd is whipped into a frenzy by the simplest of moves such as a top wrist…

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Antonio Inoki vs Tiger Jeet Singh - NJPW 1/29/76 These two have seemingly bottomless amount of matches together. Singh is just not very good at the wild man brawler act. I thought this was better than the match from earlier in the month because it was more heated in the back half. Lots of stalling and grandstanding early. Sing h is fucking around with the sword & twitching. Inoki cuts a promo. First half of the match is worked clean. Inoki works a top wristlock into a short arm scissors. Butterfly Suplex by Inoki. Singh is complaining to ref in the corner so Inoki tags him a couple times. Singh bodyslams Inoki over the top rope to the floor and here we go. Chairs…