May 1976

This is the correct match, although the footage is incorrectly labeled as 1975

Early Round Match from the Champion Carnival

Nankaizan will soon be replaced by Kim Duk, with whom Oki will have a pair of strong tag matches against Baba and Jumbo later in the year. However, I would have quite liked to see more of him, because what he brings to the table is good stuff. Solid armwork on Jumbo throughout, which the native team counters with leg-based work against their opponents before they target Baba's neck. When this spills over into an outside brawl, both teams are counted out to end the first fall, but Jumbo gets the win in a fairly short second fall with a butterfly suplex to Nankaizan. Oki already has so much hate against the native team (and that extends to Jumbo - after all, he walked out o…

8 minutes of silent footage. Talk about it here

Jack Brisco defends the Florida Heavyweight Title. Talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12fCc1CfvY

Plenty has already been wrote about this, but I will say that I don't think I've ever seen a crowd so into a match as they were this one. They are totally behind the undersized Veidor as he tries to dethrone Davies for the British Heavyweight title, and come unglued when Veidor gets the first fall to the point that Kent Walton even comments on it. The champion ties things up with his suspension hold, although when he goes for it again later in the match, Veidor escapes and maybe the upset is on? Davies gets a second and final public warning due to an illegal punch which Veidor does an incredible job of selling. All cocky, posturing around the ring and thinking he's go…