Posted July 13, 201015 yr comment_5453091 DVD #9 4/18/87 (taped 4/7) 1. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Shinnichi Nakano vs. Tiger Mask/Takashi Ishikawa (6:51 shown) - I can't even think of anything worth commenting on. 2. Hiroshi Wajima vs. Jerry Oates (9:15 shown) - Oates threw some pretty good punches and established a workable brawler vs. grappler dynamic with Wajima. What's weird about Wajima is that he looekd so sluggish in the ring despite his background as a world-class athlete. I guess the movements just weren't natural for him. Anyway, this could've been worse, but that's the best I can say. 3. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Stan Hansen/Ted Dibiase (17:56 shown) - Hansen was the main player in this one, stepping in to nail Tenryu and Jumbo every time they seemed ready for a long section of offense on Dibiase. Eventually, Stan missed a shoulder tackle into the corner and Jumbo followed by stretching the shit out of his damaged wing. Dibiase tried to save his partner with a clubbing blow from the top rope. But Tenryu cleared Ted out of the ring with some vicious shots from his blind side (wonder how Dibiase felt about taking those?). Stan got free and they all tumbled out of the ring for the clusterfuck countout. They managed to go 18 minutes without a lot of downtime, and I liked the thinking behind the finishing stretch. But it lacked any special quality that would put it with all the great tags we've nominated. In afct, we have better stuff between these teams. 4/25/87 (taped 4/24, ?) 1. Stan Hansen vs. Dory Funk Jr. (2:35 shown) - Stan kicked Dory's ass in the stands and left him bloody. Wajima stepped in to help the old man, and the tension between him and Hansen seemd to be the real point of this. 2. Hiroshi Wajima vs. Stan Hansen (12:28 shown) - Reviwed on Classics. 3. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu (16:04 shown) - Reviewed on Classics.
