DVD #11

5/16/87

 

1. John Tenta vs. Brady Boone (5:01 shown) - Decent big guy vs. flippy little guy match.

 

2. Jumbo Tsuruta/Tiger Mask vs. George Weingroff/Jason the Terrible (7:14 shown) - Nothing memorable here.

 

3. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Shinnichi Nakano vs. Karl Von Steiger/Texas Red (11:46 shown) - God, this episode got duller and duller. Von Steiger and Red clubbing on Nakano felt like an upper ring of wrestling hell.

 

4. Hiroshi Wajima/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Tiger Singh/Killer Tor Kamata (10:01 shown) - At least Wajima brought some fire to his brawling with Singh. But the match was structured weirdly, with Tor Kamata almost playing face-in-peril. At least it was better than the match before it.

 

5/23/87

 

1. John Tenta/Tatsumi Kitahara vs. Ashura Hara/Jason the Terrible (6:28 shown) - Just awful, sluggish wrestling most of the way. And they went to a double countout! Whose reputation needed protecting in this group?

 

2. Hiroshi Wajima vs. Texas Red (5:55 shown) - Low-rent version of the brawler vs. grappler matches Wajima had been working.

 

3. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Shinnichi Nakano vs. Killer Tor Kamata/George Weingroff (6:26 shown) - More shit.

 

4. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Tiger Jeet Singh/Texas Red (6:35 shown) - Why force your two best guys to wrestle these stiffs? Why spend the money to fly these stiffs over? God, I want to wipe these episodes from my brain.

Is Texas Red, Big Red Reese?

Nope.

Texas Red was Gene Lewis

 

It was amazing that Kamata, Von Steiger, & Texas Red were getting booked in AJPW in 1987.