Posted August 9, 201015 yr comment_5454230 DVD #11 5/15/88 (taped 5/14/88 ) Rip Rogers/Dan Spivey vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Ashura Hara (11:47 complete) Tenryu and Hara gave the foreigners a surprising amount of offense but never seemed in danger. Spivey looked terribly raw though he compensated by wearing billowy, green velour pants. The pants were the most memorable part of the match. Rock and Roll Express vs. Tiger Mask/Shinnichi Nakano (10:42 complete) - Reviewed on Classics. Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Tiger Jeet Singh/.Jesse Barr (7:08 complete) - The airline must've lost Barr's mask, because he was billed as Jimmy Jack Funk but showed up without the hamburglar garb. Singh did his normal dirty brawling. Jumbo and Yatsu had their way with Barr. Singh got his team DQed. Yawn. 5/22/88 (taped 5/19/88 ) Rock and Roll Express vs. Masa Fuchi/Isamu Teranishi (9:23 complete) - These teams might have had a really good match if Fuchi and Teranishi had played to their nastier sides. But instead, they worked a really even match in which both teams looked fine but nothing meant anything. In general, Morton and Gibson worked a more offense-focused style in Japan than in the U.S. and they stood out less in that mode. Jumbo Tsuruta/John Tenta vs. Tiger Jeet Singh/Jesse Barr (6:47 of 10:11 aired) - This was mostly Tenta vs. Singh. I was bummed when Tenta missed a splash from the second rope and got pinned with a choke hold. Genichiro Tenryu/Ashura Hara vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu/Hiroshi Wajima (19:23 complete) - Another surly ass beating performance by Hara and Tenryu. I thought it might turn into something when Yatsu attacked Hara with a chair and damn near broke his jaw with a torpedo headbutt. But they just chugged along at the same speed without building to much of anything. Wajima was a non-entity most of the way, and when Tenryu finally pinned Yatsu with a power bomb, I felt like he was just punching the clock.
