Posted September 26, 201015 yr comment_5456284 Tiger Mask vs. La Fiera (8/26/84) - Already reviewed. Mighty Inoue vs. Atsushi Onita - NWA Jr. Title Match (8/26/84) - More uninspired Onita. Chavo & Hector Guerrero vs. Mighty Inoue & Gran Hamada (9/12/84) - This was a blast. The Mexicans cut off the ring and played the heelish team while leaving most of the spectacular stuff to the Japanese. Hamada hit some beautiful rolling armdrags on Chavo, and Inoue got in on the fun with some sweet flying headscissors. They really got the crowd going with a series of dives onto both Guerreros. The end was kind of neat as well. Hector was set up to hit a dive to the floor on Hamada only for Inoue to pull him off the turnbuckle into a German suplex for the pin. The match only went about 10 minutes but featured great action different from anything else we've nominated. It at least deserves a look from everyone. Ric Flair vs. Genichiro Tenryu - NWA World Title Match (9/12/84) - They did a great job of slowly building the pace and violence through the first fall. After winning the first fall with two enzuigiris and a piledriver, Tenryu continued to have an answer for everything Flair did until deep in the second fall. I could feel the hope rising in the crowd every time he cut off a seeming rally by the champion. Great stuff. I also dug his fight to keep Flair from fully cinching in the figure four and the fact that once Flair got it tight, that was it. Tenryu's selling was great in the last fall as Flair went for the kill on his battered legs. He hobbled around but showed how badly he wanted to win by literally throwing his whole body at the champ for a couple of nearfalls. The ending, with Flair just savaging Tenryu's leg until he got DQed, wasn't the best but fit the match well enough. Strong effort from both guys and an east choice for the set. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Terry Gordy - International Title Match (10/29/84) - Already reviewed.
