Posted January 2, 201114 yr comment_5461371 JIP. Starts off with Jumbo in control and working the arm of Martel. Martel is really great working underneath here, missing a corner charge hopespot, trying to fight back and eventually succeeding and reversing into a headlock. Really cool spot with Jumbo reversing into an overhead wristlock but Martel working it back down into a headlock. Jumbo tries to fight out with a shincrusher, but Martel just drops to the ground and holds on to the headlock while working out the kink in his leg. Jumbo finally shoots Martel off the ropes and cleans his clock with a jumping knee and then a serious of tight Euro uppercuts. Jumbo with a delayed piledriver for a nearfall. Jumbo shoots Martel in and locks on an ab stretch. Martel uses the hair of all things to reverse the hold to a massive pop and then Jumbo crab walks to the ropes to break the hold. Martel hits a backbreaker and goes for his slingshot splash but eats the knees instead. Jumbo hits a suplex for a nearfall. They end up going to a mid-ring double knock down spot and then Jumbo dropkicks Martel into the ref and hits a back drop driver for a somewhat botched nearfall. Jumbo goes for a Thesz Press but gets hotshotted instead and Martel hits a cross body off the ropes for a finish. I think this is about half of a 22 minute match and it is the Martel title win. No clue if this exists in longer form anywhere else, but what is shown here is really great aside from the one screwy spot with the ref coming over late on a nearfall attempt.
January 3, 201114 yr comment_5461421 what is shown here is really great aside from the one screwy spot with the ref coming over late on a nearfall attempt. Part of it is that the ref was Leo Nomellini, who had to be about 125 years old here. I don't think he could have moved faster even if he wanted to.
April 23, 201213 yr comment_5500633 AWA World Heavyweight Title: Jumbo Tsuruta © vs. Rick Martel (5/13/84) I missed this earlier but this match definitely goes on just for historical significance but the match was really damn good too even if it's clipped. Definite nomination.
May 7, 201213 yr comment_5501963 what is shown here is really great aside from the one screwy spot with the ref coming over late on a nearfall attempt. Part of it is that the ref was Leo Nomellini, who had to be about 125 years old here. I don't think he could have moved faster even if he wanted to. Any complete version available anywhere?
May 7, 201213 yr comment_5501970 There is a version from one of Dan's Japan sets that I just put on my hard drive (prepping for an AWA 1984 set) that I believe is complete: 1432 Classic AJPW of SAMURAI #107 #108 #107Dory Funk,Jr vs Stan Hansen(84/4/26,Omiya) AWA World Heavyweight Championship(84/5/13,St.Paul) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Rick Martel PWF Heavyweight Championship(84/7/31,Tokyo) Stan Hansen vs Giant Baba #108Harley Race vs Ric Flair(84/5/22,Tokyo) NWA World Heavyweight Championship(84/5/22,Tokyo) Kerry Von Erick vs Jumbo Tsuruta
