Tenryu is an armdragging, leapfrogging, dropkicking mofo early on. Seriously the early part of this is really workrate, sprinty, with quick tags, quick movements and Harley doing some pinballing. Seriously this is fun as fuck. There isn't much of a story, but man does the crowd come unglued when the Irwins start throwing fucking pumpkicks and running knees to Tenryu's head. Tenryu makes a comeback by chopping Race to bits and then hitting an enziguri but he gets cut off and slammed by Harley. Tenryu has to be saved by his partners from a near fall off of a Race piledriver and Scott hits a sick dropkick! The hot tag is kind of uneventful and the Longriders look lost while Jumbo sort of roams around trying to figure out what to do. Wild Bill takes an utterly insane over the top bump for a Baba Irish Whip. Finish is out of the blue and kind of lame, but Tenryu and the Irwins were so fun in this that I have to nominate it despite the quirkiness.

Asian Six-Man Tag Titles: Giant Baba, Genichiro Tenryu, & Jumbo Tsuruta © vs. The Long Riders (Wild Bill & Scott Irwin) & Harley Race (9/28/85)

 

Another made up title here. The Irwins are all over the place to start the match as you could tell they wanted some bookings in AJPW and of course Harley is going to work his ass off for the boss and his boys. Tenryu is great here as the workhorse for his team as you could tell he wanted to impress as well. It was fun hearing the fans go nuts for the Irwins when they were on offense. Tenryu works as FIP but the fans aren't behind the Japanese so it doesn't work well here as they were all for the heels so the psychology is messed up. Jumbo gets the hot tag but it isn't so hot since the fans don't care but Jumbo tries before getting lost so he tags in Baba which was weird. Bill takes the Race bump over the top rope to the dirt and as this happens the match basically comes unglued before it breaks down to a 6-way with Baba eventually finishing off Bill. There was some really good action here before the last few minutes of the match and I can pass this as a low-end nomination.