Posted January 7, 200817 yr comment_5426519 Fine tag match with good shticky comedy including Fuchi doing the Superstar Strut and Onita's reaction to accidentally pumphandling Fuchi's arm, leading to Jimmy Hart coming to ringside to attempt a distraction, causing Lawler to attack & strip him as the heels double team and pin Dundee to win the Southern Tag Titles. Then every other top heel and babyface runs out for a wild studio brawl for a few more minutes. Fun stuff.
February 24, 200817 yr comment_5428559 Southern Tag Titles: “Superstar” Bill Dundee & Jerry “The King” Lawler © vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita (8/1/81) They clean up the feathers from earlier on the floor as Dundee & Lawler laugh. Lawler throws some great rapid punches here on both Japanese who are really good here as stooges like GH said. Dundee & Lawler were damn sharp here as a team and so was Fuchi & Onita except for the arm wringer mistake on the apron. Jimmy Hart comes back out leading to another brawl on the floor but Dundee is in the ring getting pinned by Onita and the Japanese win the titles. The brawl continues on the floor making this even more awesome. This is a fairly easy nomination.
February 24, 200817 yr Author comment_5428561 You sure about the date? I got the 7/25 from Hisa's title history.
February 25, 200817 yr comment_5428573 The match was the week after Dream Machine's turn which took place on 7/25/81 because they had to switch the MSC card on 7/27 as he was Lawler's partner in a match before the turn.
March 9, 200817 yr comment_5429187 Forgot to post this... Dundee & Lawler vs. Onita & Fuchi* Starts off pretty nifty as Dundee whips Fuchi into the turnbuckle but Onita leaps up and softens the blow. Fuchi then does the Dundee strut! Awesome. I really like Fuchi and Onita as bumbling stooging heels in peril than when they were on offense. Another great spot as Onita gives Fuchi several arm ringers unaware that he is attacking his own partner. This had some really solid tag wrestling until the end when the First Family attacks Lawler and after the ref was trying to maintain order outside, Dundee ends up getting pinned and loses the match. Great post match brawl and I'll throw this up for nomination as a pretty good TV studio match.
May 27, 200817 yr comment_5431652 Yeah this was a bunch of fun, I enjoyed all of the stooging by Onita and Fuchi and the crazy post match brawl was awesome. I love that arm wringer spot, as I remember marking for it in every heel Delfin and Naniwa match
July 5, 200817 yr comment_5432682 This was some fun stuff. The Onita/Fuchi stooge spots were great. Dundee was super in his role and has been on fire as a worker viewing the Memphis matches. Just a great t.v studio match that makes you want to get to the arena. An easy nomination.
