Posted February 23, 200818 yr comment_5428476 Dory Funk Jr. vs. Billy Robinson (Int'l Title, 3/7/82 in Charlotte, NC) - I remember watching this match about 5 years ago and really liking it. I still think this is one of the better Dory matches I have seen but I don’t know how it will do in final voting. Billy looked like he was near the end of his rope but did enough cool stuff to remind you he is Billy Robinson. We’ll put it through to the next round and see where it goes. (AJC 71)
February 23, 200818 yr comment_5428479 I was watching this the other night, and just wasn't feeling it. Though Will is 100% right that Robinson would bust something cool out here and there to make this interesting. Plus the crowd seemed dead.
September 30, 201411 yr comment_5629874 I went back and revisited the 3/7/82 and was pretty wrong about it being boring. Billy was great here at pushing the action. Dory though if he didn't have Billy pushing the action he would have been content to sit in holds. Not to shit on Dory entirely his European forearms were quite nasty at times. The carny counters by Billy were nicely worked. I liked Billy's work on Dory's back though it did look like Dory kinda flubbed it at 1st, but they got it right a few seconds later. I didn't quite understand why Billy was selling his back in the earlier stages. What I liked about the mat work was that it seemed like a contest. Later Billy starts going after the leg. He has a way of applying leg locks, and working the leg that looks like he's adding extra torque to it. We see Dory with a neat reversal that sets up his spinning toe hold. Parv I new exactly the moment you're talking about with Dory and the arm lock shutting the momentum of the match. Eventually we get a draw out of this. One thing about Billy is he does so much great stuff that sometimes it hurts the flow of the match and it did a little here. He'll go from working the arm, to the back, to the leg etc. Still this is a good match 3 3/4*. Solid Nomination
