Posted February 29, 200817 yr comment_5428850 Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Terry Funk & Dick Slater (5/2/80) Early on, Slater and Funk work on Jumbo, preventing him from tagging into Baba. Once Baba is in, the momentum shifts to the natives. However, Terry and Slater are such a great tag team. They do a little comedy, a little heel work, some big tag team moves. Fun spot as Terry gets tangled in the ropes so Baba gives him the big boot. This knocks Terry back but he springs back into the same spot so Baba does it again and he goes flying to the floor. The natives win after Jumbo and Baba give Slater a double atomic drop. I don't think I would give this a strong nomination. I'll call it a middle of the road nomination where the tag work was good and the gaigin were fun as hell but that there wasn't any real drama or any doubt on who would win in the end. (AJC 55)
April 3, 201015 yr comment_5448920 Neither team did a great job of establishing a plan of attack, and for most of the match, the action wasn't wild enough to compensate. Terry was the best guy in the match by far with some fun groggy selling and a great flurry of punches near the end. But the natives turned in a dull performance and the ending came out of nowhere. No vote from me.
August 19, 201015 yr comment_5454657 Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Terry Funk & "Mr. Unpredictable" Dick Slater (5/2/80) A day later and no eyepatch for Slater but he has a big bandage on his back. Funny seeing Jumbo getting the smallest pop of the four. Funk & Slater keep it fun early with the normal schtick and the story here was to keep Jumbo in the ring since while he was good, he wasn't Baba and they could beat him. Baba then tags in and it becomes a competition on who could take the most punishment from him until Terry went balls out and hit a diving elbow from the top rope to the floor on Baba. Terry's selling here was awesome as he was acting groggy as shit so he outsold Slater then in the punching battle between them, Terry would take that one as well as he was peppering them good. The finish was sorta anti-climatic though with Slater doing the job of course. I'm in the middle here between Will & Childs but the greatness of Funk & Slater saved this match as Childs was right in that Baba & Jumbo was almost a whole bunch of nothing here. This moves forward but not by a whole lot.
