Posted March 12, 200817 yr comment_5429415 Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu vs. Road Warriors (Int'l Tag title, 03/12/87) - The great thing about a Jumbo clothesline is you are forced to sell it... at least for a couple of seconds before you bench press him off of you after a pin attempt. Nice spot as Tenryu and Hawk reverse the clothesline sequence and this time Tenryu gets damaged. Things pick up with Hawk and Jumbo as they do a double clothesline knockout spot. When they recover, Hawk clotheslines him from behind shooting Jumbo out of the ring in a nice bump. Overall, this was way better than your average Roadies match. The restholds on Tenryu were annoying since they could have abused him with their power moves. I am used to the small guys grounding the bigger guys so they can't use their strength against them. With that said, there were some sweet spots in the stretch run and the fact that Tenryu kicked out of moves that put away nearly all U.S. competitors made this compelling. In order to keep him down, they give him a spike piledriver on the concrete and get the countout victory. This would be the definition of a moral victory for the natives. I have no problem nominating this although I don't know how far it will get in the process. (AJC 145)
May 1, 201015 yr comment_5450285 This was probably about as well as you were going to do with the Warriors in Japan. I loved the opening with Animal press slamming Jumbo and Jumbo lariating him through the mat in response. The Warriors' clubbering section on Tenryu was less inspired but served its purpose. I loved the spot near the end where Animal threw Hawk into a charging Tenryu. And that piledriver on the floor looked nasty as hell and seemed a reasonable way to set up a countout win. I'd like to get the Warriors on the set, because they had a long main event run in the promotion, and this is the best choice I've seen so far. So I second the yes.
September 9, 201015 yr comment_5455475 NWA International Tag Titles: Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta © vs. The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) (3/12/87) Budokan is hot for this one and finally we have a Roadies match that warrants a nomination. This had some good hard hitting action early with the Roadies taking as well as they gave as they have become more of a complete team at this stage of their career. There was a hot stretch run where Tenryu ate all the Roadies finishers and stayed alive eventually rolling to the floor but he would take a spike piledriver with the Roadies coming back to the ring to win the titles by countout. Like I said earlier, this was the best Roadies match I've seen in Japan so far and this moves forward.
