Posted April 7, 200817 yr comment_5430480 All Japan G+ Classics #39 The Sheik vs. Kintaro Oki (06/10/81) - Ugh. It is hard to say anything good about this match. There was blood? Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Dick Slater (07/04/81) - I overlooked this on the original classics airing but it wasn’t good. Like most Singh matches, it mainly involved a lot of choking and running through the crowd. No vote. Bobby Heenan & Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genchiro Tenryu (07/06/81) - Heenan really doesn’t belong in a ring with Jumbo and Tenryu. When he is in, he plays bumping machine but Singh works most of the match. That means a lot of resting and a lot of choking. This may be the most disappointing AJ Classics disc ever. Ric Flair (w/Misawa) vs. Genchiro Tenryu (2/3 falls, 10/06/81) (start at 54:07) (39:20) - First fall is Flair by the numbers stuff. You have Tenryu controlling with a headlock initially and that goes nowhere. Then you get some arm work from each guy but that doesn’t go anywhere either. Tenryu then puts his Figure 4 on Flair until Flair reverses it. However, it is the leg work after the Tenryu Figure-4 where it gets more interesting as Tenryu starts dissecting Flair’s leg. Flair continues to sell the leg which is nice to see in a Flair match. However, the ending is completely anti-climactic as Flair pins Tenryu after a suplex and elbow drop. 2nd fall and Flair is working on the back of Tenryu with knee drops and a camel clutch. Tenryu turns the tide with an enziguiri that Flair over-sells. Shortly after, Flair goes for the suplex again but Tenryu reverses it and pins Flair?!?!? WTF? The world champ gets pinned off a suplex? What year is this match, 1963? To begin the third fall, Flair is selling the back after the deadly suplex. Tenryu applies a Boston Crab and an abdominal stretch to capitalize but Flair fights back and applies the Figure 4 to end the match. Man, what a letdown. I thought this would be on par with Jumbo-Flair but I am wrong. What I thought was a sure-fire nomination is a definite NO. Jumbo Tsuruta & Giant Baba vs. Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka (10/06/81) (at 1:35:31) (22:14) - The First fall doesn’t last long as Snuka gives Jumbo a Superfly Splash and gets the pin about ten minutes in. In the 2nd fall, the gaigin try to exploit the Jumbo loss but Baba gets the tag and Brody continues selling for the only person in the company that matters, the boss. In a nice turn of events, Snuka goes up for another splash but is pushed off the top rope. This allows Jumbo to go up and hit a missile dropkick to take the 2nd fall. The 3rd fall ends with all of the wrestlers brawling outside and the match is thrown out. This had some fun moments but I never saw any real story develop as both teams just executed moves and we had two surprise endings and a non-finish in the third fall. No vote.
