Posted April 13, 200817 yr comment_5430654 All Japan Classics 95 Mil Mascaras & Dos Caras vs. Barry Windham & Ron Fuller (12/12/83, Tokyo) - Really fun tag that was over before you could blink after the Mexicans double teamed Fuller. Harley Race vs. Jumbo Tsuruta NWA World Heavyweight Championship (10/26/83, Morioka) - Early on, Jumbo works the headlock and they do some fun stuff working out of the headlock. Eventually, Jumbo hits a butterfly suplex but can’t capitalize. Harley tries to change the momentum by going to his own headlock until Jumbo counters with a backbreaker. Jumbo locks on a sleeper but Harley flips him over his head and out of the ring. ON the outside, Jumbo counters a Race piledriver attempt and suplex attempt and immediately follows it up with an abdominal stretch in the ring. Nice counter by Race when he flips Jumbo over and follows with a headbutt to take control. Race starts pulling out the big guns, executing a piledriver, some big headbutts followed by a diving headbutt but he can’t put Jumbo away. Jumbo fights back and nails an overhead belly to belly and an enziguiri. He unloads with some big European uppercuts and Race does his melodramatic tumble to the floor. Jumbo tries to put it away with the Thesz Press that he won with before but it doesn’t work this time. Race regains control and works on the neck and head again. Great spot after a flub as Jumbo tries to fight out of a powerslam attempt only to get caught in a Tombstone for a nearfall. This had a great end stretch damaged by some crap with the ref at the end. However, they paced this thing beautifully by working bog moves and momentum shifts out of the holds and allowing the match to go long without ever getting boring. If you weren’t familiar with the title history, you would have no idea how this match would end. Strong nomination. Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody vs. Barry Windham & Ron Fuller ′83 World Strongest Tag League Match (11/25/83, Osaka) - Why did Windham and Fuller even bother? Fuller gets dropped by a Hansen lariat.
