New Japan Pro Wrestling TV (September 16th & 23rd 1983) - Last three matches also on Classics 151

 

1. Killer Khan & Riki Choshu vs Nobuhiko Takada & Tatsumi Fujinami - Ishin Gundan jumped Maeda and injured him before the match, so Takada had to sub in. Most of the match consisted of Choshu and Khan pulverizing the skinny youngster (Khan had a cool wicked grin going.) It was fun for what it was but never really became much of a match.

 

2. Bad News Allen & Dick Murdoch vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura - Could Murdoch and Bad News find anything that would hurt Fujiwara's head? That was the central plot of this highly entertaining match. About 1/3 of the way in, Allen tried to head butt Fujiwara and got this great look of befuddlement when Fujiwara just grinned at him. He tried it again. Same thing. So he tossed him outside and rammed him into the post. Again, no damage. Both guys did great facial storytelling as they worked through this half-comedic, half-violent segment. The whole thing was a real kick. Fujiwara also unloaded on Bad News with body punches in the corner in another cool segment. Murdoch looked good as well, though his Fujiwara interactions were less fun. By the way, Murdoch did a crappy-looking brainbuster. He sort of sat down and let his opponent's body drape across the mat. Weird failing for a great wrestler. Anyhow, it was a tragedy whenever Kimura tagged into the match because he didn't belong in this company. But this match was a really fun change of pace that I'll nominate, even though it might not advance.

 

3. Antonio Inoki vs Animal Hamaguchi - This, on the other hand, was boring. Inoki didn't seem to take Hamaguchi seriously enough to work a hard singles match with him.

 

4. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Tony St. Clair & Dick Murdoch (21/9) - Heavily clipped, so I'll have to take a look at the Classics version.

 

5. Tatsumi Fujinami vs Riki Choshu (21/9) - They got back on track with this very intense chapter in their series. Will already noted the high points, so I'll just second the nomination.

 

6. Antonio Inoki vs Rusher Kimura (21/9) - It was a shame this didn't last a bit longer, because they really beat the hell out of each other. This might have been the best brawling Inoki from all of 1983.

Childs, can yo usend this disc to me? It seems like my set has two disc 11s and no 22s

Will do.

Still need this disc.

I will send it to you