Not a perfect match but certainly an epic tag by 1984 standards. They started with a wild scramble before Adonis and Murdoch went into a long control section, working Fujinami's arm. This was perhaps the weakest stretch in the match as they failed to suggest much purpose beyond killing time. After about 10 minutes, Fujinami snapped off a dropkick and tagged in Inoki, who worked Murdoch's leg for the next stretch. He didn't work the holds all that well, but Murdoch sold the damage effectively. Match picked up after that as Adonis and Murdoch maneuvered Fujinami into their corner and proceeded to unload all of their biggest offense on him. He kicked out over and over, which seemed more dramatic because they didn't do that too much in NJ in these years. He finally hot tagged Inoki, but Murdoch quickly cut off the rally with a chair shot (ref pretty much let this go.) That led to a shorter section of Inoki in peril, which had the crowd going nuts. He punched his way out of trouble and this led to toe-to-toe slugfests between Murdoch and both Inoki and Fujinami. Dick took and delivered punches as well as anyone so you know that part was good. Finally, Murdoch hosited Inoki up for a big double-team move, but Inoki managed to kick Adonis before he could come off the ropes. Fujinami then distracted Murdoch long enough to finish Adonis with the enziguiri and octopus hold. This felt like the best two teams in the promotion emptying their bags in an attempt to win the big match. So they achieved their goal, despite some slow points early. Nomination.

This had the problem that a bunch of these big New Japan tags have in common, they all go about 6-9 minutes too long. Lots of great stuff here as Inoki wasn't going to let North South eat him up. I loved the final showdown with Inoki and Murdoch just big time epic stuff. By far the best North South tag I have seen and if they cut out one of the heat segments I could see it in my top 20. Nomination for sure, Will how have you not watched this yet?

I thought I watched all the North/South stuff. Must have overlooked it.

I didn't mind the early arm work at all as you got some cool shit like Fujinami trying to hook in the ab stretch only for Adonis to whirl around and save himself by tagging Murdoch. When it looked like Fujinami was about to make the tag, Dick runs over, nails Inoki and helps pull Fujinami back to the corner. Classic tag strategy. Nothing wrong with that at all. When Inoki gets the tag, the palcae comes unglued. They try that same arm strategy with Inoki but he isn't having it. Inoki's leg work was some of my favorite Inoki matwork. Hooking in the death lock, slamming the legs to the mat, getting up and evolving into the ab stretch. Great stuff. North-South abuse Fujinami some more and they work so great together. I thought the match was over when Dick came in with the chair but the ref lets it go which makes it even more awesome. The last ten minutes were non-stop greatness by both teams. I mean fuck, Inoki even sold the arm for the duration. One of the best tags on the set, no doubt.