They came out firing at each other and put on a really intense match. Murdoch dominated the opening stretch with elbows. Fujinami reversed the momentum when he absolutely drilled Murdoch with a tope suicida. Dick bled (in intense matches, he often bloodied his nose, which was always a nice touch.) Eventually, they brawled to a countout and Murdoch hit Fujinami with a brainbuster in the crowd. I liked the fire from both guys and you know they could work. So I'll push this forward, though I wouldn't call it a high-end nomination.

 

Match appears on NJ Classics 127 and NJ TV 7/9/82

Fuck, Fujinami dropkicking Dick before the match starting and Dick respinding with punches to the face a couple of minutes later is pretty sweet. Of course, Dick works the arm and does some cool shit inbetween holds (like punching Fujinami in the face). When Fujinami takes over, it is still the Dick Murdoch show and you pay more attenton to Dick, looking for that next punch to the face. After the big dive outside, this was all action, with Fujinami trying to exploit the cut and Murdoch breaking out his repertoire of big moves. Even though I don't like the countout, the brainbuster on the floor to end it puts an exclamation point on the match. Very solid nomination.

Yeah this was really great, the arm lift and wrench was pretty sweet, I loved the tope which you didn't see much of from heavyweight tope. The blood was nifty too. Good shit solid nom.