Posted June 12, 200916 yr comment_5440637 #128 August 5, 1982, Tokyo - Sumo Hall Seiji Sakaguchi & Tiger Toguchi vs. Adrian Adonis & Greg Valentine - Just a tag. This didn’t last very long and Valentine isn’t as good of a partner as Murdoch. Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid (WWF Junior Title) - This is a frustrating match to watch. When these guys are going toe to toe, the praise that has been reaped over the years is well deserved despite Phil’s irrational hatred for DK. However, what the hell are they going to the mat for? They aren’t very good at matwork and don’t really work holds effectively. There were also a couple of sloppy spots that stood out such as the first suplex to the floor where Sayama had to try awfully hard to flip over that rope and a spot that looked like DK was flipping Mask where Mask was supposed to land on his feet but goes down in a crumpled mess. DK covers for it by immediately dropping an elbow. The stretch run was mostly par for the course between the two. Is this the famous match? If so, include it because the people will demand it but I like their ten minute sprints better than this flawed match. Bob Backlund vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (WWF Title) - I really enjoyed the first few minutes as they were feeling each other out and kept ending in a stalemate. I thought that when Fujinami was working the armbar early on, there was too much dead space. There were also a couple of flubbed spots that irked me because instead of working through them, they would go back to the armbar in an attempt to work the 25minutes they were allotted. I love both guys but this doesn’t come close to the Backlund-Choshu match I watched and I know I am going to get a lot of resistance on Backlund matches being on the set.
