Posted July 8, 200916 yr comment_5441691 June 7, 1985 Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch vs. The Cobra & Shunji Takano Adonis and Murdoch were fun here, especially Murdochs nasty punches to Shunji Takano’s face, but this was basically a squash Andre the Giant vs. Tatsumi Fujinami Andre still had great timing with everything he did, but that wasn’t enough to outstrip his lack of mobility for this match. Antonio Inoki & Kengo Kimura vs. Hulk Hogan & Mike Sharpe Hogan v. Inoki was fun, but Mike Sharpe is fucking terrible
July 9, 200916 yr comment_5441721 #195 9/3/97 June 7, 1985 Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch vs. The Cobra & Shunji Takano - Murdoch and Adonis gave the juniors nothing here and I don’t blame them for that. They make quick work of them after the top rope knee drop. Anyway, I think I have covered all the North-South matches on classics and I am calling bullshit on the ‘All the matches are alike” memo. They treated the juniors like juniors, they give Inoki more anyone else (just like everyone else in the company), they had an awesome feud with Fujinami/Kimura with tons of give and take. Andre the Giant vs. Tatsumi Fujinami - Fujinami gives it the old college try butAndre kicks his ass. Andre using a whip is just weird to me. If Fujinami would have flown out of the ring onto Andre, I would have nominated it for that spot alone. As it is, they had to fight the rest of the match. Solid match with Fujinami getting n enough hope spots to get the crowd leaping up off its feet. Love the ending with Fujinami trying a sunset flip (which worked earlier) but Andre crushing him with a splash and pin to counter. I really enjoyed this and go low level nomination. Antonio Inoki & Kengo Kimura vs. Hulk Hogan & Mike Sharpe - Man, does anyone suck as much as Sharpe? Maybe if Hogan would have had a better partner, this would have held my interest. I kept looking at the clock waiting for the match to be over.
