Posted October 6, 200915 yr comment_5444832 DVD #9 4/13/85 Hamaguchi/Kurisu vs. Ted Dibiase/Dick Slater - JIP. Dibiase and Slater were an entertaining team, but this was't anything much. Baba/Jumbo vs. Kimura/Tsurumi - JIP. I'm not digging these AJ undercard matches. This felt barely competitive, with Jumbo manhandling Tsurumi a bunch. Choshu/Yatsu vs. Stan Hansen/Ron Bass - This at least made me want to see more Choshu vs. Hansen. It was a pretty standard formula tag, but their ringside brawl at the end carried some real heat. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Killer Khan - Longish match with a lot of slow working of holds dragging down the body. I liked it when Tenryu opened up and slapped the shit out of Khan, but then they went right back to the blah stuff. It picked up at the end, with them trading their big stuff and earning a double DQ with some heated brawling on the apron. But I was bored for too much of this to nominate it. 4/20/85 TM/Inoue/Gotoh vs. Kobayashi/Norio Honaga/Nakano - Just a clip of the finishing run, though Inoue hit a sweet headscissors roll-up for the pin. Baba/Ishikawa vs. Kimura/Tsurumi - JIP. Some fun brawling between Tsurumi and Ishikawa but it ended on a really abrupt DQ. Dusty had nothing on Baba for shitty endings in the '80s. Choshu/Hamaguchi vs. Slater/Brower - Decent formula tag with the usual fast-paced Choshu ending of chaos, double-team moves and lariats. No great moments to set it apart. Jumbo/Tenryu vs. Hansen/Dibiase - Despite the talent involved, this never built beyond the basic back-and-forth. I mean, I watched it 20 minutes ago and I remember nothing about it except that the double countout felt especially perfunctory.
