Posted October 9, 200915 yr comment_5444971 DVD #11 5/11/85 Tenryu/Ashura Hara vs. Choshu/Hamaguchi - Fun segment of TV as Tenryu fended off a pre-bell attack from Ueda (I think) and went right into hitting his big offense on Choshu. But when Choshu survived, Tenryu did't have enough left to keep him and Hamaguchi from destroying Hara. It was all chaos and action, but the match itself wasn't something that would go on the set. Baba/Ishikawa vs. Hansen/Dibiase - I was surprised how much of the heel offense Baba ate. This was OK, but Hansen and Dibiase never seemed remotely threatened. Jumbo vs. Ric Flair - This is the 4/24 match. JIP here so I'll watch it on Classics. 5/18/85 Yatsu/Kobayashi/Honaga vs. Bulldogs/Canadian Lewis - This lacked any kind of coherent plot. The Bulldogs' destruction of Honaga at the end was fun. Davey press slammed him to the floor (ouch), the Dynamite obliterated him with a clothesline, then Davey finished him with a powerslam off the second rope. Honaga must have died three, four times during that stretch. Not enough to redeem the aimless work throughout. Baba/Ishikawa vs. Singh/Mario Milano - Look, Tiger Jeet's shittiness knew no promotional bounds. Baba was good, however, at playing the victim of nefarious heeling. He always had the crowd's sympathy, o matter the quality of the opponent. Jumbo/Tenryu vs. Choshu/Hamaguchi - You'd think these four would struggle to have a boring match, but this did nothing for me. Actually the finishing run was fine, but Jumbo worked a lot of this, and he and Choshu hadn't yet figured out their chemistry. Tenryu also dragged it down with some ugly execution. He struggled to get his leg up on a normal enzuigiri, so what possessed him to try one on a guy sitting atop the turnbuckle? I continue to be surprised by the flatness of a lot of All-Japan main events.
