Posted June 15, 201015 yr comment_5452038 DVD #7 March29：Korakuen Hall (aired 3/29/86) UN Heavyweight Killer Khan vs. Ted Dibiase - Decent back-and-forth slugfest until Dibiase whipped Khan into the ref to get DQed. HARU SONADA/Tiger Mask/ Tenryu vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi/ Yatsu/Riki Choshu - This was one of those matches that seemed fine as it went along but didn't produce a single moment or idea that stuck with me past the final bell. NWAInternational Heavyweight/AWA Heavyweight/PWFHeavyweight／ Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Stan Hansen - Reviewed on Classics. March31：Nagaoka public welfare hall (aired 4/5/86) JUMBO TSURUTA/GIANT BABA vs. RUSHER KIMURA/Goro Tsurumi - Kimura and Jumbo delivered some decent exchanges, but this was mostly an exhibition of Jumbo and Baba offense without any sense that they could lose. UN Heavyweight Genichiro Tenryu vs. Ted Dibiase - JIP with Tenryu hitting a Russian legsweep. The match picked up when Dibiase busted Tenryu open with multiple chairshots on the outside. Ted spent the next few minutes working the cut with fist drops and good-looking punches. When Tenryu rallied, he popped the crowd with a rare tope that signaled the start of a long finishing run. They did a standout job of mixing brawling with nearfalls and teases of the dreaded double countout. They avoided the drastic my-turn-your-turn feeling by keeping their transitions logical and consistently selling fatigue from a long, brutal match. It ended in a draw after Ted kicked out of a last-second powerbomb, which looked really neat because Tenryu had to struggle like hell to get him up for it. The clip hurts this but it was still the best Dibiase singles match I've seen in All-Japan and a worthy contender for the set. ANIMAL HAMAGUCHI/Riki Choshu vs. RON BASS/STAN HANSEN - Hansen had his way whenever he was in the match, but Choshu and Hamaguchi mounted mini-rallies whenever Bass stayed in for long. Hansen finally isolated Hamaguchi long enough to finish him with a nasty lariat-dropkick combo. This was a fun little fast-paced tag but not something that rose to nomination territory.
