Grimmas Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Discuss here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Harley Race & Dick Slater 82' Dec Tag League Story here is Baba is an unbeatable force of nature and you won't beat him no matter what! Who is that Jumbo guy? He don't matter! Baba IS. There were certainly other choices that could have been made here to make this more compelling as Race starts off during the handshake building up his inevitable collision with Baba. Unfortunately this narrative string promptly gets deflated as Jumbo tags him in while he has Race in a headlock. So rather than milking the moment and letting the face come in to triumphantly stand off with the heel, Baba only comes in when he has the advantage. That sucks! The second half of the match is a long heat segment on Baba which is somewhat deflated when I thought he kicked out of a backdrop suplex/middle rope headbutt combination at a zero because Lou Thez is a shitty referee and was counting off camera. This was also after a piledriver on the concrete but that move means less than nothing in Japan. Baba comes back from a bunch of punishment by tossing Slater into Race and getting a Russian legsweep. Jumbo should have just taken the night off since he played very little part in this encounter. Slater was in the ring more but didn't really capture your attention in any meaningful way. Watching some more Jumbo and Baba while typing up my thoughts, they come off very much like two guys with little to no continuity. They don't follow normal structure for sure, but that structure works and what they are doing, doesn't. Best part of the match was Slater and Race dropping a double knee, that was pretty swank. Notes in Spoiler Race and Baba have a stare down in the prematch handshake and its pretty great Starting with the other two makes sense if they are carrying that story as two mentor-student teams They don't do much, Harley, he should dominate Harley leapfrog and Jumbo cross body Baba gives advice but doesn't tag in until Jumbo gets a head lock, odd choice Harley tries a slam but it doesn't work baba headlock takedown Harley gets the advantage with a suplex but misses headbutt Jumbo in with a high knee well executed, front facelock and HArley tries to counter with suplex and gets it knee drop tag to Slater, top rope elvow, piledriver delayed and Baba saves powerslam gets two elbow off the ropes ab stretch Oh hey, Lou Thez is the referee with his prototype Zubaz Baba chop breaks and Jumbo gets the stretch Harley gets cut off from the save and Slater gets out GEts a backbreaker and holds Slater on his knee Baba BOOT and Slater gets knocked to the outside Slater takes over, he's not really adding a lot here Double knee drop, someone should steal that Harley piledriver, diving headbutt, foot on the ropes BIG chop Baba sends Harley over the top and Jumbo jumps him on the outside Harley goes to the top but gets Flair'd Slater back in and the USA gets a double punch off the ropes Spinning toe hold to the figure four Jumbo tries to save but Thez cuts him off Baba gets to the ropes Piledriver on the floor from Race Jumbo posts Slater Baba gets back in the ring and sells the knee belly-to-back from Slater, diving headbutt from Race for a what I though was a 0 count, but Thez counts really badly suplex from Race for 2 Baba is bleeding punch flurry from Slater gut wrench suplex for 2? Thez counts suck Baba throws Slater into Race and hits Russian legsweep for the three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Tomomi Tsuruta (10/09/73) ***3/4 Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (03/13/75) ****3/4 Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (12/14/77) **** Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (12/15/78) ****1/2 Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (11/30/79) ****1/2 Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (12/11/80) *** Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (12/8/81) ***1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 Oh yeah. The Old Ace & the Young Ace together against the Funks. Terrific team of the 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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