He Got a Job and His Name's Genichiro, Spends His Days at the Texaco. Never Shows Up Late and Never Shows Up Drunk, 'Cause When He Gets Lit He's a Loaded Gun

Genichiro Tenryu & Tiger Mask II v Great Kabuki & Ashura Hara (All Japan, 1/25/86) - FUN

It's kind of strange seeing Tenryu and Hara on the opposite end of the ring in 1986. They squared off a few times in SWS and WAR, but I just think of Tenryu and Hara as an 80s team, the Revolution against Jumbo and the ways of old. It's amusing watching Misawa work as junior heavyweight Tiger Mask as he's basically doing the same stuff heavyweight Misawa would do, only with less weight behind it. Say what you like about Sayama under the mask but he was spectacular for his time period in a way very few wrestlers have ever been. His snap on things still holds up as impressive even today and when he landed it clean - which he didn't always do - it's not hard to see why people lost their minds. Misawa doesn't really have any snap and isn't really eye-popping at all but at least the crowd respond well enough. This was at its best when everyone took the shackles off and it broke into a melee. Even Misawa swung a chair at one point, though nobody swung a chair like Kabuki. He smashed one over Tenryu's head and once again Kabuki v Tenryu does not miss. Kabuki spitting the green mist in Misawa's face as the latter jumps off the top rope was amazing. Then post-match he and Hara try and rip the mask off and I think a ring boy took an uppercut to the throat. 

Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta v Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase (All Japan, 7/19/86) - FUN

These two teams had one of the best 10-minute matches ever in the Tag League that year. This was more of a back and forth contest, nothing quite as compelling as Tenryu in peril while Hansen and DiBiase play the world's greatest Fire and Ice. DiBiase is wearing the black Million Dollar Man tights but without the dollar signs, so I guess just regular black tights. He looked pretty badass and worked surly enough that when they got backstage Hansen probably didn't throw a microwave at his head. I also liked the snap on some of Ted's bumps, like the one he took off a sunset flip. It looked like he properly got yanked over, really whipping his head back and bumping the canvas, the sort of thing that might make an actual sunset flip finish look plausible if you buy that he got his bell rung. 

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