AJPW - 1986 - July - Jumbo, Hansen, Yatsu & more

Hello Sunshine! More exciting wrestling from 40 years ago!

Jumbo Tsuruta & Tiger Mask II vs Yoshiaki Yatsu & Isamu Teranishi (07/05) Fun match where Yatsu's aggressive wrestling (as in actual wrestling) was really cool. It felt like he was kinda-shooting in on Tiger & Jumbo. Those segments felt really good. Otherwise this was good 80's wrestling. Exciting ring action, a couple cool moves but I'm sure an appetizer to a bigger match. I liked it though. It's good to watch simple wrestling done right.

Stan Hansen vs Genichiro Tenryu (07/26) - Two of the best to ever wrestle put on a great match for the AWA belt (I think this was one of the defenses Stan made with the "stolen" belt!). In either case, they beat the he'll out of each other. Stan blasted Tenryu a few times including a sternum crushing elbow drop. That's OK because Genichiro Tenryu is no wimp & gets payback...I'm pretty sure he got Stan in the face on an enzuigiri. I guess that makes it a gamengiri. What's notable beyond that is Tenryu really does a great job going after the Texan's lariat arm. Stan sells the heck out of it and once weakened, gets bloodied. 

Genichiro Tenryu vs Yoshiaki Yatsu (07/31) - Um...Yatsu gets more and more awesome. I think he's consistently Tenryu's best opponent. This match along with their others is fantastic! They really don't seem to like one another BUT work extremely well together. What I like about Yatsu is that he's an actual amateur wrestler and brings those skills to the ring. His suplexes are top notch as you'll see in this match. And this match is a beauty! No love lost - slaps to the face, grinding in holds etc. It's a near classic match plus all said and done this is under 15 minutes.

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