Great Kabuki & John Tenta vs Tom Zenk & The Terminator
This is from the 1987 All Japan Tag League. It's not a great match, not really even a good one, just something random I watched that I thought was interesting.
I now realize that Zenk was a pretty bad wrestler when I watch his stuff with 2013 eyes. I never realized how bad he was when I was a kid. He was basically a non athlete with a good look who thought he was a good athlete, so he would try things that he couldn't handle. He has a nice botch in the first minute or so of this match which is a good example. This was right after his Can Am Connection run in WWF.
Terminator is the least successful Laurinaitis brother. He was still pretty green here but looked ok.
Tenta was only 24(!), and still a few years away from his famous run with Hogan in WWF. Fresh out of sumo and looking....slim. He really moves around well and pops the crowd with a nice dropkick. He was good here.
Kabuki is a few years removed from his great run in World Class where most people know him from. As the only veteran and the best worker in the match he really should have held things together, but he ends up spending the least amount of time in the ring. Weird.
As you would probably figure, these were both jobber teams in the tournament. One scored 6 points, the other 2.
Anyway, watch it. It's under 10:00 and pretty interesting.