All Japan Motherload - Genichiro Tenryu/Rocky Hata vs. The Funks - AJPW 12/2/77

ER: This is notable because ROOKIE YEAR TENRYU!! This is 27 yr old rookie Tenryu, all slender and lump-free but still spectacularly coiffed. Funks have matching shaved heads and I don't ever recall seeing Terry with hair this short. Now that I noticed Dory Funk = David Morse I cannot unsee it and I can only pray that somehow Terry and Morse ended up in a movie together at one point. The Funks jogging suits are literally my favorite jogging suits I have seen, with a beautiful deep blue and red, slim leg with slight flair at the bottom, tasteful collar on the jacket, right amount of elastic at the waist. Gorgeous. Tenryu and Hata control with headlocks and we eventually get to see Tenryu break out the sumo charging chops into the corner. Funks takeover and begin bullying Tenryu and it's so so so bizarre to see Tenryu as a young FIP. Funks break out a sweet double indian deathlock. Everybody takes turns showing off their throw strength, with Terry hitting a mean hardway vertical on Hata, Tenryu getting a side suplex, Dory hitting a butterfly, at one point Terry dropkicks Hata and lands knee first on his face. I expected Funks to steamroll here but they let the younger guys control a bit, though it was still so strange seeing Tenryu get picked on.