All Japan Motherload - Gino Hernandez vs. Mil Mascaras - AJPW 8/20/81

ER: Well this rules. Mil Mascaras gets mobbed like nobody I've seen mobbed in pro wrestling. He's barely even able to walk to the ring, instead getting forced around by momentum of the throng of potential lovers who swarm him. Fans always try and sneak touches of Hansen or the Funks, but here they just charge Mascaras like they want his clothing/seed. Meanwhile Gino waits in the ring in snug red bathrobe and giant sunglasses, looking like a guy on Miami Vice who dies in a boat explosion. And the match itself is awesome. Gino hits a weird hardway gutbuster, they do some pretty armdrags and floating headlock takedowns, all of Mil's surfboards look really nasty, Gino takes some big bumps on a mat that doesn't give in the least, and then misses a gigantic top rope elbow over halfway across the ring. Everybody knew Mil was winning but Mil was oddly aggressive during this, and at one point as the fans start screaming for Mil, Gino flashes all sorts of early charisma and starpower by shouting them all down. Loved this.