All Japan Motherload - Rusher Kimura/Giant Baba vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Jumbo Tsuruta - AJPW 12/8/84

ER: 1984 was Kimura's weirdest year, as he worked matches in NJPW, AJPW, IWE and Stampede. He hadn't been in All Japan since 1977. A few years later he would suddenly be an old man. But here he's back in town a month and he's the meanest motherfucker in a match with Tenryu and surly Jumbo. Kimura is pissed and goes right after Tenryu, and that pisses off Jumbo who goes right after Rusher. Rusher is thick chested and mean and he goes after Tenryu's throats with open handed chops, pulling at Tenryu's perfect coif and strangling him in the ropes. By the time Rusher hits a HARD lariat on Tenryu and then picks him up at the two count you know you're seeing something special. Native stopping his own two count against another native? You thought Choshu invented that shit but it was MOTHERFUCKING Rusher Kimura! Baba keeps giving Rusher all of these disapproving looks that are all GIF-worthy, but that doesn't stop Baba from doing his greatest ever big boot, launching it right under Tenryu's chin. Jumbo is permanently pissed throughout this, wanting his piece of Rusher, and after Rusher nails Tenryu with another brutal lariat everything falls apart, ring boys come in, Goro Tsurumi comes in with a kendo stick, Baba tries to hold back Jumbo and keeps looking back at Rusher shaking his head, Rusher ends up suplexing Baba (!). Every bit of this was fucking tremendous.