I feel like this is a match I would show someone who's never seen wrestling before. I feel like I've been lied to about wrestling my whole life since seeing this match. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
These 4 guys would be the ones I’d seek out for teaching if I was serious about becoming an elite pro wrestler. They’re all on the same level as the Horsemen, Rock & Roll Express & Midnight Express. There’s nothing better than technically sound pro wrestlers who make absolutely everything look realistic. It’s a shame that so many others have become Hall of Fame famous for making the business look phony with crappy moves and too many cartoony theatrics. Hulk Hogan could get punched in the face 18 times, but because he shakes his fists and walks in circles… he suddenly develops superhuman powers?
One thing I find fascinating is how the crowd pops once Joe and Dynamite are tagged in. Obviously Davey Boy Smith and Dean had much more Mainstream Success and we're Household name's in the States, but in Japan it was the Exact opposite Dynamite Kid and Joe were the Major Stars Here while Dean and Bulldog were the less popular Tag team Partners
I like how his moves are less flashy than Dean’s, no disrespect intended. Like when Dynamite has that armbar locked in, Joe starts targeting his ankle/legs and just stretches the shit out of him until the hold is broken. It’s not spectacular or especially fancy looking but damned if it doesn’t look like it fucking hurts lmao. Real counter wrestling.
Some really great wrestling here, never seen much of Boris Malenko but both hes sons joe and dean were great techs dynamite and davey were just phenomenal so athletic and smooth
Great match. Found out about this after listening to malenko on the Jericho podcast so I decided to look it up and glad that I did. Loved the bulldogs as a kid
A great technical tag team match between two great teams. This is my first time seeing a match involving Joe Malenko and I see he was just as great in the ring as Dean.
I was never too up on game with Joe and Dean...they're tough. I love the b bulldogs...but this blew my mind. Technical on both teams...but the bulldogs had raw power. Excellent match!...RIP Davey Boy,I know you had fun on this one.
Now this is everything that’s good about wrestling..which unfortunately we don’t see anymore! Wear downs..build ups! Just a beautiful match with twists and turns..not just trying to do high spots
Man Dynamite was over in Japan, the cheer from the crowd when he was in the ring. And the raw power of Davey Boy the way he lifted Joe onto his shoulder.
I wish modern wrestling was more like this. I know attention spans are shorter than ever but what's wrong with a few head scissors? Some arm drags, chin lock takeovers, body surfs, northern light suplexes, ankle locks, uppercuts......
I was pretty excited to discover this match as Dynamite and Dean are two of my favourites. I wish they had more ring time together is my only complaint. It could've been a classic.
Noticed the cameraman's diligence and never capturing a close-up or a clear image of Joe malenko's face when he's taking bumps or supposed to be in great pain resulting from a headlock or a high impact move. A few times you can catch a glimpse of it and not surprisingly, it looks the exact same as it did at the beginning when they shook hands of the bulldogs. Either confused or botoxed to the point he can't change expression. Man I love the milenkos
This match is just amazing. The catch wrestling and freestyle wrestling is very high level. In this match we see a double wrist lock (Kimura lock), figure four (triangle choke), calf slicer, bicep slicer, banana split among other holds and that was in 1989
Actually they have a ton of talent like this now. 10 years ago they wanted nothing to do with Japan or prominent indy fews, but that's all changed in the last few years. I mean they have AJ, Nakamura, Balor, Gallows & Anderson, and now Asuka on the main roster. They were all stars in Japan before leaving for WWE. They also have a ton of top indy guys in both NXT & the main roster. This is the most athletically gifted roster they've ever had.
They have to water them down to reduce injuries because they work a full-time 300+ day a year schedule. If anyone decided to pull out these Wrestle Kingdom-style matches every night on a full-time schedule then they would be in wheelchairs by the end of the year. That's why Cena wrestled the same "Five Moves of Doom" match for so long.
Hardly reducing the injuries based on their yearly list of folks on the treatment table. They need to lighten the schedule. Expecting folks to do athletics and then travel in a box to the next state for 7 hours isn't good for the body or muscles.
Need more like this. Awesome match and awesome "sports"manship. Just sucks davey boy did what he did to dynamite, cause it really cost dynamite a lot with his career
yeaa you guys are right. they want to see more wrestling skills and less show.while american wrestling is more for show. i mean..even hogan matches in japan are actually wrestling matches. or dory funk. you GOT to check out dory funk jr. in japan guys.
From Japan, actually AJPW style was not like this, more like current American style at that time. Obviously thanks to Malenko brothers to open up the crowds eyes for real mat wrestling.
A few of observations: 1. There were moments here you could hear a pin drop in that arena. The audience was dead silent at times. 2. Late into the match Dean and Joe were working on Davy Boy’s RIGHT leg instead of the left. I had to look closely to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. I thought it was an unwritten rule you always work your opponent from the left. 3. You would never see a match like this in the US. I love watching this kind of match. It really looks like a legitimate bout at times.
My goodness, I've never seen a match with this many counters....not to mention seeing the Bulldogs totally gassed....off subject, this must have been right after the Dynamite Kid / Jacques Rougeau incident. Check Dynamite at 20:52...
Joe malenko it's quite possibly the only man who could make Dean malenko seem charismatic and non robotic. I can't even imagine the high jinks that went on between that family when they were all in their youth. Staring straight ahead perhaps while the father talked about the technical aspects of proper mat wrestling and the boys got so excited one of them almost smiled.
Much of the Bulldogs' late run kinda followed that pattern. Davey did about 90% of the heavy lifting, and either he'd eat the pin or Dynamite would get the win.
How in the world is the play-by-play guy announcing the match that we are watching? He's talking a mile a minute and half the time they're just stalking each other in circles
If this ain't the best evidence of Jericho's brilliance I don't know what is. It's almost impossible to create heat with malenko that is believable because he is such a fucking expressionless, non-charismatic, gravelly throated a cting school dropout that his only believable gimmick over 25 years as an awesome technical wrestler was that he had no feelings and was literally an Iceman AKA a robot. Nothing less believable than malenko trying to act mad while his brother stares straight ahead like a tragic case of unintended hypnosis results... When I snap my fingers you, your brothers, and your father will continue to behave like emotionless, feeling less, expressionless robots.
Dynamite wrestles better than Davey in that he does things that make sense . Example ... Dynamite attacks the arm and returns to it first chance he gets . His " strategy " is to weaken Joes arm throughout the match to neutralize Joes ability to stretch him . Davey doesn't seem to have a strategy ... Dynamite Tombstones Dean , screwing up his neck and spine . Dynamite tags Davey after his pin fails and does Davey attack his neck ? No ...arm .
There is not much to criticise here . But clearly Davey blew the spot where Joe dropkick he and Dynamite out of the ring ... he sold the kick even when it was clear he did not have the inertia to go out with Dynamite ... its a great high spot but you got to make it look fluid not deliberate
How often does weakening an arm over the course of a 10-minute match actually impact the match? And have any of us ever seen someone submit to a fucking arm bar? There was 20 minutes in the middle that weren't necessary LOL. You can only watch the head scissors so many times knowing that it isn't going to end the match and it's so many times you can reverse arm bars to the other teams advantage (I would say once or twice a match, arm bars are always a waste of time, boring, useless, non-threatening, and a 5-year-old can do it) before it gets really boring. The technical skill here is awesome, I just think the match was 20 minutes longer than it needed to be
This match is everything I love about pro wrestling.
Joe Malenko counters Dynamite Kid's snap suplex, with a fisherman suplex, pretty awesome to see that.
I feel like this is a match I would show someone who's never seen wrestling before. I feel like I've been lied to about wrestling my whole life since seeing this match.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
These 4 guys would be the ones I’d seek out for teaching if I was serious about becoming an elite pro wrestler. They’re all on the same level as the Horsemen, Rock & Roll Express & Midnight Express.
There’s nothing better than technically sound pro wrestlers who make absolutely everything look realistic. It’s a shame that so many others have become Hall of Fame famous for making the business look phony with crappy moves and too many cartoony theatrics. Hulk Hogan could get punched in the face 18 times, but because he shakes his fists and walks in circles… he suddenly develops superhuman powers?
Now THAT'S the way wrestling should be .
This style was always better. I hate the way the WWE does their stuff now.
This match is like a technical masterclass. They are really showing off their skills here.
One thing I find fascinating is how the crowd pops once Joe and Dynamite are tagged in. Obviously Davey Boy Smith and Dean had much more Mainstream Success and we're Household name's in the States, but in Japan it was the Exact opposite Dynamite Kid and Joe were the Major Stars Here while Dean and Bulldog were the less popular Tag team Partners
Whoa, if Dean was the Iceman, Joe was the Absolute Zero man, his face is absolutely expressionless
I like how his moves are less flashy than Dean’s, no disrespect intended. Like when Dynamite has that armbar locked in, Joe starts targeting his ankle/legs and just stretches the shit out of him until the hold is broken. It’s not spectacular or especially fancy looking but damned if it doesn’t look like it fucking hurts lmao. Real counter wrestling.
Despite his back injury, dynamite still takes the worst bumps in this match.
two legendary teams in a damn fine match :)
Some really great wrestling here, never seen much of Boris Malenko but both hes sons joe and dean were great techs dynamite and davey were just phenomenal so athletic and smooth
A big part of their training involved Karl Gotch--Karl Gotch and Joe Malenko were so close Joe was even billed in some matches as Karl Gotch jr.
@@kforcer you know your stuff 👍 good to see someone who knows real lineage
Boris Malenko was an excellent heel while he was in the Florida territory. He was a ring technician. One of the greatest of all time.
All Japan crowd were on another level.
I love how everyone is just glue to the action in the ring.
I wish I could have seen more of dean malenko matches in Japan
このころの全日ファンは観ていてなんか怖いくらいだった。
In the late 80's and early 90's they were really fanatical. But the manners were also good
It's like these four are just making up holds, moves and sequences as they go along, in the best possible way.
Great match. Found out about this after listening to malenko on the Jericho podcast so I decided to look it up and glad that I did. Loved the bulldogs as a kid
I just listened to the newest Jericho episode about the Bulldogs. Amazing match. The Bulldogs were my favorites back in the day.
A great technical tag team match between two great teams. This is my first time seeing a match involving Joe Malenko and I see he was just as great in the ring as Dean.
this is one of the greatest matches i have ever seen.
I was never too up on game with Joe and Dean...they're tough. I love the b bulldogs...but this blew my mind. Technical on both teams...but the bulldogs had raw power. Excellent match!...RIP Davey Boy,I know you had fun on this one.
HoF DBS!
Yeah, you have to wonder how differently the match would have gone had the Bulldogs not been on massive amounts of juice.
Now this is everything that’s good about wrestling..which unfortunately we don’t see anymore! Wear downs..build ups! Just a beautiful match with twists and turns..not just trying to do high spots
Man Dynamite was over in Japan, the cheer from the crowd when he was in the ring. And the raw power of Davey Boy the way he lifted Joe onto his shoulder.
So glad i found this awesome match. Thank you for uploading!
~ Caretaker
I wish modern wrestling was more like this. I know attention spans are shorter than ever but what's wrong with a few head scissors? Some arm drags, chin lock takeovers, body surfs, northern light suplexes, ankle locks, uppercuts......
It is...Watch NJPW.
Zach Johnson don't forget ROH
You're definitely watching one promotion.
I agree!!! A build up and a good explosion in the end!!!
I agree!!! A build up and a good explosion in the end!!!
Awesome match, awesome climax and finish. Dynamite and Davey boy are legends.
Didn't understand a word they said but I watched every second.
What a show that was. All 4 put on the fireworks.
This match really needed no commentary!
Holy shit, Davey Boy was agile as fuck... 😲😲😲
One of my favorite Tag-team matches, along with The Funks Vs Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta on December 14, 1977.
Thank you so much for uploading this
I was pretty excited to discover this match as Dynamite and Dean are two of my favourites. I wish they had more ring time together is my only complaint. It could've been a classic.
Dynamite vs The Iceman ... A legend vs the only cruiserweight rated #1 in PWI 500 ....
Noticed the cameraman's diligence and never capturing a close-up or a clear image of Joe malenko's face when he's taking bumps or supposed to be in great pain resulting from a headlock or a high impact move. A few times you can catch a glimpse of it and not surprisingly, it looks the exact same as it did at the beginning when they shook hands of the bulldogs. Either confused or botoxed to the point he can't change expression. Man I love the milenkos
DYNAMITE KID IS A LEGEND, THE BULLDOGS FOR HALL OF FAME
I don't mind the highspots as long as they are strategicalky sound and well done .
Agreed hence the origin of the term high spot
ファンのために、ダイナマイトがマレンコのスタイルに合わせましたね。
まぁ、ダイナマイトもキャッチ・レスリング（ビリー・ライレー・ジム出身）できるから、敢えて乗ったんだろうけど。
今後、これを超える試合を見る機会はあるかなぁ…。
Great match.
パワフルだったのは明らかにディビーボーイ・スミスとマレンコ・ブラザース。
でも最後に印象に残るのは、やっぱり薬に蝕まれていたダイナマイト・キッド。
素晴らしいプロレスをありがとう。どうか安らかに。
This match is just amazing. The catch wrestling and freestyle wrestling is very high level. In this match we see a double wrist lock (Kimura lock), figure four (triangle choke), calf slicer, bicep slicer, banana split among other holds and that was in 1989
懐かしい、この試合も覚えている。良い試合だった。
Proper wrestling !!!
I can't believe this match!...USA WWE just doesn't want talent like this...what a shame.
Actually they have a ton of talent like this now. 10 years ago they wanted nothing to do with Japan or prominent indy fews, but that's all changed in the last few years. I mean they have AJ, Nakamura, Balor, Gallows & Anderson, and now Asuka on the main roster. They were all stars in Japan before leaving for WWE. They also have a ton of top indy guys in both NXT & the main roster. This is the most athletically gifted roster they've ever had.
Blakehowse+ too bad they are wasting them and watered them down
They have to water them down to reduce injuries because they work a full-time 300+ day a year schedule. If anyone decided to pull out these Wrestle Kingdom-style matches every night on a full-time schedule then they would be in wheelchairs by the end of the year. That's why Cena wrestled the same "Five Moves of Doom" match for so long.
Hardly reducing the injuries based on their yearly list of folks on the treatment table. They need to lighten the schedule. Expecting folks to do athletics and then travel in a box to the next state for 7 hours isn't good for the body or muscles.
Need more like this. Awesome match and awesome "sports"manship. Just sucks davey boy did what he did to dynamite, cause it really cost dynamite a lot with his career
That pop when dynamite kid name is announced
The you for posting this davey boy smith and dean malenko are damn good
Some many gems in this match
Joe looks a lot like Boris Malenko.
Damn Dean is young here, first time seeing this and anything from Malenko pre 90s
Wow i never seen this ALL Japan match before. it's great!!!!!
RIP Dynamite Kid
Good stuff! I enjoyed it. I would like to have seen them in MMA . Theyy would have done well.
Forgot how agile Davey Boy could be.
05:45 damn...that was a good flip from Davy Boy...
The malenko brothers best brother and boris malenko is my favorite wrestler
This is a great one!
Listen to the noise dynamite gets
why are the matches from japan (even with wrestlers from other countries) are so much better?
Plexpara because there's all the action, not like in America where they have 10% sport and 90% show.
Because they insisted on it being believable and not a lot of hokey cartoon spots. They sold and made it look good
Plexpara Because they treat like it should be, a sport.
Because it is a sport and not a soap opera
yeaa you guys are right.
they want to see more wrestling skills and less show.while american wrestling is more for show.
i mean..even hogan matches in japan are actually wrestling matches.
or dory funk.
you GOT to check out dory funk jr. in japan guys.
Makes me feel like wwf never let me see the real bulldogs. So Manu more moves here, even with dynamite injured.
You don’t want to miss any minute of this match
Dynamite Kid is everything Ricochet isn't but should be, technically sound and athletic.
From Japan, actually AJPW style was not like this, more like current American style at that time. Obviously thanks to Malenko brothers to open up the crowds eyes for real mat wrestling.
😂😂😂
This is a great Match
working the right leg... cries
?
DK missing those choppers from when Jacques punched his lights out
When he cheap shorted him whilst dynamite had a coffee in his hand not expecting it on his own one and one jacques wouldn’t last 10’seconds
What the sucker punch still couldn’t knock him off his feet, he would’ve fucking murdered, old Jock in a real fight
What a great match
7:40 We almost had a poison rana there, but I don't think Davey Boy knew what was going on.
Wow!! Miss Tom and davey!!
What a match!!
Nice well paced match.
今思えばこれが 7:42 私が子供の頃に初めて見たリバース・フランケンシュタイナーだった。
The lock ups are a bit weak for rhis lot but great match
Real wrestling.
A few of observations:
1. There were moments here you could hear a pin drop in that arena. The audience was dead silent at times.
2. Late into the match Dean and Joe were working on Davy Boy’s RIGHT leg instead of the left. I had to look closely to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. I thought it was an unwritten rule you always work your opponent from the left.
3. You would never see a match like this in the US. I love watching this kind of match. It really looks like a legitimate bout at times.
The Bulldogs muscles have muscles😂😂😂😂
At 12:25 British bulldog tapped out
13:42 was impressive but malenko did not take the flat back well and bumped his head on the mat
My goodness, I've never seen a match with this many counters....not to mention seeing the Bulldogs totally gassed....off subject, this must have been right after the Dynamite Kid / Jacques Rougeau incident. Check Dynamite at 20:52...
great match, agree about WWE
Dean is so small compared to Davey, he is honestly looking like Little Guido here
Gaijins like to go to Japan and wrestle there.
Wrestling mastery
Great match.
Too bad the Americans didnt' utilize the potential of these wrestlers
10:28 mark... What's on Dynamite's right shoulder?
Looks like a bandage or maybe some debris that was on the floor.
Never saw this match. Classic tag team match 3.75 out of 5 stars.
Joe malenko it's quite possibly the only man who could make Dean malenko seem charismatic and non robotic. I can't even imagine the high jinks that went on between that family when they were all in their youth. Staring straight ahead perhaps while the father talked about the technical aspects of proper mat wrestling and the boys got so excited one of them almost smiled.
すばらしい あまりにすばらしすぎる！
Davey Boy was so good in his prime... Much better than Bret Hart
Agree Davie boy 1000 times better he made him pay when there handed over the belts & got him back again at summer slam in the uk
Dynamite must've felt bad. Davey Boy worked the majority of the match.
Much of the Bulldogs' late run kinda followed that pattern. Davey did about 90% of the heavy lifting, and either he'd eat the pin or Dynamite would get the win.
How in the world is the play-by-play guy announcing the match that we are watching? He's talking a mile a minute and half the time they're just stalking each other in circles
Dynamite was still pretty buff here, when did he stop taking Steroids?
7:41 what the heck? Reverse Rana in 1989? Or was that a botch?
Seems like a "Hey I'm trying something!" move and Davey-Boy was like "???" and just flat-backed off of it for lack of anything else to think of.
Sweet ❤🎉😊
Great
The Malenko's never drew a dime in the US.
but the bulldogs drew a ton of money in the us, crates of it...
If this ain't the best evidence of Jericho's brilliance I don't know what is. It's almost impossible to create heat with malenko that is believable because he is such a fucking expressionless, non-charismatic, gravelly throated a cting school dropout that his only believable gimmick over 25 years as an awesome technical wrestler was that he had no feelings and was literally an Iceman AKA a robot. Nothing less believable than malenko trying to act mad while his brother stares straight ahead like a tragic case of unintended hypnosis results...
When I snap my fingers you, your brothers, and your father will continue to behave like emotionless, feeling less, expressionless robots.
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Dynamite wrestles better than Davey in that he does things that make sense . Example ... Dynamite attacks the arm and returns to it first chance he gets . His " strategy " is to weaken Joes arm throughout the match to neutralize Joes ability to stretch him . Davey doesn't seem to have a strategy ... Dynamite Tombstones Dean , screwing up his neck and spine . Dynamite tags Davey after his pin fails and does Davey attack his neck ? No ...arm .
There is not much to criticise here . But clearly Davey blew the spot where Joe dropkick he and Dynamite out of the ring ... he sold the kick even when it was clear he did not have the inertia to go out with Dynamite ... its a great high spot but you got to make it look fluid not deliberate
How often does weakening an arm over the course of a 10-minute match actually impact the match? And have any of us ever seen someone submit to a fucking arm bar? There was 20 minutes in the middle that weren't necessary LOL. You can only watch the head scissors so many times knowing that it isn't going to end the match and it's so many times you can reverse arm bars to the other teams advantage (I would say once or twice a match, arm bars are always a waste of time, boring, useless, non-threatening, and a 5-year-old can do it) before it gets really boring. The technical skill here is awesome, I just think the match was 20 minutes longer than it needed to be
Oh come on ...you can do better
Dean Malenko never drew a dime.
the Japanese gorilla monsoon on commentary?
Joe put me in a front facelock and I saw stars. For years I thought I was slapping it on all proper and got schooled. I couldn't be more grateful 🥲