NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship: Tiger Mask (c) vs. The Dynamite Kid
New Japan Pro Wrestling - April 23, 1983
In 1981, The Dynamite Kid was already well established in Canada from his feud with a young Bret Hart. So he went to Japan to show off his hard hitting European style in front of new audiences and make a lot more money. After establishing himself there, a flashy young newcomer came along. The extremely skilled Satoru Sayama was put under a mask and played a character adapted from a children's cartoon series. Tiger Mask immediately made an impact by defeating Dynamite and thus sparked an absolute war. These two feuded for the next two years, putting on an absolute classic every time they were in the ring together. And Dynamite could never beat Tiger Mask. Now, this is their final meeting. With Dynamite desperate to finally win, he'll pull out every trick in the book.
When you consider where everyone else was at in wrestling at the time, you realize how innovative these two were. They were doing moves that people wouldn't be regularly doing for another 10 years. They invented junior heavyweight wrestling together. With Dynamite's brutal European style and vise-like submissions mixed with Tiger Mask's flashy aerial moves and razor sharp kicks, you can see the foundation being laid for wrestling as we know it today. A legendary match between two legendary men.
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