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  vs Abdullah the Butch & Brian Blair (NJPW 7/16/1983) This is surprisingly cordial for an Abdullah match; he and Murdoch fight over a top wrist lock for a significant portion. With that said, you can see a certain urgency, especially from Adonis, when Abdullah is in the match compared to when Blair is in there. It is striking how even Murdoch works with Abdullah; Murdoch almost works a heat on Abdullah at one point, and Blair comes in some approximation of a hot tag. Adonis gets some really good-looking punches off on Blair, follows up with some more strikes, and tags in Murdoch. Murdoch hits a brainbuster, but only gets two. Murdoch tags in Adonis, and Adrian gets overzealous with his strikes and ends up eating an atomic drop. Blair climbs to the top rope, but Adonis throws him off. Adonis goes up to the top himself, hits an elbow, and the three count. This was fine, not the Abdullah match you'd want to see, and Adonis especially looks good.  vs Rocky Johnson & Tony ...

The whole playlist is here , for your continuous viewing pleasure.  Wahoo McDaniel vs Johnny Valentine - August 30, 1974 Last week had the Johnny Valentine vs Bull Curry match, and that was incredible, so I tried to find some more Johnny Valentine. There isn't much, a couple clips and some short matches, but this 16mm film of the big screen, chopped up into bits, is about as good as it is going to get. Wahoo throws 7 different kind of chops that seem like they would break you in half.   Ernie Ladd vs Tito Torres & Sylvano Sousa - January 7, 1977 More Ernie Ladd, this time mostly yelling at Vince McMahon. Bob Backlund vs Adrian Adonis - January 18, 1982 Some people will try to tell you Bob Backlund is boring and that he was bad. Those people are not your friends, cut those people out of your life.  Super Dragon vs Rising Son - January 5, 2001 These early RevPro shows are this sort of wild amalgam of matches from a Japanese comp tape, where they're doing a mix...