Jerry Lawler & Jimmy Valiant vs. Takashi Ishikawa & The Great Kabuki

[3.0] "This isn't much of a match at all, but it's brief enough to be entertaining as an oddity. I may have felt that the Freebirds didn't really fit in their 1984 AJPW work (as a unit, that is - Gordy did some perfectly fine singles work), but that stuff's got nothing on this. Honestly, by the standards of AJPW on tape at the time this is basically a comedy match. Lawler does most of the work as Valiant mostly sticks to jawjacking on the apron in support of his "Kingfish", which is okay since Lawler's stuff is perfectly fine while Valiant's is terrible. Like these matches often go, Kabuki ends up tanking a lot of the offense in the finishing run before getting a surprise superkick counter and making the tag. Ishikawa wins with a piss take on Choshu, hitting the lariat on Valiant before locking in the satoshi-gatame for the submission. *1/2, but its novelty is admittedly entertaining."