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Bill Robinson vs. Jumbo Tsuruta

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#DateUserRatingComment
109.03.2025RedShow8.0 
212.02.2025RyanKras167.0 
302.02.2025PEW5658.0The first chunk of this match is missing and the start is quite heavily clipped but from what we have this looks to be a great match.
410.11.2023conker87.0Hard to rate half a match. We joined the action at the 27 minutes mark. The work seems to be on pair with the trilogy of 77. Good technical wrestling that take his time, they can create excitement for the finishes stretch. Maybe one day Hulu Japan will release the full match like for the 3/11/77 match.
528.05.2022UWF Rules Enthusiast10.0This was a great match. It wasn't quite on the level of their 3/11/77 match though. The match was edited for TV, and especially a lot of the first fall was cut, so it's hard to see if it was even better in complete form or not.
624.01.2021MagnusD5.0So a third of this match was cut so that this match could be shown on TV, so I don't feel its fair to make a real judgement on this. What we got was good though, as you would expect from two top tier wrestlers as Jumbo and Robinson.
716.09.2020KinchStalker7.0A little under two-thirds of this time-limit draw made tape, as almost the entirety of a contemporaneous episode of All Japan TV. This is the second singles match between these two since the March 1977 trilogy, wherein Robinson took the very same title defended here from Jumbo, successfully defended, and then lost it (possibly due to interference from Abdullah the Butcher - I say "possibly" because the execution was off, since Abby came in to attack Robinson when he was already trapped in a Jumbo crab) in Florida. These two had an alright but disappointing match in June 1978, but in my opinion this redeems it. The match's structure is quite top-heavy, so it's not surprising that the cuts are made to the first fall. After three minutes or thereabouts of pieces from the first fall, we cut to the 27-minute mark. Anyway, about the match itself. I'd rank it second amongst the three Jumbo/Robinson draws thus far (the first one from July 1976 is more severely cut than these others, so while I consider it last it's also working with a disadvantage). Robinson's still got it, of course, and Jumbo has a couple more years under his belt but hasn't quite entered his weird transitional period yet. Still, I don't think this is as good as the 3/11/77 draw. Robinson finally gets the first fall with a backslide after 41 minutes. Jumbo counters a gutwrench suplex attempt into one of his own to even it. With just under five minutes remaining, a finish is clearly unlikely, but I guess the exhaustion at the ending is a little compelling in its own way. ***1/2