Category: The Wrestling Classic

What would we have missed out on if Terry Funk stuck to an official, not-just-Japan retirement?

25 years ago today, WWE took a bold risk putting their top babyface in a position to be booed.

Carve out thirty minutes of your time thirty years after the fact and enjoy the epic that is Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat from Beach Blast 1992.

Two watershed moments in Japanese wrestling history—Inoki vs. Saito & Tsuruta vs. Misawa—unified by the power of a finish.

Should this whole retirement, the ceremony and the match, be looked down upon due to Terry Funk’s eventual return in just over a year?

Six men who knew exactly what their role was alongside a molten hot crowd week in, week out led to viscerally exciting television even by today’s standards.

Riki Choshu was the new WWF International Heavyweight Champion and, more importantly, had finally defeated Tatsumi Fujinami.

Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee were two larger-than-life characters that made Memphis in the 80s a great promotion to watch.

Steamboat & Youngblood vs. Slaughter & Kernodle deserves recognition for its role in the furthering of wrestling as an entertainment medium

There is an argument to be had that the Ric Flair versus Kerry Von Erich match, December 25, 1982, was the best-booked match of all time.

There was a consistency about Japanese wrestling in the 80s and the 90s that afforded the development of long term storytelling.

It wouldn’t be time wasted to spend a couple of hours watching Dynamite Kid and Tiger Mask do what they did best.

The Wrestling Classic #3 looks at the 1981 AJPW Tag League final between Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Dory & Terry Funk.

Turn up in Tupelo or mooch on down to the Mid-South Coliseum; you were almost always guaranteed to see something different.