DORY FUNK JR. vs. BARON VON RASCHKE

Spinning Toe Hold and Brain Claw

Dory Funk Jr. vs. Baron Von Raschke
ALL JAPAN, The World Open League
Dec. 9 1975 Kyuden Kinen Taiikukan (Fukuoka)

Dory Funk Jr. was the most popular baby face wrestler with Japanese fans in the 70's. In 1969, he visited to Japan for the first time with his father and Terry, when he was the NWA world champion. Dory fought with Baba and Inoki, especially the world championship match with Inoki was called an epoch-making fight. Since Baba established ALL JAPAN, Dory fought as the top of baby face wrestlers, and he introduced many American wrestlers to Baba. It is sure that he has done distinguished services for the wrestling world of Japan.

Well, Baron Von Raschke may have been belonging to KOKUSAI (INTERNATIONAL) PRO-WRESTLING, but I had not seen him before, because KOKUSAI's fights were not on the air in my home town. After he took part in ALL JAPAN, I saw him several times, and I thought he was rather a technician unexpectedly. Probably he had been an amateur wrestler. His gimmick of the Nazis may have been in imitation of Fritz Von Erick, but he seemed to be a good man (ha-ha), and he didn't have a cruel atmosphere at all. orz

Dory used his special trick, Spinning Toe Hold, and Raschke counterattacked Dory with Brain Claw !! (Iron Claw for Brain, but somehow we call it Brain Claw) Don't say it nonsense, that's a good old days' pro-wrestling. And the finishing hold was Dory's Double Arm Suplex. Incidentally, Raschke's nickname in Japan is 'Tako Nyudou', means an octopus priest (what's that ?). Because his slippery head looks like a Japanese priest and it suggests a head of an octopus. That has no connection with the Nazis !!