Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Tiger Jeet Singh
ALL JAPAN
Mar. 1983 Korakuen Hall (Tokyo)
There were two parts in the wrestler life of Jumbo Tsuruta. The first half was that as a thin young boy, a spirited good fight maker. And in the second half, Jumbo became an ace of ALL JAPAN, and he was called the perfect champion. In that series Tsuruta fought against Singh twice. I think these matches were opportunities for Tsuruta to change a strong wrestler.
At the first match, Singh won an easy victory proving his class as a rival of Inoki. Singh had a firm style of rough and technique, and he was the only wrestler who got NWF title from Inoki, except Stan Hansen. Though Tsuruta lost on count-out by hanging from the rope, I was rather interested in Baba's decision that made Tsuruta fight so cruel match.
In the second fight, Singh attacked the referee Joe Higuchi, and he lost on a foul. At that time Tsuruta's fighting spirit exceeded Singh's. May be It was necessary for Tsuruta to fight these two matches, for going over the great wrestlers, Baba and Inoki.
And then Tsuruta wrested International Championship from Brody in August of that year, and He became the AWA world champion in the next year.
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