Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Bob Backlund and Bob Roop (7/25/1974)

I'm preparing an introductory post but in the meantime let's take a look at Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Bob Backlund and Bob Roop. Tsuruta is just a rookie here and you can see it in how Backlund and Roop try to target him instead of Baba. You can see Tsuruta's potential even at this point. His selling is pretty good and his comebacks work really well.

One of the things I really enjoy about the AJPW Classics series is you get these weird team ups from guys that had little to do with each other in the United States or were even rivals. It's also the best resource for 70s footage.

I thought this was a good quick tag. They went a little faster paced than some other matches that I've seen on these discs. I really liked how Baba and Tsuruta put them away in 2 straight falls. You don't see that often enough in 2 out of 3 falls matches.