Tanahashi Coates
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Where should I start in DDT universe? @Ace of the Metropolitan
Where should I start in DDT universe? @Ace of the Metropolitan

, hence why they do the event on the fourth of January. But on the real, godtier matches from this particular one







. Trust, you will love every moment of this promotion from the fukkery all the way to Dieno being Dieno

at Terry the gawd dressed in a fukking prom outfit to be the ref for Jumbo/Bock title change


You'd think if it was to rest up and heal his body, he'd not continue to fly back and forth to Japan for weeks at a time. You'd think he could have just asked to work less or skip a couple of tours since obviously he wasn't done done, you can tell from the first fukking tour after the retirement match that he was itching to get back to it.
I wonder what the point of Terry's first retirement was since he made pretty much every AJPW tour anyway and was still taking bumps. He even made tours Dory didn't throughout 1984You'd think if it was to rest up and heal his body, he'd not continue to fly back and forth to Japan for weeks at a time. You'd think he could have just asked to work less or skip a couple of tours since obviously he wasn't done done, you can tell from the first fukking tour after the retirement match that he was itching to get back to it.
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Didn't Terry came back for the RWTL/November tour? I know cagematch has that as his return, did he work before that in 84'?
IIRC, Funk said he thought he was set for life and wanted to go home. Then 1 year later realized he wasn't set for life and just came back![]()
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The retirement was August 1983, and he's back in the ring for RWTL in 1984 with one or two matches in America right before the RWTL tour, but still made almost every tour in between as a second for Dory or Jumbo or special ref or presenter.





I should be asleep but this is what im watching at almost 1am in the morning. 



Tenryu also seemed to get hit with very nasty ones regularly and in general Tenryu gets the absolute shyt beaten out of him by Brody and Hansen for YEARS. They might be stiffer on him than anyone they worked with during that time period. And he took so many bumps on his hips instead of flat back, I have no idea how he was even able to make it to the 90s without hip replacements.