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Antonio Inoki & Riki Choshu vs Black Gordman & Great Goliath 6/77

This was from New Japan. Antonio Inoki captains a green Riki Choshu in a typical natives/evil masked gaijins tag match. Riki is seen with less than 3 years experience and his vanilla face in peril routine bares very little resemblance to the stiff strong style bad ass he would become in later years. A great before he was a star type of viewing.

The masked unit of Black Gordman and the Great Goliath were staples on the west coast US Territory scene. Here they work a more technical style than they often performed in the WWA. Watch for Gordman's nifty use of the DDT years before there ever was a Jake Roberts 'inventing' it.

Riki Choshu Bootleg Card