It's always a blast watching Bob Backlund in this "shoot-style" environment, especially against a bruiser like Daisuke Ikeda. Here, he stooges around for most of the first half until they start slapping each other and Ikeda headbutts him out of the ring. Backlund's selling of the headbutt is the best kind of comedy, as he collapses into some of the fans in the first row while Ikeda mocks him in the ring. Backlund's able to reverse an abdominal stretch into a big ole double arm suplex and in true Backlund fashion, he powers up out of an armbar and sets Ikeda on the top rope...only to get leveled with a flying lariat. Backlund hits his big running atomic drop and a piledriver and while they fight over a chicken wing, Backlund scores the pinfall with the European clutch. A fun easy, breezy watch.
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