The match itself is fine. Nothing spectacular, but solid wrestling. It's fault is it only goes twelve minutes and never really gets going, when suddenly Jumbo hits a side suplex / backdrop driver and the match is over. Except for when Windham dropped Jumbo crotch first on the guard rail, the crowd never really got into the match. Overall, it hardly seems worthy of a Triple Crown title defense, especially at Budokan Hall. Looking at the card from this night, it was second from the top with a Double Tag Team Title Match (Stan Hansen and Genichiro Tenryu versus the Miracle Violence Connection) as the Main Event. So I am sure Giant Baba did not want to upstage the tag team final and had this match go short and in rather subdued fashion. But still, in hindsight it is rather disappointing.
The best part of the match happens before the action even begins, with Lord James Blears reading the title proclamation. Blears, as the head of the Pacific Wrestling Federation, the kayfabe sanctioning body of All Japan Pro Wrestling. As the commissioner, Blears helped give a sense of legitimacy and formality to the All Japan titles as well as helping promote AJPW as a legitimate promotion and the matches as real and genuine sporting events.
