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1001 MATCHES: Medium One (Part 1)

50 matches to get 700. Part 2 can be found here. 651) RIKIDOZAN vs. MASAHIKO KIMURA – JAPAN PRO WRESTLING ALLIANCE (12/22/54 – Japan Heavyweight Championship) Rikidozan shoots on Kimura and this happens ~!~ 652) GIANT BABA vs. THE DESTROYER – JWA (03/05/69) A long match that seems to go by in the blink of […]

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DVDVR 4 OFF: King of the Ring 2000

(by PHIL RIPPA) I am reviewing King of the Ring 2000 because Derek Jeter bought the Miami Marlins and Dolfan was less than pleased. (I assume he did not receive a gift basket.) Payment this time was in the form of a Rusev Day shirt. I am elated #HappyRusevDay pic.twitter.com/4XvzgZ6UtA — DVDVR (@D_V_D_V_R) January 18, […]

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1001 MATCHES: Houston

Paul Boesch’s Houston Library footage burned fast and bright as the NWA OnDemand service. The service was ended when Billy Corgan purchased the NWA. I asked resident Houston footage mark (Yes Meltzer I am still using that word) Matt D. to select 10 matches that were released via the service that folks should watch that […]

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DVDVR 3 OFF: Halloween Havoc 1999

(by PHIL RIPPA) In today’s installment of payola reviews – Dolfan picked this one because he was pissed at me that Kevin Owens lost in the now thankfully dead March Madness tournament. God – that might be the only way I bring it back. People pay me. It is worth reviewing Wrestlemania XII if it […]

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1001 MATCHES – HOFers

This section is all guys who have been enshrined in the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. Not judging on whether or not said person should be in the Hall of Fame but just using it as a starting point to knock out some matches. And because I want to add extra layers of difficulty to […]

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1001 MATCHES – Plain Janes

I call these “Plain Janes” as my short hand for two guys just having a match. No titles. No gimmicks. No tournaments. Etc… I even decided (because I like making things hard on myself) to not include tag matches or anything that wasn’t a straight singles match. Pretty much the only reason these guys are […]

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1001 MATCHES – Celebrities

(by PHIL RIPPA) So much laziness. Shout out to board poster Web Conn for compiling a bunch of matches and videos for me to choose from. The theme should be fairly obvious but for those that are dense – every match features a “celebrity” doing wrestling (obviously the definition of celebrity gets stretched in some […]

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DVDVR 2 OFF: Royal Rumble 1999

(by PHIL RIPPA) Another from the “We Will Pay To Make Rippa Feel Pain” category as this time Chris St. Clair (CSC) chose this abortion of a show. (Pretty sure it was again because the New York Giants won a game. Lord did they really bone me all season long.) WWF ROYAL RUMBLE 1999 (01/24/99) […]

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DVDVR 1 OFF: Survivor Series 1996

(by PHIL RIPPA) As a reminder – I am a whore so people will send money for me to review things and I will review them. The trend has seemed to skew towards terrible WWE related PPVs (except for the constant pestering about Heroes of Wrestling which Dean thankfully reviewed years ago). So I have […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #180

RIPPA~! unearths the greatest thing DEAN~! has ever written~! FORTY~! men in a Royal Rumble is about TWENTY~! people too many~! FIT FINLAY~! kicks the shit out of JOHNNY SWINGER~! KOJI KITOA~! sucks~! RUSSIA~! is weird~! PRESTON MOTHERFUCKING QUINN~! ALEX WRIGHT~! SANDMAN~! TEXAS TERMINATOR HOSS~! WELCOME TO DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #180 HOLA~! There […]