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I wish that travel to Japan was open. I would 100% go to Tsukushi's retirement show.

Wasn't that the era of Konnan throwing his shoe at someone during the match and getting chants of shoe, shoe, shoe? Best thing he's ever done.

I was at that 2015 NYE IGF show. Those shows were strange. Fake shoots, shoots, Hardcore Craig, Pride guys showing up to wave and shake hands with Inoki. Ichi, ni , san, daaaa! was the highlight of the show. They started early enough that I could get to Kyoko Inoue's snack to party for NYE countdown. That was better than going to Saitama and missing the last train back to my hotel in Tokyo.

Fight Network in USA airs them on about a 6 month delay in order, along with tons of random old stuff.

I remember the days when an autographed 8 x 10 was $2 black & white and a big $3 for a color one. I have a hard time paying for them now. Nowadays Lucha guys will sign stuff or take photos for free, but they make up for that with the masks for hundreds of dollars.

Dusty in Florida is some of the best stuff ever. The TBS shows where every interview and match had to mention Dusty were too much.

Balls did live in Jersey.

That's right. Now I remember.

I'm a Jersey guy too. I can't remember where Candido was billed from, but I remember that his grandfather, Chuck Richards was from Carteret, NJ. I have an old program from a show in Elizabeth that was autographed by Chuck that Chris signed decades later.

That's a pretty good reason why English speaking fans haven't noticed the change. Sounding the same, but loosing the meaning just adds to the goofy fun of Yoneyama.

Yoneyama changed from katakana to hiragana. She is now Fukigen desu. Desu in hiragana basically means is. Katakana is for foreign words and desu is the closest Japanese can get to death. She is not death anymore, but English speaking fans/sites seem to have missed that.

It is being broadcast on CS Asahi 2 channel. I watched the first week. Fujinami chose 60 minute draw with Inoki, Tanahashi chose G-1 final against Nakamura, the Nakayama guy (who is he?) chose Inoki winning 3 pinfalls in a handicap match against Rusher Kimura, Animal Hamaguchi, and a wrestler that I did not recognize. The show made me remember how much I liked Nakamura (and how big Inoki's ego is?).

I just came here from Big Blue Interactive message board (NY Football Giants). There are multiple pizza threads going on there now too.

Osamu Nishimura is a politician. He has done nothing crazy. You might say that his politics is as bland as his wrestling.

I went to the show and had fun. Tremont and Gage are much bigger deals than FTR to me. I might have left if it was FTR. I stayed the extra 15 minutes for the main and ended up with a 55 minute wait for my train home. I go to many of the shows in NJ. I prefer the deathmatch tournaments. The regular shows can sometimes have too many flippy guys, comedy and stories.

Fighting in the crowd will get it shut down too. The NYSAC guy rang/made someone ring the bell in the middle of Dr. Wagner and Psycho Clown when they went to the crowd and used a garbage can in Queens a few years back. They ignored the bell, but quickly went for the finish.

The same show was on Fight Network in the US. That is very good. The Impact that shows up on Fight Network is six months behind the AXS shows. I didn't remember Josh either, although I may not have ever watched it in English. I was at the Dome for it. I might have only watched the Asahi show that night.

Walter was Big Van Walter the first time that I saw him. He won some tournament at Differ Ariake in front of about a hundred people.

I've never heard the Dibussy. Where was that? I remember lots of DiBias.

I remember Tammy when she was Candido's cute young girlfriend sitting in the top row of the bleachers with Chuck Richards and running around taking pictures when Chris wrestled. High School gym shows in NJ a long time ago. So sad what happened to both of them.

I had WWWF, Florida, and Olympic Auditorium Spanish International Network shows on UHF when I was a kid. Florida seemed special because they showed clips of the house show matches. Florida also had the NWA title and lots of magazine stars. WWWF had much more talent than The Olympic at the time. Victor Rivera was a main eventer in LA, but a semi-final or tag team champ in WWWF. WWWF prelim guys went to LA and got pushes as Pork Chop, Java Ruuk, and Butcher Brannigan. However the LA TV show was more enjoyable than WWWF. LA was really weak when young Roddy Piper came in. Some shows he had a match, multiple interviews, and would just walk out in the middle of a match and walk outside the ring playing the bagpipes. They just needed to fill in time. There were jobbers that wrestled early in the show and wrestled again with a mask later. In the 80's when Vince Jr. took over it was never the same when the promotion no longer was based around the MSG show every 4 weeks. Into the 90's, ECW was never the same when the promotion no longer was based around the ECW arena show every 3 weeks.

A&W is a Dollar Tree Stewart's Root Beer.

Which team drives to the shows?

Started out in Underground Wrestling.

I agree that video clips/promos are great for including people without matches that week. They should go with the old Roller Derby announcer trope of saying that they missed that dive, but the only way you can see all the action is by being here live for the AEW action.