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7 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
AXSTV is now showing new New Japan episodes. There was one last night with Ishii vs. (sigh) EVIL. Kevin Kelly sounded drunk as a skunk. Then again you would probably have to be to get through EVIL matches these days from the sounds of it. I would have been all about that matchup a couple years ago...
Fight Network is also showing them. Many, many, many repeats during the week (in USA at least).
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I wish that travel to Japan was open. I would 100% go to Tsukushi's retirement show.
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25 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
They were referring to Voodoo Kin Mafia. The terrible TNA group of Billy Gunn Road Dogg and Konan. And I think R-Truth was in it too maybe. They used Vince's initials to be edgy. And challenged DX to a match like Bischoff did with McMahon. Peak TNA cringe.
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.
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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.
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21 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
Ah, I was hoping it was like a situation where they aired em on a week delay or something
Fight Network in USA airs them on about a 6 month delay in order, along with tons of random old stuff.
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On 2/15/2022 at 9:39 PM, JLowe said:
Interesting event overall, hella expensive, lots of cool guests who are also hella expensive. If I lived in Dallas I could see going to one or two of the shows.
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.
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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.
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Balls did live in Jersey.
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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Spring Lake
That's right. Now I remember.
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2 hours ago, cwoy2j said:
I remember in one of her shoot interviews, Sunny said that she and Candido would quiz each other on old wrestler weights and hometowns while driving from town to town. He'd go, "288lbs from Waxahachi, TX" and she'd answer "Dick Murdoch". Kind of a sweet thing that they'd bond over but sad knowing how things turned out for both of them.
2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:I noticed when Justin Roberts billed Jay Lethal from Elizabeth, NJ on last week's Rampage, he said Elizabeth in the Macho Man voice.
Being a Jersey guy, I always had a soft spot for Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy being from Asbury Park and Atlantic City.
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.
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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.
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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.
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On 2/4/2022 at 12:21 PM, Blue Dragon said:
Inoki participated in NJPW's 50th WPWs "The Best Battle I have ever had" program. With others listed below.
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
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23 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
Is there a Death Valley Pizza Review message board? I bet there's someone over there annoyed how all they're doing is talking about wrestling in this month's thread. 'Who gives a shit about missile dropkicks, has anyone tried that Little Ceaser's batman pizza??'
I just came here from Big Blue Interactive message board (NY Football Giants). There are multiple pizza threads going on there now too.
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Osamu Nishimura is a politician. He has done nothing crazy. You might say that his politics is as bland as his wrestling.
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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.
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9 hours ago, Spontaneous said:
Some have found ways around it but if the NYSAC is there and someone blades they will shut it down.
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.
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3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
FYI (and I've missed some posting so forgive me if this has been brought up already) but New Japan is re-debuting on AXSTV in about 45 minutes. Just a reminder.
EDIT: Whoops. I guess it isn't coming back with new stuff until March 3rd, so tonight will be... some kinda footage?
EDIT II: It's Jericho vs. Omega from 2018. I guess they wanted to start with a bunch of blood and cursing on purpose. Completely forgot Josh Barnett was on commentary!
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.
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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.
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20 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Using recent naming standards, a millionaire character whose real name is Ted would end up with the name "Teddy Money"
Extra note: I've heard at least two "wrong" pronounciations of DiBiase from wrestling clips. The well-known "Dibussy", and also clips from early 80s St. Louis where he's "DiBias"
I've never heard the Dibussy. Where was that? I remember lots of DiBias.
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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.
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On 1/12/2022 at 8:18 PM, L_W_P said:
Good topic for conversation actually - How did you all perceive WWF vs WCW growing up? Did having access to one or the other make you appreciate a certain style more?
I wonder how kids these days are with the differences between WWE and AEW.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.
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11 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Don't think I've ate there unless it was on the road, but I always thought A&W was supposed to be like a Dollar Tree Dairy Queen (where Dairy Queen is kind of a Dollar Tree Sonic... or maybe it's vice versa?).
A&W is a Dollar Tree Stewart's Root Beer.
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4 hours ago, PetrolCB said:
New Day vs Usos just may very well be this generation's Jimmy Snuka vs Metal Maniac.
Which team drives to the shows?
AEW - MAR 2022
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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All Japan Women had a dropkick contest a long time ago. My memory says Toyota won.