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So, I've run into a few sources saying that these Manami Toyota matches were given *****, but aren't anywhere above: - AJW 8/24/94 - Toyota vs. Inoue (All Pacific & IWA Title Unification) - AJW 10/9/94 - Toyota/Yamada vs. Double Inoue (Wrestlmarinpiad VI: 2/3 Falls, WWWA World Tag Titles) They are conspicuous by their absence (5 star or otherwise), considering this is peak-Toyota time and Kyoko is on the other side of both of them. Even more bizarre is I've also seen/heard stated that Manami has 14 ***** matches from Meltzer. Now, that's info that's in her Wikipedia entry, but if you look at that match list, there are 17, so obviously at least one of those figures is wrong. Maybe that 14 has just been parroted all this time. Some of those matches are dated wrong (the aforementioned tag match is listed as 9/10, so somebody got it backwards) so I'm taking whatever it lists with a grain of salt. Plus, you know, it's Wikipedia (I can't find that the listed '91 tag w/ Mita vs. Jungle Jack ever even happened, never mind being critically acclaimed) Funny enough, though, if you take all the matches listed in this thread as *****, there are 14. Maybe Meltzer never reviewed the two matches I listed above, but again, that would seem strange given the time period and who is involved. ----------------------------------------------- EDIT: I also have encountered two AJPW matches from 1995 with the same thing: not mentioned here, but several sources listing them as such. - AJPW 1/19/95 - Kawada vs. Kobashi (Triple Crown) - AJPW 4/15/95 - Misawa vs. Taue (Champion Carnival Final) I assuming in both cases these are coming from one source and being listed as such everywhere else. I'm not claiming these are all *****, it's not like I have the newsletters to verify them. These are just ones I've noticed on other lists that haven't been brought up here yet. This is by far the best - indeed, the definitive - list I've found anywhere. There is quite a bit here that isn't on what I'm considering to be my 2nd best source, so thank you for putting this together.

What's the name of the All Japan announcer from the 90s? You know, the one who had an orgasm like 30 times a match. I brought him up the other night in a conversation with a friend and neither of us could remember it.