Tim Cooke

This is the problem with taking a small sampling of matches and watching them without the bigger picture and without the surrounding matches for context. Generally, I think matches should be able to be viewed individually but in some cases, specifically All Japan, you benefit much more from watching matches chronologically and not just the big matches. Back stories, hierarchy of wrestlers, and individual motivations are much more apparent when watching like this. This isn't the most accurate comparison, but you can't just jump into a season 3 episode of a show like The Wire, Deadwood, etc. and expect to understand the big picture, none the less the subtleties of what is going on with these shows. I'm not saying that any wrestling comes close to that level of story telling but the general point remains the same.

I thought this was excellent. Agree with Soup's assessment on this being very much a traditional technico vs. rudo match, with Atlantis and Lizmark breaking out awesome flying and Egipcio and Faraon bring good punches, really solid kicks, and some nice knees. This type of match is very accessible to non-lucha fans as it plays more to the standard US tags of having saves and double teams that revolve around cheating. Santo/Atlantis vs. Rubio/Fuerza was a similar match in terms of the technicos bringing awesome offense but the rudos didn't hold up their end on offense (bumping and selling were on par with each other).

Sounds like the Lucha set is almost done. Any word on when the 80's boards will be back up?