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Buy this tape! (or disc or game or whatever, they aren't going to argue with him about it) Go to about 2:43 http://youtu.be/D9c5fRgCwAs

http://youtu.be/bOeSBcjPYDU

Looks like he's a personal trainer now.

Some photos from my trip to Dontaku this year. I finally decided that I'd rather see the matches than be forced to look up at the video screen to figure out what's happening so I got a 2nd floor seat this year. Match wise: Yeah, it wasn't the most exciting show. Honma/Ishii was good because you could feel that it just might happen every time Honma DOESN'T miss the Kokeshi headbutt. Forever Hooligans at least know how to entertain the Japanese crowd. The NWA title match was not that long and you never felt Brisco was a threat (which he shouldn't be). Manabu Nakanishi's hard work (the top rope missile drop kick where he stands on the top for like forever) was ruined by the blown ending. 2nd time I've gotten to see the IWGP title change hands. Makabe over Nakamura in 2010 was more exciting, of course. As for stuff: Buying the Stan Hansen shirt got you the photo which you could get signed during the intermission. I (and a few others) rushed out as soon as the jr. heavy title match was over to get our photos signed. Most of the shirts were from a grab bag that they sell at the end of the show (the shirts vary in size). I don't know who I hate enough to give the Muscle Orchestra towel to. Wanted to take a photo of poor Mascara Dorado trying to sell stuff and no one giving him the time of day but that seemed cruel. Just added some photos at the end to show what else was going on in Hakata during Dontaku.

No blood or explosives. But no wrestling either.

(She appears about halfway through).

4/29 looks to be the last show. Black Buffalo is doing a match for Mr. Gannosuke's group but is being advertised as the former ___ with new gimmick forthcoming. Billy Ken Kid and Tsubasa are doing at least one match for Dove.

Ahmed Johnson IS Suge Knight in Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story. http://youtu.be/8nHxMDiMl_o Oops. (:30 mark)

The Young Bucks are the current Jr. Tag champs. Forever Hooligans are the forever challengers. Not sure if I'm going this time (I've gone to the last four Dontaku shows). Because Golden Week starts on the 3rd this year, at this point there are no hotels left unless one wants to stay at the Seahawk for 400 dollars or so.

Regarding Ishii's theme, it looks like it was a relic from when he was in World Japan (the artist's name is WJ Rock's). There a couple of other themes (Takao Omori had a WJ Rock's made theme) but none of it was released on CD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d1zVnfauUY Not really a great match but I just like it when tag team partners collide! Some questions though: Did Adonis always come out to Star Wars in Japan? (The tag matches with Murdoch always use Texas Fight). Why does Murdoch get a million yen at the end of the match?

http://youtu.be/k51cRdkAJl4

This seems to be the only video of Bobby and Tony Halme. "Break his ribs Tony!" http://youtu.be/V3HTcZ2FbPI

Looks like he only started doing BJW shows this month.

Most of the stories I've seen just talk about their shared TNA past and how AJ was a main eventer and Okada was a nothing.

Three matches for Wrestling Dontaku 2014 have been announced: Okada versus AJ, Nakamura/Sakuraba versus the Gracies and Taguchi versus Ibushi.

The Man Behind Fire Pro Wrestling Has Died

The Inoue/Shibata vs Liger/Samurai match was on Nico Nico but it got taken down. Here they are against Gedo/Jado. Not really the same. http://youtu.be/A-h_eiv9B_c http://youtu.be/D0aKxLL_fe4 There's also Inoue/Shibata versus Eddy/BT but that's on the official NJPW channel.

Akebono was a presence in American media before Yoko's debut-- I'm sure that's what sparked the minds of whoever gave him that gimmick. Well, Akebono was on the cusp but the year before he finally broke through there was a big to-do about Konishiki getting turned down for promotion. That happened in early 92.

Alan Sepinwall on the finale. One thing I definitely agree about. Just because they filmed the ending in advance didn't mean they had to use it.

Because the part about the mother and them being together was compressed. The rest of the story wasn't. The viewers sat through years to get to this point and they feel cheated for various reasons. That's understandable. And it's because of bad storytelling. They compressed the part that people were waiting for and decompressed something (Barney and Robin's wedding) that was undone almost immediately after it happened. And not in a haha, Ted, why are you still here way. Why should we believe that Ted loved the mother so much when we barely got enough time to see them together (and then the parts that people did see, some people loved and then felt even more cheated by what happened).

The show treated Robin prettty badly in the end. She doesn't get Ted for at least a decade and then loses Barney in less than a half a decade all because she can't have babies (it was a big hurdle for Ted, Barney finally changes after he has a child).

Here it's just called a Two-Man Clothesline In an unrelated note, I was reading the Shoemaker book and in the section about Yokozuna I started wondering about the origins of the character. Did Vince have anyone else in mind for the role? Was he hoping to get a legit sumotori? The book (and his deadspin post about Yoko) mention that people mistake/mistook Yoko for Akebono (which is...stupid). Yoko's debut predated Akebono actually becoming a yokozuna (that happened in early 93, Yoko appeared in late 92).