No Point Stance Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 33 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: Inspired by Alan Boon's Blood and Thunder Vol. 2 book, I went looking for this NJPW vs. WAR 5-on-5 Elimination that looked like it might be as good as the original NJ ones to no avail If it's the Feb 16th 1993 match I have it on a HDD, probably from one of the old Ditch sites. I'll try to upload it to YouTube and post the link here in the next day or two. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Considering it's New Japan, you'll get flagged ASAP, so might want to just put it in a Drive folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 November 1994 Keiji Muto VS Shinjiro Otani https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=f8WFtgn-vVRDQE8T&v=VySJFdsrwNw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 4 hours ago, odessasteps said: Slater, Taylor, Mantell IIRC, Gilbert is not “booker” until after the sale, although obv he is contributing ideas, esp his own programs. That's a very uh...unique trio. At least Terry Taylor though went on to play a bit part in creative down the road in other places. With that in mind, I wonder how many guys turned that job down knowing they were on their way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 41 minutes ago, No Point Stance said: If it's the Feb 16th 1993 match I have it on a HDD, probably from one of the old Ditch sites. I'll try to upload it to YouTube and post the link here in the next day or two. 21 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: Considering it's New Japan, you'll get flagged ASAP, so might want to just put it in a Drive folder. I actually got the 6/15/93 show from Budokan (via Lorefice over a year ago now), which is kinda the blowoff at least when it came to the Survivor Series style multi-man matches. Still a great match, but (1) Tenryu gets eliminated early and (2) you've never seen an invading team take a collective ass whipping as a result of said elimination like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Point Stance Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 2/3 Falls: Fujinami, Choshu, Hase, Kido & Iizuka VS. Tenryu, Hara, Ishikawa, Fuyuki & Kitahara https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MrvJp5C-_RCNFo1ng9qrvqYpoQqKm4tF?usp=drive_link Hopefully this'll work. I've actually never been on this end of a Google Drive share. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 10 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said: That's a very uh...unique trio. At least Terry Taylor though went on to play a bit part in creative down the road in other places. With that in mind, I wonder how many guys turned that job down knowing they were on their way out. I’m not sure how well known it was already that Ken Mantell was bringing the Freebirds and the rest of the Dallas crew that ended up there when he took over. Presumably, you didn’t want to get on the cowboy’s bad side regardless, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 7 hours ago, No Point Stance said: 2/3 Falls: Fujinami, Choshu, Hase, Kido & Iizuka VS. Tenryu, Hara, Ishikawa, Fuyuki & Kitahara https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MrvJp5C-_RCNFo1ng9qrvqYpoQqKm4tF?usp=drive_link Hopefully this'll work. I've actually never been on this end of a Google Drive share. IT'S ALIVE! Thanks bud! I'll review it after a watch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 while it's still a lame way to switch a title, the concept of Michael Hayes accidentally forfeiting his friend's title is sorta fitting in regards to things he could do accidentally of course, that would be grounds for some sort of future feud but I'm pretty sure Hayes and Gordy wouldn't have done that anyways 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) They did the Freebird feud later back in WCCW, iirc, when Hayes was booking. Edited January 9 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 AJW Manami Toyota vs Emi Motokawa (AJW 10/10/1998) https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=hvRi4pDhMragw4of&v=C05jrm8j_KU Yes that's young Emi Sakura 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Point Stance Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Here's an intriguing little curio from March 4th, 1989; all three Laurinaitis brothers (Animal, Johnny Ace & The Terminator) VS. Tsuruta, Yatsu & Kabuki プロレス | ジャンボ鶴田 & 谷津嘉章 & ザ・グレート・カブキ 対 ロード・ウォリアー・アニマル & ジョニー・エース & ザ・ターミネーター (1989) (youtube.com) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 (edited) 2/3 Falls: Fujinami, Choshu, Hase, Kido & Iizuka VS. Tenryu, Hara, Ishikawa, Fuyuki & Kitahara This wasn't 2/3 falls, it was Captain's Fall or full elimination I guess, judging from how it ended... and that was a little wonky. I'd say the MVPs on either side are, surprisingly, Kido for the NJ team and if not Tenryu then Fuyuki for the WAR team. He spends the most time in anyway. The thing about the erstwhile Samson is that he is a total sleaze, his character is a leopard-print-trunks bedecked, bulging-gut slimeball who would just get worse when he formed Fuyuki-gun and got even fatter. The crowd absolutely HATES this guy. They rain down a chorus of boos every time he's tagged in -- every single time, no exception. On the other hand you have ex-UWF guy Kido who is a little fireplug of a man, beloved by the fans, that uses his Fujiwara armbar to successfully knock Tenryu out of the running and onto the floor where attendants try and wrap his arm and use the cold spray to no avail. In between you have a lot of guys kicking the shit out of each other. Hase has this devious grin on his face all the time, smirking at the WAR team. Iizuka is the valiant young boy who gets the piss beat out of him by everyone but especially Tenryu. And Kitahara kicks the crap out of everyone. No thigh slapping here, folks. The main problem is there are so many pin breakups and run-ins from opposing sides that you wish there was a DQ rule for doing that. The New Japan side almost turns themselves heel from the extent they use it, especially when Choshu runs over and stomps on a wounded Tenryu on the floor which just isn't fair. The end for some reason has Kitahara submitted by Kido's armbar? Was he the captain all along, or did he sub in after Tenryu get injured? Fujinami ostensibly is the captain for his team but he has least to do with the proceedings, and Choshu was the one in line for a big Tenryu match IIRC. Anyway, WAR got their win back at their own show in a similar match and that would be cool to see, I might try and look it up too if I can find the date (help, anybody?). If I had to compare it to the three 5-on-5 matches on the '80s NJ set I'd probably put it at #3 but possibly #4, have to watch the last one of those again to decide. Solid, but with some flaws. EDIT: Oh wait, I get it now! It IS 2/3 falls; NJ just takes it two in a row: Hara is pinned, then Kitahara is subbed, and that's how the cookie crumbles. Clean sweep for NJ on their own turf. Edited January 10 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I forgot that Fuyuki was the post-Gannosuke leader of Team No Respect. Therefore, he would become TEN TIMES SLEAZIER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Saori Anou vs. Kyusei Sakura Anou | Ranmaru Festa vol.27 | 2020 https://youtu.be/nFFkcE4fmjQ?si=Pf_yziU9rRxSBOtW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Boopy Boo Hikari Fukuoka & Tomoko Kuzumi vs Manami Toyota & Kaoru Ito (JWP 2/11/1998) https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=_Jk44qAP7VYFQRiY&v=q9V5DeI4aNc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Stan Hansen vs Terry Funk, Sumo Hall, 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2pH7B_NoK0&ab_channel=PavelDurak Just a fight between two hard hitting Texans and one of my favorite uses of the spinning toe hold ever 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 AJPW World Tag Team Championship 2007/4/30 Taiyo Kea and Kawada vs Muta and Vampiro https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=VG71b9FeM2BazREo&v=is2yDE1TRfc&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Successive Keiji Muto gather together!? Imitation Muto Festival luxury Royal Rumble match 《2007/6/10》All Japan Pro Wrestling Battle Library 171 https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=YBdGv2P59J17oHIZ&v=2Yxq8VQWOYY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 In case you wanted to watch 45 minutes of Verne Gagne vs Roy McClarity from 1954. Or a 35 minute tag match with Emil/Ernie Dusek vs Great Togo/Wild Red Berry. Or Pat O’Connor vs Ivan Rasputin for 18 minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 That is going to give me a lot of (good) trouble for the next few years at the rate of 3 matches a month. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Fukumen MANIA Fukumen G-MANIA Vol. 3 some outdoors wrestling https://youtu.be/UdbSIEUHtoQ?si=oiSuh2bX3fWwCUag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Raven vs. Diamond Dallas Page | FULL MATCH | Turning Point December 5, 2004 (youtube.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 https://youtu.be/lHMt3Qo4Z38?si=HjbpKPrTUA6pRtHq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Pro Wrestling NOAH GHC Heavyweight Championship bout 2002.4.7 Jun Akiyama (c) VS Yoshinari Ogawa https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=PPbIRNU84OIK6PJc&v=SMEIAtMiH04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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