WRESTLING ON THE INTERNET NOT FROM THE NOW

[Curt McGirt]

To make up for the Parka match (sorry Segunda friends, just not my bag) here is maybe the best singles match in FMW ever. White-hot feud gets blown off. Hakushi bleeds, dies, busts out all his cool moves. Mr. Gannosuke is a capital-E-capital-D Evil Dick. It rules and you should watch it! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaYTaSJ3VRY

EDIT: Holy SHIT, the assisted powerbomb through the table that starts this thing off you will rewind ten times in a row. Gannosuke and Kanemura topping it off with the "smoking a J" '70s-era daps is the cherry on top.

Edited February 26, 2024 by Curt McGirt

[Godfrey]

Love that Gannosuke/Shinzaki match. Pretty sure it was on a Schneider comp back in the day, however I got it I watched the hell out of it

[odessasteps]

Roadiesvs Tenryu and young John Tenta

[Infinit]

This thread is soooo

 

[zendragon]

Terry Funk vs. Eddie Guerrero - YouTube

Arn Anderson vs. The Great Muta (01-02-90) - video Dailymotion

33. 89-06-14 Ricky Steamboat vs. Terry Funk (Clash VII) - video Dailymotion

[Doragon]

ECW 2000

ECW World Championship

Justin Credible (c) vs. The Sandman 

https://youtu.be/jtTj0uR6b1w?si=fLOcQDaD0b2NhCcr

[Doragon]

WWF Raw is War episode 424

WCW Championship match 

Booker T (c) vs Kurt Angle 

https://youtu.be/ytsGUPMZZS4?si=5GFWbQTMz6jHklej

[AxB]

Speaking of Japanese Wrestling with subtitled promos, here is AJA KONG vs YUMIKO HOTTA from January 24th, 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD_29guJcWU&list=WL&index=37

[paul sosnowski]

This is so weird.   I have never heard of this match before.   Hawaii Championship Wrestling.  July 21, 2004

The Great Muta & Sting vs Diamond Dallas Page & Satoshi Kojima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvopSJXhsWQ

 

[Doragon]

WCW Nitro  26 06 2000

WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Goldberg vs Jeff Jarrett (c) vs Scott Steiner vs  Kevin Nash. Some Mike Awesome in it. A 4 way match worked like a tornado tag instead. Some yummy late-stage WCW slop.

https://youtu.be/aftuXFfc4pI?si=Qa5uYhGEt_5ejlS8

 

[Zimbra]

This Wrestle-1 show has:

-Terry Funk and Mil Mascaras having a very fun legends match with Honma/Nakajima

-AJ Styles and Kaz Hayashi doing the most

-Murakami trying to kill Tenryu with a broken bottle

-Sasaki and Choshu going at it

-Shibata and Akiyama trying to kill each other with their bare hands.

Like the man used to say: you want ALL of this.  OK, maybe not the Predator match.

https://archive.org/details/wrestle-1-2005.08.04-wrestle-1-grand-prix-first-round

[Doragon]

WrestleMania X8

The Rock vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan

https://m.youtube.com/live/hRg_vJvyMC8

[Zimbra]

Emman Azman(c) vs Endboss Gregory from Malaysia Pro Wrestling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9BCGxEWufk

Azman is YOUR Melbourne Championship wrestling Intercommonwealth champ and belt is on the line! Fun little match with a simple, well-told story: Azman is tiny and speedy and Gregory wants to keep him on the mat and wear down his arm.  Azman also has dope tights that combine the Malaysian and Australian flags. He does not, however, really have the ups or the timing to do some of the stuff he wants to do, but he's charismatic and gives it the ol' college try.  Gregory does some very plausible chain wrestling and bases best he can for Azman.  The structure of the match is very AEW, down to having an unnecessary strike exchange in the middle.  Not quite a Rampage match, but nobody would notice if you stuck it in the middle of Dark.

[Doragon]

Tenkoji challenges the Three Musketeers and the Four Heavenly Kings! Keiji Muto/Toshiaki Kawada VS Satoshi Kojima/Hiroyoshi Tenzan《World's Strongest Tag Team Determination League Match 2006/12/2》All Japan Pro Wrestling Battle Library #177

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=jmQkPgozoEEs2hyv&v=VE5kFplDo84&feature=youtu.be

[Doragon]

Big Poppa Pump and Jeff Jarrett vs Sting (Handicap match: wCw Thunder 9-20-2000)

Booker T in crow Sting get up in this too.

https://youtu.be/ZRPNePtqR1w?si=H3RdoE8XA584qyYb

 

[Curt McGirt]

I keep re-re-rereading old DVDVRs and finding up shows to pull up from the Internet Archive. Here is a BattlARTS show with an M-Pro multiman clasico. 

https://archive.org/details/battlarts-on-fighting-tv-samurai-01-21-1997-496410132-456239146

Spoiler

BattlARTS on Samurai TV - 1/21/97

 

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Arena: Korakuen Hall

Attendance: cca. 2.300

 

Singles Match

Ikuto Hidaka vs. Shoichi Funaki

Singles Match

Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Alexander Otsuka

Eight Man Tag Team Match

Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji & The Great Sasuke vs. Kaientai DX (Dick Togo, MEN's Teioh, Shiryu & TAKA Michinoku)

Singles Match

Minoru Tanaka vs. First Tiger Mask

Tag Team Match

Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda vs. Takeshi Ono & Yuki Ishikawa

 

[Doragon]

WWE RAW May 23 2005

WHC match, Batista (c) vs Edge

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=Ne6kf3ByWw0FzTqk

[AxB]

The second half of AJW Wrestling Queendom Victory 1995:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPQjYK6RD8

 

• IWA World Title Triangle Match: Takako Inoue (c) vs. Toshiyo Yamada vs. Reggie Bennett
• Lioness Asuka vs. Yumiko Hotta
• WWF World Women's Title Match: Bull Nakano (c) vs. Kyoko Inoue
• WWWA World Title Match: Aja Kong (c) vs. Manami Toyota

Now the Triangle match is way better than most traingle matches, because it's not a Triangle match. It's a Winner Stays on 3 woman Gauntlet. To win, you have to beat both opponents consecutively.

 

 

Edited March 7, 2024 by AxB

[AxB]

1991 documentary about AJW (subtitled)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2N8BvukrP0

[RazorbladeKiss87]

Okay, I am now a Bull Nakano convert. I think my mission for my next few days off will be some joshi watching. That leg drop off the cage is insane. 

[(BP)]

When I hear Aja’s Jungle Emperor theme I feel like I could kick a door down.

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrsFnzgOylk

Quote

God got up one morning, He was in an ugly mood

He was sick of floods and plagues, He wanted something really rude

He made a big piranha out of broken glass and glue

Then He gave her two legs and a nasty attitude

 

Well the Sahara was a jungle till she ripped out all the trees

Then she looked up at the mountaintops, they all began to freeze

The sun gave her a cold until she set it on fire

Check and see it for yourself if you think that I'm a liar

 

God made the Devil just for fun

But when He wanted the real thing He made Aja Kong

 

She's a head splitting, fire spitting human earthquake

She makes the young ones wonder and the wise ones shake

She's got the hands of a gorilla, got the head of a snake

She keeps looking but hasn't found a thing she can't break!

 

God made the Devil just for fun

But when He wanted the real thing He made Aja Kong

 

[clintthecrippler]

ACW Summer Meltdown 2000, an Upper Peninsula Michigan indie wrestling event that I attended in Summer 2000 that had appearances from a Fake Doink and a Fake LA Parka but inexplicably somehow managed to book Real MENG while he was in WCW. And the opening match has Ken Anderson pre-WWE/TNA, and I assume he was my second favorite wrestler on the show next to Meng because he came out to "Push It" by Static X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42A33JBpwY

[AxB]

Nigel McGuinness vs Bryan Danielson, ROH World & Pure Title Unification match, 8th December 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHQ-YhEw-Y

[RazorbladeKiss87]

There's a LOT of managers and valets on that card. 

Edit: I mean the ACW show clint posted. 

Edited March 8, 2024 by RazorbladeKiss87