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Doragon

Doragon

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NJPW Fighting Spirit 1998

Best 2 out of 3 Falls 12 Man Tag 

nWo Japan (Big Titan, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Keiji Muto, Masahiro Chono, nWo Sting and Scott Norton) vs Kensuke Sasaki, Manabu Nakanishi, Osamu Nishimura, Satoshi Kojima, Shinya Hashimoto and Tadao Yasuda  

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fgmtk

The Green Meanie

The Green Meanie

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10 minutes ago, Bustronaut said:

Like anything telephoned around fandom for decades it got blown out of proportion.

It was more about the lore then anything else. I'm glad it finally got to surface, though. 

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RazorbladeKiss87

RazorbladeKiss87

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On 6/9/2025 at 12:00 AM, odessasteps said:

This showed up in my YT feed… NWA grand slam 93. Includes funk v hawk and Sabu v Waltman. 

 

Watching this now. The colors are just washed out enough that in certain lights Candido looks like a Ken Doll. 

Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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7 hours ago, Doragon said:

WCW Clash of the Champions XXIII  June 16 1993

For the NWA/WCW Unified World Tag Team Titles,  Best two out of three falls 

The Four Horsemen (Arn Anderson and Ric Flair) vs The Hollywood Blondes (c)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MdqhaU1aNeU

in which I was able to guess this match was at the Scope from seeing the roof for a second during the Flair/Anderson entrance

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Larry Sweeney vs. Eddie Kingston in a backyard match for a non-existent title at a frat house. 

Yep. 

Pt. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XwlKkMuW4&ab_channel=apt928

Pt. 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AW5a0VI6g4

All credit goes to Rippa for posting this years ago; I just dug it out going through the website for reading materials while eating breakfast haha

This was a lot of fun. They cut promos before and after, with King macking on Sweeney's sister haha. The crowd is truly hot and truly drunk so they get away with the simplest shit, including King selling like Terry Funk, and using a chinlock as a submission? 😄 Watch this for sure.

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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GREAT SASUKE vs. ULTIMO DRAGON (M-Pro 2007.8.30, Fukumen World League)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YGedfwawrM&ab_channel=OzziMichiFan

Holy burning spirits. This match is almost perfect. It's got such a balance of grace and violence that it's hard to describe. Both guys harness the hate for each other they've had over the years and channel it into kicking each other in the head and punching each other in the kidneys, and using their bodies as weapons in the best way. Even when they almost totally fuck up they make it work: Sasuke just grazes Dragon on his flip over the post but both guys lay out and he sells the leg (his selling in this is .9 Terry Funk level of wobbly dying-boxer realism), they screw up the dropkick into the Asai moonsault but the dropkick hit Sasuke's leg so he sells it again, they fuck a Blockbuster but Dragon's head went right into Sasuke's face so they sell THAT. At one point Dragon gets Sasuke's arms behind him, front trips him and smashes his face right into the mat with his neck turning at a gross angle; you believe Sasuke fractured his skull again. Sasuke hits the mother of all Tope Con Hilos where he rotates at the last second and blasts Ultimo face first with his ass and they fly off screen. It's all filmed so close-up that you see everything looks 3/4 legit and with total impact. AMAZING match, and thank you to DEAN once again for reviewing this so we can be reminded there is so much cool wrestling out there that we will never run out. 

Here is your review of the whole Michi tournament -- with videos! https://deathvalleydriver.com/dvdvr167/

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Graham Crackers

Graham Crackers

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3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

GREAT SASUKE vs. ULTIMO DRAGON (M-Pro 2007.8.30, Fukumen World League)

If you haven't seen it, check out the Great Sasuke vs Fujita Jr. Hayato match from 6/19/2009. Similarly violent/suicidal old man Sasuke performance but in more of an epic match with an opponent unafraid to cave his skull in. 

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Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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World Wide Wrestling (6/15/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTofwCnKG_o

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We start with a cold open of Nikita Koloff yelling at Ric Flair from an arena. Nikita Koloff cuts a promo in an arena hallway with Ivan. Sam Houston is dressed like he was really into the urban cowboy trend 5 years earlier. Sam Houston vs George South to open the show. Sam Houston wins with a bulldog. Here's some words from Bob Caudle and Johnny Weaver before we see Dusty/Magnum vs Tully/Abdullah from the Greensboro Coliseum (hey wonder how much of this is in the WWE vault). Tully throws a fireball at Dusty. Dusty is recovering from the fireball by dressing like a NYC grandfather. Dusty doesn't want his foes to be suspended because he's gonna take care of them himself. This promo ruled. We have more Dusty but first here's a promo from Jimmy Valiant. "You came to the Boogie Man's aid at the Boogie Man Jam". Here's some footage of Big Mama walking down a street. Before Dusty talks, Big Mama walks out to offer herself to Dusty. Khrusher Khruschev takes on Denny Brown. Denny Brown sliding under Khrusher's legs and dropkicking him is a cool spot. Nikita wins with the sickle. Promos for the show in Columbus GA with an announcer who appears to have never been on camera before. Championship Prices are in effect. Promos from Pez Whatley, the team of Buzz Sawyer and Brett Wayne Sawyer, and Dick Slater. Our main event is Dick Slater vs Ric Flair as the Georgia appendage of JCP sure is rocking in mid-1985. Okay, this show is referring to June 22nd as "tonight" so the nice people of South Georgia are getting this episode of Worldwide a week late. Promo from Ivan and Nikita. For a group of communists, the Koloffs sure do love suits. David Crockett has words with the Koloffs about Ric Flair. And this ends with Nikita Koloff hitting the sickle on David Crockett. Now that David has been killed, Tony Schiavone is commentating. The Barbarian is in action vs fatboy jobber Mike Lake. Tony talks with Tully and Baby Doll. Baby Doll promises to scratch Big Mama's eyes out because it's 1985 and she can't promise to punch Big Mama in the boobs. Big match of Ron Bass and Buddy Landel vs Buzz Tyler and Manny Fernandez. Buddy Landel accidentally hits the elbow on Ron Bass to cause the loss and Ron Bass is unhappy. Arn Anderson taking on Stoney Burke. Arn wins quick with the Gourdbuster. Some words about the Great American Bash, if Dusty wins, he gets the TV title AND Baby Doll for 30 days. Also, we'll find out next week if they've signed Magnum TA vs Kamala. Kendo Nagasaki gets a squash vs Hard Rock Ricky Reeves. Lots of kendo stick shots behind the ref's back. More promos for Columbus GA. Love this announcer calling Dick Slater "The Unpredictable Man". Arn Anderson promo for Columbus for both his match and Ole's match. Arn saying Ole Anderson doesn't like "Pez Whatley's kind" (yeah we've heard that rumor). Here's a promo from Ric Flair with Tony Schiavone for Columbus. Here's a promo from Wahoo McDaniel. He got a call from Dusty for help. And we're closing with Nikita Koloff vs Mark Fleming. Ric Flair is madddd at Nikita Koloff for attacking David Crockett and here comes Ric Flair to fight Nikita Koloff until the end of this show

David Crockett goes down and we get fiery babyface Ric Flair as Flair is a face on some JCP shows and a heel on TBS

Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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14 minutes ago, Graham Crackers said:

If you haven't seen it, check out the Great Sasuke vs Fujita Jr. Hayato match from 6/19/2009. Similarly violent/suicidal old man Sasuke performance but in more of an epic match with an opponent unafraid to cave his skull in. 

The Yoshitsune/Hayato Jr. Fujita (it's that way around actually, isn't it?) title match I think from that year was probably my match of the year. It's on a Schneider comp. Shinzaki ends up crying at the end when he hands the belt to the winner and I think Hayato's special needs family member is in the audience having a blast. Yoshitsune does a double stomp off the fucking balcony.

EDIT: Nah you're right it's Fujita Jr. Hayato. Either of them sound like they could be first or last names to me and of course the placement of the "Jr." is just bizarre.

EDIT II: And of course I can find neither match online

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Graham Crackers

Graham Crackers

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31 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

The Yoshitsune/Hayato Jr. Fujita (it's that way around actually, isn't it?) title match I think from that year was probably my match of the year. It's on a Schneider comp. Shinzaki ends up crying at the end when he hands the belt to the winner and I think Hayato's special needs family member is in the audience having a blast. Yoshitsune does a double stomp off the fucking balcony.

EDIT: Nah you're right it's Fujita Jr. Hayato. Either of them sound like they could be first or last names to me and of course the placement of the "Jr." is just bizarre.

EDIT II: And of course I can find neither match online

Yeah, the Yoshitsune match is great too. I have that Schneider Comp (somewhere, or I had it). Hayato was one to watch back then. The Kanemoto and Kenou matches were memorable as well. I watched the Sasuke match when it happened then again five years later for Puro MOTD stuff. No idea how to track it down for free these days. 

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Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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2 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:

https://youtu.be/eiiaL5QBPiw?si=pzl36jRjHrTAyecG

We missed out on Eddie/Luger in a longer feud.

Between this and Luger having a neat little segment with Rey to set up a match that never happened because Luger got injured, I would have been way into Luger wrestling the cruisers more often.

That rack variation that Luger did was both awkward looking and nasty looking

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Hamhock

Hamhock

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We've done variations on this joke before, but Lex should have worked a cruiserweight bully program by wearing a Liger mask and calling himself Lex Liger.

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Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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That name and description makes it sound like Jimmy Backlund/Del Ray was just waiting for either Rock or Grunge to no-show so he could get in the team.

Sorta like the time that Del Ray missed some shows in the 1994 WWF and we got the team of Tom Prichard and the Barbarian, which probably wasn’t as fun as it should have been

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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I swear that at least Rocco Rock did the jump-off-the-apron-flip-senton like Del Ray does in that. Also, he cut his hair and cut the super sleaze mustache! Like the comments say, he looks 20 years younger. And kinda like Jack Victory. 

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