Curt McGirt Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 23 hours ago, DEAN said: The way Valentine secretly sizes him up before unleashing it is soooo awesome. That was hilarious, he looked like a Scooby Doo villain creeping up on someone. I was taken aback by him soaking in the cheers because that is not like any Valentine I've ever seen. Boesch had a good point about holds only differing depending on who was using them, kinda letting on there's always been cool heels or heelish babyfaces. Methinks those two young lasses got more than autographs from the boys 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 This is more of an oddity than an all-time great match, but it's still pretty good for the Tiger Mask showcase that it is. Weird seeing Pirata Morgan was once a svelte baby who didn't bleed at the drop of a hat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 One forgets what spunky little bastards Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Abdullah the Butcher & Ruckus vs Osamu Nishimura & Jinzei Shinzaki This is WAR levels of random guys tagging up. AJPW got real weird with it after the NOAH split. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, Zimbra said: Abdullah the Butcher & Ruckus vs Osamu Nishimura & Jinzei Shinzaki This is WAR levels of random guys tagging up. AJPW got real weird with it after the NOAH split. Never forget that somehow Funk, Onita, Abby, and Kamala II worked on a Tokyo Dome show in 2001. That match actually should go in the blood sucking freak thread and not this one though, Terry's crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAHU Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 7/20/2020 at 6:38 PM, Casey said: @BAHU's write up about Gladiator/Awesome mentions that Heyman convinced him to return to ECW, instead of staying with All Japan. Mike Awesome was out for a year with a knee injury he suffered in August-September 1998. He came back and felt because of how much FMW had changed when he was able to return in 1999 with Fuyuki now the booker and Onita/Go Ito were no longer there he didn't feel like FMW was the same company any longer so he didn't feel the loyalty towards it he had previously felt. So he joined All Japan. He did one tour and was planning on that being his new home when ECW came a calling. He would make less money than All Japan but he wasn't going to have to travel and tour in Japan and he was going to be the champion so he knew he would be pushed correctly so he chose ECW. Then towards the end of his ECW run he had not been paid for awhile and what really upset him and why he never felt any loyalty to ECW to begin with was because he was never paid by Heyman for Heatwave 98 a year and a half earlier. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Man, fuck WCW for how they handled Mike Awesome. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Masanobu Fuchi vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW) 2004. Akira Hokuto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) Edit: NM, Curt posted this in the blood sucking freaks thread. Fuck it, WE'LL DO IT THERE. Edited July 22, 2020 by Jiji 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Best part of this is old man Pallo commentating on his own match, but there's really not a ton of Adrian Street in the UK footage, so it's nice to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Keiji Muto & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Matt D said: Best part of this is old man Pallo commentating on his own match, but there's really not a ton of Adrian Street in the UK footage, so it's nice to see. I know a guy who has a Street match from the 60s. Not sure if he was doing the glam rock act yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 This match is a hoot! New Japan in 1991 and all the young guys beat on each other. I can't figure out who is scrawnier- Osamu Nishimura or Koji Kanemoto. Teenage Tenzan is almost as fun as Colorado Man Shinya Hashimoto. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I LOVED that match. There's nothing better than a New Japan 10-man elimination. Speaking of which, that might be a good idea for the 10-man that's headlining Dynamite next week: Elimination Rules. C'mon, nobody ever does that anymore. The beefy kid was definitely Manabu Nakanishi, right? Same hairstyle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Very weird seeing a Tenzan match with zero Mongolian chops. Funny when Sasaki comes in and is all "no I don't need to double team these nerds" then Koshinaka comes in later and is like "sure, let's cheat, fuck them kids". That match reminded me I am infinitely annoyed the Koshinaka/Tenryu match from late 1992 doesn't appear to be on either Youtube or Dailymotion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: The beefy kid was definitely Manabu Nakanishi, right? Same hairstyle. I think that was Ohara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 It's the Pat Benatar of Joshi Puroresu, Mimi Hagiwara! From 1979. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Ryo Miyake vs. Pitbull Buster (Dog Collar Match) 06/04/95. IWA Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Wrestling Machine Takumi Iroha meets up with Actwres girl'Z champion Miyuki Takase in collision of wrestlers I have- for whatever reason- seen a lot of this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Motherfucking Tomoko Watanabe hits like SEVEN Screwdrivers. One them is truly hideous. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Crossposted from the GIF thread, it's Jim Henson's Bullet Club Babies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben. Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Not sure what you good brothers have planned for today but I'm going to be playing the World Wrestling Peace Festival on my Twitch today and try to keep up with the action as I attempt to commentate the matches. Live in five :) https://twitch.tv/ifightgiants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Chigusa Nagoya takes on the Pat Benatar of Women's wrestling, Mimi Hagiwara- FOR THE BELT! This match is pretty great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 The British Bulldogs & David Shultz vs. Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra (07.01.1984) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 1 hour ago, DEAN said: Chigusa Nagoya takes on the Pat Benatar of Women's wrestling, Mimi Hagiwara- FOR THE BELT! This match is pretty great. I saw a video on IG from I believe the 2 ring battle royal from Wrestlemarinpiad '89 where the members of Prison Gate Party/Gokumon-to (Bull, Aja, Bison, Grizzly, and maybe Condor if she was still around by then) angrily stride to the ring to the strains of Pat Benatar's "Invincible". Wild shit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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