Gordi the former AEW fan Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 I'd, uh, also like to express my fondness for that particular match. Absolutely no need for commentary when the crowd is reacting to every little thing like that. Just great. Was that in Houston? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Dunlop Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Holy shit, that was great. Wrestling needs more hysterical shrieking and old as fuck ladies in the front row. It can't be stated too often but, god damn, Dick Murdoch was just a tad bit good at this whole pro wrestling thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Lionness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo versus Jaguar fucking Yakota and Devil Masami. In VHSvision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Harley Saito leans into a urican like a QUEEN. Aja and Bull were such a great tagteam. Eagle Sawai hangs with two of the best big ladies who ever wrestled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 I luurrvvv the pre-match demure & subdued interviews, and then the screamy Amazonian deluge. All four are icons. - RAF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Goddam, Aja and Bull beat the living dogcrap out of Kandori- who is such an ass-stomper in this. Akira Hokuta crushes Aja with four Northern light bombs. WHATAMATCH! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Holy fucking shit, I can't watch the whole thing right now but that kick from Aja on Kandori at 8:55 tho. Right on the jaw without mercy. And this match features THE BEST TAGS between hostile partners. '93-'94 AJW is some of the best shit but you all already knew that. I haven't done a deep dive since I was really getting into Japanese wrestling. I ordered a wackload of DVDs from Ginnetty about 10 years ago but never got around to watching them. Now seems like a pretty good time to give 'em a go and if there's a bunch of footage that isn't on YT I could post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Yeah, I haven't watch most of this in 25 years and MAN! did it age well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 Oh man, Tomoko Watanabe is so awesome. Here she starts off with Screwdriver to get the first fall in the first second of the match. Then everybody else wrestles and it rules. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 This is something pretty cool that I had no idea existed before the algorithm recommended it to me today. Wrestling Machine Terry Funk vs Wrestling Machine Barry Windham, in Puerto Rico! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Oh man! Jake Roberts versus Dick Slater in 1986. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 What a fantastic finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Remember when the DDT was a finisher? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Man, I wish I still had the VHS tape with the Humongus/Roberts feud on it, so action packed and expertly booked. It got great coverage in the Apter mags as well. The idea that Lord H's mask made him immune to the DDT was brilliant, with Jake using a cattle prod as an equalizer, zapping LH through the eyehole & making him discard the mask and finally - BANG!!, that climactic DDT. I only see a penultimate cage match online. Ah well... - RAF p.s. Mr. Roberts being the machine here, but Van Camp is no slacker. This is the later feud from Mid-South, which I think was not as involved or long as the SWCW/Continental one (facts subject to my bad memory). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 10:11 AM, DEAN said: Remember when the DDT was a finisher? Remember when an avalanche-style dragon suplex was a finisher? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Jesus Christ, this is awesome. Ted DiBiase out machines Murdoch in this match. Such a finish! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) That punch! Sangre Chicana-esque! And (I have made this joke before, but) Masked Superstar later in his career was literally a super (wrestling) Machine. Anyway, the logarithm keeps giving me stuff that I somehow had no idea existed. Today, it's absolute wrestling machines Toshiaki Kawada and Ricky Morton in the same ring as Footloose take on The R'n'R Express!! I have seen (and loved) The Fantastics in Japan, but this match-up very much surprised me. We actually, happily, get a sequence where Kawada & Fuyuki trap Morton in the red half of the ring and beat him down while Gibson fires up the Japanese crowd... and we get a double noggin knocker and a do-si-do spot in an All Japan ring! Edited April 26, 2020 by gordi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Dick Murdoch vs Billy Robinson from 1977. There is... no sound. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 Oh my God! Dave Barrie outStreets Street so Adrian Street goes batshit crazy and is at his most violent. It's like watching Sweet go from bubblegum to heavy metal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 1 hour ago, DEAN said: Oh my God! Dave Barrie outStreets Street so Adrian Street goes batshit crazy and is at his most violent. It's like watching Sweet go from bubblegum to heavy metal. F'n genius. I have never seen this before and it is great. Some thoughts: - the reffing and enforcement of the rules really play up then structure of the British rounds style, and when you get folks who understand that way of working it is fun. - I love when the degeneration of the video tape is like filters and effects, here it's like the glamour and peacockosity of EAStreet is sucking the color out of the audience and making them merely b&w. - Street's boots and hair are magnificent here. Early years Triple HHH pouffy mane is merely a shadow of the EAS crowning glory. - I enjoy when a worker is able to convey the large amount of moves in his/her arsenal, with nthe implication being that the maneuvers used are the best ones for that moment. Street does that, prime Flair could do that, many old lucha and WoS workers do that. I don't like the "my gimmick is I know a lot of moves and I am going to show you a whole bunch"-style of worker (Quackenbush, Zack Sabre Jr. as examples, good workers both). The moves have to serve the psychology and story of the match. - Dave Barrie does a textbook "effective rookie" gimmick here. A great complement to EAS. pip pip, RAF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Adrian Street does SPEED WRESTLING~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 I don't think I've seen this before. Two wrestling machines beat the living hell out of each other. Tenryu bleeds like a freak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Tenryu might bleed more often than any other non-deathmatch Japanese wrestler. Nice to see he started early. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 This is going to be some jerk bragging because it's not out there for people yet, but I just saw a really cool Choshu vs Pat Patterson match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Matt D said: This is going to be some jerk bragging because it's not out there for people yet, but I just saw a really cool Choshu vs Pat Patterson match. Ya jerk! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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