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1001 MATCHES – ON THE ROAD

(by PHIL RIPPA) Since clearly my goal is make as much work as possible for myself on a project no one cares about – I picked matches that we were at live to where I (with a couple of exceptions) find a road report for. I then uploaded the road report to the website. So […]

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ON THE ROAD: CMLL at the Greensboro Coliseum (09/11/04)

CMLL AT THE GREENSBORO COLISEUM (9/11/2004) DR: DEAN RASMUSSEN. I could make it back to Richmond by blowing 4 truckers, Alex. TKG: TOM KARRO-GASSNER. Don’t switch the blade on the man in shades. PAS: PHIL SCHNEIDER TKG: Show up at Phil’s surprisingly awake and cogent. The mysterious benefactor drops off the car for us to […]

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ON THE ROAD: CMLL SIN PIEDAD 2004 (12/17/04)

(by PHIL SCHNEIDER) So I am on this mysterious trip to Mexico, however various machinations kept me from seeing much lucha outside of one AAA trios match in a Playa de Carmen basketball court on Sunday night and Jucio Final. Got to check out the Lucha mags though, apparently Dan Severn did flag barer duty in […]

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1001 MATCHES: Angle Alert

(by PHIL RIPPA) Some of these aren’t “great” matches. Some aren’t even really matches. Basically everything here is just a vessel for the entertaining/memorable/stupid angle that goes with it. 726) BRUNO SAMMARTINO vs. LARRY ZBYSZKO – WWF CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING (01/22/80 (Taped), (02/02/80) Aired) A teacher vs. student “exhibition” match where Zbyszko turns on Bruno that […]

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1001 MATCHES: Schneider Comps

(by PHIL RIPPA) The theme of this section is that all these matches were featured on a Phil Schneider comp tape. I think the grand total got up to 26 and one may or may not be on the way via the Digging In The Crates Podcasts. 318) HARLEY RACE vs. JUMBO TSURUTA – ALL […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW ISSUE #175 (Simple Version)

TOMOAKI HONMA~! WINS~! Wait… WHAT?!?!?!?~! VICTOR JOVICA~! bleeds by example~! DAISUKE~! has no last name~! DEAN~! still can’t spell Mr. Gannosuke correctly~! LUDARK SHAITAN~! BULL OF THE WOODS~! JUDY MARTIN~! KENGO MASHIMO~! LUCHA DEEP CUTS~! HIYA~! Welcome to the Death Valley Driver Video Review Issue #175 A THANKSGIVING TRADITION BITCHES~! ALSO BI-WEEKLY~! Yeah… that ends […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW ISSUE #175

TOMOAKI HONMA~! WINS~! Wait… WHAT?!?!?!?~! VICTOR JOVICA~! bleeds by example~! DAISUKE~! has no last name~! DEAN~! still can’t spell Mr. Gannosuke correctly~! LUDARK SHAITAN~! BULL OF THE WOODS~! JUDY MARTIN~! KENGO MASHIMO~! LUCHA DEEP CUTS~! HIYA~! Welcome to the Death Valley Driver Video Review Issue #175 (The Simple Version is here) A THANKSGIVING TRADITION BITCHES~! […]