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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #29

KANEMURA! Hayabusa! THE GREAT SASUKE! Koji Kanemoto! GLADIATOR! TAKA MICHINOKU! and other stuff and heard I saw this week Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #29! It has been a big week in tape viewing – what with St Phil sending the Bonanza #3 (Finally!) with all the good stuff from the crappy […]

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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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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #6

Takada! Kudo! Jericho! Allbright! KAORU! Tanaka! Ooya! Waltman! and other stuff I saw this week! Howdy! Welcome to Death Valley Driver Video Review #6! The lovely wife is visiting her parents in Carolina so I got the whole house to myself! No Lifetime Movies! No quilting shows! Just wall to wall wrestling! I HAVE NO […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #4

OHTANI! BENOIT! STEAMBOAT! MISAWA! and other stuff I saw and heard the last couple of days! Howdy! It’s time for the Death Valley Driver Video Review #4! It’s been a big week, in that I almost got caught up except for the batch that St. Phil has sent me and a couple that Scott sent […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #2

TAKA! NAKAGAWA! GREAT SASUKE! DYNAMITE KID! wotta week!- and other stuff I saw and heard this week.  WELCOME TO DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #2 Howdy! I had a bittersweet week of tape veiwing since a lot of it was from the 80’s- and if ever there was a hit and miss decade, […]

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1001 MATCHES – Celebrities

(by PHIL RIPPA) So much laziness. Shout out to board poster Web Conn for compiling a bunch of matches and videos for me to choose from. The theme should be fairly obvious but for those that are dense – every match features a “celebrity” doing wrestling (obviously the definition of celebrity gets stretched in some […]

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1001 MATCHES: Big One (80s and Before)

(by PHIL RIPPA) First part of THE BIG ONE~! All matches took place before 1990 401) GILBERT CESCA/BEN CHEMOIL vs. ANTON TEJERO/INCA PERUANO – FRENCH CATCH (03/12/65) French Catch wrestling is probably the newest sensation in wrestling footage becoming available. Which is ironic since it some of the earliest wrestling available to watch. ~!~ 402) […]

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1001 MATCHES: Big One (90s)

(by PHIL RIPPA) Second part of THE BIG ONE~! All matches took place between 1990-1999 426) JERRY ESTRADA vs. EL SATANICO – CMLL (03/23/90 – Hair Match) Reviewed by Rippa in DVDVR #142 ~!~ 427) RAYO DE JALISCO JR vs. CIEN CARAS – CMLL (09/21/90 – Mask Match) Reviewed by Pete DVDVR #116 ~!~ 428) […]

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1001 MATCHES: The LADIES~!

(by PHIL RIPPA) This time we are focusing on THE LAAAAADDDDIIIIIEEEESSSSS~! No filthy boys allowed. 251) JAGUAR YOKOTA vs. MONSTER RIPPER – AJW (04/07/82 – WWWA World Heavyweight Championship) https://youtu.be/3HywVRRXtqQ The amazing Jaguar Yokota defending the Red Belt against the woman who would (unfortunately) be remembered only as Rhonda Singh and Bertha Faye. The early […]

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1001 MATCHES: We Got You Covered

by PHIL RIPPA In this installment – besides getting us to a tidy 200 – features matches that had been reviewed at some point in various DVDVRs. Other than that, there really is no rhyme or reason to them. 182) CIMA vs. MAGNUM TOKYO vs. DARKNESS DRAGON vs. MASAAKI MOCHIZUKI vs. DRAGON KID – TORYUMON […]