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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #28

MEIKO SATOMURA! IKEDA! SONOKO KATO! CANDY OKUTSU! NAKAMAKI! CHIGUSA!! and other stuff I heard and saw this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW # 28! This week I got a Hiney-Load of tapes from Ollie and Mike so I gotta lot of ground to cover and I think everybody got their I […]

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1001 MATCHES: Vader

(by PHIL RIPPA) I hadn’t been planning on spotlighting Big Van Vader as he has been represented decently so far over the first 800 matches. But then one of my all time favorites up and died. And now I am sad and just watching him over and over. So, in what should be your quest […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #22

CHAVO JR! Kyoko! HOTTA! Liger! AJA! Dynamite Kansai! and Other stuff I’ve seen this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #22! I got a monstrous AssLoad of Tape from St.Phil (YOU RULE!) as he sent a giant batch of Japanese stuff. I also got a bunch of Calgary stuff from him and […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #17

MASATO TANAKA! HOTTA rules the freakin world! AJA fucking KONG! CHONO! YAMAZAKI! Shiryu! Jaguar Yokota! the marathon of wrestling continues! Woo-Hoo! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #17! This is another supplemental thing as I keep getting an influx of tres cool wrestling and I’m trying to keep up with the massive coolness […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #13

EL HIJO DEL SANTO! DOS CARAS! YAMAZAKI! CHIGUSA! CHONO! El CANEK! and other stuff I saw and heard this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVEIW #13! I watched the second and third nights of the G-1 Climax (Gosh bless Paul!) and many questions arise. The main one is WHERE THE HELL HAS […]

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MATCHES THAT TICKLED MY FANCY: January 2018

(by PHIL RIPPA) I watch enough wrestling (but not as much as I used to) that I watch plenty of things that I really enjoy. And I watch enough of those things in a month to trick myself into continuing to watch wrestling for another month. So when up at o’dark hundred hour again – […]

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1001 MATCHES: Medium One (Part 1)

50 matches to get 700. Part 2 can be found here. 651) RIKIDOZAN vs. MASAHIKO KIMURA – JAPAN PRO WRESTLING ALLIANCE (12/22/54 – Japan Heavyweight Championship) Rikidozan shoots on Kimura and this happens ~!~ 652) GIANT BABA vs. THE DESTROYER – JWA (03/05/69) A long match that seems to go by in the blink of […]

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1001 MATCHES: A to Z

(by PHIL RIPPA) A straight forward theme this time which I, of course, made way more difficult for myself. A 501) ARN ANDERSON vs. THE GREAT MUTA – NWA POWER HOUR – (01/02/90 – NWA TV Title) Arn beats Muta in a match as good as you would hope it would be when seeing the […]