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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 – Rest in Peace

(by PHIL RIPPA) After Vader passed and I did that piece, I thought about how many guys have died recently (which, sadly for wrestling, isn’t a new phenomenon) and that morphed into thinking about folks who died in 2018. So that is what this turned into – a tiny little tribute to those who passed […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #25

TAJIRI! Ohtani! YAKUSHIJI! Jaguar Yokota! GREAT SASUKE! TAKA MOTHERFUCKING MICHINOKU! and other stuff I saw this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #25! I gotta another tape from the kind and benevolent Glenn In Japan (the Mother Theresa of wrestling fans) and GOD did it rock! WOO-HOO! ~!~ The coolest match on […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #23

KAORU! GREAT SASUKE! TOSHIE UEMATSU! KAIENTAI DELUXE! KANDORI! BULL NAKANO and other stuff I saw and heard this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #23! I gotta ass-stompingly great tape from The World’s Finest Human Being- nCo Glenn and garsh! did it rock! This article is gonna have to be spoiler intensive […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #18

MEN’S TEIOH (or however the hell you spell it)! TIGER MASK IV! CHRIS JERICHO! ULTIMO DRAGON! SHOICHI FUNAKI! TAKA MICHINOKU! and other post-youngster things I saw! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #18! The youngster has arrived, the duel-grandma-mafia kicks are over (they’re old school:), the lil gal is asleep as is the […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – Issue #16

DICK TOGO! TAKA MICHINOKU! Extreme Mayumi! GREAT SASUKE! Dos Caras! KAORU! and other stuff I saw and heard this week! Howdy! Welcome to DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW # 16! I’m knee deep in tapes as we await the big day! This will be sort of a supplemental issue, because the big dog issue of […]

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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 – Tag Team Back Again

Yeah – this tag team theme took like 3 months to put together. I don’t even remember what I watched, what made it in and what I am doing with my life. Just for the two people that care – I only included 2 on 2 matches. Yes – I like making things harder for […]