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I haven't been on here in a really long time, but the news got me thinking about this board again. I didn't have a lot of interactions with DEAN, but I always loved reading his reviews because of his writing style. Reading some of those reviews again after I got the news brought back so many memories of my formative years as a teenage wrestling fan and being exposed to those reviews and to things like 80s and 90s New Japan and All Japan, and BattlARTS and countless other promotions and matches I would have likely not seen otherwise. His writing style and reviews influenced not only me, but others whose reviews and websites also had a profound influence on me. There won't be anyone like him ever again, he had such a wide, sweeping impact on wrestling and by all accounts he was a great fucking dude. Rest well.

Cody/Castle is happening at a house show in Columbus. The next PPV in the anniversary show in March.

Suzukigun, minus the guys like Iizuka and Desperado, are freelancers.

Jumbo vs. Billy Robinson 3/5/77 is an absolute must see.

Check out BJW's Endless Survivor (5/5), Ryogokutan (7/24) and Death Mania (8/21). Ryogokutan is my show of the year right now.

You know...I never thought about it until now but other than the 2004 G1 and the 2012 G1, I can't remember many (if any) other Tenzan wins against Nakamura

YES BJW Yuji Okabayashi vs Ryota Hama (1/24) Hideyoshi Kamitani & Ryota Hama vs. Kohei Sato & Shuji Ishikawa (2/18) Shuji Ishikawa vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani (4/10) Yuji Okabayashi vs. Shuji Ishikawa (BJW, 5/5) AJ Kento Miyahara vs Zeus (2/12) Atsushi Aoki vs. Hikaru Sato (2/21) Jun Akiyama vs Yuma Aoyagi (2/21) Z1 Hideki Suzuki vs. Masato Tanaka (1/1) NO BJW Daichi Hashimoto & Shinobu vs. Atsushi Maruyama & Yuji Okabayashi (2/18) Daisuke Sekimoto & Seiya Sanada vs. Hideki Suzuki & Yoshihisa Uto (2/18) AJ Atsushi Maruyama vs. Hikaru Sato (2/12) Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Atsushi Aoki (1/3) Jun Akiyama vs. Jake Lee (1/3) Z1 Daisuke Sekimoto & Kohei Sato vs Yuji Okabayashi & Ryoji Sai (1/1) Shinjiro Ohtani & Masato Tanaka vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Kohei Sato (3/6)

YES: Tomohiro Ishii vs Katsuyori Shibata (1/4) Dragon Lee vs Kamaitachi (1/24) Tomohiro Ishii vs. Katsuyori Shibata (2/11) EVIL vs Tomohiro Ishii (3/3) Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii (3/4/) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Satoshi Kojima (3/19) NO: Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi (1/4) Honma/Makabe vs Anderson/Gallows (1/4) Kenny Omega vs. KUSHIDA (1/4) Yuji Nagata, Shiro Koshinaka, Manabu Nakanishi, Ryusuke Taguchi & Sho Tanaka vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask,Cheeseburger & Yohei Komatsu (1/5) AJ Styles/Kenny Omega vs Shinsuke Nakamura/YOSHI-HASHI (1/5) BUSHI/EVIL/Naito vs Elgin/Tanahashi/Mascara Dorada (1/5) Dragon Lee vs Virus (1/23) Jushin Liger vs Virus (1/24) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega (2/14) Roderick Strong vs Tomohiro Ishii (2/19) KUSHIDA vs Will Ospreay (4/10)

It's on all the major providers in the US. 2 AM EST live show, 7 PM replay. iPPV can be had on the Flipps app or NJPW World (but no JR with this option).

Do you happen to have a link?

They'll probably get rid of the VTRs but the entrances should remain in tact. I just checked and they left his entrance in for the G1 Final at least.

Seems like this might be a dub of WPW Returns, where they air highlights of a show and then one match in full at the end of the show. If it's not that and we get a 2 hour sow with full matches, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

YES to: Yujiro/Ishii 10/13 (wasn't feeling the first 2/3 but the last 1/3 was killer) AJ/Tanahashi 10/13 (Not much better than the G1 match IMO but a suitably big main for the Sumo Hall) Ishii/Goto 11/8 (The slugfest to end all slugfests) NO to Nakamura/Shibata 11/8 (and it pains me to ever say that about these two in a match) I'm gonna watch Naito/Okada again because I don't want to down vote something I wasn't really paying close attention to when I first saw it.

Flair has also claimed to have assassinated Archduke Ferdinand, sank the Titanic, caused the stock market crash, slept with Marilyn Monroe, hit 61 home runs in 1961, ran for President in 1972, scored the winning goal for the 1980 US men's hockey team, and killed Osama Bin Laden. Are you trying to tell me he fucking didn't?

They've been shooting in HD for a while now. The affiliates in my area don't stretch the show, everything looks pretty much like it should on the HD channel.

YES to Shibata/Tanahashi from 9/21 NO to Okada/Anderson from 9/23

He does flips and stuff.

I'm not. Thought it was a great match but not close to *****.

The whole "lol Davey Richards" thing was fun like five years ago. The indie jerk off guy now is Elgin, get with the times.

It did I knew about the title change on Thursday. "Elgin is Elgin" but the baseball thing changed the perception of him internally from this child like man to "he's a fucking headcase" Very enjoyable show the feed was absolutely excellent. Want to elaborate further on the perception of Elgin?

I thought the show was great. Elgin losing got a huge pop from me because he's become so bland and generic ever since going to PWG that I really can't stomach him very well anymore. I've heard he's unhappy with the company (can't imagine why) and that his deal is up at the end of the year.

Revisited all three matches before I voted no on them. Nakamura/Okada was complete no for me. Great last five minutes, rest of the match was nothing. Okada/Suzuki was good but the no was a slight one. Nakamura/Ishii was really good too but IMO it wasn't close to the best match on the second half of that show (Shibata/Nagata is my pick for that btw).

YES to: Tanahashi vs. Honma, July 21st: Ishii vs. Honma, July 26th Nakamura vs. Nagata, July 26th: Tanahashi vs. Ishii, July 31st: Nagata vs. Shibata, August 1st Shibata vs. Honma, August 3rd Shibata vs. Ishii, August 6th Ishii vs. Nagata: August 8th Time Splitters vs. reDRagon, August 10th Shibata vs. Goto NO to: Okada vs. Naito, July 28th Anderson vs. Goto, July 31st Nakamura vs. Ishii, August 1st Okada vs. Goto, August 4th: Okada vs. Suzuki, August 8th: Honma vs. Naito, August 10th Tanahashi vs. Styles vs. August 10th Nakamura vs. Okada, August 10th

YES to Suzuki vs. AJ and yes dudes are sleeping on this G1 tournament.