WRESTLING ON THE INTERNET NOT FROM THE NOW

[BobbyWhioux]

On 4/15/2026 at 11:10 AM, Cobra Commander said:

I guess the one thing more incendiary than running an "AI photos" storyline in 2026 would involve the other person in the storyline deciding that they looked happier in the faked photos, leading to a heel turn.... Vince Russo would totally run some version of "that woman stabbed her man in the back to join a deepfaker" if you could believe that anybody in JCW has enough RAM to run an AI program

this would be the new/modern tech version of "I'm turning and joining the heels that put me out with an injury because my face friends didn't call or visit while I was in the hospital"

[AxB]

Almost 2 hours of RESLO~!

• Giant Haystacks vs Dave Taylor 5/2/92
• Rambo & Eddie Steinblock & Klaus Klaroff vs Larry Cameron & Bruiser Mastino & Aki Fuji 14/6/92
• Bull Power vs Otto Wanz 30/6/90
• Rollerball Rocco vs Kung Fu (1984)
• Johnny Saint vs Johnny Palance (1984)
• Bull Power vs Otto Wanz (again), 22/12/89

[Cobra Commander]

watching the Hard Cam Hogan/Warrior (this was out there before, right? I know hard cam Hogan/Andre has been out for years)

there's a certain amount of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" booking to this... in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, stars from competing companies were on screen and having to split 50/50 to keep everybody happy, and this Hogan/Warrior match really did have a certain amount of mirrored sequences for these two to keep it sorta 50/50 instead of having to have one dominate the other or having one work more explicitly heel

It likely depends on how old you were watching this in 1990. I didn't see it until years later. Hogan was a bit more heelish in my eyes in the promos leading up to this match. But Hogan was also more favored by the fans in Toronto. So if you were used to Hogan, you probably saw the Warrior's promos as more heelish than Hogan's. There was also the very "meta" insider element to the interviews of passing the torch that would mean something if you knew what was going on or if you didn't

Then again, seeing the pre-WM8 "Hulk Hogan is gonna go away soon" programming really does remind one of why the 1993 Hogan run didn't do anything. Hogan was brought back less than a year after his big "final match ever" and then he just sorta showed up on occasion until KOTR.

Also, Warrior looking noticably shorter than Hogan face to face might have messed with things. Here's your new hero, and oh yeah, i'm taller than him, brother.

[Dragon]

WAR Battle Angel 02.04.1995

Koki Kitahara vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki

 

[AxB]

Dynamite Kid vs Tatsumi Fujinami (c) - WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship, 17th of August 1979.

In Canada, with Japanese commentary. Evidently Dyno was a big Bruce Lee fan.

Edited April 18 by AxB

[Dragon]

NOAH Accomplish Our Third Navigation July 16, 2003 

Yuji Nagata vs. Jun Akiyama

Another short Jun match.

[Dragon]

AJPW Real World Tag League 1997

Real World Tag League 1997 Match

Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki vs Giant Kimala and Jun Izumida 

 

[Dragon]

AJPW   Real World Tag League 1998

Real World Tag League 1998 Match

Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada vs The Headhunters

The short game is mostly full of strikes.

[colonial]

American Dragon & Shooter Schultz vs. Lance Cade & Spanky | WWF TV Taping (February 8, 2000) [Dark]

 

The white whale of WWF/WWE dark matches ... WWE actually rejected the YT version (per Blast Master)

 

 

[Dragon]

NOAH Great Voyage 2009 In Tokyo ~ Mitsuharu Misawa, Always In Our Hearts ~

Keiji Mutoh and Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi and Yoshihiro Takayama

In the budokan 

[zendragon]

 

[Curt McGirt]

1972. 40 minutes (!) of a young, spry Monster Rousimoff in IWE, the great lost Japanese promotion where Gypsy Joe and Rusher Kimura beat each other bloody in cages. 

[Zimbra]

Yeah, that's a real cool match.  Kobayashi (who has an incredible pompadour) is a beefy little powerhouse and watching him pull Andre down and lean on him for control segments is something you don't see in a lot of Andre matches.

[Curt McGirt]

I just got through the world's slowest Jumbo vs. Gordy match (wherein Gordy still invents the power bomb and the Death Valley Driver) so I'll have to watch it later, but I'm sure it rules. DVDVR actually did a review of it back in the day. 

[AxB]

AEW putting this up because it's the 20th of April:

Komander vs Isiah Kassidy vs Lee Johnson vs RVD

[Cobra Commander]

1 hour ago, AxB said:

AEW putting this up because it's the 20th of April:

Komander vs Isiah Kassidy vs Lee Johnson vs RVD

unavailable in the USA though

also, WCW using Main Event as a pre-show for PPVs was such a neat thing to do with a show that they clearly stopped giving a crap about after the 4th week of the Main Event run in 1988.. i'm sure there's a "best of things WCW put on their Sunday Night Time Slot" video that would be good but they just had that time slot for a decade plus and did nothing with it... like the only people taping Sunday Edition in 1986/87 were being monitored by the authorities for taping too much wrestling

[odessasteps]

Happy 40th anniversary to wrestlerock to those who celebrate

 

[Curt McGirt]

Finally just up and put Andre/Strong Kobayashi up on the Youtube TV channel. It's a hoot. Andre 'got' this pro wrestling thing pretty early on; here he is yelling at the fans ("SHUT UP") and just yelling in general. Ton of personality and selling. He puts a head crank on Kobayashi and yells "SUB-MISH-YON! YEAHHHH!" and it's like, yes fucker, submission. You're palming a dude's head like a basketball, I think that is a submission. 

EDIT: Oh, this must be seen to be believed. Andre plays chickenshit heel. He begs off. The face he makes in the corner as he begs off: total fear. It's so funny. And on top of all that, 

Spoiler

Andre LOSES! It's because he gets DQ'd once and gets his leg tied in the ropes the second time, which is of course classic Andre, but it's still a loss.

And the first pinfall comes from a frickin' 1972 Tombstone Piledriver! Wild.

Edited April 21 by Curt McGirt

[Dragon]

April 2 1988 Japan

WKA Ikki Kajiwara Memorial Show '88 Festival Of Martial Arts

Fujiwara vs Ismael Changani? Not much info about that guy. He was from Iran? Fujiwara stepping in for Rob Kaman as replacement, Rob was injured. So it became Pro Wrestling vs Kickboxing. 

They used the AJPW ring for the event. Feels like something somebody would randomly put together in a fire pro game. Maybe me.

There were wrestling matches on the card, wrestlers from other promotions like AJPW and JWP. And matches of other fighting sports.

https://gonkaku.jp/articles/3575

[Dragon]

JWP women

 

[Dragon]

AJPW New Year Giant Series 1997   26 01 

Toshiaki Kawada and Masanobu Fuchi vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi

 

[zendragon]

sneaky good Goldberg match

[Dragon]

AJPW October Giant Series 2002 26 10 

Kaz Hayashi and Satoshi Kojima vs Genichiro Tenryu and Nobukazu Hirai

 

[Dragon]

AJPW Champion Carnival 1994 March 20th

Champion Carnival 1994 First Round 

Stan Hansen vs John Nord

You knew Nord as the Berzerker in WWF.

[Cobra Commander]

Today on the Vaults-

32 minutes of WCW Vader kicking ass

And the April 22nd, 1984 Omni show

the card for the Omni show-

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Tommy Rogers vs Bob Roop

Sweet Brown Sugar and Tim Horner vs Les Thornton and Rocky Jones

Jake Roberts vs Brad Armstrong

Ron Garvin vs The Spoiler

Bundy and Masked Superstar vs the Road Warriors

If Bundy/Superstar win, Bundy gets 3 minutes with Paul Ellering. If the Road Warriors win, Superstar unmasks.