thee Reverend Axl Future Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 On 5/5/2021 at 3:54 PM, DEAN said: This was just posted. When I was six years old in 1972, Johnny Valentine and Harley Race beat each other to death in St Louis, Missouri. There is footage. Don't swerve us, Dean: that is the footage I shot in 1987 of Greg Valentine vs. Buddy Rose on my Pixelvision camera. You know I was saving this for my BLUR Fest (Bootleg Lo-rez Underground Rasslin) Film Festival, aka BFFF. Now I gotta find another opening night feature. Dammit, Dean... - RAF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 When I was a wee little fatboy of 5 or 6, my first favorite wrestler was Danny Hodge because he would crush apples with his bare hands. I didn't know then a) how to dress myself and b) that Hodge was a hooker who could rip the tendons out of your arms. Here he is against the Stevie Ray of the Brisco brothers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopus Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Buddy Rose vs Tito Santana - 3/5/90 Buddy is always great. He’s one of the few wrestlers where literally everything he does makes me smile. It’s also interesting to see bigger Buddy in WWF and you can tell the company’s body preferences in the commentary throughout. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 9, 2021 Author Share Posted May 9, 2021 This is from 1974. When I was 8 years old, you had the Mid-Atlantic stars- Wahoo McDaniel, Johnny Valentine then Greg Valentine, the Anderson Brothers, Paul Jones, a face Ken Patera, Blackjack Mulligan, the Super Destroyer and Ric Flair. Then you had the ethereal champions realm of Jack Brisco, Harley Race and Terry Funk. You hardly ever saw them wrestle and if you did, it would be once a year from footage like this. You didn't know them, you just knew they were a tier above what you watched every week. I would wonder where they would wrestle. I found out later in life that they would wrestle in Florida and St Louis when they weren't splashed in blood across the cover of The Wrestler. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 For some reason this match just popped into my head, and I'll be damned if it doesn't belong here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Not the best match but definitely wrestling machines vs wrestling machines. I picked it to further prove my point about my earlier pick. This was solid work but was so not what they were doing from 95 - 97 which was as good as it gets. When this is your low gear, you are a wrestling machine. The crowd is dead and the announcers were fumbling and bumbling everywhere. That didn’t help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 Koki Kitahara and Masa Chono beat on each for fourteen minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 This is a heck of a thing. Some of Kitao's stuff is so absolutely crushing. Tenryu works it like a puzzle box. How do you deal with this guy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 Johnny Valentine pounds on Mr Wrestling Tim Woods in 1973. Sooo great. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Gordon Solie was a national treasure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 this AJPW epishas:ode tiger mask v Jerry estrada hara v martel jumbo/tenryu/kabuki v the freebirds 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 2, 2021 Author Share Posted June 2, 2021 HOLY SHIT. This match is the subject of Schneider's podcast this week. The kick to the face that causes the blood is fucking INSANE. The podcast; https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/e6893340-ca4b-4ee9-9f3b-9947e5512823 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 DDT is posting matches to get everyone all hyped for Japanese Wrestling Day, June 6th! Here is Konosuke Takeshita versus HARASHIMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I realized I have not seen much Super Dragon so went and found this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 Florida 1973! Number One Paul Jones, Buddy Colt, Eddie Graham, Blood! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP Steve Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 5/9/2021 at 11:30 AM, DEAN said: This is from 1974. When I was 8 years old, you had the Mid-Atlantic stars- Wahoo McDaniel, Johnny Valentine then Greg Valentine, the Anderson Brothers, Paul Jones, a face Ken Patera, Blackjack Mulligan, the Super Destroyer and Ric Flair. Then you had the ethereal champions realm of Jack Brisco, Harley Race and Terry Funk. You hardly ever saw them wrestle and if you did, it would be once a year from footage like this. You didn't know them, you just knew they were a tier above what you watched every week. I would wonder where they would wrestle. I found out later in life that they would wrestle in Florida and St Louis when they weren't splashed in blood across the cover of The Wrestler. I was at this match in Jacksonville. The finish was Harley doing an amazing over the top rope bump off an Irish whip and taking the 20 count on the floor. Bladed himself down there just for the fuck of it. This was the last 10,000-pluis card that I ever attended in Jacksonville, since I went off to college the next year. On this same card, Bob Armstrong beat Buddy Colt for the North American title in something like ten seconds. The crowd blew the roof off the Coliseum for that. Good times! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 How much more Eddie Graham footage is out there? That has to be the first match of his I've ever seen anybody post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 Well, here's Graham tagging with Greatest Hot Tag Ever, Bob Armstrong, up against Dick Murdoch and Bob Roop in 1974. This is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdy5HqlCL0 ---------------------------------- Here he is against Killer Khan in 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PFgoxEgVtQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP Steve Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 This one popped up on Youtube a few months ago. Only footage I've seen of Graham and Malenko during their feud. Unfortunately there's not much of either of these guys in their real primes to be found. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 This match is labeled wrong, it is not BuzzSawyer but Terry Sawyer (no relation)... that being said, Terry Sawyer v. Lou Thesz, all mat wrestling and wrist holds with 3 judges scoring the match (Tommy Gilbert, Robert Gibson and Bill Dundee). Lou Thesz is os the neighborhood grmpa that finds a punk messing up his lawn display and decides to stretch him for it! James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 Here you go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) When people started getting their tapes in the mail for Japanese stuff for January 1999 at the beginning of February 1999, DEAN~! wanted us to believe the match oi the year had already taken place in Michinoku Pro. I remember DEAN~! loving this match and I did to, as it was Magnum TOKYO's breakout match amidst the CRAZY MAX invasion of M-Pro at the request of the evil Great Sasuke. It took the almost dead promotion and gave it some buzz again! Sasuke used an NWA Middleweight (I think) title tourney to turn face after being purged of evil by Jinsei Shinzaki (no, like really! Sasuke as masked Japanese version of The Sandman was great but Jinsei put a stop to that). So Sasuke wrestles his ass off to the finals as did TOKYO and the match still holds up pretty well for 2 dudes mainly known for being aerialists, there is plenty of mat wrestling in this James Edited June 24, 2021 by J.H. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 Johnny Valentne. Jack Brisco. 1975. NWA World Championship. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octopus Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Aja Kong & Bull Nakano vs Akira Hokuto & Shinobu Kandori 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) Backlund / inoki vs hansen / hogan Edited July 2, 2021 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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