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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #111

WELCOME TO THE DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #111! Hello, gentle Reader, and welcome to this universally indie edition of your beloved DVDVR – as we cover the wrestling from three different continents, wrestling that tell the big boys to shove it up their asses. Rippa clocks in with the fantab WCW handheld from back […]

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ON THE ROAD: CMLL at the Greensboro Coliseum (09/11/04)

CMLL AT THE GREENSBORO COLISEUM (9/11/2004) DR: DEAN RASMUSSEN. I could make it back to Richmond by blowing 4 truckers, Alex. TKG: TOM KARRO-GASSNER. Don’t switch the blade on the man in shades. PAS: PHIL SCHNEIDER TKG: Show up at Phil’s surprisingly awake and cogent. The mysterious benefactor drops off the car for us to […]

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ON THE ROAD: King of the Indies 2000

(by PHIL SCHNEIDER) So because I am certifiable, I grab a cheap plane ticket and fly down to my old stomping grounds in the San Francisco bay area, to see my parents and check out the King of the Indies. I will delete stories of going to the Oakland Zoo with my mom (SCREAMER MONKEYS~!) […]

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ON THE ROAD: Ring of Honor (Manassas, VA – 05/09/08)

DVDVR ROAD REPORT: ROH – MANASSAS, VA 5/12/2008!, TYLER BLACK~ BABY DOLL~JIMMY JACOBS~! DHR= DEAN HENRY RASMUSSEN. Italian Hot Dog. TKG: TOMK. Some sandwich thing. PAS: Phil Schneider Peruvian Chicken LB: Lee Benaka also Peruvian chicken (Editor’s note: When Dean posted on the message board he wrote that the show was on May 12. It […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW – ISSUE #167

WELCOME TO DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #167! (The cover to the beloved DVDVR 167 is by the lovely and talented Bay Area artist Andrea Schneider.) EXCUSES FOR THIS BEING SO LATE: I could explain why it’s been like eight months between DVDVRs but I thought it would be fun to put all my excuses […]

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1001 MATCHES: Schneider Comps

(by PHIL RIPPA) The theme of this section is that all these matches were featured on a Phil Schneider comp tape. I think the grand total got up to 26 and one may or may not be on the way via the Digging In The Crates Podcasts. 318) HARLEY RACE vs. JUMBO TSURUTA – ALL […]

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1001 MATCHES: We Got You Covered

by PHIL RIPPA In this installment – besides getting us to a tidy 200 – features matches that had been reviewed at some point in various DVDVRs. Other than that, there really is no rhyme or reason to them. 182) CIMA vs. MAGNUM TOKYO vs. DARKNESS DRAGON vs. MASAAKI MOCHIZUKI vs. DRAGON KID – TORYUMON […]

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DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW ISSUE #100

WELCOME TO DEATH VALLEY DRIVER VIDEO REVIEW #100! We decided to celebrate our 100th loveletter to quality pro wrestling by coming up with as many MATCHES YOU SHOULD WATCH as possible. It was originally gonna be the TOP 100 but we figured that would be soooo square- and we wanted to keep it under Mobey […]