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So i'm trying to get into All japan with Ditch's site and the All japan top 50 tourney over at DVDVR. I'm a lucha guy but I like the stuff i've seen from Kawada, Hansen and Kobashi. Can't stand Misawa but he's better than anyone on the TNA roster so whatever. Hansen vs Kobashi 7/7/90 I like this match. It's early in Kobashi's career so you would think he'd just get squashed. This is All japan so it's pretty competative. Kobashi gets a lot of offense and pisses Hansen off before Hansen just beats the holy hell out of him. Hansen nails a great Lariat for the win. You could tell Kobashi was going to be big and Hansen was a great opponent for him. Fantastics vs…

As well as they have promoted this main event, if PPV numbers stay down and this doesn't draw well, I'm not sure what match they could put together that would draw at this point. I don't know how they're going to book the main event, but the challenge is that the match needs to go pretty long since it's elimination rules and if you want one winner at the end, you need 13 decisions. But I also know most of these guys are pretty green. This may really be a case where Pat Patterson needs to book one of his sprawling match layouts in a way to keep the length of the match intact while hiding that the Nexus guys are all pretty green. If they can figure that out, I rea…

This is a fan letter to Jim that touched on some snide comments made on Eric Bishcoff's FB page and the responses. Hey Jim had a question I thought I'd throw at you. This was prompted by a discussion that was happening on Eric Bischoff's facebook page today where he was asking "who are these alleged young guys that draw money?" and then went on to say that hardly any of the guys mentioned count because he thinks your only a draw if you sell out major arenas/set records on PPV/do millions in merchandise and crossover to mainstream culture. He also said that besides Rock/Goldberg nobody's done it without 8 years in the business, and its very clear he meant 8 year…

With Raw S1&2 coming out, I was thinking about this a bit...has anyone on the board done business with Silvervision? If so, here is what Wiki says about their Tagged Classics... Now, does this apply to the compilation sets released in the UK as well? Or do they get the same versions as the US with the same edits?

I've been on a marathon of watching Will's Horsemen set and I'm right on "Pre-Starrcade 1986" and it's so great as this was when me and my buddy Joe were 16 and fully obesssed with wrestling. It was to the point where I convinced my Pop to take us to Greensboro from New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving in a hotel and at the Greensboro Colleseum, and I scored third row seats on the phone with TicketMaster. The Nikita Koloff face turn was so fucking awesome when it went down. I remember watching TBS or Worldwide and seeing that footage from the cage match and marking the fuck out once I realized that Nikita wasn't going to attack Dusty from behind and was instead ki…

This is the new place to put all the "No, it's not the same thing as pro wrestling" comments (even if Dave said them), since like a cancer it's spreading and more people are starting to buy into it. Continue using the Dave and Wade threads for everything else they say.

Cubsfan has a post up on his blog about AAA having to do cutbacks due to having an entire gate stolen by a drug gang at a show that didn't have enough "protection". AAA pays their talent directly from the gate, so losing a whole show meant they had to cut back on other things. My question is how can a major company like that (in a part of the world where drug gangs are not a new concept) still operate that way? If you ran a business in a place where you know at some point you're going to get shaken down, shouldn't you do the business equivalent of hiding some money in your sock?

I'm going to watch some matches online totally at random and going to put my thoughts about them here. ASW Tag Titles: The Cereal Killers (Juggulator & Mad Man Pondo) © vs. The Honky Tonk Man & Ricky Morton (7/10/10) This is from an All-Star Wrestling show from Saint Albans, West Virginia and is quite the little matchup here with HTM & Morton combining their 50's & 80's style like The Stray Cats. Morton throws some nice armdrags here on the big dudes early on and it's fun watching these hardcore guys doing Midnight Express heel schtick early on. HTM comes in and starts working over Pondo's arm which would piss him off so he went to grab …

Don't have much to say in total on this. Watching the documentary though. They show clips of the Greensboro cage match. The finish is intact in their footage.

From Lords of Paste: Hulk Hogan has done some amazing radio interviews in his time. This reads as one of the best.

Seems to covered best so far here: http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/6/22/153...s-wwe-for-using Im amazed at the reaction from some "WWE lifers" who think Martha is a "greedy bitch" for suing poor WWE for not upholding their end of the agreement. If it goes to court it could set all types of precedents it seems. My questions are pretty much echo Bix's in the article above.

(because Loss is probably sick of all the MMA=wrestling talk) So it was a pretty good show, all things considered. All the matches delivered (well ok, I missed the Divas title match but no one died so I'll assume that it was uneventful), as WWE seems to be continuing the "push new guys" environment that they have had going on recently. I know that sounds odd on a show where Kane won and cashed in the Money in the Bank, but I have a feeling that one day we'll look back at the Miz in the Raw match like we do for HBK in the ladder match with Razor. I've thought for a while he has that elusive "it" that you need to succeed in wrestling, and it looks like this will be hi…

Here's one the came to mind, whaddya got? Hulk Hogan's embarrassing medical condition: In 1991, Hulk Hogan was scheduled to be a witness against Dr. George Zahorian. Jerry McDevitt, acting as Hogan's lawyer, tried to get him excused, as McDevitt was legitimately treating him for a medical condition that would be more embarrassing to Hogan as a public figure than Hogan's testimony would be valuable to the prosecution. The judge agreed, and 16 years later, nobody's ever leaked it.

I really feel like this deserves its own thread, because it is, perhaps, "the best thing going today". Jay Lethal's Flair parody is frighteningly accurate. It's a shame it's happening in TNA instead of somewhere where it could actually benefit Lethal. Also, from watching a few You Tube clips, how sad is it that Ric Flair in 2010 is still the best interview in wrestling?

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12677.cfm Figured I'd post it here since we all love talking about the WWE vault.

A buddy of mine used to always talk about how great it was to watch old WWF PPVs via the watch instantly feature on Netflix. I recently signed up for Netflix, but don't see any WWF/WWE content avalaible to watch instantly. Anyone know the story of why it got pulled? Or was my buddy just full of shit and WWF/WWE never was avalaible on Netflix to watch instantly?

So I've heard about these games released for PS2, and I finally got around to picking them up. Turns out they may be some of the most underrated wrestling games around. First off, just to get it out of the way, they're clearly not as polished as any WWE produced game. That may turn a lot of casual players off right from the jump, but if you get past that there's a lot of fun to be had. The first game is the most basic, but what it lacks in moveset it makes up for in the roster. Here's who's available in that one: * Hulk Hogan * Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka * Road Warrior Hawk * Road Warrior Animal * Bret "Hitman" Hart * The Iron Sheik …

If you don't mind I'd like to share the results of this here. We spent quite a bit of time digging up and watching matches. -- 176 matches received a vote. -- No match appeared on all lists. Six matches were on eight lists. -- Oldest match: 6/19/93. -- Newest match: 1/13/01. -- Matches ranked by total points with number of votes breaking ties. #1. 2/3 Falls Match: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Psicosis - Philadelphia, PA 10/7/95 (aired 10/17/95) (359 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote, 1 second-place vote, 3 third-place votes) #2. Shane Douglas vs. Chris Jericho vs. Pitbull #2 vs. Too Cold Scorpio - Heat Wave 7/13/96 (332 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote) …

Like Floyd, I am blatantly stealing this idea from Loss (and Floyd). 1969 3/5/69 - the Destroyer vs. Giant Baba JWA ***** 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 12/10/77 - Harley Race vs. Jerry Lawler Memphis 1978 1979 1980 2/5/80 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tatsumi Fujinami NJPW ****1/4 2/8/80 - Stan Hansen vs. Antonio Inoki NJPW ***1/4 4/3/80 - Stan Hansen vs. Antonio Inoki NJPW ***3/4 9/9/80 - Harley Race vs. Giant Baba AJPW *1/4 1981 4/23/81 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask NJPW **** 9/23/81 - Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen NJPW ***** 11/14/81 - Andre the Giant vs. Killer Khan WWF *3/4 Stretcher 1982 1/28/82 - D…

I thought this was important enough to warrant its own topic but Meltzer is reporting that Steamboat suffered an aneurysm and is currently in the hospital. This sucks. http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/13934/

I thought of this the other night as I was continuing to watch Will's Horsemen set while drinking heavily. Most of the set is stuff I remember watching but when it get's to Ronnie Garvin winning the belt from Flair, it's in the era of my life where I wasn't really watching wrestling regularly anymore. Me and my pals would occasionally catch a show in Philly, but overall, I had stopped watching. I remember finding out that Garvin won the belt, and we actually did go to see Starrcade 87 on closed circuit TV at the Philly Civic Center where the Philly crowd was cheering like mad for Flair like we always did, and booing Garvin. Looking back, everyone seems to go on about…

I've been trying to find this great Austin Idol promo where he has a bag of baby powder and he's running down Dusty Rhodes, saying that Stardust is really nothing more than foot powder. It's from Georgia Championship Wrestling and I was almost positive it was on those Macchia Comps. I went through the ones I have up to 08/80 and it's not there. He was definitely a heel at the time and I think he turns face in Georgia around april/may. I seem to remember it in front of the blue background and it was Idol with his old interviewing style cadence. Does anyone remember this promo? If so, any idea when it was? Might make the search easier...I know I have it unles…

http://www.cornettescollectibles.com/Jim-C...ol-2-100196.htm Each Vol. is 2 discs, and you save $10 when you buy both together at the above link. They look awesome, and the MX set released several months ago IS awesome, so Cornette already has more of my money.

"DiBiase is in because he was generally a headliner everywhere he went from the late 70s until his retirement, and for most of that period was considered to be one of the five or ten best workers in the business. The others mentioned were all major players but I wouldn't consider any of them seriously as Hall of Fame candidates. Rude was a star and a good worker, but his run at the top was only a few years and he did a good job carrying Warrior but they didn't draw, and a great job with Sting but it was in that program that he suffered the injuries that led to ending his career. Valentine had some good runs but to me he's way short of Hall of Fame status. Hart in Memphis …

I was gonna respond to this comment in the HBK thread, but I decided not to hijack. 1995 WWF is a particularly weak period for me, knowledge-wise, so I don't know. But I hear this comment made all the time. I liked the matches Nash had with Bret, and he had a very good mania match with Taker (that was in 96, though?). What was it that made him so hated, onscreen? Did he just squash the feck out of everyone? The guy has charisma, as proven by his WCW and TNA runs, but was he just too green on the mic? What are people thinking happened?