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Factoring out that the ***** WON rating is nuts, this is still a great match. We only get the last 15 minutes or so, but what's shown is pretty all-action. Kawada is the star of this, coming after both Misawa and Kobashi pretty strong. Honda brings a lot more to this than Asako, especially in his exchanges with Kobashi, so I guess they always worked well together. Honda going headbutt-crazy on him when he breaks up a pin attempt on Asako was terrific. Really nice finishing sequence involving everyone, although it peeved me to see Honda take the fall. Put the Holy Demon Army over again and let do-little Asako take the pin. Anyway, it is a little odd that I've never heard more about this match, but I guess this is a crowded year for high-level matches in All Japan. More great in a 1992 All Japan way than a 1995 All Japan way. -
Excellent match. It's not on the level of the best Japanese matches of the year. But this is the sort of match that if it happened in the U.S. would be remembered as a classic. Oya is a great, old-school heel and works over Hayabusa's knee for the early part of this match, eventually leading to a big comeback and hot series of nearfalls. The comeback feels more organic because Oya still has gas in the tank and is putting up a good fight, which makes sense considering that he's taken less of a beating. Hayabusa's selling is really strong, and so are his ... um ... eye expressions. I think it's a credit to him that he was able to get a storyline over in the way he did showing only his eyes. I know plenty of masked wrestlers have done the same, but I think it's even harder for Hayabusa, because his mask covers even more of his face. But there are times when he seems genuinely surprised that Oya is coming back from something he just threw at him and his eyes tell the story. He also times his kickouts perfectly to get the maximum reaction. So much of what I have said has focused on how they work nearfalls. There's really a lot more to the match than that, but they do so many things so well that I can't help but point them out. This doesn't feel like "my turn, your turn" at all -- it's more that each guy overestimates how much damage he's done repeatedly, and ends up paying for it. Aside from Kudo/Toyota, this is the best FMW match I have ever seen. They probably did a few too many kickouts in the last few minutes, but the match accomplished its goals nicely and this was a great showing for both.
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It was like a 10-minute match, but SK always referred to the Muta match as being this remarkable example of improv.
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The match happened and was on the 1992 Yearbook, but yeah, I think that's something he made up or decided was true or something -- I don't know. But he has been running with it for years. (The match is dreadfully boring, by the way.)
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Young Scallions Poll of the Week Results
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Members Only: Randy Orton Trashes Hotel
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I actually do have an idea for a story which is close enough to home to be funny, but which would be impossible to actually happen. But yes, Ric Flair is a joke that writes himself these days. We'll see.
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Print Edition Contents: 12/16/2011
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Thanks. We actually have a TON more "John Laurinitis hires the wrong ..." jokes, so expect that to be a running gag. I agree that we probably overdid it early on, but if it's slowed down a bit and pops up once a week or so (as opposed to three times in a day), that may be better.
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Just a few months ago, Vince was openly talking about how willing the company was to take on a ton of debt to expand. Even if they never profited from having their own network all that much, it might be a smart loss leader because it secures their future.
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This is quite a bit different from your usual Toyota match, and even quite a bit different from your usual Toyota/Kong match. I'll be careful not to overstate that -- they aren't different people. Toyota still starts with an incredibly fast pace. Kong still does the pointless drag-through-crowd stuff. But we get past all of that and this becomes ... a Toyota selling performance and ... she's good at it. Really good. She actually reminds me more of Hokuto here, because she's so good at selling the storyline and even the multiple dropkick comeback at each corner feels like a Hokuto spot. She shows a lot of great babyface fire, and in a singles setting, this may be the best performance I have ever seen from her. Toyota's default was to be the wrestler who never stopped, but this match showed that she was capable of slowing it down, getting over the story and selling in a long-term way for her opponent. She just almost never worked that kind of match. Because of her great selling (shocked I'm typing that), the nearfalls from both are getting tremendous heat. Based on the matches so far, I'd call 1995 her best year of the yearbooks I have watched so far, with this being the best performance I've ever seen from her. Not quite her best match, but her best performance. Even said, this is one of the best matches of the year. As much as I liked the March match, this was a few notches above it. Now then ... the WWWA title changed hands too much during this time! If Toyota was just going to have a cup of coffee, why not just keep the belt on Kong until August to make the Kansai moment bigger, AND make the Toyota victory in December bigger too? I don't see what the quick switch back and forth did for Kong, Toyota or Kansai, considering how long Kong held the belt. Dropping the title needed to be a significant moment, and last time I watched it was, but I'm predicting this will take something away from Kansai's win.
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WWE bans use of the word 'ring' on television
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Bix and I had a conversation on AIM a few weeks back where we discussed how great an Onion-like wrestling site would be. We tossed funny fake headlines at each other for a while before we decided to do it ourselves. Introducing The Young Scallions, a combination of preposterous yet plausible headlines and stories: http://www.theyoungscallions.com We hope you'll check it out and make it part of your wrestling web site routine.
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Lawler thought he had terminal halitosis! He visits his dentist, Dr. Isaac Yankem in attempt to improve his breath. And Glen Jacobs gets his first big break. The guy was a more competent Sid Vicious with no attitude -- I'm surprised both companies weren't throwing millions at him and thinking he was the future.
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This gets better as it goes on when Eddy starts "letting his heel persona shine through", to quote John Cena, but this is still too by-the-numbers. Kanemoto has had an excellent streak of matches thus far in 1995. This is a solid one too, but it's not as good as the Otani and Benoit matches in March and April. Too much time on the mat not really doing anything of consequence, and the fun part was too short.
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