NintendoLogic

Larry Matysik, is that you?

That's funny. I also rewatched Hansen/Kobashi recently, and I liked it more than ever. A match I didn't like quite as much on recent viewing is Hokuto/Kandori. It's still one of my favorite matches, but it used to be in my all-time top 5. Now I don't know if it'd be in my top 10.

I think you're confused. Loss said... I said... No one is making the claim that athletic credentials alone lead to stardom. Loss claims the opposite, and I agree with him. I'm saying there are other reasons guys with legit athletic background appeal to wrestling promoters. You're extrapolating an argument I'm not making from my post. I never accused anyone of saying that athletic credentials alone lead to stardom. You said that Angle has been pushed and treated like a star because promoters are insecure and seek the validation his presence provides. I'm saying that his athletic background is a miniscule factor at best. It probably helped him get his foot in the door, but it's not the reason he's been a main eventer for over a decade.

Yeah, I rather doubt that Vince is all that intimidated by the prospect of the NFLPA causing trouble. Of the major player's unions, it has by far the worst track record in negotiations and the lowest levels of player solidarity. If wrestlers ever formed a union, it'd probably look a lot like the NFLPA.

I think the importance of Kurt Angle's athletic credentials is overblown. If he had the exact same amateur background and wrestled like, I don't know, Giant Baba, he wouldn't have become nearly as big a star.

He was also supposedly really high on Joe Hennig. Anyway, putting the US title on Ambrose is a good start. It's only a matter of time before he starts jobbing to Randy Orton and Sheamus every week and stops getting promo time.

Actually, Super Bowl quality has increased significantly in recent years. Virtually all of the past ten SBs have been exciting competitive games, with Colts/Bears being the only outright stinker of the bunch.

The Eddy/JBL strap match at the 2004 Bash had lights in the corners.

Yeah, now that his cover has been blown, he might as well go back to being RE. Changing his name isn't going to prevent everyone from piling on if he says something ridiculous.

It was on the WWE Anthology.

Sean O Mac?

If Youtube comments are any indication, every single World of Sport wrestler is a gay icon.

I've changed my 1987 pick to Choshu/Fujiwara, which has increasingly grown on me. I've developed such an appreciation for it, in fact, that I've added it to my list of 50 favorite matches. For those of you keeping track, feel free to check out the updated list in the other thread.

Where are the services involving weight benches?

He eluded detection for so long because he covered his tracks by spelling magic with a g.

This match is just chock-full of awesome moments. Here are a few that stood out to me when I rewatched it recently: -Taue repeatedly cheapshots Kawada off the apron to the point where it becomes a Family Guy-esque running gag. -Jumbo does an OH~! and then forces the audience to do it again after he decides they were insufficiently enthusiastic. -Misawa has Taue in an Indian deathlock, and the two come to blows, so Misawa says "OK, I've got something for your ass" and tags in Kawada. -Team Jumbo absolutely obliterates Kawada's neck during the Kawada-in-peril section, particularly with the spike piledriver. -Fuchi runs in to break up a Kawada half crab, but Kawada flips him off and tags out. -Fuchi returns the favor after taking out Kobashi's leg and then points to Kawada after another dropkick to the leg. -Kobashi reverses a Fuchi suplex and tries to tag out, but Fuchi desperately grabs his ankle and drags him back to the middle of the ring. Greatest hope spot of all time. -The ending, both for Taue getting his comeuppance and the callback to previous matches. Yeah, this match is awesome.

Is FLIK's character related to Big Ben Bader?

The explosion in rights fees for sports programming has boosted WWE's revenue tremendously. What happens to their bottom line if/when that bubble bursts?

I wish people wouldn't call Hart/Austin an I Quit match. It may seem like nitpicking, but it's really an important difference. It's better than an I Quit match precisely because it doesn't have the nonsense with the microphone.

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Added: 1978-Mark Rocco vs. Marty Jones, 7/26 1979-Dory Funk Jr./Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba/Jumbo Tsuruta, 11/30 Also, I changed my 2008 pick to Panther/Villano. I'm not 100% in love with it, but it's good enough for what I think is a pretty weak year overall.

How can you guys hate on a show that had Jesse Ventura as a guest star?

"Pretty fucking good" is a thumbs down by Johnny Sorrow standards, haha.

Added: 1972-Karl Gotch vs. Antonio Inoki, 3/6 1974-The Destroyer vs. Mil Mascaras, 7/25 1975-Harley Race vs. Giant Baba, 12/9 1977-Billy Robinson vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, 3/5 2008-Undertaker vs. Edge, 3/30 Also, I decided to only list matches from 1972 on. That was the year New Japan and All Japan were founded as well as the year PWI awards started, so I figured it was as good a starting point as any. Plus, the relative dearth of footage before then means that I would most likely just end up duplicating Ray's outstanding list.

Added: 1998-Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama, 7/24 2000-Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, 2/27 2002-Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Jushin Liger/Minoru Tanaka, 8/29