DR Ackermann
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Probably my least favorite Tenryu vs New Japan match so far. Still fun, but I think Kitahara is out of his element. He doesn't know when to step up and be aggressive and when to sit back, if that makes sense. He looks especially lost and uncaring when Fujinami jumps Tenryu at the beginning. Also, Fujinami seems to be at his best since coming back from his injury when he's in there with Tenryu. -
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Hiroshi Hase is playing himself right off my GWE list with these G1 matches. They're just not THAT good. Overly long, repetitive and awkward. Why am I watching Hase do neckbreakers for an extended period of time? Where is this going? Not a bad match, but with what these guys were given as far as booking and time, this is what we get? Hase is losing a lot of steam with me and I can't really point to what makes him great at this point. Sure he has charisma, sure he can sell and work the mat. He very good. But very good ain't great.
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Is much of 1980 available though? 82 or 83 is the first full year of TV we have I'm pretty sure.
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Great fun. Hara is at his best tagging with Tenryu, but so are a lot of guys I suppose. They make a good team even if their double teams are off a lot. Hara actually sells pretty well, as does everyone. Fujinami gives glimpses of the worker he used to be. Tenryu wiping his sweat off in the direction of Fujinami is so awesomely disrespectfu. Loved this match. Offhand it seems like the second or third best tag of the year.
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Pantherwagner, I've never heard of that! Do you have more details and is that available online anywhere?
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What is the reasoning for putting AJ back on if he has fallen off twice? Is it just because Meltzer wants to and its as simple as that?
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It took me a minute to realize it was Big Van. I kept thinking he threw in some extra random letters
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Are you sure about that? Big Van Vader, Crusher Blackwell.
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I'll have Vader a bit higher than Blackwell myself.
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I'm not really a fan of Takada's and I don't remember him being more than decent in his first NJPW run. But I think he was surprisingly good in the UWF NJPW feud a few years later and I thought his matches with Koshinaka were fine despite their rep with some. In fact I thought the broken fingers match was fantastic. I have seen some stuff from the 90s that was mixed but i thought his second 1990 match with Fujiwara was a top 5 MOTY. I haven't seen much of his 80s work outside of New Japan either but thinking about what I have seen, the guy has some glaring flaws, but so does Flair. I'm going to make an effort to fill in my viewing gaps between now and the end of this and see if he ranks. He definitely has a shot at the back end at the very least.
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No one asked me, but I was at a show in New Orleans on Wrestlemania weekend two years ago where Cabana was selling merchandise. A fan was excited to see him and asked if he remembered meeting him while acknowledging that Cabana probably didn't. Cabana was super rude and acted as if the guy was insane and completely dismissed him. I just watched and observed and he kept acting like he was too good to be there. He had a real air of superiority about him even though he was hawking DVDs at a show he wasn't even on.
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Steamboat's 1990s puts him in the top half for me. Without his WCW run from that era he wouldn't rate too high. He pulled it all together during that time to be one of the best in the world.
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If you didn't find his offense weak then you didn't find his offense weak. I personally thought it looked soft and eye-rollingly pathetic most of the time. That I still see him as an all time great is a credit to how good he was at most everything else.
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His awkward "punches," his chops to the head. On offense he looked physically stiff and awkward. It didn't look painful. He did do an arm drag, yes. And he had good chops. The rest was pretty shitty looking and lacked impact.
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Steamboats biggest drawback is his poor offense. He might have the worst offense of anyone who will be on my list. But that he was as great as he was in spite of that says a lot.
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I'll say that Dugan looked better in midsouth than later in his career, but he still doesn't come close to making my list. Good is good, bad is bad and neither one is GREAT.
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91. There wasn't a G1 in 1990.
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I'll give you that one.
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Too many subpar matches against other great workers and not enough quality with subpar workers to really be considered an all time GOAT. Who did he carry? Certainly had the opportunities to impress and pad his resume, getting marquee matches with the top names in the business for almost 2 decades that we have on tape. Honestly do not get the hype and see him as the most overrated guy of all time. Will provably make the bottom of my list for being involved in so many great matches over a long period of time (mostly tags) even if he was the worst guy in most of them. Boring on the mat, awkward brawler, tried too hard and was overly theatrical with his bomb throwing, selling and taunting.
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I would say that Hara was a notch or two below Takashi Ishikawa and Hara got a lot more opportunities than he did. Hara benefits from being in big matches with great workers, but Ishikawa did more with the opportunities he got. He worked really hard to earn his keep in the WAR/New Japan feud. While Hara was solid and good at best, Ishikawa was good and pretty darn good at best. Ishikawa was a more game second fiddle to Tenryu and Ishikawa is not making my list.