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On paper Pimpi seems a little crazy but after deep-diving on him many years ago I wouldn't question someone doing this. I'm not sure I would, but he had a role and he excelled well at it. Interestingly, where do you stand on Cassandro?

As a South African I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Either way, beautiful. A couple stunners would definitely cement Mandela's candidacy as SAffer's GOAT president, though.

Rev Ray Duffy has the Santo/Quack tag match. I don't know if anyone has contact with him, though. Here is Low Ki vs Trent

Longevity might be against Pirata here. If you focus on his highs then he should be up there with any of the other lucha brawlers. I'm not sure I'd pick him for best bleeder, but he's definitely one of if not the best bloodletter in wrestling. Watching Pirata gnaw open his opponent's head and spray their blood into the air a la HHH is a sight. Great worked punches, too. That said, the past 10 years (or more? I've not actively sought him out) have not been kind. I remember being all sorts of excited for the Wotan feud (right after that classic with Black Terry) only to be thoroughly let down.

Glad people enjoyed it. I've sent out an e-mail to the owner of AWS to source the other shows. I also came across this today. Looks cool - does anyone have it? Channel has highlights of a Dandy/Satanico hair match from 1988, too. Now that's something I'd pay good money for.

I'm not sure if you know or not, but they did fight 3 times! I would have put money on having seen one of them but I can only find Misawa's last two matches in Mexico

I guess it comes down to preference - do you value wrestlers more who adjust their hair (Choshu) or adjust their pants (Misawa)?

Ask and ye shall receive https://youtu.be/r06mbjJkpCo

Like others said, that post was in no way looking for sympathy. I also agree that your hard drive/data is still salvageable so all is most certainly not lost. When (if) you're ready, I'm sure all of us look forward to your next recaps. It's a goddam treasure.

Oh, sure, I get that, I just jokingly commented on his stature. The guy walks around like he has severe osteoporosis.

Aight, I'm calling BS on this one.

Yeah, this was one of my favourite little threads to get lost in. I might not post much, nor doing so in this thread, but this was a must-view every time something new dropped.

Definitely fills in the gap Casas leaves behind - especially in the 80s - but Casas covers 3+ decades of performers in the bigger companies and about 11 years now of indy scrubs that probably should get a better look.

I wrote a small 'primer' back in 2016 when he caught a little fire because of the Parka brawls. Copy-pasting:

Who do we have for lucha, Negro Casas? It has to be him due to his longevity, surely?

IIRC he signed a 3 year contract taking him well into 2022.

He's no stranger to them as La Sombra. Besides, he's the original Ingobernable (alongside Rush). So he immediately has a programme with/against Naito.

'Taker giving the news to Kane made me question why both Kane and Khali are getting in before he is.

Is Rush stuck in an exclusive contract with ROH? The fact he isn't a big thing is mind-boggling to me. I'd love to see him and Sombra teaming in AEW.

If we're going to look at athletic big dudes, Darksyde is a 500lb dude that does a moonsault.

Look, I want to believe this is (hopeful) personal growth, but this part got me a little perplexed. I don't know enough of the details so my perspective could be why but... uh what? If that's so, then surely he's more dropping these suits as he lost the one he apparently had "da fax" to prove his case. Proceeding (and losing/having them thrown out) with anything else would just be PR suicide for him at this point.

I'm surpsied @El-P has gone so radio-silent. He seemed to be the most excited going in. I think they probably booked themselves into a corner with both payoffs here - noting safety restrictions etc in place for the timebomb match and then the "HoFer level" hype from Show. If he had just played it off as him bringing a friend with him and one people would be pleased to see it wouldn't have been such a let down. I was actually thinking, and would still prefer, it to have been Chris Hero. As for the explosion, I'm sure it would have come across a lot better with a different camera angle. Whoever was in charge of production should get their knuckles rapped.

I've got nothing inciteful to add but the topic did make me wonder how Concrete1992 and Tanner are doing and if they still don't know wrestling?