Everything posted by PeteF3
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[1995-11-25-SMW-TV] Heavenly Bodies & Robert Gibson vs The Thugz & Brad Armstrong
A worthy end to Smoky Mountain television--a good, solid action-packed TV main event that gives you a tease of Heel Gibson without giving too much away for giving him any sort of comeuppance. Plus a little extra heat for the Armstrong-Gordy title program. Oh, and damn does Miss Texas throw a hell of a punch. Hey, Brad cuts a pretty good fiery promo. Maybe his problem in WCW was that he never seemed to be booked into any issues to get worked up about.
- [1992-07-20-WWF-Primtime Wrestling] Bret Hart vs Rick Martel
- [1992-07-20-WWF-Primtime Wrestling] Bret Hart vs Rick Martel
- [1992-10-23-UWFi-Combat Sport] Nobuhiko Takada vs Koji Kitao
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[1992-01-31-CMLL] Blue Panther vs Ultimo Dragon
I wouldn't call this a truly great match but Panther gives one of the most selflessly great performances I've ever seen. Dragon is still wet behind the ears, but his highspots are pretty spectacular for the time. This is designed as a Dragon showcase so Panther gives him the vast majority of the match, to its detriment as Dragon on the mat instead of throwing bombs and dives isn't all that interesting here. They do build well to some terrific near-falls and both guys hit some big moves, before Dragon pulls off a major upset. It's easy to give your opponent lots of offense when you're going over, but to put over a relative youngster as well was a very bold move by CMLL and Panther.
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[1992-01-04-AJW-Korakuen Super Charge] Takako Inoue & Mariko Yoshida vs Debbie Malenko & Sakie Hasegawa
I don't know which of these two I saw since the Youtube video didn't provide a date. Ten minutes shown with a highlight of Malenko doing an exploder/t-bone suplex off the top turnbuckle, if that helps. Fun look at what the AJW mid-carders were doing--they certainly don't hold back. Hasegawa works as the underdog/junior member role again and Debbie, someone I've never seen before, looks very impressive. They build nicely to a hot closing stretch in the time given (though I understand the AJW editors were the most skilled "match clippers" ever in terms of not making it look like you missed anything). This is another tag hurt by a horribly timed finish, with the referee arbitrarily stopping a count at two and signaling that a comatose Hasegawa got her shoulder up. That's an Angel Hernandez-level bad call.
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[1992-05-24-AJW] Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Akira Hokuto & Etsuko Mita
I liked this one quite a bit better than the Toyota/Hasegawa match. The stuff I complained about re: lack of structure, and lack of differentiating attributes to each wrestler, wasn't here at all. LCO comes in with a definite gameplan (TM Jim Ross)--work over Bison, keep Aja out of the ring and preferably off the apron as much as possible. When Aja is in, try to double-team the shit out of her. They still cut a fast pace but the overarching strategy went into just about everything the workers did. A ton of near-falls towards the end when it really looks like the divide-and-conquer strategy is going to pay off, but Bison hangs on just long enough for Aja to recover from the piledriver on the floor and tag in, and then it seems as their final chance to win has slipped away. Unfortunately there's some really badly timed stuff in the closing stretch--Hokuto is supposed to counter a second-rope power bomb into a huracanrana that doesn't work well, and then it seems Mita gets knocked legitimately loopy on Kong's spinning backfist, leading to a stretched-out and rather woefully done finish with Aja pulling a Sabu and repeating a spot that didn't work the first time. I think I have this as the #3 joshi match of '92 that I've seen, behind the 2/3 fall Jungle Jack tag and Aja vs. Bull.
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[1992-09-23-NJPW-Battle Autumn '92] Tatsumi Fujinami & Riki Choshu & Osamu Kido & Takayuki Iizuka vs Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura & Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito
- [1992-06-21-AJW-Grand Prix] Sakie Hasegawa vs Mariko Yoshida
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- AJW
- June 21
- 1992
- Sakie Hasegawa
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- [1992-05-24-AJW] Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Akira Hokuto & Etsuko Mita
- [1992-04-29-AJW-New Generation] Takako Inoue vs Mariko Yoshida
- [1992-10-17-AJW] Bat Yoshinaga & Tomoko Watanabe vs Erika Tsuchiya & Yoshika Maedomari
- [1992-09-15-AJW-Bull Nakano 10th Anniversary Show] Akira Hokuto vs Suzuka Minami
- [1992-09-19-FMW-3rd Anniversary Show] Megumi Kudo & Combat Toyoda vs Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto
- [1992-08-30-AJW-Grand Prix] Aja Kong vs Toshiyo Yamada
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- AJW
- August 30
- 1992
- Korakuen Hall
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- [1992-10-17-AJW] Yumiko Hotta & Suzuka Minami vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada
- [1992-07-15-AJW-Champion's Legend] Mariko Yoshida vs Sakie Hasegawa
- [1992-01-04-AJW-Korakuen Super Charge] Takako Inoue & Mariko Yoshida vs Debbie Malenko & Sakie Hasegawa
- [1992-12-13-AJW] Akira Hokuto vs Takako Inoue
- [1992-06-27-AJW-Beat Power Series] Mariko Yoshida vs Etsuko Mita
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- AJW
- Mariko Yoshida
- Etsuko Mita
- June 27
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Tagged with:
- [1992-04-25-AJPW-Wrestlemarinepiad] Debbie Malenko & Sakie Hasegawa vs Takako Inoue & Mariko Yoshida
Talk about it here.- [1992-01-31-CMLL] Blue Panther vs Ultimo Dragon
- [1992-07-15-AJW-Champion's Legend] Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue
- [1992-08-10-NJPW-G1 Climax] Keiji Muto vs Steve Austin
- [1992-06-27-AJW-Beat Power Series] Mariko Yoshida vs Etsuko Mita
- [1992-06-21-AJW-Grand Prix] Sakie Hasegawa vs Mariko Yoshida
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