Robert S

After a quick view on Ditch's list here is a list of 23 matches from 00-06 that I would consider the must see stuff (either because it is that good or it was hyped back then) from that period (probably not complete as I did this in 10 minutes and I haven't seen most of this stuff since it happened): Kobashi vs. Akiyama 12/23/00 Liger & Inoue vs. Kikuchi & Kanemaru 2/17/02 Misawa & Kobashi vs. Akiyama & Nagata 2/17/02 Ogawa vs. Takayama 9/7/02 Takayama vs. Misawa 9/23/02 Misawa vs. Kobashi 3/1/03 Kobashi vs. Honda 4/13/03 Taue vs. Nagata 6/6/03 Akiyama & Saito vs. Kobashi & Honda 6/6/03 KENTA & Marufuji vs. Kanemaru & Hashi 9/12/03 Kobashi vs. Ogawa 11/1/03 Misawa & Ogawa vs. KENTA & Marufuji 4/25/04 Kobashi vs. Takayama 4/25/04 Morishima vs. Ikeda 6/1/04 Takayama vs. KENTA 6/27/04 Kobashi vs. Akiyama 7/10/04 Akiyama & Tenryu vs. Kobashi & Shiozaki 4/24/05 Kobashi vs. Sasaki 7/18/05 Misawa vs. Kawada 7/18/05 KENTA vs. SUWA 9/18/05 Sasaki & Nakajima vs. Kobashi & Shiozaki 11/5/05 Taue vs. Marufuji 3/5/06 Misawa vs. Morishima 3/5/06 There were more junior matches that was hyped pretty much but I don't think you are the guy who would enjoy long Marufuji vs. KENTA matches or MaruKENTA tag matches. Furthermore I did not add any six man tags, mostly because I don't remember which were the great ones.

Forgot that UT-Mankind was on the same show. Was this their first match and the one where Foley shockingly went over after Bearer turned on Taker? Yeah, that was good. Bearer turned on Summerslam, though Mankind won after Bearer accidentally (?) hit Taker with the urn.

Repost from DVDVR: My Puerto Rico disc 1 rankings: Ric Flair vs. Carlos Colon (10/16/82) Carlos Colon & The Invader vs. Los Pastores (Ambulance Match) (12/21/85) Ric Flair vs. Dusty Rhodes (12/21/85) The Invaders vs. Los Pastores (Barbed Wire Match) (9/21/85) Carlos Colon vs. Tully Blanchard (1983) Ric Flair vs. Tommy Gilbert (9/4/82) Carlos Colon vs. Bruiser Brody (Chain Match) (Summer 1984) Abdullah the Butcher vs. Andre the Giant (9/17/83) Randy Savage vs. Hercules Ayala (3/2/85) Gino Dellaserra & Pierre Martel vs. Los Mercenarios (11/27/82) Abdullah the Butcher vs. Carlos Colon (September 1981) El Gran Apollo vs. Buddy Landell (5/8/83) Carlos Colon vs. Abdullah the Butcher (9/21/85) El Gran Apollo vs. Dick Steinborn (February 1983) Los Pastores vs. Jay & Mark Youngblood (Spring 1985) Hercules Ayala vs. Killer Tim Brooks (Taped Fist Cage Match) (October 1985)

From what I remember Okinawa Pro was promoted by Super Delfin who of course also acted as the ace of the promotion.

Bockwinkel and Robinson did have a legend match, in Japan 1992 for UWFi.

Honestly the whole thing does not sound that bad. I am sure I have attended much more useless seminars (non-wrestling related) that were way more expensive than this one.

I thought so because Parv replied by talking about 1972 smart fans.

Masahiro Chono was a New Japan guy, so I don't get where the Giant Baba booker comment of Chad came from.

I could not agree more. After both guys throwing the worst strikes imaginable (and lots of them) it really felt good seeing Gulak (and to a lesser degree ZSJ) go all out with the stiffness. Daniel Bryan is slowly jumping the shark as a commentator for me. This week he seemed sounded like Gabe in 2004 switching almost randomly between normal speaking and shouting.

He actually also gets press passes for WWE though he rarely uses them. His main argument (which I think is bullshit) for that is that for wrestling reporting being there live has no benefit. Last year at Wrestlemania he only attended as he could watch the show in a skybox and have access to the commentary.

Wasn't the argument more that this is the most likely thing that would happen to him if he would be signed and called up immediately?

The PS3 app is a buggy piece of shit. I have already become used to the occasional crash and that shows sometimes don't want to disappear from the "continue watching" list, but for some weeks the thing has become much worse. Now sometimes when I start the application the "continue watching" list is just plain empty, sometimes a restart of the the app helps, currently it does not. In addition I have also seen shows that I have never watched or that I finished watching months ago appear at the top of the "continue watching" list. That the whole thing usability-wise lacks the most obvious features (like list WWE shows in a chronological order) I probably don't have to mention.

Ibushi's german suplex looked much more dangerous than the brainbuster.

I actually prefered Tajiri vs. Metalik, Ibushi vs. Alexander was too spotastic / near fall-tastic for my taste.

I remember Meltzer bringing that up.

They really asked for the Goldberg chants by giving him the "feed me more" catchphrase which resonates with "who's next?" a bit too much.

Not being polished is putting it very lightly. He looked like a guy on a 2002 ROH Boston undercard.

That Kenneth Johnson guy might have a great story but he was by far the worst wrestler in the tournament so far. He messed up half of the stuff he tried and stumbled around the ring as if this was his first match. Apart from Johnson I liked the second week much more than the first week. The crowd was also much more into the show.

Kudos to Bix for the Stringer Bell reference.

Who was that comment about having to be a pharmacist when trying to smuggle drugs into Japan about? The only pharmacist in pro wrestling I can think about is Joe Malenko.

The "choking" section might have been the most disturbing thing I have ever heard on a wrestling podcast and that covers a lot of ground.

I think this segment was part of the first WCW TV show I ever watched (either this or the previous one, I am not sure). It's not hard to understand why it took me another year or so until I gave WCW another shot.

As shitty as WCW TV was at this period Beach Blast has a hell of a line-up, at least what Bischoff was running down here.