Ditch
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It depends on who was reasonably available. From the UWFi crew, Takayama and Kakihara they eventually got. Anjoh was still in Takada's thrall and Takada himself would never happen. Let's put Saku and Tamura aside as well, both were too shoot-minded. Nakano was deep into jobberdom and very limited. Sano would have fit but was an also-ran. Yamazaki? He seems like a way better fit for Strong Style than Kings Road. Vader, before he signed with WWF, would be an obvious one. I'd assume Baba tried. Hayabusa, perhaps? But it would have taken a lot for him to jump from FMW. Awesome wasn't quite a proven commodity at this juncture. I'd love to know who you have in mind John.
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I, too, believe you should buy this. And then go back a few issues where I quote a mysterious "Bill Hatrack" on the subject of DVDs.
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I see it as "dynamic bomb + work over the face = loss" based on the carny final so Taue decided to add the leg work. Taue made cut-offs throughout using both methods. Neither got the job done. It ended up taking a 'bigger bomb' (the nodowa to Misawa coming off the top) for Taue to have his only significant pin on Misawa. 9/10 is more 'fun', 4/15 is more 'epic'. I can see being disappointed if you wanted 'epic'.
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Don't forget the give-and-take with Toyota earlier in the year.
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My 2nd favorite of their matches. I love me some non-standard bodypart focus, and they bring the strike exchanges and struggle-for-control and such that make them such great opponents. They don't swing for the fences like with 6/3/94 but it's still plenty 'big' and satisfying. I wish they stuck with this general match rather than going for too much on 6/6/97.
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I could have sworn it was Liger, not Muta.
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I'll add that Lynch has a comm version of NJ 10/23 with just those two matches. Saito/Orihara is slightly clipped on TV and lacks the entrances. The entrances there REALLY set the table for how insane the crowd is. For instance there's a shot of a random guy giving the double-bird towards the ring and just losing it. Unreal. WTF caused all that heat in that feud?! Who cared enough to hate SWS and its offspring, especially from the NJ point of view? I can see if it was All Japan. Oh man... WAR vs AJ would have caused riots.
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After having a dud of a match with Takada, Joe gets to redeem himself in a match with guys who consistently give a shit. Also, more Sano vs Anjoh for Loss! I wish Joe had been brought in more, as opposed to assorted mediocre gaijin that hung around for years. He certainly would have been up for it.
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Anjoh and Takayama, the Golden Cups (for reasons I don't know and don't care to), were a fun brains-and-brawn unit. Kakihara/Kanehara somewhat mirrors them, at least to the extent that Kanehara is best known for being a hard-hitting mofo and Kakihara is smooth as hell. Takayama vs Kanehara is the most consistently brutal pairing UWFi produced and this is no exception, albeit only one of four combinations.
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