February 1, 20196 yr comment_5878232 Kento vs Tana and Sekimoto vs Tana are two legit dream matches for me. Of fucking course I am tuning in for that.
February 5, 20196 yr comment_5878555 Hey guys remember that one time the Headbangers wrestled Slater and Rhyno and it fucking rocked?
February 6, 20196 yr comment_5878647 How's this for a historical what if? The latest retro Observer is the issue covering Keiji Mutoh and Satoshi Kojima's jump to All Japan. One of the guys they tried to recruit to go with them: Hiroshi Tanahashi.
February 7, 20196 yr comment_5878724 Randomly, I remembered one of my first issues of PWI, where an article covered the feud between John Rambo and the Mad Russian. I've been able to find two Rambo matches online, a tag with Dave Donovan vs. Mad Russian/Skank and a singles match from Portland vs. Mike Winner. Anybody else have anything on this guy? Seems like he had the perfect look for wrestling - 6'4", built, moves alright - so I'm wondering why he never went anywhere.
February 7, 20196 yr comment_5878725 20 hours ago, NintendoLogic said: How's this for a historical what if? The latest retro Observer is the issue covering Keiji Mutoh and Satoshi Kojima's jump to All Japan. One of the guys they tried to recruit to go with them: Hiroshi Tanahashi. "It is believed they also recruited Hiroshi Tanahashi, 25, who most believe has the most potential of all the younger wrestlers in New Japan, but Tanahashi decided against going with them."
February 7, 20196 yr comment_5878726 4 hours ago, Laz said: Randomly, I remembered one of my first issues of PWI, where an article covered the feud between John Rambo and the Mad Russian. I've been able to find two Rambo matches online, a tag with Dave Donovan vs. Mad Russian/Skank and a singles match from Portland vs. Mike Winner. Anybody else have anything on this guy? Seems like he had the perfect look for wrestling - 6'4", built, moves alright - so I'm wondering why he never went anywhere. Some of the boys in Portland suspected him of being a stooge for the athletic commission (Sandy Barr was in hot water with the commission for putting on shows without a promoter's license, which he tried to get around by billing them as public workouts). Art Barr shot on him during a match and destroyed his face.
February 8, 20196 yr comment_5878813 19 hours ago, Laz said: Randomly, I remembered one of my first issues of PWI, where an article covered the feud between John Rambo and the Mad Russian. I've been able to find two Rambo matches online, a tag with Dave Donovan vs. Mad Russian/Skank and a singles match from Portland vs. Mike Winner. Anybody else have anything on this guy? Seems like he had the perfect look for wrestling - 6'4", built, moves alright - so I'm wondering why he never went anywhere. Rambo ended up hooking up with a guy named Dick Caricofe and running a promotion called National Wrestling League/House of Pain Wrestling Federation in the Maryland/West Virginia/Pennsylvania area. They also have a wrestling school which I understand from talking to several people and my time ring announcing on local indies is a complete fucking joke. I attended a few shows in the mid-2000's while I lived in Virginia and they were for the most part hardcore garbage brawls, with a women's match, a single name to draw, and Rambo in the main event. The name was usually Samu, and sometimes Gangrel. To the point of how bad the shows were... I once saw Rambo blade a referee who looked to be about 19 years old. The crowd was chanting "Hit the Ref" after a bad call, so he nailed him with whatever trash was laying in the ring and then obviously gigged the kid in front of everyone. Classy Anyway, if you wikipedia National Wrestling League you can see the who's who of who cares that worked for Rambo. Lastly, Rambo likes to claim that he trained Luke Gallows. I asked Gallows about it on a show one time and he laughed then replied "Fuck that guy"
February 8, 20196 yr comment_5878820 Do we know for a fact that the Pacific Northwest John Rambo is the same guy as the Mid-Atlantic John Rambo? After all, there's been a million wrestlers who have been called Rambo or some variant thereof. In addition to this guy/these guys, there's the luchador who lost his mask to Villano III, the guy who worked for Otto Wanz and joined the Truth Commission, and Ron Starr in Puerto Rico. Who else?
February 8, 20196 yr comment_5878822 On 2/5/2019 at 3:00 PM, KawadaSmile said: Hey guys remember that one time the Headbangers wrestled Slater and Rhyno and it fucking rocked? Was actually just thinking about this the other day and wondering why The Headbangers didn't get a second run out of it.
February 8, 20196 yr comment_5878825 52 minutes ago, NintendoLogic said: Do we know for a fact that the Pacific Northwest John Rambo is the same guy as the Mid-Atlantic John Rambo? After all, there's been a million wrestlers who have been called Rambo or some variant thereof. In addition to this guy/these guys, there's the luchador who lost his mask to Villano III, the guy who worked for Otto Wanz and joined the Truth Commission, and Ron Starr in Puerto Rico. Who else? The mid-atlantic Rambo lists being in Portland in his profile on the website for his wrestling company. Rambo Bio
February 9, 20196 yr comment_5878915 The footage I found of the tag match and the singles from Portland are clearly the same guy, so I'll go out on a limb and say yes. Thanks for the replies, gents.
February 11, 20196 yr comment_5879002 I didn’t get to watch it yet, but Netflix produced a Mexico themed series of Nailed It and one of the episodes guest stars Psycho Clown.
February 11, 20196 yr comment_5879013 On 2/8/2019 at 5:28 AM, Blehschmidt said: Rambo ended up hooking up with a guy named Dick Caricofe and running a promotion called National Wrestling League/House of Pain Wrestling Federation in the Maryland/West Virginia/Pennsylvania area. They also have a wrestling school which I understand from talking to several people and my time ring announcing on local indies is a complete fucking joke. I attended a few shows in the mid-2000's while I lived in Virginia and they were for the most part hardcore garbage brawls, with a women's match, a single name to draw, and Rambo in the main event. The name was usually Samu, and sometimes Gangrel. To the point of how bad the shows were... I once saw Rambo blade a referee who looked to be about 19 years old. The crowd was chanting "Hit the Ref" after a bad call, so he nailed him with whatever trash was laying in the ring and then obviously gigged the kid in front of everyone. Classy Anyway, if you wikipedia National Wrestling League you can see the who's who of who cares that worked for Rambo. Lastly, Rambo likes to claim that he trained Luke Gallows. I asked Gallows about it on a show one time and he laughed then replied "Fuck that guy" I went to a show where the main event was Rambo vs. Disco Inferno in a cage, I don't remember it being good. Northern Indies in the 90s were rough
February 11, 20196 yr comment_5879027 Here's a question for the historians. How did Jerry Lawler get an IWGP title shot in 1989? As far as I know, he never toured Japan before then, which isn't surprising since they liked to bring in Americans who were hosses and/or headliners in major territories and he was neither. Was it winning the AWA championship that did it for him? Even though the AWA was on life support at that point, their title was still traditionally considered a major world championship. I'm thinking it might have given him the necessary credibility to work in Japan.
February 11, 20196 yr comment_5879029 That may have been his first New Japan tour but he and Valiant worked All-Japan at least once as a tag team. This was some sort of talent exchange deal, because Fujinami also came to the MSC to face Lawler that same year. And either that year or the year before, Fujinami did a home-and-away series with the Grappler in Portland over their title.
February 12, 20196 yr comment_5879106 Though I know the matches probably werent that exciting, I would love for footage of Fujinami's 89 US tour. That, and footage of the random Eastern Championship Wrestling show where Fujinami worked The Original Sports Bar!
February 12, 20196 yr comment_5879141 Is there any surviving footage from 80s lucha libre show Pavillon Azteca?
February 13, 20196 yr comment_5879190 Nothing to see here, just Bob Roop, Boris Malenko, RON WRIGHT, Ron Garvin, and Bob Orton Jr. exposing the inner workings of the wrestling industry in 1979. Wait, WHAT?!? Video and backstory here.
February 16, 20196 yr comment_5879405 Is that connected to Poffo's ICW? They all wojuld have been working there at the time wouldn't they?
February 16, 20196 yr comment_5879406 It would be about the wrestling war in Knoxville discussed here . Doesn't make sense that they would create an atomic bomb like this, but they actually ended up winning (sorta) so I suppose that explains why it never saw the light of day.
February 16, 20196 yr comment_5879422 Ken Patera was fucking awesome. That just needs to be said now and then.
February 23, 20196 yr comment_5880246 how long did Jim Ross have booking power in early 95 WWF? I don't think he even made it past January did he?
February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880308 Yuji Okabayashi is in the Champions Carnival and on the same Block as Kento Miyahara, Shuji Ishikawa and Zeus. SO FUCKING HAPPY RIGHT NIOW!
February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880310 The ECW invasion of Raw was 22 years ago today. God damn I'm old. I still absolutely remember that day because I came home from school with a nasty stomach virus and remember waking up to see ECW on wwf tv and wondering if I was delirious
March 1, 20196 yr comment_5880710 I somehow missed Scarface calling out Flair for being racist earlier in the month.
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