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See, I just think it makes him come across as a no-selling bastard. He reminds me some of the characters I ran across when I used to do e-wrestling, whose movesets consisted of all this completely illogical flippy offense and actually incorporated the no-selling or "never submitting" or what have you into their characters. I've not watched 4/21/83 but I really disliked the match from 1982 that won the WO match of the year award. My least favorite of their 3 singles encounters in 1981 and 1982 included on the set.

I brought this up on DVDVR but didn't receive much of a response. Maybe we're just catching the highlights, but three years into the New Japan set I'm rather shocked at how well Inoki, Fujinami and Tiger Mask have been protected. Thus far, Fujinami's only been beaten twice--once in the first fall of the set-opening tag match and again in the 1981 MSG Tag League Finals, with Andre pinning him. Inoki has only lost once, to Hansen by countout. Tiger Mask, with the 4/21/83 match against Dynamite still to go, has yet lose a match of any sort. Though he was part of a double countout against El Canek and a double DQ in the tag match with Hoshino against Hamada and Kobayashi. My question is, were these guys really that bulletproof? Or are there matches out there where they did job that just didn't make the cut? Just makes me shake my head when I hear people bitching about how guys are protected in the modern-day scene.

This week's Todd Martin idiocy, c/o the Raw report. No, dumbass, he tipped his hat to Michaels and then left. Heaven forbid someone writing a report that's supposed to detail what happened on Raw actually watch the freakin show.

To me the one true "alternative" promotion out there that actually serves up something that could be a viable second banana company is CHIKARA. If I ever won Powerball, I might give Quack a few mil just to see what would happen. Besides him retiring to the Bahamas, of course.

Good lord, how do you store a collection that gigantic?

TM's definitely hit or miss, but I dug his match with Hamada like a shovel.

With regard to his coverage by wrestling "journalists", Flair strikes me as the Babe Ruth-type of the biz--in and outside of the ring. On a completely different topic... Anyone else waaaaaaay behind on their New Japan set watching? I've got 13 discs to go and just found out I'll be working the equivalent of double shifts for the next 2 weeks.

My working ballot through 2 discs. I'd like to say this is pending some rewatches... but I've got 13 discs to go in six weeks. WORKING TOP 10 Andre the Giant vs Stan Hansen (9/23/81) Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/3/80) Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (9/11/80) Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Dynamite Kid (2/5/80) Tiger Mask vs. Gran Hamada (11/6/81) Bob Backlund vs. Stan Hansen (9/30/80) Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (2/8/80) Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (11/3/80) 1981 NJPW Tag League Finals-Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Andre the Giant & Rene Goulet (12/10/81) 2/3 Falls-Tatsumi Fujinami & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Dynamite Kid & Steve Keirn (1/18/80) WORKING BOTTOM 5 Tiger Mask & Kengo Kimura vs. Negro Navarro & El Signo (10/30/81) Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Chavo Guerrero (5/9/80) Gran Hamada vs. Babyface (4/3/80) Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Steve Keirn (11/6/80) (I know a lot of people loved it but it bored me silly.) Chavo Guerrero vs. Kengo Kimura (9/30/80)

I've actually been trying to do this through excel, a spreadsheet with my collection indexed by disc, and by wrestler/tag team

That's my thought. I know there was some sloppy execution but the goal was to make TM look like a million bucks. And Dynamite Kid achieved that. So, the match did its job. Will probably be middlin' on my ballot--assuming I get one in.

So with the deadline fast approaching, spent today before my shift trying to play some catch-up. As a general rule, I steer clear of the individual threads discussing each match until I watch them--so as to avoid spoilers. Even though I know the predilection of many of the folks in this fair community, I was rather shocked at the abject Hatred (yeah, capital H) for Tiger Mask/Dynamite from 4/23/81. It was far from a perfect match, and right now it's middle of the road on my ballot, but I still found it entertaining. It probably also should be noted I can count all the Sayama matches I have seen in my life on one hand and have fingers left over. What was your opinion about that match?

As a lapsed ROH devotee, I always felt Nigel and Claudio both had that "big-time" potential because of their size, their ability to wrestle, their charisma before, during and after a match, et cetera

He REALLY wants wrestling to be booked like MMA, doesn't he?

I don't get it.

Didn't Taker and Henry have a pretty darn good casket match at a recent Mania too?

See, that's what I think. But I look at my voluminous DVD collection, not to mention all the matches that get linked online, plus all the stuff on TV and Youtube, and sometimes I think "holy crap, I don't know where to begin!"

Posted this on another forum... As a fairly recent contributor/poster here to this humble little community of wrestling nerditude, I found myself initially blown away by the wealth of matches and shows made available, the discussions and the general breadth of knowledge of wrestling around the globe. It's definitely seen the amount of wrestling on my want-to-see list grow exponentially... the point now where it's almost overwhelming. How do y'all follow/keep up with all of the wrestling going on--not to mention all the good stuff from yesteryear you might have missed the first time around?

Punk got to cut not just one promo in the middle of the Rumble, but THREE. If that doesn't show how highly he ranks in WWE right now, I am not sure what does.

I just finished disc 1, finally. I enjoyed the heck out of that Fujinami/Kimura match. Wow. Tremendous, tremendous stuff.

I agree wholeheartedly. Wrestling, and enjoying wrestling, has always required some suspension of disbelief.

I stand by my point. Even if he missed Miami Vice's heyday, he was around for Nash Bridges. I never watched the show but I knew about it. And Stone Cold was a guest star and everything. Wrestling Crossovers! I just think Martin and his ilk are being purposely oblivious as to the guest hosts in some misguided attempt to look cool.

How old is Todd Martin? I'm in my early 30s and I know who Don Johnson is. And I was a regular viewer of neither Miami Vice nor Nash Bridges. This willful ignorance just seems feigned. Is this all part of a "I'm too cool to keep up with popular culture" schtick that he has going? I only ask because you'd think a journalist--even an "Internet wrestling journalist"--would try to at least have a passing knowledge of what goes on in the world around him. Most of these WO guys must live in Ostrich-town because they apparently live with their heads in the sand.