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  1. Added: Jaquar Yokota v Chino Sato (AJW 01/04/80) ****1/4 Jackie Sato v Tommy Aoyama (AJW 01/04/80) ****1/2 Yumiko Hotta & Mitsuko Nishiwaki v Akira Hokuto & Suzuka Minami (AJW 08/89 - 2/3 falls) ****1/2
  2. Added: Brazo de Oro & Brazo de Plata v Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo (Hamada's UWF 03/10/91) **** El Signo & Black Power v Silver King & El Texano (Hamada's UWF 03/10/91) ***3/4 Brazo de Oro & Brazo de Plata v Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo (Hamada's UWF 03/10/91) ***1/2 Villano III & Villano IV v El Brazo & Super Brazo (Hamada's UWF 03/10/91) ***1/2
  3. Added: Ted DiBiase & Steve Williams v Jake Roberts & The Barbarian (Mid South 08/09/85 - Cage Match) **** Dick Murdoch v The Nightmare (Mid South 08/09/85) ***1/2
  4. Added: Chigusa Nagayo v Jumbo Hori (AJW, July 1985) ***1/4 Bull Nakano & Dynamite Jack v Jumping Bomb Angels (AJW, September 1988) ***1/2 Lioness Asuka v Yumi Ogura (AJW, September 1988) ***1/2 Chigusa Nagayo, Toshiyo Yamada & Mika Komatsu v Kumiko Iwamoto, Dynamite King & Dynamite Queen (AJW, September 1988) ***1/2 Lioness Asuka v Toshiyo Yamada (AJW, September 1988) ***1/4
  5. I've been asked to update the thread whenever I add something new. So I'll start doing that. I'll eventually be reviewing all of this. Right now, I'm just trying to get a first time viewing for as much wrestling as possible, so I'll just be posting whatever I added here. Added: Angel Azteca, El Dandy & El Texano v Fuerza Guerrera, Pierroth Jr. & Jerry Estrada (CMLL 03/04) ****1/2 (#2 MOTY for 1990)
  6. Angel Azteca, El Dandy & El Texano v Fuerza Guerrera, Pierroth Jr. & Jerry Estrada - CMLL 03/04/90 I don't know what I love most in this match. It's either the dumb luck of Fuerza Guerrera consistently pinning the wrong guy, the melodramatic booking, the incredibly fast-paced first caida, Pierroth taking an accidental bump off of the top rope breaking that looks like it would kill a normal man, the incredible ability to improvise that everyone in this match displayed as a result of that bump or Jerry Estrada selling a tombstone piledriver for ages, long after the match is over. Rudos wrestle at a 3-2 disadvantage after Pierroth takes the bump, which for the record is one of the most brutal things I've ever seen in wrestling. Dissension is there between Dandy and Azteca (teasing a feud??). I think what impressed me is that the match wasn't really one that had fate on its side and could have easily fallen apart, if only because the wrestlers would be so shaken by the Pierroth thing that they'd wrestle too cautiously the rest of the match and be afraid to do their normal routine. But they wrestled with as much confidence after the rope break as they did before it, and stayed on the same path they were on before that. These guys are true pros. What a great match!
  7. What is your opinion of the Kevin Nash v X-Division feud?
  8. Owen Hart v Marty Jones - World of Sport 03/05/87 Excellent match with really superb build from the opening matwork to the big moves being pulled out later on. Match was structured awesomely. I only wish death moves like the tombstone piledriver were sold (Owen ate the move and was to his feet before Jones), and that the double bump over the top would have resulted in something. That said, the exchanges and chain wrestling are far too awesome to ignore. You wish they would have put over the big moves a little more than they did, but that's really the only complaint I can make. What they did right overwhelmed what seemed out of place.
  9. Bret said that Shawn Michaels was trained by a Mexican wrestler, and that he couldn't think of any really tough Mexican wrestlers, in those training vignettes they aired going into WM XII. I believe some have credited the lack of heat for the Ironman match, which was in SoCal, to those comments, but I might be imagining things there. But I do know that there were some lucha libre fans that were pretty upset with him for it.
  10. Bret has said in numerous interviews that he doesn't like Mexican wrestlers in general. Remember the controversy heading into WM 12 because of what he said about luchadores not being "tough"?
  11. Funny interview, but Bret had no idea. Psicosis and El Dandy are both really, really great, and not an ironic, condescending sort of way either.
  12. I'll admit that I posted this mainly to talk about Question #2, but I thought I'd make it more balanced to be fair to people who enjoy current wrestling. What prompted this post, of all things, was watching DiBiase/Virgil from Summerslam '91 last night. Not a great match, but the heat was off the charts. A four year storyline was culminating between a great worker having his last hurrah and a never-was guy with no talent, but they blew the roof off the place. And Piper. My God, Piper. Just incredible acting at ringside, dare I say better acting than anything anyone in WWE has done since probably 1997. This midcard match seemed like life or death, because Piper worked himself into such a frenzy on commentary and whether you believed wrestling was real, you believed Piper meant what he said. I think above all else, that's what wrestling is missing at the moment. Great dramatists up and down the card. Color commentary that gets over not just the story, but the *personalities*. Logic and slow build. Anyway, the whole match is proof positive that with the right booking, anyone can look good. I'm sick of hearing why this person or that person can't make it, because throughout wrestling history, there have been some major slugs that have gotten over in a big way because they were presented in a way where they seemed important.
  13. (1) Is there anything about modern day wrestling that you think is better than wrestling from 5, 10 or 15 years ago? If so, what is it? (2) If you think wrestling right now is missing something, what do you think it is?
  14. Yes, only without reference to Razor Ramon "turning both of them, literally, into puddles."
  15. WWE.com also said it lasted five minutes and had a full feature article on it, so yeah, I'd say Wade got worked, which is hilarious.
  16. Joe and Danielson are better than Chris Benoit if Joe and Danielson would achieve better results performing in the exact same environment. I'm not so sure that's the case, although I do agree that Joe and Danielson are having better matches simply because they're put in a position to have better matches.
  17. Despite WWE not being a haven for great wrestling, the point stands that the best wrestlers in WWE (Benoit/Finlay/Rey, etc) are better than anyone on the indies. It's important to remember that even if one enjoys the ROH or TNA guys more, that doesn't mean that they're necessarily "better" -- CM Punk stumbling pretty badly in OVW, by all accounts, should make that obvious. The best vacation from the humdrum of modern wrestling isn't more modern wrestling from another country or style, it's the past, and all the great wrestling that happened for decades before now.
  18. NJ juniors are a little more stoic than the Michinoku Pro guys overall, so I think M-Pro makes a better starting point. The Heartbreak commercial video (covering 9/96-12/96) is actually the best starting point for non-US juniors stuff I can think of.
  19. The best matches to watch starting out that exemplify the difference in US cruisers and Japanese juniors are the Liger/Samurai and Liger/Sano matches, because they're really fierce brawls with a clear face and a clear heel. Then, maybe look into guys like Benoit and Guerrero, see which opponents people like best of theirs and then expand beyond that. 80s NJ juniors don't get as much love as their 90s counterparts, but they were pretty great themselves, and most of them went on to be heavies anyway.
  20. The thing that I think people are starting to finally realize, though, is that great wrestling has happened for decades in places besides Japan. Sure, the AJPW stuff is awesome beyond awesome, but it's merely one style. There is so much other stuff out there, specifically in Mexico and from the territory days, that doesn't get nearly the hype, and some cases where the peak stuff is as good as AJPW's peak stuff.
  21. It's Yatsu, not Saito. I have a My __ Favorite Matches thread in the Match Reviews folder you may want to check out. Of stuff I've seen, ranked by years with star ratings, dates and promotions.
  22. Wow, the more things change ...
  23. Ok, so if DX is reunited, who are their opponents going to be? HHH/Cena is about to run out of steam and Edge's longtime tag team partner who would be made for the feud is in TNA. Are there any potential feuds that could result from DX getting back together?
  24. Ashley Massaro had almost no training and was put on the road, so I put nothing past WWE.
  25. This is a huge statement, but maybe WWE finally figured out with no competition that they can play fans from both sides and still make money off of them, even if they don't like the Titan style, by providing their own alternative. Or maybe not. My hopes aren't up for sure.
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