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Two Ring Battle Royal 12/27/84 Buddy Landell vs Butch Reed - Shoe Shine Match 12/27/84 Kerry Von Erich vs Gino Hernandez 12/27/84 Rock n Roll Express &Hacksaw Duggan vs Dibiase/Doc/Hercules 12/27/84 Chavo & Hector Guerrero vs Jose Lothario & Terry Taylor 12/27/84 Ernie Ladd vs Brad Armstrong 12/27/84 Tim Horner vs Rip Oliver 12/27/84 Billy Jack Haynes vs Kamala 12/27/84 King Parsons vs Jack Victory 12/27/84

Yes it will be an IPPV.

Tanahashi vs Fale I enjoyed this. I thought they did a good job of using shortcuts, and bells and whistles to keep this entertaining. Tanahashi worked real hard here. Fale used his size to an advantage, but his work on top was mediocre for the most part. 2 3/4* Styles vs Naito Styles shitting on the gimmick is pretty funny. I liked seeing Naito's more agressive side. Styles selling the leg. I like Naito splitting his attack from the neck and leg. Now Naito's just going after the neck area. Nice drama where Styles makes the ropes. A big stop by AJ with an exploder into the corner. Naito's finisher needs some edge to it. 3 1/2*

Tenzan vs Makabae Makabe vs an injured Tenzan. I like how they're trying to get the match over with their personality. The work here is actually much smarter than usual. It looked like Makabe almost killed Tenzan. 2 1/4* Ibushi vs Shibata I've seen this match get put over huge. Let me see what all the fuss is about. I like both wrestlers so we'll see. The opening of this is pretty awesome. I'm sucked into this right off the bat. The only thing that snaps me out of how incredible it is was Ibushi's pussy elbow strikes. Love Shibata's bring it stance. Marked out huge for Shibata's counter to the Pele' Kick. I hated the rapid fire no sell spots. Crowd ate that bull shit up though. Shibata just delivered one of the nastiest Death Valley Driver. The slap into a sleeper followed by a penalty kick was fucking sick. Out 1st legit MOTYC 4 3/4*

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Night 7 Gallows vs Yano Yano with that eye takes away from his character. I'm glad Gallows and crew went at the bad eye. I liked the play on spots. Still nothing to be proud of. 1 1/2*

I'm only worried about it if it means that they were hoping for more subscription money to come in and it didn't which means they don't have any more money to convert the stuff and that's why we're getting matches that are all from the same show. That's one possibility, another is that it's easy to keep track of what they upload. Say they have 50 reels converted. They say these 10 reels we'll upload for the next 2 months. They get done with them etc.

Houston was a town considered part of the NWA. During some of the interviews NWA was in the background. He was affiliated with the 3 big Texas booking offices and would use that talent to fill out the cards . Though he'd a lot of times bring in headliners from other places.

Thanks man. I enjoy jotting down quick thoughts.

Butch Reed vs. Dutch Mantell 7/26/85 Cage MatchTed DiBiase & Dr. Death Steve Williams vs. Hector & Chavo Guerrero 7/26/85 Nightmare vs Dick Murdoch 7/26/85 Fantastics vs Eddie Gilbert/Jerry Grey 7/26/85 Jake Roberts & Nord the Barbarian vs. Brickhouse Brown & Mark Reagan 7/26/85 Kamala & Kareem Muhammad vs. Jim Duggan & Cowboy Bill Watts 7/26/85 Rematch: NWA Title Match: Wahoo McDaniel vs. Ric Flair 7/26/85

Hector & Chavo Guerrero vs. Jose Lothario & Al Madril 7/20/84 Fantastics & Jim Duggan vs. Midnight Express & Jim Cornette 7/20/84 Dog Collar Match: Junkyard Dog vs. Butch Reed 7/20/84 /b]

The Magnum TA vs Ernie Ladd match is must see for smart work by Ladd. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31562-magnum-ta-vs-ernie-ladd-8384/

This is a card I believe I attended back in the day. This match was really good, and super heated. Ladd opens up on top and uses all his bag of tricks . From trunk pulls, hair pulling, eye gouging. So Ladd is just generating tons of heat by working smart. So when TA makes his comeback the place becomes un glued. All of this is amazing. Ladd cuts him off with a foreign object. I'm loving all of this. They build to a super heated finish. 3 1/4*

Watched the Dr. Tom vs Buck Robley match. I thought it was fun. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31561-tom-pritchard-vs-buck-robley-121181/

Man this was a fun match. Tom has his basic babyface psychology down. Robley has always been kind of like a precursor to Jake in the psychology department. We Tom work the arm early, Buck cuts him off with some nasty neck work. Hope spot by Tom. Another cut off by Buck. This time he works the back and ties in some neck work. Buck on top for a bit, but sprinkled in some hope spots for Tom. We get Tom's big comeback and Buck feeds for him. Only to pull the rug out from him and cheats to win which causes the crowd to erupt. This was good. 2 1/2*

Brad Armstrong vs Jack Victory 4/19/85 Tom Prichard vs. Tim Horner 4/19/85 Brickhouse Brown vs. Dr Death Steve Williams 4/19/85 Terry Taylor vs Jake Roberts 4/19/85

The Grappler vs Tiger Conway Jr. 12/11/81 Moon Mulligan vs Scott Casey 12/11/81 Tully Blanchard vs El Bracero 12/11/81 Tom Prichard vs. Buck Robley 12/11/81

Boesch @ Houston, TX – The Summit – January 7, 1979 Bull Ramos d. Nick Kozak Tiger Conway Jr. fought Superstar Billy Graham to a draw Brass Knuckles Title: Dusty Rhodes © d. Mark Lewin Ox Baker d. Gino Hernandez by DQ Dory & Terry Funk fought Jose Lothario & Mil Mascaras to a draw NWA World Heavyweight Title: Harley Race © fought Andre the Giant to a draw Vicki Williams vs. Leilani Kai 1/7/79

I think it's because they're releasing match by match of a variety of cards. I'm going to start a thread of full or near full cards.

Updated as of today.

Ishii vs Anderson A bunch of counters early, teases of Ace Crushers. Ishii begins to take control with suplexes and strikes.Right on cue Anderson nails a low level drop kick. It's not his game plan. He begins softening up Ishii's neck. So Ishii returns the favor. Anderson teases the Ace Crusher too much. I counted 9 of them. A very predictable match. 2 3/4* Okada vs Kojima Kojima seems fresh in this tournament because he's been hidden in different versions of tags all year. Okada is predictable as a worker too, but it doesn't bother me as much because he's working his opponents neck to set up his finisher like Bret used to do. This was a good match. At times I thought they sold exhaustion or the impact of the moves too much. That said I liked the bout. 3 1/4*

Night 6 The injuries are growing. Shibata started out hurt. Nakamura has missed 2 shows. Tenzan and Yano look mucked up as well. Ishii is held together by duck tape on a regular basis. Nagata vs Takahashi Having Cody Hall come out with him is a step down. He must have been out of dollar bills. Nagata working the mat early. Takanhashi finds a counter. Reversal by Nagata. Hall works over Nagata on the outside. Stomach breaker by Takahashi. He's working Nagata's core. Gotta give Takanhashi credit for sticking to his plan of working over his core. Nagata makes a comeback. Takahashi cuts him off. Overall, solid story told 2 1/4* Goto vs Honmma This has potential. Both guys working the neck spine of each other. Big forearm exchange. Honmma with a 1/2 crab. Goto selling the back. Goto with kicks. Loving Honmma going back to the neck and back. The psychology is real basic from both guys. They're keeping the action moving. I still get behind Honmaa, but for how long if they keep beating him.. 3 3/4*

Checked out the Butch Reed vs Eddie Gilbert match from 8/4/85 my thoughts are here. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/31555-butch-reed-vs-eddie-gilbert-8485/

I really thought this was fun. I bet wrestlers loved working with Gilbert. He bumped big. He fed for Reed. He stooged his ass off to get Reed over. Reed was super over and got over big. A fun match. 2 1/2*

Watched it too. I enjoyed the early stuff but lost interest. I liked Mil's angry side with those short stiff punches in the 3rd fall.