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Stan Hansen ga secondu desu ne!??!?!?!

What a show! Can you even imagine the magazine and dirt sheet coverage this would have recieved in the mid-80s? Huge changes obviously in store for the AWA! And what a great Main Event. Between this and Starrcade and the big SNME and Thanksgiving Thunder and Holiday Wars there has been a ton of great action here recently.

JWA would like to book Stan Hansen and Mil Mascaras for Feb. 24th.

JWA would like to book Stan Hansen and Mil Mascaras for January 4th

1. Pick up writing the revived JWA for the PWO Armchair Booking project. 2. Spend a little more time drinking in Osaka with Asian Cooger and our various wrestling friends, and go to at least a couple of Dotobori Pro shows, maybe write that up a little here in a new thread. 3. Poke away at the awesome 2k project as time permits. 4. Play at least one year of the Management of the Ring Mode on Fire Pro World once it's released. That's pretty much all I'll have time for in '18. I'd like to go see a few live shows in Osaka from the national-level companies as well but I can't commit to that. I'll most likely go to see Dominion, at least. I love Matt D's match review trades idea, but I might not have the time to participate.

Thank you, gentlemen. I'd like to go with this version of my revamped JWA: Baba's Corporation: Giant Baba Jumbo Tsuruta Yoshiaki Yatsu Isamu "Carpenter' Teranishi Shiro Koshinaka Mitsuharu Misawa Hiro Hase (rookie) Dos Caras El Canek Gran Hamada Tenryu's Gang: Genichiro Tenryu (World Heavyweight Champion) Ashura Hara Mighty Inoue Animal Hamaguchi Masa Fuchi Toshiaki Kawada Samson Fuyuki Super Strong Machine Strong Machine #2 (George "The Cobra" Takano with a new gimmick) Strong Machine #3 (Shunji Takano with a new gimmick) Choshu's Army: Riki Choshu (Tag Champ) Rusher Kimura (Tag Champ) Umanosuke Ueda Tatsutoshi Goto Anoaro Atisanoe Sivi Afi Kensuke Sasaki (rookie) Black Tiger (Rollerball Rocco) Kuniaki Kobayashi Phil Hickerson Fujinami's Family Tatsumi Fujinami (Japanese Champion) Yoshiaki Fujiwara Kengo Kamura Shinya Hashimoto Keiji Mutoh Masa Chono Keiji "Thunder" Yamada Masakatsu "Flying" Funaki Nobuhiko "Esperanza" Takada Tiger Mask (Sayama) (Middleweight Champion) If that's acceptable, then please add: Antonio Inoki, Akira Maeda, Naoki Sano, Osamu Kido, Yoshinari Ogawa, Takashi Ishikawa, Kantaro Hoshino, and Shunji Kosugi to the free agents list. Perhaps Inoki could work as a Freelancer if enough people are interested...

If it's cool with everyone, I'd like to pick up writing Japan again in the new year. Unfortunately, it would have to be a simplified and much less ambitious version than what I did last year... but I figure a little is better than nothing.

And it just occurred to me: In the 1960s you'd have had Big Time Wrestling and then Gene Kiniski's All Star Wrestling (out of Vancouver) running NWA shows in the Pavilion as well.

Yeah, but your neck tattoo, black eyeliner, and Harley Davidson budgets are so much smaller than Taker's.

I am not sure but it seems likely that the diner in "Sasuke Diner" = ダイナー being hilariously translated, like with Spell Delfin and so on. Most likely the ダイナー would have been intended as a shortened form of "dynamic" or "dynamite" or dynamo or something similar. The Japanese lannguage is chock-full of shortened English words, like プロレス for professional wrestling アニメ for animation, and ペソコン for personal computer.

After watching - and REALLY enjoying - a few '88 AJPW Tenta matches, I considered doing something like this for my old compadre Big John... but at the moment I don't have the time or energy to do it justice... So you can imagine my delight when I saw this. A close look at Typhoon is gonna shine some light on Earthquake as well. Good luck with this. I'll be reading.

Jackie Fargo! There's a guy I'd like to see more footage of. He had a great character and real charisma, from what little I have seen.

No offense, but this post at this point in this thread makes your user name seem VERY ironic. By which I mean: You might expect that someone who has the eye of a hawk or someone who is "smart" to have noticed this post:

No offense, but this post at this point in this thread makes your user name seem VERY ironic.

A cage match with rounds! Man, pro wrestling continues to come up with things I have never seen or imagined before. I love it! Also: The hairdo on that swimsuit model!!

Victoria Pavilion is such a great choice. All most people have ever seen out of Stampede is the tip-of-the-iceberg TV stuff that was used to build up to the Pavilion shows. It would completely change everyone's opinion of Stampede Wrestling if we had a full year of footage of those Pavilion shows available. Big question is: Which year? As you say, '64 to see Sweet Daddy Siki as the top heel... or: 1970, with Abdullah the Butcher and Billy Robinson feuding over the North American Heavyweight Championship... 1980, with young Bret as Champ, and Dyno feuding with Bruce for the Middleweight belt and teaming with various partners against Keith and Bret for the Tag straps... 1979, with Big Daddy Ritter (a/k/a JYD) in the Heavyweight Title mix, Bret and Dyno feuding over the Middleweight straps, and such stars as Leo Burke and Dory Funk Jr. active in the Tag scene... or that glorious stretch in '82 and '83 where the North American Heavyweight Championship was held by Burke, Bret, Bad News, Bret, Burke, Bret, Bad News and Archie Gouldie. Personally, I'd probably take '83, since you had all those great heavyweights feuding on top and Inoki in the territory, plus The Cobra in the Middleweight title scene (and I have more personal memories of Stampede at that time than any other)... (although: Gouldie's Title victory over Bad News took place at the Sarcee Seven Chiefs Sportsplex on the Tsuu T’ina Nation reserve after Stampede was banned from promoting in Calgary after a fan riot erupted when Bad News attacked Gouldie's son... so we'd miss that match, but we would see the angle that led to the riot, for better or for worse). ​But, whatever year you choose... Good Lord, yes, the Victoria Pavilion please!

I am really glad someone else took the time to watch this match and add their comments. Glad you enjoyed it, too. Thanks! One other thing I forgot to mention: Big John's Elbow Drop is a thing of beauty, here and in his other '88 AJPW matches.

This seems to set the NWA up beautifully going in to '86. Great to see how everyone worked together to make this happen.

Is this still the plan? To have everyone post a big show by the 31st then we vote on the best one?

The most enjoyment I have had watching a pro wrestling match this month. By far. This is exactly what I was in the mood for when I went poking around the All Japan Archives. It's not an epic, not a great match. They aren't going for five stars, they are just trying to hurt each other and win the match. This is zero filler, 100 per cent big hoss clubbering action. Exactly what you'd hope for based on seeing those names lumped together like that. Worth watching * just * for the chop Tenryu lays in on Big John to save Kawada from the Canadian Back Breaker. Also: Tenryu and Yatsu do NOT go easy on each other. John just towers over Kawada. Kawada does not back down. Tenryu no-sells John and enrages the big Canadian. Everyone Just throws bomb after bomb all match long. Yatsu's suplexes are insane. Kawada in Peril. There is a clean and awesome finish. I'd say it's a 3 or 3.5 star match, technically, but I sure as hell enjoyed it more than any of the "six-star" epics that are going to be in this year's MOTY discussion. This is what I want out of my pro wrestling on a day like today. It's cold outside. I did my job (Christmas ain't a holiday in Japan), played with my kids, had a nice meal and a good drink, and went looking for a Christmas present for myself. Found something close to perfect, here.

Angle is an excellent example. I think Mutoh is up there with him. Both are guys whose athleticism and charisma are so clearly apparent and some people just love them... but both have pretty clear flaws as well, and their detractors seem driven to exaggerate and magnify those flaws beyond all reason, like as in neither of those guys have ever done a single little thing correct or sold believeably for even a moment at any time in their entire careers type sheer visceral hatred. I think that Sayama, Jericho, Angle, and Mutoh would be a pretty good "divisive guys" stable. They could work as heels and faces simultaneously.

Bruiser Brody has got to be one of the top "both over and under- rated" wrestlers. The WO Best Brawler award is named after him, but there are a ton of people whose opinions I otherwise respect (e.g. JDW) who consider Brody to be utter garbage. Sayama, too. I have a few Japanese drinking friends in their 50s who consider him the greatest ever... but I have a few internet friends who completely write him off as the guy who pioneered the "MOVEZ" style of pro wrestling. People on both sides of the debate about both of those guys can be really passionate about it, too.

AJPW and NJPW both toured all over the country in the mid-80s. AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, and Dragon Gate all run national tours regularly these days. Big shows tend to take place in Tokyo, though. Osaka gets a bone thrown its way once in a while, too.

Yep... which is why i stay away from Twitter and many other wrestling web sites, and comment sections, and... I enjoy having a discussion. Don't much care for side-taking and angry yelling, in general.