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pantherwagner

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  1. Sure, they liked Kikuchi the same way I like my doormat I guess.
  2. By the way a lot of other real names came from Steve Sims, who got them in the early 90s from the Weekly Gong yearbooks. The Japanese simply didn't care and reported a lot of them for people like Mil Mascaras. That's also why a lot of names back then were misspelled. It's difficult to translate foreign names from Japanese katakana language unless you know exactly what are you translating. As a somewhat related example, "giro" (twist) and "hilo" (thread) are written the same in Japanese, hence people calling "tope con hilo" to a tope with a twist.
  3. Who cares about the truth when it's such a great story??? I thought the story was a bit odd but it's hilarious. And John, agree with you 100% on your last paragraph. Dave never really outright replied to me but I asked him a couple of times about the historians voting on the WON HOF on the lucha section. I never really believed there were a lot of people from Mexico, though I'm talking about 10 years ago. I'm pretty sure that if you got a lot of old timers from Mexico, some referees, a few promoters and some long time magazine writers, you'd have people like Fishman (who isn't actually a bad candidate at all but people only know him for AAA) getting in very easily as first ballot or second ballot candidates. I can't imagine such a voting group not getting Villano III or Cien Caras with a ridiculously high percentage (Villano easier than Caras). I didn't even try to get a conversation started to at least discuss the merits of Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Navarro and Texano, who IMO should be in) or the first three Brazos. That, along with anybody from WWF/WWE seemingly getting in just by virtue of being there long enough, is what kind of disenfranchised me from the HOF, and as I wasn't watching much wrestling at all anymore I stopped voting just because it wasn't worth to me putting so much effort on studying the candidates anymore. At this stage of my life I'd probably not care too much but back then it was very frustrating. (Rant over)
  4. Anybody vs Kikuchi, poor bastard.
  5. I was told by a friend that a few months ago in a Lance Storm podcast (of all things) Bryan mentioned that Dave used to get luchador names in the 80s and early 90s from ring rats that would fuck them (in their mask) but would take a peek into their wallet when they were in the shower (in their mask) to get their name from their driver's licence. That's classic.
  6. I haven't followed this at all since the demise of ARSION so I could be wrong, but based on the (very few, admittedly) references I can find to it in Tokyo, isn't the audience for women's wrestling in Japan pretty clear? Probably 25 to close to 40 year old single males? If you think about it probably the same as ECW in its heyday.
  7. Same here except my three months are probably two. I can go for months without watching a single match then I check something out, I discover a good website or youtube channel and there you go.
  8. Loss, GH: I don't have access to the multimedia forum so if this already exists please tell me to STFU. It may be worthwhile to have a thread of cool youtube channels. I believe that this guy used to post with a different account before and he may open one but you'd have to be looking for it to find it. Thoughts?
  9. Two or three weeks ago I bookmarked a few cool youtube channels: one with a metric load of AWA, one with 70s MSG WWWF title matches and one called Monsoon Classic with a lot of 91-93 WCW and WWF from the syndicated TV shows. Well it may just be my lack of luck but it looks like WWE is going heavily after youtube channels because all of those are now gone. I'm sure this is news to none of you.
  10. I was asked by a friend to help him out find some stuff on a wrestler from Guatemala. Looking for Guatemala wrestling I went to youtube and found some clips of the tape from 1991 (I think) that has been floating around for a very long time, first via Kurt Brown then through Fredo Esparza. One of the guys there is Bobby Bold Eagle, anyway, one thing lead to another and I ended up watching a couple other clips of Bold Eagle. In one of these clips which looks to be from the late 80s or early 90s he's working at 100Mph doing pretty cool advanced moves, all kinds of Japanese suplexes, Super Astro tope off the top rope, superplex with both guys standing on the top rope, Eddy Guerrero style 360 degree armdrags, etc. Is he some sort of superworker that slipped through the cracks in the US due to his smaller size, thus not making it to major leagues, and never wrestling in Japan?
  11. Wow, I have seen Bix's Chronicles of Dawna on youtube. That's something. Indy wrestling nowadays needs less STRONG STYLE tards that try to book like Gabe Sapolsky and more people like the Savoldis.
  12. Main singing shot bottom row, left to right: Takashi Iizuka, Rambo, Owen Hart, Franz Schummann, Mile Zrno, Sal Bellomo Top Row: Tony St Clair, Col Brody, Dave Taylor, not sure who's the guy behind Dave, Not sure who's the shorter guy, Klaus Kauroff (background waving a cape), Otto Wanz, can't see the face of the smaller guy next, Cannonball Grizzly/PN News, Steve Wright, referee (don't know who)
  13. Not really a Dave thing, perhaps a WON thing. I am on a long vacation in a country where I don't have great internet, and when I do I just check my messages and little more, so I hadn't been to WON or MMA websites in a few days. I read about Brad Armstrong so I went to WON to see if anything was up. I read "John LaRocca talks Brad Armstrong", having no idea who John LaRocca is, and I saw this: "Over the last few years I got in touch with Jeff Gagliardo, long time WON Newsletter subscriber. Jeff was the cousin of an old friend of mine in high school. Jeff facebooked me and we became good friends. It was fun talking with someone about the wrestling that I grew up watching and we both regret not meeting when we were younger. Jeff wrote me and e-mail telling how much he loved Brad Armstrong's work. I wrote back and I said the same thing. We sent back an forth a few e-mails talking about how great a worker Brad was. " Really?
  14. Octagon's back mask lace/ribbon Also everybody knew that in a fight with Andre you could immobilize him against the ropes.
  15. This may sound silly, but does anybody else think that when somebody emails Dave a link to a website he later transcribes it on the news updates letter by letter instead of copying and pasting it? Way too many links end up having spaces or misspelling errors on the URL, when such a thing should seldom happen.
  16. I did the match lists for the first 150+ discs and dates were mostly guesses. It was easy to date shows when there was a major landmark match, or a title change, but I'd say it would be impossible to have season sets. Other people may have different opinions but I like 80s AJW much more than 90s AJW. The more Bull Nakano I see the less impressive Aja Kong seems to be (and this is not a knock on her, she was incredible). There was no UWA TV in the 80s, and probably we only have 10% or less of the available 80s EMLL and that's considering we have a lot of 1989. But holy shit, if we could somehow get our hands on metric tons of Dandy, Casas, Pirata and Santo in their early 20s. Satanico too, but as we all know, he was born old, so it's hard to think he'd have been 22 or 23. For that same reason I will say 90s rather than 80s as it's much easier to watch most promotions in an organized way, to see wrestlers, feuds and gimmicks grow, etc.
  17. I think there was a decent amount of Korean women's wrestling in the 70s and early 80s. There's a tape of Korean vs American women's wrestling on the Ginnetty set with English commentary. I was indexing the whole thing so didn't watch in full but I don't remember it being very exciting. Probably stuff to entertain Americans in the army bases. A few tapes leaked here and there (Lynch) so I imagine there was a semi-active indie scene there in the 90s and 00s. I know a lot of luchadores, mostly lower level guys like Arkangel or seasoned traveller types like Super Crazy, had tours there in or out of their way to Japan. Mascara Magica and Akira Hokuto toured together once or twice when they were married in 94 or 95 or whenever it was.
  18. Quick somebody find a picture of MS-1's daughter.
  19. Or maybe her dad is El Dandy or Mascara Ano 2000.
  20. I'm a guy known for lucha but I haven't watched lucha in about four years. So a lot of those who watch CMLL already must know this. I caught on somebody's facebook feed that this is EL SATANICO's daughter. WHAT THE FUCK?????? This makes no sense. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BQGKBakfAmo/Tbx4...%25281%2529.jpg (Image not embedded as the board script thinks it's a dynamic page)
  21. I can't remember the details as this was about a decade ago but there was a major poll done by a Time-like magazine in Mexico where El Santo was, I believe, number 3 in the most loved figures ever in Mexico, ranked over Benito Juarez and Pancho Villa. If I recall that the only two people over him were Tin Tan and Cantinflas (two comedy actors). But as with everything, icons aren't enduring anymore as there are tons more entertainment options compared to even 20 years ago, so I'm pretty sure that in 30 years only old people will know who El Santo was.
  22. Sup Herodes. Great name. The EWF hookup was Plata, who is a Spaniard and got the call from one of his Spanish wrestling colleagues, I believe Rocky Nelson (a Latin American who has lived in Spain forever and wrestled in the EWF as Angelito le Vigie, a vigilante/security guard gimmick carrying a dog to the ring - funny as he was a security guard in real life). ButchReedMark : Jeff Lynch has got all the EWF there is. We got several discs from him more than half a decade ago in an Europe bulk buy. Basically everything that sounded interesting and/or had internationally known good workers. I have them in Spain and no access to them as I live in the UK, but I am sure some of the guys on the board may be willing to sell or trade you some discs if you ask around.
  23. There's also this guy that has got a lot of very short clips from newsreel footage: http://www.youtube.com/user/sdkpatoche Tim, it's not a question of money. One of the people who is chasing this footage is very well off. It's up to the INA to open up their library of footage, which isn't going to happen, or for them to allow it to be transferred to somebody else who may share it and risk getting in trouble.
  24. If you link to his videos it says that he closed it (unlike the French match which said that youtube closed it after requests by NJPW). I didn't save anything.
  25. I tapped out after 5 seconds. Can't be worse than some Lucky Pierre matches that I have watched though? Anyway, let's move on.
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