Phil Schneider

Mexicools v. Blue World Order is worth watching just for the weirdness of Juventud and Blue Meanie wrestling on a WWE PPV in 2005

4. Funk's Last Stand, Steel Cage Match for the ECW TV Title: Superfly Jimmy Snuka vs. Terry Funk - Escape the cage rules. Snuka was never a great worker or even a good hand, but he had some career highlights, for sure. Seeing Superfly enter a cage just brings back great pro wrestling nostalgia. Sadly, at this point in his career, ain't no way in hell Jimmy Snuka is doing a splash off the top of the cage. So, almost a bit of false advertising based on nostalgia there. However, Terry Funk can turn a shit-stain into gold bullion. The punches, the selling, the hate. It's all here in prime Funk form and he does his absolute best to put this whole thing over, and entertains in the process of winning the TV title. Post-match, Funk starts throwing chairs around the building, as he's pissed he didn't actually pin Snuka to win the belt. *** Didn't Snuka do the cage dive during one of those terrible Russo Nitro's?

Dundee v. Dutch is on tape, Dundee is awesome at on the pole matches too, anything involving climbing

Is there anything from this batch which was a new discovery?

Henry was the World's Strongest Man, he won a bunch of competitions

I should really get off my ass and write something else for them

Possible Gancarski socko?

I am coming home from my honeymoon that afternoon. I am not sure I can pull off heading straight to Philly, but man fuck there hasn't been a live card I wanted to go to in years. LA PARK v. Wagner, Cassandro, Navarro and Solar.

What is the card?

I tried to C+P one of my FUTEN reviews but got an IPS error

Pretty much the wrestling version of Hagler v. Hearns round 1. The bell rings and Ikeda runs right into an Ono right hand and it goes from there. The story of this match is that Ono is the lower ranked member of their tag team (Apparently called Team Taco, Japan is weird) and he is going to throw the kitchen sink to take out Ikeda. Ono is a buzzsaw, throwing vicious punches in bunches square into Ikeda face and body. Ikeda absorbs these shots and fires back with big punches and kicks of his own. The finish is amazing wrestling, they both quickly counte multiple submission attempts, with Ono slipping out and landing a hellacious knee to the back of Ikeda's head, I expected cerebral fluid to fly out of his nostrils. Ono gets mount and starts pounding out Ikeda but gets caught in an awesome armbar from the bottom and is forced to tap. The best under five minute match I have ever seen, even though it was short it was a complete satisfying. Everything I love about FUTEN in one intense blast, the wrestling equivalent of a Bad Brains song.

This really felt like a classic lucha trios match building to a big singles match. The match they were setting up was TAJIRI v. Finlay although this could have easily set up Finlay v. Fujiwara or Finlay v. Ohara as Finlay gets awesome sections with all three. Finlay has said that an early 80's match with Fujiwara is one of his favorites, and three decades later we get a glance of what that might have looked like, and it was awesome. I loved Finlay bullying Fujiwara into the corner and cheap shotting him, just to see Fujiwara fire back with this great "not in my house motherfucker" look on his face. Finlay pummeling Ohara to get under TAJIRI's skin was great, as was Finlay's interactions with TAJIRI. I don't really think of TAJIRI as a matworker, but he hit the mat hard here. The turks were mainly there as window dressing, although TAJIRI's berserker chopping down of Big Boy was one of the cooler finishes of the last half a decade. Great stuff, and one of the better matches of the year

No Panther v. Casas?

Some examples, I really don't want to read a Scott Keith recap but wouldn't mind some racism to smirk at.

I love Johnathan Abrams Basketball profiles. Some of the best sports writing around

Big segunda caida revamp in 2014

How can they discuss it if they haven't seen it? It's your site, so you can shill as much as you want, just I don't think the timing was appropriate. You of all people are going to complain about shilling? You make 20 posts a week at DVDVR linking to your blog,

Everyone knows Lawler is a notoriously slow starter

Maybe Ian Rotten

I think Race's best career match is with Lawler. Lawler was the way better guy in it too

I loved this. Wilikins was such a violent bastard,very Fuchi or Finlayish, as he just twisting Lightning Kid into knots and pummeled him with headbutts and forearms. Waltman had some awesome moments of firing back too, really timed his hope moments great. Can't believe he was a heel coming into this match as his babyface performance was off the charts. Nifty discovery.

Fujiwara armbar is my favorite. I once won a fight in junior high by slapping it on.

You realize Negro Casas v Rush might happen next month?