Phil Schneider

My memory of Inoki from the NJ 80s set process, is that he would have a lot of singles matches, where he would have his opponents hit some offense for a bit and then he would just stop selling and clean their clock, without any real transition or story. It was a pretty bad match formula and it happened a lot, to the point if you saw Inoki not in a big match you would know exactly how the match was going to go. His big match performances were really good, I loved the Fujiwara series for example, but day to day it was tough. In many ways he is similar to DiBiase in the Mid-South set, where you had some all time classics at the high end, and painfully dull stuff outside of that.

Eddie Kingston is in my #1 and #2 match, along with a great match with Miro and some very cool tags

New Way of the Blade pod with DUSTIN RHODES~! We talk the Double or Nothing match with his brother, emotion in wrestling, his first bloody match and much more https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/b099927f-2adf-418f-a892-963213e276e0

New podcast with Julius Smokes!! We talk Homicide vs. Steve Corino, early 2000s New York Indies and more https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/0afd73e4-a089-4b50-b8c3-48fa25324b48

New pod with Segunda Caida's own Matt DiCarlo on Nick Bockwinkle vs. Curt Hennig's epic 1 hour draw https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/62628173-fb6a-4105-865e-24aa1a90485a

We have done a C+A Eddie Kingston on Segunda Caida where we reviewed dozens of his matches over the years, if you are looking to dig into his back catalog https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2018/09/complete-and-accurate-eddie-kingston.html

Thanks guys! I am glad to know folks are digging them. I am working on a couple of big name guests who hopefully will be dropping soon

New pod with writer and famous twitter person K. Thor Jensen about El Hijo Del Santo vs. Espanto Jr. mask vs. mask https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/c1ee0cb2-3561-4f54-adf6-c4f54986248c

We launch a feature on SC where we review every Dustin, Darby, Danielson, Punk and Kingston match for the week, and week 2 none of them wrestle.

For the European Candidates we reviewed two Jose Tarres matches Jose Tarres vs. Dr. Adolf Kaiser 1/1/59 Jose Tarres vs. Karl von Chenok 4/2/59 Four Delaporte/Bollet Tags (and a lot more of them with other partners and in singles) Al Hayes/Ray Hunter vs. Roger Delaporte/Andre Bollet 12/1/60 Roger Delaporte/Andre Bollet vs Gilbert Leduc/Robert Gastel 12/14/61 Andre Bollet/Roger Delaporte vs. Warnia de Zarzecki/Eddie Wiecz 1/9/65 Roger Delaporte/Andre Bollet vs. Warnia de Zarzecki/Mr. Montreal 12/12/65 And Three L' Angel Blanc matches L‘Ange Blanc vs. Paul Villars 1/9/59 L'Ange Blanc vs. Andre Bollet 11/18/60 L‘Ange Blanc vs Scarface Le Balafre 12/7/68 The links to youtube versions of the matches are in the reviews if folks want to see what their work looked like

Did I fuck that up? Jesus that is bad

New pod with John Pozarowski about Bret Hart and Steve Austin and wrestling wars https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/cfb4d87f-c2b3-4340-8352-8608a2f6eea4

New pod with Bucky Barnett discussing the wild FMW Street fight with Kurisu and Dragonmaster vs. Goto and Onita https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/6bc6c0f7-4e69-48e8-9d5d-4451e9f1a093

Fun pod this week with Will Helmick aka Goodhelmet discussing Buzz Sawyer vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/c83fd1d7-2d83-454a-a8d4-4ac82ea1b040

New Pod with fellow DVDVR founder Phil Rippa about Headhunter A vs. Headhunter B from IWA-Japan. The weirdness of that match, the wild career of the Headhunters and fantasy booking Randy Savage into the MCU https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/a4b24a11-afc6-4622-a8c2-01804649c126

We don't have very much of prime Jimmy, his Boogie Woogie man stuff was probably in-ring post-prime. If you want the clips of this Lawler vs. Valiant match from 1981 he looks like an all time great brawler

New Way of the Blade Pod with Kris Zellner talking Last Battle of Atlanta and GA wrestling history! https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/327a0699-b7cf-4ecc-8d9f-ae901aec0b21

New pod with Lee Casebolt about Larry Chene vs. Moose Cholak from 5/15/63 in Chicago. We talk about great wrestlers lost to history, and how Larry Chene might be a sneaky all time great https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/f52c3c63-f668-465f-85c4-39e8432c423b

He got really awesome when he got super old. Blue Demon Jr. vs. Dr. Wagner mask vs. hair is a classic

New Pod with the Icon DEAN~! Rasmussen talk about Ishikawa/Tenryu vs. Choshu/Hashimoto from WAR https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/3e17bce6-c74e-45d4-a001-649b4c7b3020

Do we think it is complete matches, or just short clips?

New Pod with Steve Keirn of the Fabulous Ones! Discussing their match against the Moondogs from 6/13/83. Tons of wild stories in this pod, apartment blading with Stan Hansen, shooting on the Road Warriors, almost dying in the ring in Memphis. https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/9227f245-0fe9-48f6-9991-0a094f6c86e4

New Pod with wrestling Author Ian Douglass about Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda. We talk about the history of Puro, the UWF vs. NJ feud, and Ian's upcoming B. Brian Blair autobiography. https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/9d2099f4-542e-4d86-b944-e2f67c1976cb

Corino came back after five years and had a absolute banger over the weekend with his son. Up there with his best stuff against Homicide and Tajiri

New Pod with the Baltimore Sun's (and PWO's) Childs Walker about Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Kazuo Yamazaki from UWF reborn. We talk about whether this is Fujiwara's masterpiece, how great shootstyle is like great boxing and a little talk about modern wrestling https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/da9b66d0-3cd3-4202-8a03-3951e8a9cfc0