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There is a more complete version of the Teranishi match out there. It was on the 5th IWE comm dvd set. Total segment runs 20 something minutes, including the finish. Dan

6/1/78 aired on TV once. Supposedly TV Asahi lost the tape or the tape got ruined. A wrestling fan recorded it onto VHS tape, so it still exists. Dan

Only 2 matches are out there right now; Him against Hara and then Teranishi. Based on the TV listings, there was a second Hara match that might have aired, but I never come across it. Dan

Wasn't that some agreement from the 4/13/90 multi fed Dome show. NJ sent Liger and Nogami in a singles match, and and IWGP Tag Team Title Match Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto © defeat Masahiro Chono & Riki Choshu (13:00) Perhaps Baba agreed to loan out Hansen to NJ in return. I seem to recall Steve Williams and the Road Warriors also touring with NJ at that time. Dan

I agree. If those 2 guys thought the New Breed were R+R express clones, they clearly never saw the New Breed wrestle or give interviews. Dan

Believe it or not, Riki and I discussed it on Toukon Retsuden months before it happened. I recall many wrestling fans questioning AJs future after Baba passed. The wrestlers were loyal to Baba, but not his wife, who was now running things. Misawa and Motoko (Babas wife), did not see eye to eye on how to run AJ. Eventually, Misawa got the backing and support of NTV. Now he could form NOAH, and would have NTV airing shows. The split decimated AJ, leaving them with only Kawada and Masa Fuchi. They had NO tv coverage of any kind from June 2000 til late 2000, when GAORA picked them up. IMO, AJ never recovered, and now is a mere shadow of what it once was.

Glad you enjoyed the show! Sadly, Youtube took all our old shows (over 100 episodes) down. Can't understand why ;-) The website Toukon theatre is still up, but those torrents take forever to download! The show relaunch did occur in 2013, and we have done almost 40 episodes since then. Only an hour long now, but it is still fun to do. If you are interested in watching our old episodes, or the relaunch episodes, I uploaded almost all of them to my Google Drive account. I also uploaded some of our talk show called The Wrestling Scene. It was a live show with callers. I spent most of my time trying to talk about anything but wrestling, but it was a good time! Shoot me an email at [email protected]. I will share the Google Drive folder with anyone that wants them. Dan Ginnetty

I recall one or 2 commercial VHS releases. Not sure if any aired on TV. Dan Ginnetty

Just thought of another match that might have been 5 stars, except the finish ruined it. 10/28/88. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu. Well laid out match. Jumbo puts over Tenryu as strongly as he could. Great passing of the torch style match, except the weak finish undermines some or most of what Jumbo did for Tenryu in that match. Still 4 3/4 stars in my book. Dan

I know, right? Don't get used to it. :-)

I generally agree with Tabe on the post match from Flair-Steamboat. Terry's acting was awful. If you had been watching wrestling for any amount of time leading up to this, you would see what was going to happen from a mile away. The piledriver on the table looked sad. It was a case where "less" could have been "more" I saw WAY too much of Flair protecting himself, minimizing the effect of the move. Match itself? 4.5 to 5 stars Post match? Meh. I was glad to see Funk and Flair feud, and it was interesting to see the face Flair interviews from home wearing the neckbrace, but that particular post-match was uninspiring, IMO Dan

Chris, I though we already got the uncut 4/19/86 match from Barnett or someone? Dan

There a good number of AJ matches from the 90s that have been mentioned before. When their weekly TV show got cut to 30 minutes in 1994, lots of main event showcase matches were clipped, if they were shown at all. With Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi, and Taue in the Champion Carnival, there simply was not enough time to showcase them all properly. The real question that needs to be answered is: What does NTV have in their video library? They have released footage from the 50s and onward, but it would be nice to see a comprehensive look at what they have. Dan

There are 2 versions of this show in circulation. 1 is someone recording the Jumbotron for the entire show. The other is the pro-shot version, like you might see on a commercial release We didn't know about this release until somewhere in the early 2000s. Some years ago, I was buying some footage from a collector in Japan. I saw he had the 4/2/95 show. I already had it, but figured his quality would be better, so I ordered the show. He emailed me back, asking if I wanted the Jumbotron version or the Pro-shot version!! I opted for the pro-shot version, which was a major upgrade. Dan