FLIK
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Re-watched Suzuki/Tanahashi which is something I rarely do anymore for matches i've recently seen. Still not sure if i'd have it as my MOTY but I loved it even more this time around. The lack of near falls at the end didn't bother me now that I knew what type of match they were going for. I didn't even notice the first time and prob wouldn't have at all if I hadn't heard it pointed out on Alan4L's show that there weren't even any pin fall attempts period in the match until Tanahashi hit his splash to win. Brilliant match on both guys parts, I can see how it got the full 5*
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[1990-01-04-AJW] Akira Hokuto & Yumiko Hotta vs Toshiyo Yamada & Etsuko Mita
FLIK replied to Loss's topic in January 1990
My old review Love matches like this. Starts out merely ok but then slowly builds and builds and by the end they've created something truely great. At 1st they just kind of go back and forth for a while with Hotta & Akira having the slight advantage. Things finally turn awesome once they start building the match around a game of my sleeper is deadlier then yours. Yamada's 1st up as her & Hotta have heated exchanges every time they go against each other here. Yamada gets her in a sleepr and they work a long section around that with Hotta putting it over huge, one of the best jobs i've seen someone do actually. She near passes out from it and once released, stumbles around and can barely stay on her feet for quite a while after. Mita tries her hand as well at the sleepr game to decent success but Hotta's able to tag out to Hokuto. Akira decides she wants in on this game and after kicking Mita's butt works the hold on her for a while. Hotta not wanting to be left out and having recovered tags back in, tosses Mita aside and bum rushes Yamada. She franticly fights to get the sleeper on Yamada and when she does they'd done such a great job of getting it over in the match that it gets a monster pop from the crowd. Turns into a war of attrition after that as all 4 girls are selling fatigue and desperately trying to win which finally comes after Hokuto puts away weak link Mita with a missile kick. Didn't go in with any kind of high hopes for this. Figured it's be good but not this good. One of the better matches of the year for sure. -
All Asia Tag Titles. Fun match, one of those ones that kind of slow burns and isn't very special at first, wasn't going darn when I saw it was JIP 7 mins in but they just keep building with the guys getting more & more agressive as time goes and by the end I was really into it. For some reason thought it was hilarious that the announcer miss-calls a a regular power bomb as Tiger Driver.
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Naw, I think it's still possible. There'll never not be a time when fans won't pop for a dude they love punching a mother fucker they hate right square in the face
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If it makes you feel better I haven't updated either of mine in 8 billion years
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Yeah, it's been a long time since he's been this excited about pro wrestling. Course, it's not often these days whear a promotion seems to check all 3 boxes he wants out of a company beeing well booked, succeding financially and delivering high quality in ring.
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.......so anyone besides me get confused and think this was gonna be an interview w Tim Evans until actually listning to it?
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Whole PPV is worth watching, no bad matches at all and several really great ones. Tanahashi/Suzuki was def the best but I wouldn't put it over Okada/Naito IWGP or Okada/Tanahashi II from earlier this year.
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Yeah i'm with anarchistxx on this There's multiple things have led to ROH's decline over the years, having near universal clean finishes and training the audiance to exspect them isn't one of them. That said, I do agree that done correctly, right time, right place a non clean finish can work just as well.
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Yeah that's some shit I didn't see coming at all. Amusing him & Jim Cornette both get removed as bookers on the same day.
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"He's ambitiously stupid" - Why Scott Keith's new book is scary bad
FLIK replied to Bix's topic in Megathread archive
Eh true but you can say that about almost any wrestler who's gained a lvl of "mainstream" stardom. Also, worth noting that when Chigusa came out of retirement in 93 she was still somewhat of a draw and up until her re-retirement in 05 was headlining several shows that drew between 3000 - 9000 per year. -
NJPW 5/3/1995 Hiromichi Fuyuki & Masahiro Chono vs Shiro Koshinaka & Terry Funk Really fun match with everyone running through their usual routine and their styles meshing well together. Fuyuki actually manages to steal the show as he amps up his screaming dirty heel act and the crowd eats it up. Cool little segment early on with Chono & Funk tossing chairs around too.
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Think his post made a lot of sense myself
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No clue how you could come to that conclusion. Just watched this and I thought Hughes was clearly the workhorse of the match, like Shoe mentioned bumping all over as a super fast pace for a guy that big. Match coulda used 5 more mins but other then that it was really good for the short amount of time they got.
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Is this up in the archive?
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Watching this match I couldn't help but think how weird it is that, Tenryu is one of the sloppiest wrestlers ever yet never really gets called out for it. All kinds of blown spots & awkward momments in this & many of his other matches. Not something that bothers me personally 95% of the time but yeah, weird since I know others care about that kind of thing more then me. Also Tenryu has the damn dirt worst power bombs of all time, at first I thought ppl just weren't getting up for him good but he so regularly fails to get ppl past mid lvl no matter who it is that I have to lean more towards it being on his end. They just look so....un devestating most of the time. Ah well, either way, Tenryu is still awesome and I enjoyed this match despite it's flaws. Liked it a lot better then their first singles a few months earlier in New Japan though like the first this also didn't quite reach the lvls of awesome you'd exspect from this pairing.
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Heh, naw, too subtle to work as that kind of wrestling angle, there's tons of ppl who don't get the refrence including me at first.
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I know fairly recently she's appeared at conventions and on a few indy shows but up until then had she ever done anything in wrestling after her run as Fifi or really anything in wrestling before getting the maid gig? For something that only lasted, what, a few months? She sure milked the heck out of that role... Besides standing around as background eye candy I don't even remember her doing much while she was in WCW.
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Finally got to see this, not only lived up to my exspectations but far exceded them. Based on previous comments I wasn't exspecting to enjoy the post Tenryu portion of the match as much as I did. Sure it was a slaughter after then but I dunno, there's just something....noble about the WAR team slowly going down swinging. That they marched into battle only to die a dogs death in a foreign land just adds to their underdog charm. Random pointless side note #1 - Fuckin hell but Choshu is a dick. Like how the fuck did he ever become a beloved baby face? Had that reaction not just during this match but in general watching him of late. Also getting sick of his overused "non decisive win" shit. Every time he gets pinned he has to kick out at the last second to make it look like he got screwed, or if it's a tag and his partner gets pinned he has to break it up just as the ref is hitting 3. Random pointless side note #2 - Did WAR ever have ANY, like even 1 single solitary native heavy weight who wasn't old, grumpy & lumpy? Not that there's anything wrong with that but Tenryu's like bizaro world Vince McMahn with his roster of clones Random pointless side note #3 - Am I the only one who can't help but think Ashura Hara should be playing a police sargent in a tv cop drama every time they look at him?
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[1993-03-03-WAR] Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Riki Choshu & Osamu Kido
FLIK replied to Loss's topic in March 1993
This didn't do much for me, great action in the last 5 mins or so but the first 10 was some of the most boring, heatless wrestling i've seen in a while. If I were to rank them all this would be the worst match i've seen from the NJPW vs WAR feud. Easily the biggest highlight for me, for one split second it looked like Osamu Kido was going to tap out Genichiro Tenryu with a leg bar -
4/4/1994 Riki Choshu & Genichiro Tenryu vs Keiji Mutoh/Great Muta & Masahiro Chono Choshu & Tenryu beat up Mutoh at the start, toss him outside, punk him out & then Tenryu gets on the mic saying they want Muta instead. Frustrated Mutoh walks off to the back to go get him. Not sure if he's ever done the switch mid match before but it's my first time seeing it which is cool. After a few mins of Chono getting beat up Muta comes out and chaos errupts, mist mist mist, elbow, mist, elbow, somehow along the way Choshu gets sprayed which causes him to immediatly pin Chono afterwards because he's Choshu and he can do that. Post match Muta ups the crazy as he's want to do and single handidly beats up Choshu & Tenryu. Mist mist mist mist mist, yellow mist, green mist, stab your head with a giant pole, red mist, chair, mist, destruction. Chono tries to calm him down and gets tossed aside so he walks off hands up. Young boys try to break it up and get tossed around. Shirtless Inoki wanders out and gets misted too. As a match this is pretty decent, as an angle & crazy spectacle it's quite bad ass. Came away wanting to see Muta fight everyone involved in this one on one including Chono.
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NJPW 9/23/1992 Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Choshu, Osamu Kido & Takayuki Iizuka vs Kengo Kimura, Shiroh Koshinaka, Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito One thing i've always liked about New Japan is that 8 & 10 man tags are a pretty big staple of their booking as i'm always a huge fan of those. This isn't an elite lvl one or anything but it's really good. Everyone's fired up for this as Koki Kitahara & Masao Orihara are at ringside with the WAR feud about to kick off. Pre match Choshu gets in their face and they bow in respect, Kimura steps up to em on his way to the ring and isn't so nice slapping Kitahara in the face and a mini pull apart breaks loose. Interesting match layout to this one with the Karate Army/Skinheads clearly being the more heelish of the teams but they basicly ended up working babyface by the end. After starting out with your typical multi man back & forth action things settle into a long FIP section on Saito with the NJPW team taking turns destroying his arm. Koshinaka finally tags in but gets cut off and we get a 2nd FIP with him getting bloodied up leading to a big Koshinaka chant as he fights back. Kimura gets the hot tag but they cut him off too and it looks like he's also about to take a beating until Saito who has his arm wraped up in a makeshift sling they made out of Aoyagi's belt swoops in to save the day knocking down Kido long enough for Kimura to pin him with Choshu a half a second away from breaking it up. Post match Choshu & the rest prove to be sore losers continuing the attack and then beating the dog crap out of the referee. Fun times
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[1995-12-22-FMW] Megumi Kudo vs Shark Tsuchiya (Barbed Wire Death)
FLIK replied to Loss's topic in December 1995
Nope Outside interferance is a pretty standard joshi staple for any top heel that has a stable of their own dating back to the days of Dump so not something that ever really bothered me or that I give much thought to. Only meeting was a tag 9/19/1992 Megumi Kudo & Combat Toyoda vs Bull Nakano & Akira Hokuto awesome match and the first interpromotional joshi match ever -
WAR, same show as the Ultimo/Jericho match that made the set, it's up on youtube
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7/7/1995 Shiro Koshinaka vs Hiromichi Fuyuki - 2 guys who have a lot of charisma & great chemistry together. Real nice hidden gem of a match