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He says enough that you can get a sense of things I think http://quebrada.net/videos/Jd1.html just searching for Jaguar vs Lioness matches from that time frame 6/8/97 Jaguar Yokota & Yuko Kosugi & Miyuki Sogabe vs. Lioness Asuka & Ryuna & The Bloody. A brawl totally dominated by the heels. Kosugi was the bump girl until Lioness Liger bombed her on the floor which injured her legit, so the match eventually continued 2 on 3 since Kosugi had to be hospitalized. Jaguar was dominated, getting bloodied after Lioness piledrove her through a table, then actually pinned after Lioness being jackknifed through a table, towerhacker bombed, and Liger bombed off a table that was set up on the 2nd rope. 7/27/97 Lioness Asuka & The Bloody vs. Jaguar Yokota & Miyuki Sogabe 9/5/97 Jaguar Yokota & Cooga vs. Lioness Asuka & The Bloody 9/7/97 Lioness Asuka & Eagle Sawai & Shark Tsuchiya vs. Jaguar Yokota & Cooga & Megumi Yabushita. Kodo Fuyuki refed for a while, but he couldn't keep any semblance of order and Jaguar wound up kicking his butt, so Tommy Ran took over. Heel dominated this one. Jaguar was the best, but the match went on forever, especially considering how one-sided it was, so it was kind of boring. Lioness pins Jaguar to set up TWF title rematch.

Wrong death match fed, FMW never did light tubes. This was the finals of the 1st ever IWA MS King of the Death which was them trying to re-create IWA Japan's version Match was supposed to be a 3 way but he pulled out for some reason i'm forgetting

I'd say check Quebrada. I'm not overly familiar with specifics but I know they'd been building the feud since atleast mid year and things continue on into 98 which also produced some great matches that should make that set (another singles, the 60 min tag draw, etc...) Jag is the one who kinda invented/popularised the go go joshi style that others like Toyota took to a higher lvl later on. Jag also helped train Toyota for whatever that's worth.

Worth noting Kanemura was working this match on a broken ankle. No way he logically should have been wrestling but it was the biggest match of his career & the show drew 50,000+ so, ya know... The promotion had closed up yrs ago, they'd ocasionally run side stand alone shows but they really only existed as a stable within FMW at this point. The other stip was that if Onita lost he'd re-retire again. He didn't become "Kintaro" until 99, he went back to using Yukihiro Kanemura after this match which was his original ring name when he started wrestling. This match also leads to Onita turning heel on FMW as he was impressed enough with Kanemura that he decideds to join with him, Hido, Hosaka & later Tetsuhiro Kuroda to form the ZEN stable. A month or so later, Gannosuke, Oya & Awesome also joined.

Love their series and Tanaka is def Awesome's best opponent ever but at this point i'm not sure if Awesome is even a top 10 best opponent for Tanaka anymore. He's had much better rivalries with a large # of ppl. Btw, it's not on the set but Tanaka/Awesome had a match in March 97 that's just as good as anything else they've ever done together, ppl should track that down too.

Wasn't that Baba didn't want them appearing, the companies had a small working agreement at the time, it's that All Japan was under contract to a diffrent video company so they weren't allowed to appear on video releases anyone else put out.

OJ how up to date is your recomended match list on page 1?

This match finally got uploaded last night Watching it back, needless to say I will not be winning any baby face of the year awards.....feel free to make fun of my abysmal promo skills too

haha, yeah, thanks guys Funniest thing about the show, being that it was at a toy/comic/nerd convention, myself & a lot of the other wrestlers walked around the show room floor in full gear and no one even batted an eye cause there were like 50 mother fuckers dressed way weirder then us walking around anyways....

In the background that is both a fake Ghost Busters truck and a replica Knight Rider car that actually talked and had a David Hasselhoff impersonator posing for pics next to it. Slaughter had a large breasted, half nekkid 20 something yr old assistent taking the pics for him....why? because he's Sgt Slaughter damnit....Bushwhacker Luke was jealous...

Yeah, I was going to make a similar point. Unless you want to be more specific, asking generic questions like "do promos matter?" or "how are angles built?" in regards to the entirety of Japanese wrestling, the only good answer I can give is "it depends on the company and the time frame"

Had no clue Ian was in ECW this late

Heh, guess you'll also be happy to know this was Kyoko's farewell to the company too. She anounced it earlier in the night kinda fucking over the surprise of Hotta winning the 3WA title here....

Heh, I guess you'll be happy to know this was Aja's farewell AJW match before leaving the company then EDIT And regarding the new opponents thing, they both worked plenty with new ppl as AJW was on a big kick of staring to push some of the younger stars up the card that year it's just that none of that made the yearbook.

Rare good point brought up by Bryan Alvarez, if this whole thing hadn't been brought up publicly, most ppl prob wouldn't have even noticed that they short changed the tournament since they don't pay that close attention anyways.

1st time I saw this I didn't care for it too much. Re-watching it over the years i've come to like it. Not blow away great or anything special at all in the grand scheme of things but a pretty good match.

My 1st time ever getting to see an ECW show. Loved everything about this match, easily the best of the 3 3 ways they've had and one of my all time favorite matches that's held up every time i've gone back to re-watch it. Yup, really fucked up but he kept working on it anyways and didn't take nearly as much time off as he should have. 2-3 weeks later he was in WCW

Battlarts liked doing that a lot over the years, you get used to it after a while but yeah it is weird when the building is so dark and however many fans there are are mostly sitting off camera.

http://www.purolove.com/njpw/history/g1climax97.php 8/10 Tenzan match is for the IWGP title, i'm guessing set up by Tenzan beating Hash in the Semi's of the G1 8/31 Kensuke match is for the IWGP set up by Kensuke wining the G1

Nope this is the final. Any particular reason it was jip? I believe in full it's only 8 mins

Naw, that's just a by product of the nature of comps like these. Relative to what's available, only certain highlights make it on so there just ends up being a large # of wrestlers that had notable, significant careers that only rarely appear on the sets (if at all)

No not at all, atleast in context. I mean, everyone who followed joshi to any degree beyond watching ocasional matches on comp tapes would know who these two are. And yeah, in hindsight this is one of the most obscure titles ever as it only even existed for 7 or 8 months but it was pushed as a big deal for the short period it was around. This particular match was the semi main at that years Jr All Star show (think of it as Dreamslam but limited to wrestlers with 3-4 years experience or less) which drew around 4000 in Yokohama.

Thanks, wrestled twice on the show today, singles match & 10 man elimination. 0 for 3 this weekend, in less then 24 hours i've lost matches via chair shot, a side walk slam and an ass smash to the head Most I know just have their shit on youtube for easy access, don't know too many who bother putting their matches on disk. Around here most shows are taped by the promotion so they can get a copy & those that aren't guys will just have someone film their matches on a cell phone or whatever Tried to tape mine today but I forgot to charge the battery

There's only about 7 or 8 available on tape but they ran them pretty often for the latter half of 97. They tapered off by years end but were still doing the ocasional one into the first few months of 98

So yeah, this whole being a wrestler thing is going rather well atm Wrestled face for the 1st time last night Working this lucha show in a couple hours Working this show in a couple weeks