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  1. DR Ackermann
    If you are unable to call a 10 minute match and come up with something good in your prime then you don't belong anywhere near this list. Does anyone think Warrior was capable of that?
  2. DR Ackermann
    It's strange how people will view a match and a wrestler in a way that fits a narrative even if what is actually being seen is counter to that narrative. The narrative being the one that Fujinami was washed up after returning from his back injury in the 90s. Fujinami was indeed a shadow of a shadow the worker he used to be. It's hard to fathom that he dropped off as hard as he did while still being able to wrestle for the next two decades. However, this is the best he's looked in a singles match on a yearbook since returning. He's actually pretty good here and this is a very good match. Fujinami had a great transition when he suddenly had an opening and viciously kicked out Hase's injured leg from underneath him. It was loud and strong enough as a transition with the two pausing to react afterward, that anyone in the building would have understood exactly what was happening. If there's any criticism I would make of Fujinami, it's that he did not sell the back as well as he should have. Hase did a great job working it over, assaulting Fujinami with Uranages on floor, and that deserved more from Fujinami's intermittent selling. The matwork between the two was good, though, and they both did a good job on offense. I loved the opening barrage from Fujinami and then the backing off, a mistake that Hase wouldn't make later on. I loved Hase's trifecta of suplexes in the stretch run, hitting his uranage, hitting Fujinami's own dragon suplex and then hitting a Saito suplex, touching on each decade in New Japan. This should have been Hase's coming out party, but the wrong guy won, and Hase will always be a notch below the true headliners, (like Fujinami and Masa Saito).
  3. DR Ackermann
    Probably my least favorite Tenryu vs New Japan match so far. Still fun, but I think Kitahara is out of his element. He doesn't know when to step up and be aggressive and when to sit back, if that makes sense. He looks especially lost and uncaring when Fujinami jumps Tenryu at the beginning. Also, Fujinami seems to be at his best since coming back from his injury when he's in there with Tenryu.
  4. DR Ackermann
    Mocking a southern accent was the about the most charisma Bret ever showed. Ironically, I kind of liked him for a second. Other than that, Bret's promo here as a heel isn't much different than his promos as a face, except being unlikeable and whiney suits the character.
  5. DR Ackermann
    Hiroshi Hase is playing himself right off my GWE list with these G1 matches. They're just not THAT good. Overly long, repetitive and awkward. Why am I watching Hase do neckbreakers for an extended period of time? Where is this going? Not a bad match, but with what these guys were given as far as booking and time, this is what we get? Hase is losing a lot of steam with me and I can't really point to what makes him great at this point. Sure he has charisma, sure he can sell and work the mat. He very good. But very good ain't great.
  6. DR Ackermann
    Is much of 1980 available though? 82 or 83 is the first full year of TV we have I'm pretty sure.
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    Great fun. Hara is at his best tagging with Tenryu, but so are a lot of guys I suppose. They make a good team even if their double teams are off a lot. Hara actually sells pretty well, as does everyone. Fujinami gives glimpses of the worker he used to be. Tenryu wiping his sweat off in the direction of Fujinami is so awesomely disrespectfu. Loved this match. Offhand it seems like the second or third best tag of the year.
  9. DR Ackermann
    I see what you are saying, and he is a natural heel, looking forward to seeing more.
  10. DR Ackermann
    Pantherwagner, I've never heard of that! Do you have more details and is that available online anywhere?
  11. DR Ackermann
    What is the reasoning for putting AJ back on if he has fallen off twice? Is it just because Meltzer wants to and its as simple as that?
  12. DR Ackermann
    It took me a minute to realize it was Big Van. I kept thinking he threw in some extra random letters
  13. DR Ackermann
    Are you sure about that? Big Van Vader, Crusher Blackwell.
  14. DR Ackermann
    I'll have Vader a bit higher than Blackwell myself.
  15. DR Ackermann
    I'm not really a fan of Takada's and I don't remember him being more than decent in his first NJPW run. But I think he was surprisingly good in the UWF NJPW feud a few years later and I thought his matches with Koshinaka were fine despite their rep with some. In fact I thought the broken fingers match was fantastic. I have seen some stuff from the 90s that was mixed but i thought his second 1990 match with Fujiwara was a top 5 MOTY. I haven't seen much of his 80s work outside of New Japan either but thinking about what I have seen, the guy has some glaring flaws, but so does Flair. I'm going to make an effort to fill in my viewing gaps between now and the end of this and see if he ranks. He definitely has a shot at the back end at the very least.
  16. DR Ackermann
    As bad as this angle is, Cactus and everyone else are making the best out of it. Does Dustin wear that shirt a lot?
  17. DR Ackermann
    Confused by your post, Chad. Lost worker of the 90s? Awesome since turning heel? Isn't this his first appearance since the turn?
  18. DR Ackermann
    No one asked me, but I was at a show in New Orleans on Wrestlemania weekend two years ago where Cabana was selling merchandise. A fan was excited to see him and asked if he remembered meeting him while acknowledging that Cabana probably didn't. Cabana was super rude and acted as if the guy was insane and completely dismissed him. I just watched and observed and he kept acting like he was too good to be there. He had a real air of superiority about him even though he was hawking DVDs at a show he wasn't even on.
  19. DR Ackermann
    Steamboat's 1990s puts him in the top half for me. Without his WCW run from that era he wouldn't rate too high. He pulled it all together during that time to be one of the best in the world.
  20. DR Ackermann
    If you didn't find his offense weak then you didn't find his offense weak. I personally thought it looked soft and eye-rollingly pathetic most of the time. That I still see him as an all time great is a credit to how good he was at most everything else.
  21. DR Ackermann
    His awkward "punches," his chops to the head. On offense he looked physically stiff and awkward. It didn't look painful. He did do an arm drag, yes. And he had good chops. The rest was pretty shitty looking and lacked impact.
  22. DR Ackermann
    Steamboats biggest drawback is his poor offense. He might have the worst offense of anyone who will be on my list. But that he was as great as he was in spite of that says a lot.
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    Jim Duggan

    DR Ackermann replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    I'll say that Dugan looked better in midsouth than later in his career, but he still doesn't come close to making my list. Good is good, bad is bad and neither one is GREAT.
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    Masa Chono

    DR Ackermann replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    91. There wasn't a G1 in 1990.
  25. DR Ackermann
    I'll give you that one.
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