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  1. Zenjo
    This was the final bout of the Japan Grand Prix, and it was winner take all. They produced one of the better AJW matches from 1996. After a poor 1st half of the year the promotion started to put out some strong matches again in the 2nd half. It was heavyweight Joshi as Kyoko had the firepower to stand up to Kong. The contest was engrossing throughout and built up nicely. The pacing was well done as was the exhaustion selling near the end. It wasn't at the level of their best work as neither was at their peak anymore. Nevertheless a satisfying main event that had a World Title feel. Aja won her 2nd JGP after 1992. It was effectively her 2nd straight title as the WWWA champion didn't used to compete and she held the big red belt through the 93-95 events.
  2. Zenjo
    Another fantastic Backlund interview as he has a few new words to help educate the masses. He gradually gets more and more worked up until he's right in the cameramans face and practically frothing at the mouth by the end. The reinvention of his character in 1994 was a revelation.
  3. Zenjo
    I really loved the directing on the Backlund promo, with him not once looking into the correct camera. It was at least somewhat original, and helped put over the crazed character. Not that Bob needed a lot of help in that regard!
  4. Zenjo
    My Mum still reads this to my Sister on Christmas Eve, even though she's 30. Like Hulkamania, good Christmas traditions should never die.
  5. Zenjo
    In 1993 you had Vader vs Flair main eventing Starrcade. In 1994 you had Hogan vs Beefcake.
  6. Zenjo
    I remember seeing Hogan beat Flair during his "undefeated tour of Europe". It was called the 'Hulkamania '94 Tour' IIRC.
  7. Zenjo
    Backlunds batshit insane promo was awesome. Screaming, ranting, getting the words mixed up. The guy was such a tool. They should've given him a title reign until the Rumble. Then the Diesel response was weird because he was obviously under instructions to play the American hero card. Come on Vince, it's time to move on from the Hogan era. The Godwinn stuff was so crap it's hard to believe the gimmick lasted as long as it did.
  8. Zenjo
    Backlund doing all that posing before the 'match' was really fun. Then Diesel comes out and things go downhill rapidly.
  9. Zenjo
    IRS digging up a corpse because he hadn't paid his taxes was awesome. It used to be birth, taxes and then death as the only sure things in life. Now it's birth, taxes, death, even more taxes. We need a necromancer so the guy can work off his debt to society.
  10. Zenjo
    Having the entire team counted out that way was ridiculous. It should've been 5 separate counts with announcements. As I'm not supposed to be thinking like that it did do a good job accomplishing Diesel's face turn. I can't stand the guy, but again I'm not supposed to be thinking that. Okay, so I am supposed to think that at the start of the match. But now the match is over my opinion should've changed. I'm such a bad fan.
  11. Zenjo
    It seems that Stephanie wasn't the only McMahon that Randy made a lasting impression on.
  12. Zenjo
    On lots of AJW shows from the era all but one of the matches are women's wrestling. The exception would normally be a midget 'comedy' match. All midget wrestling from outside of Mexico is horrible. Whilst the men's match from Big Egg is nothing like that, I still don't want to see it on this show. Especially when it goes on far too long and isn't one of their better efforts.
  13. Zenjo
    Obviously the match sucked but it's good to see there's some love for action hero Chuck Norris.
  14. Zenjo
    How could you tease us like that with Aldo Montoya and then not deliver? How many other wrestlers in history have worn a jockstrap on their head?
  15. Zenjo
    You guys need to watch more Joshi. They have retirement matches and ceremonies all the time so you get used to seeing them. Here it was Hara calling it a day after 16 years as a pro. He didn't start until the age of 31, and there's no argument from me that it was time for him to move on. I won't claim to have any idea what the stuff in the middle was all about. After the finish Hara gets the traditional retirement ceremony. Fellow wrestlers throw him in the air, sometimes they get dropped but not here. Then there's a few words about his career and Hara thanking the fans. Well wishers present him with flowers before he gets to go out the ring as a hero. It's always a wonderful way to end a career, going out on a big show instead of fading into obscurity. One of those little things that make Puroresu so special.
  16. Zenjo
    The Razor commercial to start was surprisingly good. Then we have the WWF bragging about having no off season. I'm not even going to go here. The main event was then Mr Backlund gracing the Heartbreak Hotel. This was absolute comedy gold and my favourite promo of the whole Yearbook. I was laughing so hard at Backlund I had to keep pausing the DVD every few seconds and nearly fell off my seat! On all these talk shows for years faces suck up to other faces and heels suck up to other heels. Well Shawn started off doing that, but straight away Bob put the young punk in his place. From then on there was the crazed screaming, the mad facial expressions and dictionary time. It's hilarious because you've got someone who looks so stupid trying to pass themselves off as an intellectual. Bob sure doesn't suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!
  17. Zenjo
    Backlund is goofier than the proverbial Pet Coon. Why did they keep Bob away so long? The guy is fantastic on the mic here, grab your dictionaries people. You have to go along with how mind-blowingly stupid the volunteer is, but it's worth it to see Backlund go nuts.
  18. Zenjo
    Surely the couple were plants. The King used to be so much funnier in his early WWF days when he was an out and out heel. And talking of funny, it's Mr Backlund.
  19. Zenjo
    The Nastiest Bar in all of Nastyville. You could almost feel the danger coming at you from every direction. Had it been anyone else as the lead character then whole thing would've been a surreal insanity. Yet with Dusty in the middle of the piece it somehow made sense. We were taking a trip into Dusty's dream world, and with him as our guide everything would be okay.
  20. Zenjo
    As the match lasted 0:35 I decided to come up with 35 words to best describe it: Disgusting, revolting, sickening, nauseating, crap, asinine, retarded, bollocks, junk, bullshit, ridiculous, pathetic, rubbish, stupid, damaging, insulting, putrid, awful, horrific, hideous, offensive, vile, disgraceful, repulsive, appalling, shameful, unforgivable, rotten, detestable, shit, wretched, deplorable, abject, destructive, WCW.
  21. Zenjo
    Not exactly the way to get people to hate Flair was it? You could make 10 of these videos without repeating footage and they'd all be awesome.
  22. Zenjo
    Because all the kids born in the 80's were raised on King Kong movies. It wasn't called a cartoon wrestling promotion for no reason.
  23. Zenjo
    Did Piper get royalties for this? Borne wasn't even from Scotland or Canada.
  24. Zenjo
    If my name was Jeff Gaylord and I wanted to become a wrestler I think I'd change my name.
  25. Zenjo
    Hebner was so good at his job that it would've been ridiculous him not being no.1 referee.
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