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  1. Jetlag
    Really fun match which had juniors from Michinoku Pro, FMW and Dragon Gate mixing it up. These guys aren't used to eachother so they were working a more solid, less intricate match, but it was good and everyone brought something worthwhile to the table. There were also several huge dives and Dragon Kid looked good hitting all his freaky stuff. I also liked the spot Dragon unmasked himself in an Eddie Guerrero style attempt to get Kid DQ'd. The next moment they both unmasked eachother and were forced to wear their opponents hood. This kind of stuff won't win you workrate awards but it's what keeps the love for pro wrestling flowing. Sasuke looked sharp, TMIV hit some stiff blows and GOEMON & Onryo looked like good bases as well with Onryo hitting particularily huge bumps and dives. FEAR THE ONRYO CLUTCH!
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    Dandy/Navarro feud in full bloom. Cool mat exchanges and awesome punches. Boxing Negro Navarro is truely awesome, up there with the likes of Dick Murdoch or Bill Dundee. Having both such a variety of punches aswell as ways to put the other guys punches over is truely a rare trait. The other guys in this match were acceptable and Pantera did a good job keeping everything moving.. But Dandy/Navarro is the matchup you want to see and this did not disappoint.
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    I remember loving this match years ago and it's really nice of MLW to upload this in excellent quality. Some fun early wrestling exchanges where they mesh better than you expect and Sabu hits everything cleanly. They even did a good build, for example by avoiding the obvious table bump early on or La Parka understanding the Camel Clutch is a finisher. But the crowd keeps calling for tables, so the match turns into the usual Sabu bombfest. Parka really outbumps Sabu here, take a big Necro bump where he nearly overshoots the table and just flying into the turnbuckle. Sabu grabbing the scissors (backstory?) and carving Parka up added some needed grit to this spotty type brawl. There was also a great exchange where Parka was working over Sabus body with stiff kicks while Sabu tried these lunging desperate punches. These two are really decent pro wrestler aside from the hardcore stuff, so you get Parka expertly covering up a Sabu botch or selling his blood loss and making the walk back into the ring seem important etc.
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    Decent clubberfest. Nakanishi is always straddling the area between solid and dull, so him dominating for so long wasn't exactly thrilling. Also, what was up with all the weird chops and claw holds? There were a few moments that threw me out, such as the referee counting a pin where Takayamas shoulder was blatantly up or the sucky double knee spot they tried. Takayama looked good demolishing Nakanishi on the other hand. This was fun but never seemed to kick it up a notch.
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    Only a 3 minute match, but super intense stuff. Ruttens dangerous striking is just great. If he had kept wrestling, he could've reached Volk Han levels of greatness. Tanahashi looked good using palm strikes and throws instead of his later persona, altough I didn't quite buy him taking down Rutten so easily. Still he was there to take brutal shots to the liver, and he made the most of it.
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    DAMN I kinda loved Yatsu in this and while I'm a huge Yatsu fan I didn't expect that at all. Yatsu is 46 years old here but still really spry and fun, and Nakanishi doesn't hold back. This is really the Yatsu show as he busts out all kinds of fun punches and submissions and still hits the great bulldog and powerslam. Nakanishi was largely your regular Nakanishi but he does hit a really nice shotai combo and as a said he really pastes Yatsu with chops and lariats. If this went like 3 and a half minutes less it would be about the greatest WCWSN match in japanese history.
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    Stiff war between the two. I feel like a hypocrite, but I thought this was a little boring. Nagata sold in a big way, but he just had a hard time looking credible against Takayama. Takayama blowing off his suplexes didn't help and I didn't buy the ending. There were lots of brutal kicks and punches to enjoy however, so what else do you want.
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    As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't the Inokism/MMA influence stuff that was killing NJPW at the time, it was the fact that the regular wrestling was largely dull and moronic. The sprint opening and subsequent matwork of this was fine, but they soon went to their bread and butter: brainlessly hitting lariats and throwing out bombs. No transitions in sight, just take a move, then hit one of your own, repeat until finish. This really needed MMA gloves or a Murakami run in.
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    It's no surprise workrate smarks hated Yasuda, as his style was very simplistic and unspectacular. While he was a questionable choice for IWGP champ this wasn't a bad match at all. It was basically built around intense clinches and Yasuda constantly trying to choke out Nagata. Everything was logical and Nagata had one of his better showings trying to struggle out of Yasudas anaconda like grip and roughing him up with fired up strikes. Watching guys struggle over getting underhooks and overhooks rather than doing fighting spirit spots and bomb throwing is refreshing for japanese wrestling. Add in a few neat counters and brutal strike exchanges down the stretch and I'm a fan.
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    This is the matchup that got a lot of people into british wrestling, altough not their famous match. This was full of fast reversals and pretty athletic. Personally I prefer the more slower paced technical hold for hold work, but the match had good enough build and they kept the moves coming.
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    This is very much your hold vs. Counterhold type match that you associate with World of Sport. Joyce is yet another trippy veteran british worker, while Grey is one of the most consistent workers ever in WoS. This was a friendly match but fiercely fought. Grey was bumping really hard with a ton of snap for arm wringers and they worked some intense, luchaesque submissions and nearfalls throughout the match. Unexpectedly nasty finish. This kind of stuff entirely depends on whether you like this sort of super technical bout, but if you do, you're probably gonna hugely enjoy this one.
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    This is one of my all time favourite WoS matches. I'd put the grappling here up there with high end RINGS or lucha title matches. Just one trippy takedown or sweep after another, followed by another weirdo counter. The match didn't have huge intensity, but both guys worked hard for the holds and tried submissions. There are a few spots and logical reasonings that you will only see in a World of Sport match – choosing not to slam the opponent and instead forcing him to slip down your back, trying to pin his shoulders while in a surfboard, tripping the other guy while he is setting up a move etc. The highly entertaining work they do around a super basic move like a stepover toe hold here puts even many elite workers to shame. There are some callbacks to previous holds and situations, so the match is far from mindless. Last pin combo is brilliant and blew my mind at the time.
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    One of the many good little matches WoS had in the 70s. Starts as a methodical technical bout, so we get all the usual great Szakacs escapes, and then develops quite some animosity as Prince Kumali doesn't like getting chopped at all. Kumalis holds looked awesome as they were mostly strength holds to the head or arms, and that man looked like he had insane strength. Hard as iron to break. He also did a tremendous job putting over how much those chops suck to take. Szakacs use of a simple chop as a potential KO from the middle of a grappling exchange rules as we all know.
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    Classic WoS heat mongering material. Sid Cooper is pretty underrated among the WoS guys as his stuff is simple but executed to perfection. He has the mannerisms down pat, acting like a huge chicken, then acting tough and rugged, then acting fake-friendly etc. all with his hilarious voice and accent. He will also make simple holds look brutal by grinding his knee across the face, bending the shit out of a leg while slapping the other guy etc. Clive is of course an amazing athlete. This was all fun and games with Myers outwrestling Cooper and occasionally threatening to unleash his Kung Fu on him but went to the next level when Cooper shoved Myers in the ropes. This wound end up being a WoS-typical low key holy shit moment when Myers got his leg tangled in the ropes and Cooper went to town on him. Cooper was unrelenting working over that leg and his leglock work coupled with Myers selling will have you believe in the possible finish. Wonderful, simple match executed close to perfection.
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    WoS opening match! This is a pretty fun match. Mostly textbook holds and reversals, though they do get chippy at points. Man I think it was easier to create intensity in these old british matches because the ring they were using looks rough as hell. Or maybe they were just charging into those turnbuckle pads REALLY hard. Some jokes and stiff knee lifts. Riley was pretty rough around the edges here though I actually kind of liked his maybe uninentional foot first bumps. Czeslaw is just a flawless performer. His ultra tight chickenwing crossface was easily the highlight. It's all fun and games with oddly safe bumps through the ropes but they always maintain the aura of serious competition even with some laughs. It must take a lot of school to charge running through the ropes so fast and then land safely without crushing any grandmas in the audience.
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    Bread and butter Mick McManus stuff. Brawling and cheapshots galor. I liked the part where they got the ref in an armlock. Sarjeants forte is technical wizardry and while he doesn't bloom in this type of match he looks good here, pulling out lots of different headlocks to work McManus' cauliflowered ears etc. I also really liked these short knees that he threw. Crowd got really into this when Sarjeant started working Micks arm like he was gonna rip it off. Good stuff but the somewhat throwaway finish prevents this from reaching the upper tier.
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  18. Jetlag
    It's crazy to think these two had pretty much perfected the US Indy style so early in the game. This was like a distillate of their 2002 work, and while it wasn't as smartly worked as their epic match in November, it has all the cool matwork, stiffness and crazy bombdropping you can ask for. Super Dragon came across as this menacing asskicker during the opening exchanges, punishing Quance with double stomps when he attempted basic moves and kicking him hard while applying leglocks. He also hit this awesome past the turnbuckle dive. Quance is able to hold his own, countering the usual armbars and hitting a stiff dropkick. After Dragon rams into the turnbuckle (taking his signature bump where he basically suicide dives into nothing) Quance hits this shooting star press to the outside nuking both Dragon and Excalibur which is a pretty insane spot for 2002. After that that it's basically them trading big nearfulls while still maintaining a sense of competitiveness and working a few reversals/cutoffs. While there are lot of big moves it wasn't just a series of trading back and forth. Dragon once again looked great mixing up his stuff and I loved him cranking back at a basic facelock between all the powerbombs and suplexes. They also laced into eachother with hard strikes at one point. Epic finish which feels like a perfect example of how to use a crazy complicated death move like that.
  19. Jetlag
    Forget your initial feelings when you see this match up and believe me when I say: this was some wonderous pro wrestling. Lots of bullshit, but it was great bullshit. The Ogawa/Predator sections are really efficient in a "irresistable force vs. Immovable object“ way. Tom Howard looked great working his voodoo combat MMA stuff as he and Hashimotogo full Memphis meets Volk Han exhibition style. Some ref bullshit and a Gerard Gordeau run in do happen but that doesn't matter. You will be glad you watched this. Or maybe not.
  20. Jetlag
    You have to wonder whether the ZERO1 debut was the best debut card of all time. Just loaded with exciting fights. This is a Murakami match with Ohtani stepping up to the challenge, just a hurricane of wild strikes and a feel of danger. Ohtani sweeping and punting a crazy MMA fighter is way cooler than Ohtani working fighting spirit epics. Not much depth, but you know what youre getting.
  21. Jetlag
    I miss BattlARTS. The style is such that even two undercard workers can just come out like this and have a very good little match. Some very good shootstyle mat exchanges here. Super Rider is the more complete fighter and dominates early, including catching Junji with a brutal kick during a leglock exchange. Junji would get a lucky armbar but get stretched again soon after. Junji however is able to hang on and beat down Rider with some good looking NWA TV squash offense... nice headbutt to the shoulder, knee drops etc. Really liked Riders subsequent low kicks. Nifty finish.
  22. Jetlag
    These WAR revival in AJPW Tenryu performance are always a highlight when it comes to 2000s puro. No dumb shit, just a lot of fire and disdain at play. Miyamoto wants to stand up to his much tubbier, bigger opponents and as a result gets his nose busted and kicked in the face a bunch. Bully Tenryu is always great, but Miyamoto looked seriously good here aswell. His selling was pretty nuanced – I mean he was probably legit taking a lot of pain, but he even made glancing individual blows look really hurty. His comebacks looked good, and he was able to pull off a parkour spot that actually looked cool. Kea is someone who just never reaches greatness, but he was energetic and always there to put a thudding kick on Tenryu when it counted. Tenryus facial expressions and selling were out of this world as usual, anytime he took a blow that knocked him off balance he would look like a teacher in a high school comedy that just got pie faced. Tenryu casually strolling over to teach Kea a lesson while Araya and Miyamoto were fighting is why he's special. I found it almost comical how cooled down Araya was compared to everyone else here like this was just another tuesday. He looked good raking Miyamotos bloody nose a bunch and taking a massive bump on a german suplex for a fat aging guy.
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    If it wasn't for the constant no selling this would have been a close to great match. Plenty of struggle and I kind of liked Mutohs „I'm held together with glue and rubber band so I gotta be extra careful not to blow out my knees“ selling. Still seeing guys constantly jump up after receiving moves makes me zone out of a match fast.
  24. Jetlag
    Tenryu carries a mediocre worker to a good match, also water is wet. This was entertaining all the way, lots of fun Tenryu punches, kicks, tubby old man highspots and dick behaviour, but the match didn't have much depth. Kojima simply isn't convincing in trying to take it to Tenryu. His comebacks weren't great and he really needed to just bring a little more than he did. Tho his fighting spirit into Flair flop feels like an excellent comedy spot. Another positive is that the match was short and never dragged.
  25. Jetlag
    Tanaka disrespects the belt, and Hashimoto makes an example of him. This is among the greatest squash matches of all time, as Hashimoto looks like an unstoppable killing machine, and Tanaka looks like the gutsiest dude on earth for surviving. Tanaka is „deathmatch tough“ so you buy him surviving all the punishing blows and maybe decking Hashimoto with a potatoe of his own. Him being unable to hold on to a sleeper simply because he took a beating to every part of his body was pretty great aswell. Still this was all about Hashimoto destroying a poor fella. He may be the best ever at utilizing a basic karate chop to look like a badass.
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