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  1. Jetlag
    Surprisingly good tag, better than it looks on paper. Felt a little like they were making an attempt at an AJPW style epic with stiffness, big bumps and intricate structure, except 3 out of these 4 guys are middle aged geesers which makes this match even crazier. Good energy early on with everyone laying into eachother, no hands headbutts, chops, the whole deal. My favourite bit was Chono almost being KO'd by a Tenryu punch but firing back with angry punches of his own. Koshinaka had his working boots on, catching Tenzan with a painful looking hip attack to the back of the head and then following up with shots to the same spot. Chono was bringing it too, taking a huge bump to the outside and then getting sent over the guardrail by a big Tenryu flying forearm in an amazing spot which set up the heat section on Tenzan. An almost spent Chono giving his all trying to turn the match over was pretty great and I loved his yakuza kicks and big punch. Because it's the late 90s they bust out all their finishers including Tenryu dumping Chono right on his neck and Tenzan crushing Koshinaka with one of the nastiest moonsaults I've ever seen. Pretty overkill-ish, but the match didn't get too bloated.
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    I watched the 5/26/96 commercial tape. It had an undercard of WAR vs. Yume Factory matches, so I couldn't resist. Unfortunately all the matches were clipped to just a few minutes. The longest surviving footage was Kitahara vs. Shinichi Nakano with 6 out of 10 minutes shown and it looked really damn good, with Nakano selling his arm and landing huge punches to Kitahara's face. Also it was fun watching Osamu Tachihikari bleeding and raging, waffling everyone in sight with chairs as a response to Motegi's heel tactics. Tenryu/Nakano was as cool as it sounds and the main event - Fuyuku/Jado/Gedo vs. Anjo/Takayama/Kenichi Yamamoto was fun as fuck with the UWFi guys working super stiff and the WAR residents going for heel tactics and brawling while keeping the match mostly in the ring. After that they showed about 30 minutes of interviews. Damn you, WAR editors! Some people CARE about Yume Factory.
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    So people are saying that Fujinami in the 90s was past it and his title in reign in 1998 was a lowlight. And judging by this match -- they are WRONG. Fujinami says DAMN you ALL - and drags Chono kicking and screaming into a bonafide MUGA epic like it's 1978/2006. Exciting opening establishes the story of the match immediately. Then you get Fujinami working really stiff - slapping the dogshit out of Chono and busting out the Thesz back elbow. Chono can barely do a thing on the mat but, Fujinami carries him no problem. Not only do you get fun maestro-ish touches from Fujinami, but also really excellent psychology, as you had Chono trying to work Fujinami's match, a great sequence centered around a lowblow, which Fujinami probably saw Negro Casas do in 1981 at Toreo, Fujinami teasing the STF, great leg attack stuff etc. Last couple minutes probably would've been better if Chono gave a shit about selling his leg. Ah, what the hell - this is still about the best match involving 1998 Chono I can imagine.
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    It is interesting that people are saying Negro Navarro outclassed Zack here. If anything it was that Navarro proved his style was superior. Zack did pretty well here all things considered; he never looked lost, and knew to contrast Navarro's flashier bits with some flashiness of his own, and occasionally cranking his holds in as needed. It's not his fault that he wrestles much like a dweeb, after all he's been told for years that his dweeby faux WoS shit is awesome and he's the next Johnny Saint or whatever. Too bad we have none of Steve Wright's matches from mexico to compare. Navarro is not as fast and vicious as he used to be and I felt he pretty much worked this match like any other short exhibition match against slightly dweeby indy guy. Still a fun showcase.
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    It's old time DVDVR's dream junior matchup! Parts of this had the feel of two guys who trained together a lot making their first faithful attempt at an epic. However, these two are solid enough at the basics to keep you entertained. They don't pussy out of exchanging stiff slaps, when they work the mat they go for actual submissions, and they understood to set their big spots up. Also they both have ultra choice swank movesets making this match worth watching just to see what coolness is coming up next. Fun junior spectacle. A million billion stars etc.
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    JWP's hotness goes against the megastar. These two highly athletic wrestlers with a number of spectacular moves in their pocket could easily go braindead and do suplexes and 2.99999s all the time, but instead we get a STORY~! with Yagi trying to take down the much higher ranked vet using her submission game. Toyota was really vicious, stomping on Yagi's head to break submissions, crushing her with extra vicious dropkicks and at one point just booting her off the top rope. "I don't give a fuck about you" Toyota is way better than workrate supergirl Toyota. Because Yagi is tiny you get the sense Toyota was really manhandling her. Match had a good pace, they start out taking turns bumping eachother really hard into the guardrails before slowing it down with some matwork and then actually building to the big suplexes and spots. Yagi didn't do anything out the extraordinary here, as almost all her offense was flash submissions as usual, but her bumping was pretty great as she'd just spike herself into the mat to put over the beating Toyota was giving her.
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    70s TV match!!! Six minutes of action! Damn I loved this. I dare you to look at Bobby Garcia and not love that guy. Carlos Colon without his face mutilated was a sight to see too. Some armdrags to start, but soon Grimaldo is doing what his red gear indicates: strangling Perez in the corner, and before you know what comes next they proceed to beat the shit out of eachother with awesome thudding punches! Then Colon comes in to work nifty shoulderblock exchanges and lands some nimble 70s flying moves including an amazing huracanrana. The rudoisms from Garcia and Grimaldo continue before Colon finishes with a sunset flip from the top rope which is a hot move for 1975. Man I hope whoever is uploading this finds more 70s Atlanta in his garage.
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    Pretty throwaway Brody squash where he bloodies and assaults Tiger Toguchi to set up their upcoming singles match, the most interesting thing about which will be how much Brody will cooperate with his opponent cause he didn't sell shit in this match.
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    Stiff as hell 25 minute sprint. Altough it is telling that in a match that Misawa spin kicking dudes in the face and Jumbo waffling the hell out of Kawada with a chair, the highlight was Fuchi blasting Misawa with awesome punch combos. Match had ample opportunity to deliver a strong heat segment but every few minutes there was a reversal, tag out and then someone else was ready to continue the bomb throwing. I guess the Kawada vs. Jumbo interactions were central to the match. Finally, we get an excellent finish between Kawada and Taue.
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    18 minute match clipped down to 10, making this a sprint. Ikeda and Ishikawa start the match with a crazy headbutt exchange and they are just fighting like feral animals. Oh boy the sheer CONTEMPT Ishikawa has for Ikeda. Usuda and Tanaka blast eachother with kicks to the face. Tanaka, for once, was pretty tight here. It never ceases to fascinate me how these guys would go to any japanese town hall and proceed to kill eachother night in night out. EDIT: It's of course Ikeda teaming up with Katsumi Usuda.
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    I am looking forward to this project bringing out some discussion on Gypsy Joe. For a guy who is somewhat legendary and influental, he really is hardly discussed. So IWE books a nazi and a gypsy as a team. Is that insensetive? This type of IWE match is the ancestor to all sleazy 90s indy brawls. They fight around the arena to start. Kimura, for a guy who has looked impossibly dull in the 70s, is pretty fun here slapping the shit out of both these dudes. Joe bumps like a motherfucker. Then Krupp rolls in to excite you with his variety of nerve holds, bearhugs and toe kicks! But before the evil nazi can ruin the match Kusatsu comes in and salvages things with an awesome punch combo! Joe kicks him in the dick and Krupp follows up with the dreaded DICK CLAW. Things quickly devolve into chaos with all the guys piling into a salad and the ref rings the bell, but the chaos continues. We also get to see Joe absorbing a bunch of really, really, really hard chairshots. Fun stuff.
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    Lot of future stars in this match. Awesome fast exchange between Piper and Rose to start. Young, eager Piper is just electric, but soon he gets isolated and all the heels pile on him. When Piper tags out to the old guys Rose is off the charts feeding into their punches and flying high into the steel post like a cartoon character. A bunch of armlock work ensues and Stasiak is so rocking the armwringer and the crowd loves it! Savage had a nice high backdrop bump at one point. 2nd fall is much slower with the heels constantly interfering to break the faces momentum, building to Martel tagging in and getting a big run of early 80s spectacular offense before Roddy comes in again and just goes nuts on Rose with punches. Match may have been a little long but you gotta love Portland for getting people in a frenzy with a bunch of really simple armwringer work and a handful of bumps.
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    "Big Ox Baker... redundant to call him big... almost redundant to call him an Ox..." I love Boesch. This was old school heel as you had battles of the Claw vs. The Bearhug, Stomach Claw, Heart Punch, etc. I love how Spoiler wipes his hand on the mat after Baker slips out of the claw. Some clever spots here such as Spoiler flying right into a bearhug, Spoiler blocking the heart punch, Baker working over Spoiler's hand here etc. Spoiler can do this kind of entertaining intimidating big dudes fight in his sleep.
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    Kozack was pro wrestling af in this match. Awesome mustache, saluting the american flag, looking like your sports teacher etc. This looked like a bullshitfest to start, but turned into a wrestling match with Hito bringing some leg work. Kozack kind of reminded me of Axel Dieter here, his exaggerated movements and passionate charisma being really endearing. Long chinlock grinds the match to a halt before Kozack goes down to a bunch of those dreadful japanese chops.
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    This was a basic undercard match. Hercules Boyd was a regular in europe so this was kinda worked like a Hamburg undercard match except it didn't go 3 rounds. Thornton seemed to be the face here but at one point went over to berate someone in the audience. Terrible finish where Thornton hits his awesome backbreaker but injures himself leading to his defeat.
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    For a slow, houseshowish match that didn't have neither guy doing anythingout the ordinary, this was kind of fun. It told a story and all that. I always enjoy Dusty mixing it up with the punch and elbow combos like he's a bizarro Misawa, and Boesch even points out his fighting spirit (though Dusty does not nosell any suplexes here). I liked the strength holds from Graham too. Graham ends up blatantly attacking Dusty with a foreign object and we get Dusty bleeding and making a comeback which he can do in his sleep. Then they work a bunch of spots around a bearhug where Dusty wants to hit Graham but he ducks under and clutches him again. Another night of work from the American Dream.
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    I downloaded a couple of CAWs from the workshop, made by by some guy named Jetlag. That you? It is
  18. Jetlag
    Watched the full match. Misawa kicks the SHIT out of Taue to start, but soon Taue goes on an absolute rampage, launching Misawa about the place and busting out an awesome flip dive. Some good back and forth exchanges which would become the standard for their longer matches later, mostly leading to Misawa catching Taue with a stiff elbow or kick to the face. Taue kicks out of the Tiger Driver, and Misawa finishes him immediately after with the deadly 91 version. Kind of a weird way to debut your deadly super finisher in a 10 minute match but they got the point across.
  19. Jetlag
    This was a solid match built around some clobbering and tight holds, leading to some smart tease and switch spots in the finishing stretch. Not much more to say really.
  20. Jetlag
    Yeah this match never stops being awesome. Gritty blood drenched tooth and nail fighting from start to finish, including awesome use of the guardrail. Kawada making a savage comeback where he bloodies Taue only to have his leg smashed was such an epic moment. Taue has all kinds of big spots but also awesome stomps and headbutts, and you know his headbutts are great because he leaves Kawada covered in blood too. I love the huge bump Kawada takes for Taue's simpel facebuster and the brutal back brain KO finish was sick. Both guys looked great here.
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    The Andre interview before the match may have been more interesting than the Battle Royal. WOO! I hate battle royals! You have all these awesome guys in a match, and then you get to watch them lean against the ropes and clubbing eachother softly. This also had weird novelty rules where guys had to be thrown from ring #1 into ring #2 where they would continue fighting. So it's like a reverse battle royal merged with an actual battle royal! Andre was throwing these guys over like rabbits. I love that the first thing Tully does is dropkick the unsuspecting fatguy. Eventually it boils down to Wahoo fighting Gino and Tully in ring #2 which was fun. But yeah this was a match that mostly got by on novelty.
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    This match was easily the most mediocre thing I've seen in a while. So mediocre yet servicable it made me wonder how actively great wrestling could come into existance. It's a pretty classic story, foreigners brawl and put the natives in trouble, but Brody and Mosca are deeply uninteresting. And well, Baba and Jumbo won't set your pants on fire here either. Brody assaults Baba with a chain to start, which is not as awesome as it sounds when you picture a bittle between a giant savage and a giant japanese folk hero. Baba chops his way back on offense because that's all he does~! then stays out of the way for most of the match... because he's smart! Jumbo has really nice offense, dropkicks, flying bodyscissors etc. but really doesn't have much fire here as he gets pummeled and bearhugged in uninteresting ways by Brody and Mosca. Mosca is so lame that he wins one fall here with a bodyslam! It wasn't even a good bodyslam! Someone like Moose Morowski would have rocked that bodyslam. Brody does some selling, which reminds me that people criticizing him for no-selling are wrong because his actual selling is so bloody goofy. Eventually Baba comes in and before long blood is spillt~! (without looking grizzly or anything) and we get the trademark bad 80s finish. Yeah when you think of a good old school brawl or title match... this isn't it.
  23. Jetlag
    JIP match. Tenryu is young and skinny! Lots of basic 70s style hold for hold work, some of which was pretty fun. Surprisingly enough the sections with Wild Bill may have been better, altough Robinson has by far the greatest presence. Tenryu & Hata control alot, hit some nice double teams and finish off Bill after Tenryu takes out Robinson, perhaps foreshadowing future interactions between the two?
  24. Jetlag
    Just a basic studio squash, allowing Hogan to look strong. Curtis looks like he is half the size of Hogan so maybe not the best choice to put him over, but he does get to look like a competitor. Nice pop for Hogan powering out of the Full Nelson.
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