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Terry Boy vs. Jinsei Shinzaki - Michinoku Pro 7/24 Mens Teioh is one of my favourite hidden awesome japanese wrestlers and this is an early great of his. At this point he had some kind of Terry Funk tribute act going and this match is an M-Pro match heavy on the Southern 'Rasslin. Shinzaki comes in with an evil facepainted manager and is showered with boos. Terry crushes them both with a big crossbody then gets on the mic imitating american slang. He and Shinzaki's manager start argueing about something something involving SLEEPER HOLD leading to Terry Boy getting slapped and sleeper'ing the facepaint guy allowing Shinzaki to crack him from behind and taking control. Teioh takes this absurd huge ass beatin, taking bumps into chairs and over the ropes, gets carved up, crushed by double stomp from a height, gets some big metal cubic thing dumped on him and beaten up by the crazy manager several times. He makes one comeback and lays a big crushing stomp right on Shinzaki's face that gets an awesome reaction but wounds up getting beaten up even worse. Eventually he goes Full Funk and cracks Shinzaki with punches before Sleeper'ing his manager once again. Crazy match, with an awesome layout.

My name's Sebastian, I'm from germany and I'm 19 years old and from germany. I've been fascinated with wrestling ever since I was kid, first discovering it through a WCW game for the N64. Broadcast situation at that time wasn't great so I never got to watch a lot of wrestling. I tried to keep up watching Smackdown (my favourites being Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and John Cena) until it was moved to a horrendous time slot (thursday midnight). I discovered wrestling on the internet and started scouring the earth for wrestling, sifting through all kinds of stuff, getting all kinds of tapes from german tape traders and finally discovering japanese wrestling that was largely available online, even at that time. I've been watching all sorts of wrestling and wrestling related stuff ever since. Currently my main occupation has been finding footage of german/austrian wrestling from the 80s, first because I was simply curious about what was going on in my home territory at that time, but then I discovered some of that stuff is really, really good. Right now my favourite wrestling styles would be Lucha Libre, Shootstyle and quasi shootstyle (a few things that the Segunda Caida blog did a great job getting me hooked on), altough I can get into nearly all kinds of 'rasslin. I'm a pretty analytical person and I'm studying german language and literary studies aswell as maths in order to become a teacher for secondary schools. I guess that explains why I like to dissect and talk about wrestling matches aswell as reading other people's analysis. That stuff is largely uncovered in a scientific sense. Besides all that seeeerious jazz I mostly hang out with stoners, radical leftists and check out concerts on a regular basis.

In my first post on this forum, and since it's bothering OJ, I have to admit that it was me who wrote this. It's obviously kind of a troll, but I was (still am) really high on El Dandy's work, matches against Llanes, Morgan, Satanico, Casas, Navarro, the Santo brawls, all that stuff, so I wrote up this outlandish post combined with links to these matches and sent them to a bunch of people like Keith, Meltzer, or the EVOLVE contact formula (maybe Gabe reads that), just to see if it would tickle someone's fancy to see someone praise El Dandy like that and link to a 30 minute match. Didn't get any response of course. I guess writing up a serious article would've been the wiser thing to do if I wanted to get the Dandy into people's minds as a great worker, but then, those people make money off of smarks so they can listen to wrestling podcasts and post on a wrestling message board, they might've charged me for a serious reply. As for OJ's queries... - not that I know of, aside from wearing kickpads and occasionally throwing NJ juniorish kicks. He was 100% luchador, atleast judging from the footage that I've seen on tape. I put that into the post thinking it might tickle some people's curiousity. - bold statement, I know, but if you lined up the 10 greatest Dandy singles matches it would be hard to top. I think big part of that is that he and his fellows had rock solid formulas to rely on, altough they did awesome stuff with these. Personally, I think Fujiwara is the greatest singles worker of all time. - he was really good, but I think that time and working that style "leagues ahead" wasn't possible, atleast not in the way that guys like Navarro or Panther these days are leages ahead of most other workers on the planet. - never seen him put in a mediocre performance, altough I haven't seen a terrible amount. I think the term "workrate" is not right for a guy like him. Most people don't think of stuff like punches or selling when they think workrate, and Dandy seemed to always keep his matches in tact with those things. - haven't seen much but the Antifaz match is good, stuff with Navarro in IWRG is awesome and I even really liked him briefly popping up in 2011. However he's been kind of crappy in TxT and I heard his AAA stuff is lousy, due to AAA being AAA. - I have no idea about that angle. Santo dressing up as Felino then revealing himself was a kind of creepy and awesome visual. That's pretty much all I know. It produced some great matches.