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Yeah, Internet Archive has a decent amount of stuff. I'm kinda paranoid about stuff disappearing but the board is fairly dead so I'll take a chance. CLASSiCS_REViVAL has the most, although the 90's stuff is weighted toward the beginning and the end of the decade. wrestlingarchivist has things sorted by year but what he has is pretty random. GonzoAlonzo has a 5 disc best of the 90's uploaded. SantoSatanico has a 5 hour '96 G1 video plus a smattering of '93 G1 including the semis and finals.

The whole teacher/student, senpai/kohai relationship is fairly commonplace in Japanese wrestling. While this match has that, it also has the spectre of Hana Kimura hanging over it given the relationship that she had with each of these two. Despite this, these two don't let up on each other in the least . Rina jumps Konami at bell but Konami gets her revenge quick as she uses a folded chair to snap Rina's neck over the top rope in a nasty looking spot. After that, Konami starts focusing on Rina's arm but despite some quality work this doesn't really keep Rina from driving straight at Konami when she's on the attack. Konami wisely adjusts her plan of attack going after Rina with a hanging sleeper in the corner than taking off her belt to choke Rina. The finishing stretch produces some tremendous drama with Rina going all out with her big offense with Konami trying to survive while sneaking in either a arm submission or a sleeper. The end result is one of the best Stardom matches of the last few years. Definitely something that needs to be checked out!

If you haven't watched the G1 final, New Japan put it up temporarily till October 13. You can toggle between English and Japanese commentary in the settings: As someone who was also parachuting in to watch this, I found this to be more like a 90's New Japan main event than some 50's/60's title match. In fact, after I watched this I went back and watched the first G1 final to find that match had a similar vibe to it. My main critique of the match is that they really could have used some more creative escapes or attempts to escape. There were times during the match that felt like either one of them were banging his head against the wall with how he tried to get out of a hold or how he was trapped into it in the first place. That being said, they did a tremendous job squeezing drama out of the finishing stretch which was a enough to push it into great match territory. If New Japan main events start moving in this direction I'll start watching but I'm not keeping the porch light on. Definitely worth the watch if for no other reason to satisfy any curiosity even if you find current main event wrestling exhausting.

If you're looking at seeing what the fuss surrounding Rina is all about, here's a couple of matches to check out: January 21 vs. Konami March 15 vs. Hanan

Rina's gonna finish ahead of all of these people.

I'll miss someone spending, presumably, way too much of their free time trying to be the Hedda Hopper of pro wrestling on the internet. I did laugh when he lifted a couple of jokes I made on here for his twitter feed.

Marvelous posted most of Mio Momono vs. Sareee, there's a couple of minutes cut out of the middle.

Stardom has launched two additional YouTube channels. These look like they will be used for permanently uploading matches rather than temporarily like they do with their main channel. Stardom Global will have matches with English commentary. They're already uploaded both of the semis from last year's 5*GP. Stardom World will have matches with Japanese commentary. Seems like they are starting out with matches from last year's 5*GP opening night. Starlight Kid vs. Tomoka Inanba is already uploaded, that was one of the best matches from last year's tournament.

I guess somebody should nominate Saya Kamitani...

# of wrestlers made the list: 63 # of my top 50 that made the list/made top 50: 42/33 # of my top 25 that made the list/made top 25: 24/15 # of my top 10 that made the list/ made top 10: 9/4 # of wrestlers that ranked 101 to 200: 23 # of wrestlers outside the top 200 (Hipster Award): 14 # of wrestlers outside the top 500 (Contrarian Award): 4 Rank of my #1 wrestler: 2 (Bryan Danielson) Rank of list's #1 (Terry Funk) on my list: 12 # of wrestlers' high vote, excluding #1: 1 (Dick Murdoch) Exact placements: 1 (Arn Anderson (59), before the last correction I had 5 that were 1 spot off.) Highest ranking wrestler who do not make the list: 7 (Dick Murdoch, 148) Lowest ranking wrestler who made the list: 91 (Io Shirai/Iyo Sky, 65) Lowest ranking of wrestler on my list: 567 (Rusher Kimura, 95) Lowest ranking of wrestler on my top 50: 220 (Ron Garvin, 39) Lowest ranking of wrestler on my top 25 & top 10: 148 (Dick Murdoch, 7)

Some great character work by Tully and Arn in the early going of this one. They make it clear that a couple of himbos like the Rockers weren't going to beat a couple of men - real men - who knew the meaning of life. Of course, the Rockers see every cheapshot and blind double team attempt coming leading to both Tully and Arn doing some high quality stooging. Despite this the Rockers never really ever take full control of the match leading to Anderson grabbing Jannetty when attempts a flying headscissors on Blanchard and hotshotting him on the top rope. The Brain Busters don't actually control for very long before hit the finish which itself is kinda borked with Michaels clearly having his foot on the middle rope at an angle that the ref should have seen. The way the match is structure it comes of as a slightly better than what you would usually see on Prime Time or a Coliseum Video exclusive but nothing special.

CyberAgent will also be buying a part which makes me wonder how Japanese competition law works. Maybe they structured the sale to fit for government approval. It also possible that CyberAgent might already have the "For Sale" sign up on Noah or even CyberFight as a whole if they anticipated any issues. This great news for Stardom, which is staying with Bushiroad. I'm sure at least a chunk of the sale money will be reinvested into Stardom. It also frees them up for pursuing any sort of network deal or association without having to be beholden to TV Asahi.

In a interview with Tokyo Sports, Stardom president Okada stated that Hayashishita has not signed with the company yet. The expectation is that she will work the company's current tour then they will make a decision. He doesn't expect her to work with anyone else. That's probably the best way to approach it. I'm sure there are some in the Stardom locker room who aren't crazy about her coming back considering how the way the last couple of years have gone. This give a everybody a chance to air any grievances and possibly work them out.

And she shows up in Stardom on May 26, confronting Kamitani. I guess it not much of a surprise. When she announced she was leaving Marigold she said she wanted to face different opponents, and Stardom is much more liberal about letting talent work outside the company now. Hazuki is basically a freelancer that happens to have a Stardom contract. Hayashishita's also a Stardom trainee, unlike MIRAI, so the roster is more likely to welcome her back.

41 left total, 33 top 50, 21 top 25, 7 top 10 Surprised I have that many left other of than top 10.