SenorLARIATO

Hey there, Alan4l directed me here for the Greatest Wrestler Ever project. Looking forward to taking part and discussing wrestling with all of you My name's Richard, 30 from the UK. I've been a wrestling fan most of my life, but really got into it during the mid-90's with WWF and ECW tapes. I also got into Japanese wrestling a few years later, thanks to a tape trading neighbour, and got hooked on All Japan and deathmatch sleaze like FMW & IWA Japan. I kinda drifted away from wrestling at the turn of the decade, but seeing an ROH show in 2003 brought me back into the fold and, thanks to the internet, I got back into Japanese wrestling with NOAH. Nowadays I mostly watch New Japan & Dragon Gate, plus US and British indies like ROH, PROGRESS, SMASH, AIW, Beyond Wrestling, etc. I've also really enjoy going back and exploring all the eras of wrestling I missed out on and have come to absolutely adore the 80's All Japan style and watching old territory shows like Mid-South, Portland, Memphis, WCCW and so forth. Currently I'm working my way through a huge Best of Buddy Rose set and watching the 1985 year of All Japan & New Japan TV on blu-ray back to back. Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SenorLARIATO and I guess I'll close off with a fave five; 1. Jumbo Tsuruta 2. Stan Hansen 3. Kenta Kobashi 4. Genichiro Tenryu 5. Dick Murdoch