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    It's hilarious they gave the men's Raw vs. Smackdown match 50+ minutes. 80s New Japan Elimination matches didn't go that long. So Lesnar ends the streak, destroys ace Cena and is generally unbeatable but gets squashed by a 50 year old guy who hasn't wrestled in 12 years? Hmmm.
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    Huh I always thought it was this one. I have even seen someone give it as high as **** 1/4 which prompted me to watch it for the first time since 2007 itself. Will check out the ONS match.
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    Yep. Many of the "toxic" effects of PC culture result solely from the anti-PC crowd's ridiculously exaggerated overreactions to everything. PC culture has its flaws but the irrational and blind hatred of it has contributed to many of the developments seen today in society.
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    So unless I counted wrong/missed something, 3 Misawa/Kobashi vs. Kawada/Taue tags made the Top 50. 4 in the Top 100. 5 in the Top 150. Quite the feud.
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    It hurts me in my heart that you had Hansen-Kobashi (and so much other great stuff) below that garbage joshi cage match. It's funny, in a 180 degree contrast, I was disappointed the cage match missed the Top 50 by a whisker and finished below stuff like that, IMO, mediocre Hansen-Kawada brawl. 3 Tsuyoshi Kohsaka matches in the 100-51 range plus that Tamura match in the Top 50 show how great and underrated he is. Same for Yoshihisa Yamamoto.
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    Am I missing something? People talk about this as a hidden Cena gem but I thought it was barely anything. And not because of the length, I have seen matches three minutes shorter that I have given **** to. It was just Khali doing some stuff and Cena selling and then a sudden comeback and win for Cena. There was no meat or flow at all. A good Cena selling performance but that's about it. * 1/2
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    I don't get why the anti-PC crowd is getting so worked up. He was fired for disobeying instructions and for being unprofessional. It has nothing to do with the great Satan PC ruining everyone's fun. And what he said was not exactly tasteful so a backlash is justified. The fact that it wasn't even funny/clever made it worse.
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    What a great reference. Thank you for doing this. A few thoughts ... I second Superstar Sleeze's request. Interested because this got **** 3/4 during the yearbook so this is a monster drop. What a match. Would have made Top 50 for me easily. Next level brutality + classic storytelling. Shocked at how low these are. Both are masterpieces in my eyes. I am probably the only one who thinks these are better than the 1/97 match. Big drop given the praise in the yearbook thread but still a strong ranking. One of the great US tags.
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    All of those sound pretty terrible to be honest.
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    Fuck yes indeed, classic David vs. Goliath battle in a shootstyle setting with a scorching hot crowd. Infinite rewatchability value.
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    I never really got the high praise for the match. I mean it has some great character work and is great blowoff but all time brawl? One of the best of the 80s? Not even close. I've seen dozens of Lucha brawls that are better in terms of brawling, violence, structure, etc etc. That said it is very good. *** 1/4
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    I went with Banks. The babyface criticisms are wildly overstated. Who cares if she can't talk well when she brings the traits needed to be a great babyface in the ring: fire, ability to garner sympathy, sell well etc. Absolutely superb heel as well. Charlotte is really good too, terrific heel.
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    Co-signed. Big, loud, maximalist ≠ dumb wrestler Minimalist, subtle ≠ smart wrestler He definitely went overboard at times though, I would never deny that.
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    Jvk since you are exploring modern wrestling (which you have criticized a lot), are you going to give lucha another shot? What about joshi which you seemed to like?
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    Exactly. While context is important, star ratings or other things like that should be standardized. Otherwise is gives an unfair representation of difference in quality between styles and promotions.
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    What is peoples definition when they say cosplay?. Doesn't cosplay imply copying heroes/influences as a sort of tribute to them?. I don't think the majority of modern puro or indie wrestlers do no selling sequences or strike exchange, for example, in homage to 90s All Japan or to conjure nostalgia. Agree with all of this.
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    (I'm probably the only person really hoping 80s Joshi gets made). You're not.
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    Did anything happen with this? Sounded pretty intriguing.
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    Great stuff as you'd expect with these two. Funk heeling it up and selling while Colon making that great great fired up comeback. Excellent finish and I enjoyed the payback spot with Dory in the post-match. ****
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    The best match between these two teams, IMO. Outstanding performance by Akiyama, Misawa is Misawa while the HDA are absolute dicks. So much disrespect and arrogance. To the point that Kawada getting embarrassed by the kid at the end is actually a feel good moment so he did an excellent job making himself that unsympathetic. **** 3/8
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    Really good brawling with good selling. Not much else to say. The stair teases were great. *** 1/2
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    Agree with this. My biggest criticism of 90's All Japan and what ended up being their biggest handicap was the lack of variety. Different combinations of matches between the same guys (barring some gajin) over and over can become tedious and since no one else was really able to work at their level, there was no significant change-up. They were kind of stuck and escalation was the way to go forward. The alternative was completely abandoning the style and starting over (sort of) but that's implausible.
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    The spot where Tamura charges in for a takedown and Nakano just knees him in the face and casually walks away is one of my favorites ever. The rest of the match is really good too: gritty, hard fought stuff with some great Tamura character work. *** 3/4
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    I find this match to be really overrated, IMO. I like it to be fair, it has a good Cena performance and a great atmosphere. But I thought the majority of the match was pretty pedestrian and there are a lot of lulls in action building to the escalation at the end. Halving the length and tightening it up would have made the match 10 times better. Still, overall decent match. ** 3/4 Also with all the finisher exchanges, submission reversals and WWE style drama, I don't really see how this is any different from the 2003-2005 Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels post-comeback matches that cope a ton of hate while this gets praised to the moon. I would be very interested in hearing what the discrepancy is.
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    Shinya Hashimoto 1989 - vs. Victor Zangiev, 4/24 1991 - vs. Riki Choshu, 8/10 1993 - vs. Genichiro Tenryu, 8/8 1994 - vs. Hiroshi Hase, 12/13 1995 - vs. Steven Regal, 4/16 1996 - vs. Nobuhiko Takada, 4/29 1998 - vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, 6/5 1999 - vs. Naoya Ogawa, 10/11 2000 - vs. Naoya Ogawa, 4/7 2001 - w/Otsuka vs. Misawa and Ogawa, 1/13 2004 - vs. Toshiaki Kawada, 2/22
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