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Sorry Lee, I had Suzuki as my next pick as well...trying to build a little Fujiwara-gumi contingent. So Minoru Suzuki 1992. Lee Casebolt dkookyPunk - Ricky Morton 1989 Jetlag Beast - Samu 1989 El Boricua SmartMark15 Grimmas

Masakatsu Funaki 1991 Gordi Blehschmidt Joeg Superkix Lee Casebolt Jetlag El Boricua SmartMark15 Grimmas

Solid matwork throughout the first fall with good pacing and some neat counters and reversals from Máscaras. They kept it moving without much downtime until Destroyer uses a...uh, powerbomb pin to take the first fall. Second fall picks up where the first left off, with Mil focusing more of his efforts on Destroyer's arm and Destroyer going after the leg. More struggle here, less finesse. Mil picks up steam with a couple of flying cross chops and submits Destroyer with the standing deathlock/double underhook hold. The third fall was pretty good with Mil stretching Destroyer on the mat and Destroyer takes advantage of Mil aggravating his knee off the atomic drop. Mil survives the figure-four and goes on to pin Destroyer with a top rope crossbody. Pretty good effort from both men and a fun watch but nowhere near their 1974 match.

Kiyoshi Tamura 1992

Can't have one premature grandpa without the other...Masanobu Fuchi 1991.

Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1988

Hiroshi Hase 1991

Opens with Tsuruta working a headscissors for about five minutes but Robinson in his royal purple conveys a good enough struggle to make it interesting as he tries to headstand out, kip out, hip swivel out, before finally reversing it. Nothing terribly exciting here though, outside of a couple of handsy spats and suplex exchanges. Jumbo sits on a crab hold for a long time and then the match is thrown out after some shenanigans on the outside. Can't really recommend this but it's neat to see the footage.

After a short break, Fighting Network FRIENDS is back with Episode 005. https://fightingnetw...nds.podiant.co/ to stream or subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also search us on Apple Podcasts. FNF #005: Tatsuo Nakano Deep Dive Topics discussed: - Weddings, Planes, Arcades - All of our RINGS uploads got kicked in the face by Maeda - Yuji Okabayashi - Talkin' all the sikkest shoot style looks - Tatsuo and why effort fuckin' matters - Manami Toyota - Atsushi Onita - Kazunari Marukami - Josh Barnett & Hideki Suzuki (DUH) & More Matches: 7/24/89 - Nakano vs. Funaki (UWF) 2/27/90 - Nakano vs. Suzuki (UWF) 5/4/90 - Nakano vs. Yamazaki (UWF) 9/26/91 - Nakano vs. Tamura (UWFi) 7/22/95 - Nakano vs. Takayama (UWFi) 5/25/96 - Nakano vs. Tenryu (WAR) 8/15/92 - Manami Toyota vs. Toshiyo Yamada (IWA) 10/12/02 - Yuji Nagata vs. Kazunari Murakami (NJPW) 4/30/89 - Atsushi Onita vs. Ryuma Go (Pioneer) 12/31/11 - Josh Barnett vs. Hideki Suzuki (IGF) Youtube Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/fnf005 Follow us on Twitter: @fightfriends @trillyrobinson @bren_patrick Email at: [email protected] Youtube at: http://tinyurl.com/FightFriends

Maybe out-of-country folks should leave proxies to account for the time differences.

I'm pretty sure most Danshoku Dino matches count.

Didn't joeg basically make his next pick?

Antonio Honda

Jushin "Thunder" Liger 1992 Joeg is up!

Akira Maeda 1990

1992 Big Van Vader

Earth to bleh?

Really hope Maximillian Moon is the ace of the promotion.

Sorry for the delay. I'll go with Tokyo for the city.

I think it should be open to workers outside of the US.

I'm down for this.

Episode 4 is now available. https://fightingnetworkfriends.podiant.co/ to stream or subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also search us on Apple Podcasts. FNF #004: RINGS in '91 Topics discussed: - Twin Peaks - Weddings - Basketball - Favorite shoot promotion? (via Twitter) - RINGS RINGS RINGS - Willie Peeters, Akira Maeda, Dick Leon-Vrij and VOLK HAN - Minoru Tanaka, Taka Michinoku, Aja Kong, TATSUHITO TAKAIWA & More Matches: We dive deep into all 4 shows RINGS put on in 1991, and highlight our favorites. Lots of Peeters, Vrij and Maeda. Oh and special shout out to Bert Kops Jr. 5/19/95 - PWFG - Minoru Tanaka vs. Taka Michinoku 5/7/00 - ARSION - Aja Kong vs. Mariko Yoshida 6/4/03 - U-Style - Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Dokojonosuke Mishima 10/19/01 - NOAH - Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru (BOMB FEST) Youtube Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/fnf003 Follow us on Twitter: @fightfriends @trillyrobinson @bren_patrick Email at: [email protected] Youtube at: http://tinyurl.com/FightFriends

This was a hell of an opener, and what I'd consider to be one of Daichi Hashimoto's best performances to date in Big Japan. You had the young team showing a ton of fire at the outset, prematurely attacking Sekimoto and Sato before the bell, and putting Sekimoto on the rocks early on before the hardened vets take over on offense. Daisuke is so good at playing the heel-ish taunting bully and of course, Sato's just plain nasty in there against Daichi, elbowing the snot out of him. Daichi's full of fighting spirit and won't back down, despite getting his clock continually cleaned by Sato -- just terrific selling on Daichi's part as he takes a beating. Kamitani does a good job of throwing his weight around in there and gets a taste of Sato's punishment, taking some brutal kicks to the chest and a big headbutt. But he's able to clobber Sato down with a lariat, tagging in Hashimoto to conclude his story. Loved the visual of Sato and Sekimoto standing over Daichi like schoolyard thugs as he futilely tries to fight off both. That heart and determination pays off for him in the end, and after blasting Sekimoto with a Shining Wizard, Daichi's able to put him away with a big brainbuster DDT.