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Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori (NOAH 05/13/12): Great match but not without its faults. The hyper pace is so untenable and renders so many cool moments forgettable. They never let anything sink in. And that can work if you have a shorter match of like 10-15 minutes but they went double that. It's too much. Still there were so many cool moments that I guess they accumulated into something special. Mind you, others might absolutely love this kind of match so that's why I'm recommending it. Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki vs Marvin & Super Crazy - (NOAH 07/22/12): THIS is the definitive version of this match-up! Under 20 minutes, all fireworks still but the slimmed down version of their March match. They wrestled it as Aoki vs Crazy in the first half and then Marvin vs Kotaro in the second. Of course there were double teams and break -ups but the legal guys really broke down like that. I respect their decision to do this. It made for a much better match. Great fireworks match! Minoru Tanaka, Koji Kanemoto & Hiroshi Yamato vs Atsushi Aoki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kotaro Suzuki (AJPW 04/29/13) : Thought maybe I saw this but, no! So this was from the 2013 Champion Carnival final night. First things first, kudos to the dude who gave Aoki the double birds right in his field of vision while stomping his opponent. Then kudos to Aoki for getting up in said dudes face Hahaha! That's was hilarious! All that said, this was SICK! The top juniors in the company in one ring, all with beef - this was top shelf stuff. It was so aggressive yet intricate that nothing came off as overly contrived. It just felt like rivals going to battle. It made me realize how much I missed Kotaro and Kanemaru in 2014. Aoki is so much better with Kotaro than Sato and this match is proof (nothing against Sato). But Minoru, Kanemoto and Yamato were just as fantastic here. The feud of Burning juniors vs Stack of Arms/Junior Stars is the best of the year. Classic junior 6 man match. Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie (AJPW 10/27/13) - Nice lead in video showing both teams training and developing new tag moves. The DDT team does a 2 man Go To Sleep but uses one guy's head instead of a knee. Then Burning uses a combination move that culminates in a back heel & running elbow strike that compresses the opponents head - very MCMG style. Anyhow this was a great match that is scratching at the door of a near classic. Like ****+ rating. Just fast action packed wrestling. Like MCMG or The Briscoes they are just putting on excellent matches regardless of familiarity with their opponents. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kota Ibushi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kotaro Suzuki (AJPW 08/31/13): This was a great match. Kota Ibushi was the odd man out as I don't think there's much history with him & the others. Stylistically I don't think he fit as well. He is very good at what he does but thankfully he's not in there a bunch. The heart of the match is Burning vs Nakajima especially Kotaro vs Nakajima. Kotaro was on fire here and Nakajima wasn't far behind. Kanemaru brought his A game as well but is much subtle (like a Shiro Koshinaka or even Christopher Daniels) so you just expect him to be flawless and keep moving the story/match along. That said, this was the match I'd hoped for with a very different finish that was fantastic. I'd probably put this at **** or so. Kento Miyahara & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (AJPW 07/27/14): Very fast paced match with a purpose. Everything looked great here with the focus on Akiyama putting Miyahara in his place. Great under 10 minute match!

Oct -November '87 Bruiser Brody & The Moondogs vs Tiger Mask II, Shinichi Nakano & Isao Takagi (10/03): Fun meat & potatoes wrestling. Brody is such a great character! Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara vs John Tenta & Isao Takagi (10/31): Damn! Everything packed a punch! I thought Hara was going to break the ring on his corner clotheslines. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Ashura Hara & Samson Fuyuki (11/07): Energetic match, rough in a couple spots but, fuck it, it's 1987. And the energy along with the Hara vs Yatsu hate smooths everything out 🙂

AEW PAC, Penta & Rey Fenix (Death Triangle) vs. Kenny Omega & Young Bucks (The Elite) (Full Gear 2022): Yeah, I dug this. This was a bananas spot fest but I also dug the story with Omega making a comeback from injury as well as Fenix not wanting to use the bell hammer. A great 6 man match. +-+-+-+ PAC vs Malachi Black vs Clark Connors vs Miro (Forbidden Door 2022) 16 minutes of excitement. This was a neat mix of wrestling with Miro being so strong but PAC & Black had some wicked kicks. Connors was the wild card. I had a lot of fun with this one. It was really good stuff! +-+-+-+ Dragon Gate PAC vs Dragon Kid: Spectacular, offense-minded match! I appreciate that PAC minimized his aerial attack to let Kid's moves shine. That said, he had to be nimble footed in order to take many of them. Very good showing from both guys. If you're in the mood for fireworks, this is a no brainer match to watch! +-+-+-+ PAC vs. Genki Horiguchi (07/17/11): 13 minutes of fun wrestling. Joined in progress, Genki & his gang heel it up against PAC. +-+-+-+ PAC vs. Susumu Yokosuka (8/29/2010): Really good all action match pitting PAC spectacular offense versus Susumu's gordbusters, lariats & suplexes. It's simple and a good time!

Post #4 for 2010 AEW/ROH has posted the ENTIRE Death Before Dishonor VIII show recently! That's awesome! My thoughts afterwards. Here it is: • All Night Express vs Up in Smoke (Cheech & Cloudy) (Death Before Dishonor VIII - June): Damn! This was sick! It's all movez but they did this right. Kenny & Rhett were dialed in tonight. They made Up in Smoke look great while wrestling like a top tier tag team. Cheech & Cloudy are a more fun Young Bucks. This was great. Gotta recommend it! • Eddie Edwards vs Tyson Dux (Death Before Dishonor VIII): This was part of a gauntlet match but this was the best match up and was first. Dux looked as good here as he ever did. They were well matched in speed & strength. Very good-great stuff. This honestly could have been booked as a stand alone match. It was that good. • Austin Aries vs Delirious (Death Before Dishonor VIII): Delirious is wearing the red gear so he means business. Both guys wrestle intelligently and we have a couple good spots. This is a very good match and a very good mid card feud with some life left. • Christopher Daniels vs Kenny Omega (DBD VIII): Daniels does not get enough credit. The man is charismatic & consistent as fuck! This was a great action packed bout - big moves, counters, reversals & plenty of surprises. This delivered for sure. RECOMMENDED. ROH has this one here if you don't want to watch the whole show: • Kings of Wrestling vs The Briscoe Brothers (DBD VIII): No DQ match. Quad blood chair, table, hard hits, drama, great high spots. Four of the best tag wrestlers of the past 20 years going at it. Plus! This isn't a tank emptying/end of the feud affair. That's how well this rivalry is in 2010. I've left off a few tidbits from this big write up but they are teasing at these two teams on the TV shows and edges of the DVDs. Here we get a taste and it's a battle for the ages. It had that grit & intensity that only a couple of the Generico vs Steen matches have. This is my ROH storyline for 2010 so far. Absolute classic match, Highly Recommended!! • Tyler Black vs Davey Richards (DBD VIII): This is one of those bigger matches in old school ROH circles. I thought it was a great match but not a classic. I definitely think it is a great main event to a great ROH show and if you get the DVD, its paired with Buffalo Stampede II. You're getting a great package of classic ROH wrestling. I tend not to go on about matches that have a reputation because you're just going to have to see this for yourself. I think you'll like it 🙂

As a tribute to PAC, I'm going to be watching a variety of his matches and sharing links to the videos and my thoughts. First off, let's look at some of his matches in NXT. Adrian Neville vs Zayn (NXT TV 11/27/13): Great 10 minute match.. All kinds of awesome aerial moves. FULL EPISODE: Nov. 27, 2013 Adrian Neville vs Bo Dallas (2/27/14 Arrival) - Pretty good ladder match. Neville/PAC really is what makes this interesting with his agility & flying moves. Neville vs Tyson Kidd (NXT TakeOver 05/29/14): This started out fantastically. I actually wish they had kept this about wrestling because these two were doing great. This was still a really good but somewhat typical WWE match especially from Kidd. He really has the "playing to the camera" facial expressions and mannerisms down. And that's not really what I like... at least not that "on the nose." But yeah, this felt very WWE /NXT big match template. Neville vs RVD (NXT TV 6/26/14): Oh yes, this was so good. I liked the story of young vs vet. I liked how RVD played it... cocky but not recklessly so. Additionally I really enjoyed how both guys were going for pinning combinations to get the win instead of spamming big moves. There's lots of scrappy elbows and kicks which made this feel like a fight instead of a spot fest. In fact, a lot of the early part felt very natural and on the fly...its not hyper smooth and has an sense of both guys reacting instead of acting. Do you know what I mean? Gotta RECOMMEND this match. Neville vs. Zayn vs. Breeze vs. Kidd (09/11/14 Takeover Fatal 4 -Way) This was good but had weird pacing. I watch WWE with the sound off. When I un-muted my TV, I realized the sluggish or stop-start pacing is for the announce team to blather on. And I thought Tyler Breeze brought nothing to this except stupid facial expressions which someone loves...melodramatic shit. PAC/Neville & Zayn are the reasons to watch this but honestly watch a singles match with them. This took too long to be interesting. That said, this has gotten praise and you should watch it for yourself 👍 Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn (NXT Revolution 12/11/14) - Holy cow this was 90% awesome and 10% tired old shit the farts in the office can't part with - ref bumps and using the title belt as a weapon. But nothing is ruined but WWF/E always fucks with the flow of the finish. It makes two of the best workers of the late 2000's have to insert this crap into an otherwise brilliant match. If this doesn't bug you as much as me then, you might call this a classic. Shenanigans included, I'd still say this was a near classic and one of the best NXT match that I've seen thus far in my small sampling. Heck of a post match too. High Recommendation Finn Balor vs Neville (NXT Takeover Rival - 02/11/15): Near classic stuff! Another recommended match! Neville vs Hideo Itami (NXT TV 4-8-15 (start at 5 min or so): PAC vs KENTA? Absolutely yes. This was really good especially for a TV match. KENTA... I mean Hideo Itami...looked a bit too strong but Neville was never out of this one. That one super kick connected! This definitely should have gone on a minute longer.

PAC vs Bryan Danielson (Caged Rage '07): PAC makes his ROH US debut. Really strong, shoot style-esque showing from Danielson. This is more about getting Dragon looking very strong for the next night's fight versus champion Morishima. Still a good showing from PAC. PAC vs Davey Richards (Manhattan Mayhem II): That was some really good stuff! Richards lays into PAC even splitting his own head open with headbutts. PAC hits the perfect mix of fancy moves and smart wrestling. That reminds me, what really sets the tone is solid mat wrestling... done with intensity and purpose. Definitely a recommendation! More PAC matches to come...still stunned a bit.

I honestly think Sherri Martel made this match as good as it was. Flair did his thing and is what made this a match. He was pretty selfless while still giving a lot of quality Flair offense - stiff chops, pretty heavy clubbing punch across the chest...that type of stuff. Hogan put way more effort into this than I expected but he pokes holes in his own comebacks by being so one dimensional with them. He doesn't have any tact. It's ALL Hulking up in one form of another... And that's what does make this seem a bit longer than it needed to be. I honestly don't care about DQs but there should have been a couple especially with Nick Bockwinkel sitting right there! 😆

Thinking about a WCW/NWA 1988 project and this match came up. Glad I posted my review back in 2019 under my old account 🙂 Anyhow, WCW has since posted this match. Highly Recommended stuff!

Part #3 of 2010 • Roderick Strong vs Kevin Steen HDNet episode #58: Aries attacks Strong beforehand and Steen goats his opponent to forfeit. Roddy refuses and we get a fun match. • Eddie Edwards vs Colt Cabana #59: Colt 2010 is en fuego! Old Sports Center, anyone? This starts with technical wrestling then advances to big bumps & well executed spots. • Jerry Lynn vs Steve Corino #60: Really good action match with a bit of comedy. I dug this bout as an ROH & ECW fan. • Austin Aries vs Tyler Black #60: Great TV main event! Fantastic action - big moves & A sense of animosity. There's a nice touch with Aries attacking Black's knee but doing moves to get it over with the crowd. Say what you will about Aries but, he knows how to mix up his old & new school moves. The post match stuff was excellent and plays off of earlier matches in the episode. This would be an an excellent hype up to the Big Bang show but aired afterwards??? RECOMMENDED anyhow 😋 • All Night Express vs Briscoe Brothers (Buffalo Stampede II - June): These two teams work well together. ANX have great heel energy. The Briscoes are tame character wise (in this match) but work their butts off. This was an action packed, entertaining under card match. Very good stuff. • Kings of Wrestling vs Up In Smoke (Buffalo Stampede II): This was fun and reminded me of a match Chris & Claudio would be doing a few years earlier. Up In Smoke don't look the physical specimens that the Kings do. Yet KOW give them a fair shake and put on a great indie tag match. Everyone worked their butts off despite this being a minor show prior to DBD 8. Honestly a great match and one I'd recommend. • Austin Aries vs Kenny Omega (Buffalo Stampede II): Aries comes out to "The Final Countdown" and heckles the crowd - yes! This is a great match with reversals, counters & sequences. It's energy and pacing is on the level of an HD Net main event. I think it's about 14 minutes long. Aries' heel persona vs Omega's goofy baby face self is a great pairing... plus these two can wrestle. RECOMMENDED. ROH has this one here:

AAA Octagoncito, Mascarita Sagrada &Mascarita Divina vs. Minis Abismo Negro, Psicosis & Chessman (05/21/09): The AAA minis have yet to disappoint. Bell to bell acrobatic action. Now I can't say I could pick one match from the next BUT for a weekly or biweekly lucha viewing, that's not a problem. Gato Eveready/Fabi Apache/Pimpinela Escarlata vs. Billy Boy/Sexy Star/Polvo de Estrellas (05/21/09): This feud/program is so entertaining. This match wasn't so much about the hate as much as entertaining the crowd. It had action & comedy which is a truly difficult thing to do especially when everyone wants to seem tough. Classic UK wrestling Bobby Barnes vs Bob Kirkwood: Didn't see a date associated with this one. Excellent first 3 rounds. Technical stuff with a bit of flair especially with Barnes' dandy character. More rough and tumble from the 4th round on. This is really, really good. The story is entertaining as heck! Excellent selling and character work. LOVED IT - definitely recommend it to folks looking to dabble without jumping into the deep end. Ray Robinson vs Bernie Wright: I didn't see a date on this one either. Heavyweight bout. A much more measured pace than the catch weight match above. I could see this one being more palatable for NWA fans. Nice up tick in action and pace towards the end. Real fun 10 minutes! IWA-MS AJ Styles vs Ace Steel (Ultra Styles Clash - 2003): Good, good stuff. Lot of twists and turns especially for 2003 IWA Mid South. If you're in the mood for indie AJ Styles then I think you should give it a go! ROH Ace Steel vs Jay Lethal vs Too Cold Scorpio vs Alex Shelley (Testing the Limits - 2004): A Fire Pro Wrestling Returns/Get Your Wrestling Bingo cards out booking. Still a fun 4 corner match with everyone looking good. Scorpio was most impressive. Nigel McGuinness, Delirious & Pelle Primeau vs Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer & Brent Albright (Manhattan Mayhem II - 2007): Man, they always can do an excellent 6 man match. ROH random six-man matches. Hangman 3 were a solid meat & potatoes heel team...real mid card maulers. I guess they didn't have anything for Nigel this show but he and Pelle made a cool little team. Nigel would devastate their opponents and Pelle would add insult to injury. PAC vs Davey Richards (Manhattan Mayhem II): That was some really good stuff! Richards lays into PAC even splitting his own head open with headbutts. PAC hits the perfect mix of fancy moves and smart wrestling. That reminds me, what really sets the tone is solid mat wrestling... done with intensity and purpose. Definitely a recommendation! More PAC matches to come...still stunned a bit. Ruckus vs Eddie Edwards (Manhattan Mayhem II): Fun, fun match. Ruckus is doing all his flip-flying. Eddie is solid and having watched the Davey match, it's a no brainer that they paired them.

Wanted to share my favorite matches of his: PAC vs. Claudio Castagnoli (PWG BOLA '07 - Block B Quarterfinal): Spectacular at times, Claudio was a fantastic base for PAC's moves. Likewise, PAC moved and bumped brilliantly for Double C. Very good match! El Generico vs. PAC (PWG ASW V Nt. 1 2007): Classic PWG title match. Heck I don't need to qualify it with "PWG title match." It's a straight up classic match. It is very much a go for broke, empty the gas tank with the pedal to the metal match. PAC is excellent as always and he hits everything perfectly despite doing some of the most insane stuff. No knock on Jack Evans but he's been replaced with a better model. Honestly I think Ricochet is/was redundant if on the same show as PAC. Anyhow, PAC is one step ahead of Generico. He's pulling counters and reversals out of thin air... which is usually something that the Generic One does. He's got to stop the Brit with brute force. Kaz Hayashi vs PAC (PWG ASW V Nt. 2 2007): This was a great junior fireworks match from what I saw. PAC really is one of the standout wrestlers of 2024 for me. Lotsa big moves, cool counters and just about everything I wanted...except the first half of the match Hayashi had a great weekend in SoCal as did PAC. Mike Quackenbush/Jigsaw vs Naruki Doi/Pac (DGUSA Uprising 2010): The Pac vs Quack opening is a thing of beauty. Things never really let up and while not as poetic as the first few minutes, this was awesome go-go bananas shit. Doi seemed to be the most tame of the bunch but he kicked things up and all four dudes were on fire by the end. I should note no one sold a thing beyond getting knocked down for a pin or rolling out of the ring for safety. That goes without saying for many of these tag matches. It's just the style so I can't use it as a criticism. I bring it up because that's really the only "flaw"... this was as bat shit of a Dragon Gate style tag as you can get...even more notably with one native Dragon Gate wrestler! At 15 minutes it ended on a perfect note. This was a classic in my book. Masato Yoshino/Pac vs CIMA/Dragon Kid (DGUSA - United NYC 2011): Yeah that was a sick finish! And this was a great match overall. It wasn't trying to be a barn burner from start to finish and I can appreciate that as this was a 20 minute match. Eventually they kicked it into high gear and it was flawless. The PAC/Yoshino team is insane. And while I have seen a good bit of the Kid/CIMA team they are kinda the gold standard for teams in DGUSA. They have the moves, the character, the history etc. Masato Yoshino/Pac vs YAMATO/Akira Tozawa (DGUSA Fearless 2011): Holy crap! This was sweet! One of those matches where it builds from pretty good -> great -> classic match by the time the bell is rung. I thought Yoshino was taking the night off but, I guess he was just conserving energy. Pac did a phenomenal job here as he really did the lion's share of the work during the early & middle portions of the match. I would say Yamato & Tozawa shared their duties pretty equally. Things picked up in the final portion and it really elevated this to a classic. Glad I got to see another Pac/Yoshino match as well as more Yamato & Tozawa. Neville vs Cesaro (NXT 03/05/15): Not gonna lie, I threw the horns a few times during this one 🤘 It was awesome. Cesaro was like Steven Regal in his precise brutality yet he did his own thing. He used his freakish strength in ways Regal could only dream of. He showed a mean streak that I really don't remember seeing as Claudio. Cesaro is a meaner, more aggressive, more calculated version of Castagnoli. Then, Neville, is a more grounded and focused version of PAC. When he tried his flying moves, they were done out of desperation rather than exhibition. It's wonderfully surprising when Cesaro stops those "hail mary" moves dead in their tracks. This is a wicked twist as Neville has been the man in my NXT viewing. Cesaro seems like the end to all of that. I LOVED THIS ONE. What's crazy is that this was a Dark Match and it only seems to be officially available on the first NXT DVD set (which I have). Find this anyway you can because I think it's an All Time Classic. Highest Recommendation. GAORA's Dragon Gate archives has a few PAC matches that I hope to check out.

I wanted to get a few more matches in this week but was busy. So, I think I'm going to find some time for 'em this weekend and will either add them to this post or make a mid week post before the month runs out. Stay tuned 🙂 AWA Big John Studd vs Mad Dog Vachon (12/25/80): Good, good old school fight. There's some real moments of greatness here. And despite this being a rough & tumble match there's some nice technical maneuvers towards the end. Cleveland All Pro Wrestling "Mr. Insanity" Toby Klein vs Christopher Daniels vs Chris Hamrick (02/10/02): No date on this one but CAPW has Daniels' entrance up separately and this is the date given. This was a heck of a match for some gym! Tons of 3 way spots and everything looked great. Just a lot of fun and tremendous time for indie wrestling. ECW Saturn & Kronus (The Eliminators) vs Sabu & Mikey Whipwreck (Heatwave '96): Yes! This was chaotic, exciting and kinda rough around the edges as I expected. It really feels like like 4 lunatics risking life & limb in a stinky, dimly lit bingo hall in South Philly. Saturn impressed me the most and would have been great in FMW as a singles wrestler for a tour. Anyhow, old school ECW nerds will enjoy this one! TWA Abdullah The Butcher vs The Sheik (Cage Match 1991): Hot damn! This is what Psycho September is all about! Sheik is cutting up the ref before Abby gets in the ring. We get bloody carving in the ring. Sabu throws a metal trash can over top of the cage. Sheik caves the bin in over Abdullah's bald head. Eventually there's a winner but things don't end. In fact, things get crazier! Sabu is in the mix, Kevin Sullivan comes out, Terry Funk is fighting. Sheik gets a sign off a wall or something. Abby is choking a camera man. Some other dude gets it! WCCW Bruiser Brody vs Great Kabuki (Cage Match 06/07/81): A really good old school back and forth cage match. There's a fair bit of action here as opposed to a lot of stabbing and face grating like the Abby cage matches. It's nothing earth shattering but a perfect match to watch while eating lunch 🙂

Takao Omori vs. Jun Akiyama (April 1, 2001): A really good...almost great match. I really like the Omori-Akiyama story. This period is one that I'm not as familiar with so I'm glad to have found this match. There's a strong focus on working a body part here and I think that's what makes it special. Akiyama mercilessly targets his former partner's Ax Bomber Lariat arm where Omori goes after the neck. Jun's attack is more defense minded. Takao is more offense oriented as his big moves also focus on the head and neck - piledriver, powerbomb, dragon suplex, Ax Guillotine driver and the lariat. I think what keeps this from being firmly "great" is the finish felt very uninspired. And I don't mean the final part of the match...no just the last couple moves. Like they didn't play off of the body of match...and they don't have to BUT it probably needed another back and forth sequence THEN the last couple moves to be a great finish and a "great" match. What a picky bastard I am sometimes This is still a very good encounter with the bulk of the match being excellent. And if I'm being fair both moves at the very end were super over at the time so I'm comfortable saying this is like ***3/4 stuff. Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikio vs. NO FEAR (Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama) (07/27/01): Badass 13 minute fight...really just beating each other for most of it. We got some really sick moves later but it ended sooner than I wished. Wild Two are still you but damn they brought it to Takayama & Omori. Near **** match Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikio vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori (02/17/02): Wild Two vs No Fear! A heavyweight super battle. This is the match I knew that they could have. No quarter given and none expected. The strikes were hard enough to crack concrete. Then some if the big moves were so sick looking because the guys are so big...they can't roll through with the momentum like a smaller guy. Rikio's Germans were especially nasty looking. A classic match for sure!

AAA Abismo Negro, Charly Manson, Electro Shock, and Histeria vs AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Homicide & Low Ki (Verano de Escándalo 2006 TV): Really awesome start but probably went on longer than it needed to. As time went on it was clear how team TNA out classed Los Vipers...not just kayfabe but also in actual skill. Abismo Negro & Histeria down the road looked like they should have been in the same ring with the TNA guys. There's a link for the video but its not worth sharing IMO. Not a bad match but just kinda OK. ECW Tajiri & Mikey Whipwreck vs Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke (08/12/00 St. Petersburg, FL): Some shenanigans for the crowd to start. Guido & Tajiri go at it to set the tone. Mikey & Mamaluke are great partners for these guys. This was a nice way to add some variety & longevity to the great 'junior division' in ECW. Too bad it didn't last too long. Anyhow, no death defying moves or hard-core spots...just really, really good all action tag wrestling! Independent Wrestling Cartel (IWC) Delirious vs. Christopher Daniels (UNCaged Fury - 07/07/06): Gosh, this really was a great period for Indie wrestling. Fun title match with a good deal of comedy & shenanigans. Simple, enjoyable stuff to watch while having a sandwich or something. TNA Jeff Hardy vs. Abyss (Destination X March 13, 2005): A very fun hardcore anything goes match. Falls count anywhere but there's only one bit in the guts of the building where they use that stipulation. The rest is in the ring. All the props are here: tables, a ladder, chairs and more. If you're looking for a fun 2000's mindless spot fest, give this one a shot! 👍 WCW Ultimo Dragon vs. Psicosis (Great American Bash 1997): Really, really good cruiserweight PPV match. This starts off more "American" style and the fans are eating up the face vs heel dynamic. Then they turn on the excitement. Admittedly, shorter cruiser matches (10 minutes or less) are best but they do a good job extending it beyond that. I give credit to Sonny Onoo for being an excellent heel manager. His presence and interactions kept this from being a move fest that starts to over stay it's welcome. It's a three man show with this bout. Really good stuff that you might have missed - Recommend it!