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I'd definitely recommend TA in Mid South & Houston in 1984. His tag team and feud with Mr. Wrestling II is worthwhile but I'd also suggest his matches versus DiBiase plus a great one versus Butch Reed as well.

Heck yeah, I picked the Howard the Duck one up recently. Memories of that movie tarnished a really good comic. Glad I did some research and found out how cool it was. I've looked at Showcase Presents but most of the ones I'm interested in are too pricey used.

Let's go with more 1995 shoot style wrestling! Also want to say a big thanks to superkix & KB8 for their work as it's been a big help in sorting & sifting through all of this wrestling goodness. The UWFi & RINGS threads in The Microscope section is the place to start. So now let's look at my sampling of 1995. Hiromitsu Kanehara vs Kenichi Yamamoto (01/16) - Quick one sided bout but very entertaining as Yamamoto not only refused a hand shake but had a couple rude gestures for Kanehara. So seeing Kanehara teach the young punk a lesson was fun. I LIKED IT Kazushi Sakuraba vs Yoji Anjo (02/18) - This was very mat scrambly as you would expect from Sakuraba. Anjo can do any discipline of fighting. He threw some very good knees to the bread basket for instance. Nothing earth shattering here but still fun to watch them work in & out of holds. I LIKED IT Masahito Kakihara vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (02/18) - Holy cow! Too short to say much about but cool while it lasted. Short & intense enough to be a shoot frankly. Worth a watch. James Stone vs Kazushi Sakuraba (06/18) - Fun match but Stone/Little Guido was enhancement talent for UWFI. Still he looked pretty good on the canvas. His selling/defense of the stand up fighting was too "pro wrestling" than I've become accustomed to. That said, his matches might be an excellent entry point for someone wanting to see what shoot style/UWFi was about. IT'S OK Yoshihiro Takayama vs Kazuo Yamazaki (06/18) - My favorite matches have a good sample of all tactics - strikes, suplexes and submissions. This was no different. There's actually an emphasis on striking here. That made this interesting since it felt more like a shoot style brawl. I also think this translates well to fans not used to shoot style. Anyhow, this was exciting and dramatic wrestling. I LOVED IT Naoki Sano vs James Stone (07/13) - Stone already has the Guido character figured out. He shoves Sano while the ref is checking his ring gear. I liked this more than the Sakuraba match as Sano kept things on the ground. He used choice strikes to either set up a takedown or to count as a knockdown. I wish they let Stone be more competitive because these really are squash matches. They are a novelty for ECW/WWE fans who want to see Little Guido/Nunzio. But hey, that's me & I'm glad I saw this 😋 Plus I'm a Sano fan. IT'S OK. I should note that it's a little closer to earlier UWFi style in they use a couple pro moves in good shoot style context. Not sure if they did this to make Stone more comfortable or more likely to ease people into the upcoming NJPW feud/gain wider appeal to draw bigger audiences. That's a general trend I've noticed for 1995. Yoshihiro Takayama vs Naoki Sano (08/18) - Oh wow, this was a neat one! Sano was targeting Takayama's bandaged thigh. Not super obvious but, it was giving him openings with the big man. This match definitely could have gone on a couple more minutes and I would have been happy. Terrific showing from Sano. He & Takayama had great chemistry. I think that they tagged together later on in NOAH. I LIKED IT *** If you like what you're reading then check out my other blog: wrestlingdreambattles.blogspot.com More stuff, less ads! *** OK I've got a few more RINGS matches this time. Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Peeters (RINGS, 4/28/95) - Pretty quick but pretty sweet. This was primarily about strikes. Peeters palm strikes were nasty. If he could connect with his kicks then he might have ended this sooner. Nagai was landing his though. Seems like he was going for the liver - nice! 😋 Short and sweet. I LIKED IT Volk Han vs. Masayuki Naruse (RINGS, 4/28/95) - It's neat to watch Naruse mature. Here he takes it to the master. Volk is like fly paper. He seems to turn every strike encounter into a hold/take down to the mat. Here Han's height advantage plays a part since it's tough for Naruse to land kicks to the head. He does just fine with palm strikes though. Han has much better strikes now too. In fact, he seems much more animated than in earlier years. This seemed much more like a true competition than an exhibition. Earlier RINGS seemed at half speed of UWFi for example. LOVED THIS Mitsuya Nagai vs. Andrei Kopilov (RINGS, 5/20/95) - Excellent intensity here. Striking when it's appropriate to open up a takedown. Great throws from Andrei. Competitive wrestling on the canvas. I really dug how Nagai pulled Andrei back into the middle of the ring on one attempt. And that reminds me! Andrei is strong as hell! He damn near dumped Nagai over the ropes a couple times! I think this could have developed more because they had great chemistry. I LIKED IT! Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Grom Zaza (RINGS, 12/19/95) - Bullshit Zaza's 29 years old! More like 39. Holy crap...just saw his Wikipedia entry. He was 30 years old. The man aged like LeBron. Anyhow, WAY more aggressive than we were seeing a couple years ago with striking. RINGS is stepping up in '95. Or maybe TK brings out the best in people. This looked way more like a legit fight than much of the RINGS I've seen pre '95. I'm no expert but the intensity and speed of the strikes made this super exciting. On top of that, the mat wrestling was top notch AND they really played up the drama. I LOVED this one! Maybe the best RINGS match I've watched. Ishikawa vs Naruse excluded. I'm glad that I didn't quit on RINGS. Don't know if it's just me but, RINGS seems to get better as time goes on. Thanks for reading!!!

I wish I had bought a bunch of these essential books when they came out. I got the first X-Men volume back then though. They are like telephone books 😄 I like the b&w as it kinda feels like an "artist edition" before that was a thing. The Byrne art looks great. I would love to get the X-Men volumes with Art Adams art too but I think that's kinda pricey now.

Picked up Essential X-MEN vol. 2 (the b&w reprints) and am enjoying the Claremont & Byrne run. The Alpha Flight story is pretty fun but the stuff with Arcade (the Spidey villain) is bit too goofy. The Mutant X / Proteus arc is when it really start cooking imo. Proteus is a tad over powered being able to actually alter reality but it really shows the team working together with real stakes. Plus the Jason Wyngarde & Hellfire Club stuff is building in the background. Just started the HF Club stuff proper so I'll write back in once I read that.

It should come as no surprise that I spend a lot of time searching for wrestling to watch. Many of you do the same I am sure. I'm writing, copy/pasting, having a bunch of different docs open to cross reference what I have, what I've seen and double checking dates. It's kind of its own hobby actually. And this is just for the things I find online. I'm sure the folks that actually post matches are doing the same thing. Anyhow, if you've been reading my original Puro+More blog, you probably know I get side tracked. My big intention years ago was to buy DVDs of stuff I wanted to watch, watch it and share my views. I don't do well with the absolute wealth of wrestling available online. Part of it was that I really didn't use YouTube that much for wrestling. I didn't care for the small screen in which I had to watch wrestling... OK blah blah blah. So here I am... scrolling YouTube and other sites like a fiend looking for wrestling. I'm not sure to what end sometimes though. I think I'm collecting (or hoarding) to be honest. I know I've done it with DVDs. So rather than keep these lists and links gathering electronic cobwebs, I thought I would start posting the links along with the reason why I wanted to watch these things. I figure, I still will be promoting cool wrestling to folks. Hopefully my digging will help provide a curated watch list/mixtape for you to check out. For me, I think it'll free up some space on my computer and my mind. I'm only going to link officially released stuff because I don't want any heat on the mom & pop posters sharing good stuff. Besides there's plenty of good stuff being released by the companies nowadays. Additionally, most official promotions channel's old video are a rat's nest of dozens (hundreds?) of videos with no real good way to sort them out. I'm doing some of that work for ya 🙂 This first batch is early 2000's New Japan. There's such a hard time finding much of New Japan on da Tube because of their paid service But back in the 2010's they were posting tons of contemporary stuff. 15 years later, that stuff is vintage wrestling 😁 And in my opinion isn't really marred by the tropes of 10+ years. There's not a ton but again, it's worth checking out. 2003 Bucanero & Guerrero vs Super Crazy & TAGUCHI (04/23/03) Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero were introduced to my through the 2008 TNA Global X Cup. I'm not a lucha aficionado so I can just say that I like them. I have a compilation of theirs that I watched years ago and enjoyed. Seeing them in a match versus Super Crazy & a young Ryusuke Taguchi is exactly the type of shit I dig for. ---- CHONO & TENZAN vs TANAHASHI & YOSHIE (04/28/03) After watch 1995 New Japan, Chono & Tenzan are one of my favorite teams at the moment. Seeing them versus baby Tanahashi & big man Yoshie sounds like a good time. ---- NAGATA & IIZUKA vs TAKAYAMA & MAKABE (07/05/03) Save Iizuka, this has three of the most interesting workers of the 2000's in it. Nagata vs Takayama is enough to get me interested. Throw Makabe in there...yeah this is worth a watch. You know someone gets kicked or kneed really hard. ---- 2004 TENZAN & NAGATA & NAKANISHI vs TANAHASHI & NAKAMURA & SHIBATA (10/01/04) This is cool. We've got a representation of New Japan early 2000's stars. These guys weren't setting the internet ablaze in the West but I've come to like all three. Then we have the new Three Musketeers. Korakuen Hall 6 man with vets versus young punks...this has to be a blast. ---- Nakamura vs Shibata (07/04/04) The two shoot style leaning wrestlers of the new generation. All said, under 10 minutes long...this should be nasty. I really dig this period of Nakamura. ---- 2005 Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Osamu Nishimura & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura vs Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Kashin (06/19/05) This reminds me of putting a match together in Fire Pro Returns match maker mode. Thinking, "OK I've only got one match slot left. I need to make sure I draw a big crowd. Who do have left on the roster?" It's got almost a 1/2 million views and its in Korakuen Hall. It's worth checking out! ---- SHINSUKE NAKAMURA vs NAOFUMI YAMAMOTO (12/25/05) Again, I'm interested in this era of Nakamura. Yamamoto is Yoshi Tatsu from WWE. I actually have a 2006 New Japan project that has DVDs. Yeah, holy shit!! 😄 And he's kind of a big deal in those so I thought this would be a good way to get familiar. ---- HIROSHI TANAHASHI vs HIROOKI GOTO (12/25/05) Hirooki Goto is one of guys that got me interested in watch "newer" NJPW for a minute back in the 2010's. They don't have a bunch of his stuff on the New Japan channel so I'm going to take what I can get. We'll see how young lion Goto works with Tanahashi. Thanks for reading! Enjoy the wrestling!

TNA is on the ball with this one. I don't recommend watching all 3+ hours of MCMG but they actually time stamp their comps unlike the WWE Vault. Just watched them vs Naito & Takahashi from 2009...really exciting high spot TV match. I can see dipping into this comp when bored.

It's been awhile but this looked like a fun one they posted recently.

It's almost the end of another year and like that tubby bastard Santa, I'll be putting my list together soon for the Best Matches Watched in 2025. Per usual, I'll have Best Wrestler, Best Feud, Biggest Disappointment and other fun stuff like that. Plus I'll be hemming and hawing over my choices and hopefully come to a sensible conclusion. If you don't know, join me over at The Further Adventures of Puro + More... here on PWO. I'm also writing and posting wrestling pics over on Wrestling Dream Battles. See link above or click on my profile picture. Cool stuff you'll find there is: Misawa vs Kobashi Battle Guide, New Japan 1995 year book & Early years of Bull Nakano. Lots of fun pics up there. Just posted Big Japan Wrestling 1999 and am working on a All Japan Women's 1999 post too. Also working on Zero One Wrestling 2007 and a ROH 2005 show review.

ROH Escape from New York (07/09/05) Nigel McGuinness vs Colt Cabana - European rules match. Not for the purists but this was fun, light hearted stuff. Carnage Crew vs Jimmy Jacobs & BJ Whitmer - Good match especially once BJ got suplexed on the ramp. Great finishing third with an excellent finish. Dunn, Marcos, and Dixie vs Cheech, Deranged & Vordell Walker - Fun movez match! Dunn & Marcos are like early versions of the Young Bucks - tandem moves, funky outfits etc. Azriel vs James Gibson vs Jimmy Rave vs Alex Shelley - A lot of this is angle stuff with CM Punk, Mick Foley, Nana & Jade Chung. It's an OK match though. Samoa Joe vs Austin Aries - Pure title match and a very good B-show match. They hit all of their big moves and got stiff at the end. This would have been an excellent TV main event. Jay Lethal vs Homicide - Very good to great match. The most intense action of the event so far. There's so much animosity here. CM Punk vs Roderick Strong - Great big time match! Punk has all of the little things down while Roddy is there to kick ass. I loved Punk's chicken-shit heel stuff like running away from Roderick's chops. Great athletic 2005 main event.

This post has been a big help in going through UWFi especially the lesser known matches for The Further Adventures of Puro + More... blog. Here are the one's I'd recommend so far: 1991 Yoji Anjoh vs Kiyoshi Tamura (7/3/91) Kazuo Yamazaki vs Billy Scott (7/30/91) Kazuo Yamazaki vs Yoji Anjo (09/26/91) Billy Scott vs. Yoji Anjo (10/06) 1992 Yoji Anjoh vs. Masahito Kakihara (6/28/92) Tatsuo Nakano vs Masahito Kakihara (09/21) Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Yoji Anjo (09/21) 1993 Steve Day vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (04/10) Masahito Kakihara vs Naoki Sano (04/10) Yuko Miyato vs Kazuo Yamazaki (05/06) Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yuko Miyato (10/04) 1994 Victor Zangiev vs Yoji Anjo (04/03)

Hi everyone! I'm back with more shoot style wrestling. We're in 1994 and looking at UWFi & RINGS. Yoshihiro Takayama vs Yuko Miyato (04/03) - Man, Takayama has reach! Miyato isn't going to win the striking game. He doesn't really dominate on the mat either as Takayama has a clear size advantage. This was really good stuff and I thought they went home a little earlier than I would have liked. They had really good chemistry and a dynamic fight. Really LIKED IT Victor Zangiev vs Yoji Anjo (04/03) - Zangiev is a damn wizard. That one escape was nothing short of amazing. You gotta see it! Like his Street Fighter counterpart, the man is a suplex machine. Anjo peppers him with stiff kicks & slaps but the Russian bides his time. I really dug the finish here as one man went outside of his comfort zone to finish the match and presented a big opening for his opponent. Post match drama too! I LOVED THIS! Dan Severn vs Masahito Kakihara (04/03) Severn is really good in these as he's got the wrestling down pat and it's done in a believable way. Plus he's usually bigger than his foe and can absorb their blows. That means that they can lay into him without fear of an accidental knockout. This has a little bit of everything including Dan fighting defensively on the ground (with strikes) which you don't see too many guys do. I LIKED THIS a good bit. Kazushi Sakuraba vs Tom Burton (05/06) - Holy moley - this is why you want some weight classes! Burton is a big beast and Saku is young and thin. He's still gifted on the mat but Burton was throwing his scarecrow body all around the ring. And damn! that knee lift! Pretty one sided but quite entertaining. I LIKED IT Victor Zangiev vs Yuko Miyato (05/06) - Zangiev exhibition match. This was a blast to watch and would recommend just if you want to see Zangiev do his thing. LIKED IT for what it was. Bad News Allen vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (08/18) - This was a fun one. Kanehara was clearly holding back but this was well worked. It's a pleasure to see Allen work these UWFi matches. I LIKED IT as it was simple and enjoyable to watch...not necessarily a badass match though. Dan Severn vs Yoshihiro Takayama (10/14) - Well, that was aggressive to the point of frenzied. Hell yes! Severn was just eating palm strikes and knees in order to get (the still thin) Takayama off his feet. In the most entertaining fashion, he suplexed the dude. But damn, Takayama drove those knees in. This is definitely one that could have gone on a couple more minutes. Still that finish was brutal looking. LIKED/LOVED IT Victor Zangiev & Vladimir Berkovich vs Yoji Anjo & Naoki Sano (UWFi 6/10) - Zangiev is always badass! Berkovich is here so it's not a 2-1 match but he adds very little. Anjo & Sano do great here peppering the Russian with kicks and getting the occasional suplex. It's underdeveloped and iswhat holds it back from being "great." Still it's a blast - I LIKED IT! Kazuo Yamazaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (08/18) - Yamazaki played along with Nakano's strength and did a predominantly standing fight. Nakano would want to wrestle but Kazuo didn't necessarily play along and risk exposing Nakano. Or maybe he wanted to beat Tatsuo at his own game? It's good but not great. I LIKED IT with that said. Yoji Anjo vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (11/30) - Very spirited fight. Kanehara was fighting an uphill battle as Anjo might be the most well rounded fighter in the league. They did everything right without this being necessarily outstanding. I LIKED IT though. Just a couple RINGS matches since it hasn't been setting my world on fire. I found a couple that looked interesting though. Mitsuya Nagai vs. Masayuki Naruse (RINGS, 12/16/94) - This was really good at times. The strikes were snappy and the wrestling was quick but believable. But then again, there were enough moments where I'm not sure why a hold was released or why a guy went for a rope break or something didn't look strong enough to warrant a knockdown. So it had it's moments and had it's issues. I LIKED IT though. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs Daisuke Ikeda (RINGS 12/24/94) - Oh yeah this was pretty damn aggressive from the start. Ikeda could throw and take a shot. This came down to who would be best on the mat. TK just wanted it more. It think Ikeda was losing steam as this went on whereas Kohsaka stayed in the zone throughout. I LIKED IT quite a bit. Those strikes - damn! Yoji Anjo is definitely the stand out so far in this project. He & Ted DiBiase are probably my front runners for best wrestlers watched this year. Hope you find some good stuff to watch! Thanks for reading 🙂

Oh yes!!! They went for broke! This was a great junior battle. One that was way better than you'd think seeing as it was tucked away in the mid card of a BJW show. It was very exciting and very intense. There's plenty of action and great submission wrestling too. It's been awhile since I've seen them in BattlARTS but it definitely had that vibe. I'm a fan of both but seeing them this young and hungry was great RECOMMENDED I'm checking out more 1999 BJW on my blog, if you're interested. Come on over to wrestlingdreambattles.blogspot.com

An awesome person has uploaded some Zero One Wrestling including Takao Omori vs Steve Corino (01/23/05). It's a great title match with an old school feel when Coding is wrecking Omori's arm. Corino in the 2000's keeps surprising me. If you dug him in ECW, you should check out his evolution in Zero One. Here's some pics from the match: If the poster visits PWO - big thanks for sharing this match! If you're interested, 2007 Zero One Wrestling reviews coming up in a little bit on wrestlingdreambattles.blogspot.com Just working my way through the '07 Fire Festival tournament. Excellent stuff!

Saw that TNA is still putting great stuff from their back catalog on YouTube. Probably not going to get around watching the whole thing but wanted to share it here:

Have always remembered this match from when they showed it on Nitro the following night. That was awesome! Two of my favorites at the time in a match that actually delivered. Glad to see from others reviews that it was as good as I remember.

Yeah actually skimmed through the Symphony of Horrors to see what was up & to see the Aries vs Mistico match per El-P's recommendation/mention. It all definitely reminds me of late stage ROH when they had a lot of CMLL guys. It's actually pretty interesting in that regard to me. Aries vs Mistico was pretty fun if anything for nostalgia sake. Might have to go thru the MLW YouTube page to if there's anything else interesting.

It's telling that without CM Punk's success first, we wouldn't be talking about Danielson's historical importance. I think Danielson could have been another Paul London & Spanky Kendrick. Those guys were his peers more than Punk. You can see it in the booking of ROH & others. Coming back to this topic, I think Danielson helped open the flood gates for the "smaller" indie (ROH) guys. A few years later ROH seemed to become like ECW before it & act as a feeder to WWE/NXT... guys like Tyler Black & Generico being the best early examples. These type of guys were all going to TNA before Danielson (and obviously some still did afterward). Additionally this in effect made something like AEW possible but I think that's probably his most important contribution to WWE and wrestling history at large. Which is a pretty big contribution!

Going through the NXT YouTube page for something else and saw that they have both Regal vs Hero/Ohno & Regal vs Cesaro/Claudio. Actually looks like they have damn near every NXT episode up until 2018 (and still posting) up there. Anyhow, I got too many of my own DVDs to watch but I thought I'd post both here for future generations 😁 The Regal match is towards the end of both episodes.

PWG XIII (13) (07/29/16) Adam Cole vs Brian Cage - Really fun opening match. Starts out with some comedy then actually gets smart. Cage dominates Adam with power moves. Cole then targets the big man's knee. Then uses that to employ shining wizards. Nothing too cerebral but laudable for an opening match. And believe it or not, they don't do an extraordinarily long or crazy match either. Sure you get some neat moves and all but, it's actually a clever curtain jerker. Fun stuff Timothy Thatcher vs Roderick Strong - Very good physical match. Strong broke down the bigger man with targeted stomps. Thatcher was actually portrayed like a monster, come to think of it. His offense was really put over. This bout was more about Roddy chopping him down though. I'm not sure if this was some story carried over from Evolve? Anyhow, simple but effective wrestling from both guys. Jeff Cobb vs Trevor Lee - A blast of a match despite it being the third of its kind now (big man vs smaller man). Here Lee bumps like crazy for Cobb. Not to take anything away from Cobb but Trevor Lee made him look great. And then Lee did his cool signature moves including the first dive to the outside of show. Fun match Trent? vs Chuck Taylor - I like both guys well enough. They are pals and for some reason have a hardcore death match in the middle of the show. I skipped this. Sami Callihan vs Marty Scurll - The cat mask match. I remember people complaining about this because ultra serious Sami did a joke gimmick for this match. He pretended to be a cat. This was typical for this period of PWG but not from Sami. The issue with the match isn't the cat stuff. He actually doesn't do much with it other than use fingernail rakes to Marty occasionally. The issue to me was the story telling. It was too much "I do a move, now you do a move, fake-out! I do another move etc." So a total lack of selling & intensity especially early on. I think 10 minutes in, they ramped up the intensity...or Sami did. Then this got interesting. Then I didn't mind the fake outs as it was followed up by kicks to the mush. I'll say it's a good match but that is based on the 2nd half of the bout. The Young Bucks vs. Death By Elbow (Chris Hero & JT Dunn) - I was interested but damn this was way too long for me. I really just wanted to see the next match but was having fun with the first three. Even watched the Sami cat match but I am drawing some lines in the sand here. Iirc people have given this ****1/4 so you don't need me to chime in 😋 I'll take their word for it. Zack Sabre Jr. vs Kyle O'Reilly - This is the reason I'm watching this show now. Wow, this was something special. The closest thing to BattlARTS that we'll see in a PWG ring, that's for sure. Now I haven't seen their BOLA '14 match (I have that DVD) but I'm sure it's similar. Kyle is as good as anyone in PWG in his selling, move selection, timing and attitude. He's coming in with a taped up shoulder and that alone could supply the story for the match. But, no! He adds a twist and targets ZSJ's leg. Violent Artist indeed. Zack is treated as a wunderkind in PWG but Kyle could be his equal. OK that's the general hype and review... if you're curious then you really need to see this. Seriously. And now I'll be gushing about how fucking awesome O'Reilly's strikes are. He just gets IT. He's hitting combinations, he's hitting high & low and he's telling the story. He's showing not that he's tough BUT that he's smart. This striking brings Zack to a boiling point and towards the end, we get some absolute brutal stuff from him. I'm not talking about the Penalty Kick but angry Kawada like stomps to Kyle's melon. Or a running European uppercut that shifted the ring. STILL O'Reilly persisted and brought more violence and more power his next opportunity. Classic stuff. I'm looking forward to watching their 2014 match as some say it's as good or better than this. Bonus impromptu match: ZSJ vs Roderick Strong - Second match for both guys but Roddy wants to capitalize Money in the Bank style. Run ins, spots, kinda sloppy but it's a neat way to cap off the super show with these two going at it one last time. Fun for what it is. This was a good show with an excellent non "PWG" main event. I think that's what interesting about the shows in the early to mid 2010's. They had a great selection of talent and genuinely could have great all around shows. From what I recall, this may have been the beginning of the end of that period though.

Saw this pop up for Halloween. WCW Graveyard Match during their graveyard spiral. Seems like a damn early example of a cinematic match as we know them now.

Ten years ago I would have said mask. But I'm going to go with face paint. I think you can do more with the designs & colors...maybe a different design every night. But yeah, I think the expressiveness is what sells me on the paint.