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Let me and shoe do it. I get no wrestlers so I have no dog in the fight. I can have shoe on the line to keep it on the up and up.

Brody is going to learn how to do lots of jobs before the year is over.

The hardest thing is not making something a MOTYC level match. It's harder to hold back than making Rusher Kimura a WOTYC.

I'll investigate the matter.

I am thinking of a modern day scenario that we criticize WWE for and how WCW would have actually booked it. WWE has the habit of taking a good thing and making you not care. WCW had the habit of taking a POTENTIALLY good thing and making you hate it. I'll think of an example.

Um... sure?

NEW JAPAN ON ASAHI July 15, 1983 TV (Taped on 7/14, Sapporo) The show opens with a replay of last week’s main event finish where Fujinami was disqualified for no releasing the Scorpion Lock on Choshu. This is followed by Tiger Mask’s victory over Pete Roberts. The announcers discuss tonight’s main event tag, wondering how Fujinami will fare with a new tag partner. They discuss the numbers game and how Ishin-Gundan are like a pack of wild dogs. Tiger Mask © vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi for the WWF Jr. Heavyweight Title Both men start off tentative, exchanging kicks but keeping their guard up. After a repeated kick sequence led to Kobayashi favoring his leg, Tiger Mask dropkicks his leg and Kobayashi drops to the ground. Tiger Mask flips and lands on him for a one count. Kobayashi retreats to the corner and the match resets. After another strike exchange, Tiger Mask misses a dropkick allowing Kobayashi to pounce and steetch Mask on the ground. Kobayashi combines shoot-stretching technique with hard strikes that keep Tiger Mask on the defensive. With Kobayashi firmly in control, he shoots Tiger Mask in the corner, charges but is too slow as Tiger mask sunset flips him for a nearfall. Kobayashi, frustrated, charges again allowing Tiger Mask to hit a crucifix for a nearfall. Kobayashi charges again, trying to attack with a jumping karate kick but Tiger Mask responds with a stiff kick to the leg that sends Kobayashi to the mat. Tiger Mask climbs the turnbuckle and nails a flaying body press for a two count. Kobayashi leaps up, misses a spinning back kick and is caught in a Tiger Suplex pin for the three count. WINNER: Tiger Mask pins Kobayashi with a Tiger Suplex in 17:34 After the match, as Tiger Mask is collecting his belt, Kobayashi attacks him from behind and slams him with the title belt. Suddenly, Isamu Teranishi and Tiger Toguchi arrive and help Kobayashi attack Tiger Mask, laying the boots in. Kobayashi poses with the belt, standing triumphantly over Tiger Mask. Teranishi & Toguchi pick Tiger Mask up and Kobayashi attempts to rip off the mask but Rusher Kimura and Kengo Kimura come running out, chasing Ishin Gundan away. +++ Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi vs. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami Choshu & Fujinami square off to begin the match, immediately drilling each other with stiff shots. No matwork to begin with, only haymakers and sick chops. Both men go back and forth nailing each other; end up running the ropes and they end up in a double knockout after nailing each other at the same time with matching lariats. Eventually, Hamaguchi and Maeda are both tagged in so the aces can recover. Maeda starts off fast and furious nailing Hamaguchi with rapid fire kicks to the ribs and chest. Hamaguchi ends up on one knee and Maeda nails him with his patented kick to the face. Maeda covers but Choshu is in quickly to break the count. Fujinami runs in to counter and Choshu and Fujinami end up brawling outside. The referee attempts to maintain control. Maeda pins Hamaguchi but the referee is outside. He yesls at the referee to get back in the ring, turns around and is caught in a belly to belly suplex. Hamaguchi pounds the ribs and keeps Maeda grounded, rendering his lethal kicks useless. At one point, Hamaguchi drops 6 elbows in a row and Maeda is in trouble. Choshu tags in and he immediately hooks in the Scorpion. As it looks like Maeda will give in, Fujinami runs in and breaks the hold with a forearm to Choshu’s face. Hamaguchi is tagged back in and works Maeda over witth a variety of suplexes and backbreakers. Choshu is tagged back in and hooks in a Boston Crab. Maeda reaches the ropes to break and Choshu winds up the arm to hit the lariat. However, as he runs towards his victim, Maeda uses a jumping knee and spin kick to counter. Choshu is down. Maeda picks him up and gives Maeda a judo toss. Choshu tags in Hamaguchi and Animal is hit with a barrage of kicks. Maeda is fired up and asking the crowd for support. With crowd cheering wildly, Fujinami is begging to be tagged in but Maeda is working on the energy of the crowd and adrenaline. He delivers running kicks to the corner and Hamaguchi crumbles to the ground. He attempts a German suplex but animal counters with a falling armbreaker. Choshu tags in, winds up the lariat and as Maeda stands holding his arm, he is knocked silly with the Champion’s Lariat and pinned. Ishin-Gundan celebrate and laugh in Fujinami’s face. After the match, Fujinami helps Maeda up but scolds the young wrestler for not tagging in the ace. WINNERS: Riki Choshu and Animal Hamaguchi in 22:01 when Choshu pinned Maeda after a Running Lariat A screen is shown with next week’s line-up including a rematch from last week’s 2 hour special. The announcers also promise a Tiger Mask interview to respond to the attack from Ishin Gundan Next week’s Line-up… Dick Murdoch vs. Abdullah the Butcher Kengo Kimura vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara Adrian Adonis vs. Brian Blair Plus: Tiger Mask Interview +++

Hirosaki 7/15/83 · Giant Baba defeated Tiger Jeet Singh after hitting Singh with the Big Boot · Billy Robinson defeated Jumbo Tsuruta © by count out · Jerry Oates pinned Shiro Koshinaka with a spinning toe hold flip pin · Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato defeated Umanoseke Ueda & Alexis Smirnoff in an upset when Ishikawa pinned Smirnoff with a Schoolboy Pin · Gypsy Joe defeated Hiromichi Fuyuki after knocking him out with a foreign object · Ultra Seven pinned Nobuyoshi Sugawara

July 15, 1983 Obihiro · Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi & Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Tatsumi Fujinami, Seiji Sakaguchi & Akira Maeda when Choshu pinned Maeda with the Lariat · Tiger Mask pinned Isamu Teranishi with a Tiger Suplex · Abdullah the Butcher vs. Dick Murdoch ended in a Double Disqualification · Rusher Kimura pinned Adrian Adonis after a Butterfly Suplex · Makoto Arakawa pinned Haruka Eigen · Masanobu Kurisu & Shunji Kosugi defeated Halcon 78 & Fumihiro Niikura · Kazuo Yamazaki & Tatsutoshi Goto defeated Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay

Nobody is anti-footage. I am anti 5 matches is enough to make a judgment theory.

I am not anti-footage. I have watched more footage than almost anybody. That is how I came to form my opinions. However, if you think you are going to make an informed opinion after watching 5 matches from a guy, that is just as misinformed. If somebody said, "Bro, you have to watch this wrestler we have never seen, Johnny Rocking Socks. He wrestled in Butte, Montana in the 70s and 80s and we have some of his footage." If I then go watch 5 kickass Johnny Rocking Socks matches, is that going to be enough for him to make my Top 100. Fuck no. It's going to mean JRS is going to miss my ballot this time and I need to find as much wrestling from Butte, Montana and Mr. Rocking Socks for the next list. If people only watched Warrior's matches with Rick Rude and Randy Savage and the Hogan Mania main event, people could make an argument he was a good wrestler. Fortunately, we have seen enough matches to know those are the exception, not the rule.

Oh shit... Canadian Civil War!!!!

Because I am still moving pieces. For example, I moved Dustin & Vader out of the Top 25 and put Rey and Terry Funk in. I may move Pat O'Connor up or Giant Baba down. No rush.

If you only watch the most pimped stuff from a wrestler, you are only seeing part of the story. If you are thinking of not putting Flair or Steamboat on your list, you don't need to watch the 1989 Trilogy. Either you haven't seen enough wrestling from the past to inform your opinions or they aren't and won't be your cup of tea and those matches aren't going to change anything. Same with the MIsawa-Kawada series or anything else. When we watched the Mid South stuff, Phil Schneider would moan how Dibiase and his glove was so boring and how it lowered Dibiase in his eyes. When I watched Dibiase week to week, I loved the glove, the arrogance, the matches, the whole package. When we watched New Japan, we saw so many bad Inoki and Tiger Mask matches,there is no way those guys would sniff my Top 100. However, if I only went by Inoki's top matches, he could find a place on my Top 100 Wrestlers With Really Great Matches list. On the other hand, William Regal probably has less high end matches than Inoki but his performance is so great in even sub-par matches that it makes me want to watch more Regal. The same can be said for El Dandy and Buddy Rose, in my mind. The matches don't always have to be great but a great performance by a wrestler is enough to elevate a guy regardless of the match rating. Perfect example is the Murdoch vs. Nightmare match where Murdoch was wrestling the match by himself basically with a little help from Eddie Gilbert on the outside. Nobody would call it a 5 star match but it was an awesome one man show by Murdoch. On the podcast, I said that nobody that isn't ingrained in my head is going to make my list. If I discover a guy tomorrow, he isn't going to make my Top 100. I want to know how I feel about the guy 2-3-4 years from now. I want to know how a guy holds up after the law of diminishing returns takes hold and when the honeymoon is over. If I still feel excited about a guy after the pimping period, he probably makes my list. I am still excited finding a new Murdoch match or Dandy match or Flair match or Lawler match. that's is why those guys shoot to the top of my list.

I have to think long and hard on this one. I should have enough time before the next show.

Wait until the television shows unfold. For Japan, it is harder to do storylines in the traditional interviews and angles so I am going to set up some stories and feuds through the in-ring actions where matches play off of previous matches and by the end of the tour, there will be some changes form the traditional Japanese thinking. I told Kris Z that I wanted to separate Brody and Hansen and he was offended I would even entertain the thought.

July 14, 1983 Sapporo (TV Taping) · Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi defeated Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami · Yoshiaki Fujiwara forced Kengo Kimra to submit to a Fujiwara Armbar · Seiji Sakaguchi pinned Osamu Kido after a Big Boot to the face · Dick Murdoch defeated Abdullah the Butcher when Abdullah was disqualified after being caught with a foreign object · Adrian Adonis defeated Brian Blair by hooking on the “Goodnight Irene” Sleeper · Tiger Mask pinned Kuniaki Kobayashi with the Tiger Suplex. Ishin Gundan attacks Tiger Mask after the match · Tiger Toguchi defeats Halcon 78 · Rusher Kimura defeats Makoto Arakawa · Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay defeats Kazuo Yamazaki & Fumihiro Niikura

Khawk... can you make a High Flyers sampler with stuff from the 70s? The 80s set makes me think they can hit the top 25 but not much higher.

I like living in a world where El Dandy is one of the most pimped lucha guys out there.

Solid.in Mid South. I want to see more Grapplers stuff. I am.lookimg for that one great match that would out them on the list.

The big difference between Misawa's and Kawada and any Misawa team is that the first felt like a team of equals and anytime Misawa teams with someone, it ends up being the Ace and his little buddy. With that said, just a great run of all time classics.

Definitely on the list. Classics in Memphis and i really enjoyed their AWA run buy not as much as Memphis.

My #2 tag team if all time. The peak of all of their careers.

It doesn't shock me that you and i came to exact opposite conclusions.