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  1. Edwin
    More of an angle more so than a match. One of the most sadistic and wildest angles I've ever seen. No hyperbole. Sullivan attacks Kanemura before the bell and Kanemura bleeds buckets. It looked like a scene from a horror movie.
  2. Edwin
    The Roman entrance was epic and you gotta love Punk's pre walkout video with AFI and with him wearing his old ROH black jacket. I've seen a lot of folks call this one of the best WM matches of all-time and I thought it was good, but not quite that good. There was plenty to dig like Punk getting juice off the big stair shot while int he tree of woe, Punk's exhausting selling where he was tumbling near the end, Punk tossing the tape at the ref. and hitting Reigns with the low blow before hitting the GTS, etc. This was quite long brawl, but that was to be expected and this never dragged as something key was always happening. I think a re-watch on this will be due at some point as I think I'll like it better without having watched as much wrestling beforehand. Regardless, this was still great.
  3. Edwin
    You know this was going to brought up. This was brief and exactly what it needed to be. Two giants throwing bombs and bumping big. Closer to Brock's second WM match with Goldberg than his other WM matches in length and style. Although it wasn't quite at that level. Career making performance and passing of the torch.
  4. Edwin
    This was awesome. The double press slam from LOD on Hogan and Tenryu is one of the most surreal spots you'll see. Hogan and Hawk are bleeding, hitting each other with chair shots and flinging tables at each other. Meanwhile Tenryu is getting tossed into the crowd and bumping for Animal. Words can't do this justice as to how entertaining this is.
  5. Edwin
    I liked this a lot, but there's two knocks on this. One has been said which was Goto popping up fairly quickly from the piledriver through the table. The other was Goto clearly blading during the initial headbutt exchange. You can see him quickly digging the blade into his forehead after every headbutt. I would say I'm one of the biggest Onita fans on here and am probably the biggest Goto fan on here and will say this was good, maybe even very good, but not great and not a MOTYC or anything imo.
  6. Edwin
    Mr. Pogo's manager was Victor Quiñones. Quiñones worked in the Puerto Rico office with Carlos Colón and Victor Jovica. Pogo was touring Puerto Rico at the time so I'm sure that's where they met. Quiñones was also the founder of IWA JAPAN and IWA Puerto Rico and he was one of the key figures behind WWE Super Astros.
  7. Edwin
    Phenomenal match. Even before it starts, the crowd is hot for it. More so a WWE style match than a Dome style match, but it's still phenomenal as Macho Man and Sherri do a fantastic job heeling it up. Not much else I can add that hasn't already been said.
  8. Edwin
    This ruled. Kurisu is a fella who's stood out in FMW as he's more featured there as a main event player against Onita than he was in New Japan where I mostly saw him eating pins in multi man matches. This isn't as wild as the street fight with Dragon Master and Tarzan Goto, but this is a nice Korakuen Hall brawl along that line. Kurisu isn't afraid of laying in his offense and Onita is a madman and isn't afraid of getting all recked in barbed wire. They do an an excellent job building around the gimmick and this isn't an over the top FMW bloodbath, but Onita gets his back sliced up with the barbed wire.
  9. Edwin
    Not much else I can add here. This was really good. Love the intense exchanges between Tenryu and Choshu like everyone else seemed to have. Even though it wasn't a traditional tie up, it was still super tense between and the crowd ate it up. Gotta say I dig Takano much more as himself at heavyweight than as the Cobra at Jr. heavyweight. At heavyweight he looks more comfortable and is much more toned down than at Jr. heavyweight where he looked like he was trying to run through everything and even popped immediately from tombstone piledrivers at times.
  10. Edwin
    This was an absolute blast. I don't think it's too distracting, but I'll say contrary to everyone else that Perfect's bumping is a bit too over the top and nearly cartoonish. Dug him getting arrogant and letting Hogan go at the 2 count because the Genius wanted to get the pin and it backfired. Also dug Hogan tagging himself back in and trying to the glory from Warrior leading up to their Mania match.
  11. Edwin
    Yeah, this was really good. Not much I can really add, but I'll reinforce what was said about Buzz Sawyer. I wasn't a big fan, but between this and his matches in Mid South, I was blown away by his performances.
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    It's cool seeing Taker referred to as Kane the Undertaker. It makes It's gotta be Kane reveal at Hell in the Cell a cool callback. The match itself is a brief typical jobber TV squash match with the featured wrestler hitting all of his signature spots and finisher. The finish looked brutal as you can see Mancini clearly landing on his head. A neat historical bit.
  14. Edwin
    I've watched this a few times through the years and have liked it previously, but I don't as much now as I did previously. It's not bad by any stretch as they both work great together and their work is snug, but the pinning attempts through me off and the shin guards are a gimmick that haven't aged well. Some of the pin attempts make sense as they're just countering moves and eventually land pins in the counters, but sometimes they go straight for pins off instinct. That's fine and all, but it affects the flow of the match. The shin guards just look goofy. The crowd gets a kick out of them working with and around them, but it looks goofy. Also, why did Valentine climb to the top rope? He didn't even hint at a fake dive and it looked like it was choreographed for him to get slammed off it as he did.
  15. Edwin
    What an oddity. I had no idea this existed and I had no idea and wouldn't have guessed it was Ranger Ross impersonating Muta. He doesn't do a horrible job imitating Muta, but the power elbow looked nothing like Muta's and he hit the handspring elbow with the wrong elbow as he swung his right elbow back but Cazana was to his right. Worth noting the moonsault was nowhere near as clean as Muta's either. It didn't help the crowd wasn't invested at all in this.
  16. Edwin
    This isn't pro-wrestling. It's an exhibition grappling tag team match. There's not much viable cooperation, but they do go half speed because it's an exhibition. GCM was a combat sports promotion that had many events where they would feature MMA and grappling bouts. Yoshiyuki Yoshida and Dan Hardy who fought in the UFC and Hidetaka Monma who ventured into pro-wrestling fought for GCM. Aside from GCM, there's several other smaller MMA promotions that had grappling and MMA bouts on their cards like ZST, for example. ZST was one of the smaller promotions that was founded by RINGS. ZST had grappling tag team bouts and they are were also pioneers of the MMA tag team bouts where folks would have to tag in and out to compete. Those MMA bouts were shoots, not exhibitions. The reason these tag team bouts aren't recorded on any of the major combat sports databases like Sherdog or Tapology is because these databases solely focus on standard 1 vs. 1 bouts which is what grappling and MMA were founded on and is what the Unified Rules play by.
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