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Just to let you know, don't let lack of comments deter you. There are no comments, because this is insanely great and there is nothing to add. I love this project and this thread is one of the reasons for sure.

AWESOME!

That is completely understandable. If anybody wants to take over AJPW, feel free (if Derek is done). If not, we will make a plan for what to do.

Thanks for the feedback and my apologies for the wait. That being said, Welcome to the THUNDER FIRE BOMB REVIEW #14 @!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@! Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (9/26/95) (by Phil Dean) This show features the finals of the Grand Slam Tournament, FMW's garbage version of the Champions Carnvial. It was also the first big show under the new management, so let's see if they live up to the standards of Onita's FMW. Shark Tsuchiya/Crusher Maedomori vs. Maymi Ozaki/Takako Inoue Ozaki and Inoue brought their slick joshi skills, while Shark and Crusher are more just untrained brutes throwing punches and using plunder. Shark cheated using some weapons to bloody up Ozaki which lead to a really fun face in peril sequence. Inoue was a great house of fire on the hot tag and Ozaki & Inoue hit a double dropkick for the win. A fun opener Koji Nakagawa vs. Mr. Gannosuke The story in this one is that Gannosuke lost every match in the tournament and when he was throwing fits after losing, Nakagawa called him out (since he wasn't even in the tournament). Gannosuke was really aggressive here and hit all of his offense, but he just couldn't keep Nakagawa down. Nakagawa was in full Bret Hart mood selling all match, and then coming back to win with a Victory Roll. After the match Gannosuke left the promotion, saying he was too embarrassed to ever show his face again. Sabu/La Parka/Daisuke Ikdea vs. Mitsuharu Matsunaga/Hanzo Nakajima/W*ING Kanemaru Billed as an "all-styles" match as FMW keeps trying to push the narrative that "Death Style" is the best wrestling style. It's certainly the most fun, outside of lucha. Hey there is a luchador here in La Parka. Parka is awesome and was getting really over in AAA before coming to FMW. He's still awesome here and the crowd was into his dancing. Every style here did their own thing, including Ikeda being awesome at shoot style. They really need to push him more. After everybody shined, of course the "Death Style" worker in Matsunaga gets the win, after busting a light tube over the head of La Parka. Sabu looked pretty beat up from the tournament, so didn't get to be the star he usually is. Monster Ripper vs. Chigusa Nagayo (WWF Women's Title) Yeah it's Bertha Faye in FMW defending the WWF Women's Title against AJW legend Nagayo. This just had a really werid feel to it, due to who was involved and what was on the line. Faye dominated early, but Nagayo got a comeback and a quick victory. This was about 6 minutes in total, just there to make sure the FMW fans know how great she is. Ricky Fuji/Hisakatsu Oya vs. The Headhunters (Barbed Wire Board Death Match for the FMW World Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles) This is what FMW is all about, blood and guts. Everybody bleed, everybody brawled and had great punches. This is garbage wrestling at it's finest. Fuji tried his best to be Ricky Morton, but he's not Ricky Morton. Although he can certainly bleed. Headhunters lost when A missed a moonsault and landed on the barbed wire board. Megumi Kudo vs. Combat Toyoda (FMW & WWA Women's Title) Toyoda is set to retire in May and it's her quest to retire as champion. To do that she needs to defeat her best friend and tag partner. This is perfect story telling and this was quite the match. They both tried to be friendly and fight fair, however each time Kudo kicked out Combat got a little more rough. After several nearfalls both way, Combat had her power bomb countered with a frankensteiner and lost. They shook hands, but Combat side eyed her. Terry Funk/Super Leather vs. Hayabusa/Big Boss Man Terry Funk and Super Leather both came out wearing matching outfits and carrying matching chainsaws. Funk got on the mic and told everybody Terry Funk couldn't make it tonight, but Chainsaw Charlie was here. He then told Hayabusa if his team won, he wanted a mask vs mask match. Funk was just wearing pantyhouse on his head, not really a mask, so this was even more hilarious. Boss Man came to the ring and had to help Hayabusa at times, due to his injured leg in the tournament. These four brawled everywhere with Funk and Leather trying to corner Hayabusa and take him out, leaving Boss Man alone. They succeeded but Boss Man had his night stick to help him out. Everyone bleeded and this was wild. After using every weapon they could Boss Man hit the Boss Man slam on Super Leather and Hayabusa hit a Firebird Special for the win. Afterwards Jason the Terrible jumped the ring and helped Leather and Funk destroy Boss Man and Hayabusa. Both men had to go out on stretchers as "Chainsaw Charlie", Super Leather and Jason the Terrible celebrated in the ring. What an evil alliance this is! The Gladiator vs. Masato Tanaka (Grand Slam Finals, FMW World Brass Knuckles Title Decision Match) These two might be tailor made for each other. Awesome can look like a monster throwing around the smaller Tanaka, but Tanaka looks tough as shit taking the huge power bombs and chair shots. The more insane thing was Tanaka giving a tornado DDT onto about 20 chairs in the ring. This kept a great pace and only topped at about 16 minutes, but that was just about perfect. The finish saw Awesome hit a power bomb off the apron through a table at ringside. Since both were exhausted it took a while before Awesome rolled Tanaka into the ring. Once in the ring Awesome picked up Tanaka for one more Awesome Bomb, but he was rolled up with an inside cradle. Tanaka is your FMW champion, which is kind of a shocker with all the talent in this tournament, but if he will perform like this, who cares? @!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!

To truly represent 1995, he shouldn't get that tape till December. Tape arrived yesterday, so review coming tonight!

Fact check, the first three CHV tapes (Bloopers, Hulkamania, & Best of the WWF) all came out on the same day.

Kind of wish Austin just gave McMahon a stunner afterwards anyway.

This was amazing, btw. Even my wife, who doesn't like wrestling, really enjoyed this and laughed a lot. The best part was when Daniel was on commentary and freaked out about a bearhug being applied!

After weeks and weeks of demand, Daniel Bryan vs The Bear has been released by the WWE! Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/322398166570/videos/10153736650336571/ Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/322398166570/videos/10153736657551571/ Part 3: https://www.facebook.com/322398166570/videos/10153736665301571/

104 for NXT, 107(8?) for Survivor Series!

I'm pretty excited I get to see the finals of this tournament live in Toronto!

Guys... Smackdown is booking a program with Dolph Ziggler and The Miz that has long term stories (Dolph since draft) and has had Dolph lose twice, with a gimmick that came logically and has made us care about these two in 2016. SD is the best!

CHV is my jam, can't wait to hear you folks go on about it.

The POP deal is only a barter deal . Billy has already met with the POP people. I would think that a new BC promotion could just slide right in that POP barter deal and move forward . That would be better for sure.

Phil Dean of Thunder Fire Bomb Review is still waiting for a tape of the 9/26 FMW show. Once he gets it, a review will be out.

Yep, maybe it helps merch... They could run Toronto more often, however, they have only run Toronto with NJPW stars the last 3 years, so maybe they can't run without them anymore. Bullet Club and NJPW might be the draws for Toronto now, not ROH.

I'm actually still waiting for something they promised from day one, all of the home videos.

Canadian exposure doesn't mean much. They still run the same amount of shows each year here, same location, and about the same attendance.

Are people forgetting how great the Cesaro-Zayn series was? Even the Owens-Zayn matches in NXT were MOTYC compared to never hitting that level in the WWE.

Zayn has not been very impressive since he's come to the main roster and I'm baffled by why so many people still cry about him being "wasted" or "buried" like he should be a permanent fixture of the main event. I struggle to think of any really impressive TV match that Zayn has had since he's come to the main roster while a guy like Sheamus is always churning out good matches to zero fanfare outside of some people on this board. I didn't even really care for the Owens matches which everyone would probably point to as Zayn's best stuff on the main roster. When a great wrestler looks unimpressive in a promotion, I blame the promotion not the wrestler.

Also people being pissed about political correctness is often a shield about them being pissed off they are being called out on being a bigot or racist or whate whatever.

That line of thinking means we should still use the n word or using gay as an insult.

b/c WWE is very problematic.

Getting worked up and pointing out it's stupid to use certain terms is different, by the way.

Not anymore, because it's fucking stupid. Even Dave Meltzer agreed and stopped using it.