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Full previews coming soonish. With fictitious histories, since AJW wasn't around in this universe.

Thanks for your kind feedback. It's now time to announce the whole card! Memorial First Gong: Japan vs The World June 28, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan Kourakaen Hall Will feature a one night eight person tournament to crown the first WWA Champion. Each first round match will showcase a Japanese local vs a gaijin from around the world. Jaguar Yokota vs Lola Gonzalez One of the top Japanese wrestler, Yokoto is someone to keep your eye on. However, Gonzalez is the top star in Mexico. Lioness Asuka vs Sherri Martel w/ Bobby Heenan Asuka is one half of The Crush Girls and quite popular with the young girls of Japan. Martel is a member of the Horsemen and brings with her the best manager in wrestling and a will to win no matter what. Chigusa Nagayo vs Monster Ripper The other member of the Crush Girls faces the huge Canadian Monster Ripper, who is looking to follow a path of destruction to the title. Dump Matsumoto vs Wendi Richter Dump is the Japanese monster, taking on the popular American Wendi Richter. These four first round matches will be follow by the semi-finals and finals. There will be two bonus matches. The Red Tyhpoons (Kazue Nagahori & Yumi Ogura) & Jumbo Hori vs Velvet Mcintyre, Debbie Combs, & Desiree Petersen Plus The Jumping Bomb Angels against The Glamour Girls in a match that could steal the show. If you can't be there in person, remember to tune into "World Wonder Ring" on Fuji TV to see the results play out over two weeks. After that, the full show will be released on video for you to rent from your local store!

Im glad they did the tribute it was great to see some japan Benoit matches. Pardon? You are glad they did a tribute to someone on the day they murdered their family, because you got to see some puro?

Oh shit... we do!

JR has found me a Knockouts Lookbox Challenge from TV and we will watch that. I hope it's the same one. Either way, I assume it would qualify!

Sherri Martel will not be coming to Tokyo alone. She is bringing with her the manager of Champions Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Heenan says the Horsemen collect titles and the WWA Title will be no different. The Crush Girls of Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo have entered the tournament as well. Two of the top talents in Japan, whether fighting together or alone. One more name revealed is Monster Ripper from Canada. The most powerful name yet in the tournament. Memorial First Gong June 28, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan Kourakean Hall Tournament to crown the first WWA Champion: Japan: Jaguar Yokota, Lioness Asuka, Chigusa Nagayo, and one more Canada: Monster Ripper America: Sherri Martel w/ Bobby "The Brain" Heenan Plus two more international stars Also featuring a tag match between The Glamour Girls and The Jumping Bomb Angels.

Business man Graham Stevens was touring Japan in 1985 and went to a local indie show where he saw Japanese women's wrestling for the first time. He was blown away by their skill and talent and knew that their talent needed to be shown to the world. A promotion relying on women was unthinkable, but Stevens dream was become a reality. Enter GAEA Wrestling, named after the Greek Goddess of the Earth. GAEA has found a TV deal on Fuji TV to air "World Wonder Ring" starting Wednesday, July 2nd. VHS video tapes of major shows will distributed both in Japan and in the United States, as GAEA will feature wrestlers from both countries. GAEA will make it's debut on June 28th at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the Memorial First Gong. That night will include a one night, eight women tournament to crown the WWA Champion (the World Wrestling Association will be the governing body of GAEA). This tournament will include 4 wrestlers from Japan and 4 wrestlers from around the world. The first two announced being Japan's Jaguar Yokota and America's Sherri Martel. More entrants will be announced later. Also on the show there will be a tag team battle between The Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamazaki & Noriyo Tateno) and The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin & Leilani Kai). More exciting news will be released shortly!

I'll let you know if there is a blood feud coming. Roster, schedule, info coming soon. Probably going to start late June, so I can watch some of these women I haven't seen much of.

Let me know roster rules and I will put together a roster.

It's going to be in Japan, as a home base. Already talked to SirEdger about some talent. Just really a deal with you about Sherri, because I don't think there is anyone else I actually need. Sherri I only need for my debut show, at least for now, unless something comes up.

Women wrestlers active in 1986: North America: Luna Vachon Joyce Grable Debbie Combs Jeanne Kirkland Candice Pardue Lola Gonzalez Velvet McIntyre Candi Devine Wendi Richter Judy Martin Leilani Kai Sherri Martel Penny Mitchell Judy Martin Monster Ripper The Lock Sue Green Peggy Lee Leather Desiree Pettersen Susan Sexton Japan: Jaguar Yokota Lioness Asuka Chigusa Nagayo Dump Matsumoto Itsuki Yamazaki Noriyo Tateno Aja Kong Bison Kimura Akira Hokuto Yumiko Hotta Bull Nakano Condor Saito Devil Masami Crane Yu Mika Komatsu Ykari Omori Yumi Ogura Kazue Nagahori Jumbo Hori Shinobu Kandori there may be more, but that is the stand outs.

Here you go! https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/wbt9 The Golden Grahams are here to talk the Extreme Elimination Chamber, as requested by Steve J. Rogers at prowrestlingonly.com. We can talk about your match by requesting it there, or @StevenGrahamTWS on twitter. A match that sunk a brand, we talk about the match plus CM Punk, TNA history, politics, and we have a power outage. This show is a clusterfuck, just like this match?

Would love to see that Jesse.

Are any women being used? Bomb Angels? Judy Martin? Sherri? What would I be looking at?

Those does not seem like demands Bryan would have.

Any chance you folks want a women's promotion running? I was going to do an other booking thing, but Gordi said I should return here instead.

I always wanted a MITB winner to earn a title shot on their own, so they could have a ppv headlined by the MITB essentially getting two shots in one night.

Same issue here.

Nope. It actually happened, what do you nope? Do you mean you weren't, because you are not all people?

I saw it was confirmed live.

SmartMark15 Not sure if you've seen this, but one of my favourite matches of 2013: I hope you like a mat classic!

I picked up the 10 volume AAA Classics, which essentially covers mid 92 till the end of 93. Might as well hand out some thoughts along the ways. Volume 1 Mascarita Sagrada, Octagoncito, & Angelito Azteca vs Pirata Morgan, Jerrito Estrada, & Picudito (7/3/92) Yes we start with minis, so this set is perfect for me! Morgan and Estrada are pissed at each other and Picudito has to try to keep the peace with the rudos. Sagrada doesn't give a shit and goes right in there, hits a dropkick then a somersault plancha. The other two tecnicos do hurrancanranas to pin the other two. Sagrada gives a nice little slap after to end the first wonderful fall. As with most minis, the rudos are the larger team and that is essentially how they take advantage in the second fall. Estrada is holding up Sagrada for Morgan, but he refuses to do shit due to the fight with Estrada. Luckily Picudito is there to help out. I love that Estrada wrestles in the vest. Can we all just agree Sagrada is fucking great? Whether it's his selling or his amazing offence, he can deliver. They get to the floor and Estrada is choking out Octagncito with wires, and Azteca makes the save with a fucking broom. I like the switch up of a short first fall and a longer second fall. Estrada and the rudos use the broom and dickishness to win the second fall. Third fall picks up the pace and brings the comedy of the rudos just fucking up and Estrada and Morgan accidentally nailing each other over and over. The match just kind of ends or the footage does, no idea what the ending is here. Really fun for the length of time it got. *** . Psicosis, Picudo, & Heavy Metal vs Winners, Super Calo, & Thunderbird (8/14/92) We get entrances and each one is glorious! Winners coming out to Rocky music. Psicosis with some bad ass imperial march thing. Thunderbird dancing with a fan. It's all fucking awesome! Super Calo coming out last to his awesome rap and a girl dancer wearing face paint was the best! Although Calo without the hat isn't as cool, he does have the glasses though. Heavy Metal and Winners start off with some good matwork. Metal looks so much younger and cooler here compared to 1996. WTF happened? They get a lot of time, until we get Winners off an Irish whip just slapping Psicosis and them going to the floor looking to kill each other. They get separated and then Metal does the same to Calo before everybody tags out giving us Psicosis and Thunderbird. Classic behind the refs back cheating by the rudos, but it seems like Thunderbird and Psicosis are pretty even. The crowd is fucking hot for this. The Calo and Picudo segment picks everything up and the rudos get the first fall which ruled! During all of this the middle ring rope broke. During the rest period they just take off the middle rope all together. We start the second fall with everybody in the ring with a rudos beat down and they freaking do a Shield power bomb spot. Finally we get a bit of a comeback thanks to Winners taking over and Thunderbird having some great fire. Psicosis takes a huge face first bump into the steel post, twice. Just savage. Calo tries to take off Picudo's mask and essentially does it off a whip into the turnbuckle. Tecnicos get the win. Did I mention Winners slaps Piscosis really well? Just damn! Lots of nearfall attempts in the third fall Psicosis does an atomi drop which Calo either fakes or was low blowed, he sold it huge none the less. Tirantes doesn't believe him regardless, so the match continues. A lot of the break up attempts on submissions are really stiff here. What's shocking about this to me is how great Psicosis was already and how green Calo was. So, everybody takes turns bumping to the floro with Psicosis taking the biggest one, and now the dives come. Each dude just killing himself. I loved that the dives were saved up till now, but they ruled. Everybody is getting counted out, and keeps getting pulled back outside, but Winners sneaks in for the win for the tecnicos. I fucking loved this! It built well to a tremendous finish and everybody worked mega hard. Afterwards we all shake hands and raise each others hands, except Psicosis who says fuck this shit and walks away. That's when the Calo rap group comes to the ring and dances with Calo! ****

Since this ppv was already booked, I will give a brief recap here. Souled Out January 16, 2000 in Cincinnati, OH Firstar Center Live on PPV Announcers: Tony Schviane, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, & Mike Tenay Announcers explain how Jeff Jarrett was injured last Monday and can not compete tonight, thus the title match with Chris Benoit is off. Also, WCW World Champion Bret Hart is injured and may never compete again. The Title is vacant and Commissioner Terry Funk made a title match between #1 Contender Sid Vicious, #1 Contender for the US Title and member of The Revolution Chris Benoit, member of The Filthy Animals Billy Kidman, and member of the nWo Scott Steiner. 1. Kaz Hayashi pinned Psicosis to gain a Cruiserweight Title shot at 14:14. 2. Tank Abbott pinned Jerry Flynn w/ Jimmy Hart at 2:44. *MMA style fight 3. The Harris Brothers defeated The Mamalukes w/ Disco Inferno at 7:53. *Disco cost Mamalukes match, by mistakenly tripping Vito 4. Madusa pinned Oklahoma at 0:35. *Not for the Cruiserweight Title, since Oklahoma did not meet weight. After the match Aja Kong confronted Madusa and knocked her out with a spinning back fist 5. Norman Smiley beat WCW Hardcore Champion Brian Knobbs w/ Jimmy Hart, Fit Finilay w/ Jimmy Hart, & Meng to become the title at 11:41. *Kevin Nash says once he wins tonight, the main event will feature Steiner, himself, and The Harris Brothers for the title, because the title stays with the nWo. 6. Booker T pinned Stevie Ray at 4:41. 7. Vampiro & Dustin Rhodes beat WCW World Tag Team Champions David Flair & Crowbar w/ Daffney to win the titles at 5:44. *Vampiro picked former WCW Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes as his partner. 8. Terry Funk pinned Kevin Nash to disband the nWo forever, if Nash had won he would had become Commissioner at 11:35. 9. Diamond Dallas Page w/ Kimberly defeated Buff Bagwell in a Last Man Standing Match at 13:55. 10. Scott Steiner beat Sid Vicious, Billy Kidman, and Chris Benoit to win the vacant WCW World Title at 16;32. *Steiner pinned Benoit, after Kidman took out Sid with a plancha in a match where everybody had a chance to win.

I've always liked Martel from watching as a kid in Strike Force to his WCW return in 98. However, the more I go back and watch him the more I am inclined to think he's the greatest babyface wrestler in history. Rose and Martel have a technical classic here, just exchanging holds and building things up. It gets nice and heated with Martel going for the mask/wig and ripping it off for the finish. I don't think it's possible these two could have a poor match between them. It's not as blowaway as other Martel-Rose matche I have seen, but a damn good affair. *** 3/4

Even Rise has a streaming service for 5 bucks a month. You get all their shows plus the new weekly TV show. Jimmy Jacobs is booking. First episode was pretty good. Squash match for a tag team. Solid contest to get the monster heel over. Great video/promo getting over the champion and main angle. Promos by the two people in the main event. Then Kimber Lee vs Shotzi Blackheart was pretty good. Lee being an awesome heel and Blackheart getting over as the feisty babyface. Plus Impact helped produce the show, so it looks good too. I'll give them a month to see if I continue, but if it turns out the way they say (weekly shows, building to main shows with each match meaning something going forward) I may be sticking around,