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  1. El-P
    Haven't seen a much of Hase in All Japan but I actually really loved his singles vs Kobashi & Kawada. Some of my fav matches i've seen any of those 3 involved in. He was still good of course, very good at times even, but I don't think he meshed as well as he could have in his prime. I remember a very disapointing match with Jun Akiyama in 98. True. I was talking about the mid 90's when she came back and was lost in the shuffle while Takako was world tag champ and Hasegawa was the next big thing.
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    Well, you're right then. Never saw the actual Roma introduction.
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    Ditto. This is when the "What ?" chant would have been needed.
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    Yep. And I'm nostalgic. Being 19 again. Then again, it wasn't that fun either. I'm also better looking now. Whatever, Beulah video always rules.
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    Hell, that totally got out of my mind. I was thinking she debuted with Hasegawa. That makes Kyoko a freak. 4 years in, she was the third best worker in the company behind Bull & Hokuto. Yes. I'm not sure I'd say that. Toyota/Yamada inprints on the promotion surely influenced its style for the years to come, but Bull and Hokuto were big on selling. Ditto Aja and Bison. My beef with Toyota & Yamada go-go-go style is that even when they did hit the great matches, they were never the best at their own style. Kyoko was better at it. When Oz & Kansai showed up from a company which worked a slower style, they were better too.
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    Jericho was really all about doing cool spots back then, complete with the "Yeah baby!" babyface shout. Cool to see how far he went.
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    I know all dead people are good guys, but I still remember the story of Damian's dream being working with Liger, and little punk ass Naniwa didn't want to do the job to a comedy guy from FMW. Therefore Damian didn't get to work with Liger. I don't know if that's true, but that's what I always heard about this match. Anyway, Damian is doing impersonations, which is always fun.
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    Oh, fuck, this was glorious. It's even worst in hindsight. Dickhead non-jobbing bitch gets an emotionnal video.
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    Hey, remember when Tiger Mask IV was a hot junior in MPro as opposed to a blasé boring veteran in NJ ? Remember when TAKA Michinoku was slowly becoming one of the best wrestler in the world ? Remember when Japanese indies were fun ?
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    That's about it probably.
  11. El-P
    You mean worst that Paul Roma showing up ?
  12. El-P
    Funny stuff. The Dudz were all about promos and fun skits.
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    And people wonder why ECW seemed so fresh an appealing at the time ?
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    I enjoyed it. It's morbid ECW at its worst, but you can't deny it has a true bloodthirsty aura to it, and Axl was a good worker and good seller. Ok, it's guilty vampire pleasure, and it works only in this particular setting, but when I went through my ECW watch, I enjoyed this more than Eddie vs Dean. Go figure.
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    Candido and Tammy could make any stupid stuff fun, as showed here. I liked the gimmick too.
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    Just awful and embarrassing.
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    Am I the only one who thought Savio was a really good worker back then ?
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    Yeah, that was embarrassing how hard they pushed their humanitarian PR back then.
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    Awful match. Tatanka had become fat and lazy by this point. Diesel vs Sid was the worst feud of the year. Just god awful boring stuff. Bam Bam was so wasted in the middle of all this after doing a great job with L.T.
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    Awful feud. Talking about rotten feet, then going into evil dentist. Poor Bret. And no wonder Lawler was seen as a joke then.
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    Comedian. I rectified it 2 days ago when I said that, ok, she wasn't as great as Hase was at the same time. That's also part of my point. Considering her experience level in 1992, Yoshida was really a super worker. As great as Hase at this point ? No. But balancing the experience level between the two and the fact Yoshida wasn't supposed to have the great matches Hase was (as a junior then a heavy workhorse), I say the gap isn't that big, and certainly not big enough to put Hase above Yoshida on a career vs career scale. I don't know. I love NJ heavies from that time period, and Hase was great. Was Kyoko better ? Quite possibly. Sadly I never got to put up notes about 1993. I have tapes somewhere I bought from Lynch with about the entire year of joshi. I should rewatch this. That is, when I get done with WCW, and then the SMW I'm getting. And I'm planning of getting into older AJ & NJ stuff too eventually. Need time...
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    I would agree. Jannetty never showed more than during the mid 90's. I would say 93-95 would be a good period to define his peak, including his WWF matches with Michaels (the RAW ones), Doink, the tags with Waltman, the stuff in 95 against Candido & co. Well, I haven't seen much of Michaels from this era, but I would put Michaels peak during the Rockers days too actually, in the WWF (friom what I've seen), so it doesn't sound that far fetched to me to consider this. 1996 Michaels is ridiculously overrated, and I'd rather not talk about his comeback.
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    Well, she's my all-time favourite wrestler ever, so that too. That said, I was very surprised to discover that she ruled so much back in 92 when I did. I watched this with an open mind and not a "Yoshida will be the pearl of my joshi watch no matter what" mindset. I'm not saying she was the greatest wrestler in 1992. Kyoko, Oz, Aja, Bull, Hokuto, Kansai were clearly better. But was she better than Toyota ? Yes she was in my mind, no doubt about that, and that's after I watched most matches of the year, not before. Re-watching 1992/1993, I found Yamada very overrated as a worker, which surprised me. Some great performances, but uneven. Toyota wasn't that great in 1992 either. Kyoko vs Yoshida in 1992 >> Kyoko vs Toyota (speaking about that IWA title match). She had lot of very good and excellent matches in the year, more than just "nice matches". Yes, she was still young and not developped, but for her experience level and what she was working with in term of tool, I say she was excellent. if anything, to me she overachieved in 92. And she never had a match as horrible as the 40 minute draw that Toyota and Yamada had on 01/04. I dug up my old notes about 1992, and here are my 10 top singles matches : 1 : 11/26 Akira Hokuto vs Kyoko Inoue (22 :16) 2 : 08/15 Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada (19 :43) 3 : 07/05 Kyoko Inoue vs Mariko Yoshida (30 :00) 4 : 06/21 Mariko Yoshida vs Sakie Hasegawa (30 :00) 5 : 01/04 Akira Hokuto vs Kyoko Inoue (24 :54) 6 : 07/09 Mayumi Ozaki vs Dynamite Kansai (25 :11) 7 : 04/25 Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong (21 :40) 8 : 08/30 Kyoko Inoue vs Mariko Yoshida (15:22) 9 : 11/26 Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong (20:19) 10 : 06/21 Toshiyo Yamada vs Manami Toyota (26 :16) So yes, Toyota vs Yamada did pull out a miraculous match once. But overall, 2 Yoshida vs Kyoko matches and Yoshida vs Hasegawa abocve any other Toyota/Yamada matches. Yoshida vs Toyota during the Grand Prix was much worse than the Kyoko match, and that's not because of Yoshida but because Toyota just gets in autopilot mode instead of getting the best out of her opponent like Kyoko could. Yoshida was better than Toyota in 92, and there's no other way to look at things to me. Toyota/Yamada worked really well as a team, because it also hide their weaknesses, and they got some great tag team matches that year. But they also never were the best in any great match. Oz & Kansai were better. Kyoko & Aja were better. And you got Yoshida & Takako vs Hasegawa & Malenko as my third best tag match of the year, a bunch of youngins working way over their heads and having a fantastic match. WTF ?
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    1991.02.02 Arn Anderson & Barry Windham vs Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner Fuck storytelling and fuck playing your role right. Give me fast paced action with crisp and smooth execution, and these four can deliver that in spades. And for once a match that get some actual time, so it can develop into a legit great match. Seriously, this is the best tag match since the MX have departed. The face side lacks a bit in charisma, to say the least (it's so sad, Horner is such a strong worker otherwise), but Arn & Windham have enough facial expressions for the four of them. Arn's bumping, stooging and mannerism are at an all-time great, and Windham, despite getting a little bit fat around the waist, looks like a top 5 worker in the world. Shit finish aside (which at least protected the Lightning Express, keeping them from doing the inevitable job), this is the kind of match that reminds me why I love wrestling. Oh, and of course, everyone played there role more than well (duh), and the match made perfect sense to boot. (this needs to get in the 91 Yearbook.)
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    To me Triple H peaked in 1997. Angle peaked early, but he was never a super worker to me. Still, goofy Angle from 2000 beats the hell out of Super Serious Workrate Angle from the rest of his career. Owen got great super quick. AKINO (female wrestler from ARSION) got great super quick. Hiromi Yagi (female wrestler from JWP) got great rather quick. Tenryu... not so much. Peaked late.
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