Matt D

Oh good. They'll have footage when they bring hidden gems back in ten years.

Right now I’d only watch 50s French Catch

Now I feel bad for sullying the good name of Maujean.

This place means a lot to me. Thanks for the kind words. If I'm any sort of a mind on wrestling, it's because of the same thing that wrestlers say they need to get better, being in discussions (as opposed to the ring) with people who are great minds, and PWO has already has always had more than its fair share. I can't tell you how daunted I was by everyone when I started lurking twelve or thirteen years ago. Obviously that didn't last. If I graduated from the University of DVDVR, I got my masters degree here at PWO. Along the way, I've made great friendships here, and appreciate the place deeply. Currently, even though things are quieter, it's still such an important place for uncovering new footage and discussing it. I'm not just talking the french catch trove either (though uncovering that would have been so much more difficult without PWO), but the Japanese handhelds, and TV, and discussion of Houston and the WWE Hidden Gems before that. We've moved out of an era of hoarding and into one where research, resources, and ingenuity can be shared. You need the sort of community only a place like PWO can foster.

And a loss for all of us since the well went dry.

This, like everything you've been posting, is great. BUT I am not spelling Frisuk's name as Fryziuk. We have to draw the line somewhere!

First one we get is actually vs Hunter/Hayes. Then LeDuc/Gastel, de Zarzecki/Mr.Montreal, de Zarzecki/Carpentier (I think), de Zarzecki/Mr.Montreal (again), de Zarzecki/Guguliemetti. Lots of interesting looking Delaporte singles matches though.

We've got Bob Anthony vs Rene Ben Chemoul from 61 coming this week and that's wrestled pretty clean/pure wrestling too.

Who is he not above then?

Agreed that the reviews are great. For now, most of these that are reviewed here are being posted at Segunda Caida every Tuesday, so you could watch them this second. As for the rest, I imagine there’ll be news soon and then OJ will either follow along... or outpace us and I can crib from his notes. Links to the last three here. Watch and share freely: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2020/03/tuesday-is-french-catch-day-luis-el.html?m=1

In my review, I likened it to the familiarity of a title match structure, but that's because it felt like a late 70s Harley Race NWA title match (or maybe even Flair from five or six years later; they're similar and there are different traces of both), not necessarily a UK/European title match. I think that Royal's leeway to bend the rules came primarily out of the ref's frustration over how blatant Oliver was being about it.

Hopefully by then someone will have cracked the 80s Mexico TV vault and we have new footage and then Uncovered 80s Satanico will be best.

I did a whole bunch of write-ups a few years ago, midway down this page: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/search/label/Hector Garza Blogspot is not great so the earlier ones might be hard to find, but really, just go to the lucha match finder: http://www.luchadb.com/roster/matchfinder.php and find some Garza matches from 2010-2011 with him as a rudo (red) and a video online.

I mean, this is his family. Hector Garza is up there with Mocho Cota and Negro Casas as the most charismatic rudos of all time. Watch any throw away 2010 Garza rudo performance and there's like twenty things to take note of.

In this case, they'd be well suited to do a sit down interview with Drew talking about his journey/love of wrestling, maybe an on-location thing with Christian talking about the attack on Edge, and show a couple of old Elimination Chambers (like the one Edge snuck into and won).

Some of it just comes down to batting average. Orton gets a ton of at bats. Fifteen years' worth of weekly chances. He's had a few home runs. Whenever he gets annoyed and complains about being at a city when he'd rather be home or does a random jumping jack as a babyface, that's a solid double. He's still batting .0175 at best.

Bayley vs face Sasha would, I think.

I imagine he's probably pretty happy for Drew. He's still going to get the slot vs the Fiend at Mania, likely.

It's amazing when they more or less do something right.

Everyone killing Rollins will be cathartic after last year's debacle.

All I can say at this point and as someone who was in the crowd in Philly in 2015 is that putting Roman over would be disastrous given the build of this Rumble.

Uh, they wouldn't actually do this, would they? Brock's going to run in and eliminate him in a minute, right?

Well, now they just have to keep running with it. Have Drew do for the second half what Brock did for the first and they'll have made him like they haven't made anyone in years.

They're basically sacrificing all sorts of opportunities in the name of the overall story.

I got a real kick out of the Benjamin stuff. Brock as a troll is the best Brock and we see it so rarely.