Too much wrestling

[Tim Cooke]

Dataincash is awesome but for everything he is putting up, only 15-20% is actually new footage.

[goc]

Dataincash is awesome but for everything he is putting up, only 15-20% is actually new footage.

All I know is that's a Kamala in Mexico match I hadn't seen before (and I looked for as much as I could find on youtube/dailymotion a year or so ago)

[stomperspc]

In terms of new stuff in his current uploads, the La Fiera/Sangre Chicana vs.Mascara Año 2000/Tony Salazar match is the coolest from a historical perspective. Dataincash dates the match as 9/83. Fiera is completely bald (like no hair at all) in the match and the video begins with Chicana interrupting another match to go after MS-1 (who is still has a full head of hair). Fiera lost his hair to Satanico on 9/16 and MS-1 obviously lost his hair on 9/23 to Chicana. So this match would seem to fall somewhere in between. The match is not at Arena Mexico. The 9/24 Chicana/Satanico title match is said to be in Puebla. This match is shot similarly and the building looks similar so they are probably from the same venue (just a week apart). The tag match isn't much of a match but its still a cool find.

 

MS-1/Herodes/Espectro Jr. v. Cien Caras/Tony Salazar/Guerrero Azteca (2/10/84) is also new I think and is very good (first fall in particular).

[Matt D]

It's funny. The brothers Cooke chiming in here got me thinking.

 

There's a lot of early 1980s (and late 1970s) AJPW that I hadn't seen before. I was, however, demonstrably more excited when Our Friend in Japan would post something which we, as a community, hadn't yet seen, despite the fact that a huge chunk of what he was posting, new to us or not, was new to me.

 

On the other hand, I don't really have that feeling for what dataintcash posts. It's cool to have someone like Kris see something he'd never seen before, but in general I'm excited for everything he posts that's new to me and not otherwise online. Some of that is because my wrestling budget for the year is pretty small in general and while I've purchased a bit of lucha over the last few years (80s set, Cota vs Casas hair match before it ended up online, Fredo's GdI comp), I'm probably not going to randomly buy this footage. Some of it is just that I care more about lucha than All Japan.

 

I think what it really is, however, is that I feel like this stuff hasn't been examined by the community nearly as much, especially through the non-Meltzerian lens of lucha watching. So that these matches become easily accessible to the people watching now is almost as important as us getting our hands on brand new things. I didn't get that sense for the AJPW stuff that had already been out there nearly as much.