bucky Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 What exactly are the rules on stuff we have already seen? That's a fantastic choice. I loved the Lucero vs. Hechicero series, it was my intro to Hechicero. I could totally be down to rewatch. Rah, what would you consider a blind spot in your viewing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I imagine if you have seen something and have already written it up (especially recently), you could ask for a different match. Still haven't heard anything from topropepodcast. I guess I'll give it another day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 The match I gave to NintendoLogic: Hayato "Jr" Fujita vs. Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro 12/13/2013) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 My pick for Jetlag was Cena/RVD from ONS 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 For you, Grimmas, I picked Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon vs Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie from 4/24/83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfsCA56JRw Nice! I vaguely remember this from the AWA project and completely loving it. Can't wait to watch it and give it a proper review. As for you, I hope you like blood and hope you haven't seen this, it's El Hijo del Santo vs LA Park from December 23, 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 For Matt Franklin, I got a fun Onita bunkhouse brawl match from 1990 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 For you, Grimmas, I picked Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon vs Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie from 4/24/83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfsCA56JRw Nice! I vaguely remember this from the AWA project and completely loving it. Can't wait to watch it and give it a proper review. As for you, I hope you like blood and hope you haven't seen this, it's El Hijo del Santo vs LA Park from December 23, 2001. I definitely haven't seen this so I'm looking forward to sink my teeth in this match! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 Oooooh, I'm gonna watch that, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 concrete1992, Shot you a PM because I haven't heard back from topropepodcast. Get back to me when you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 concrete1992, Shot you a PM because I haven't heard back from topropepodcast. Get back to me when you can. To put it out in the open i recommended a match fo recent vintage featuring my #1 wrestler of 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 I've been under the weather for most of the week, and I'm going out of town this weekend. I should have my match review up on Tuesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroBoy Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Finally reviewed the pick that Migs gave me last week. Write-up is below. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/41042-low-ki-vs-xavier-icw-06302001-ladder-match/ My pick for WingedEagle this week is the King of the Ring Qualifying Match between Doink the Clown vs. Mr. Perfect from 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfktOHJxcc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 concrete1992, Shot you a PM because I haven't heard back from topropepodcast. Get back to me when you can. To put it out in the open i recommended a match fo recent vintage featuring my #1 wrestler of 2017 Glad for this one. Starr got talked up here by Sam and others for a 2017 WOTYC and I haven't seen anything. My match for him is: 5/16/92 El Hijo del Santo, Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto vs. Negro Casas, Horace Boulder and Tim Patterson FMW USA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxnj Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Hey Richeyedwards, here's a great spotfest I just saw yesterday Alfa, Faby Apache, Mini Abismo Negro, and Cassandro vs. El Oriental, Cinthia Moreno, Octagóncito, and Pimpinela Escarlata It's the first match of this video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucky Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Rah, do you have Powerbomb TV? I'd suggest Trent Acid vs. Teddy Hart from CZW Retribution in April 2004. If not then how about then my second pick would be this: EDIT: LOL, I don't know how to embed on here apparently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Franklin Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 For Time Evans, I am giving Arn Anderson vs Tommy Rich, 03/31/91, a really fun TV title match. https://youtu.be/3QuIZC9vNMw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 If you want to embed the link you just paste it in and don't use the "link" feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Rah had me check out Brodie Lee vs Sami Callihan from Evolve 8 last week. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/40687-sami-callihan-vs-brodie-lee-evolve-8-05202011/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeyedwards Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Hey Richeyedwards, here's a great spotfest I just saw yesterday Alfa, Faby Apache, Mini Abismo Negro, and Cassandro vs. El Oriental, Cinthia Moreno, Octagóncito, and Pimpinela Escarlata It's the first match of this video Cheers for that recommendation, it is not something that I would usually watch. I have watched it but for some reason cannot currently as a topic to the July 2007 folder. I will see about fixing that. As for my recommendation for you, continuing the 'i watched this yesterday' idea here is misawa and marufuji Vs kobashi and KENTA from January 2003 and the first televised big match in the build to the first kobashi Vs misawa singles match in 3 years this is after the chono tag in budokan where kobashi pinned misawa for the 5th time in his career. Kobashi had come back from the knee injury full time only a few months before and is built up like a complete killer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 This was given to me a few weeks ago. My apologies for the delay. I was assigned The Rockers vs. Powers of Pain from Madison Square Garden on January 15th, 1990, by soup23. On commentary are Gorilla Monsoon and...some Southern guy I can't recognize. Seriously, who is it? It's driving me crazy. It sounds like a more coherent Dusty Rhodes, but it can't be him. (Edit: It's Hillbilly Jim. I forgot he did commentary. He spoke a little too fast for my tastes but he wasn't bad at all. Hearing Gorilla again was also a wonderful nostalgia trip. Meltzer must have a cranial protuberance not to appreciate the golden tones of Gino.) My first thought: Wow, The Rockers are a hell of a lot bigger than I remember them being. They're giants compared to today's "heavyweights" like Finn Balor, to the point where the size difference between The Rockers and PoP is a lot less pronounced than I was expecting. The crowd heat is off the charts. I have no idea if the audio was sweetened or the mic-ing was different back then, but these fans sound so LOUD compared to today. The Rockers truly were "tag team specialists" as they were called. The quick tags, double-team maneuvers, constant inning and outing - it's even more impressive now than it was 28 years ago, because it's such a lost art these days. I really feel every single tag team today could learn a ton from watching The Rockers. This match solidifies their status in my mind as one of the most underrated tag teams of all time. In addition to the flash, they also had the substance of being absolutely fantastic sellers. The character work and charisma were still works-in-progress, but they obviously nailed that later on - especially Shawn as a singles wrestler. That isn't to diminish what the PoP brought to the table, but this match really was The Rockers Show. Still, PoP had a great look, a fun act with the "devious" Mr. Fuji, and opponents who could sell their asses off. What more can an old-school wrestling fan ask for? The WWF version of "face in peril" formula is as stale now as it was then - the middle of the match dragged because of it - but man, it still felt cathartic when Shawn finally made the hot tag. Marty's tapes were ribbed up. I have no idea if that was a legitimate injury or part of an existing storyline. I wasn't expecting the totally awesome and bonkers stretcher job at the end. The notion of WWE spending nearly that much time on an angle for two midcard tag teams seems so foreign to today's product that it really felt like a breath of fresh air to watch this. No idea what the "star rating" would be for something like this, and it doesn't even matter. The whole of the match is more than the sum of its parts in this case. Great fun to watch, a wonderful nostalgia trip, a useful roadmap for current and future wrestlers, and a bittersweet reminder of how much better things used to be in a lot of ways. Thanks, soup23! Note: I also posted my thoughts in the thread for the match. As always, I didn't read any of comments there ahead of time before composing my own thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/40451-david-starr-vs-nick-gage-beyond-11262017/ This was my first look at Starr and it's a very alien look, I think. I got some sense of the act in the pre-match and of the general commitment the guy has. I'd be curious to see more. On a personal note, if I was 10-15 years younger, I'd be all about Beyond. I didn't even realize it was a MA/RI promotion. Palladino is the guy who announced all the indy wrestling I watched in college so there was something vaguely nostalgic about all of this. It felt like the world's best possible early 00s Chaotic Wrestling match or something. Me and my Brandeis University buddies would have been all about Starr too, obviously. I would have been very annoying about it. Be glad that I was born when I was. I had looked for a few Starr matches back when people (Sam, especially) were hyping him back during the WOTY talk and didn't find too much online not behind a paywall. That's one of the tricky things about casually watching wrestling in 2018. For instance, I think I found one and only one WALTER match easily available. Ah well. Lots of symbolic a=a talk in my write up. Thanks for the suggestion as it's definitely something I wouldn't have seen on my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Yeah, it isn't expensive to follow Starr but it also isn't free. A sub to PBTV and HSWN pretty much covers the majority of US indie wrestling and wXw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadCheese Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 HeadCheese, if that is in fact your name, you're new to the board. Welcome. I've got a few reviews from you here but I don't know much about what you're into/what you've seen, unlike people who have been here for years. Tell me a bit about yourself and I'll get you a match? I have lately been really in to sprints, scrambles, and comedy matches. I think I could catch up on more pre 2015 non-WWE/TNA stuff (just do not send me death matches). Some of my favorite matches are Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki, FIST vs. Young Bucks (Chikara), Akira Hokato vs. Shinobu Kandori, Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (Brooklyn), and CM Punk vs. Delirious (The Punk IWA Farewell one). My reveiw trade match is this match http://highspots.tv/delirious-vs-man-scout-jake-manning/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 Let me think about it. Im liable to send you a relatively ancient comedy match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 HeadCheese, if that is in fact your name, you're new to the board. Welcome. I've got a few reviews from you here but I don't know much about what you're into/what you've seen, unlike people who have been here for years. Tell me a bit about yourself and I'll get you a match? I have lately been really in to sprints, scrambles, and comedy matches. I think I could catch up on more pre 2015 non-WWE/TNA stuff (just do not send me death matches). Some of my favorite matches are Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki, FIST vs. Young Bucks (Chikara), Akira Hokato vs. Shinobu Kandori, Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (Brooklyn), and CM Punk vs. Delirious (The Punk IWA Farewell one). My reveiw trade match is this match http://highspots.tv/delirious-vs-man-scout-jake-manning/ Alright, so this is not a sprint or a scramble. It is a comedy match though. I came this close to giving you an ivan the terrible midget match from Houston. It may be Monday before I catch yours but it's well outside my wheelhouse and I'll give it an honest look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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