Superstar Sleeze Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 I Love Pro Wrestling. Pro wrestling has not always been good to me and I have not always been good to pro wrestling. But Love is not about being perfect to each other all the time. It is about caring unconditionally about the welfare of one another and putting the other first. I love Pro Wrestling in spite of its flaws because it can be the most beautiful form of human storytelling. So this is my ongoing tribute to the greatest art form on Earth and to the men & woman who have entertained me and millions of other worldwide for over a century now. This is Pro Wrestling Love. Greatest Match Ever Project is being hosted at http://gweproject.freeforums.net/ I have at least 64 volumes planned before the April Deadline to help myself choose the 100 best matches of all time and help inspire others to discover new matches or take a fresh look at old matches. In the first volume, we cover a expansive breadth of topics, the importance of the beginning of a match, how pro wrestling matches build drama and with all this critical analysis to always be remember that pro wrestling is at its best when it is visceral passion play that lives in your gut & heart and not in your mind. It is the WWF 93-97. All this and much, much more in Pro Wrestling Love Vol. 1! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-1-best-of-wwf-in.html?m=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Great stuff, Marty! I would expect no less than 64 volumes for your life's work, brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted September 11, 2018 Report Share Posted September 11, 2018 Wow. 64! Looking forward to reading along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 I am already behind guys! Goddamnit! I originally intended to be Volume 2 to be completion of the WWF from 1993-1997 countdown, but I have not watched Mind Games recently and I need to give it another watch so I can do it justice. So to keep up with my insane schedule, I just posted a volume that I could complete without any rewatching. My favorite time period WCW from 1995-2001! Ok so 1999-2001 sucks, but it does not deserve its own blog so I tacked it on to this blog. I started watching wrestling in the summer of 1997 and I was a diehard WCW fan. So this time period just has so much nostalgia for me. Here's Volume 2: Best of WCW from 1995-2001: http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-2-best-of-wcw-in.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Alright staying on track with Volume 3 out today finishing up Best of WCW in 1995-2001 countdown. #1 is obvious and I am not spoiling anything when I say it is Eddie vs Rey from Havoc '97, but my #2 will definitely raise some eyebrows, turn some heads and maybe even leave some mouths agape. All this and much, much more in Pro Wrestling Love Vol. 3! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-3-best-of-wcw-in.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Microstatistics Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 5:33 PM, Superstar Sleeze said: I Love Pro Wrestling. Pro wrestling has not always been good to me and I have not always been good to pro wrestling. But Love is not about being perfect to each other all the time. It is about caring unconditionally about the welfare of one another and putting the other first. I love Pro Wrestling in spite of its flaws because it can be the most beautiful form of human storytelling. So this is my ongoing tribute to the greatest art form on Earth and to the men & woman who have entertained me and millions of other worldwide for over a century now. This is Pro Wrestling Love. Great introduction. Pro wrestling is far from perfect, in fact it's downright annoying and frustrating at times but when done right, there is simply nothing better. Great stuff overall too. Looking forward to more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Haven't read the latest yet, but am really digging these. Whether I remember the matches vividly or hardly at all, its thus far been tremendous fun to revisit these takes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Thank you both. I really appreciate knowing that these are being read. Anyone who knows me knows I love BIG! Big production values! Big solos! Big Hair! Big Smiles! Even Bigger EYES! Woooooooo-hooooooo! There is nobody that does Big better in Pro Wrestling history than Pro Wrestling NOAH! Founded in the Year 2000 by the great Mitsuharu Misawa when he left All Japan Pro Wrestling with the majority of native talent in the wake of Giant Baba's death. He founded a promotion that built on the emotional, dramatic inter-match storytelling style of All Japan Pro Wrestling with even more excess in every regard. In this time period, we cover the very beginnings of NOAH starting with the red hot Kobashi vs Akiyama feud and ending in the middle of the epic Kenta Kobashi title reign. All this and much, much more in Pro Wrestling Love vol. 4! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-4-best-of-pro.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroBoy Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Really loving this series. Good work and giving me lots to check out that I hadn't thought about in a long while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Thanks brutha! I have really enjoyed re-visiting these classics. For some reason, this recent batch really hit me hard. I really love that Kobashi GHC title reign. I am a huge Kobashi fan and just thinking about all those matches was overwhelming. Murdering Rat Boy with closed fists was great. Surviving Takayama and landing a moonsault on the face, epic. SEIZING The Torch from Misawa, there is no words to describe how sublime that moment was. There is so much goodness in this Pro Wrestling Love volume. I love pro wrestling! Best heel vs heel match ever is covered. Quintessential Misawa and Kobashi matches are covered. There is tag team insanity! There is blood & closed fists in the Budokan when Kobashi The Destroyer Murders Rat Boy! Then we close with a match that may be the Greatest Match of All Time. It was a decade in the making when Kenta Kobashi SEIZED the torch from Mitsuharu Misawa in 2003. This is a Pro Wrestling Love Volume you just cant miss! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-5-best-of-pro.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Another day and another volume of Pro Wrestling Love! NOAH did NOT have the market cornered on great matches from 2000-2004! Here are the best non-NOAH matches of the first half of the new millennium. Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya start the 21st Century with a chaotic brawl in the Tokyo Dome! Keiji Mutoh reinvents himself! Toshiaki Kawada proves he can go it alone without his fellow Four Corners of Heaven! All this and much, much in Pro Wrestling Love vol. 6! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-6-best-of.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2018 Pro Wrestling Love vol. 7 Top Six Best Non-NOAH Puroresu Matches 2000-2004! Nagata vs Murakami overachieves! Kawada Invades New Japan! Is Misawa vs Akiyama the greatest match ever? http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-7-best-of.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 In this volume of Pro Wrestling Love, we look at the best matches from Pro Wrestling NOAH from 2005-2009 as it begins its decline with Kenta Kobashi being sidelined with cancer and then the total freefall from the tragic, in-ring death of Mitsuharu Misawa. Rest in peace, Misawa. The matches include Kenta Kobashi triumphant in-ring return from cancer, the rise of KENTA The Junior Heavyweight Destroyer and the Last of the Great King's Road matches! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-8-best-of-pro.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 We finish out the first decade of the 21st century by looking at the best Puroresu matches to take between 2005-2009 NOT in Pro Wrestling NOAH. My man, Fujita Jr Hayato revitalizes junior heavyweight wrestling, Shoot-Style is back with a vengeance as Ishikawa and Ikeda resume their age-old rivalry in FUTEN & BattlArts, and Hiroshi Tanahashi has the first of his many masterpieces! All this and much, much more in Pro Wrestling Love vol. 9! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-vol-9-best-of-puroresu.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 September has been a wet, wild & wooly month! We are going to keep the Earth, Wind & Fire going straight into Rocktober! It is high time we get back to American wrestling and finish out the greatest matches of WWF in 1993-1997. It is Brother vs Brother! The Heartbreak Kid is trapped in Hell with the Grim Reaper! It is Bret Hart's Five Act Masterpiece! All this and much, much more in Pro Wrestling Love volume 10! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-10-greatest-wwf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 We are traveling back to the greatest decade in human history, the 1980s! This time we are looking back at the best matches to happen in All Japan Pro Wrestling between 1980-1984! Stan Hansen wreaks havoc! Can Jumbo Tsuruta win the Big One against Ric Flair or Nick Bockwinkel? Find out inside Volume 11 of Pro Wrestling Love! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/09/pro-wrestling-love-vol-11-best-of-all.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Rocktober begins today! I gotta make a music recommendation. Like so much of the heavy metal produced in the 90s, Mercyful Fate's Time album has been criminally overlooked. It is the perfect soundtrack to Halloween. HAIL SATAN! Terry Funk must have felt like he went to Hell to face Lucifer's most vicious guard dog in the form of the Bad Man from Borger, Stan Hansen! We also have Jumbo in big time NWA World Championship matches! All this and much, much more in this edition of Pro Wrestling Love! Best of All Japan Pro Wrestling from 1980-1984 http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-12-best-of-all.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 I answer so many questions in this volume of Pro Wrestling Love showcasing the zenith of the WWF during its Attitude Era (1998-2001)! Peak childhood nostalgia for the MartMan! Does wearing Zubaz in your match guarantee a five star rating? What was the first WWF PPV I made my parents buy? How strange of a child was I? (HINT: My favorite character as a kid was Mr. McMahon, yep I was a weird one!). And the crucial question is the Three Stages of Hell match between Stone Cold vs HHH still going? All this and much, much more inside Pro Wrestling Love Volume 13! But seriously, Hunter and Steve it is time to go home, I need to finish the review. http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-13-best-of-wwf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmartMark15 Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Been absolutely loving these lists. Great insights and a great reference to discover fantastic matches. Keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Thanks, brutha! Glad you like them! One of my favorite things is to be out dancing at the club in my Austin 3:16 shirt and a person come out to me and ask me what it means. Actually, I am gonna tell a little club story. Happened two weeks ago. I am in my Dolph ZIggler "Stealin The Show" shirt and hot pink & black zubaz! I am killing it. I have been dancing with this girl often and on for two hours. It was really looking good going into the home stretch. Lights come on. You know the drill. You gotta get the phone number at least. This dude walks up to me. I remembered from earlier in the night. Weird dude. He held his fist out to fist bump. I did. The fist was still out there. So I did it again. Still out there? I did a light fist tap. Nope? I held it. Then I realized he must be a wrestling fan and was doing the Shield thing. Now he is talking to me. He clearly sees that I am trying to talk to this girl. Everyone in society knows what I am trying to do. He gonna on about how he is some wrestling manager. I am trying to tell him thats great, but I am trying to talk to this girl. Then he is telling me that he is friends with Pete Rosenberg and he tweeted him a video of me dancing and that it got retweeted I yell at him, I am not a fucking mark, brutha, I am talking to her. Then out of the blue he tells me he's a Vince Russo guy. I am like this is just absurd. So you not only are you annoying, but you have shitty opinions. I ignored him and he finally went away. She actually asked me "Is that one of your fans?" "I was like you can say that." "Whats his name?" "Mark." One of those I popped myself moments. Good news, got the girl's number and we have a date next week. Man, I will never forget that. What a weird dude. Who says they are Vince Russo guy unprompted? What the flying fuck? Ol Stone Cold takes five out of the top six matches in this countdown! If you think Stone Cold Steve Austin is pretty good at this wrestling gimmick, gimme a Hell Yeah. HELL YEAH! But does he take the top spot? I guess you gotta just click and see. That's the bottom line because Marty Sleeze said so! http://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-14-best-wwf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 This turned into an editing nightmare, but it is finally done! The best of the Orginial UWF aka how fucking awesome is the Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger series! https://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-15-best-of.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 "When you are a follower, the view never changes" - Dusty Rhodes There was nobody like The American Dream, if you will BABY! I absolutely love this era and it may be my favorite era of pro wrestling period. I have watched hundreds of matches from this era and have written reviews for over a hundred. I had NINETEEN honorable mentions and even that was excoriating for me as I was leaving off favorites. It is just amazing Southern-fried wrestling and wrestling I love to promote. Cactus Jack & Jushin Liger innovate two completely different styles that are commonplace now! WARGAMES! "He's just a man! He's just a man!", Ricky Steamboat returns! Of course, in on of the most emotionally moving moments in pro wrestling history, Ric Flair wrestles for the World Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina against the Mastodon, Vader! WOOOOOOOOOO! This volume puts the LOVE in Pro Wrestling Love! WCW 1991-1994 https://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-16-best-of-wcw.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroBoy Posted October 15, 2018 Report Share Posted October 15, 2018 Awesome! One of my favorite time periods from any company ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted October 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Thanks brutha, I totally agree. Business may have been in the toilet, but the product was awesome! This has to go down as the most controversial Pro Wrestling Love Volume yet! Not because what made the list, BUT what did NOT make the list! It is the best of WCW 1991-1994, the Top Six! https://ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com/2018/10/pro-wrestling-love-vol-17-best-of-wcw.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Wow. Legitimately shocked by the top of the list for this period. I knew you gave high marks to the Sting/Vader feud, but ahead of both Wargames! Keep it up, I can never get enough of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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