1982

[Grimmas]

Who is the greatest wrestler of the year?

[elliott]

Jerry Lawler - Has feuds with Bockwinkel, Dutch Mantell & Andy Kaufman. Probably the start of Lawler's prime. 

Another wrestler to note - Buddy Rose has the great feuds in Portland with Curt Hennig & Matt Borne. Leaves the nest and has runs in WWF & NJPW. We're firmly in Rose's prime. 

[Tetsujin]

Oh I"ve never Heard about Rose in New Japan before. Needless to say I'm interested. Any match recs about his run there?

[elliott]

On 5/11/2023 at 3:21 AM, Tetsujin said:

Oh I"ve never Heard about Rose in New Japan before. Needless to say I'm interested. Any match recs about his run there?

Hulk Hogan & Buddy Rose vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Yatsu (NJPW - 5/12/82) is a good match 

We have another match vs Yatsu 5/6/82

He goes back in 1984 and we just have a match teaming with Dusty vs Inoki & Fujinami 1/6/84. The Dusty & Rose team sounds amazing. Wish that was like 1978. 

 

 

[Mr JMML]

It's Lawler, no one was close.