One of the great things about Atsushi Onita’s personal playground, FMW is that a lot of the craziest performers to wrestle for the organization were fine wrestlers before anything. So while a guy like The Gladiator (Mike Awesome) or Hayabusa… Read More ›
Month: June 2012
Macho/Liger
Usually I try to avoid reading YouTube user comments to avoid brain rot, but jmg3116 really hit the nail on the head when he wrote, “This exists? WTF awesome lol.” The match is a bit short, but the crowd and… Read More ›
One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall From Continental
I have written before about CCW upholding the 1980’s standard of featuring a lot of jobber matches, but they were more than just a playground for squashes. Here, two big names go at it in a tight psychological ride. Also, I… Read More ›
Vintage Best of the Super Juniors
Here is one reason I hope that the WWE Network finally launches at some point this year. The long rumored cruiserweight show would give WWE the opportunity to showcase a genre of wrestling that hasn’t been highlighted in the company… Read More ›
Females Fighting for a 5 Star Match…And Their Hair
This bout proves that the key to having a truly classic match whether it is ranked by Dave Meltzer as a 5 star match or not is to have not only superior in-ring work, but high stakes as well. I… Read More ›
Owen in the Orient
Some promising matches that could have happened never did so we are doomed to only see them on modified versions of WWF No Mercy for the N64. However, sometimes there are less talked about matches that happened between two great… Read More ›
Hogan Hulks Up On Abdullah
This match is remarkable for featuring two huge names in wrestling history while they were both still in pretty good shape. Abdullah The Butcher is still packing some back fat, but at least it doesn’t hang that much here and… Read More ›
Bob Armstrong Before He Was An Old Fart…Almost
One of the things I like about current WWE programming is that they are finally bringing back some jobber squash matches. Here is a clip not from WWE, but serves as a reason why I love jobber squashes just the… Read More ›
The Dragon Meets Muta
I don’t know what it is, but the first time I sat down to watch this match I just couldn’t make it through it. It is a pretty exciting meet overall though with perhaps a slightly awkward beginning. I like… Read More ›
An Exploding Cage and a Time Bomb
The most unique and often most hilarious thing about WSX is how much they tried to cram in, in such a short amount of time. Just look at the basic format of the show, a 30 minute wrestling event. This… Read More ›
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