http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uldxzz1glW8 When I went to AJPW’s YouTube channel today I thought they were going to make my post today about this clip easy. After all they show Jushin “Thunder” Liger right up front looking like the inverse of The White… Read More ›
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Sensational Sumo Smashes Samoan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3dQa36HuiM&feature=plcp AJPW has made some odd choices in the talent they have brought over from overseas. In 2007 competitor NJPW had Brock Lesnar so the company needed to match that star power with something. That something was a past his prime and… Read More ›
A Sleepy Muta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yX4cPOkH8&feature=plcp The Great Muta looks like a big tired cat lazily toying with a mouse in this match from AJPW B-Banquet. To start off he shows some aggression by spitting green mist in the air, pointing at his opponent, Zodiac… Read More ›
Akira Taue’s Solo 5 Star Match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCbnH3uipRI Throughout his roughly quarter century long career Akira Taue has been given the honor of having fourteen 5 star matches according to Dave Meltzer. Yet, only one of these matches was in a singles effort. Aside from having an… Read More ›
Perhaps Dr. Death’s Best Singles Match
If you’ve never seen “Dr. Death” Steve Williams’ work in Japan then do yourself a favor and watch this match. Heck, even if you’ve seen it before watch it! It is just that good and there is a reason Dave… Read More ›
Three and Three Make Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o5mtVpW82Y In 1990 Jumbo Tsuruta and Mitsuharu Misawa were having arguably the greatest feud in the history of AJPW. Add some more than capable hands into the mix like Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue and Masanobu Fuchi and it… Read More ›
The Mayhem Continues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3QKlukTvmI If you watched yesterday’s clip you saw that it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger (if you didn’t watch it then you can see it right here). As you might expect even if you can’t understand Japanese the… Read More ›
Super Crazy Reps ECW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJylNPauCiU In this bout against Toshizo, Super Crazy proudly reps ECW despite even the WWE incarnation of that promotion folding earlier in 2010 when the match took place. Unfortunately these fans are nowhere near as rabid as classic ECW crowds… Read More ›
Misawa Faces Jumbo Sized Competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztnhHbL20U Leading up to this match Jumbo Tsuruta was fresh off of losing the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship to Terry Gordy. So the last thing Jumbo needed was a loss to Mitsuharu Misawa, a wrestler not only more than… Read More ›
A Quintuple Star Match for the Triple Crown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BjcA5BCZHs Aside from the range of styles Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu showcase what Dave Meltzer might have valued when giving this bout 5 stars is the circumstances surrounding the match. It was a high stakes battle as Jumbo was… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 