by Daniel Johnson Katsuyori Shibata vs. Wataru Inoue I have talked about the dark days of NJPW plenty of times on this website and have even highlighted Shibata as a particularly negative influence. Why do I keep bringing up this… Read More ›
Japan
Tommy End Interview
by Daniel Johnson Interviewer’s Note: Tommy End is a wrestler perhaps best known for wrestling as one half of the Sumerian Death Squad along with partner Michael Dante. The team held the tag straps in Germany’s Westside Xtreme Wrestling (WXW)… Read More ›
6 Great Matches You’ve Never Seen: Part IV
by Jeremy Cundiff 4. Lord Steven Regal vs. Bill Goldberg from WCW Monday Nitro, February 9, 1998 Thank you for your bandwidth. I’m Madman Szalinski, and I had no bandwidth for almost two weeks. I ain’t going to lie, we couldn’t… Read More ›
AJPW Fails to Learn a Lesson from NJPW
by Daniel Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW6ugUYgLI Masakatsu Funaki vs. Kyotaro If you are a puroresu fan and have been able to avoid watching any NJPW from the early 2000s then I suppose congratulations are in order. The early 2000s are known as… Read More ›
Burning the Bandwagon: How WWE Booking Kills Midcard Stars
by Kyle Childers In the real world, success and ability are, more often than not, directly related; if you’re good at your job then you can expect to see a reward for it while if you’re bad at it then… Read More ›
6 Great Matches You’ve Never Seen: Part III
by Jeremy Cundiff 3. Blonde Bombers vs. Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee from Memphis Wrestling (1979) Thank you for your bandwidth. Last week, we looked at some puroresu cruiserweight action on a WWF show. Interesting enough. Well, today we’re going… Read More ›
Keiji Mutoh Makes Daichi Hashimoto Famous
by Daniel Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUkIPZqh-yg Keiji Mutoh vs. Daichi Hashimoto Since debuting last year Shinya Hashimoto’s son, Daichi has taken on some of the best talent competing in Japan today. Of course, any group considered “the best talent competing in Japan… Read More ›
Counting Down 7 Heels Who Could Have Gotten Yokozuna’s Monster Push in 1993
by Daniel Johnson It is no secret that the WWF was ailing in the mid 1990s. While the obvious backlash over a certain scandal (I think it involved anabolic asteroids or something) was a major culprit, some of the company’s… Read More ›
Honma Gets Caught in the Rain
by Daniel Johnson Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomoaki Honma and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Yujiro Takahashi, Yoshi-Hashi and Rocky Romero Tanahashi and Okada have been tearing it up this year and if there is any logic in this world… Read More ›
Ivan Markov Interview
by Daniel Johnson Interviewer’s Note: Ivan Markov has wrestled since 2004 for Russia’s Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF). In this promotion he has held the IWF Heavyweight Championship, the IWF Hardcore Championship and is a two time holder of the IWF… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 