http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr0mgy_nobuhiko-takada-vs-kazuo-yamazaki-5-star-match_sport?search_algo=2 This match sticks out like a sore thumb among Dave Meltzer’s favorites, but is nonetheless deserving of it’s place. After all Japan’s Universal Pro-Wrestling Federation was incredibly short lived and most likely would have produced at least another 5… Read More ›
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Andre The Giant Destroys Two Japanese Wrestlers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGjCiJhtzyc In 1979 Andre The Giant was still fairly mobile and could perform power moves with the best of them. In this match though Andre doesn’t just start tossing around Haruka Eigen and Osamu Kido from the start. Instead he… Read More ›
Bob Sapp Wins IWGP Gold
Some wrestling company somewhere (preferably Japan) needs to make Bob Sapp it’s focal point again. The guy is just way too entertaining not to be a star! Of course here we get serious Sapp and the match’s pacing is all… Read More ›
A 5 Star Bloodbath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w1byzpTuiw This interpromotional match that earned a 5 star rating from Dave Meltzer saw Akira Hokuto, a key player in All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling take on Shinobu Kandori, the leader of Ladies’ Legend Pro-Wrestling. The slow start to this bout… 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 ›
Muta Takes On a Real Man’s Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1o5CEdvs0&feature=g-vrec There are a lot of things you can say about William Regal (formerly Steven Regal), but I don’t think anyone can deny that he is a real man’s man. Okay, maybe this was a little before that ill-fated gimmick,… Read More ›
Mike Awesome Planning To Make Mashed Potatoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sVBvhlLki0 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… Read More ›
Macho/Liger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TNIRpot1xY&feature=g-vrec 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… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 