by Daniel Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L18ogUa5JkA Shuji Kondo vs. Hiroshi Yamato If your only experience with puro is through this website then you may recall that Shuji Kondo can have great brief matches, like those written about here and here, and not… Read More ›
Katsuyori Shibata
Puro Flashback: Masakatsu Funaki Takes On Yuji Nagata MMA Style
by Daniel Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HH-MXmTp64 Masakatsu Funaki vs. Yuji Nagata The following is a description of perhaps the most baffling non-comedy puro matches I have ever seen. It starts out normally enough with Masakatsu Funaki firing off a kick and Yuji… Read More ›
Shibata in a Surprising Performance
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 ›
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 ›
A Quality Match from the Dark Days of NJPW
Katsuyori Shibata comes into this match fired up and starts laying into Koji Kanemoto before Koji even has the chance to take off his ring jacket. Shibata explodes with some of the flashier moves possible in professional wrestling that you… Read More ›
Post-WCW Scott Norton
One of the more unfortunate parts of WCW’s downfall was that some wrestlers that fans saw every week just disappeared never to be seen on television stateside again. Yes, no longer would Scott Norton torture Ernest Miller every time he… Read More ›
The Johnson Transcript 