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 ›
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Another Brief, But Brilliant Taiwan Cup Bout
After watching this match I figured I’d track down another contest from the AJPW Taiwan Cup 2009. Following a showing of this one it is easy to see why the tournament made the little buzz that it did back when… Read More ›
MMA: Wrestling’s Distant Cousin
As much as I would have enjoyed tearing apart Kevin James’ latest feature film I just can’t do it. While the movie didn’t have any belly laugh moments it does offer some chuckles and director Frank Coraci does a good job… Read More ›
Site News 10/21/12
October keeps moving along and so does The Johnson Transcript! With that said, today offers a brand new feature to the blog. I find that outside of this place some of my efforts that have gotten the most responses and… Read More ›
Evgeny Lyder Interview
Interviewer’s Note: Evgeny Lyder has wrestled for Israeli wrestling promotions for nearly ten years. He first came to the country in his youth from Ukraine. Lyder became immersed in wrestling through watching WWF programming and becoming a fan of Bret… Read More ›
Dave Meltzer vs. Dana White
For a guy who is the president of a mammoth of a company like UFC, Dana White sure has thin skin when it comes to criticism. On Monday UFC uploaded the above video to its official YouTube channel. Rather than… Read More ›
Before Brock Was Back…
He first had to go away (duh), but before he did he had one final match for Antonio Inoki’s IGF promotion taking on old rival Kurt Angle. Although the match was promoted as being for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Brock… Read More ›
Japan Needs a Hero
There are a few reasons I wanted to post this match. First, Chris Hero was my favorite independent wrestler from 2007 until the time WWE snatched him up. Second, Go Shiozaki was given a WWE tryout match three months after… Read More ›
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