Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Billy Robinson – (AJPW 3/5/77) Fit Finlay & Pegasus Kid vs. Negro Casas & Eddy Guerrero (New Japan 4/30/92) These matches don’t have a ton in common other than being taped in Japan and both being around twelve minutes. I thought I’d throw in my two cents on these two together since [...]
Friday, April 17, 2009
Match # 6: Ric Flair vs. Sting (Nitro 11/6/95) This was a perfect rivalry in the ring, and these guys had a few years to perfect it before Nitro began. As is the formula, Sting beats Flair pillar to (ring) post in the opening moments. He takes it to the outside, he no sells Flair’s [...]
Friday, April 17, 2009
Match # 7: Sting vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 11/13/95) Here’s a bizarre match up I never knew about. You gotta love Nitro. Really interesting match ups in the deepest talent pool to that point in wrestling time. Sting has the height and size advantage, but thankfully they play this as Malenko having the wrestling skill [...]
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Match # 5: Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/16/95) In nine years this would be a great success story as the two stood in the middle of Madison Square Garden as the two champions of the WWE. In 12 years it would become a complete tragedy as both would be dead. For the purposes [...]
Thursday, April 16, 2009
CM Punk vs Chris Hero (IWA-MS 2.9.02) This match took place a few weeks before super indy Ring Of Honor would debut to the world. At the time this match was the standard for great independent wrestling in the U.S., at leas tto some people. You’ve got this, Danielson-Low Ki on the east coast, and [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Spoiler-free re-caps of last weekend’s HDNet Taping and previews of this weekend’s shows in Canada. [display_podcast]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Match # 4: Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson (Cage Match)(Nitro 10/9/95) This feud was referenced in our second match, and built to this cage match on Nitro and a PPV match around the same time. The feud of the two legendary Horseman wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, so they reformed the Four [...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Roderick Strong vs Erik Stevens (FIP 2/16/08) Been meaning to see this match for a year now. Finally took the time to sit down with it. I was there live for their ROH Final Battle ’07 match, and it didn’t get good until last 1/3 of the match, though you can argue the first 2/3 [...]
Monday, April 13, 2009
Match # 3: Sabu vs. Mr. JL (Nitro 10/9/95) My God, I’d forgotten about Sabu in WCW. How much fun was Nitro when they’d through in guys you knew from all different promotions and give them a few minutes to come up with a match. You get a crazy spot-filled Sabu at his height against [...]
Monday, April 13, 2009
Alexander Otsuka vs Daisuke Sekimoto (Inoki Genome 3/15/09) Sekimoto I got turned onto when I reviewed a Big Japan tag from last year. He was the one who impressed me enough to take a closer look at. Otsuka has done some BattleArts of recept, which is a real niche shoot style promotion in Japan. I’m [...]
Sunday, April 12, 2009
In Part 2, we put a bow on our 2008 DVD reviews by taking a walk down memory lane and handing out our 2008 BSWH Awards. In addition to an in-depth discussion of the top matches of the year, we also reveal our choices for MVP, Best Wrestler, Best Tag Team, and many more. After [...]
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Taped 3/1/09, Original Air Date 4/11/09 Report by Steve Kriske & Brian Streleckis
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Match # 2: Ric Flair vs. Sting (Nitro 9/4/95) This match is far more famous for Lex Luger (just working for WWF the night before) walking out to the aisle way at the start than for the match itself. It was a landmark moment that, along with the Pillman/Liger match, helped set the tone for [...]
Saturday, April 11, 2009
More notes from our own Brian Streleckis on day two of the ROH TV Tapings: The World Title match, in which all four guys could be in the ring at once (no tags like in a four corner survival) and there were possibilities of count-outs if three or all of the guys were outside, was [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
Once again, Brian is sending in results from The Arena, so keep checking back for updates.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Match # 1: Brian Pillman vs. Jushin Liger (Nitro 9/4/95) This is the first big match of the NITRO era in terms of work rate. They’d had a more well received match years earlier on a SuperBrawl PPV, so both men were familiar with the other.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Well, we’ve done Mid South. We’ve learned the greatness of Dick Murdoch’s punch, the JYD gimmick, and how a big gimmick match is done logically (Thanks Watts, Dibiase, and Duggan). We’ve done Memphis. We’ve leanred the greatness of Lawler pulling down the strap, the fact that Koko Ware could go, and that Loser Leaves Town [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bryan Danielson vs. Low-Ki (PWG 1/5/08) I watched this a year ago when it came out on DVD, but wanted to get a fresh perspective on the match. These guys worked incredibly well with each other in ECWA and ROH back in 2001-02, and they’ve only gotten better. I’m a big fan of both men’s [...]
Friday, April 10, 2009
Brian Streleckis posted this in the comments section of last night’s live report. In case you missed it, I’m re-posting the details from Brian here. FURTHER DETAILS: This night was fun for the three main events (all quite good) and the in-ring promos, which I’ll go into more depth here. Flair – who apparently is [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Brian is at The Arena and is sending in results throughout the show.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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