Diaries Update
Posted on July 15, 2010 by John Philapavage
Hey everybody. It’s been far too long since I posted anything. The truth is that I went to Danielson’s final ROH show last September, came home, and lost most interest in wrestling. I was still committed to doing the New Japan Diaries, but without anyone to watch with, and the language barrier, I fell off on that right around the time I went to the DGUSA show last November with Brian from BS With Honor. I’ve posted only about 20 NJ Diaries, though I wrote about 70-75 matches up. I’m not sure those will get posted since I quit the set halfway through, and just recently the cumulative results were released over at the Death Valley Driver Message Board. Sorry I dropped the ball, but life got busy and wrestling got boring.
I’m writing now because I think I’m starting to find a spark. With Up North Radio hitting episode 100, and BS With Honor faithfully chugging along while delivering the best ROH coverage on the net, I figure it’s time to contribute again. I’m thinking about taking the top 20-25 from the DVDVR New Japan ballot results and doing a review for each. I’ve written up probably 8 of them for my own ballot, but apparently alot of great matches happened after I stopped watching around the 1985 disks. So those will hopefully be enjoyable make-goods for my 8 month absence.
The big news is that DVDVR, thanks to great people like my friend Goodhelmet, have just released the World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) 1980s set. So it looks like I’m going to make the attempt at watching and ranking 150 World Class matches through the Diaries series I’ve done for this site. If you are interested in finding the greatest matches from the promotions of the 80s, I highly recommend looking up tags for my Memphis Diaries or Mid South Diaries. I’m not someone who thinks that nothing good happened post ’95, but the top ten to twenty from each of those Diaries ballots is worth a fan of any age or era going out of their way to see. Dundee vs Lawler, Hacksaw vs Dibiase, Butch Reed vs Dick Murdoch. I could go on for along time. They transcend styles if you really love the ART in pro wrestling.
If you want to see my thoughts on the greatest WCW Nitro matches of all times, look up the Nitro Diaries. The top thirty is all must-see stuff. And starting in about a month, look for the World Class Diaries. See you soon. Support our radio shows at the CHRON in the meantime.
July 16th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Does this open up the possibility of more Real World/Road Rules Challenge podcasts? I really enjoyed when you and Steve reviewed The Ruins a while back. SUCK YEAH!
July 16th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
That’s always possible. We talked on the phone right before the last one, but we were both busy so we decided to just watch the season and enjoy it. Looking back at the Wes/Kenny stuff, we could have had some fun with it. More than likely you’ll see another Challenge podcast in the future.
July 18th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Suck yeah, indeed! For the record, I thought last season of the Challenge was pretty weak, especially the second half. Worst of all, the Fresh Meat included very few future stars in my book. On the plus side, we’re very close to the new season of Jersey Shore, and then before you know it, the next Challenge will be up. I’m definitely up for doing another pod series.
July 18th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Great to here! I sorta lost interest in this season as well. While I was really into the Wes vs Bananas Alliance stuff last year, I kinda miss the days of the Miz/Coral friendship, as well as when Sarah from RR Campus Crawl went 5 for 5 in the Gauntlet. Yes, that’s how long Bunim/Murray has consumed my life.