It’s that time of the year. I’m back in the saddle with a 1980s set of Texas fun, so expect match reviews, rankings, and overall thoughts as I make the journey through 1980s World Class Championship Wrestling. Also, I’ll try to pop up a few more New Japan Dairies Rewinds when I get the chance. [...]
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Steve e-mailed me the cast, and I couldn’t help but run it down. I’m not sure when the season starts, but here are my thoughts. I’m pretty happy overall.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Choshu versus a Russian wrestler, Vader against the same heavyweight Russian, a primer for Liger vs Sano greatness, and Fujiwara tangles with Maeda. First up on my DVD player…
Friday, July 23, 2010
Match # 20: George Takano vs. Stan Lane (7/24/81) Had this match been picked out of 1981 and plotted into today’s wrestling, especially WWE or TNA, I’d be in love with it and herald it as a great little compact match. As it stands in the context of early 80s New Japan, it’s a mat [...]
Friday, July 23, 2010
Match # 19: Antonio Inoki vs. Stan Hansen (4/23/81) Not sure how I feel about another go ‘round from the chin and the Lariat, but it’s on the set, so I’m watching it.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
I’m thinking of posting the NJ Diaries I did do (before I quit halfway through the process) as an exercise in writing/editing, so look for a few to go up over the next month (probably one or two today). In the mean time, I’m doing these shorter “Rewinds” to cover anything new I watch from [...]
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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 [...]
Friday, October 3, 2008
10.24.04 CM Punk vs AJ Styles (IWA-MS) This is from the 8th Anniversary show for IWA-Mid South and stands as a great display of what CM Punk can do in the ring with the right opponent. Punk is a solid worker carrying too much weight in the WWE to live up to their standards. He [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
After all the fun I had doing the Mid South Diaries, I’ve decided to take a crack at the 1980s Memphis project being run at Death Valley Driver’s Message board. For any background just look up the Mid South Diaries at the top of the page, or through tags and categories. Jerry Jarrett took over [...]
Sunday, July 20, 2008
1.13.08 KENTA/Ishimori vs Marufuji/Aoki (NOAH) The first stop on my look at any possible Match of the Year Candidates (MOTYC from here on out).This match didn’t get huge buzz, but for almost the first two months of the year this was considered a pace setter. Besides, anything over 3 ½ stars or considered Very Good [...]
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Lost and never posted, we’ve finally unearthed John Philapavage’s Match of the Year – just missed list. The first half of the year can be found here. The second half, for the first time, is below
Monday, July 7, 2008
2.16.85 Dick Murdoch vs Barry Windham This is the first of a double Gene Boyer special. Gene sent me a match – a year or more ago – to do a review when he first started contributing here. It was one of his favorite all time matches from early on in the decade. Having all [...]
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Taped a week ago… and timely brought to you a week late vias server problems and life. This week Gene and John talk MMA. They babble brightly about the TUF Finale of UFC and touch on Affliction and Lorrenzo Ferttita’s new full time job. Not to long a show, so you can stomach us even [...]
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Match # 29: Killer Khan vs Chris Adams (9/9/84) A house show match with some World Class territory flavor. Killer Khan is the veteran experienced big man heel to Adams quicker and fiery young smaller babyface. I like that this dynamic Khan, as heel, is accompanied by manager Skandor Akbar. Akbar seems pretty pedestrian in [...]
Sunday, June 22, 2008
-5.6.06 NWA-VA Sean Denny vs Damian Wayne This match was on a best of 2006 collection I’ve had sitting around. It may be the only truly indy – indy match on the set, so I thought I’d take a look. You may remember I’d done some writing on Damian and Denny before they debuted in [...]
Friday, June 20, 2008
We’re back, sooner than later, with another podcast about the indies. This time it’s Chikara and their Young Lion’s Cup. Brian Streleckis and John Philapavage run down the three show weekend with John’s live report and Brian’s inquiring mind. All the info you need is here so if you are a hardcore Chikara fan, or [...]
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Everything you wanted to know about PWG, but were afraid to ask! Think DDT 4 was the fourth tourney. John wasn’t sure. Brian answers. Need to know about the first DVD release of the year? John DOES know how to help you out with that. We’ve also got current results and conversations on the promotion, [...]
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Gene and John promised you little structure at the beginning. We warned you we’d go off on topics not in the mainstream of wrestling or today’s product. We were to be the “alternative programming” for the site. So what have we done? Two regimented episodes, and now a third. Even worse, not only is there [...]
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Brian and John are representing the Chron in Philadelphia and will be calling and texting in results throughout the show. Also be on the look-out for a rapid-fire post-show audio.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
We’re back for the second CHRONcast of the week. This time Gene and John stick to Mixed Martial Arts as they discuss the polarizing event that was Elite XC on CBS and the epic event that 1/5 of the people saw, the WEC card. Two match of the year candidates on one show, Kimbo and [...]
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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