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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009
With all the best of 2008 goodness floating around, I take a shot at the Japanese Indies and give a couple of matches I wouldn’t normally select a try. Bring on Sekimoto!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero (PWG 11/2/08) Low Ki vs. Chris Hero (PWG 11/2/08) Damn, I watched these a week ago and I’m just now sitting down to extol their respective virtues. Problem is I have the worst memory for match progressions after only one viewing, especially since I’ve been watching a lot of shit [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
Mania was in town, not mine, but some place called Houston. Whatever. All I know is Mania means MFP (My Friend Paul) and I head over to Tommy’s place for a super dork out wrestle-fest. I’ll try to remember what I can as it was a good time for all
Saturday, April 4, 2009
A double dip of a new personal favorite of mine, Sami Callihan. Here’s two Callihan matches from his break out year in IWA-Mid South.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Masato Tanaka & Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Atsushi Ohashi & Yuji Okabayashi (Big Japan 3/12/09) Match story is simple. Sekimoto (fast becoming my new favorite new star to follow behind Sami Callihan) had won the Big Japan Tag belts with some guy I’ve nicknamed retarded mini-Jumbo Tsuruta. The guys they beat looked like weekend warriors on [...]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
7.21.96 Jericho/Liger/Gedo/Guerrera vs Ultimo Dragon/Yasuraoka/Lance Storm/Misterio Jr. (WAR) This is what I’d call a contained spotfest in that everyone gets time to work there big flashy moves into the match, especially in the opening pairings and finish, but it’s got some sense to it. The pairing off and feeling out process helps. I find I [...]
Monday, March 30, 2009
8/3/96 Chris Jericho vs 2 Cold Scorpio (ECW – The Doctor is In) My adult self wants to kick my teenage self right now. In the middle of some decent wrestling the fans at the ECW Arena decide to send the departing Jericho a message: “Bischoff sucks!” No real context to it. They just like [...]
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1.5.88 Dave “Fit Finlay vs Johnny Saint In honor of the great Johnny Saint finally making his way to the U.S. this week… Finlay is from Ireland, so of course he’s the big heel here. He comes out with this ridiculous female manager who is wearing a Native American head dress for some reason. Her [...]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
2.27.92 Kenta Kobashi vs Jumbo Tsuruta Kobashi is still the Misawa underling and Jumbo is the old lion. This is what would later become Jumbo’s last big run that I know of with All Japan, as he got sick and only wrestled comedy matches by late 1992.
Friday, March 20, 2009
4.15.95 Eddie Guerrero vs Dean Malenko So Malenko lost his TV Title to 2 Cold Scorpio. Scorpio then lost it to the debuting Eddie Guerrero. Now Malenko wants his belt back, so he’s going after Eddie. Malenko is the natural heel here, and Eddie got over huge in his first match, but Eddie retains some [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
3.8.95 Dean Malenko vs 2 Cold Scorpio This is from the ECW Arena with Joey Styles on commentary. Right in my wheel house as ECW was my home promotion as a teen living only an hour from Philly. I’d forgotten that “The Sexiest Man Alive” Jason was Malenko’s manager. How do you like my new [...]
Sunday, March 15, 2009
9.27.07 York/Matthews vs Motor City Machine Guns (AAW) Don’t watch this match. Please, do not. I did it for you and I can tell you it’s not worth it. I was a fan of Christian York and Joey Matthews when I saw them on the indy scene live in 1999. I liked them just fine [...]
Friday, March 13, 2009
7.6.08 Chris Hero vs Human Tornado I skipped ahead to the summer to take a peek at this PWG match given the hype from it’s fans that this may have been their best encounter and a great feud ender. I got to admit I was heavily influenced to view this match based on getting a [...]
Thursday, March 12, 2009
1.19.09 Eddie Kingston vs Homicide vs Teddy Hart (JAPW) I just got in a collection of match of the year candidates and other notable matches from a mix or promotions around the world. I saw this one and right away popped it in. I’m a Kingston mark, and the idea of him in any match [...]
Saturday, December 20, 2008
ECCW Pacific Cup 2008 – Billy Suede vs. CJ Strongheart Apparently these two are both Lance Storm trainees, having graduated the Storm Academy. I’m a fan of hearing Storm give his thoughts on the business via the Figure Four audio shows, and at times he talks about his students. I think he might have mentioned [...]
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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