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  1. There actually is a full version of the legendary Smith/Hawkfield vs Misawa/Akiyama draw. Nothing mindblowing happens in the first 20 minutes but there is some solid hold for hold stuff between Smith and Akiyama, and lots of spots where Smith and Hawkfield are helping each other out to cut off the offensive runs of Akiyama and Misawa to keep things plausible. Very impressive build to the last ten minutes. You have to hand it to them for getting this much reaction out of Smith kicking out of a Tiger Driver at the last minute. Definitely a classic when you add in all the storytelling, cool bits of wrestling and a fucking Streetfighter character being there.
  2. Man, Johnny Smith vs. Taiyo Kea from 2001 is really fucking good. Smith works the arm but Kea throws him out the ring and Smith bangs his leg into the guardrail. Kea proceeds to work the leg and Johnnys selling is absolutely on the money. They do all these awesome counters and Smith does a bunch of cool shit being the master of the hammerlock, like nailing Kea with a HAMMERLOCK PILEDRIVER. Fucking great. The crowd chants for Johnny big time and boos the fuck out of Kea. This was pro wrestling at its finest. I might have to go on a Johnny Smith deep dive.
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    Tibor Szakacs

    Szakacs had some really interesting matches on TV. He faced Billy Robinson in 1966, and George Gordienko in 1965. Mouth watering stuff. Another victim of ITV maliciously holding the footage hostage.
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    Rikidozan

    Recently came across this match, which is apparently new. Thought this was pretty awesome. Rikidozan is clearly the predecessor to Tenryu here beating the dogshit out of Blassie, who is a complete ghoul. Rikidozan just hammering away at Blassie with fists and those damned chops is everything a legendary folk hero needs to be. I also dug those running punt kicks he did. At some point Blassie puts a headscissor on Rikidozan as if they were going to catch a breath but instead Rikidozan breaks out by stomping on Blassies face. It goes by pretty fast for such a long match and the intensity is tremendous. Rikidozan takes a pretty huge bump into the buckle and comes up bleeding. Rikidozan with blood in his eye trying to fend of the vampire coming at him was ridiculously great. Admittedly they kind of overdo the lowblow as Blassie lowblows Rikidozan like 5 or 6 times in the match but that is a minor complaint. The LA territory looks awesome with the announcer doing a fantastic job commentating. Wish there was more footage from that time period. I'll have to rewatch the first Blassie match but this may be Rikidozans best match. I could watch Blassie biting and getting beaten around the ring all day.
  5. The peak of wrestling attires was the 90s with the simple designs and popping colour schemes. Todays attires are way overdetailed to the point where nothing stands out anymore and it all becomes a muddled mess. Compare the simple color schemes of Hulk Hogan, Vader, Sting, the four pillars etc. to todays average boots and trunks guy. Awful.
  6. Yes, that seems to confirm my suspicion. Cagematch mentions that the Titanes program was introduced in 1971 on state TV, with the footage being destroyed in the war, then it was started up again in 1977. Judging from the results from the very first show in 1971 they already had the cartoon gimmicks then with Batman and Robin being there.
  7. This channel has put up all the episodes from 1981-1982, although in lesser quality. Seems this guy screencapped them from elsewhere so they must be out there. The official Chilean TV channel has posted only 1-2 episodes and a few clips. They said they were working on releasing all the episodes but that was 8 years ago, so... Some of the episodes have guys with more luchaesque masks. I am pretty sure the real Rayo de Jalisco shows up on a few episodes (unless there's a Chilean guy who decided he's gonna imitate Rayo de Jalisco). There's also an Angel Blanco who seems to be a Chilean luchador, and an El Matematico who has a similiar costume to the Mexican guy but I'm pretty sure its an imitator. This channel has also collected an insane amount of clips of old south american wrestling, seems the concept of the cartoon gimmicks was insanely popular on the continent as the Argentinian show infected all the other countries: https://www.youtube.com/@Cuadri2013/
  8. Watching this, I am thinking that for this TV show they stuck a bunch of highly skilled wrestlers into goofy gimmicks to do 5 minute TV matches. All these guys bump incredibly well and clearly know what they are doing. Maybe it was a last ditch effort to breathe life into a dying territory, similiar to French wrestling getting goofy in the 1980s. Dracula does a bunch of awesome shit here and Robin hits a cool suicide dive and some really swank headmare variations. They even find a way to make the old armdrag from the top rope make sense. South America always had a reputation for having a never ending supply of amazing wrestlers and no doubt Chile must have had some masters too. I wonder if Chile had another, less goofy wrestling TV show before this. I don't mean to denigrate the amazing presentation that Titanes del Ring had or the committment Dracula had to his act but I'd like to see some of these guys go 20 minutes.
  9. The Mutoha YouTube channel is now putting up free matches regularily. They are also putting up older, rare stuff from the cameramans archive, such as a cool Headhunters vs Nakano & Miura tag from WYF in 1995. Worth keeping an eye on. https://www.youtube.com/@user-uh9zn6fj7h/videos
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  11. VDB was active until about 2005. It wasn't exactly a huge organization at that point, basically the pet project of like 2 guys. They even ran an old school 59 day tournament in Hannover in 1999 but it didn't go well. Those late 90s shows were indeed different from CWA and that was the intention. Axel Dieter Sr himself helped organize/book them. The intention was to do a throwback to the classic days of European catch. That's why they look like that and the style is much more technical. I am pretty sure the 1980 stuff was filmed by a cameraman hired by Axel Dieter. It ended up in Dieters archive and his son briefly sold the material on DVDs through German messageboards in the 2000s.
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    Mariko Yoshida

    The 2003 Hotta AtoZ match is sick as hell. I'm shocked almost nobody has brought it up in all these years. They do some really cool grappling and then just rain hell on each other like a high end BattlARTS match. At one point Yoshida took her glove off to punch Hotta straight in the face.
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  14. EWP has undergone some changes in their management. The promotion has been renamed to "CWP", Catch Wrestling Promotion, and they are back to running shows in a martial arts gym that holds about 100 fans. It's a far cry from their glory days, but at least they are still kicking.
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