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  1. So is Marty Scurll currently the worst wrestler on television? Dude is "change the channel anytime he's on the TV screen" bad. I think I watched like 2 of his matches in ROH recently and hoo boy is he terrible.
  2. Have got to echo the love for Sandman and New Jack, Jack in particular. I don't care if his matches suck from a technical standpoint, New Jack will always be entertaining as hell to me. When I was a kid the first ever episode of ECW on TNN I saw had a New Jack vs. Mike Awesome match, and I've been a fan of his ever since. Dude is a damn nut, but that's what makes him so great. Will also namedrop the Headbangers here, anybody who wrestles in Napalm Death and Morbid Angel shirts is A-OK in my book.
  3. Definitely some very questionable booking so far. But honestly that should be expected. Eliminating Sarah Logan, Xia Li, Tessa Blanchard and Santana Garrett first round but Nicole Savoy, Rhea Ripley and Lacey Evans all advance? Those last 3 all showed absolutely no reason as to why they should be moving on. Best matches so far I would say were Sane/Blanchard and Kai/Devi. I think I would put the Lacey Evans/Taynara Conti match as worse than Evers/Belle. That match was complete dogshit.
  4. The thing I remember most about this match is that insane Steiner Bulldog that Nakamaki takes outside the ring. What a nutjob.
  5. Decided to watch a W*ING show that was up on Youtube after browsing this thread. W*ING Odawara Blazing Night 10/31/93 Zuleyma vs Jannet Unfortunately this appears to be just clips. I liked what was shown from Jannet though. She seemed like she wasn't afraid to take some nasty bumps, including doing a dropkick off the apron. She also took some nasty tosses through the first couple rows of chairs. Zuleyma takes the win after a nice powerbomb and a running tombstone piledriver. Would have definitely liked to have seen that match in full. Ryo Miyake vs. Dale "The Kangaroo" Storen I take it Storen must be a shoot guy, based on his offense of trying to get Miyake with takedowns. Doesn't really work though. Miyake taps Storen quickly with a cross armbar. Storen wasn't very impressive and I guess I just don't really see the point in this. Masahiko Takasugi vs. Hideo Takayama Takayama is a young Bad Boy Hido. More clipping. Ugh. Hate that shit. You can tell Hido is a rookie as his offense isn't too convincing. Takasugi on the other hand definitely lays in his strikes nicely. Hido takes some particularly brutal kicks and knees in this, and a nasty lariat. Takasugi seems kind of random when he's in control though. Like he wastes Hido with a lariat and a big back suplex...then goes outside to grab a chair to choke Hido with it. Then he piledrives him on the chair and locks in a half crab. Takasugi eventually takes it with an octopus stretch. Entertaining squash, Hido definitely needed work on some of his fundamentals at this point. Nobutaka Araya vs. Tarou Fukumen More clips. Doesn't look like it has affected this match much. Looked pretty blah. Araya wins it after a powerbomb and moonsault. Team W*ING (Masayoshi Motegi and The Winger) vs. Team SPWF (Shinichi Nakano and Shouichi Nabuyama) Another clipped match, goddamn it. This starts out really hot with Team SPWF and Motegi just smacking the shit out of each other. Nakano and Motegi play the team leader roles in this match. Whenever those two are in the ring they just beat each other up. Nakano in particular brings a real intensity to this, he actually looks like he's really mad. Nabuyama is pretty good as the face in peril, Winger wrecks him with numerous suplexes and Team W*ING stretch him out with a cool double team STF. A strange finish, as Nabuyama never gets the hot tag and Winger pins him with a German Suplex. Looked to be pretty good, but again I wish the clipping in every match thing would stop. Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Match: Leather Face vs. Freddy Krueger I always love how the Japanese fans run away and scatter whenever these horror movie characters come out to have a match. Leather Face is Rick Patterson. Freddy is Doug Gilbert. Crowd is super hot for this match. The beginning moments are the two brawling throughout the crowd, fans scattering everywhere and rows of chairs being knocked down. Leather hits a huge moonsault to the outside onto Freddy, looked awesome seeing such a big dude nail it so clean. It's crazy to see how over with the crowd Leather Face is. The crowd pop huge for him whenever he gets on offense. Not too much use of the bat in this one. In a neat table spot, Freddy piledrives Leather onto it without it being set up. Leather returns the favor with a two powerbombs onto the unset-up table to get the win. Surprisingly entertaining due to the hot crowd. Probably the best night of Rick Patterson's career, he had the whole crowd chanting for him after the match...that is, until Freddy and his manager attack him with a bat with nails through it. Scramble Fire Bunkhouse Death Match: Yukihiro Kanemura and Shoji Nakamaki vs. Gedo and Jado A rather infamous match. There are torches surrounding the ring and the ropes have been replaced with barbed wire. Shit is crazy from the go as Jado and Kanemura have a duel with a torch and a chair outside the ring. Kanemura sets his arm on fire and clotheslines Jado! Jesus. Kanemura then dives over the fire to land on Jado outside the ring. What a nut. Not much action on the inside of the ring in this one. I don't think there was really much that they could do without getting burnt. The ring looks really slippery too. Very noticeable when Gedo or Nakamaki are trying to go for powerbombs and they lose their balance. Kanemura gets powerbombed onto a torch and is IMMEDIATELY engulfed in flames. The ref rings the bell as the ring crew frantically puts Kanemura out. What a fucking insane spectacle. Kanemura definitely established himself as one of the craziest hardcore wrestlers, that's for sure. Kanemura gets up after having buckets of water poured on him and you can see his charred up back. Wow. Verdict: Mixed. I really like the presentation of this. W*ING was definitely doing ECW before ECW. The matches all had a bit of wild brawling thrown in them, but the matches are all different. Just on this show there was a women's lucha match, a faux shoot style match, a squash where an older wrestler beats up a young one, a heated inter-promotional tag match, and two crazy deathmatches to end the show. However, I would have to say the biggest gripe for me would be the clipping in the first five matches. Would have loved to see the full matches for Zuleyma vs. Jannet and Team W*ING vs. Team SPWF. But I could see myself watching more of these shows, at a breezy hour run time who wouldn't want to?
  6. I'd say without a doubt this is one of the best overbooked matches of all time. Seriously, WWF out-ECW'd ECW here and they managed to completely pull it off without it being contrived as stated above.
  7. Some more I thought of: Roddy Piper vs. Goldust - Hollywood Backlot Brawl FMW Swimming Pool Deathmatch Big Japan Desert Deathmatch: Matsunaga vs. Shoji Nakamaki
  8. Isn't there a lot of good Big Japan matches like that? Exploding Thumbtack Balloons Match Matsunaga vs. an alligator Piranha Tank deathmatch There was also the Raw Sewage match from XPW that's probably at least good for a laugh.
  9. If there's anything that is abundantly clear from last night it's that Seth Rollins is waaaaay too high up on the card. How are you gonna have a match where the narrative is that your leg is fucked up but then do shit like phoenix splashes and superplex/falcon arrow combos? Dude would be fine on 205 Live, but man he cannot do the heavyweight style. He is just not believable at all going against people like Triple H. Also I wish Triple H would figure out he isn't the superworker he thinks he is. Every time he does one of these Wrestlemania matches it reeks of self-conscious epic. Keep it in your pants H. Best matches of the show were AJ/Shane, the Raw women's 4 way, and the ladder match in that order.
  10. Not sure if you are continuing with this but IWS/International Wrestling Syndicate from Montreal was another fun mid 2000's indy promotion.
  11. Super Dragon & Excalibur vs. Rising Son & TARO - XPW 5/26/01 Probably the best XPW match ever. Which is amazing given the amount of talent that was available in SoCal during the early 2000s. While it might not "technically" be a great match, it is an absolute blast to watch. Probably the most you can get out of a 10 minute match. A completely action packed 10 minutes at that, very little down time. There were just a bunch of things that clicked in this match. All the spots were hit clean (besides a flub right before the finish, but Super Dragon covered that well). The crowd popped huge for everything too, it seemed no matter what move was hit it got a nice "OOH!" for it. Plus all four dudes (but mostly Dragon) have really good and interesting offense. I would say that Super Dragon definitely seemed a step ahead of the other three, he already seemed like a star in the making here and his offense and selling were a lot tighter as well. Not to say that everyone else is bad, but there were moments where they appeared to get a bit lost. Why did TARO or Rising Son never get anywhere bigger? They played the part of defacto sympathetic babyfaces well. I'd have to say my biggest criticisms were that there was some no-selling/moving to the next spot to quickly and also during parts where the partner was supposed to break up the pin they would come in a bit late. But besides those two things awesome match, definitely worth watching if you have 10 minutes to kill.
  12. Yeah I never got why people rave about that stuff, no interest. Same. I became a fan in the late 90's when I was a kid. I grew up with the big 3 and the first wave of "established" US indies such as ROH, CZW and IWA Mid South. I have just never felt any reason to go back and check the 80's stuff out. The only 80's stuff I can say I'm really familiar with is late 80's WWF. Must be a generational thing.
  13. Is there anyone else here who hasn't really seen any 80's territorial stuff and has no intention of checking it out?
  14. As stated before, rappers referencing wrestling in their music is nothing new, but here's two examples of wrestlers I couldn't really imagine ever getting referenced in a rap song being mentioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-u82MbMgng "unmask his ass like Mil Mascaras" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5cTvQWBCY "tonight I plan a double murder with "Maniac" Mark Lewin"
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