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  1. Warren Bockwinkel vs Billy Varga (05/19/1953, NWA Los Angeles) This has been in circulation for years, but you should definitely check out the old man if you're a fan of Nick. Harry Monte & Farmer Spatts vs Billy Curtis & Cowboy Clatt (NWA Los Angeles, 05/23/1953) This was a fun midgets match. It was presented with about as much respect as was possible at the time and most of the humorous stuff was playful. They played up the speed and quickness of the wrestlers and there were a number of fun exchanges.
  2. What I'd like to know is who do people wish Angle wrestled like? Do people wish he was more like Jack Brisco or Bret Hart? Do they want him to be like Nick Bockwinkel? Buddy Rose? Billy Robinson? It's confusing. Some people like him as the goofy, three Is guy. Some people like him as a wrestling machine. Do folks want him to be Bryan Danielson? Ric Flair? I don't get it. The guy by all rights should have been a bust, but he became a star. It's always like this with the polarizing types whether it's Shawn Michaels, Manami Toyota, Keiji Mutoh or Hiroshi Tanahashi. They don't do this, they don't work like this wrestler, they're not as good as this person... At some point you need to accept them for who they are.
  3. You enter junior high school aged 12 and it lasts for three years until you’re 15. Once you graduate junior high school, you’re allowed to quit school and start working. She would have been 15 when she made her wrestling debut.
  4. @Matt D I don't know where else to put this, but I checked out your new 70s Joshi on Wednesday series and it says Mach Fumiake was a mainstream star when she joined All Japan Women. I don't believe that was the case. She did reach the final of the Star is Born talent show, but she wasn't scouted by any of the agencies. She didn't fit the image of what the agencies were looking for in an idol at the time. Momoe Yamaguchi, the second place winner at the same contest, went on to become one of the biggest J Pop stars of the 70s and was exactly the type of girl the scouts were looking for. After she failed to be scouted, she initially gave up on her singing dream and focused on sports instead. It wasn't until two years later when her older sister found an AJW recruitment ad in a magazine and encouraged her to try out. As far as I'm aware, she had just been living an ordinary Japanese junior high school life prior to becoming a wrestler. Her stardom came from becoming a popular pro-wrestler. I could be wrong, but that's the info I have.
  5. Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan (WWF, 3/21/81) This has got to be the best Andre vs Hogan match ever. Not only is it surreal watching a heel Hogan wrestle a face Andre, Andre channeling his inner Stan Hansen is incredible to watch. Just an incredible spectacle.
  6. So much of the criticism of Angle back in the day was the fact that he couldn't jell with Guerrero, as though none of that was on Eddie. I'm an Angle fan. The last two matches I saw of his were a great Cena match followed by an excellent Marty Jannetty match. I don't agree with the notions that he had to be in the ring with the right guy, was a go-go-go worker and not a great technical wrestler. Add the Mysterio match from Japan and that's three long form, anti go-go-go matches in a row. The dude was a hell of a talent.
  7. Lord James Blears & Dave Levin vs Tony Morelli & Angelo Cistoldi (NWA Los Angeles, 02/05/1951) Already in circulation, but you should watch all the Blears you can find. Bill Melby vs Sonny Myers (NWA Chicago, 01/16/1953) This match was uploaded 15 years ago, but I noticed that Loss' version is significantly longer. We now have around 10 minutes extra footage of a 30 minute draw. Very good match.
  8. The Superstar category is a hard one to define. Who knows what makes a superstar. I can tell you that I loved the hell out of the Caras vs Rayo mask match, enjoy a lot of older Perro Aguayo matches, loved Pierroth's 1992 run, and I'm a huge sucker for Vampiro in Mexico, but I can't really explain why these things are special. Wagner has that superstar heat, but he was a fantastic worker when he wanted to be. I'm assuming that you're defining superstar as a worker who draws a ton of heat and knows how to work a crowd but doesn't do a hell of a lot in the ring. I assume that takes Perro off the board since he was a great brawler in his prime. We don't really have enough footage of Mil Mascaras in Mexico to know if he fits the bill, and we know that he could work when he wanted to. How about Rayo? He's not bad for a heavyweight, I suppose.
  9. This was part of some random show Chigusa produced in Differ Ariake that was all mixed gender matches. It was JIP, but I'm not gonna miss an opportunity to see Ishikawa trade headbutts with Fujiwara. The men didn't want to wrestle the women at first and their interactions were mainly sex jokes that probably wouldn't fly in the US but are slightly more acceptable in Japan. That's a shame because I would love an actual serious Yoshida vs. Ishikawa contest. We did get some grappling between them towards the end but it turned into a crude sex joke. Fujiwara is a dirty old man in case you'd forgotten. GAEA folded a month after this show. I have no idea what was on Chigusa's mind with this mixed gender stuff.
  10. I thought this was a high quality match, though some of the FIP antics were annoying. I guess they were trying to differentiate themselves from ROH and the other high profile indies but it doesn't do much for me. It's been a while since we've seen Danielson work a long match like this, and Punk improved tremendously as a worker over the course of 2004. There were a lot more positives to this than negatives and it was definitely worth watching.
  11. International Showdown was a supercard produced by The Wrestling Channel featuring several overseas stars wrestling in front of a red hot Coventry crowd. This was the main event of the show, and despite a stacked card, the crowd were far from spent. And who can blame them since Styles vs. Daniels is one of the best rivalries of this era. They worked this just days after Daniels had won the X Division title in a fatal four way match giving the bout an extra bit of spice. It was very much a TNA Styles/Daniels match, as opposed to some of their longer, more mat-based indy matches, but these two do a pretty good greatest hit match. Why this rivalry isn't talked about more is beyond me. Almost every single match they have is enjoyable.
  12. They sure are strapping a rocket to James Gibson. He's barely been in the promotion for a month and already they're pushing him into the title picture. He's a good wrestler but that seems a bit much. These guys match up well and it's a pretty decent match. There was potential in ROH to have a strong lightweight division but I guess they didn't want to pigeonhole guys into different weight classes.
  13. Steve Grey is one of my wrestling heroes, so I was happy to finally make the time to watch one of his maestro performances. It would have been more entertaining if he'd wrestled a fellow vet, but I was pleased to see he could still go.
  14. Super Swedish Angel vs Tom Renesto (NWA Los Angeles, 1951) This was a bit of a find by Loss as Super Swedish Angel is none other than Tor Johnson, the Swedish wrestler who starred in the Ed Wood films Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space. You may remember that George "the Animal" Steele played the role of Johnson in the Tim Burton film. I believe this is the only footage we have of him wrestling. He's not very good. In fact, it's about as close to B-film wrestling as it gets. Some people may get a kick out of Johnson, however, especially if you're a fan of Ed Wood movies. Renesto went on to greater fame as one half of the original Assassins with Jody Hamilton.
  15. To your point, I wouldn't say Fuerza is far off being a Buddy Rogers/Ric Flair type, which would differentiate him from the Arn Andersons of Mexico, except that he never really rose to the level of a Rogers or Flair, which would make him more like a Buddy Rose, I suppose. That said, I think it's important to remember that in American wrestling a lot of the skills a Fuerza shows are limited to house show matches where they work a lighter style. Lucha matches tend to be basically taped house shows so you get to see a lot more variety from luchadores. With Cota, we got those two matches against Rocca, but didn't get a full grasp of his gimmick and the different costumes he wore to the ring, so I'll concede that point. I do feel, however, that there is a dividing line between Porky and other workers where you know that with Porky it's going to be a comedy match and with other workers you're not sure what they'll give you.
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