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That's amazing. Ignoring the fact he never even mentions the name of the show in his "review," I'm not sure if he understands how anime works. One look at the show (and a quick glance at it's late night cable/satellite broadcasting schedule) and it's obvious it's not a kid's show, but instead oriented at older teens and adult otaku.

It's not, but you're honestly not missing out on too much. He really clams up a lot once he hits about '90-'91 so there's not really many good stories from his career. It goes from "I thought about just jumping off the roof of my high school and ending it all there," to "We had a great match and I'm proud that I won," out of no where. I'm not sure if it's just Japanese cultural differences or because he was still in the business when he wrote it (it was published in 2003). I'm not interested in putting in all the work it'd take to translate a 300 page book, but I hope my write-ups will do a decent enough job of plucking the most interesting parts. I'm also planning on getting Kobashi's two books soon (one from 1999 and one from earlier this year), so I'll do write-ups on them, too. Zenk is brought up once, but mostly as a friend of Martel and not someone Kawada had too much interaction with. He specifically talks about traveling with Martel and hanging out with him and his wife, but never brings up Zenk other than that one time and to admit he took steroid with Martel and Zenk for about 3 weeks.

I just finished reading Kawada's book and he doesn't have much good to say about his experience in Canada (other than his friendship with Rick Martel) and he spent a lot of his time there basically unemployed with no way home. I'm working on a more detailed write-up of the whole thing right now and I'll post the link in here when it's up if anyone's interested. (I just don't want people to think I'm spamming!)

Just got around to watching the Lawler/Dundee/doctors match on YouTube. It was pretty spectacular, bit I just kills me that it happened about 10 miles from my house I didn't even know about it. It also made me think of all the great Memphis matches that'll never be recorded. I watched a Derrick King/Lawler match in Scotts Hill a couple of years ago that would have been a MOTYC for a a lot of people.

Don't forget Kennedy in Behind Enemy Lines 3.

Hey, Chris Jericho is hosting a new show on Fuse now.

So, according to Keith, if you start a successful business with a partner and he dies a couple of decadeS later, it would be immoral for you to find a new partner to help keep your company afloat. Is that about right?

Michaels talks about doing comedy stuff to fill up the first half of their marathon matches with the Rougeaus in his book.

I'm pretty sure they still run shows pretty often. They just don't have TV anymore. They were here just two months ago.

I think a lot of people have forgotten this, but she's entirely right. How well does Memphis draw anymore? Anyone know? The shows around here usually draw about 300, and it's almost all families.

Would this be WBBJ Channel 7? I remember ordering some Memphis TV once and realizing it was originally taped off the only local channel I get. I thought it was pretty neat.