Phil Austin

At lunchtimes, I am picking a random year between 1951-2018, and watching something from the WWE Network, the All Japan Archive and NJPW World from that year, where possible. Currently working through 1987. The episode of Prime Time I watched was interminably dull, with a main event of Honky Tonk Man v Billy Jack Haynes, Sam Houston v Iron Mike Sharpe, an Outback Jack match, a Leaping Lanny Poffo match etc. The most enjoyable match was the Young Stallions v the Shadows, which was fine, but lasted FOREVER (cut off, hot tag, cut off, hot tag, cut off, hot tag, repeat endlessly...). Next up will be a Tenryu/Jumbo v Yatsu/Teranishi match which should be much more fun!

This was a fun little episode-can't say I'm overly enthused by Wrestlemania 4 (although I'm always intrigued where Jeff goes with the conversations), but things should start to get more interesting after that.

Always happy to see another episode of Jeff Learns Wrestling arrive. At some point, Jeff will know enough about wrestling where he could have a spin off podcast of "Jeff Shows Wrestling", where he then introduces another newbie to all of the great wrestling footage available!

Interesting. Nothing at all from the past decade in the top 100 for Japan? Any reason (not disputing, just intrigued)

This is my new favourite podcast. Love this concept, and hearing a newbie genuinely trying to understand all the parts of wrestling that we take for granted is fascinating. Already looking forward to episode two: "Jeff Learns Mecha Mummy"

3. Possibly a mention or two of Virgil....

For me it would be 1989-1990. Fun times in the NWA and WWF, plus some good times in Japan too. (I'd obviously have to be able to travel geographically!)

Yes, that was the one - I remember finding it very odd at the time watching on the CHV compilation.

I'd love to see you do a segment on the different versions of the Orient Express. How do you feel each version differed, what was the cause of the changes between Sato and Kato, and how do you feel the ranked within the tag team scene at the time?

On a bit of a Colosseum Home Video segue, I have all of these, and have a feeling that one of them contains a Tito Santana v Koko B Ware face v face match, during which Koko does a sort of heel turn on Tito. It always struck me as kind of an odd match, especially as Koko didn't really have a heel run in the WWF. Anyone else recall anything about this?

How did I forget Woman? Even NWA Woman was smoking hot.

There really is just one response to this news... "YES! YES! YES!"

I was always a Rockin' Robin fan as a young whippersnapper. Made quite the impression on me, did she. But yes, nobody came close to Elizabeth

Beginning to watch this show from the start. I've not watched any of these produce shows before, and I actually don't know much about Ryo Kawamura, other than he is some kind of Pancrase guy I believe? How did he come to be running a pro-wrestling show? I kind of get some of the other guys to run produce shows under their name, but he seems an odd one. Was this some kind of anniversary show (results sites seem to indicate show). Only watched the opener so far, which was ok - looking forward to the craziness of the main event.