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  1. After being horribly disappointed with Onita's deathmatches against Tenryu & Great Sasuke this match being awesome came as a welcome surprise. I legit thought we were getting a time limit draw after the ring exploded but we continue with a new ref and just trade bombs. The tension before/build to the first explosion didn't come across as formulaic but actually built it for me emotionally. I cannot figure out why Hayabusa would try to reach for the exploding barbed wire cage like he was looking for the ropes when he was in the half crab though. ****
  2. Imagine living in Okiyama, NJPW comes there only once a year and they give you a show like that.
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    Hayabusa

    I think he's a lot better when he's doing stuntshow stuff, whether that's flippy or deathmatchy, than when he decides to work like a b-rate version of an All Japan main eventer. I like how he looks but I don't think he carries himself well enough to maintain the mystique the look implies, the more I see him the less he seems like a larger than life figure
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    Sting

    As amazing as the stuff before the bell rang was, calling it one of the greatest matches of all time is absolutely wild to me.
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    Clive Myers

    The gimmick is kinda cringe, he looks stupid in a brightly coloured gi especially when he has the headband on, but the matches aren't bad, I definitely like the Finlay match. But he absolutely rules in the 1970s, Steve Grey's best opponent and has really good matches with Kung Fu & Sid Cooper
  6. In the USA definitely not, Peacock is retaining the rights to network content and netflix is just getting Raw. Outside the USA, we don't know but netflix is buying the rights to that stuff so we can only hope they'll actually put them up.
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    El Bracero

    There is now, beyond the 3 Houston matches he had on NWAclassics we've got stuff here: Robbin Krotzer - YouTube & here: Nostalgic Dave Dynasty - YouTube All that Robbin Krotzer stuff is very recently uploaded. I'm not watching it, but maybe someone should
  8. I'm going to nominate someone I know almost nothing about. Bobby Barnes: In the discord sever SAMS said this about him: He's a name I barely hear being mentioned, and while I'd solidly put him below the likes of Grey, Breaks, Rocco, Cortez, Jones, I'm not sure how many others I've seen that I'm certain he should be placed below. His aesthetic change almost parallels Freddie Mercury's in transitioning from the glam of the 70s to the short hair and moustache combo of the 80s, and in the context of '80 and '81 World of Sport he almost feels ahead of his time. Really good heel with the perfect deadpan face. If you enjoy this style of bending the rules and accruing as many public warnings without quite getting DQ'd, then he's your man. In The Beginner's Guide to British Wrestling Otani's Jacket included 3 of his matches in his list of recommended matches: Les Kellett vs. Bobby Barnes 1973-09-25 Bobby Barnes vs. Steve Grey 1978-07-26 Jon Cortez vs. Bobby Barnes 1981-03-31
  9. I don't know that he is, by the time we're going to be voting he'll be 36 years old, I don't see what he could add to his case after that if he doesn't straight up leave New Japan and do something interesting elsewhere. I think it's far more likely he's made the vast majority of his case already rather than he's someone that'll add significantly to his case going forward.
  10. I hate that the finish has Onita getting pinned while his partners double team a man already handcuffed to a cage. Then they turn on him for losing in the post match, like it's your own fault you morons.
  11. I've been posting in the threads of people who I've looked into with no posts since 2021 because apparently they need to have a post since then to be eligible nominees for 2026. But I totally forgot about Kuroda, I watched 5 Kuroda matches months ago, gave up on him at that point, forgot to post and Kuroda left such a non-impression that I have nothing to say. I remember that his match w/Masato Tanaka vs Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki from 1999-03-19 was like a 90s AJPW style tag that felt like the guys weren't quite able to meet the standards the style demands.
  12. He offers nothing but cool entrance gear, very boring once the bell rings, if he's gonna do a whole routine of stalling and then a babyface gets their hands on them he should at least sell getting beaten down like it's the end of the world for him but he doesn't, and he's even worse to watch when he has the upper hand.
  13. I think Pat O'Connor is good but not great in the Chicago Film Archives stuff, he's outshone by Thesz and Gagne for sure and probably Buddy Rogers too (despite the small number of Nature Boy matches). I wish we had more of his matches from the 1975 AJPW Open League because the two that we have (vs Murdoch and vs Inoue) are very good for very different reasons.
  14. I voted for him last time around, I think that may have been a mistake. His ROH run is very good though, I think him and Jimmy Jacobs make for a great tag team that cover for eachothers shortcomings well. The Shield are great and he was the best one of them during that run. He'd make a top 200 for me comfortably.
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