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Slaapaav
Mar 3, 2006

by Azathoth
these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixiK2JMlZ6k helped inspire hardcore wrestling in japan . dory even trained the hardy boys who went and did tlc matches in wwe.

also anyone who hasnt watched it should watch rikidozan vs destroyer because its basically the match that started wrestling in japan. destroyer helped train the first class of ajpw recruits who got sent to amarillo to work in the funk promotion which included onita who went on to start fmw and wrestled in the first exploding barbed wire match. after onita got trained he got sent to memphis where you had guys throwing fireballs and hitting people with loaded rackets which evolves into c4 and landmines in fmw.

here are some old people arguing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXnS0JWFaQ but we all know hardcore and deathmatches suck

Slaapaav fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Sep 11, 2021

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Slaapaav
Mar 3, 2006

by Azathoth

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Tiger Jeet Singh also had this reputation

he had so many horrible matches with inoki and ive watched atleast 10+ of them. did he at any point in his career have decent matches with someone? maybe one of those he had with inoki were decent but their batting average was extremely low.

mariooncrack posted:

There's a lack of Bruiser Brody
he wasnt the best wrestler ever but he had a lot upsides. he barely sold for anyone and didnt allow his opponents any offense so it made it impossible for him to have an actual great match outside of tag matches with stan hansen because hansen could actually sell his rear end off when it made sense. he would have singles matches where the only "offense" an opponent was allowed were basically his own missed knee drops . andre the giant sold way more than brody before his body broke down lol

Slaapaav
Mar 3, 2006

by Azathoth
this is decent if you consider the men involved (tiger jeet singh and abdullah the butcher)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5b57a-ziUk
abdullah the butcher has a quality that antonio inoki sadly lacks (willingness to even try to make his opponent look good)

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