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I couldn't think of a thread to post this in so just made one. I came across this cool match I've never seen before and wanted to share it with my friends. If you have a random cool match you want to share and discuss from any wrestling event please post it in here. Thanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KQ9vHVphg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OopMxHClMU I feel like in the sea of Misawa matches, this one is a bit underappreciated: his first Triple Crown win, over The Man, Stan Hansen. That finish: the elbow, the collapse, the near pindrop silence between the count as the crowd hopes the mountain has been climbed, but fears maybe it’s only another plateau that Misawa has reached. And the release as it registers that he has in fact, conquered Mount Hansen and entered history. And also: MISAWA CHANCE! MISAWA CHAAAAAANCE~! The crowd is just hooked on everything these two do - and why wouldn’t they, it’s their chosen hero versus a man already revered as legend in 1992, who had ended a haie over a year long Jumbo run, had already taken down Misawa twice - once in a defense and again in the Champion Carnival final - and managed to turn away both Kawada and Taue in defenses before the future Emerald Emperor manages to crack him good and take him down. Misawa would hold the title for nearly two years off of this win, a run that would include the famous first six-star Meltzer rating that would be untouched for almost twenty-five years. And, honestly, there is no better start to that run than this match. One of my favorite title matches of all time, and oftentimes my favorite Misawa match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CC0kNmP3I Let’s just get this one out of the way. But I just want to highlight my favorite moment, the one right before they position themselves for that spot: Misawa has suplexed Kobashi onto the ramp, and rolls back into the ring. Both men are beat to poo poo already. But, as Misawa pulls himself upright, he looks out to the ramp, and finds that Kobashi, too, has recovered all his marbles and is finding his footing. And in that moment, poor Mitsuharu simply gives a look that says it all: gently caress. I think I might be well and truly hosed here, he just won’t die. It’s this quintessential piece of acting in a match remembered more for the sheer brutality and king’s road of it all, and it feels like the hidden piece of what made this match the ace-making story it was designed to be: a king realizing that he has finally encountered the unstoppable force that will topple him from the throne. So he throws caution to the wind, and we get the following ten minutes, some of the most famous in puro history. But it’s that look - subtle as it is, as Misawa was not an especially expressive guy - that gets the blood pumping for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvyTKtidbTQ Kanemaru has the single best sell of a G2S I have ever seen in this match, that is all I will say. Just a bonkers sell job. Also, I wish KENTA could still use “Art & Life” as his theme music. But mostly, holy gently caress that G2S sell.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XesuznnHaA this is the match that got me back in to wrestling after a few years of only reading wwe results. i was like "holy poo poo, wrestlers can *do* that?"
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Aug 12, 2022 07:03
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AJPW 1983 Stan Hansen and Terry Funk beat the absolute dogshit outta each other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6ceru1eEjs
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Aug 12, 2022 13:17
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Andre the Giant vs Stan Hansen in Japan. It was a loving real life kaiju fight https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xxk
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Aug 12, 2022 13:28
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PWI Top 20 superstar Jonathan Gresham takes on Orange Cassidy in a really fun European Rules match. Orange goes full trickster god here and it's glorious. https://youtu.be/8CFJDRn7sN4
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This thread already has quite a heavy Royal Road flavour between the All Japan & NOAH links. May as well add to that. Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu - AJPW 5th June 1989 In early 1989 All Japan had 3 big singles belts & so Giant Baba decided to unify them into one. In the main event of a Korakuen Hall show on 16th April homegrown ace Jumbo Tsuruta put his NWA International Heavyweight Title on the line against the wild cowboy Stan Hansen, who had both the NWA United National Title & the PWF Heavyweight Title. That match ended up a wild brawl that referee Joe Higuchi had to throw out as a No Contest, setting up a rematch 2 days later in the larger Tokyo venue Ota Ward Gym (the fans were pissed but the match is well worth a look). This time Tsuruta won, becoming the first ever All Japan Triple Crown holder. 2 days later, April 20th, he has his first defence in Osaka against Genichiro Tenryu, winning with a powerbomb that shoot knocks Tenryu out. That takes us to 5th June & the Nippon Budokan, practically the home of All Japan Pro Wrestling & the top 2 native stars in the company go head-to-head again. The video starts with an interview backstage with Tenryu where he says about 2 words, then the first beats of his music starts & oh my god the roar of the crowd. The match is pretty simple really: Tsuruta is the veteran bastard, Tenryu is the underdog babyface (talking of baby faces, spot the extremely young Kawada in his corner). But what we get that is built upon that simple framework is the beginning of the style of wrestling that was the centrepiece of both All Japan through the '90s & then carried on through Pro Wrestling NOAH, the style of the Four Pillars. They solidify Tenryu as the new ace (albeit one who leaves the company soon but that was unforeseen), they solidify the direction the company would be associated with until after Baba's death & all the while the crowd is molten. It's really funny watching classic All Japan & thinking of the times western wrestlers talk about Japanese crowds being quiet & respectful.
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Aug 12, 2022 15:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs03ZCDqTpg One of my all time favourites and probably the specific match that made me appreciate actual wrestling and not just WWF Attitude car-crash TV type stuff. I haven't seen the WWE version that's linked here, hopefully there's no stupid editing or whatever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwT0nJSJKs These guys had a bunch of really bad rear end matches. The one that stands out in my memory is from November to Remember '99, but I can't find that so watch this instead https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fv5u9 (Cactus Jack vs Triple H Royal Rumble 2000) For a long time this was my favourite match. Does it still hold up? You be the judge.
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Aug 12, 2022 15:45
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This match isn't anything special, but it's really cool to see two of today's big female wrestlers have a match before they summited the mountain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwsp-jzHQY
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https://youtu.be/ZzgsGvQ_bCc Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori. I've probably watched this one about a dozen times. I don't know anything about the context of the match but it's loving awesome.
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Two of the best women's wrestlers to ever lace boots, Chaparita Asari and Aja Kong, put on a loving show on a Dec RAW in 1995. Chaparita Asari is stunning in her grace, speed, and agility, flawlessly coupled with truly compelling selling. While Aja Kong (one of my personal all-time favorites) is at the absolute height of her power, the monster heel to end all monster heels. Coming off as a near unstoppable force, Aja is not a mere mortal opponent to be beaten in an athletic contest, she is a force of nature that can only be survived. Chaparita plays an incredible (if ultimately ill-fated) David to her opponent's Goliath, and gives an excellent account of her capabilities. Observers can easily believe that if only she had lasted just a bit longer, if she had only been able to hit that one big move, that maybe, just maybe, she could have done the impossible and toppled the colossus. The downside to this jawdropping ballet of violence? Vince and Jerry Lawler on commentary just being their typical shithead predictable selves. Dimwitted ghouls, literal swine, gazing in vacuous incomprehension at the torrent of pearls that had suddenly rained down before them like so many hailstones upon a placid lake. Legend has it this match was so good that Vince was sure it had upstaged the entire rest of the show, and had revealed many of his male wrestlers to be plodding samey hacks. Mere muscle golems doggedly performing the same match over and over. Steroidal Sisyphus' doomed to repeat slow telegraphed spots in an unending hell of house shows and filler tv segments. If these rumors are true, he was right to be worried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgt1ayddrLI Prokhor Zakharov fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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Dick Togo vs. Antonio Honda, KO-D Openweight Title, DDT Sweet Dreams 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRml6LaLut0 imo this is the greatest match of all time masterful storytelling, emotional af, just beautiful work from everyone involved e: of course you can't embed it on here lmao gently caress it, have TK/Tamura from RINGS in 1998, the greatest piece of realist wrestling that you will ever see to this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK4Sh-uuuE0 Venomous fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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