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Love pro-wrestling, classic movies and video games! Oh, and occasionally my wife and kids too....

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@Peps_Wrestling @davemeltzerWON There was gradual and frustrating decline, especially in Japan. Went from still having hope of delivering that old magic to accepting its faith and settling that things weren't as good as before. I watched every Japanese show I could get my hands on, but gave up after 2010.

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@NintendoEurope Nice of you to release the Virtual Boy again... but it's one of many arrogant "big head" Nintendo moments recently, when not even bothering to make the hardware needed to play it available in all regions.

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@WONF4W To think, because of this comment, Billy Gunn got more praise online in ONE DAY than he's gotten in the last 30 years combined! He's a wrestler than brings the smile, but for people who watched wrestling beyond WWE/F, he wasn't anywhere near top-200.

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@grok @AdrianGuvenis @jonkeymohnson LOL. Don't use Gork for pro-wrestling. Not a single thing correct. That's Zeus Jackhammer'ing Yutaka Yoshie in a AJPW ring.

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@davemeltzerWON Tenryu spent several years in the top division and reached Megashira 1 ranking. Only Komusubi, Sekiwake, Ozeki and Yokozuna rankings above that, and those are reserved for the selective few. Never won a top division tournament, but did win 2. and 3. div. tournaments to get there.

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@SiouxsieShoo @davemeltzerWON He wasn't going to look good against the best in the world either. He was at this point old and weird looking. At least against Singh there was a legitimate chance he'd get a babyface reaction.

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@SiouxsieShoo @davemeltzerWON Wajima was awkward, but he was right in the center of the changing AJPW in-ring style letting Tenryu and heels stiff him the way they did. Nice diversion while Jumbo Tsuruta found his groove as the grumpy veteran.

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@jdrayas @davemeltzerWON John Tenta had won the third division (Makushita), and would have been promoted to the professional Jūryō (second tier) had he not quit. He retired undefeated. Akebono was Grand Champion in the top division for 8 years. Great start to Aonishikis career, easily surpassing Tenta.

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@letterboxd @wickskiller The amount of snobbery from the "movies is art/superior" crowd is insane. Anything to validate watching movies as something meaningful, when TV and movies are all just variations of the same kind of escapism.

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@evrythgisrmntic @letterboxd To pretend there being this great big line between cinema and TV is just being snobbish. Before TV, a evening in front of the screen was at the cinema. 2-reel comedy/sitcom, newsreel/news, cartoon short/children's TV, etc. It's the same stuff, just on competing platforms.

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@quintessonqueer @TripppleS9 @letterboxd Problem with that is that some series are 1,000 episodes. What if one has only seen one of them and want to talk about it. Or the other side. Some series are missing a lot of episodes. Might only have a couple of episodes available, and the rest can lost to time.

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@Vissssis @letterboxd I use four different websites. On the three others I can log both TV and film, only Letterboxd doesn't. Which is a shame because it's the main one I use.

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@TripppleS9 @letterboxd TV and movies are the same thing. Just a different distribution platform for the same kind of media. Originally, TV just took over production that used to be in cinemas. Not adding it, would be like not adding streaming content today because it wasn't shown on the big screen.

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@Kadaveri Only 3:14 shown of 17:55, and it was mostly the grand old lady doing cat fighting that dreadful Panther Claw, who did some abysmal handspring elbows as the highlight. Gave it a whopping 1/4* rating at the time. Don't remember how much they showed of Corino.

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@AJStylesOrg Skytwister Press. Chapparita Asari. All Japan Women. 1993.