If anyone wants to thumb through All Japan archives and storylines from 2004 until about 2012 that I did while running Oudou Love/Shining Road the Way back Machine has a lot of it: #ajpw
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In JCP, Dusty was always so good at talking about all the other feuds going on. That's not something we got to see much during his WWF run, but on this one episode of Spotlight, he waxed poetic about the Savage/Warrior situation and it was absolute gold.
The time Jerry “The King” Lawler absolutely unloaded on “Handsome” Jimmy Valiant with language you DEFINITELY will NEVER hear on TV again. 😅
The segment ended when Lawler slapped the absolute fire out of Valiant. Territory rasslin
Championship (Memphis) Wrestling
11/11/1978
NJPW announced a partnership with JapanesePod101 to teach fans Japanese through wrestling:
“New Japan Pro-Wrestling is pleased to announce a new collaborative project with JapanesePod101.
Through an extensive library of video and social content together with carefully curated online lessons, JapanesePod101 is a long established leader in online Japanese language learning.
A series of collaborative videos in the coming weeks and months will allow NJPW fans to get to grips with some of the Japanese language spoken by fans, wrestlers and in venues, allowing for deeper immersion in the Japanese pro-wrestling culture. For regular JapanesePod101 viewers and users, this collaborative content will serve as an introduction to a key part of Japanese sporting and popular culture they might not have explored before.”
(NJPW)
Sid vs Nightstalker should not have won worst match of the year in the Observer in 1990. It was bad, but short and not an abomination. Andre & Baba vs Land of the Giants was much worse. However, the true worst match of 1990 was Zeus vs Abdullah. There is no way this match would not have won the award handily except much fewer people saw it than Sid vs Nightstalker.
It’s an absolutely surreal spectacle as the crowd at Osaka-Jo Hall melts down while Chigusa Nagayo gets her head shaved following her first legendary Hair vs. Hair match against Dump Matsumoto. (8.28.1985) 📼