Other than TNA and ROH, does anyone know of any other online stores that are having a 'Black Friday' sale today?

wrestling observer is having one.

Thanks!

Thanks for the replies about the DVDs guys

Jerry Lynn
Chris Candido
Shane Douglas
Sabu
Ron & Don Harris
Kanyon
Raven
Steiners
Juventud Guerrera
Kid Kash
Ricky Morton
Robert Gibson
Carl Oulette
Scott Hall

Trainer at FCW I think.

Think not, you're correct

With the risk of sounding stupid here, I ask this. I'm currently watching Hogan vs Undertaker at The Survivor Series 1991 and Gorilla Monsoon is saying something along the lines of "this one will go down in the record books".

Do WWE actually have a record book where they take note of who won what in any given year?

I imagine the PWI Almanac and Graeme Hawthorns site does all that for them. Mind you though, they'd record old posters, and they used to film MSG, Spectrum, Maple Leaf and Boston Gardens so they probably film over places. And every House show had the same match, so it's all easy to work out for dates and shows.

Right so. Just wondering, didn't find the answer online. Thought someone here might know.

I don't know if they keep a formal archive of every match. In theory they'd have the line-ups and finishes for each house show between the booking sheets and the agent reports, though there's no real reason to keep those other than for financial records.

They do have a catalogue of all the matches they've filmed and kept on tape. I'd suspect those have finishes listed so, for example, you could hunt down matches where a particular wrestler won (if you needed the clips for a highlight package.)

Do you think if Big Daddy, and Giant Haystacks, were still around? Do you think somebody would book them over here?

60's, helluva fat, can hardly move.

Big Daddy retired 5 years before he died so even if he was still alive he wouldn't be working.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that he would now be 79 years old.

Haystacks, however, wrestled up until he got cancer. And in 2008 he would be 62 years old, so if Kendo can do it it's not totally inconceivable to think Haystacks could still have the occasional match.

Having just watched ECW One Night Stand 2005 (I got the DVD yesterday because it was going cheap), I'm wondering if it was only the Sandman's music that was replaced for the DVD. It seemed strange having guys like Mysterio and Jericho coming out to their WWE theme...especially when they mention Jericho being "Lionheart" and not "Y2J".

No, Sandman was the only one to have his 'original' music. They didn't bother with the added costs of licensing the commercial music for everyone, but in his case it was considered worth the money because it was so key to his character. When it came to the DVD (which would have meant a separate fee), they obviously decided it wasn't worth the extra money.

did balls use AC/DC? he came out after BWO, who used the harry slash song i seem to re call.

He and Axl came out to Big Balls, but I think it was the version Balls made of himself singing it, thus avoiding paying the royalties on the AC/DC version.

The Dudley's theme was dubbed on the DVD from the live version (pay-per-view used Powerman 5000 I think and the DVD has an in-house WWE Dudley's theme, neither being their ECW music).

Just checked and Mahoney's music is entirely instrumental. I think it loops where the lyrics should kick in, so it may be an in-house knock off done for the night like Dreamer has as well.

By 'just checked' I mean 'put disc in and watched in entirety and is now 4am'.

it's his WWE theme, and is entitle "big nutz". in the same vein as dreamers "boxed man" theme.

I am having trouble logging in on Silver Vision can somebody pm me some help?

Anybody remember the XPW Reunion show that was supposed to happen? Did it happen? and anybody got any results? Thank you.

XPW ran its “Cold Day in Hell” reunion show Saturday night in Los Angeles . While fine for nostalgia, the show was pretty weak in terms of both work rate and production, and the organizers are going to have to do some pretty heavy editing before releasing this show on DVD and pay-per-view, both of which are in the plans.

The event started with a two-hour fanfest inside the arena, which was actually a basketball gym on the property of the Northrup Grumman corporation. Although the fanfest was advertised as both an autograph session and Q&A, only the former turned out to be true – there was no Q&A, although I suppose if you wanted to ask a question to one of the wrestlers while receiving a $10 autograph (on top of the $20 admission price), you could. Some wrestlers, including Vampiro and Kaos, did not appear to be charging for autographs and photos. One fan asked Vampiro and Kaos to pose for a photo together, but not wanting to break kayfabe (they faced each other at the show), Vampiro refused.

There was some confusion regarding when the fanfest was supposed to end and the show itself was to begin. Eventually the doors opened at 7:20 p.m., only 10 minutes before the scheduled start of the show. By the time people were seated and the event was getting under way, it was already 8:15. Two guards were wearing Atlas Security shirts. The rest were just wearing generic “Security” shirts.

“Cold Day In Hell” started with a Dynamite D Memorial battle royal. The first participant was introduced to the crowd, but then everyone else just started walking down the aisle without any intros. By the way, there was a simple stage at the top of a small ramp. The building also featured large-screen projections, but for some reason, none of the live action was shown all night.

The battle royal featured several Latino wrestlers working a cholo gimmick, probably to try and pop the local crowd. The crowd favorite, though, was a skinny Asian wrestler whom everyone tried to eliminate. When he was finally thrown over, the building erupted in boos. The eventual winner, Carnage, won by setting on fire his taped hand, then punching his final opponent over the top rope. He gave his winner's trophy to D's mother, who was in the crowd.

Up next was the Miss Xtreme competition, which didn’t seem to have any clear rules. Even though the XPW web site advertised eight contestants, five girls came out, and were asked to perform an “extreme talent.” The first girl gave someone a lap dance; the second one took off her top to reveal nothing but an “X” taped across each of her breasts. The third contestant claimed to be able to chug a beer, but ended up choking on it, much to the dismay of the fans. The fourth girl wore a schoolgirl outfit, and truly went extreme by having a male companion pull up her skirt and spank her repeatedly with a glove wrapped in barbed wire. The girl was noticeably bleeding from her upper legs for the remainder of the segment. Finally, the fifth contestant tried to cut a heel promo about how she didn’t have to do any stunts in order to impress anyone, and proceeded to attack the other girls.

It was now 8:40, and it looks like this is where the main card started. Kris Kloss came out and introduced the first match, which was Kaos against Vampiro. Kaos cut a promo saying that, in the old days of XPW, this was the point in the show where Shane Douglas would come out and start complaining. He then put himself over for a while, until Vampiro emerged with no music or intro. The match started, and after several minutes of exchanging chops and punches, Vampiro cracked a package of fluorescent light bulbs over Kaos’ back. With blood running down Kaos’ back, and shattered glass all over the mat, the two brawled out into the crowd, with Kaos eventually going through a table. After probably about 10-15 minutes of slow, plodding action featuring lots of overly deliberate action, Kaos won with a clean pin.

The next wrestler to come out (no pun intended) was Angel – or, as he refers to himself, Angel the Hardcore Homo. Angel announced that it was his birthday, and led the crowd in singing to him. His scheduled opponent, GQ Money, said he couldn’t wrestle due to injury, but said he’d left several birthday gifts on the stage for Angel. One of them literally blew up in Angel’s face, and a second wrestler – Brawlin’ Bo Cooper – came out to start beating Angel down. The match then got confusing, as Cooper and Money both spent time wrestling Angel one on one. Angel ended up doing lots of openly gay spots, including exposing his rear end and delivering both a bronco buster and stinkface. After being chased to the back, Money later re-emerged as a disguised cameraman, spitting a fireball into Angel’s face to get the win. Afterward, as Money and Cooper beat Angel down, Kraq ran out to make the save.

J. Love was out next, and was complaining that the ring was a mess (there was still lots of broken glass). Love yelled for someone to come clean the ring, and Leroy showed up with a broom. As he cleaned up, Love cut a promo on Pogo the Clown, who showed up and went after Leroy. Several “fans,” all of whom were coincidentally wearing T-shirts from a local wrestling school, ran in and attacked Pogo, who in turn ran through them all. Love got back on the mic and said she had someone else who would take care of Pogo. Sandman emerged from the audience, kendo stick in hand, and went to work on Pogo. The bell rang, so apparently this was now an official match. The two beat each other up for a while, before Love came in and blasted Pogo several times with the cane. Sandman hit him with a side Russian leg sweep and got the pin. Afterward, Sandman celebrated with a case of Budweiser. “Enter Sandman” did not play in the building.

Terry Funk came out next, and was set to guest-referee the co-main event. Funk told the crowd that Sabu, who had been scheduled, had suffered a cracked vertebra in his neck, so Funk would not allow him to compete. Sabu then walked toward the ring, but was escorted back by security. Funk announced there would be a replacement, who turned out to be a guy named Concussion. He was to team with Homeless Jimmy against Raven and White Trash Johnny Webb.

Raven was great on the mic, running down Funk and then actually doing live commentary while standing on the ring apron. At one point, once he started to wrestle, Raven attacked Funk, bloodying his forehead. During the match, Sabu again tried to enter the ring, only to be escorted out again. The match turned into a really good and fun plunder bout, including a great table spot outside, before Homeless Jimmy pinned Webb with a DDT onto a chair.

The next bout was a six-man tag, featuring Team Revolution Pro (Ron Rivera, Disco Machine and Joey Ryan) against Team XPW (Jardi Franz, Vinnie Massaro and…special surprise guest X-Pac). Pac got a good pop, and came out to the DX music. He’s also developed quite a gut. The match was OK, and ended when the Vince McMahon impostor, Mr. McPhenom and former ECW star CW Anderson, who attacked X-Pac on the floor. Disco Machine won for his team by pinfall, but afterward X-Pac laid out Anderson, then gave McPhenom an X-Factor. It was a play off of the ECW-XPW brawl at Heatwave. X-Pac then got on the mic and said that he is back from the dead, then told us that he’s got two words for us.

The next bout was a three-way bout between Luke Hawx, Scorpio Sky and Jack Evans. From a workrate perspective, this was a really entertaining bout. It was exciting and well paced, with some really good, athletic work. This was the best match of the night, by far. Hawx picked up the win.

The Westside NGZ, who were advertised as wrestling the reunited Gangstas, started off by taking on another team instead. This bout ran for several long, boring minutes, with the crowd crapping all over the weak action. Finally, the Gangstas’ music hit, and New Jack and Mustafa hit the ring with a trash can full of weapons. They cleaned house on the Westside NGZ, and that was it for the “match.” The tag team that had been wrestling the Westside NGZ tried to praise the Gangstas, but Jack and Mustafa then turned on them, and beat the guys down, both inside and outside the ring, for probably at least 10 minutes. New Jack used a fork on his opponent. The brawl spilled way into the back of the crowd, making it hard for 90 percent of the audience to see what was happening, but when it was all over, New Jack came back to the ring bleeding a gusher. He then started into an endless promo about the team’s history and how they refused to sell out to the bigger organizations. Jack ripped into both Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman. He closed by announcing he was done in the ring and to watch your cable TV screens to see him soon. He was referring to some sort of reality series that Big Vision is shopping around.

The final match advertised for the evening was a no-ropes barbed-wire death match between Supreme and the Necro Butcher. They had Beds of Light Tubes and Mouse Traps. If you liked blood and violence, this was for you as both took insane amounts of punishment and the crowd loved it.

Overall, the work was slow, the pacing was off, and the crowd wasn’t even that hot. To his credit, Sabu actually showed up for the event, and of course he should protect his health, but the crowd was more than a little disappointed to have him advertised to compete, only to not wrestle after all. XPW actually received word a week ago and was originally going to change the match listing, but Sabu demanded they let him feel it out and see if he could work. As it turned out, he couldn't.

It’s not clear whether XPW intended for “Cold Day In Hell” to be a one-night-only thing, as was advertised on the event poster, or whether the promotion actually plans to start running shows again. Unless XPW can somehow make this event look good on camera, it’s hard to imagine that this was the event the company needed to put itself back on the map.

Notes: Mikey Whipwreck was booked a surprise but no showed. XPW attempted to reach him, only to find his cell phone disconnected...The entire show was shot in HD and is planned as Big Vision Entertainment's first-ever Blu-Ray DVD release....The one and only Atlas Security was in the house.

Source - PWInsider

Doesn't sound too good. Cheers for that.

where is the best/cheapest place to buy proper wrestling boots from?

So... Did Rob Black have anything to do with this XPW show, then?

I think he sold XPW to Big Vision Entertainment. They are the guys that filmed the show, and put it onto DVD.

Kleinrock ran XPW anyway. All Rob Black did was strut around like a crack-fuelled Vince McMahon.

Speaking of XPW, who was this UK Storm that worked for them

I believe you may be thinking of our very own Jonny Storm. He was the first, and last, XPW European champion.

I kinda liked that though. I've never been a huge fan of garbage stuff so he was some light relief, along with the decent workers they had.

Does anyone know who owns the world of sport archive?

ITV Sport.

What did ECW PPVs cost in America?

Lister will know for certain (Because its in his book) but going from my hazy memory I think they started off at $19.95 and then moved up to $24.95 in '98, I think Living Dangerously was the first at the new price.

I'll double check when I get from home from work if nobody else jumps in with a definite answer.

Hi there, fantastic thread and you guys have helped me before and i would like your help again please. Having just purchased the first volume of Real In Memphis from Simania I popped it in last night and was surprised at the various different bits of footage on the discs. Can someone please provide me with a listing for all the volumes and some background to the dvd set if at all possible.

Also whilst browsing Ebay I came across someone selling a wrestling dvd which claims it has the footage of Slaughter and Kernodle vs Steamboat and Youngblood in a cage and its the only known full copy of the footage... sounds too good to be true to me but is it possible?

Is this the one?



I wasn't on RIM back then, but I can still make pretty solid guesses at who put what on there.

Yep thats the first volume thanks. I was also wondering what the RIM 'project' as I have heard it calld is. I must just say some of the footage quality is shocking but such rare finds its a real treat. That Funk promo is great but flickers a lot. My fave bit is the Funk vs Finlay match which is a series of matches i have looked for for ages.

Thanks for the help

The first rule of RIM is you don't talk about RIM.

You don't find RIM, you know. But if you like naked black chicks, the Simpsons, Tully Blanchard, Mayumi Ozaki and SLEAZE~ then sooner or later, RIM will find you.

Well 3 out of 5 aint bad...

You don't like naked black chicks or the Simpsons?


Freak.

Ok I asked for that but can anyone answer my question referring to the Slaughter & Kernodle vs Steamboat & Youngblood cage match dvd? It just seems too good to be true to me considering the rarity of the footage.

If that's the Windham vs Regal match off Worldwide, that was quality.

Info taken from a post of Bix's over at DVDVR. The story was that Arn Anderson accidentally taped over a copy of Jim Nelson's copy of the Slaughter & Kernodle vs Steamboat & Youngblood Final Conflict. However, later Kernodle himself came forward with his copy of the match which was a dub of Nelson's and everyone was able to see it in full. I am pretty sure I have a copy of the disc myself somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

I know i just keep asking questions without giving any answers but this ones for my gf really. Her and I are both big fans of Mark Sloan having seen him performing frequently at Premier shows in Worthing and she would like to know if there is a best of comp for him or what current dvds may have several of his matches on them. Thanks again for any help you can give us.

Nothing official was ever produced, as far as I know. If I know Mark at all though, he has every match he's ever had neatly catalogued somewhere. Try PMing him and asking for copies of stuff. He'd probably be quite chuffed to know that he has such devoted fans.

RIM - The Rimjob
The Midnight Express Vs The Fantastics (26/4/88 -JCP)
Midnight Express 1st Anniversary party (JCP)
The Great Muta Vs Bob Sapp (17/11/02 - Wrestle 1)
Dick Togo, MENS Teioh & Shiryu Vs Gran Naniwa, TAKA Michinoku & Sho Funaki (M-Pro)
Dick Togo, MENS Teioh, Shiryu, TAKA Michinoku & Sho Funaki Vs Gran Hamada, Tiger Mask IV, Naohiro Hoshikawa, Masato Yakushiji & Wellington Wilkens Jr (M-Pro)
Kerry & Kevin Von Erich Vs Michael Hayes & Buddy Rodgers (Badstreet Match - USWA Texas)
Mark Rocco Vs Dynamite Kid (Dale Martin)
Kevin & Kerry Von Erich Vs Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez (WCCW '85)
GAMMA, Black Buffalo & Tsubasa Vs BK Kid, Oriental & Takehiro Murahama (Osaka Pro - 06/02)
Tracet Smothers Vs Tourettes (IWA MS)
Love Machine, Miguel Perez Jr & Misterioso Vs Tinieblas Jr, Lizmark Jr & Volador (AAA Triplemania II C)
Slick "Jive Soul Bro" Music Video (WWF)
Dave Finlay Vs Danny Collins (All-Star)
Jerry Lawler Vs Eric Embry (USWA Texas)
Jimmy Hart introduces Rick Rood (Memphis '84)
Los Exoticos (Pimpi, May Flowers & Polvo) Vs Barrio Boys (LLL)
Kevin Sullivan promo's (CWF)
Kenta Kobashi & Kikuchi Vs Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (AJPW)
Fuji Yamada Vs Rocky Moran (All-Star)
Curt Hennig Vs Dennis Rodman (Streetfight - I.Generation PPV)
Chuky has some major heat with techinico & rudo alike (LLL)
Mini Psicosis Vs Octagoncito (LLL)
Lou Thesz Vs Johnny Valentine (Florida 1970's)
Hollywood & Nate the Rat have the inside story on Lawler, Brian Christopher & Corey "Leave O.J. outta this! Macklin (MCW)
El Dandy shares an inside joke with the Magadanistas
Steve Corino & Scotty Riggs Vs Dusty & Dustin Rhodes (TCW)

RIM - Double Rimpact
Rick Rude vs Brian Pillman (WCW, early 92)
Stan Hansen vs Destroyer (All Japan, 30/10/75)
Konnan meets Mrs Angle
Cactus Jack and Paul E. Dangerously interview
Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes vs Rip Rogers & Scotty the Body (WCW, early 92)
Tatsumi Fujinami & Shinichi Nakano vs Osamu Nishimura & Yuki Ishikawa (MUGA, 3/3/9
Antonio Inoki & Tiger King vs Yoshaki Fujiwara & Jushin Liger (NJPW, 3/5/97)
Steve Corino vs Gerard Gordeau (Zero One, 3/5/02)
Bill Dundee defines a redneck (JCP, 86)
Colby Corino vs Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka & Mac LeGrande (Zero One U$A, 5/1/03)
Ole Anderson gatecrashes a Ric Flair interview (JCP, 86)
Genichiro Tenryu vs Randy Savage (AJPW/WWF, 13/4/90)
AKIRA/Tiger Mask 4/Heat/Masahito Kakihara/Super Crazy vs Jushin Liger/Koji Kanemoto/Minoru Fujita/El Samurai/Gedo (Elimination, NJPW, 16/2/03)
Yukari Omori vs Chigusa Nagoya (AJW, 20/10/87)
Singalongajoshi
Kintaro Kaneumra vs Satoshi Kojima (Rainbow)
Buzz Sawyer vs Al Perez (Mid South)
Sean Mooney on honeymoon
Shawn Michaels vs Bob Backlund (WWF, 93)
Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu/Animal Hamaguchi vs Akira Maeda/Tastumi Fujinami/Kengo Kimura (NJPW, 83)
Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikichi (AJPW)
Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
Mr Gannosuke makes a cock of himself
Randy Savage vs Jim Duggan (WWF, 27/1/90)
Dory Funk Jr/Terry Funk vs Stan Hansen/Terry Gordy (AJPW, 31/10/83)
Frank Anderssen vs Buddy Lee Parker (WCW)
Bret Hart vs Ric Flair (WWF, 1/93)
Chris Benoit vs Al Snow (ECW, 4/2/95)
Shinjiro Otani vs Yoshihiro Tajiri (NJPW, 97)
Monday Night Memories video (Memphis)
Storm Warning
Jerry Lawler sings
Terry Funk uses his BT Together minutes
Jackie Fargo addresses his pals
Fidel Sierra vs Jim Duggan (XWF)
Konnan. Carlos Colon's daughter. Guitar. Police. Batons.
Terry Funk gets a piece of ass.
Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemura vs Akira Taue & KENTA (Noah)
Rock 'n' Roll Express vs British Bulldogs (Kansas City, 89)
Mystery promo on the ultimate heel
Ron's Championship Wrestling announces a new commissioner

RIM-Chimmery-RIM-Chimmery-RIM-Chim-Cheree
Harley Race vs Mil Mascaras (All Japan)
Genichiru Tenyru & Koko Kitahara vs Shiryu Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura (WAR)
Eddie Gilbert vs Hawk (NWA Coraluzzo)
Stalker Ichikawa vs Veniza (Toryumon)
Ebessan vs Kamen (2/3 falls, Osaka Pro)
Aja Kong vs Takako Inoue (AJW)
Akira Hokuto vs Takako Inoue (AJW)
Akira Hokuto vs Debbie Malenko (AJW)
Meiko Satomura vs Sonoka Kato (GAEA)
Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs Yoshinobu Kaenemaru & Makata Hoshi (NOAH)
Jushin Liger vs Naoki Sano (New Japan)
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA)
Dynamite Kid vs Bret Hart (WWF)
Terry Funk vs Jerry Lawler (3PW)
Bobby Heenan's tax return (WWF)
Molly Holly vs Ivory (WWE)

M2K Insomnia
CIMA, SUWA & Fuji Vs Masaaki, Darkness Dragon & Kanda Vs Magnum TOKYO, Dragon Kid & Ryo (Toryumon 08/01)
Aja Kong Vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA 09/99)
Aja Kong Vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA 15/04/00)
Shocker Vs Dr Wagner Jr (NJPW-BOSJ '01)
Jushin Lyger Vs Silver King (NJPW-BOSJ '01)
Alexander Otsuka Vs Takashi Sugiura (Zero-One 04/01)
Minoru Tanaka Vs Naoki Sano (BattlArts 30/01/00)
KAORU Vs Devil Masami (GAEA - 04/01)
Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi Vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW - 09/06/95)

M2K Ice Bucket
Mayumi Ozaki Vs KAORU (GAEA 04/00)
Carl Malenko & Ikuto Hidaka Vs Tiger Mask IV & Alexander Otsuka (BattlArts 02/01)
Shocker, Blue Panther & Balck Warrior Vs El Hijo Del Santo, Negro Casas & Mr Niebla (EMLL 07/01)
Meiko Satomura Vs Dynamite Kansai (GAEA 02/01)
Carlos Amano & Marcella Vs Hiromi Yagi & Chaparuita ASARI (ARSION)
Dynamite Kansai Vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW 03/93)
Greg Valentine Vs Vinny Valentino (JCP '83?)
El Hijo Del Santo Vs Nicho El Millionario (TJ - 04/01)
Akira Maeda Vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW 06/86)
Mayumi Ozaki Vs Akira Hokuto
Chad Collyer & Super Boy Vs Jinsei Shinzaki & Chi-nen Hokkai (MPro)
Black Tiger Vs Black Warrior (EMLL 10/01)
Diasuke Ikeda Vs Bob Backlund (BattlArts '98)
Terry Taylor Vs Jake Roberts (UWF '86)
Dynamite Kansai Vs Aja Kong (AJW - 08/95)
Vader Vs Takashi Suguira (NOAH - 08/01)
Kaoru Ito Vs Moemoe Nakanishi (AJW 09/01)
Shocker Vs Lizmark Jr (EMLL '01)
Lioness Asuka & Meiko Satomura Vs KAORU & Akira Hokuto (GAEA 04/01)
Mitsuharu Misawa Vs Jun Akiyama (AJPW 02/00)
Apache Vs Genki Horiguhci (Toryumon 10/01)
Silver King & Dr Wagner Jr promo regrding "Jadogedo" (NJPW)

M2K 3rd Time Lucky
Akira Hokuto Vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA - 19/04/01)
Diasuke Ikeda Vs Yuki Ishikawa (BattlArts '99 - YGB Final)
Dave Finlay Vs Chris Benoit (WCW)
Steve Regal Vs Chris Benoit (WW 08/96)
Aja Sakurai Vs Chikayo Nagashima (GAEA 15/12/01)
Dave Schultz redneck angle
Chad Collyer & James Mason team up in MPro
Chad Collyer Vs Johnny Storm (UK 16/03/01)
Chad Collyer Vs Jamie Knoble (HWA 09/01)
Machines, Nightmare & Heartbreakers Vs Dundee, Gibsons & Keirn (Mempho)
Tosiyo Yamada Vs Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA 02/00)
KISS NO SEKAI bring you 'Kiss of the World' (The Video)
Dr Wagner Jr Vs Lizmark Jr (EMLL 06/01)
Shinjiro Ohtani Vs Masato Tanaka (Zer-One 07/08/01)
Lioness Yoshida Vs Mariko Yoshida (ARSION 05/01)
Kaientai Deluxe Vs Gran Hamada, The Great Sasule, Gran Naniwa, Super Delfin & Yakushiji (MPro 10/96)
Volk Han Vs Hans Nyman (RINGS 12/94)
Manami Toyota & Zap 1 Vs Reyna Jubuki & Blizzard Yuki (AJW '95)
Negro Casas Vs El Dandy Vs El Hijo Del Santo (EMLL 12/96)
Matsui Vs Ikuto Hidaka (BattlArts 05/01)
Toshiaki Kawada Vs Stan Hansen (AJ 01/93)

M2K Hyperreal in Memphis
Lioness Asuka Vs Akino (ARSION 08/01)
Yuji Nagata Vs Osamu Nishimura (NJPW 08/01)
Mascara Sagrada, Love Machine & Black Magic Vs Pierroth Jr, Blue Panther & Jerry Estrada (AAA 23/02/92)
Barry Windham Vs Too Cold Scorpio (NWA 16/06/93)
Jerry Lawler Vs Bam Bam Bigelow (Texas Death Match - Memphis 08/01/86)
Mil Mascaras Vs The Destroyer (AJPW - 09/10/73)
Heavenly Bodies Vs Rock 'N' Roll Express (Cage - SMW 01/0-4/94)
Meiko Satomura & Sumie Sakai Vs Carlos Amano & Chikayo Nagashima (OZ Academy 02/01)
Eddie Guerrero Vs Low-ki (IWC 30/11/01)
Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera & Dr Wagner Jr Vs Tarzan Boy, Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Buccanero (EMLL 02/04/02)
The British Bulldogs Vs Dean & Joe Malenko (AJPW '89)
Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue Vs Debbie Malenko & Sakie Hasegawa (AJW '93)
Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita Vs Tomoko Watanabe & Nanae Takahashi (AJW 27/07/01)
Kazunari Marakami & Alexander Otsuka Vs Yuki Ishikawa & Mohamed Yone (BattlArts 01/01)
Bobby Eaton Vs Eddie Guerrero (WCW '96)

M2K The Final Conflict
Sakura Hirota & Lioness Asuka Vs Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU (GAEA '01)
Yuki Ishikawa Vs Katsumi Usada (BattlArts 26/10/01)
Bad Breed Vs Bull Pain & Trent Baker (IWA MS '02)
Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura Vs Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA '99)
Doom Vs Arn Anderson & Barry Windham (WCW 12/90)
Dr Wagner Vs Shocker (EMLL 04/02)
Yuji Nagata Vs Jun Akiyama (NJPW 04/01/02)
KAORU Vs Sakura Hirota (GAEA '01)
Mayumi Ozaki Vs Meiko Satomyura (GAEA '01)
Eric Embry Vs Steve Casey (WCCW)
Mita, Shimoda, Maekawa & Toyota Vs Ito, Nanakishi, Watanabe & Takahashi (AJW 03/01)
El Signo Vs Villano III (EMLL 07/01)
AKINO & Ayako Hamada Vs L.C.O. (ARSION '01)
Ric Flair Vs Jumbo Tsurata (AJPW '82)
Mascarita Sagrada & Octagocito Vs Mascarita Maligna & MinoAbismo Negro (AAA 04/02)
Aja Kong, Takako Inoue, Kyoko Inoue & Sakie Hasegawa Vs Dynamite Kansai, Cutey Suzuki, Hikari Fukouka & Mayumi Ozaki (JWP - 07/93)

M2K Get the'E' Out
Asian Cougar & Super Uchu Power Vs Takashi Sasaki & MIKAMI (DDT 02/02)
Inoue & Lyger Vs Kikuchi & Kanemaru (NOAH 02/02)
Tanaka 7 Lyger Vs Kikuchi & Kanemaru (NOAH 04/02)
Ultimate Warrior promo
Zumbido, Violencia & Dr X Vs Olimpico, Safari & Fiera (EMLL 17/03/02)
Lelani Kai Vs Malia Hosaka (Nashville 02/02)
Lady Apache Vs Tiffany (LLL 03/02)
Kevin Sullivan promo
Harley Race Vs Kerry Von Erich (WCCW '82)
Genki Horiguchi Vs SUWA (Hair Vs Hair - Toryumon 04/02)
Kendo Ka Shin Vs Masa Fuchi (AJPW 12/04/02)
Kendo Ka Shin Vs Gran Hamada (AJPW 07/02)
Stan Hansen Vs Carlto Colon (Puerto Rico)
Jaguar Yokota Vs Lioness Asuka (Jd' 96)
Mascara Magica & Shocker Vs Takemura & Masada (Hair Vs Hair - EMLL 06/02)
Larry Zybysko tells it like it is! (Nashville early '02)
The Rock 'N' Roll Express Vs Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo (Memphis '84)
Jumbo Tsurata Vs Mil Mascaras (AJPW '78 - 2/3 falls)
Chikayo Nagashima Vs Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA 15/09/00)
Masato Tanaka Vs Shinya Hashimoto (Zero-One 03/02)
Genichiro Tenryu Vs Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 06/05/89)

M2K Chronicles of Misspent
Kiss No Sekai video
Aja Kong & Akira Hokuto Vs L.C.O. (GAEA - 01/02)
Randy Savage Vs Ted DiBiase (WWF Cage match)
Aja Kong Vs Carlos Amano (OZ Academy 06/02)
Austin Idol music video
Chigusa Nagayo & Sakura Hirota Vs KAORU & Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA 06/02)
Manabu Nakanishi Vs Yoshihiro Takayama (NJPW 06/0702)
Chikayao Nagashima Vs Meiko Satomura (GAEA 06/02)
Blue Panther, NOZAWA & Masada Vs Negro Casas, Shocker & Brazo de Plata (EMLL 07/02)
Bill Dundee Vs Dustin Starr (Mempho - Early '02)
Miracle Man & Azteca Vs Daja Quallt & MA-G-MA (Osaka Pro 03/01/02)
SUWA Vs Susumu Yokosuwa (Toryumon 07/02)
Hiromi Yagi & Sumie Sakai Vs The Bloody & FANG Suzuki (Jd' 11/01)
Jushn Lyger, Masayuke Naruse, Minoru Tanaka, Masahito Kakihara & El Samurai Vs Gedo, Jado, Koji Kanemoto, Eddie Guerrero & Black Tiger (NJPW 05/02)
Jun Akiyama/Mitsuharu Misawa v Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (6/12/96)
Mariko Yoshida Vs Mellisa (ARSION 08/02)
Akira Hokuto Vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW 02/04/93)
Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes Vs Scotty the Body & Rip Rodgers (WCW '92)
Austin Idol, Tommy Rich & Paul E classic arrogant sleaze promo after defeating Lawler in a hair Vs $50,000 cage match (Mempho)
Buddy Landell "alcoholic" promo where he ingeniously turns himself from despised heel into the hottest babyface in the territory for his match with Shawn Michaels. (SMW '95)

M2K It's only wrasslin' but I like it!
La Parka & Mr Zero Vs Mike Quackenbush & Reckless Youth (Chikara Pro)
Diasuke Ikeda, Kentaro Shiga & Makoto Hashi Vs Akira Taue, Jun Izumida & Takashi Sugiura (NOAH 23/09/02)
Mima Shimoda Vs Chikayo Nagashima (GAEA 20/09/02)
Yuki Ishikawa Vs Koji Sato (Zero One - 08/02)
Low-ki Vs American Dragon (JAPW 06/02)
'Castillo Morte' Escape 10 man cage match (IWRG - 09/01)
Dick Togo Vs Tiger Mask IV (MPro - 09/02)
Satanico, Averno & Mephisto Vs La Familia De Tijuana (EMLL)
Emilio Charles Jr Vs El Dandy (EMLL 12/89)
Shocker & Mr Niebla Vs Villano III & Atlantis (EMLL 24/09/99)
Jun Akiyama, Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa Vs Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue & Yoshinari ratboy (AJPW 07/93)
Negro Casas, El Dandy, Atlantis, Ultimo Dragon, Mascara Magica, La Fiera, Shocker & Brazo de Oro Vs El Hijo Del Santo, Dr Wagner Jr, El Felino, Black Warrior, Scorpio Jr, Satanico & Kevin Quinn (EMLL 18/04/97)
Wataru Inoue Vs KENTA (NJPW 05/10/02)
Yoshihiro Takayama Vs Kazayuki Fujita (NJPW 05/10/02)
Yoshihiro Takayama Vs Shiro Koshinaka (NJPW 21/09/02)
Steve Corino Vs Low-ki (JAPW 05/02)
Ric Flair & Arn Anderson Vs Jobbers (NWA '85)
Vader Vs Otto Wanz (Somewhere Germanic mid-90's)

M2K The Fat and the Furious
Nanae Takahashi & Tomoko Watanabe Vs Takako Inoue & Rumi Kazama (AJW - 01/02)
Mariko Yoshida Vs noki-A (ARSION - 05/02)
Dick Murdoch Vs Harley Race (NWA Title, Mid-Atlantic, late-70's)
Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi Vs Takashi Iizuka & Yuji Nagata (NJPW - 12/00)
Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuch Vs Johnny Smith & Taiyo Kea (AJPW - 01/01)
Azumi Hyuga Vs Ran Yu Yu (JWP - 10/03/02)
Manami Toyota Vs Chikayo Nagashima (GAEA -27/10/02)
Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat Vs Arn Anderson & Larry Zybysko (WCW)
Mariko Yoshida, GAMI & Rossy ratboy Vs Yumiko Hotta & Nanae Takahashi (ARSION 05/02)
Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio Jr. Vs El Hijo Del Santo & Negro Casas ( Hair & Mask Vs Hair & Mask, EMLL - 04/99)
Ran Yu Yu Vs Misae Genki (JWP - 09/12/01)
Jackie Fargo goes nuts! (Memphis '82)
Dave Finlay Vs Satoshi Kojima (Reslo '95)
Bill Dundee, Gary Young, Jeff Jarrett, Billy Joe Travis & Danny Davis Vs Eric Embry, Dr Tom Pritchard, El Grande Pistolero, Awesome Kong & Steve Austin (USWA '91)
Dustin Rhodes & Brian Pillman Vs Steve Austin & Steven Regal (WCW '93)

M2K Comp #10 - The War On Co-edism
Wataru Inoue v The American Dragon (NJ 6/10/02) Ah, some clever chappy decided to give these two an eight minute wrestling match. Whoo-hoo! It's all choppy-choppy and bitchy-bitchy as you'd expect. Ohtani/Benoit comparisons for both men respectively are explicit.

Jumbo Tsuruta v Toshiaki Kawada (All Japan, 1991) Arguably the two best Japanese professional wrestlers ever tie it up in singles. Jumbo looked as though he hadn't been layed for a couple of weeks and was intent on smacking as much shit as possible out of young Tosh. Great teacher v pupil stuff in the All Japan idiom.

Shoichi Ichimiya defends his 24/7 Hardcore Title against hot babes, dogs, disgruntled restaurant owners.....(DDT, 12/02)

Ian Rotten v Jimmy Jacobs (IWA Mid South, 4/03) More fun from FAT! Finlay, this time guiding the fuzzy booted young Jacobs through a super little wrasslin' match. Ian is one of the most underrated wrestlers on the scene at present.

Pierroth Jr/Violencia/Blue Panther v Gran Markus Jr/Apolo Dantes/El Satanico (EMLL, 1/03) My favourite match yet from the wickedly bufoonish Markus-Boriquas fued. Panther and Satanico beat the shit out of each other like the MEN that they are, while Dantes and Violencia complete a fine supporting cast. Mmmmmmmm, Arena Colliseo.

Toshiaki Kawada v Genichiro Tenryu (All Japan 10/00) Argghhhh!!!!! I'm watching this for the third or forth time and I'm still cringing at the ferociously stiff blows unleashed in this match. Extremely well laid out match that builds sublimely (no boring repetitious headdrops are necessary here), punctuated throughout by the stiffest wrestling on the planet. This COULD be the match of the century so far.

La Galactica v Jaguar Yokota (AJW) This zany fan-cam is the follow up to their more famous hair match and is full of hate. Galactica is a great heel and Jaguar is brings her normal brand of firm assed, perky bosomed professional wrestling (Matron!). All capped off by some funky interference from the legendary Monster Ripper.

Young David v Fit Finlay (England, very early 80's) Lovely stiff-as-fuck technical wrestling stuff from these two skinny kids. Finlay's greatness is obvious even at this stage of his career and pre-roids Davey Boy could really GO. Messrs Galbraith and Kennedy will get a kick out of the latest scores as well.

KAORU/Toshiyo Yamada v Etsuko Mita/Mima Shimoda (GAEA, 4/99) One of those crazy Memphis-meets-ECW brawls that GAEA does so well. Shimoda excels in this environment, Yamada is superb, Mita stomps ass and KAORU does her lesbian Sabu schtick. Did I mention that Chris Coey hates this match?

Earl 'The Pearl' Strickland gives a masterclass in heel psychology and how the turn a crowd against you. The best heel in America behind Todd Morton.

Stan Lane/Bobby Eaton v Tracy Smothers/Steve Armstrong (NWA, 1990) Forgotten TV match between two great tag teams who would go on to have a bona-fide classic at the Great American Bash later in the year. All the greatness of MX-Southern Boys you expect compressed into a sub-ten minute match.

Kiyoshi Tamura v Tsyoshi Kousaka (RINGS, 27/6/98) Pretty much the last word in pretend MMA matches. Oodles of tricked out shooty matwork and maximum usage of the points system makes for one heck of a match. Imagine the mid-point between Maeda-Fujinami '86 and the better Takada stuff.

Electroshock/Chessman v El Torero/Oscar Sevilla (AAA, 1/03) The sleazey, zany, low-budget AAA version of the ECW Gangtas Paradise tag with a bunch of angles crashing together like semen on Kristi Myst's face. Worth checking out for mucho MILF malevolence from Lady Apache and Esther Moreno if nothing else.

Shiro Koshinaka v Genichiro Tenryu (World Japan, 3/5/03) This just rocks with fun. Tenryu is joyfully mean and miserable as the perfect foil to Koshinaka's assbumping nuttiness. Not to hammer home rhetoric or anything, but if you don't like this match, you hate professional wrestling.

Tom Pritchard/Jimmy Delray v Dirty White Boy/Tracy Smothers (SMW, 9/95) Yeah, the best match from possibly the best US indy show of the 1990's and maybe the best tag match in the history of wrasslin's rootinest, tootinest, pollutinest promotion. Dr Tom's blade job fucks your mother and blows it's load on your aunt's face.

Tamon Honda v Kenta Kobashi (NOAH, 13/4/03) Honda is this year's suprise package. His unlikely Taue-meets-Dr Cerebro act has turned him from laughing stock into one of the best wrestlers in the world (that is unless your name is Mrs Angle). The match is full of funky matwork, cool suplexes and great drama. Both men's best performance of the year and beats the living piss out of Misawa-Kobashi.

Ted Dibiase v Jim Duggan (Cage, Mid South) 'Best Dressed' angle....Dibiase the worker......tuxedos.......you know the rest.

Takeshi Rikioh/Takeshi Morishima/Diasuke Ikeda v Akitoshi Saito/Jun Akiyama/Jun Izumida (NOAH 23/3/03) This match clubbers it's way into contention for Match of the Year. Everyone is up for it and firing on all cylanders, even Izumida and especially Morishima. This has everything you could want from a six-man tag.

Johnny Smith v George Hines (All Japan, 4/5/03) 70's style matfest-o-rama as Johnny Smith takes the third Fantastic through a hell of an engaging contest. Tremendous stuff as usual from another of the world's most underrated wrestlers.

Michael Todd Stratton v Ian Rotten (IWA Mid South, 18/4/03) Todd is the king of the redneck inciting rednecks, fighting with ringrats and screaming at the fans. Great brawl, with plenty of blood and hatred; think of a modern Lawler-Dundee with more cussing. The ever charming Steve Stone turns the air blue on commentary.

Billy Joe Travis v Jerry Lawler (Memphis, 7/02) Terry Funk no shows so they brought in Travis for this MSC main event - and it rocks. Double juice brawl all over with smatterings of that classic Memphis schtick we all love. The last significant match of Travis' life, as he tragically passed away a few months later. Great pre-match mic work here as well.

GENTARO v Takashi Sasaki (DDT, 19/3/03) Clash of tag team partners forced into battle with each other by the evil DDT powers-that-be. It helps that these two guys are the best workers in the promotion too; Sasaki operates as a kind of babyface SUWA, while GENTARO is 'the Japanese Marty Jannetty' (Fadda~~~~~). Neat match.

Masa Fuchi v Danny Kroffat (All Japan, 1991) Fun little match, especially for fans of Fuchi who is at his dickish best.

Tatsumi Fujinami v Chavo Guerrero (Early 80's) A lot of people forget that Fujinami was one of the great pioneers of junior heavyweight wrestling and they er....shouldn't. Chavo Sr could go back then too. Nice match with some funky stuff from both men. I do believe the first match on one of my comps to feature a Vince McMahon cameo.

Ha! Frank Andersson on one of the tapes! Whatever came of him?

Well done Magu. I misread and thought he only wanted the listings for vol. 1. I miss El Presidente~ and Fadda~~~~~~~~~.

To explain, the M2K comps were the work of Lee Flattery, who used to post as M2KMark.

The RIM comps come from the days before we all had wrestling channels, torrents, YouTube and £2 DVDs. They worked by everyone involved sending me a blank tape with 30 minutes of footage they thought others should see (plus return postage). I slung it all on one tape, then dubbed it onto the blanks (six at once on one occasion thanks to a major Scart daisy chain) and posted them back. Everyone got a four hour comp for the price of a blank tape and £1.60 postage. Good times.