Phil Austin

Watching through Starrcade 87 at lunchtimes. Enjoyed the Midnights/Rock n Roll scaffold match (not the one where Cornette falls, which surprised me!). Sting teaming with the Freebirds was bizarre. Koloff/Taylor and Williams/Windham were dull as dishwater, especially Windham/Williams which had an awful ending as well. Last match I watched so far was Arn and Tully v the Road Warriors, which was the infamous "did you really do that swerve finish in Chicago??" match. Dusty v Luger and Flair v Garvin to go. Not seen any of this show before, and Garvin/Flair is something I've always meant to get around to see, so looking forward to the rest of this.

Watched a 1991 SWS show. Orihara and Kitahara have a fun match with some crazy spots. Greg Valentine comes out to music more fitting Rick Rude. Davey Boy wrestles. Haku is on the show. And main event has Demolition against Tenryu and a partner in a tag match I will be watching tomorrow

Watched a 10 man elimination match on New Japan World. Get this for teams ---- Keiji Mutoh, Kensuke Sasaki, Manabu Nakanishi, Shinya Hashimoto and WILLIAM REGAL (!) v Masahiro Chono, Hiryoshi Tenzan, Scott Norton, NWO Sting and BUFF BAGWELL (!!)

 

A fun match with surprising eliminations and an equally fun angle at the end.

 

Worth it for Bagwell avoiding stepping in the ring with Hashimoto after seeing his kicks, only to get the kicking later on!

It's essentially like this, except Kashin looks like he is about to beat him, just to fail. Why the guys in the front row would pay the equivalent of £777 pounds (or more perhaps if I have got the yen amount wrong!) to watch that is beyond me-it's just a 30 minute set up angle for an upcoming feud!

_{Watched two things at lunch today: Scott Norton v the Giant, which is a fun big man v big man, heel v heel match.}

 

_{Then I watched Kendo Kashin v Pandita. This is a whole event, which lasted under an hour, and had super high ticket prices! It consists of Kashin trying to fight a man in a panda suit, accompanied by FMW wrestlers. Every time he tries to get near, he is beaten up by the FMW crew. Then he gets hold of the panda, pulls the head off, and it is Atsushi Onita, who mists him and piledrives him through a table!}

_{After that, Onita is challenged by IGF wrestlers Kazayuki Fujita and Hideki Suzuki.}

 

_{It's...different. Not sure why people paid such big money for this though!}

Damn. My only chance to have seen the Fantastics live.

 

That's quite the eclectic selection of wrestlers they had. I remember being very disappointed when I turned up to the show ticket in hand to find out it had been cancelled. Even more so now I see that line up!

I remember a wrestling show that was supposed to happen at Wembley Arena back in the 1990s, but was cancelled last minute. It featured Axis the Demolisher on the card (Demolition Ax). Anyone recall what promotion this was and who else was supposed to be on the show?

Oh, and I also watched 3 minutes of Dory Funk Jr v Tenryu from December 1991. Wonderful stuff. (It was a 3 minute clip, not just because I would only make it through 3 minutes!)

That moment when you remember that you never watched the last Breaking Ground episode, and find out it was full of cool new footage, rather than just a revisiting of the other episodes (which I had always assumed). Nice!

Watched an episode of NJPW DX on Dailymotion - it's a weird documentary 'challenge' type thing (well, this episode is).

 

Basically, Naito and Honma go go-karting (for far too long!), then play some sort of electronic full-size version of Pong-meets-dancedancerevolution, and then Honma shows how bad he is at table tennis!

It is what it is. Next episode they do more challenges. Not sure I could endure more..

Watched the Wrestlemania Rewind on the Savage v Dibiase match at Wrestlemania IV. Hadn't watched this documentary in a while. It was nothing mindblowing, but the doc and match are perfectly ok. I do enjoy Jesse as the 'voice of reason' in the company "That's a tainted victory - it's disgusting that Hogan would resort to that".

I always found it odd that in the world of the WWF Hogan was constantly using cheap tactics if not outright cheating, and the heel commentators would be calling him out for it.

Saw an Outsiders match from Nitro in 97. The opponents were Ace Darling and Devon Storm. Complete squash, but fun seeing the two indy 'stars' from that era on the show

I watched a match between Rob Van Dam and Kikuchi from All Japan 1996. Such a fun match. Kikuchi getting frustrated by Van Dam. Some wonderful little moments (I particularly liked Van Dam whipping Kikuchi into the guardrail, and Kikuchi acting as if he was just bouncing off the ring rope and hitting RVD with an elbow smash!).

 

Well worth digging out for a watch (if you know of the All Japan Google Drive collection, it's on there)

 

There's a new collection up on the network. "Gravest Matches Ever". Themed for Halloween I guess with all manner of awfulness to be found. Graveyard matches, Buried Alive, Casket, Human Torch, Inferno, Chamber Of Horrors, Hell in A Cell etc.

* Corey Graves v Sami Zayn (NXT #215)

 

 

What was so 'Halloween' about Graves v Zayn. Other than he's called 'Graves', obviously...

Hawk Vs Flair from Bunkhouse Stampede on the network. Hawk totally no-sells any of Flair's offence and proceeds to stiff on him the best he can. They have to go with a DQ finish. It's frankly unwatchable, as is most of the rest of the card. Zbysko Vs Windham is decent, though.

 

Yeah, one of the first shows I chose to watch, and regretted it.

Jun Akiyama v Kenta Kobashi was pretty great. Some real fire, and the Kobashi knee 'injury' spot was suitably believable. Great fire and some big moves and solid submissions.

 

Now just started watching a Ryo Kawagura Produce show from this year, which has Kawagura v Minoru Suzuki in the main. Opener wwas four guys I don't really know, but was fun - one guy had a flashing headdress that was pretty cool

Gallows v Kojima was fun (well, Kojima was. Gallows less so!). I then watched Bret v Goldust from the 1997 MSG Raw. Not a particularly interesting match, but the brawl at the end was fun.

 

Tomorrow night I have Kobashi v Akiyama from 1998, so that bodes very well!

A January 16th 2016 Wrestle-1 show. Pretty dire. Was a televised tour show. Kaz Hayashi was good in the main event tag, but other than that was very bland dull show.

 

My lunch hours are my wrestling watching time these days. I usually rotate the following:

 

Match from networkplaylists randomiser.

Random show/event from WWE Network

Random match from the All Japan Google Drive archives

Random event from the Real Hero Google Drive archives

Random match/event from NJPW World.

 

Next up, Luke Gallows v Satoshi Kojima from a few years back at the G1 Climax.

The other day I had a dream that I was at a show with my wife. Brian Kendrick was wrestling Rhyno, then stopped the match and started cutting a 'shoot' promo about how the match wasn't going as planned. He then took my wife's wedding ring off her finger as part of his promo and, as she wasn't 'smart' to the business, I had to rush over and try and stop him.

 

My first ever wrestling dream many decades ago featured a poster for a "Luger v Liger" match.

http://obsessedwithwrestling.com/results/roh/060331.php

 

This was the incident I was thinking of.

She was the one who got hit with a chair at an ROH show I believe, and I seem to recall got a bit of heat with them too for some reason?

Cloudy

There's been a massive amount of 2007 Raws dumped on the Network over the last 24 hours, they are now post Benoit (obviously 735, the Benoit tribute, is not up there!)

Been delving into the PWO PTBN feeds of late. Some fun stuff there-you have really in depth long podcasts on wrestling history and the like, fun up-to-date discussions, and then things like the Dangerous Alliance and Brainbuster podcasts that have a quiz/game element to them. Enjoying a 6 hour Between the Sheets 'best of' at the moment which, one hour in, has some awesome Memphis stories!

Vengeance 2003 was 13 years ago today, so going to start watching this at lunchtime. Don't recall this event, but looks a promising show with Lesnar/Angle/Show triple threat, Undertaker v heel Cena, Guerrero v Benoit, Vince v Zack Gowen on the card. Going to see how it pans out.