Magnum Milano Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 In the same vein as the Best of Japan 1992 set that I sold, this is the 1993 version. Originally put together by Bob Barnett who used to sell the 'Best of Japan' monthly videos back in the day. This conversion was done by Bob himself and comes direct from his master tapes.  Although these videos were dubbed dozens (if not a hundred plus) times, quality is still very good to excellent throughout, with the exception of the final four matches on the January to February disc which vary from bad to unwatchable.  Listings for the discs are below and I've also included some Meltzer star ratings where I could find them. There are 32 'four star' plus matches (and that's just going on where I could find ratings) and four of those are 'five star' matches, so match quality is off the charts for these discs. The footage again is primarily from All Japan and New Japan, but there is also some FMW, W*ING, AJW, UWFI, Michinoku Pro as well as a few Mexico and US bits.  It is 30 discs total and price is £24 which includes postage and only the one copy available. Any interest, shoot me a pm. Thanks.  BEST OF JAPAN TV JAN ‘93 Jun Akiyama vs Steve Williams (AJPW, *1/4) Terry Gordy & Richard Slinger vs Masa Fuchi & Akira Taue (AJPW, **1/2) Stan Hansen & Butch Masters vs Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, **1/4) Battle Royale (AJPW, *1/4) Stan Hansen & Butch Masters vs The Fantastics (AJPW, highlights) Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jun Akiyama & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, ****1/2) Sting vs Hiroshi Hase (NJPW, ***1/2) El Samurai & Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka vs Nobukazu Hirai & Masao Orihara & Koki Kitahara (AJPW, ***1/4) Dustin Rhodes & Scott Norton vs Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW, **3/4) Takashi Ishikawa vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW, ***1/2) Jushin Liger vs Ultimo Dragon (NJPW, ***3/4) Masa Chono vs Great Muta (NJPW, ****1/4) Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Yoshinari Ogawa & Ryuma Izumida (AJPW) Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs Masa Fuchi & Akira Taue (AJPW, ***1/2) Yoshinari Ogawa vs Bobby Fulton (AJPW) Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jun Akiyama & Akira Taue (AJPW, ***3/4) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ***1/2)  BEST OF JAPAN TV JAN-FEB ‘93 Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa vs Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW, ****3/4) Terry Gordy & Johnny Smith vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW) Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW) Hiroshi Hase & Masa Chono vs Hell Raisers (NJPW) Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka vs Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura (NJPW) Tatsumi Fujinami vs Great Kabuki (NJPW) Keiji Muto & Shinya Hashimoto & Akira Nogami vs Genichiru Tenryu & Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa (NJPW) Toshiaki Kawada vs Jun Akiyama (AJPW, ***1/4) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Stan Hansen & Johnny Ace (AJPW) Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (AJPW, ***3/4) Shiro Koshinaka & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito vs Riki Choshu & Hiroshi Hase & Takayuki Iizuka & Osamu Kido (NJPW) - Hell Raisers vs Keiji Muto & Akira Nogami (NJPW) - Genichiru Tenryu vs Kengo Kimura (NJPW) - Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW) - (note: there are video quality issues on the last four matches due to tracking issues and what not with the original tape that at times makes them unwatchable)  BEST OF JAPAN TV FEB-MAR ’93 Head Hunters vs Iceman & The Winger (W*ING) Mr Pogo vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (fire match) (W*ING) Atsushi Onita vs Tiger Jeet Singh (FMW) Hiroshi Hase & Jushin Liger & Akira Nogami & Manabu Nakanishi vs Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga & Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto (NJPW) Kuniaki Kobayashi & Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura vs Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka & Tatsmi Fujinami (NJPW) Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Mitsuo Momota (AJPW, ****) Stan Hansen & Rob Van Dam vs Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW) Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura vs Riki Choshu & Akira Nogami (NJPW, ***1/2) Tony Halme & Brad Armstrong vs Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto (NJPW, ***1/2) The Patriot & The Eagle vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ****) Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey vs The Blackharts (AJPW, highlights - brutal chairshot from Hansen) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, ***1/4) Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono & Keiji Muto vs Shiro Koshinaka & Great Kabuki & Kengo Kimura (NJPW, ***1/4) Hiroshi Hase & Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido & Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka vs Genichiru Tenryu & Ashura Hara & Koki Kitahara & Takashi Ishikawa & Hiromichi Fuyuki (NJPW, ****1/2) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (AJPW, ****)  BEST OF JAPAN TV MAR-APR ‘93 Terry Gordy vs Jun Akiyama (AJPW, **3/4) Masa Fuchi vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW, ****1/4) Stan Hansen vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ****3/4) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Akira Taue & Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW) Doug Furnas vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ****) Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ***3/4) Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW, ***1/4) Dan Kroffat vs Davey Boy Smith (AJPW, highlights) Steve Williams vs Stan Hansen (AJPW, *1/2) Dan Kroffat vs Johnny Ace (AJPW, highlights) The Patriot vs Terry Gordy (AJPW, highlights) Toshiaki Kawada vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, ****1/2) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Stan Hansen (AJPW, ***3/4) The Patriot vs Davey Boy Smith (AJPW, highlights) Terry Gordy vs Doug Furnas (AJPW, highlights) Genichiru Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa vs Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW, ***3/4) Steve Williams vs Terry Gordy (AJPW, ***3/4) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ****3/4)  BEST OF JAPAN TV APR-MAY ‘93 Chigusa Nagayo vs Dump Matsumoto (hair vs hair II) (AJW Classic, *****) Ultimo Dragon & Norio Honaga vs Jushin Liger & El Samurai (NJPW, ****1/2) Riki Choshu vs Genichiru Tenryu (NJPW, ***1/2) Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, *****) Stan Hansen vs Akira Taue (AJPW, ***3/4) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Terry Gordy (AJPW, ****1/4) Doug Furnas vs The Patriot (AJPW, highlights) Steve Williams vs Dan Kroffat (AJPW, highlights) Dynamite Kansai vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW, ***3/4) Akira Hokuto vs Shinonu Kandori (AJW, ****3/4) Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Kido vs Ashura Hara & Super Strong Machine (NJPW, **) Hell Raisers vs Masa Chono & Takayuki Iizuka (NJPW, **3/4) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Stan Hansen (AJPW, **3/4) Hiroshi Hase vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (AJPW, *1/2) Hulk Hogan vs Great Muta (NJPW, **3/4)  BEST OF JAPAN TV MAY ‘93 Toshiaki Kawada career retrospective Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaki Kawada vs Yoshinari Ogawa & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW) Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki (AJW, handheld of Dream Slam II main event) Tiger Mask III vs Jushin Liger (NJPW, ***1/4) Antonio Inoki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Riki Choshu & Genichiru Tenryu (NJPW, ***1/4) Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ***3/4) Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka vs Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto & Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa (NJPW, **1/2) Great Kabuki & Kengo Kimura & Kuniaki Kobayashi & Masashi Aoyagi & Shiro Koshinaka vs Ashura Hara & Hiro Saito & Super Stong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto & Takashi Ishikawa (NJPW) Scott Norton vs Sting (NJPW, DUD) Masa Chono & Shinya Hashimoto vs Hell Raisers (NJPW, **3/4) Dan Kroffat vs Masa Fuchi (AJPW, jip) Steve Williams vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ****) Stan Hansen vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, ****1/2) Mr Pogo vs Yukihiro Kanemura (W*ING) Mr Pogo vs Yukihiro Kanemura (W*ING)  BEST OF JAPAN TV MAY-JUNE ’93 Jaguar Yokota vs Lioness Asuka (AJW classic, *****) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue Big Van Vader vs Tatsuo Nakano (UWFI) Dennis Koslowski vs Gary Albright (UWFI) Nobuhiko Takada vs Dan Severn (UWFI) Tony Halme & Bobby Eaton vs Masa Chono & Takayuki Iizuka (NJPW) Keiji Muto & Akira Nogami vs Great Kabuki & Akitoshi Saito (NJPW) Shinya Hashimoto & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura (NJPW, ***1/4) Lightning Kid vs Eddy Guerrero (NJPW, highlights) Shinjiro Ohtani vs ? (NJPW, highlights) 2 Cold Scorpio vs Chris Benoit (NJPW, highlights) Jushin Liger & El Samurai vs Dean Malenko & Fit Finlay (NJPW, highlights) Masashi Aoyagi vs Michiyoshi Ohara (NJPW) Hiroshi Hase & Manabu Nakanishi vs Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito (NJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, ****1/2) Kenta Kobashi vs Terry Gordy (AJPW, ****1/4) Earthquake & Haku vs Hell Raisers (NJPW) Hiroshi Hase & Shinya Hashimoto & Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami & Masa Chono vs Genichiru Tenryu & Ashura Hara & Super Strong Machine & Tatsutoshi Goto & Takashi Ishikawa (NJPW, ***1/2)  BEST OF JAPAN TV JUNE-JULY ’93 Terry Gordy vs Stan Hansen Aja Kong & Bull Nakano vs Kyoko Inoue & Akira Hokuto (AJW, ****1/4) Manami Toyota vs Hikari Fukuoka (AJW, ****) Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs Stan Hansen & Joel Deaton (AJPW) Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW) Stan Hansen & Johnny Ace vs Chris & Mark Youngblood (AJPW) Yoshinari Ogawa & Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW, *****) Kevin Sullivan vs Yukihiro Kanemura (SMW, Sullivan massacres Kanemura’s arm) Atsushi Onita vs Terry Funk (barbed wire explosions) (FMW, handheld) Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW) Sabu vs Lightning Kid (NWA)  BEST OF JAPAN TV JULY-AUG ’93 Toshiaki Kawada vs Jun Akiyama (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Stan Hansen & Big Bossman (AJPW) Shinya Hashimoto & Keiji Muto vs Hell Raisers (NJPW) Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW) Tiger Mask III & El Samurai vs Jushin Liger & Shinjiro Ohtani (NJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi (AJPW) Mark Silver vs Gary Albright (UWFI) Nobuhiko Takada vs Salman Hashimikov (UWFI) Bull Nakano & Bat Yoshinaga vs Takako Inoue & Etsuko Mita (AJW) Suzuki Minami & Akira Hokuto vs Toshiyo Yamada & Yumiko Hotta (AJW) Scott Norton & Hercules vs Hell Raisers (NJPW) Masa Chono & Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase & Tatsumi Fujinami vs Great Kabuki & Shiro Koshinaka & ? & ? (NJPW) Bull Nakano vs Devil Masami (AJW) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW)  BEST OF JAPAN TV AUGUST ’93 Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW, ***3/4) Giant Baba & The Destroyer & Kurt Beyer vs Masa Fuchi & Masao Inoue & Mitsuo Momota (AJPW, highlights) Aja Kong vs Bat Yoshinaga (AJW, **1/2) Takako Inoue & Suzuki Minami & Yumiko Hotta vs Kyoko Inoue & Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW, ****1/2) Shockmaster WCW debut falling through a wall The Destroyer vs Abdullah the Butcher (AJPW Classic, highlights) Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW) Hiroshi Hase vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW, ***1/2) Akitoshi Saito vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW) Chris Benoit vs Tiger Mask III (NJPW) Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Hiroshi Hase (NJPW) Jushin Liger vs Chris Benoit (NJPW, ****1/4) Masa Chono & Keiji Muto & Tatsumi Fujinami & Takayuki Iizuka & Michiyoshi Ohara vs Great Kabuki & Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura & Masashi Aoyagi & Kuniaki Kobayashi (NJPW, **1/2) Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat vs Kenta Kobashi & Satoru Asako (AJPW, ****1/4) The Patriot & The Eagle vs Tracey Smothers & Steve Williams (AJPW, ***1/4) Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, ****1/2) Masa Fuchi vs Dan Kroffat (AJPW, **1/4) The Patriot & The Eagle vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, *1/2) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Steve Williams & Joel Deaton & Tracey Smothers (AJPW, ***1/2)  BEST OF JAPAN TV AUG-SEPT ’93 Sabu & The Sheik vs Dr Looser & Dr Hannibal (FMW) Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita (barbed wire explosions) (FMW) Bull Nakano & Suzuki Minami & Mima Shimoda & Bat Yoshinaga & Etsuko Mita vs Leo Kitamura & Eagle Sawai & Harley Saito & Miki Handa & Yukari Osawa (AJW) Kyoko Inoue vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW) Rumi Kazama vs Akira Hokuto (AJW) Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi Some 8 woman captain’s falls match (AJW) Kenta Kobashi vs The Patriot (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Steve Williams (AJPW) Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW)  BEST OF JAPAN TV SEPT-OCT ’93 Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase & Tracey Smothers vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW, ***1/2) The Patriot & The Eagle vs Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat (AJPW) Steve Williams & Tracey Smothers vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ***1/2) Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase & Joel Deaton vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW, ***1/4) Hell Raisers vs Hulk Hogan & Great Muta (NJPW) Genichiru Tenryu vs Hiroshi Hase (NJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Steve Williams & Big Bossman & Richard Slinger (AJPW, ***1/2) Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase & Kendall Windham vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW) Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase & Dan Spivey vs Steve Williams & Big Bossman & Richard Slinger (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Masa Fuchi & Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, ****) Big Bossman vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW) Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (***1/4) Great Sasuke vs Super Delfin (Michinoku Pro) Great Sasuke vs Super Delfin (Michinoku Pro)  BEST OF JAPAN TV OCT-NOV ’93 Eddy Guerrero & Love Machine & Jake Roberts vs Perro Aguayo & Konnan & Blue Panther (AAA, handheld) Bob Barnett, Chris Zavisa & Kurt Brown on some weird Japanese game show Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat vs Kenta Kobashi & Satoru Asako (AJPW, ***3/4) Steve Williams & Big Bossman & Richard Slinger vs Stan Hansen & Ted Dibiase & Kendall Windham (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW, ***3/4) Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto vs Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Chono Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Muto vs Scott Norton & Hercules Ted Dibiase vs Jun Akiyama (AJPW) Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ****3/4) Head Hunters vs Miguel Perez Jr. & ? (W*ING, handheld)  BEST OF JAPAN TV NOV-DEC ’93 The Patriot & The Eagle vs Steve Williams & Big Bossman (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Johnny Ace & Dan Spivey (AJPW, ***1/2) Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ***1/4) Steve Williams & Big Bossman & Richard Slinger vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW, ***3/4) Jumbo Tsuruta vs Bruiser Brody (Jan ’85) Steve Williams & Big Bossman vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, ****1/2) Stan Hansen & Giant Baba vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, ***1/2) Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama & ? (AJPW) Stan Hansen & Giant Baba vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (AJPW) Big Van Vader vs Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI) Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Steve Williams & Big Bossman (AJPW) Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW)  BEST OF JAPAN TV DEC ’93 Noga & Plum Mariko & Cutie Suzuki vs Bull Nakano & Yumiko Hotta & ? (AJW) Aja Kong vs Megumi Kudo (AJW) Jushin Liger vs Masashi Aoyagi (NJPW) Tatsumi Fujinami vs Kengo Kimura (NJPW) Keiji Muto vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW) Jushin Liger vs Black Tiger (NJPW) Tatsumi Fujinami vs Ashura Hara (NJPW) Masa Chono & Shinya Hashimoto vs ? & ? (NJPW) Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada sing (badly!) Eagle Sawai & Harley Saito & Rumi Kazama vs Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue & Yumiko Hotta (AJW) Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai (AJW) Shinobu Kandori vs Akira Hokuto (LLPW) Tarzan Goto & Terry Funk vs The Sheik & Sabu (FMW) Atsushi Onita vs Mr Pogo (barbed wire explosions) (FMW) Atsushi Onita vs Mr Pogo (barbed wire cage exploding ring) (FMW) Rick & Scott Steiner vs Scott Norton & Hercules (NJPW) Jushin Liger vs Great Kabuki (NJPW) Shinya Hashimoto vs Kensuki Sasaki (NJPW) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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