Fucking Sheik. :jj: I love Tajiri, but damn that has to be tough to sit through a guy calling you slant eyed like that, I'm just glad he got over with the win. Also, I'm still tring to figure out which video was more racist. :bigthink:

By the way, going back to the earlier Kaufman stuff I posted, this is probably my all time favorite "wrestling" video. Andy Kaufman did an interview with Freddie Blassie, called "My Breakfast With Blassie". Now, on its face Andy just loved Blassie. The brilliance of this video is that it's actually a commentary on modern philosophy and "intellectuals", if that makes sense.

See, this is a parody of an art film that critics love to hold up as brilliant, My Dinner With Andre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre Siskel and Ebert even called it film of the year. The thing is, if you watch it, it is (in Andy's opinion at least) a bunch of pretentious bullshit sold to people who want to think they're smarter than they are so they can feel validated. In other words, it's a work. If you remember what Jerry Lawler told Stone Cold about Andy, it was that he never considered himself a comedian or an actor, he was a performer who never broke kayfabe in order to get a reaction.

So anyway, I think this film is about as philosophical as wrestling gets, and it doesn't get credit for being as brilliant as it is. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nm-VKy4HUs[/ame]

In honor of that guy being pissed about GFW and NJPW, I'd like to post my favorite match from the old WCW/NJPW crossovers. This is from NJPW/WCW Supershow III, in 1993. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QQzziyZgVU[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOmbviHFYU[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLOReFwEm4A[/ame]

EDIT: By the way, Stone Cold picked this as his match of the week in one of his early podcasts.

I found this on Youtube after I was digging around looking for videos of Cowboy Bill Watts, following his interview with Jim Ross. It's a pretty cool old school match featuring Gary Hart and commentary by Bill Watts to boot. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1lE6q9y6s8[/ame]

I also found a pretty cool video from his days working in Vince Sr.'s territory: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRQN0BSP5A[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7gOtGI_VA[/ame]

scott hall was a mess

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mukjnEJAYM[/ame]

"Ask God to say hi to Owen Hart." I really shouldn't be laughing at that.

In celebration of Halloween, here is Vader entering the Dungeon of Doom. [ame]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9cq49_vader-enters-the-dungeon-of-doom_sport#.Ucx8MJwQNX1[/ame]

How can you not love Cpt. Taiwan? [ame]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rbbtr_hirooki-goto-captain-taiwan-vs-karl-anderson-doc-gallows-c-njpw_sport[/ame]

that costume is fantastic

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-UedHVPPc[/ame]

Is it just me, or were those some STIFF kicks in that match?

Now THIS is a title match. [ame]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27vdq4_aj-styles-c-vs-hiroshi-tanahashi-njpw_sport[/ame]

SJ, did you ever see Botchamania's Vadermania video? Pretty cool stuff. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvp7oloG-w[/ame]

Stone Cold Shark Austin :D
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_aJOuBwc2A[/ame]

SJ, I wanted to post this to help you figure out how heels/faces work in Japanese wrestling. It's an article about how important manners and social order are in Japan. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29429742
Here's a quick highlight, the whole thing is worth reading: So you can see why the Bullet Club cheating (putting their feet on the ropes for leverage, interfering in matches, etc.) pisses them off so much. This also shows how unbelievable Vader's debut in the Sumo Hall was. Japanese people refuse to even jaywalk; if you get them to burn their pillows and trash up the place GNR concert style, you are a fucking legend.

And that's the fishing line... BECAUSE SHARK BOY SAID SO. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_tdy3Ok3s[/ame]

I was digging around Youtube forever and finally found the full tag match: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWwHg-0QzWs[/ame]

The origin of Stone Cold Shark Austin: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI37V4Cqesg[/ame]

Shark Boy busts out the clam juice. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3UAidEdOcA[/ame]

Last video: The Ol' Fashioned Fish Market Street Fight. :D [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDAFotIdfKM[/ame]

The best Kenny Vs. Spenny, featuring the Iron Sheik no less. Who's the better Pro Wrestler? [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNG64gVzIc[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WizE010F30[/ame]

not to ruin it for you but you know they're canadian right? :jj:

This may shock you SJ, but I have come to accept that not all people in the world are 'Muricans and have come to appreciate their work. :jj:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOaRUAf2E0[/ame]

The OSW Review guys love Blackman.

Blackman, according to Bob Holly, is the most legit badass to ever step in that locker room.

I wish that Blackman's Bounties show would become available somewhere.

I thought I would mention that one of the ways I've been looking up old NJPW and AJPW matches lately is with this blog: http://floydscabana.blogspot.com/200...es-of-80s.html This guy provides dates for his favorite matches so it makes searching easy, and I mostly agree with his list.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJy1hZCPp8&[/ame]

this is so bad

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QieTaeaPtiw[/ame]

poor mike awesome. wcw jobbed him out hard.

listen to the crowd no sell this whole thing

It's true they wasted him, but Bischoff paid him a ridiculous amount of money. I can't even remember how much it was now.

Maybe the greatest vid ever - [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNFIdQC4fw[/ame]

Not a vid, but Wrestlecrap apparently wrote up the Buff Bagwell movies we watched in the Slacktube - http://www.wrestlecrap.com/induction...nts-snoo-snoo/

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giG-0JOFnWY[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GyDWGN5Pc[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_IBO71qrLs[/ame]

This thread needs to come back. Roddy Piper vs. Greg Valentine, this is a cool match because it set up the first Starrcade and their dog collar match. This was Mid-Atlantic local TV, it was pre-TBS, Georgia Championship Wrestling was still on TBS at this point. This is really the match where Piper's ear got torn off, it's kayfabe that it happened at Starrcade because JCP/Mid-Atlantic wanted to promote VHS tape sales of that PPV.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6AGldaYRh4[/ame]

I wanted you to check out this SJ. Remember when I tried to get you into the Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid series? The Tiger Mask manga and anime character was licensed out for the actual wrestler. Here's the opening to the show, nobody has subtitled this yet and it wasn't ever dubbed in English. This is the Italian OP in case you're wondering, but the animation is the same.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzh_q0OPeY[/ame]

One more for tonight, this is a legendary Joshi match that I don't think I ever posted. This is a suplex marathon Scott Steiner and Taz couldn't equal, I don't think.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_wPJeBMqDk[/ame]

good oldschool anime. i would have watched that