Kimura vs the world as he manages to fend off both before making them fend at each other due to miscommunication on the outside.

This type of pacing is awfully groundbreaking for 1989.

I have no idea how most would react to Tenryu-Brody from 4/15/88 based on current standards. It's not the most exciting match as it's happening but by the end when they are paying off all the stuff they did early, it suddenly feels really great. Slow-paced and building but awesome. Brody's best IMO.

This surely has meme value,

"Eric Embry is what Hank Williams Jr. called a pathfinder and not a walk-behinder."

And you know what? That makes two of us, Frank. That. makes. two of us.

Frank Dusek absolutely thought Eric Embry vs Devastation Incorporated was real. Maybe not wrestling as a whole, but definitely Embry vs Devastation.

Between Garvin-Valentine and Arn-Tully vs Rockers, the WWF was putting on the best NWA cards anywhere in January 1989.

Artemis II launch was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.

WWF TV 1984-1986

Made a playlist a while back and have added a few things here and there. I BELIEVE this is every commercial song that played on WWF TV between 1984 and 1986. Doubles as a great soundtrack of the era. open.spotify.com/playlist/5w1...

Was just thinking that Miyato going 30 with Lanny Poffo would be really great.

Not the same company but I'm reminded that I am so high on Nakano and Miyato and Anjo and the role of those guys in the UWF that it's hard to overstate it. I can't wait to get to that. An example of usually long undercard matches that were vital to understanding the style.

Yes. I get it in some companies where the match is used as a form of education on certain holds or whatever else but it wasn't even really that. It's an odd thing.

Watched a match between Lanny Poffo and Boris Zhukov the other day and was sort of mad at them for making it good. This isn't supposed to be good, you two stop that!

Did you happen to go to the show with that Islanders-Strike Force match that only went 10 minutes but was molten? 10/3/87?

This is very true. I don't think I've encountered a single WWF house show from this time period with no good matches at all. There probably is one but it doesn't really come to mind, which means if it has happened, it was rare.

This one is Boston. 1/13/89.

Valentine went to BattlArts in the mid 90s and everyone acted like it was weird, like Greg knew any way to wrestle other than hitting the other guy as hard as he could and daring him to fire back.

My man Charles is not messing around when it comes to awesome clips!

Charles took his first day of being exclusively Blue Sky and threw us some FUCKING FIRE

If you know you know

Kobashi and Sasaki over here.

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It was not but I wish I had come up with that. I have said it created the modern lens of "justice" in wrestling, which is how many fans now view it. Being *deserving* of pushes, wins, etc.

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