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Post by conker on Apr 11, 2022 8:00:46 GMT -5
Hello, I don't know where I can introduce myself.
I'm Alex, 29, from France.
I'm also a member of PWO since 2012 and a contributor of EWR ( I made a data for 1992 and I'm working on a 1978 data ) and a former member of few french forums. I start watching wrestling at 14 y.o (late 2006) and after two years of WWE exclusively, I start watching TNA and "old wrestling" (1992, Flair vs Tenryu was my first old match). After I joined PWO, my tastes in wrestling became more varied : the 80's lucha set from DVDVR was my gateway for lucha libre. Before that set, I couldn't care less about lucha libre. I was already a fan of Japanese (male or female) wrestling before PWO but I did start watching British and European wrestling after PWO.
I went to the Korakuen Hall, met a few wrestlers at different shows (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Tomohiro Ishii, Atlantis, etc), and my dream would be to see a event at MSG. My best experience live was my first show in 2012 with Cena and Big Show. The most influential wrestler in my life would be Volk Han as I did Sambo because of him ( it's not as fun as watching his matches ) and the second one would be DDP and his Yoga ( I still occasionally do one of his workouts ).
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Post by conker on Apr 11, 2022 8:16:44 GMT -5
1950 to 1963 Wrestling (ongoing list) The great matches : Lou Thesz vs Buddy Rogers 6/21/50 Donn Lewin vs Leo Garibaldi 4/30/51 Lou Thesz vs Verne Gagne 1/25/52 Bert Royal vs Tony Oliva 2/22/57
Billy Catanzaro vs Gilbert Cesca 5/2/57 Modesto Aledo vs Teddy Boy 10/13/60 Pat O'Connor vs Buddy Rogers 6/30/61 Larry Chene vs Moose Cholak 3/15/63
The really good matches : June Byers vs Violet Viann 4/17/50 Verne Gagne vs Billy Goelz 6/21/50 Lou Thesz vs Buddy Rogers 1/26/51 Enrique Torres vs Pat McGill 8/13/51 Lou Thesz vs Wild Bill Longson 6/17/52 Cowboy Carlson vs Vincent Lopez 5/8/53 Larry Chene vs. Gordon Hessel 3/5/54 Frank Stojack vs. Dutch Hefner 5/7/54 Lord James Blears vs Leo Garibaldi 5/21/54 Verne Gagne vs. Roy McClarity 8/6/54 Edouard Carpentier & Eddy Koparanian vs Andre Bollet & Georges Gueret 2/23/56
Verne Gagne & Wilbur Snyder & Argentina Rocca vs Dick the Bruiser & Reggie Lisowski & Stan Lisowski 9/14/56 Danny McShain & Duke Keomuka vs Pepper Gomez & Bobby Managoff 3/12/57 Lou Thesz vs Rikidozan 10/7/57 Roy Heffernan & Al Costello vs Bill Miller & Ed Miller 1958 Hans Schmidt & Dick the Bruiser vs Boris & Nicoli Volkoff 11/7/58 (clipped) Dr. Jerry Graham vs Angelo Savoldi 2/20/60 Al Costello vs Jesse James 6/8/60 Horst Hoffman vs Lino Di Santo 10/5/61 Rikidozan vs Freddie Blassie 3/28/62
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Post by Cap on Apr 11, 2022 8:49:43 GMT -5
Awesome... glad to have you aboard and welcome.
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Post by club on Apr 11, 2022 16:18:06 GMT -5
Welcome!
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My lists
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Post by mvz on Apr 12, 2022 5:20:54 GMT -5
Good stuff, thanks for joining.
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Post by bossrock on Apr 12, 2022 16:25:56 GMT -5
Hello!
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Post by conker on Jan 10, 2023 20:28:55 GMT -5
My top 10 for 2022 :
My top 15 matches I watch or rewatch in 2022 : (bold is a new match for me)
1. Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr. vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (1977/12/15 AJPW) 2. Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit (2003/1/19 WWE) 3. Dick Murdoch vs Killer Karl Kox (1976/12/9 AJPW) 4. Villano III Jr. vs Aereo (2020/3/1 Lucha Juarez) 5. Daisuke Ikeda & Takahiro Oba v. Makoto Hashi & Kengo Mashimo (2010/10/24 FUTEN)
6. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada (2013/4/7) 7. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Chris Jericho (2009/6/28 WWE) 8. Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka & Munenori Sawa vs Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda & Super Tiger 2 (2008/7/26 BattlArts) 9. Jun Akiyama vs Masao Inoue (2006/4/23 NOAH)
10. Virus vs Cicloncito Ramirez (1997/1/7 CMLL) 11. Genichiro Tenryu vs Koji Kitahara vs Kengo Kimura & Shiro Koshinaka (1992/10/23 WAR) 12. Billy Robinson vs Antonio Inoki (1975/12/11 NJPW) 13. Bob Backlund vs Greg Valentine (1979/2/19 WWF) 14. The Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar (2002/10/20 WWE) 15.ex-aequo Modesto Aledo vs Teddy Boy (1960/10/13) & Bert Royal vs Tony Oliva (1957/2/22) from France
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Post by tetsujin on Jan 11, 2023 5:18:22 GMT -5
Gotta love the variety on that list.
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Post by mvz on Jan 11, 2023 21:30:27 GMT -5
Great choices on there, very cool list. I am a big fan of the Murdoch-Kox match as well as the French catch stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by club on Jan 13, 2023 10:35:53 GMT -5
Akiyama vs Inoue is a good call. Haven't watched that in forever.
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Post by conker on Mar 14, 2023 20:55:58 GMT -5
My Top 25 JWA matches ( in bold GME contenders )
1. Giant Baba vs Fritz Von Erich (1966/12/3) 2. Antonio Inoki vs Dory Funk Jr. (1969/12/2) 3. Giant Baba vs The Destroyer (1969/3/5) 4. Antonio Inoki vs Chris Markoff (1969/5/16) 5. Giant Baba vs Bruno Sammartino (1967/3/7)
6. Antonio Inoki vs Jack Brisco (1971/8/5)
7. The Destroyer & Bill Dromo & Kurt Von Stroheim vs Toyonobori & Giant Baba & Michiaki Yoshimura (1964/12/1) 8. Lou Thesz vs Rikidozan (1957/10/7) 9. Dick Murdoch & Dory Funk Jr. vs. Michiaki Yoshimura & Seiji Sakaguchi (1971/12/12) 10. Giant Baba vs Gene Kiniski (1970/12/3) 11. Antonio Inoki & Giant Baba vs. Mil Mascaras & Spiros Arion (1971/3/2) 12. Antonio Inoki, Kintaro Oki & Mitsu Hirai vs King Curtis Iaukea, Buck Robley & Jim Osborne (1970/3/3) 13. Hans Schmidt & Buddy Austin vs Kintaro Oki & Michiaki Yoshimura (1967/3/7) 14. Giant Baba vs Bruno Sammartino (1968/8/7) 15. Antonio Inoki vs. The Destroyer (1971/5/19) 16. Dory Funk Jr. vs. Seiji Sakaguchi (1971/12/9) 17. Antonio Inoki vs. Dick Murdoch (1971/12/4) 18. Lou Thesz vs Rikidozan (1957/10/13) 19. Giant Baba vs Reggie Lisowski (1967/12/6) 20. Giant Baba vs Bruno Sammartino (1967/3/2) 21. Mil Mascaras & Dan Kroffat vs Seiji Sakaguchi & Masa Saito (1972/6/1) 22. Giant Baba & Antonio Inoki vs Gene Kiniski & Johnny Valentine (1970/12/1) 23. Giant Baba vs Dick the Bruiser (1968/2/28) 24. Antonio Inoki vs Dory Funk Jr. (1970/8/2) 25. Johnny Valentine & Dan Kroffat vs Kintaro Oki & Michiaki Yoshimura (1972/5/29)
Honorable mention The Funks vs Baba/Inoki from 1970 but they cut half the match.
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Post by Cap on Mar 17, 2023 10:51:58 GMT -5
A lot of cool looking shit from JWA I still haven't seen. I need to dig in more.
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Post by club on Mar 17, 2023 15:54:04 GMT -5
Watched the Destroyer/Baba 6-man just now. What a delight. The heels wrestled as if they were in a Chaplin movie. Loved it.
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Post by conker on Mar 18, 2023 8:38:20 GMT -5
I'm glad this makes you watch some of these matches. I already saw some comments on their threads and it's my goal.
This Top 6 can be in any order for now : there is two blood brawls, two classics NWA World Champion style matches and two technical masterpieces with Brisco and Destroyer.
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Post by Cap on Mar 18, 2023 8:49:48 GMT -5
I know the top 6 matches well and love all of them. I always thought the Bruno/Baba match was a bit underrated, glad to see you dug it too.
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