Hello You!
Back with some more All Japan TV from 1985, once again courtesy of Roy Lucier over on YouTube.
Last week the Main Event between Riki Choshu’s crew and the All Japan guys ended in a wild pull apart brawl, so let’s see if that gets followed up during this week’s show.
Wrestling Observer Flashback – 03.18.96
Just like the Untouchables, if you sign two of ours to a guaranteed contract, we sign one of yours to a guaranteed contract! And his hot wife!
So, AEW's second show… It's Impact, right”?
The evidence is piling up.
The PG Era Recap for AEW Dark, Episode 71 (No Doomies, No Problem), January 19, 2021.
From the AEW Arena as always.
Your hosts are Excalibur and Taz, also as always. Ricky Starks joins the opener. Your adjective: “Gargantuan.”
TONIGHT! Chaos Project has a unique style they use to play headgames but can it work on the Lucha Bros, a team whose motto is “Cero Miedo”? And Brandon Cutler hasn’t lost since his first AEW win – can he keep it going with his toughest singles challenge yet in Luchasaurus?
In addition, we have Private Party, Sammy Guevara, Butcher and Blade, Shanna, Ivelisse and Diamante, Sonny Kiss, Big Swole, Scorpio Sky, Top Flight, Gunn Club, The Acclaimed, and Santana and Ortiz in action!
Opening ma… wait, there’s no Dark Order on this show? When was the last time that happened?
Congratulations to ME for winning another Doomie Award on my own website. Also to Tommy for destroying his own sanity by reviewing all those terrible shows. But mostly to me.
TONIGHT! It’s AEW Dark.
Perhaps I’ll do a new Observer Flashback tonight to celebrate my triumph.
After allowing for a two week voting period, the 2020 Doomie Awards have been decided.
This year saw a marked increase in voting over the previous year, with a record seventy-eight ballots submitted. That more than tripled last year’s voting, which saw twenty-three ballots cast. So thanks to everyone for voting (and for several of the Doomie campaigns for raising awareness).
Into 1988, the last year that the AWA had anything approaching decent talent or a hope of hanging on before two more years of circling the drain. Introduced by Larry Nelson, in what looks like someone’s living room.
The SmarK Rant for Wrestling Challenge – 09.06.86
And now, finally we get some classic 80s era syndicated shows! Superstars of Wrestling is still untouchable for the bullshit legal reasons we’ve already detailed a million times, but Wrestling Challenge, the B-version of that show which launched along side it in 1986, has finally come to the WWE Network.
Monday Night Raw
Date: January 18, 2021
Location: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Samoa Joe, Byron Saxton
We’re less than two weeks away from the Royal Rumble and that means it is time to start adding in some new names to the lineups. There are several spots still available and that means we can fill in a few more of them over the next two weeks. And there’s the whole Randy Orton getting hit with a fireball deal. Let’s get to it.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Howdy Blog O’Doomers!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. It’s a pretty slow Monday and there’s a good chance tonight’s RAW will once again be a little different thanks to COVID and some other injuries. I see there’s an Asuka vs. Alexa Bliss match and that’s a surprise because I didn’t think Alexa was working many matches, if any, these days.
No football out there. A full slate of NBA and NHL games started this afternoon and continue into the evening. The Nets-Bucks and Lakers-Warriors games are on TNT, while the Sabres-Flyers and Coyotes-Golden Knights are the nationally televised games for the NHL.
Here’s a Memphis brawl to keep you entertained.
Keep it Clean
AJW TV (Feb. 27th, 1994):
* Here’s another AJW TV show, though I could only find two matches from it, making this a shorter review. One match missing off of what was taped is Bull Nakano beating Etsuko Mita- another thing is Numacchi’s retirement. So Saemi Numata had been jobbing throughout most of 1993 and engaging in some pretty horrible matches (and one miraculously “pretty good” match by Mayumi Ozaki), including jobbing big-time to both Akira Hokuto & Reggie Bennett, losing in 10 seconds and 3 minutes, respectively (in a promotion where it can take ten minutes to kill off a rookie). Her last bunch of bouts were in Oct. 1993, and one match in Jan. 1994, so I dunno what happened. Either injures or “you know what? There’s no future as a comedy jobber in AJW” and she was done. A few years later we’d get Tanny Mouse in a similar role.
Other, unaired matches: Chikako Shiratori & Kumiko Maekawa d. Rie Tamada & Tomoko Watanabe (that’s kind of a shocker- Tomoko way outranks everyone), and Suzuka Minami d. Mima Shimoda.
YUMIKO HOTTA & TAKAKO INOUE vs. KYOKO INOUE & KAORU ITO:
Steve Austin cuts his famous promo that denounces his treatment in WCW and puts over how he is now in an environment where no one can hold back his wrestling abilities. The segment marks the end of the “Stunning Steve” character as Austin promises to reach new heights because no one can stop him any longer. And what makes this promo so great is Austin would later become one of the most famous wrestlers in history and helped bring down the company that cast him aside.
Amid terrible camera work that keeps shaking, Lance Wright hypes the October 28 ECW Arena show which will feature the Sandman defending the ECW Championship against Mikey Whipwreck in a ladder match.
Hard To Kill 2021
Date: January 16, 2021
Location: Skyway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Commentators: Matt Striker, D’Lo Brown
We’re back on pay per view with this one and that means it is time to step things up. This time around, the big story is AEW’s Kenny Omega coming in to team with the Good Brothers against Rich Swann/Moose/Chris Sabin (as Alex Shelley is out due to some personal circumstances). The card isn’t looking great but Impact can do some good pay per views. Let’s get to it.
You won’t be able to hear these songs on the Network…
… But you’ll be able to hear everything else!
