Reel in Place

  Kazuyuki Fujita, from the second he walked into NOAH, has been divisive. One camp thinks that this old, broken-down MMA fighter should not be beating the younger, more proficient, wrestlers in the promotion. The other camp thinks that it is great that this old bruiser is dominating the promotion, bringing an element that is missing from a lot of modern wrestling, harkening back to the era of New Japan that Fujita came from. I'm somewhere in between the two, I suppose. I think if you bring in a guy like Kazuyuki Fujita, he should be running through guys. No one wants to see a guy like Fujita doing workrate classics with the juniors on the card, they want to see him beat people up, to have him give some sheen of legitimacy to the goings-on in NOAH. Sometimes the results can be pretty great, like when he choked out Masao Inoue in less than a minute. Other times, the cracks start to show, Fujita is old and battered, modern wrestling, as it exists, for the most part, isn't somethi...

The whole playlist is here , for your continuous viewing pleasure.   Terry Funk vs Stan Hansen - September 11, 1982 This is the precursor to a much more famous match, but that match doesn't break down into Funk and Hansen beating up referees, so how good could that match even be.  Rick Martel vs Terry Funk - September 20, 1986 More of me trying to get into Rick Martel. This is fine, but Terry Funk is the real star, trying to fight an entire baseball stadium. Terry Funk vs Eddie Guerrero - May 20, 1989 Terry Funk in 1989 WCW is one of the best years a wrestler ever had. Two matches with Flair, one with Steamboat, the Halloween Havoc tag, and then these wild B and C show matches with the likes of Cougar Jay and this one with Eddie Guerrero.  Alex Shelley vs Lee Moriarty - November 2, 2019 AIW uploaded this match a couple days ago. It leans a little bit toward a WHAT WILL IT TAKE indie match, but if you squint real hard at specific camera angles, you can see me in ...

The whole playlist is here , for your continuous viewing pleasure.  ' Tiger Mask II vs La Fiera - August 26, 1984 Tiger Mask Misawa, and really every iteration of Tiger Mask, is polarizing. I'm not crazy about this run, but I don't think it's actively bad, either. In general, I am just sort of generally disappointed in most of the stuff, but there's also usually something cool. The tope in this match rules, but La Fiera is the real star here. Dick Murdoch vs Ray Gonzalez - November 17, 1991 A random TV match between a declining Dick Murdoch and a young Ray Gonzalez, where Murdoch may or may not break Gonzalez's orbital bone, and may or may not keep punching him in the head, while he bleeds buckets. Alexander Otsuka vs Takeshi Ono - March 9, 1996 Someone once described Alexander Otsuka as "Kurt Angle if he was good."   This is from the first Battlarts show, where Es are optional, but suplexes aren't. Low Ki vs Necro Butcher - A...