I think he does get, to a point, why they’re put on a pedestal by some. But in 2017, when he’s actively acknowledging that he feels that reviewing older matches is foolish unless you have literally all of the possible context, there’s not a huge reason to treat him as more authoritative of a reviewer than anyone else.…

While there are some that have zilch to do with wrestling (like Magic Dragon, Samson Fuyuki, and perhaps Jumbo Tsuruta if the Hepatitis B that caused his decline wasn’t from a match or drug use), All Japan from the late ‘80s through the late ‘90s really does have one of the more forgotten trails of dead bodies in…

The full-time JCP job guys actually made very good livings.

so it’s like when they go to Robots vs Wrestlers on How I Met Your Mother.

Is it one of those things that doesn’t translate to TV?

But Kaiju Big Battel is kind of terrible.

Fixed.

She has. She co-hosted WWF Livewire (I think it was Livewire) under her maiden name for a while.

:(

The quality of the writing—just the writing—was good at Grantland. But it was lacking in accuracy, historical perspective, etc. Plus he tried to force memes a bunch; I still can’t believe that he actually got “The Reality Era” over.

Does he?

It was actually Deford’s Sports Illustrated obituary for longtime Roller Derby star Joanie Weston that led directly to Rollerjam getting pitched and green-lit. Amazing, eh?

Thank you so much. That Tim and company have been indulging some of my geekiest wrestling impulses weekly has been pretty damn awesome. Same goes for the articles coming out as well as they have and doing the traffic they have. If I could make it my one and only job? That would be amazing.

def sarcasm imo

It’s Hungarian, though sometimes we’ve heard that it may have been some variation of “Buxenspan” pre-Ellis Island. My grandfather came over to the states when he was a toddler.

Remember, “we” is not a huge group there. Between NJPW World and AXS it’s, what, a tenth of the SD audience?

I was there, and I watched the show from multiple vantage points. Nobody was reacting to signature moves as signature moves. Nobody was yelling “YEAOH!” or referring to the Boma Ye by name. People knew Okada and the Rainmaker (from GIFs, it seemed like), but the most over guys on the show by far were Liger and the…

And it should be pointed out that Paul Bearer was not consistently cutting promos for Undertaker for much, if not most of their run together. The act was the presence and not reliant on promos, which is probably why he was (along with Bret) such a big draw during the ‘90s WWF boom in Europe.

Paul E. Dangerously was a heel. :)

Nakamura can “cut a promo” by making funny faces around big lines, though. It’s totally doable. And as his English improves (he was already conversational when he moved to Orlando, but he’s heavily accented and uses Japanese syntax a lot for obvious reasons), he can easily do more.