"Wow, ok" popped me so hard from @pwoloss.bsky.social's daily newsletter last week.

After completing my watch through of 1987, I had the pleasure of being joined by @pwoloss.bsky.social for 2.5 hrs chatting everything about one of the most consequential years in wrestling's history. This was a blast to do! @pwtorch.bsky.social vip.pwtorch.com/2026/06/14/v...

Why insult a local sports team when you can go after all of them, right @jmkaudition.com?

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,

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.

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...

WWF TV 1984-1986

open.spotify.com

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.

J.T. Stoterau@jtstot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ll die on the hill that says the WWF house shows were infinitely better than they ever got credit for. They knew enough to give us things like this on a card. And for me personally that was what always drew my money. The Cap Centre in my case.

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.

Wrestling Playlists@pwoloss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kobashi and Sasaki over here.

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

Wrestling Playlists@pwoloss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kobashi and Sasaki over here.

If you know you know

Kobashi and Sasaki over here.

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Up now: 1987-The Year In Review in less than 3 minutes from @NINaylor.

UP NOW: It's A Small World After All: How Pro Wrestling Divvied Up a Tinier Pie in 1988 A 30,000+ word look at a turning point year in wrestling history. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

113 issues covering an epic year are complete. Thanks to everyone who came along for it. An incredible year. I feel like I learned wrestling all over again. Looking forward to finishing out the 1980s and continuing beyond! Subscribe to Wrestling Playlists.

UP NOW from @NINaylor! A long-form music video retrospective on the history of Mid South Wrestling!

Coming next Sunday: It's A Small World After All: How Pro Wrestling Divvied Up a Tinier Pie in 1988 A 30,000+ word look at a turning point year in wrestling history. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

Up now: A musical look at December 1987 from @NINaylor.

Over the next week, we'll get THREE new music videos from @NINaylor. The first will look at December 1987. Then we'll get a retrospective on Mid South Wrestling and a year in review for 1987!

UP NOW: For New Japan Pro Wrestling, a chaotic Sumo Hall card turned out to be a microcosm of a tumultuous year. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: A Fitting End to 1987 at NJPW Year End in Kokugikan

UP NOW: In December 1987, WCCW was turned over to new owners who continued the proud, tactless Dallas wrestling tradition. Out With The Old, In With The Old: Lines Crossed at WCCW Christmas Star Wars 1987

We're about to enter the final week of an epic year. We've been covering it since the end of July. On February 15, we'll have a long-form article looking at 1988 and then that week, we'll start diving in. Great time to come on board! Subscribe at Wrestling Playlists dot com!

For those who have inquired about this, there was an outer layer of fabric covering the slap bracelet that started falling off, and at that point it became very easy to get color from it. A really thin piece of metal with sharp edges. Very safe!

Death Valley Driver Video Review@dvdvr.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@kriszellner.bsky.social @pwoloss.bsky.social at the start of CSC and Charles has me wondering if someone in wrestling would attempt to gig themselves with a slap bracelet- RevRay