Half a minute of Andre and Dory Funk, Jr. What's novel to me here is that I can't remember seeing Andre use a European Uppercut on anyone else. Only the best for Dory. Plus he let Dory really get the best of him after smacking the heck out of him.

1990 Dory Funk, Jr. lighting up 1990 Dynamite Kid. RIP Dory.

Dissonance is the ultimate tool of a heel. Garcia hypes up, gets in Ospreay's face, seems to want a fight so bad. Then he bails, plays with Will, treats him like a "young boy." It makes it so gratifying for the crowd when Ospreay catches him in the end.

Matt D - SC@mattd-sc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Graduation Day: The Education of William Peter Charles Ospreay (aka "Daniel Garcia in Action") segundacaida.blogspot.com/2026/08/grad...

Graduation Day: The Education of William Peter Charles Ospreay (aka "Daniel Garcia in Action") segundacaida.blogspot.com/2026/08/grad...

You know what's better than the shocked kick out face to a fairly believable near-fall? Trish Adora's primal scream.

As wrestlers increase complexity in holds, there's a fine line between collaborative and strategic. But when they manage to land on the right side of the line, like Angelico and Lee Moriarty did here, you get some of the most interesting wrestling possible in 2026.

On the Willow Nightingale Championship Celebration and what professional wrestling can offer us that nothing else can, which, unfortunately, it seems to give us so infrequently in this day and age. (But that it absolutely gave us here).

Today playing the role of Glass Joe to Giant Baba's Little Mac will be Verne Gagne.

It wasn't every day you saw a Giant Swing in 1990 NJPW, but the fans saw it here on a big comeback and Hase knew exactly how to punctuate it.

Absolute bloody mayhem from Muraco and Hogan in this 1985 cage match. Muraco is amazing here.

Lioness Asuka thrashing (a surprisingly heel) Chigusa at the start of 83 as the Crush Gals pre-explode. The whirlybird deal she does at the end is great.

Ivan Koloff was not a small guy.

What, you didn't know that you had to see Hashimoto take the Discus/Tornado Punch from Kerry Von Erich?

Bill Watts and Don Muraco from 1974. It's so interesting just watching the way they moved, the way they threw themselves into things or bumped into the corner. Or the backslide at the end. It's all so organic. Watts is, of course, amazing talking over it.

Barry Windham selling "The Great Equalizer." It speaks for itself.

Some great selling in this lost NJPW Handheld. The sheets were saying Muto came in with a bum leg and he was leaning into it whether that was true or not. Hase adds insult to injury with the Mutalock. Then, watch him sell it after he makes the save for Chono (who himself collapsed on a suplex).

Kingston/Ortiz/Billington/Priest vs Shane Taylor Promotions - The noise in your head (and on your timeline) - The cure for what ails you - Pro wrestling for the sake of pro wrestling - Stop scrolling - Get off the train to nowhere - Breathe it in segundacaida.blogspot.com/2026/07/aew-...

This footage from the 2nd fall of Jaguar/Jumbo vs Devil/Tarantula has - One of the better roll-into-a-moves by Tarantula - Masami's killer gutbuster from a suplex position - Jaguar's bounding comeback - A Jumbo Power Bomb - A brilliant finishing spot.

In Keiji Muto's first match back in Japan after his NWA run, he unveiled not just the Mutalock but the Cattle Muta-lation as well.

Put together a Buzz Sawyer in NJPW Reel.

A bully and his war bonnet.

For the big WWF/AJPW/NJPW summit, the New Japan matches were closed off instead of being crossovers and not aired on TV due to Japanese television politics. We have HH footage though including these two great dives from Liger vs Nogami.

Vader and Bigelow killing a guy dead.

More great heeling from Wendi Richter. She cost Yukari Omori the All Pacific Title against Judy Martin and then she ran like the wind as Omori gave chase all around the arena.

Unlike the also returning Keiji Muto, Kensuke Sasaki really hadn't been featured at all before or between his excursions. He barely made TV to this point (if at all). Still, donned in his mullet and tiger stripes, the fans gave him a hero's welcome. Maybe he wasn't quite ready for it yet however.

I love Vader's sense of camaraderie with his fellow heels in NJPW. Here he makes sure Bigelow can join in on the festivities. Obviously Bigelow returned the favor by teaching him how to hit his signature flip bump (I'd never seen Vader do it before). As for Choshu, more proof that he simply got it.

Three minutes of Mantopoulos and Ricetti working holds from 1959 France. They take the fans down and up and down again. Some great close up work as Mantopolous shimmies out of a bodyscissors, or Ricetti gets his leg underneath him with his hand to roll the short arm scissors over.

April '90. Probably the most disastrous in-ring moment for New Japan since the Sumo Hall riot in December 1987 (Vader's debut; a bait/switch robbing fans of Inoki/Choshu). Kitao was the great hope. The fans had hesitantly accepted him until now, but here they went big for Bigelow and Vader instead.

Look. Pro wrestling is weird & complicated. We only have a handful of matches with grueling master technician Karl Gotch (and most are exhibitions), but one that we have is in 1972 WWWF against the Rugged Russians and he spends half of it goofing around.

Wendi Richter was criminally miscast as an super-babyface. Look at her here in 1982 as a monster heel against Jaguar Yokota. Just one piece of devastating offense after the other, and she balanced it with a loudmouth Texas attitude and some great basing.