You know me, I love a project.
After the PWG series (which you can read all of in the posts below), I find myself without a direction to my wrestling watching in my free time; thankfully, that didn’t last, as I dug up a collection that brought back a memory or two.
In the early 2010’s, I made a wrestling friend through the person I was dating at the time. This guy was as hardcore of a fan as I was; hell, more so, since he not only owned a lot more memorabilia than I did, but he also trained to be a wrestler! I thought he was super cool and, in hindsight, I wish we had hung out more.
One day, he decided to get rid of some of his wrestling stuff and I, being a dude in his early 20’s living at home, volunteered to take some of it off his hands. I wound up with a huge box filled with old toys, VHS tapes, and a roll of burnt DVDs. He and I have long since lost touch and the toys and tapes are largely gone, but I always held onto the discs, for some reason. I think I always figured I’d get around to them.
Well, it only took about 12 years and you know me, I do love a project.
Instead of doing Project: Wrestling Guerrilla-style write-ups about these ones, though, I decided to dive into a medium I always enjoy: Twitter threads! I do love reading tweets from wrestling accounts doing watches of old shows and seeing something I’ve never seen before from years ago. Whether it’s a match I can’t believe ever happened, a wild spot from a forgotten name, or just something genuinely timeless, I have a good time with those and I wanted in.
Below are links to the Twitter threads I created for these shows, so that you can read my potted thoughts from back-to-front on each disc. It was a lot of fun to spend an afternoon dropping into an old show and creating screenshots and GIFs of my favorite moments. I hope you enjoy the reads and, hopefully, this won’t be the last one of these collections I make for this blog.
CZW vs ROH (Disc 1)
Super J Cup 1994
Dragon Gate Rainbow Gate 2009 Night 3
NJPW Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-Jo Hall (2009)
NJPW G1 Climax 2009 ~ New Lords, New Laws ~ Nights 4-8 (2009)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV (2010)
Finally, I’d like to culminate this with a little playlist of my most favorite matches from the above threads. Links to the matches where available:
- Samoa Joe vs Necro Butcher (IWA Mid-South Something To Prove)
- Jushin Thunder Liger vs Hayabusa (Super J Cup 1994)
- Jushin Thunder Liger vs The Great Sasuke (Super J Cup 1994)
- Go Shiozaki vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-Jo Hall)
- Takashi Sugiura vs Hirooki Goto (NJPW Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-Jo Hall)
- Togi Makabe vs TAJIRI (NJPW G1 Climax 2009 ~ New Lords, New Laws ~ Night 5)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Masato Tanaka (NJPW G1 Climax 2009 ~ New Lords, New Laws ~ Night
- Shinsuke Nakamura vs Togi Makabe (NJPW G1 Climax 2009 ~ New Lords, New Laws ~ Night 8)
- Shinsuke Nakamura vs Yoshihiro Takayama (NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV)
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