Eddie & Rey going wild on a Saturday Night in ‘97. 👑

The Malenko brothers.

#NYGiants 🦀🏈

Jun Akiyama x Ted DiBiase. DiBiase turns back the clock for a final AJPW run and a battle with the company’s rising star. (10.23.1993) 🌟

Naomichi Marufuji x Tatsuhito Takaiwa. It’s full-on scorched earth in one of NOAH’s most intense matches of the year. (12.9.2001) 🌟

23 years ago.

Perro Aguayo x Gran Hamada. Before rebranding as a shoot-style fed, the first UWF card featured a lucha-heavy bout between two all time legends. (4.11.1984) 🇯🇵☠️🇲🇽

The biggest surprise of this trip to America was meeting JBL again. We met on an overseas expedition in 1995 and are comrades who fought in Germany. After that overseas tour, he got his big break in WWE. He became a professional wrestler known all over the world.

Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi x Stan Hansen & Danny Spivey. Rugged Pro Wrestling! (4.17.1990) 🌟

Toshiaki Kawada x Yoji Anjo. It’s a new century & a new age, the but the old school dies hard in this in this no frills fistfight. (8.26.2001) ☠️

84年4.11大宮スケートセンター。第1次UWF旗揚げ戦でのグラン浜田vsペロ・アグアヨ。二人ともめちゃくちゃ動きがいい！メインの前田日明vsダッチ・マンテルより絶対にこっちの方が沸いただろうし、実はUWF旗揚げ戦のベストバウトは浜田vsアグアヨだったんだろうな。

Katsuyori Shibata x Jun Akiyama. One of the all-time madman classics. Easily among the most vicious matches ever. (WRESTLE-1 • 8.4.2005) 🌟

One of my all time favorites. I had requested to watch this in Terry Taylor's class, hoping for comedic exacerbation from the ol' rooster. His reaction was a simple utterance, "Well, you can't tell these guys that it's fake".

Ayako Hamada x Aja Kong. Full-scale GAEA combat at Korakuen Hall. (4.14.2002) ☠️

Sabu takes WCW to the extreme. While his time in the company was very brief, his presence signified a change in audience tastes that could no longer be denied. By his second Nitro match, fans in Chicago were audibly chanting “SABU” & “HOGAN SUCKS.” (August - October 1995) ☠️

“Everybody’s been put on this earth for a purpose, even if to be a horrible example.” ~Gorilla Monsoon 🖤

２６年前 ２４歳の時、初めてのアメリカ🇺🇸 それまでアメリカンプロレスに全く興味がなかったから WWE のスケール感と会場の盛り上がりの凄まじさを見て自分の感覚がかなり変わったしダークマッチで試合も出来たのは自分のプロレス感をズバッと変えてくれたのでこの1週間は本当に貴重な経験だった❗