Anderson Silva vs. Chris Leben, UFC Ultimate Fight Night 5 (6/28/2006) Commissions continue again, this one coming from frequent and generous Ko-fi contributor Carlos O. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very…

Jon Moxley/Bryan Danielson/Eddie Kingston/Santana/Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho/Jake Hager/Daniel Garcia/Matt Menard/Angelo Parker, AEW Double or Nothing (5/29/2022) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor lucharaisedme. You can be like them and pay me to write about all…

Bobby Fulton vs. Demolition Ax, NDW (5/18/1998) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor Henry. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off the table, so long as I…

Randy Savage vs. Bret Hart, WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event (11/28/1987) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor Tracy. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off…

Re:Loaded (Jacky Lee/Shareef Morrow) vs. iLLa Tribe (Coco Flash/Guerilla Suge), Dusk Pro Adoration (3/29/2024) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor "an Alex Shelley fan", who used his money here in the way all people in his profession ought to. You can be like them…

The Rock vs. Mankind, WWF Halftime Heat (1/31/1999) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor RiRi. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off the table, so…

Don Fujii/Shingo Takagi vs. Masato Tanaka/Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Bikkuri Pro Hey Guys, You’ll Understand When You See It! (10/15/2005) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an anonymous Ko-fi contributor. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People…

Giant Baba vs. Abdullah the Butcher, JWA The 13th Annual World League Day Forty (5/19/1971) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor Trevor Fitzpatrick. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling…

Super Vader vs. Kazuo Yamazaki, UWFi The Fight of Champions III (8/13/1993) One of the best kinds of Vader matches in his heyday, or at least one of my favorite kinds, right behind the big and famous titanic struggles against explosive lead babyfaces like a Sting or Takada or Choshu, was the Vader…

Nobuhiko Takada/Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Gary Albright/Dan Severn, UWFi The Fight of Champions III (8/13/1993) It probably shouldn't be some surprise that a tag team match with a line up this cool wound up being pretty good, but on a show best known for its main event, it kind of is. A little bit of…

The Great Sasuke/SATO vs. Super Delfin/Gran Naniwa, Michinoku Pro Summer Vacation Series ‘93 Part One (7/26/1993) Two days after the first real well known match to come out of early Michinoku Pro, the boys also put it together with their first great tag team match. Borderline great anyways. SATO,…

Super Delfin vs. The Great Sasuke, Michinoku Pro Lucha Fiesta ‘93 Summer (7/24/1993) This was a title vs. mask match for Delfin's UWA World Welterweight Title. Over the last several months, FULL has been slowly transitioning into Michinoku Pro, turning more and more of the spotlight over to those…

Jerry Flynn vs. Mark Ashford, PWFG GOD BLESS THE RING ~Message From Tampa~ (7/21/1993) Mark Ashford is better known as future all-time great WCW jobber Mark Starr, and that's what really makes this interesting, and combined with the length of the match, is why I initially watched this in addition…

Volk Han vs. Dick Vrij, RINGS Battle Dimension 1993 ~ Osaka Metropolitan Circuit #2 (7/13/1993) Styles make fights. You've read it a million times, maybe a few hundred on this site, and you're bound to read it several million more on account of how true it is. If you put two people in front of me…

Hiroshi Hase vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki, WAR Revolution Yojo ~The First Anniversary of Revolution~ (6/17/1993) If you would really really like to, feel free to chalk this one up to New Japan vs. WAR doing it one more time. That's not really the case here at all. Hase isn't really mean in the way that an…

Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Joe Malenko, PWFG Try Again ~ Masami Soranaka Memorial (6/1/1993) PWFG returns from a few month hiatus, armed with a main event consisting of Fujiwara up against the second best wrestler of four I've ever seen to use this surname, and it's a real treat. For some people…

Royce Gracie vs. Nobuhiko Takada, PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round (1/30/2000) Commissions continue again, this one coming from frequent and generous Ko-fi contributor Carlos O. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches,…

Panzer vs. Alman, KING OF THE STREETS: Warcry (2024) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an Ko-fi contributor and number one KOTS fan Parkmap. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is…

Hollywood Hogan vs. Goldberg, WCW Monday Nitro (7/6/1998) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor MainsTheMad. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off…

Triple H vs. Goldberg vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Kevin Nash vs. Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton, WWE Summerslam (8/24/2003) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an anonymous Ko-fi contributor. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose…

Daniel Garcia vs. El Gentil, EPWD Wrestling Machina (8/14/2021) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor and the contributor most responsible for showing me current Puerto Rican wrestling, PEN. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of…

Big Van Vader vs. Riki Choshu, NJPW Summer Night Fever II Day One (8/19/1990) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor B. Igevil.. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little…

Sweet Daddy Siki/Art Thomas vs. The Sicilians (Lou Albano/Tony Altimore), NWA Chicago (4/14/1961) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor Trevor Fitzpatrick. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose…

Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto/Tatsumi Fujinami, WAR (5/24/1993) Not really through any conscious effort, I'm less and less interested in absolutes. The older I get, the more statements like "this is the best [x] ever" or "nothing can ever be better than [x]" lose their…

Ashura Hara vs. Kengo Kimura, WAR (5/24/1993) Again with the Heisei Ishingun leg of the larger WAR vs. New Japan feud, something relatively short, mean, and real interesting breaks out. Usually, the idea of a heel in peril is one of my least favorite things wrestling can do. Not only does it go…

Masashi Aoyagi vs. Masao Orihara, WAR (5/24/1993) Have you ever wanted to see a really weird looking guy get beat up, bludgeoned, and repeatedly kicked in the face for thirteen minutes? Of course you have! You wound up here after all! Ths version of this match that exists on the commercial tape…

Miguel Perez Jr./Yukehiro Kanemura vs. The Headhunters, WING Danger Road Day Five (5/9/1993) This was a barbed wire cage match, as well as a tournament final, for the vacant WING World Tag Team Titles. Like is often the case with a barbed wire cage match, or even regular steel cage matches with…

Super Vader vs. Tatsuo Nakano, UWFi The Fight of Champions II (5/6/1993) Vader has returned to Japan, now jumping to the UWFi in something of a coup given that he's also in the middle of his essentially year-long run as WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and they could not have lined up a better…

Atsushi Onita vs. Terry Funk, FMW Genten Day Ten ~ 4th Anniversary Show (5/5/1993) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an anonymous Ko-fi contributor, one who ought to take this as a lesson to check what projects I'm in the middle of before paying for something they were going to get…

The Sheik/Sabu vs. Dr. Hannibal/Dr. Luther, FMW Genten Day Ten ~ 4th Anniversary Show (5/5/1993) Matches can be great for lots of reasons. Sometimes there's some intricate attention to detail, some total commitment, an undeniable physical skill on display, mechanical perfection, a perfectly…

Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai, RINGS Battle Dimension 1993 ~ Tokyo Bay Area Circuit #1 (4/24/1993) In the same way that styles make fights, matchmaking really does matter, at least so long as it's reflected in the match itself in some way. Take a look at this match for an example. Mechanically…

Sergei Sousserov vs. Todor Todorov, RINGS Battle Dimension 1993 ~ Tokyo Bay Area Circuit #1 (4/24/1993) The thing about RINGS, for those wondering in real time why I haven't covered any RINGS in 1993 prior to this, is that it really can all run together sometimes. RINGS is rarely ever bad, the…

Bull Nakano vs. Devil Masami, JWP (4/18/1993) Once again, many things can be true at once. First off, this is cool as hell. Throwing two different generations of mean and cool top AJW antagonists at each other is already a winning formula on paper, especially when they had little enough overlap…

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Mano Negra vs. Oro, CMLL 37 Aniversario del Arena Mexico (4/2/1993) Commissions continue again, this one coming from frequent and generous Ko-fi contributor @beenthrifty. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very…

Mark Kerr vs. Enson Inoue, PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round (1/30/2000) Commissions continue again, this one coming from frequent and generous Ko-fi contributor Carlos O. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but…

The British Bulldog vs. Shawn Michaels, WWF One Night Only (9/20/1997) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor Jack Mangoon. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely…

Bobo Brazil vs Giant Baba, JWA Golden Series 1968 Day Thirty One (6/27/1968) Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor Trevor Fitzpatrick. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very…

GUNTHER vs. The Miz, WWE Raw (12/18/2023) Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor MainsTheMad. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off the table, so long as I…

Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat, NWA Chi Town Rumble (2/20/1989) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an anonymous Ko-fi contributor. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches, but very little is entirely off the…

Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa vs. Riki Choshu/Shinya Hashimoto, WAR (4/2/1993) Outside of the Tenryu vs. Hashimoto singles matches, and maybe a few other Tenryu singles matches, I wouldn't argue too heavily if someone thought this was the highpoint of WAR vs. New Japan. The crowd here in the…

Shiro Koshinaka/Kengo Kimura/Kuniaki Kobayashi/Akitoshi Saito vs. Ashura Hara/Super Strong Machine/Hiromichi Fuyuki/Koki Kitahara, WAR (4/2/1993) Once again, in ways I'm sort of running out of words to describe given how rarely the reasons for it change, this card's Heisei Ishingun vs. WAR tag…

Jushin Liger/El Samurai vs. Ultimo Dragon/Masao Orihara, WAR (4/2/1993) Finally, the juniors of New Japan and WAR have something to add to the best feud of the year. That's not to say they haven't had the chance before. All through these shows I've been watching, there have been NJPW vs. WAR…

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga/Jason the Terrible vs. Freddie Krueger/Leatherface, WING Rose-Colored Future Day Five (3/20/1993) This was a no ropes barbed wire net steel cage match. Following the collapse of his Puerto Rican army (and apparently the defection of Jason to the side of good, along with Miguel…

Genichiro Tenryu/Ashura Hara/Masao Orihara vs. Shiro Koshinaka/Kengo Kimura/The Great Kabuki, WAR (3/5/1993) Repeating myself isn't especially fun to me as a writer, and I can't imagine it's any more fun to read over and over again, but this is is another one. One more on a bunch of different…

Genichiro Tenryu/Takashi Ishikawa vs. Riki Choshu/Osamu Kido, WAR (3/3/1993) Like the Hashimoto vs. Fuyuki match that came right before it, this is not the most traditional interpromotional fight, likely owing to a choice to play a little more to a more vocal pro-New Japan audience in Yokohama…

Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiromichi Fuyuki, WAR (3/3/1993) It would be wildly incorrect to say that New Japan vs. WAR wasn't already great, but it's here, adding Shinya Hashimoto to the mix, where things jump up a level. Here, in this match, such a thing is not always so obvious. For all his many great…

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga/Mr. Pogo/Yukehiro Kanemura/Mitsuteru Tokuda vs. Miguel Perez Jr./Kim Duk/Carlos Jose Estrada/Vigilante, WING Party is Over!? Day Two (2/5/1993) This was a gauntlet style elimination match, which is to say a series of one on one matches between the four sides, with the victor of…

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Bartosz “UFol” Kwiatkowski vs. Abner Lloveras, KING OF THE STREETS: Warcry (2024) Commissions continue again, this one coming from an Ko-fi contributor and number one KOTS fan Parkmap. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling…