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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!

WWE Vault just released a new Omni show from February 5, 1984. Ted DiBiase vs Jack Brisco was previously released by itself as part of Hidden Gems, but the rest is new. youtu.be/MbWtYEYydEw?...

UP NOW: The competition had not fully surrendered, but the WWF’s lead was now insurmountable. Happy Thanksgiving, War Is Over: A Turning Point at the WWF Survivor Series

UP NOW: Jim Crockett ended what once seemed destined to be his biggest year ever with a whimper. When It Rains It Pours: How Starrcade '87 Served As A Reality Check for the NWA

It's A Small World After All: How Pro Wrestling Divvied Up a Tinier Pie in 1988 30,000+ words on the year coming to Wrestling Playlists on February 15

Among the best matches of the decade. Fujiwara and Saito is a makeshift alliance after the tournament was destroyed but it's a dream team and just ... works. Inoki and Saito have had the 1987 feud of the year and Murdoch is awfully inspired. A magical time period in pro wrestling.

UP NOW: Everyone Just Got Paid in November 1987, as @NINaylor takes a musical look at the month in wrestling.

UP NOW: In the lull between the Megapowers forming and the build to WrestleMania IV beginning, WWF fans stayed tuned in, waiting to see what would be next. Everybody's Watching: WWF Saturday Night's Main Event 11-28-1987

Check out today's issue for the pun on Stampede Wrestling that was so bad it made me briefly consider just stopping the newsletter.

This whole thread has a ton of cool thoughts.

🤼Today's Wrestling Playlists from @pwoloss.bsky.social covers Starrcade '87 and Survivor Series '87, real tale of two shows, both of which I happen to remember pretty well. On the Crockett side... look, I was excited when I rented that tape sometime in 1988 because I didn't have cable as a kid...

UP NOW: World Class Championship Wrestling went into hype overdrive to make Thanksgiving night successful, but the larger story remained unchanged. Don't Believe The Hype: The Success of WCCW Thanksgiving Star Wars 1987

I debated this a few times but have decided 1988 will just focus on the daily issues. We'll continue the Timelines and music videos but that will be it. Frees me up to do some other things I want to do, including a big 80s retrospective when we wrap up the decade in spring 2027.

By coincidence or design, today both @pwoloss.bsky.social's Wrestling Playlist and @jonathansnowden.bsky.social's Hybrid Shoot discuss the Maeda/Choshu shoot kick incident from 1987. You can read the most thorough examination of one kick you can imagine here hybridshoot.substack.com/p/the-kick-t...

It's A Small World After All: How Pro Wrestling Divvied Up a Tinier Pie in 1988 Coming to Wrestling Playlists on February 15

John Tatum is in a bad way.

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The peak of pro wrestling would be that it starts raining frogs during an Inoki-Saito match, and they, along with Choshu, Fujinami, Kimura, Murdoch, and others, start singing Aimee Man's Wise Up.

Up now: With WCCW under pressure to turn business around, Kerry Von Erich makes a controversial return to the ring. The Modern Day Worriers: The Desperation of WCCW Cotton Bowl Extravaganza 1987

Something doesn't quite feel right for Masa Saito.

Please go like the shit out of my comment. (There's way more I could request but I see this as the highest priority at this point.) www.youtube.com/post/UgkxfcZ...

UP NOW: A musical retrospective on Championship Wrestling From Florida from @NINaylor. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

Tomorrow we'll have a musical look at the legacy of Championship Wrestling From Florida from @NINaylor. Today, Wrestling Playlists offers a list of match recommendations from the territory.

Al Williams sporting quite the look for 1950.

@leecasebolt.bsky.social I think I've become super high on Cyclone Anaya as one of my favorite wrestlers of the 50s. I don't have a feel for his rep.

Woke up to see that Wrestling Playlists has officially exceeded 2,000 subscribers. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has signed up! We'll get the wheels in motion again on Monday. In 2026, we'll finish 1987, complete 1988 & get through most of 1989!

I’m proud to have contributed a playlist this year to the Season of Giving and it’s inspired me to make my own playlists in 2026. Thank you to @pwoloss.bsky.social for allowing me to contribute and for the service he provides to all wrestling fans. If you’re not subscribed, you should be.

The Season of Giving has reached its end. A summary will be in the inboxes of Wrestling Playlists subscribers in about a half-hour.

Tom always delivers! Can’t wait to dive into this!

The Season of Giving concludes on its final day, just as it did last year, with a comp from @teakagee.bsky.social.

Hope you enjoyed Day 30 of the Season of Giving. Thanks to @tkelley1240, @tonyrichards4, and @superstarsleeze for their contributions. We'll be back tomorrow to conclude the Season of Giving and wrap up 2025 in Wrestling Playlists.

We conclude the final Triple Play Tuesday of the Season of Giving with a look at 2000s Japan from @superstarsleeze at ridingspacemountain.blogspot.com.

Tony left out my favorite 1975 match (Inoki / Robinson from December) but nonetheless an incredible array of talent from the heart of the peak of professional wrestling.

The Season of Giving continues with a comp from @TonyRichards4 looking at the top 10 matches of 1975. Subscribe to prowrestlingtimetunnel.substack.com for more from Tony.

The Season of Giving continues with a comp from @tkelley1240, who might be better known to message board veterans as ZubazKid.

Hope you enjoyed Day 29 of the Season of Giving. Thanks to Faust and Tim Livingston for their responses. We'll be back tomorrow with two more! Only two days left.

A very good "sample platter" of Playboy Buddy Rose. You can expect all kinds of Rose matches when my "From the Crow's Nest" series on Portland Wrestling launches this Friday.