Why insult a local sports team when you can go after all of them, right @jmkaudition.com?

Kimura vs the world as he manages to fend off both before making them fend at each other due to miscommunication on the outside.

This type of pacing is awfully groundbreaking for 1989.

I have no idea how most would react to Tenryu-Brody from 4/15/88 based on current standards. It's not the most exciting match as it's happening but by the end when they are paying off all the stuff they did early, it suddenly feels really great. Slow-paced and building but awesome. Brody's best IMO.

This surely has meme value,

Frank Dusek absolutely thought Eric Embry vs Devastation Incorporated was real. Maybe not wrestling as a whole, but definitely Embry vs Devastation.

Between Garvin-Valentine and Arn-Tully vs Rockers, the WWF was putting on the best NWA cards anywhere in January 1989.

Made a playlist a while back and have added a few things here and there. I BELIEVE this is every commercial song that played on WWF TV between 1984 and 1986. Doubles as a great soundtrack of the era. open.spotify.com/playlist/5w1...

This is very true. I don't think I've encountered a single WWF house show from this time period with no good matches at all. There probably is one but it doesn't really come to mind, which means if it has happened, it was rare.

Valentine went to BattlArts in the mid 90s and everyone acted like it was weird, like Greg knew any way to wrestle other than hitting the other guy as hard as he could and daring him to fire back.

Charles took his first day of being exclusively Blue Sky and threw us some FUCKING FIRE

If you know you know

Kobashi and Sasaki over here.

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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...

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