There is something surreal about attending a professional wrestling show in a small town park, particularly one that takes place immediately after a downpour. Let me set the stage: Imagine the smell of the average wrestling show. Now picture it taking place in a mud soaked park, the air heavy with residual moisture, and the […]
Chainsaw Charlie vs. Tarzan Goto (Indie World Vol. 1 Fuck Dem Up!, 5/21/98) (This is a Falls Count Anywhere Barbed Wire Board Deathmatch) Writing this as someone who hasn’t seen as much Terry Funk as a wrestling fan should have, this is the sort of match that makes it clear as day why he has […]
Gokuaku Domei (Bull Nakano & Dump Matsumoto) vs. Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamazaki & Noriyo Tateno) (AJW, 8/22/1985) 2/3 Falls Match On one fateful August night in 1985 at the Nippon Budokan, Gokuaku Domei of Bull Nakano and Dump Matsumoto took on the Jumping Bomb Angels duo of Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno. Gokuaku Domei didn’t […]
Months ago, there was a discussion on Twitter about Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson, particularly in the context of Danielson’s career; there was a list posted, you’ve probably heard about it. I do not wish to rehash this debate, as one of my fellow Violent People has already touched on this in his own words, […]
So the WWE Premium Live Event Backlash: France was in, well… France, this weekend . I heard a lot of chatter about it. Well a lot of talk about a Burning Hammer kick out at one and a lot of talk about Drew Gulak. Intrigued, I decided to tune in. Somehow, I found myself watching […]
Every day, we need to take a moment and say a prayer for whatever time traveller took Mio Momono and Chihiro Hashimoto from the prime era of 2000s joshi and put them in the current day. These two produced some of the best wrestling in the world in 2021 with the Sendai Girls and Marvelous […]
Diminishing returns is a very real thing in wrestling, a problem some wrestlers deal with better than others but so often it’s hard to recreate the magic of a moment when you see it over and over again. The idea of giving each audience a similar performance so that they can experience what makes each […]
On its 30th anniversary, we reflect on a merciless bout that never wavers in its commitment to violence. Stephen Seeing as this site is named what it is, myself and Ethan, better known as Four Pillars of Hell, thought it was only right to touch on one of the matches that perfectly defines the type […]