mikeawesomemike Wrestling Comp Vol. 4

 Hey y'all. Another comp today from myself. I promise I'll stop doing these daily at some point lol.

Wouldn't suggest reading further until after you have finished watching. I can't stop you from doing that either way, but I do suggest you experience this compilation without knowing the contents within it.

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Ricky Banderas vs Rastaman (IWA Puerto Rico 12/?/1999) - GREAT

The rematch! This has a lot of the same stuff as their first match, but that's absolutely fine with me. If anything, Banderas feels even more fired up. He's such a fighter here.

It's barely missing some of the magic that the previous matchup had, but maybe that's just me loving chaos.

Bryan Danielson vs Kaval (FCW TV 2/7/2010) - FUN

This was taped on 1/14/2010. Pretty sure this was Danielson's first FCW match as well. You're getting a dumbed down version of Danielson v Low Ki but they also have to try to get creative because this is sub-10 minutes. I've seen more 2010 FCW than most probably. It's not good, but you'll sometimes get a match like this that's interesting to think about at least.

They do some stiff-for-WWE-standards striking and matwork. Looks good, feels good. You can tell even at this level, there's still that road agent/production micromanaging behind every match, but this one does a better job at separating itself apart and making me feel like I'm watching two wrestlers go at it, which those other ones don't.

Bruiser Brody promo (NWA Polynesian Wrestling 8/?/1986)

Brody loved this shit, man. One of the promos where all you can do is silence, listen up, and believe every word coming out of his mouth.

Bret Hart vs Jeff Jarrett [Special Referee: Big Boss Man] (WWF House Show San Francisco, CA 12/5/1993) - FUN

I think I like the WWE house show style a lot, what can I say. We need more special referees to be like Big Boss Man here. Jeff Jarrett's great. I'm not the biggest Bret fan but I think he's seriously good here. Does an awesome job at slowing being unnerved by Jarrett until he finally breaks.

El Hijo del Santo & Damian 666 vs Super Parka & Blue Panther (WWO 5/3/2003) - GOOD

I want to believe there's always room for wrestling to get better, in any time period. And then I watch El Hijo del Santo and yknow what, maybe it can't. I've watched so many of his matches and I'm still always amazed. Somehow, he's able to move in a way that feels mythical. The stories about El Santo make a lot more sense when you see what Santito was capable of. 

Blue Panther can be just as good of a rudo as he is tecnico. He can be a real bully in the ring, even with Hijo del Santo being as aggressive as he is in this. Super Parka gets a bit too much of the spotlight, but Santito shuts him down a few times at least.

The finish isn't great, but the rest of the match is good enough at least.

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Thank you for reading my thoughts on these matches/this comp today; I hope you enjoyed! If you didn't, that's alright too. Let me know if you have any thoughts, criticisms, ideas, or whatever in the comments or get in touch with me on my Twitter page.

mikeawesomemike Wrestling Comp Vol. 3

Hey y'all! Another day, another comp.

Wouldn't suggest reading further until after you have finished watching. I can't stop you from doing that either way, but I do suggest you experience this compilation without knowing the contents within it.

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Junkyard Dog vs. Great Kabuki (JCP World Wide Wrestling 4/7/1984) - FUN

Dude. JYD might be one of my favorites ever, huh? I like Great Kabuki a lot too, and wish he was more widely known as something other than "the guy that started the poison mist stuff" but he's no match for Dog here. No one ever is. At every cut-off and submission, JYD gives the crowd something to get behind and believe in. I think that a large part of pro wrestling is believing and living in the moment. He got it.

Abdullah Kobayashi & Mayumi Ozaki vs Kyoko Kimura & Yuko Miyamoto (BJW Katsura Special 2 6/4/2006) - GREAT

Insane, awesome match. Mayumi Ozaki doing deathmatch. You know what to expect out of the guys here, so I left this wishing Kyoko did even more hardcore shit like this. Of course, she did do a lot in her own right, but I feel like she could've easily been one of the greatest deathmatchers we've ever seen with this kind of stuff. Everyone just beats the crap out of each other. Don't even get me started on how sick as hell the Kobayashi/Kimura headbutts are.

Kept the post-match broadcast stuff in because they showed Kyoko comforting a really young Hana Kimura after the match, and that touched the heart yknow?

Hana Kimura vs Yako Fujigasaki [JWP Junior Title & Princess Of Pro Wrestling Title Tournament Final] (JWP Fly High In The 25th Anniversary Day 7 Evening Show 9/18/2016)

After that, I thought it'd be neat to include a Hana match. This was tourney final that had both the JWP Junior and Princess of Pro Wrestling championships on the line. The Princess one actually has a really interesting lineage if you're interested in checking out that kind of stuff. Of course the JWP one does too, but I hadn't heard of the other one previously.

This has some nice babyface work from Hana fighting upwards against the larger Fujigasaki. And I use that word "fighting" because she's able to truly make it feel that way. Hana wants to win and it feels like a competition. As far as I know, this was her first proper championship win, also why I included it.

I actually don't know much about her opponent here, but she seems gnarly herself.

Masao Orihara vs Great Sasuke [Tokuku Jr. Title Tournament] (Michinoku Pro 8/17/2002)

This is another clipped matchup from this tournament. This one actually followed the matchup I included in the first comp, Orihara/Naniwa. This seemed just as good, if not better than that. More evil dickhead Orihara, please.

Ricky Banderas vs Rastaman (IWA Puerto Rico 12/3/1999) - EPIC

Been on a bit of a Rastaman kick lately. He's awesome. Need to see more of his BattlArts stuff for sure.

This is almost as perfect of a wrestling match as you can get. Wow. It's like seven minutes, watch it ASAP.

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Thank you for reading my thoughts on these matches/this comp today; I hope you enjoyed! If you didn't, that's alright too. Let me know if you have any thoughts, criticisms, ideas, or whatever in the comments or get in touch with me on my Twitter page.