Thanks Grimm. As I was saying to MisterJLA, I would love to post more often but I gots lots of gay shit happening.
Also, I will not pay for PPVs and I am so anal about not learning the results before seeing the event!
I enjoy these chats, as we do try to keep it positive with the superb wrestling we were both lucky enough to grow up with.
It's funny, re: The Tokyo Done event. I remember reading the results, like you, in the PWI magazines, then the following week there some clips of the even on a WCW show - the shows in the UK were way way behind, so it corresponded with the magazines - this wasn't done on purpose, it just happened that way!
Anyhoo, the UK distributor must have been contacted by some UK wrestling fans, who had newsletters put into the mags, that's where I got hold of some bootlegger who did WCW events but they were 20 quid each, which was way too expensive but I paid it for this event and the one where the Steiners win the IWGP tag titles - WCW should have done more with IWGP. I was in awe of wrestlers from one company holding belts from another - it was magical to me and made me wish for more of these events! A lot of WCW stars appeared on IWGP cards but never in more than 2 matches!
Grimm, you bring up an excellent point about the WCW Tag division of 92(?), Gordy and Williams were ripping up the scene in Japan and the Steiners doing the same in the US! WCW had the brains to make this happen and the 2 teams had a brilliant first match which ended in a time limit draw - which was fine because feuds back then would last and this left me salivating for the rematch but thru no fault of WCW, shit happens! Gordy fucks himself up and then when he is better, Roid-boy fucks up!
Those PWI mags really built up the team of Gordy and Williams as monsters, amazing as they had little or no TV exposure!
I'm rewatching a lot of old wrestling, as I think I mentioned somewhere else, I just finised the first WWF Supertape - fucking brilliant! 3 Superb matches - Dibiase/Roberts, Rude/Santana, Perfect/Garvin. The entertaining No Holds bar cage match and a feature on the Bushwhackers, sounds painful but Mean Gene sells it like a good'un!
I got Supertape 2 which I may watch this weekend, that is of course unless my friend lends me the Undie DVD!
Oh yeah, I'm getting that Roberts DVD as soon as it comes out!
