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CaptainOfCrush posted...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qc985

This is my favorite wrestling highlight ever. It was popular on YouTube in the early days of streaming, and it took me a while to find this backup a couple years ago. I'm sure most of those few dozen views are me.

I almost never followed wrestling outside the States and have only watched a handful of Kobashi's matches, but he's still near the top of my list. There's just... something about him, the champion of champions. I think @NBIceman 's writeup captures his incredible je ne se qua quite well, but if I had to compare him, I think he's the only wrestler in that Muhammad Ali class of myth where a part of me still has a hard part believing someone like Kenta Kobashi actually exists.

that rules! a point that iceman made to me when I mused about how I find it easier to write about the 90s All Japan guys than anywhere else (despite me being relatively new to the promotion) that it's very easy to get swept up in the grandiose majesty of that world, and i'd say this is another example of that - without even diving in too deep, you already get a feeling for the lore and his standing as an all time great just by seeing something like this


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