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| Topic | Board 8's Match of the Week (MotW) - Familiar Faces in Strange Places |
| Eddv 11/12/20 6:38:57 PM #1: | Which match from last topic was your favorite?
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Last week was a great success as we dipped our toes into attitude era WWF, Indie Golden Age, and 00s Dragon Gate, all in short bite sized chunks. This week we will be doing "Familiar Faces in Strange Places". We did not have a volunteer to guest spot with us so it will once again just be Iceman, Bidoof and myself. The idea here will be to see a star who was famous elsewhere working a spot in an unusual promotion for them. Next week will be a themeless week so if you are out there with a match you want people to discuss, please be sure to chime in so you can join us next week. Eddv's Match of the Week The Big Boss Man and Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuhara Misawa AJPW 7/9/1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fApSzZLQ7KI This match is the source of a fairly famous gif, the one that gets shared every time people want to talk about Boss Man's unusual athleticism. Curiosity led me to view the whole thing and well - its an AJPW match featuring two of the four pillars. So yeah its naturally pretty good. But what this means is that I have cast The Boss Man as my star for this writeup. It is interesting to see him in this context He's bumping like a boss, he's coming off the top rope and he's working with some serious workrate. It becomes easy I think to not appreciate work like this from Boss Man in light of guys like Luchasaurus and Brian Cage to see him going like that but he sort of comes off as like a second Hansen and while he does take the fall here he acquits himself well and hits a silky smooth counter-boss man slam. In the scheme of AJPW tags this is nothing truly special but I have always had a soft spot for the boss man. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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