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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Complete and Accurate Super Dragon



After watching Super Dragon wreck the entire PWG locker room at the Threemendous show and after seeing clips of his return match, I got excited to check out one of my favorite indy guys of the 2000s. Dragon had this reckless appeal where he would just beat the piss out of wrestlers, fans whoever, he almost felt like an indy Stan Hansen in Japan. I am interested to revisit and see how some of his early garage matches hold up, see whether his PWG main events suffer from the PWG bloat and just watch him shoot slap people in the face. As always matches will be EPIC, GREAT, FUN and SKIPPABLE


2000

Super Dragon vs. TARO Rev Pro 7/7/00 - GREAT
Super Dragon/Rising Son vs. TARO/Excalibur Rev Pro 7/21/00 - GREAT

2001

Super Dragon/Disco Machine vs. TARO/Mr Excitement Rev Pro 6/19/02 - GREAT
Super Dragon vs. Bobby Quance APW 10/25/02 - EPIC
Super Dragon/Rising Son/Pantera vs. Damian 666/Halloween/Nicho El Millonario Rev Pro 11/30/02 - GREAT

2003

Super Dragon/B-Boy vs. Bobby Quance/Jardi Frantz GSCW 3/29/03 - EPIC
Super Dragon vs. Vic Grimes APW LA 10/18/03 - GREAT
Super Dragon vs. Vic Grimes APW 10/25/03 - FUN

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NWA Price Tag Reviews #6

Still totally in love with this service, my favorite thing in wrestling right now, by far. One of the cool things about being a wrestling fan is that you can still discover hidden classics 30 years later. There is no hidden 70s Scorcese movie or unreleased classic Joy Division Album, but here is The Spoiler v. Wahoo McDaniel from 1979 and it is unbelievable.


Spoiler v. Wahoo McDaniel 4/21/79 $4.00

Awesome 2 out 3 falls war. Very cool match structure which actually reminded me of MS1 v. Sangre Chicana (aka the greatest wrestling match ever). Spoiler blitzes Wahoo from the start, just beating on him from pillar to post, with nasty elbows to the head and neck and a big headbutt which splits Wahoo open. Nothing fancy here, but every stomp,elbow and slam was just brutal. Spoiler isn't a fancy highflyer, but he is really agile, and gets to the top with tremendous ease, really the first time I have seen the Spoiler and gotten the hype, he was so good here. Wahoo doesn't hit an offensive move for the first five minutes or so, but turns the tide with a huge chop to the head, you totally buy Wahoo as a guy who has one shot power like that.. After Wahoo gets on track it is back and forth brutality for 3 falls. We get a great BS finish with Wahoo countering the claw hold by turning around the Spoiler's mask, and the blind Spoiler claws Gary Hart and then the ref before getting DQed. Loved the idea of the blind bear just mauling everyone. Such a great match, and a hell of a discovery.

Hacksaw Jim Duggan/Butch Reed v. Ted DiBiase/Steve Williams 11/23/84 $1.00

Really fun big hoss brawl. Crowd is going nuts and the announcer needs to ask the crowd to move back. Pretty much punches and football tackles but these are great guys to watch throw punches and football tackles. Duggan has such great energy in these kind of matches, and DiBiase does a good job flopping around. Finish has everyone in football helmets smashing into each other. 

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