From: v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: RSPW Video: Match List (Vote Results)
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:52:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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    The RSPW Video voting is just concluded, and as promised this is the list
of the top 20 finishers in the balloting.  All of these matches are 
*definitely* going on the tape, which Dave Scherer is presumably busily 
piecing together right now even as I type :).  There may be more matches on
the tape, but we'll get to that in a second.  Right now, here are the top
20 vote-getters in order:

1)  Mr. Pogo vs. Matsunagu (barbed-wire/baseball bat match from Wing)
2)  Fantastics vs. Sheepherders (barbed-wire cage match)
3)  Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (final of IWGP Lt. Heavyweight Tournament)
4)  Kroffat/Furnas vs. Kawada/Kikuchi (match of the year candidate, I think)
5)  Heavenly Bodies (Lane/Pritchard) w/Cornette vs. Fantastics (great match
    from Smoky Mountain's "Fire on the Mountain" card)
6)  Van Vader/Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Hiro Hase/Keiji Muto (for IWGP tag belts)
7)  Muto vs. Iizuka 
8)  Toshio Yamada vs. Minami Toyota (*****.  Ladies match)
9)  Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Mitsuhara Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada (for
    All-Japan tag titles)
10) Heavenly Bodies (Lane/Pritchard) w/Cornette vs. Fantastics (action-packed
    locker room brawl)
11) Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (2nd match)
12) Pirata Morgan vs. Masakre (Mexican hair vs. hair match)
13) Lightning Kid/Jerry Lynn vs. Gantetsu/Cooly SZ (vintage Kid)
14) Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Stan Hansen/Jumbo Tsuruta
15) Sheik vs. Atsushi Onieta (ring encircled in fire)
16) Moondogs vs. Jerry Lawler/Jeff Jarret (USWA match/brawl)
17) Ultimo Dragon vs. Negra Casas (Mexican, excellent)
18) El Dandy vs. Negra Casas (see above)
19) Bull Nakano/Aja Kong vs. Minami Toyota/Akira Hokuto (Final Fuji Cup
    Tourney. Ladies)
20) Stan Hansen vs. Mitsuhara Misawa 

    Those are the top 20 finishers, but in all likelihood there will be
room for more matches on the tape.  If in fact more matches are added, the
likely choices include the next few top vote-getters.  Among them: Rude vs.
Chono (NWA tourney final), Kyoko Inoue vs. Minami Toyota (*****, Ladies),
Scott Norton/Rick Steiner vs. Hiro Hase/Keiji Muto (for IWGP tag titles),
and Akira Hokuto vs. Bull Nakano (ladies, cage match).  In any event, the
top 20 listed above are *definitely* on the tape, while the others listed
will go on simply if there is room for them.  
     The top two finishers, oddly enough, are probably the two most violent
matches on the ballot (so much for technique over good, clean brawling and
blood 'n' guts).  Also, there were several good matches that I thought 
would do well (Cobra vs. Black Tiger and several great Mexican matches, for
instance) that finished way out of the money.  But overall, I think the
quality of the matches that will go onto the tape is excellent.  
     If anyone who hasn't already signed up is interested in purchasing the 
tape, just e-mail me in response to this post and let me know.  We'll be
happy to put you on the list.  As soon as Dave Scherer is finished putting
the master together, I'll start sending out e-mail to the first batch of
people on the list, and the mailing of tapes will get underway.  That will
be in about a week to ten days, by our estimation.  Ill be gettng the first
copy, so I'll be reviewing the tape on RSPW as soon as I get it.
     That'll about do it.....

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