From: v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: RSPW "Best Of" Video Update
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:48:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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   We are in the middle of the voting stage for the RSPW "Best Of" Video.  I
am happy to say that since my last post we have picked up quite a few new
people who have e-mailed me on the subject and are interested in the video.  
By request of Dave Scherer I am posting some highlights from the ballot.
This should give a good idea of what's going on the tape, although the voting
has not closed as yet so this is NOT the final list.
   Highlights include:

* Kroffat/Furnas vs. Kikuchi/Kawada (Herb Kunze and Dave Scherer picked this
  match from February 1992 as one of the finest tag matches they have ever 
  seen).
* Rick Rude vs. Masa Chono (fine unedited final of the recent NWA World 
  Title Tournament).
* Fantastics vs. Sheepherders (One of the infamously barbaric barbed-wire
  cage matches these two teams had several years back.  You won't believe
  that the guys chewing the Fantastics' bloody foreheads went on to become
  the Bushwackers).
* Rick Steiner/Scott Norton vs. Hiro Hase/Keiji Muto (Great match for the
  IWGP tag team title).
* Lightning Kid/Jerry Lynn vs. Cooly SZ/Gantetsu (Kid is in fine form.  Even
  with the dumb name, Cooly SZ puts in an excellent performance.  From the
  Universal promotion in Japan).
* Cobra vs. Black Tiger (From Madison Square Garden in 1985.  The best match
  that's taken place in that building since the Vince Jr. era began, easily).
* Minami Toyota vs. Toshio Yamada (Ladies match.  Incredible.  *****).
* Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (One of Liger's finest recent bouts from the
  final of the IWGP Lt. Heavyweight Tournament.  Amazing.  A second match
  between these two is also on the ballot).
* Mr. Pogo vs. Matsunagu (from the shoot promotion Wing in Japan, this is 
  (honest to God) a barbed-wire/baseball bat match.  One of the few must-see
  Wing matches).
* Sheik (yes, THE Sheik) vs. Atsushi Onieta (From another shoot promotion.
  We have two matches on the ballot, one a match where the ring is set on
  fire, another where the ring is encirled in barbed-wire and the ring rop 
  here than he ever is in WCW.  Everyone else is excellent).
* Muto vs. Iizuka (Iizuka returns after his beating from the Steiners at
  WrestleWar '92 to put in one of the better matches of recent months.  More
  flying in this match than during a busy day at United Airlines). 

  Other matches:
  * Hansen vs. Misawa
  * Heavenly Bodies vs. Fantastics (Amazing!  From Smoky Mountain.  Stan Lane
    is outrageous.  One of the best North American matches of 1992.  Also,
    there is a brawl between these two teams that goes for several minutes in 
    the dressing room, with blood, tennis rackets, brooms, etc.  Wild action).
  * Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Stan Hansen
  * Bull Nakano/Monster Ripper vs. Aja Kong/Bison Kimura (Ladies, in a cage).
  * Kobashi/Kawada vs. Fuchi/Ogawa
  * And many more...(like TV ads for Slim Whitman albums always say)

    That's not the whole ballot, just a taste.  There are several Mexican
matches and many others up to the vote as well.  I should point out as well
that the video quality is all first-generation, with only about 5% being
second-generation.  It is all very watchable, however.  We excluded anything 
from the ballot that was not good video, so that won't be a problem.
     Ballots have gone out by e-mail to all those who e-mailed on this, but
there's still plenty of time to get the tape.  Anyone who is interested
should e-mail me in response to this post and let me know.  The voting should
be done by Monday, and the master tape should be ready in about two weeks.
I'll post the final match list next week.

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