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I do especially love Andos' videos because I feel like he is able to make something that comments on the nature of the human self and speak on it through the medium of talking about wrestling or other media. For my money Andos is the best of us.

A digital image of the sale being run for Puzzled Orca. 20% off everything on Etsy and 30% off everything on www.puzzledorca.com from August 1st-31st

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Happy August! It’s time for my annual Birthday Month Sale!! 🎉
This year, I’m having sales on both of my shops! 20% off everything on my Etsy, and 30% off everything on my website, www.puzzledorca.com! I have a bunch of new additions to both sites along with my usual things!

YouTube video by grappleholics The Art Of An Angle As Shown By Roddy Piper & Jack Brisco

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Do Video Essayists count? If so, I want to recommend @heeldumile.bsky.social, Romi (who also uploads matches on YouTube) and @grappleholics.bsky.social

4 games I'd give 10/10

For me, a perfect match, not an ounce of fat on it.

YouTube video by grappleholics Less Is More As Shown By Shuji Ishikawa & Masashi Takeda

How many wrestling MVs have you seen set to Mom Jeans? I could be the first

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Thoughts on DPW’s Ultimate Conflict and excitement about the future for once. When I first heard about the Ultimate Conflict stipulation I was a little off put. With all the other matches announced for the show I wasn’t expecting a one night tournament or anything but …

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I saw Bryan Danielson vs Jon Moxley

"It's just a bit" and the bit is a hate crime

The amount of dipshit blue check marks I had to block on Twitter for saying“hE’s BeInG a HeEl!!!” about a known Zionist, misogynistic piece of shit who ‘joked’ about deporting a Latino man was so fucking gross. I hope Paul Heyman fans live a miserable life and never experience any joy or empathy

Shout out to famous wrestling internet celebrity and host of the bati-bati bookclub podcast @kingofroads.bsky.social for allegedly being older than they were yesterday 🎉🎉

big roh marks

Love you Sam, hope things get better. Take all the time you need <3

Hey man, you and your work is appreciated by a lot of people, let us know if there's ever anything we can do to help. A lot of people care about you bud.

The Cole Garcia, and Jericho Bandido matches where my only real low lights? Granted I watched with friends but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought rated FTR and Death Riders was match of the night.

Adam Cole is the worst fucking wrestler in a company with 2025 Chris Jericho

2 of the craziest gremlins in history.

My friend made a video, it's really good too

One of the real hallmarks of 88 NJPW Jr. matches was an early ambush. It gave the match some form and excitement straight from the get go. I absolutely loved this one by Kobayashi on Owen, who always entered with that backflip. Unfortunately, Owen recovered way too quick and the match was just ok.

Ya Boi got the bg3 patch 8 stress test style

That's kinda clean tho

The Orca and The Andosman. Couldn't be happier for you guys.

Jesus Christ, no one is gonna watch something this long.

One step closer

YouTube video by Wrestling With The Narrative Bati-Bati Book Club Episode 12: Shingo Takagi (The Gang Kills Shinzo Abe)

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NEW BATI BATI BOOK CLUB BAY-BEEEEEEE

plants are just like animals, except in the ways in which they are not.

Two of the most important women in the history of Japanese Wrestling meet one on one for the first time, and they don't let up. Aja Kong came to the realization that so many white men do and decided to make her baldness everyone else's problem, and Hokuto happened to be tonight's victim.

This match shares a spiritual familiarity to a lot of Aja's later classics being characterized by its shorter runtime and high concentration of cool shit. Aja feels like this horrendous force, and from the outset, it feels like today is just Hokuto's unlucky day with her being on the receiving end of most of the early offense and trash cans. Hokuto is able to use Aja's unstable rage in the aftermath of her losing her hair to her advantage, with Aja perhaps overzealously going for a top rope cross body on the outside only to meet a few AJW cornerwomen and tranies. Hokuto in tern uses the chaos created by this moment to get into the ring and successfully land her signature front senton on Kong to turn the tides. The highlight of Hokuto's offense comes in with a particular gnarly looking Northen Lights Bomb on Kong's head that Kong only barley escapes. From there, the bombs flow like wine.

Aja lays in more the a hearty serving of pikedrivers, both standard, bottom rope, and their package varient. Hokuto battles on bravely for a while, but you can only survive for so long. In the end, it feels like death by a thousand cuts, with each backfist and headrop being what finishes Hokuto as much as the big final splash from the top. There's something almost tragic to the way Hokuto tries to bridge out, but her body just crumples. Her spirit never died, but her body certainly did fall victim to the women they call Aja Kong Top 100? No, the two have more in them, the post match makes that clear enough even in the immediate. There are a lot of better brutal Aja sprints. This one, though, is definitely worth a watch if you're a fun of that sub-genre. Where then? Not quite sure. It might be my favorite match of Aja's 91 so far just for the simplicity of it, but the hair match is hard to go against. Definitely feels in that same realm.

My Therapist: Bald Flying Aja Kong isn't real it can't hurt you. Bald Flying Aja Kong:

Aja Kong vs. Akira Hokuto 03.17.91

A time-honored tradition in Lucha and Joshi is the hair vs. hair match. In Lucha Libre the identity of a wrestler, be it their mask or hair or career, even holds such a heavy weight that the occasion is held only for the most special of venues or for the most bloody of feuds. Much is the case in Joshi, with a woman's hair having heavy connotations with female beauty standards layered on top of the intrinsic identity wrestlers like Aja Kong and Bull Nakano have tied with their hair. The feud fits the build, with Aja already warring with Bull since the summer, and though the year has changed, the tensions have not. Kyoko is a new addition to this feud, though. With her only debuting about seven months prior. She has already been recruited by the WWWA world champion to enlist in her war against Jungle Jack. The hatred flows freely in this match. Less structured and paced as the last two Jungle Jack matches we've seen. This means the match tends to lean more towards brawling and weaponry, mostly directed between Jungle Jack and Bull. Inoue mostly feels like a victim of circumstance, with her only being choked out with a chain and bludgeoned when Bull isn't in immediate grabbing distance.

The main motif of the match, though, is the scissors, introduced early by Bull. A large portion of the match revolves around the two teams trying to cut/stab their opposition with the pair in part. 249 of "Joshi Doing Every Cool Thing Wrestlers Do Now 30 Years Ago" (Watch and learn Trev). This, as you would expect, gets the juice rolling, especially down Bull and Aja's face in a grotesque circus of violence that only continues to escalate. It's a pair of Alabama Jams that Bull is able to land on Bison with Kyoko's assistance that secure them the victory but much like most apuestas, it's the aftermath that you leave remembering the most. Aja, defiantly awaiting her fate, staring daggers into the camera, into the viewer even as she loses her iconic mohawk. It's Bison, though, that hits harder, having to be helped up and in tears. You can even hear the crowd audibly shriek as she meets the razor's edge, sweat and tears keeping wayward chunks of hair clung to her face. There is no peace made amongst enemies though, only scores to settle and wrongs to be righted.

Is it in my top 100? I don't think it is, but I adore it nonetheless. Blood and hate filled tag matches feel harder to come by these days. Where then? It's not as iconic as the cage match or the first Jungle-Jack/Bull tag. Its emotion, though, is sustained, and the Bull/Kyoko dynamic is an interesting one to see play out. Maybe top 300 or 250. It's the post-match that does the most for me.

POV: You're looking at the best bald wrestlers who want to stab people with scissors.

Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs. Bull Nakano & Kyoko Inoue 01.11.91

Didn't Hear No Bell Himbo Slice · Album · 2025 · 9 songs

New Himbo Slice album on all streaming services now!
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Mox killing Jarrett is gonna be so fucking good