Anyone seen these events

[Guest TheGame2705]

October Giant Series '97 on two tapes....tape II is the better looking one

 

Johnny Ace vs Akira Taue, 10/21/97

Toshiaki Kawada vs Yoshihiro Takayama, 10/21/97

Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace, 10/11/97

Hayabusa & Manukea Mossman vs Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori, 10/11/97

 

NOAH Di Colosseo "Navigation Against The Current 2002" 10/19/02

 

Taped 10/19/02:

Mitsuo Momota vs. Haruka Eigen

KENTA vs. Makoto Hashi

Scorpio/Michael Modest/Donovan Morgan vs. Richard Slinger/Bison Smith/IZU

Takeshi Rikio vs. Superstar Steve

Tamon Honda/Masao Inoue vs. Takeshi Morishima/Kishin Kawabata

Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa/Takuma Sano/Kotaro Suzuki vs. Akira Taue/Daisuke Ikeda/Takashi Sugiura/Masashi Aoyagi

Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - GHC Junior Heavyweight Title

Jun Akiyama/Akitoshi Saito vs. Kenta Kobashi/Kentaro Shiga - GHC Tag Team Titles

 

Taped 9/5/02:

Kenta Kobashi/KENTA/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama/Akitoshi Saito/Yoshinobu Kanemaru/Makoto Hashi - Captain's Hat Fall Elimination Match

 

comments on either?

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and now which one do you think I should get rid of?

 

TV 4/5 & 4/7/96

 

4/5/96 - New Japan (Taped 3/20 Nagoya):

Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Masahiro Chono

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Osamu Nishimura

Shinya Hashimoto/Junji Hirata vs. Harlem Heat (Booker T/Stevie Ray) - IWGP Tag Team Titles

Shinjiro Otani vs. Chris Benoit - To determine the first-ever WCW Cruiserweight Champion

 

4/7/96 - All Japan (Taped 3/31 Nagoya):

Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue

 

TV 5/29 & 5/30/93

 

5/29/93 - New Japan:

Kabuki/Kuniaki Kobayashi/Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/Akitoshi Saito vs. Takashi Ishikawa/Ashura Hara/Hiro Saito/Tatsutoshi Gotoh/Strong Machine

Sting vs. Scott Norton

Road Warrior Hawk/Kensuke Sasaki vs. Masahiro Chono/Shinya Hashimoto - IWGP Tag Team Titles

 

5/30/93 - All Japan:

Masa Fuchi vs. Dan Kroffat - PWF Jr. Title

Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams

Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen - PWF/UN/Int'l Titles (Triple Crown)

 

TV 11/5/94

New Japan:

Road Warrior Hawk/Kensuke Sasaki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami/Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Masahiro Chono/Strong Machine vs. Hiroshi Hase/Keiji Mutoh

Norio Honaga vs. Shinjiro Otani - IWGP Jr. Title

 

All Japan:

Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa

 

 

 

 

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THANKS IN ADVANCE

[Guest wolverine]

October Giant Series '97 Part 1 has the second best Misawa/Kobashi match on there, so you need to see that. The Kawada/Taue on the 4/7/96 TV is excellent. And since it's available, you might as well skip the clipped version of Benoit/Ohtani, and get the whole thing on NJ Classics, which Highspots.com sells.

[Guest TheGame2705]

What about the rest of the matches...like the ones on tape 2 above, are they just good on paper or are they good in reality too?

[Guest wolverine]

I've never seen Part 2, but they don't look good on paper to me at all.

 

In case you care (and it seems like some folks on here do), Meltzer gave Kawada/Takayama a DUD rating....

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

And since it's available, you might as well skip the clipped version of Benoit/Ohtani, and get the whole thing on NJ Classics, which Highspots.com sells.

So that's out now, is that the tape that also has Black Tiger/Benoit 96 match unclipped? I searched over at High Spots, but I couldn't find it. Do you know what New Japan Classics tape it's on. I'm guessing a Junior History one.

[Guest wolverine]

I don't think Benoit/Tiger 6/96 will be out until a few months from now. But here's the link to the tape with Benoit/Ohtani:

 

http://www.highspots.com/www/stores_app/Br...id=239&Videos=1

[Guest Grenouille]

The match is on the tape with episodes 813, 814 and 815.

[Guest TheGame2705]

J*Crown 96 looks like it has some nice matches. Anything really memorable from there?

[Guest wolverine]

Yes, Ultimo vs. Ohtani is one of the best Junior matches ever. The rest is pretty forgettable though.

[Guest TheGame2705]

thanks!