Best Of Tapes

Best of Cactus Jack Interviews

2 hours

 Interviews from Cactus Jack from throughout the year from both the IWA and ECW.

See why Cactus won "Best Interview" in this years Wrestling Observer. 

Includes every interview Cactus did that made television. 

Some of the interviews are hilarious as Cactus gets off on tangents then somehow ties 

everything back together.

 THE BEST OF "CRIPPLER" CHRIS BENOIT VERY
     GOOD/GOOD QUALITY 4 HOURS 

Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger - 3/19/90 Hiroshima Pegasus Kid / Steve
     Williams vs. Owen Hart / Bigelow - 6/30/90 Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger - 8/19/90 Tokyo Pegasus Kid vs.
     Jushin Liger - 11/1/90 Tokyo Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger - 7/4/91 Fukuoka Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger -
     2/10/92 Nagoya Pegasus Kid vs. Flying Scorpion - 4/16/92 Tokyo Chris Benoit vs. El Samurai - 7/1/92
     Kumamoto Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger - 8/12/92 Tokyo HHeld Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger - 8/3/93 Tokyo
     Chris Benoit vs. Shinjiro Otani - 2/16/94 Toyohashi HHeld Chris Benoit vs. Black Tiger - 9/27/94 Osaka HHeld
     Chris Benoit vs. Norio Honaga - 9/27/94 Osaka IWGP JR Chris Benoit vs. Koji Kanemoto - 3/13/95 Kyoto
     Chris Benoit / Shinjiro Otani vs. Koji .Kanemoto / Gran Hamada Chris Benoit vs. Too Cold Scorpio - 5/3/95
     Fukuoka Chris Benoit / Gran Hamada vs. Sabu / Black Cat - 7/31/95 Osaka HH Chris Benoit vs. Shinjiro Otani
     - 3/20/96 Nagoya Chris Benoit vs. Black Tiger - 6/11/96 Hiroshima Chris Benoit vs. Jushin Liger - 9/23/96
     Yokohama

Best of Vampiro

Pegasus Kid (Chris Benoit), Vampiro Canadiense, Rayo De Jalisco vs Pierroth, Negro Casas, Mano Negro / Chris Benoit, Vampiro Canadiense, Rayo De Jalisco vs Silver King, Dandy, Texano

EMLL 7/24-8/14/94 Vamp/Benoit vs Cowboys
WAR-Japan 10/3/94 Vamp/Dos Caras/The evil Doody-Bob Backlund vs
Gedo/Jedo/Fuyuki Vamp blades a gusher
LA Olympic Aud. (Fair Q) 5/28/94 Vamp/Ultimo Dragon/Rayo v Black Magic/Casas/Mano Negra
Promo Azteca 3/98 Vamp vs Pirata Morgan with Super Crazy-JUICE GALORE!
IWA(Ian Rotten's group), Bardstown, KY 8/97 Vamp vs Terek the Great WCW debut 7/98 Vamp vs Brad Armstrong-knocks out 4 of Brad's teeth
Stockton, CA (from Lucha Looneys 7) 8/28/98 Vamp vs Pirata Morgan
1992 EMLL Promo-no sound
Anaheim, CA 8/30/98 Vamp vs Poison-His last US Indy show, so he blades
aother gusher. 108 degrees!
1997-Promo tape by moi-he jumps off balcony in Compton

Trade Only. For Purchase go to Bob Barnett

AJ Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiru Tenryu Series Compilation 1988-90
-2hr.

10/28/88 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan: Tsuruta vs. Tenryu. Tremendous match. Great execution, build, excitement, drama, psychology, and heat. Excellent performance by both men. This is everything a big match should be, and more. ****3/4

4/89 Triple Crown: Tsuruta vs. Tenryu. Tsuruta drops Tenryu nastily on his shoulder and head with a powerbomb at 15:45, and Tenryu is unable to continue. This was only very good because the injury caused it to end before it got hot. The heat wasn’t as good as the previous match, but the result turned the powerbomb into one of the deadliest moves in the country. ***1/2

6/5/89 Tokyo Nippon Budokan Triple Crown: Pretty much a flawless match that rates right up there with the best men’s heavyweight matches of all-time. Both men play their roles to perfection. Great psychology, build, execution, timing, near falls, and stiffness. Really heated. Tenryu takes the TC. As far as I can tell this is the best heavyweight match of its decade. *****

10/11/89 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan Triple Crown: Tenryu vs. Tsuruta. Another great match, but not as action packed as in the past. Slower paced, slower building, and not as heated as their past bouts. These guys stiffed the hell out of each other though. Jumbo regained the TC. ****1/4

4/90 Triple Crown: Tsuruta vs. Tenryu. This was known to be their last meeting because Tenryu has already signed with SWS. It started out really hot with Tsuruta pummeling Tenryu with big spots and it was a sprint, so it stayed hot most of the way. The match didn’t have the build or psychology of their previous matches, but the work was great and the match was certainly different from the other four. Tenryu left the ring quickly after Jumbo put him away and Hansen came out and destroyed the ring boys then got into a fight with Jumbo, thus taking all the focus off the departing Tenryu as the key feud was switched to Jumbo vs. Stan. ****

Comments are from Mike Lorefice

NJ The Great Muta Nobody Knows Muta's World Laserdisk Part 2
-1hr 55min

1/4/92 Tokyo Dome: Greatt Muta & Sting vs. Steiner Brothers

9/23/92 Kanagawa Yokohama Arena IWGP Heavyweight & Greatest 18 Club Double Title Match: The Great Muta vs. Shinya Hashimoto

12/14/92 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan: Great Muta vs. Hiroshi Hase

1/4/93 Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavykyu & NWA World Heavyweight Double Title Match: Great Muta vs. Masa Chono.

5/5/93 Fukuoka Dome: Great Muta vs. Hulk Hogan

Man in Battle DVD
-1hr 55min

The beginning of this tape is kind of dull with one of those histories of puroresu that we can't understand and interviews, although there are a lot of cool flying moves in between the interviews. It gets good when they set up equipment on a dummy to gauge how hard Hashimoto is kicking. Their results show that Sasaki's lariat and a baseball bat hitting the dummy register 40G (I guess this is grams?) of pressure, but Hashimoto's kicks are 55G.

Daisuke Ikeda & Alexander Otsuka vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Minoru Tanaka

Super Delfin & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Hayabusa & Tsubasa

Super Techniques-This was the highlight of the tape, IMO. They spent 50 minutes showing pretty much every move that's somewhat regularly been used in New Japan with some indy guys thrown in. They divided all the moves up by section (ie submissions are together, throws are together). Within the move, they'd also show the variations of the move (reverse, off the top rope, etc.) if there were any. If you can read Japanese and want to know the names of the moves then this segment makes the tape a must.

Comments are from Mike Lorefice

NJ Nobuhiko Takada Super Fight Memorial Commercial Tape
-2 1/2hr. AWESOME TAPE

Takada was awesome in the mid 1980's with NJ, and these are some of his best matches. Takada had such an aura even back then, as all but one match is after he returned to NJ after the first incarnation of the UWF folded. This tape shows a different side to the NJ junior division because there isn't one match on here that's about flying. This makes the matches on this tape seem much less dated because stiffness, psychology, crispness, and heat are never really dated, while high spots age fast because the bar is continually raised. What's cool about this tape is many of the matches are shown in complete form.

8/12/83 Calgary Victoria Pavilion: Takada vs. Anthole Foley. Foley was unimpressive, dominating the match mainly through cheating. Takada finally came back with a flurry in the last two minutes to put him away.

6/17/86 Nagoya Aichi-ken Gymnasium IWGP Junior Title: Takada vs. The Cobra. Great match. Takada's kicks were so stiff it was taking over the junior division by kicking Cobra right out. Takada was super over, and this had great heat. Cobra was always a really underrated wrestler, but in this case, that this match was great wasn't his doing.

8/5/86 Tokyo Sumo Hall IWGP Jr. Title: Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka. This was joined about 15 minutes in, so it was the typical hot Shiro finishing sequence with near falls back and forth for the 6:17 shown. 8/17/86 IWGP Jr. Title: Takada vs. Yamazaki. Very good UWF style match that was a precursor to what these two would go on to do in the ring together in UWF & UWF-I.

9/19/86 Fukuoka Sports Center IWGP Jr. Title: Takada vs. Shiro. Only 4:39 was shown, but this appeared to be an incredible match with super heat. Shiro won the title here.

2/5/87 Tokyo Sumo Hall IWGP Jr. Title: Shiro vs. Takada. This is my favorite of the matches vs. Shiro on this tape. The psychology was strong and I liked the storyline of Shiro concentrating on Takada's fingers because it was effective and different. Takada couldn't really get any offense off because everytime they locked up Shiro went back to the fingers. Eventually Takada puts Shiro down with a high kick, but rather than let him up he starts kicking him fiercely. Finish really worked for me because the whole match built up to it.

3/20/87 Tokyo Korakuen Hall IWGP Tag Team Title League '87 Final: Maeda & Takada vs. Koshinaka & Muto. Good match with a hybrid style.

8/19/87 Tokyo Sumo Hall IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Round 1: Takada vs. Yamada. Clip.

8/20/87 Tokyo Sumo Hall IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Semifinal: Takada vs. Yamazaki. 2 ½ minutes shown.

8/20/87 Tokyo Sumo Hall IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Tournament Final: Takada vs. Kobayashi. Kobayashi really wasn't over and his offense looked so weak compared to Takada's. The early portion was nothing much with Kobayashi doing matwork, but it turned into a good match with hot near falls back and forth before Kobayashi won the tournament.

3/11/88 Nagoya Aichi-ken Gymnasium IWGP Junior Title: Hase vs. Takada. Great match with such precise execution and superb technical work. Basically a technical masterpiece with great heat. On this night, these two looked like the two best workers in the world. They actually did a ref bump so when Takada pinned Hase with his Dragon suplex, there was no one but the fans to count the pinfall.

Comments are from Mike Lorefice

Mexican Mayhem Vol. 1

APW

1/15/99

Interview: Al Getz & Frank Murdoch ... 15-man Royal Rumble ... Maxx Justice vs. Chicano Flame ... Handicap Match: Boyce LeGrande vs. Bad Blood ... Tony Jones, Vinnie Valentino & Chris Ward vs. Jason C. Clay, Rick Turner & Nathaniel Sweete ... Michael Modest vs. Christopher Daniels ... Frank Murdoch vs. Lil' Dic Grimes

CMLL on PPV (03/17/00 on Sky)

This is a 16 man elimination tag match (8 rudos, 8 technicos) battling to see who is the "leader" of the young lions. Tourney includes Olimpico, Antifaz del Norte, Tony Rivera, Safari, Mascara Magica, Tigre Blanco, Astro Rey Jr, and Starman versus Rey Bucanero, Zumbido, Rencor Latino, Ultimo Guerrero, Violencia, Mr.Mexico, Arkangel, and Dr. O'Borman Jr.

3. Super Porky/Niebla/Emilio Charles Jr v. Cien Caras, Apolo Dantes, Universo 2000

4. Perro Aguayo/Rayo/Tarzan Boy v. Shocker/Mascara Ano 2000/Scorpio Jr.

Hardcore Mix

1. Head Hunter A vs Head Hunter B ( Broken Glass,Bard Wire Match )

2. Mr Pogo vs Terry Funk ( Barbed wire Glass Death Match )

3. Funk vs Leatherface ( Cage match )

4. Funk + Hiroshi Ono vs Nakamaki + ? ( Fire match )

5. Catus Jack vs Tarzan Goto

6. Funk vs Leatherface ( Chain Match )

7. Matsunga + Nakamaki vs Kendo Nagaski + Seji Yamakawa ( Free Fall Barb wire scaffold match )

8. Leather Face vs The Gladiator

9. Nakamaki + Ono vs Leatherfaces ( Bard Wire,Nail Hell Death Match )

10. Sabu + Orignal Sheik vs Onita + Goto Ring of Fire match. Sheik gets burned bad Building almost catches on fire. )

11. Crypt Keeper vs Namaki ( Barb wire Ladder Match )

12. Mr Pogo vs Matsunga ( Barb Wire Bat Bunk house Death Match. Matsunga gets his head lit on fire! )

Nakamaki vs Ono ( Barb Wire Match )

WWC Bloody Matches of the Caribbean

1. Carlos Colon v. Joe LeDuc (Barbed Wire Match)

2. Invader 1 v. Kamala the Giant

3. Al Perez v. Abdullah the Butcher

4. Mike Davis receives an "award" the hard way

5. Invader I / Carlos Colon v. Abdullah the Butcher / Ernie Ladd

6. Carlos Colon v. Hercules Ayala (Texas Death Match)

7. Victor Jovica v. Abdullah the Butcher (Chain Match from Trinidad)

Invader III v. "Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez (Contanyo, PR) The absolute most disgusting thing I've ever seen in a wrestling ring. Yes, I've seen the Mass Transit incident. Yes, I've seen Ian Rotten. Yes, I've seen King of the Death Matches. Simply put, none of those things even come close to this footage. Here, Invader III receives a knee from Manny Fernandez off the top rope. He pukes up a ton of blood. The vomit mixed with the blood made this incident look like he was dying right in the middle of the ring and is absolutely grotesque

Best of Art Barr

Juicer vs. J.W. Storm (11/10/90)
Juicer vs. "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton (12/15/90)
Love Machine vs. John Rambo...Infamous match where Art Barr breaks Rambo's
nose - Shoot! (1994) - This match in "fair" quality.
American Love Machine/Black Magic (Norman Smiley)/Mascara Sagrada vs.
Pierroth Jr./Blue Panther/Jerry Estrada (2/23/92)
Love Machine vs. Blue Panther...Mask vs. Mask match (5/10/92)
Ultimo Dragon/Art Barr/Vampiro Canadiense vs. Negro Casas/Pirata
Morgan/Black Magic (11/22/92)
Winners/Latin Lover/Love Machine vs. Psicosis/La Parka/Canelo Casas (Heavy
Metal)...(5/9/93)
Blue Panther/La Parka/Fuerza Guerrera vs. Lizmark/Eddy Guerrero/Love Machine
(7/25/93)
Blue Panther vs. Love Machine...Mask vs. Hair Match (8/1/93)
Fishman/Fuerza Guerrera/Blue Panther vs. Love Machine/Eddy Guerrero/Hijo Del
Santo (8/8/93)...AWESOME ANGLE ALERT!!!! This is the match where Art Barr
puts on a Santo Mask and attacks Eddy Guerrero turning Eddy on the real
Santo and resulting in the beginning of Los Gringos Locos!
Octagon/Lizmark/Hijo Del Santo vs. Eddy Guerrero/Love Machine/Canelo Casas
(11/28/93)
Eddy Guerrero/Love Machine vs. Blue Panther/Volador (11/28/93)
Eddy Guerrero/Love Machine vs. Fuerza Guerrera/Canelo Casas (12/4/93)
Jake Roberts/Love Machine vs. Konan/Blue Panther (12/19/93)
Octagon/Blue Panther/Hijo Del Santo vs. Eddy Guerrero/Love Machine/Fuerza
Guerrera

 1. Low-Ki vs. Billy Fives
 2. Tony Kozina vs. Jayson Reign
 3. Spanky vs. American Dragon
 4. Reckless Youth vs. Mike Sullivan
 5. Haas Brothers vs. Ty Street & Simon Diamond
 6. Low-Ki vs. Jayson Reign
 7. American Dragon vs. Reckless Youth 
 8. ECWA Summit
 9. Cheetah Master vs. Patch vs. JJ The Ring Crew Guy
 10. Low-Ki vs. American Dragon