Michinoku Pro Tape Recommendations

[q_t_r_n]

I really enjoyed the 6 man tag on ECW Barely Legal 97 and the RVD/Sabu vs Hayabusa/Shinzaki match from Heatwave 98.

Please can you tell me what the best Michinoku Pro tapes are.

Any other recommendations for cruisers too (J Crown 94?).

Help is very much appreciated as I really have no idea where to start!

[delfinrules]

MICHINOKU PRO:

Michinoku Pro commercial tape from 09/1996-12/1996. This a great tape to start with.

Michinoku Pro World Championship Title Series. This is a commercial tape that features matches from 07/1996 and 08/1996. Michinoku Pro was excellent at that time.

Michinoku Lucha TV 08/20/2000. This features some matches from the World Mask Man League and some other matches. Really good.

Michinoku Pro These Days. This is from 10/10/96. It is features a great 10-man tag team match.


OTHER JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHTS:

New Japan Super J Cup 1994. The best men's pro-wrestling show ever.

WAR Super J Cup 1995. Not as good as the first Super J Cup. But still recommended.

Also, you might want to get some New Japan commercial tapes that feature matches with the original Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) from the early 80's. Some classic stuff.

If you're looking for more recent stuff, look out for the New Japan tape that features the junior heavyweight 10-man tag from 03/14/2002 (Liger & Samurai & Tanaka & Kakihara & Naruse vs. Kanemoto & Eddy Guerrero & Black Tiger III & Gedo & Jado).

You can always send me an e-mail if you need more help or if you have any questions.

[clarkone68]

Best of Ultimo Dragon

[TRZZXQ]

I recommend MPro's 'These Days' tape, that 10-man match is great

other Juniour tapes:

the J Cup's, of course, especially 94&95
J*Crown '96
Toryumon comes to Japan
Toryumon 2000 Project's 11-13-02 Japanese debut show. Amazing stuff here

Those are all the junior tapes I have, so that's all I can recommend.

[delfinrules]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention these:

New Japan Skydiving J (1996)
New Japan J-Crown (1996)

[q_t_r_n]

Thanks everyone.

I have ordered MPro World Title Series 96 & J Crown 96, and will probably get J Cup 94.

I'll let you know how I get on with them when they arrive.

Thanks again.

[Rex Idol]

Not many people ever mention it, but I really liked the 2000 J-Cup.

Except of course for the early exits of Curry Man and Sasuke the Great.

[Peru-Yakuza]

I just rented Love Michinoku (show from August of last year), they had Gedo & Jado defending IWGP junior tag team title against The Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask IV, the match was quite good, if only for the fact that the Do's cheat more than anything. The brawl between Dick Togo & Psychic and Masao Orihara & Hideki Nishida rocked, especially when Nishida juices (blood!) and uses a chair on Togo and the interfering Hidaka...

There are small prelim bouts between Macho Pimp, one of the many Japanese Crock... I mean Rock wannabes (the others are Sanshiro Takagi and Yoshiko Tamura), and Chin-nen Hokkai, as well as between Curry Man and Perro Ruso (a combination of Mike Awesome and Nikita Koloff, with ability tending toward the latter.) The heavyweight main event between Kokushi Muso & Hakushi against Hiro Saito & Tatsutoshi Goto isn't much to talk about. I fast-forwarded thru it. I forgot to mention a Judo rules bout between Tsubo Genjin and... Hiromi Yagi. The skilled Yagi throws Genjin and wins the match, but the sore-loser caveman Stunners her. What a jerk...

[q_t_r_n]

Phew, just finished the MPro Title Series. Hectic week this week as I'm off to the Reading Festival (The Strokes. Yay).

I used to watch British wrestling when it was on TV over here (goes misty eyed) and I really enjoyed the combination of old school mat work with some awesome high flying.

Favourites so far:

Kai En Tei
Sasuke
Ohtani (I'd never heard of him before but his match with Ultimo Dragon was the best of J*Crown 96, any info?)

Thanks again for all your help.

[EnigmaDragon]

where did you order the tapes from?

[q_t_r_n]

I ordered the tapes from

http://www.kingoftheshill.com/index.html

They were both very good quality and reasonably priced.

I have also ordered a couple from

http://www.strongstylewrestling.com/sst/

but they have not arrived yet.

[EnigmaDragon]

cool thanks!! I still wish i could just nip down to Tescos and get them but meh i'll go on those sites!

[EnigmaDragon]

Well i emailed the guy from www.kingoftheshill.com about ordering info and i haven't has a reply yet so im gonna try www.strongstyle.com/sst

[EnigmaDragon]

Right e-mailed King of the Shill and still no reply, i'll prob email again later. I've sent another e-mail to SST guy......still nothing....it blows!

[emlyn]

SST is a good dealer, he usually replies and the tapes are pretty good.