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Lee Casebolt
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Jul 12, 01:13 PM
🤼 Inoki, breaking off on his own at 29, brought in 48yo Karl Gotch to work his first main event. The nearest modern equivalent I can come up with is if Bronn Breaker started his own company and worked Josh Barnett on top, which sounds cool as shit now that I say it out loud.
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"それでも、ゴッチ自身のタイトルを返上しまして、それから無間の抵抗で実力世界一を合合していたんです。 もう、とにかく世界は急遽なしという、本当に強いレスラーだったんですね。 さあ、この技を見てみましょう。 さあ、この猪木・ゴッチ二人を見てますと、もうプロレスの背負り、基本に忠実だという感じがいたしますね。 プロレスの脚検、脚検ですね。"
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Lee Casebolt
@leecasebolt.bsky.social
· Jul 10, 08:27 PM
🤼 Inoki, breaking off on his own at 29, brought in 48yo Karl Gotch to work his first main event. The nearest modern equivalent I can come up with is if Bronn Breaker started his own company and worked Josh Barnett on top, which sounds cool as shit now that I say it out loud.
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">🤼 Gotch tried a couple different tricks off of this overhook - traditional whizzer kick and a more harai-goshi style version - before spinning into this almost lat drop arm throw.</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 08:50 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">🤼 Zero surprise Gotch has a textbook German suplex - he wrote the textbook.</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&quot;&gt;· Jul 10, 09:03 PM&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&quot;&gt;🤼 The wildest thing in this whole match is Inoki putting Gotch over clean as a whistle with this fairly basic counter throw. He&amp;#39;s Antonio Inoki! It&amp;#39;s his show! He gave Gotch like 75% of the offense! Incredible choice for a company debut.&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;quot;&amp;gt;🤼 Even if you&amp;amp;#39;d never seen him before, I think you could see Gotch had clearly lost a step but is still world class. Makes me crazy that there&amp;amp;#39;s no real footage of him in his prime. There&amp;amp;#39;s a &amp;amp;#39;61 match vs Bob Geigel that probably rules, &amp;amp;#39;67 vs Bockwinkel gotta be incredible, &amp;amp;#39;63 vs Thesz, etc etc.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
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&amp;amp;lt;p class=&amp;amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;I just pulled up Gotch&amp;amp;amp;#39;s Canadian results to see if he came out here. From October &amp;amp;amp;#39;64 to March &amp;amp;amp;#39;65 he worked for Big Time (Stu Hart &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Al Oeming&amp;amp;amp;#39;s precursor to Stampede) and NWA Vancouver. Lots of time limit draws with Don Leo Jonathan, and a title shot against Thesz in Vancouver.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;
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&amp;amp;amp;lt;p class=&amp;amp;amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;I just love the notion of all these beer-bellied sharecroppers watching two absolute masters go to an hour long draw. Later in the decade we&amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;d get Dory Jr and Billy Robinson filling those roles.&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 09:30 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">JFC, we've really lost grappling as part of contemporary pro wrestling, haven't we?</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 10, 09:32 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">It&#39;s funny because there are a ton of modern wrestlers with legit BJJ, MMA, amateur wrestling, judo, etc. experience and only a small fraction of them are any good at putting it in their ring work. The ceiling is very high but the floor is subterranean.</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&quot;&gt;· Jul 10, 09:34 PM&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&quot;&gt;I also suspect bookers don&amp;#39;t submissions, groundwork, and chain wrestling would draw money in 2026 North America.
I want them to be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&amp;quot;&amp;gt;· Jul 10, 09:35 PM&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;
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&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;quot;&amp;gt;dont THINK it would draw money.
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