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Eddie Kingston reviews Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada (6/12/98) | L&WRR #22

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

AEW wrestler Eddie Kingston walks the Long & Winding Royal Road with WH Park to discuss one of his favorite matches – the Triple Crown Title match between champion Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi from June 12, 1998.

Watch the match on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw43AgtRRmI

WH asks Eddie about his origins as a fan of 1990s AJPW and how it has influenced his own wrestling style. They also discuss the motivations and amazing selling from both Kawada and Kobashi in this match.

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WH Park and a special guest look back at the greatest matches of All Japan Pro Wrestling from the 1990s in the Long & Winding Royal Road, a monthly podcast from POST Wrestling.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This show dedicated to the greatest period of in-ring wrestling in the history of professional

0:19.2

wrestling, at least in my opinion, and in the opinion of many people, including my guest

0:23.6

today, who will get to it in a second, but yeah, so this show is a celebration of

0:29.6

1990s, all Japan for wrestling, the era of the Royal Road, the Kings Road, the greatest booker,

0:36.0

maybe in the history of professional wrestling, giant boba, and his, and his, and his, you know,

0:41.1

his, the people who, who brought his vision to life, the four pillars, Mr. Harmasawa,

0:46.8

Toshaki Koata, Kenikabashi, Akira Tauai, and of course, Stan Hansen,

0:52.4

Junakiama, and others, later on, Vader, he would come in and he'd be part of that whole scene as

0:58.2

well, great stuff, and, and as pop people who are on the YouTube can see who are very, very special

1:04.6

guests here on episode 22 is, is a big fan of 1990s, all Japan for wrestling, and, uh, probably,

1:13.4

I would say right now in 2022, one of the most popular wrestlers in the world today, and that's

1:20.1

Eddie Kingston from AEW, Eddie, how are you today? As you can see, I'm very uncomfortable with

1:26.0

compliments, but, uh, yeah, we're here to talk about my favorite time period in wrestling, um,

1:33.8

and two guys who inspire me all the time, uh, in Koata and Kobashi, and, um, that's why we're

1:42.6

certain colors in the ring for those who don't know why, and, um, also, I think this is the perfect

1:51.2

match to introduce new people to the style, to what all Japan 90s was, because to me, this is a

1:59.2

mixture of the old, old way they would do the matches, and then lead into the, the head drops that

2:06.4

became pretty dangerous by 98, 99. Was interesting. It is interesting you say that, because like, I really

2:14.6

feel, we'll get to the match a bit more. I do want to get some asking a couple of questions for

2:19.4

us about your, your fandom of this, of these areas. Oh, also just one thing about this match,

2:25.0

that I said earlier before we went live, that I've honestly watched this match, almost, almost

2:33.2

every big match I've had, I've watched, I've watched this match just for inspiration, or just,

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