Hello everyone and welcome to episode six of the Eggshells podcast companion.

This is an audible companion to Eggshells Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Dome,

a book both physical and digital and soon audio,

uncovering the history of every pro wrestling show in the Tokyo Dome.

And on this podcast I take a different guest each episode to look at each year of

Tokyo Dome history and go a bit beyond the text and my guest this time is a wrestling historian and a fellow author Mr Pat LaPride. Thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Chris. So, um, 1994, now the reason I chose Pat for this episode was really because Pat's the author

or co author of a sister of the squared Circle and like that's a fascinating book about the

history of women's wrestling mainly in North America but really this sort of

saw the peak of women's wrestling in Japan at least in terms of a scale

as all Japan women went into the Tokyo dome for the first and last time.

And if we look at 1994 in terms of news,

it was like, you know, I think 1994,

I was, I don't know about you perhaps, but I was 10 at the 9th or I was 10 at the time so I wasn't super aware of Japanese wrestling but I was more aware of Japan at this point

994 I was 17. I was 17 and I was mainly only watching W. W. W.F. at the time I had watched, know international wrestling here in Montreal when I was

when I was younger but it didn't exist anymore 93 and 94 I mean and I was just starting to get a hold of W.C.W because it wasn't on TV here

before but you know I was I was a Navid magazine reader, so I knew all the guys and I was aware of the guys in Japan that were covered in the magazines, which was our internet at the time for those younger listening.

But yeah, I mean, I wasn't really, I don't recall watching any Japanese match before probably my gosh I would say

probably when the internet started here. So probably like late 90s, early 2000. That's probably where, you know, I first, you know, watch Japanese wrestling because it was simply not available here and I wasn't a tape trader at the time neither so yeah yeah this was it's pick that up. Like the 1994 in Japan, this did you know stupid trivia thing,

but like it saw the Japanese government start up their first website.

So, okay, cool. It's about the inter. up their first website. So I think if you're familiar with governmental websites and

bureaucracy in Japan probably you'd say that website hasn't been updated since 1994.

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