L&WRR #24: Misawa & Kobashi vs. Kawada & Taue (6/9/95) w/ John Pollock

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🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

WH Park welcomes his POST Puroresu co-host John Pollock to the Long & Winding Royal Road for the very first time!

They discuss what many consider to be the greatest tag team match in wrestling history: Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue from June 9th, 1995 for the World Tag Team Titles.

WH and John take a look at the different stories and angles leading into the match, the rivalry between Misawa and Kawada, and the rise of Kobashi in All Japan.

Watch this match: https://youtu.be/X2OLvGT5ROU

WH Park and guests 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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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the long and winding railroad.
0:11.0	My name is Debbie H. Park and for those of you watching the video of this, you can probably
0:15.6	tell who my co-host is today.
0:18.4	It's one John Pollock making his L&W RR debut here, John Howard.
0:24.1	I'm doing well, WH.
0:25.4	Thank you for the invite.
0:26.4	This was a month in the making when you reached out to me.
0:29.3	So I'm glad that we can sit down and do this show.
0:32.7	It has been a long and winding railroad for us to get here.
0:36.2	Yes it has been.
0:37.2	And I wanted to say this particular match for you because it's one of my favorite matches
0:43.5	in.
0:44.5	And you're one of my favorite people to talk to you about anything about wrestling.
0:47.6	But as well as just life in general.
0:49.8	So I thought who can do this show with me and I thought my list was you, John Pollock
0:55.9	is my number one choice to talk about this particular match and we'll talk about what
1:00.4	this match is in a second.
1:02.5	This is episode 24 of the long and winding railroad and normally we do have a biography
1:09.3	episode in these slots but I bumped it for this match, for this guest because it's also
1:16.7	because as of today, John, the day we're recording, we're actually recording this,
1:20.4	not the day we're releasing it.
1:21.6	Yes.
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