L&WRR #33: Vader vs. Kenta Kobashi (4/16/99) w/ Kieran Lefort

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

WH Park is joined on this month’s episode of The Long & Winding Royal Road by Kieran Lefort from the great podcast, Must See Matches.

They review Kenta Kobashi taking on the man they call Vader in the Champion Carnival final of 1999 held at Budokan Hall on April 16 of that year.

Kieran and WH discuss Vader’s tenure in the WWF and how joining AJPW in 1998 provided a renaissance for his career. They also discuss the match history between the two men and how it plays into the story of this particular match.

Click here to watch the match: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4op5xx

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 limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Long and Winding Roll Road.
0:09.9	My name is VH Park and this is of course the show here at Post Wrestling that looks
0:14.0	at the, you know, I'm going to say it because they are guests today, they must see matches
0:20.4	of Altrupan for wrestling in the 90s.
0:23.1	And the reason I use that phrase is because my guest today is the co-host of a really great
0:28.6	podcast and I think a lot of people who like this particular show should check out.
0:32.6	It's called Must See Matches and one of the co-hosts of that has been a guest on this
0:37.7	show and has contributed to Post Wrestling.
0:40.2	No stranger to people who are fans of Post Wrestling that's Mark Buckleley but I'm,
0:45.1	but the other person who does the show with Mark is Kieran LaFord and he's joining us
0:49.4	today.
0:50.4	Hello Kieran, how are you?
0:51.4	I am fantastic.
0:53.4	It's a lovely gloomy day in London but I've closed my curtain so I can't see it and I've
0:58.1	come to talk wrestling with you.
0:59.7	Oh, thank you so much.
1:01.2	So as of this day recording this, I am about like two and a half hours away from having
1:08.8	dinner with Mike Murray and my good friend and John Pollock because we are going to
1:14.7	go see Game Changer Wrestling here in Toronto and I will be doing a show with John Pollock
1:21.4	post for a show later on that people might be released before this show is released.
1:27.2	Actually the way, you know, podcasting works but I've been given my life thoughts about
1:33.1	that show with John on that particular episode of Post For Us.
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