Hello everyone and welcome to the long and winding railroad our look at the the classic era of all Japan wrestling of the 1990s here at post wrestling and joining me this month on this episode this is episode

37 yes correct episode 37 and joining me is first time guests and the first actually first time I've ever recorded something with this particular guest it's it's Bruce Lord the the brood dog as as a point by my my my nemesis brand from New Jersey I can't wait for his episode of the long and winding road how would I just say don't hold your breath because that's never going to happen

goodness yeah no it's I feel kind of a bit of pressure on me here that this is the first time that you and I have done a podcast together we haven't done a G1 review or anything like that and you know look this is a podcast that has featured some very illustrious names

you know from Tom Lawler the world's second biggest boy George fan after my partner to arguably the preeminent western ambassador of this era of wrestling that you know we currently have in Eddie Kingston to my fellow lower mainland or the the wrestling genius Daniel McCabe a man that I know you're a fan of w h who I'll be seeing take on cat power this weekend the fabulous

cometer ballroom for nation extreme wrestling cheddar to my old pal Rob Faye and that's not even to mention the who's who of wrestling writers and analysts you've had on many of whom in all series this many of whom have very much I hope to shape and improve my

understanding and appreciation of pro in general and specifically this period I certainly cannot measure up to those people in terms of

experience or knowledge but I'd like to think that the the excitement and love for pro wrestling that watching just about any match featuring Kenta Kobashi kindles within me means that having me on here won't be a complete waste

of everyone's time w h wow you you forgot to mention john cino and slandering that poor man what a shake my head who do you ever beat actually well what's that go there

we we love john cino here at the logo i hear real real it's it's all it's all ingest john it's all ingest all right so this is episode 37 and and Bruce's pick for the for the message we're going to talk about is featuring the great

Kenta Kobashi I think if you were to build the perfect pro wrestler why do you might say Daniel Bryan or Bryan Danielson and I couldn't argue with that but I would say for my money the perfect pro wrestler is Kenta Kobashi

and there's a lot of reasons why I would say that even though he's not my favorite pillar my favorite pillar is koata because I love koata story

but if I was to pick a guy who I'd build a promotion around it would be kind of Kobashi absolutely um I know that you're a koata guy

but you've also I think really made the case for Kobashi Kobashi excuse me as being just about kind of the ultimate natural baby face

and I'm very much in agreement with you there um I've talked on other podcasts about uh kind of how watching wrestle kingdom nine was a big breakthrough moment for me

but in addition to that there was a period a few years ago when my buddy Alex who I uh do some other non wrestling kind of music related

podcasting with uh he just downloaded a whole big cache of puro and joshi and a few years ago when we were both kind of really getting back into

wrestling hardcore after we finished recording a podcast of our own uh we'd sit back crack a beer and just kind of move

through that archive and just throw a match or two on that really you know oh had a name that we'd heard of or sounded

interesting to us uh and watch our way through that we were going through it kind of blind and totally uh out of

chronology but over a few months um Alex became very much fixated on monami toyota and even went so far as to name one of his cats

after her uh while I got hooked on akira hokuto and kenta kobashi and for me it's not just uh kobashi's fire or intensity

that drew me in or even the quality of his matches in terms of work and oh boy is there a lot of work in the match uh

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