L&WRR #7: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (2/27/00) w/ Ed Kody
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
WH Park walks down the Long & Winding Royal Road with Ed Kody from the Pod Van Dam podcast. Ed and WH skirt along the parameters of the show’s boundaries to the year 2000, discussing a very important match for Jun Akiyama as he takes on former mentor and now rival, Mitsuharu Misawa from February 27 of that year.
WH and Ed discuss their mutual appreciation for Akiyama, the background between him and Misawa going into this match, and the ramifications of the outcome.
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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 limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling.
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| 0:49.1 | items only exclusion supply. Welcome to episode 7 of the Long and Winding Railroad. |
| 1:05.0 | It's episode 7. |
| 1:07.0 | This is actually our first episode of 2021, |
| 1:11.0 | and we're not recording in 2021. We, you know, I tend to record these things about a month in advance, so it's still |
| 1:17.1 | 20-20, but by time you listen to this, it'll be 2021. |
| 1:20.8 | And hopefully, 20-21 is going to be a lot better than 2020. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, the vaccines out there. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm going to get vaccinated when I can. |
| 1:28.8 | You know, there's a priority. |
| 1:30.8 | People are ahead of me in the line. |
| 1:32.3 | That's fine. I'm okay with that. But maybe it's going to be okay. But this is episode 7 and you know we say about the long and whitey row road that it's a look back at the all Japan |
| 1:44.8 | pro wrestling era of the 1990s but we're gonna stretch that a little bit because |
| 1:48.9 | we're gonna look at a match from the year 2000 but it's okay because it's before what we call the exodus, before Masawa takes |
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