Yoshinari Otgawa vs. Jun Akiyama (9/11/98) | L&WRR #45 w/ Dylan Fox
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Yoshinari Ogawa’s recent retirement from pro wrestling, the Long & Winding Royal Road takes a look at one of his best matches against long-time generational rival, Jun Akiyama from September 11, 1998 at Budokan Hall.
Joining WH Park to talk about this match and Ogawa’s career is The Eastern Lariat's Dylan Fox.
WH and Dylan discuss how Ogawa’s technical style, mixed with his American heel mannerisms, made him stand out in the King’s Road era of All Japan and a real-life heel to many Western fans.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hello everyone. Welcome to the long and winding Royal Road. My name is W.H. Park and this is the show that looks at the greatest era of wrestling |
| 0:20.4 | in the history of this wonderful sport that we all love, not sports entertainment, |
| 0:27.0 | sport, all Japan pro wrestling, Zenihan pro wrestling, the style of Odo, the Royal Road, the Kings Road, whatever you want to call |
| 0:37.2 | it. It's the best. Don't believe any of these people that tell you 2016 to 2024 is the greatest year of wrestling. It's not, it's a |
| 0:46.9 | fucking joke. That's right I'm here to tell you the last nine, eight, nine years of wrestling are a complete |
| 0:55.3 | fucking joke across the world there's pockets of good wrestling out there |
| 1:00.1 | don't get me wrong but for the most part it's a pathetic, a wasteland of sports goofiness, not even |
| 1:07.8 | fucking entertainment. It's not even fucking sports. It's just goofy, goofy ass shit. That's right, and it's led by America. America is |
| 1:19.7 | the leader of goofy ass shit that is that is passes as professional wrestling. And you want to know of |
| 1:23.0 | Goofy-ass shit that is that is passes as professional wrestling and you want to know who the leader of of American goofy-ass shit is? I'm not going to tell you you already know. I don't have to say it. Try not to get us cancelled and get media access revoked for everyone else here |
| 1:37.2 | a post. Just me, I don't care. But anyways, this is the show about all Japan for wrestling in the 90s, and I'm happy to welcome |
| 1:47.2 | back one of my favorite guests, one of my favorite collaborators, and that is Dylan Fox from the Eastern Lariat. |
| 1:53.4 | Dylan, how are you my friend? |
| 1:55.3 | Definitely the recent era of wrestling |
| 1:58.6 | is not the greatest compared to the stuff |
| 2:01.0 | we talk about on this show, on this wonderful long and winding Royal Road |
| 2:05.3 | that you have set up for me and all the people out there but I just want to say thank you for having me |
| 2:10.8 | on again and thank you to all the listeners that have always supported us all the stuff we've done. |
| 2:15.6 | I especially want to shout out one thing for sure and that is your show with Cameron about the Jumbo documentary which I always say our show about |
| 2:26.2 | Kawata had to be both of our best shows like you know ever pretty much but |
| 2:31.5 | then that came out and Cameron just I think he beat me |
| 2:35.1 | unfortunately that Jumbo documentary was so good like you did an amazing job and |
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