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Steve Yohe · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:21 pm Post subject:

John told me last night that the tapes are in the mail. ---Yohe

guren · Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 1205

"Our long national nightmare is over."

DGinnetty · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 107

Tapes have arrived and are being converted at this time. Video quality is absolutely AMAZING! I can't believe I am watching footage from 1977 and it looks this good!

Dan

Steve Yohe · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:04 pm Post subject:

Really....I was worried you had it all in better shape.---Yohe

Steve Yohe · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 12:33 pm Post subject:

I think I have it somewhere, but a Lord Blears vs Leo Garibaldi match 2/3 fall showed up at WC off of you tube. It stars slow,but turns into a very good match. Blears shows some small moves that seem forgotten today.

http://wrestlingclassics.com/.ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=004568

Beyer always says he got his figure four from Blears in Hawaii before turning heel & coming into LA in 1962. Looking at this tape you can see how Dick's fig 4 evolved from Blears' Oxford leg scissors. The grapevine of the leg was combined with Rogers' figure four....thrown in with Dick's quickness, balance & footwork and it became one of wrestling's greatest finishing holds.

In LA, the move was sold just like what Garibaldi did in this match. You know...everyone sold the shit out of it. In a lot of 2/3 fall match, Dick would win the 2nd with the fig 4. Once it was locked in, the referee had to pull it apart. Then in the 3rd fall, you could put in a bunch of spots where the face was in danger of getting beat by it again....and it would be very dramatic because the crowd believed in the move.

You could do mat work and bring real looking wrestling back, if the guys would sell the shit right & put things over....instead of playing Roadwarrior.

Check Jules Strongbow's play by play. I think he was the best.

If I was doing the Destroyer collection, I might put this match in....to show the evolution of the figure 4.----Steve Yohe

DGinnetty · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 107

Steve Yohe · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 1:44 am Post subject:

Dan

How's it going?

Yohe

jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 17235

When I talked to Dan a couple of weeks ago, he had finished converting everything and reviewed it for quality. He thought the conversion looked good. Dan can do some good voodoo when converting old tapes.

He grabbed the version of the 08/18/78 Destroyer-Mil match that was online. That was the one that is in much better quality than your Tape #1027/Destroyer Tape #3 where the first two falls were in extremely bad VQ. He thought the version he grabbed of Youtube ended up looking pretty good.

And to be safe, I also asked him to grab the 08/30/77 Destroyer-Mil match that's online as I never was able to figure out the other source(s) for it.

Also, to make it easier for Kevin, I asked Dan to make dvd copies of his disks listed here earlier in the thread:

http://otherarena.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=453&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=28

Kevin probably has some of that in his big collection, but having Dan's disks labeled would make it easier.

That last one was a little bit of added work as some of the matches have multiple sources that I listed. Dan was going to check each version out and select the one that is the most complete and the best video quality, which Dan is a master at. I remember a few matches over the years where an extra 2-3 minutes become available of something that was originally JIP, and Dan being all over it. Or in the case of the famous 50+ minute All Japan six-man where extra minutes came out, it looks like the whole match but the time didn't match the "official" match time, and Detective Ginnetty went to work studying the match to see where any of it might be cut out. It was pretty cool when he figured out nothing was cut out, and that All Japan just screwed up (or worked) the match time. :)

Anyway, he has a ton of stuff for Kevin.

DGinnetty · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 107

Steve Yohe · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:02 am Post subject:

Dan

What's happening now?

Yohe

jdw · Site Admin Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 17235

Dan was actually waiting for some mailing addresses, which I overlooked in my inbox over at PWO. He should have them shortly and will be send a load of stuff to Kevin and conversion sets our way. :)

Steve Yohe · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:35 pm Post subject:

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Steve Yohe · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:37 pm Post subject:

What is PWO?--Yohe

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