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Alan Boon

British pro wrestling journalist and columnist who wrote "This Week in British Wrestling" for the Wrestling Observer Newsletter/F4WOnline.

Sep 29, 2026

27:55
Do you feel like that's too late because some of those territories had closed by that point? Like you'd be better off going
28:01
like 81? You could.
28:04
I was trying to push it as late as I could because I was thinking...
28:11
if we have that starting point as when everything was real wrestling guys in trunks doing basic holds, just to think of that as whether that's the 1910s or whatever, you think of that as your starting point.
28:21
I was trying to go as further away from that as possible without getting to the point where things really started to Guys really started to blend things.
28:32
And also a big thing that I was using was the UK style, which I think the UK style was its own thing and a very distinct, very enjoyable for a lot of people form of wrestling style.
28:49
up until it died in what, like 87, 88.

51 MINS LATER

79:26
I was like, I feel like that one segment... like did more for like selling akira as a as a cool guy than like anything he's done in new japan

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