Antonio Inoki

Yeah, so watching the older clips of Andre the Giant from that and even rolling around when he's 19 years old training in a French gym and actually being agile and stuff like that, I marked out for that.

I marked out for watching a little bit of him versus Antonio Inoki, Inoki body slamming him.

But, yeah, I marked out for a few things like that.

And then, of course, stuff from TripleMania.

Yeah.

gave the city name the finisher because I think Bomaye stemmed from the fact that Enoki had that fight or whatever the exhibition with Muhammad Ali and Bomaye became a thing that he became synonymous with and then obviously with Nakamura being a disciple of Inoki he you know named Obomaye as probably like a homage to Inoki but yeah that's the I was thinking about Kongo when you said that but you know what I agree with you him I think Shinsuke would have a great TNT title run That's the level we'd be at because I'm still trying to figure out who's going to be the first Japanese AWO champion.

In the beginning, I was like, okay, Konosuke Takeshita, he's a shoo-in, but Okada is Okada, right? Because I don't know, because in my head it's like, you want to build...

Takeshi does the next guy.

AWA, $14,000 in the building on Thanksgiving night in November of – November 28th, 1985, in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Then Verbatim's gave me one more as well that I was looking for mostly America, but this is a hilarious one because it just speaks to Antonio Inoki in the best way possible.

The worst way possible, actually.

Tokyo.

And he did a couple of things.

I remember the very first match with my dad when it was a tag team, Inoki and my dad against Hana Mahamaguchi and Vader.

So my dad was knees on the ground.

You know, he was kneeling on the mat and he was, you know, reverse choke or something on Animal Hamaguchi.

And it's all Antonio Noki stuff and, And some of the videos you have to be a member and pay like three bucks a month.

But there's one of them that's called Inoki, the history of NWF championship battles, part something, part one, part two, part whatever.

But like I flipped, that one's free and it's an hour and I flipped it on.

And right now Antonio Inoki is battling Ivan Koloff, a very thick Ivan Koloff.

but when I was watching it this weekend, they were doing like a marathon.

So on this matches, and we'll have Corey link to this, this particular video that does not, you don't have to pay to get unless I've cracked some code.

We have Inoki versus Koloff, Tiger Jeet Singh, Johnny Powers.

In an NWF battle.

The women's tag match, which featured Moolah.

Larry Sharp against Inoki.

And I heard Larry talk about this many times.

And he said, you know, that was one of the biggest boosts to my career to get to face Inoki.

And he said, Inoki...

Because he hadn't been to Japan yet.

This got him there.

This is what it was all about.