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wrestling blog. responsible for everyone's annoying year projects. thoughts by @elhijodelsimon. drops on fridays. https://ko-fi.com/elhijodelsimon -- commissions www.handwerkreviews.wordpress.com -- website
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PROGRAMMING UPDATE:

with the exception of any halloween themed (monsters, spookiness, Halloween Havoc) commissions, i will be taking next week off after a 40,000+ word monster. November 7th will be an all commission drop. do what you will with that if you want.
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2001 ~ THE YEAR IN LISTS

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2001 ~ THE YEAR IN LISTS
Hello. Welcome to the only year-end list countdown that matters. I certainly didn’t come up with the idea of a blog post or piece of work in general summing up the year, even if…
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coming this friday, october 24th, a cumbersome giant destined to annoy or upset everyone in one way or another before ultimately being recognized as yet another classic
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 3d
coming this friday, october 24th, a cumbersome giant destined to annoy or upset everyone in one way or another before ultimately being recognized as yet another classic
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 7d
nothing for you today. writing YIL is like eating an elephant and those first few bites are always the hardest. take this time to catch up on 2001 if you haven't, and maybe like or RT some of your favorites. also don't let this dissuade you from pounding the ko-fi, etc.
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probably not next week, but definitely by the end of the month. now with 100% more stories about 9/11 than any other edition.
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Randy Orton vs. Shane McMahon, WWE No Way Out (2/15/2009)
Commissions continue again, this one coming from regular Ko-fi contributor RiRi. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling matches…
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Steve Grey vs. Jim Breaks, Joint Promotions (5/7/1983)
Commissions continue again, this one coming from Ko-fi contributor Flamingo Lettuce. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types of stuff. People tend to choose wrestling mat…
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The Undertaker vs. Mankind, WWF King of the Ring (6/28/1998)
Commissions continue again, this one coming from friend of the program and frequent and generous Ko-fi contributor @beenthrifty. You can be like them and pay me to write about all different types o…
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Shinjiro Ohtani/Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Masato Tanaka/Kohei Sato, Samurai TV 5th Anniversary (12/28/2001)
This entire show, celebrating the fifth anniversary of Samurai TV as you may have gleaned, is pretty cool. With offer matches rom BJW, ARSION, NJPW’s younger boys, Michinoku Pro, DDT, and thi…
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Chris Jericho vs. The Rock vs. Kurt Angle, WWF Raw (12/24/2001)
This was for Jericho’s WWF Undisputed Title. I’ve got a soft spot for this match, and it is almost entirely nostalgia. Several years ago, I remember talking to someone younger, and they…
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Tajiri Claus vs. Bubba Claus, WWF Raw (12/24/2001)
Look, alright. I am not suggesting the WWF has found its fastball again. I am not suggesting this is an incredible match that wildly overachieves. I am not even going to tell you that this isn&#821…
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Meiko Satomura/Toshiyo Yamada vs. Chikayo Nagashima/Carlos Amano, GAEA Deep Endless 2001 Day Five (12/24/2001)
As many promotions do, GAEA runs a smaller show at the end of the year with no real stakes, whether explicit or implicit, attached to many of the matches, and the main event of that show sees Meiko…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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El Hijo del Santo vs. La Parka, Monterrey (12/23/2001)
You’ve found your way here, and given that this is something of a niche site even among wrestling fans, I’ll assume you at least know a little something about this match. Either you&#82…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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Shinya Hashimoto vs. Steve Corino vs. Dylan Night vs. Gary Steele, PWF International Ironman Challenge (12/16/2001)
This was a four way thirty minute Iron Man Match for the (unjustly) vacant NWA World Heavyweight Title. It’s a match I’d put off watching for, I don’t know, probably at least a de…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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The Amazing Red/The SAT vs. Brian XL/Divine Storm, CZW Cage of Death III (12/15/2001)
This was an elimination match. I don’t know how to explain to you that this ruled. Really, it shouldn’t have. Look at it on paper, and I wouldn’t blame you if your face scrunched …
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Aja Kong vs. Meiko Satomura, GAEA Deep Endless 2001 Day Four (12/15/2001)
This was for Kong’s AAAW Heavyweight Title. For the second December in a row, after doing the same for Ayako Hamada in ARSION in 2000, Aja Kong (effectively) ends a joshi promotion’s ye…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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Mayumi Ozaki/KAORU vs. Las Cachorras Orientales, GAEA Deep Endless 2001 Day Four (12/15/2001)
This was a moneyball ladder match for 5 million yen. For those less familiar with what that means, which I imagine to almost everybody reading this, this means that in a ladder match for a five mil…
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Steve Austin vs. Booker T, WWF Smackdown (12/13/2001)
Okay, so yes, this is not technically a match. It is not on the record books, it is not inside of the ring, there are no pinfalls or submissions and there’s really only one move we’d re…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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TenKoji vs. Mike Barton/Jim Steele, NJPW G1 Tag League 2001 Final (12/11/2001)
This was the finals of the 2001 G1 Tag League tournament. It is not an ideal set up that they have. Mike Barton and Jim Steele, not the strongest team that could have been sent over for an AJPW vs.…
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Chris Jericho vs. Steve Austin, WWF Raw (12/10/2001)
This was an escape only steel cage match for Jericho’s new WWF Undisputed Title. For the last six months, ever since a three man feud very clearly carried off by Austin and Benoit that also h…
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Rob Van Dam vs. The Undertaker, WWF Vengeance (12/9/2001)
This was for Van Dam’s WWF Hardcore Title. Once again, the RVD work that really does something for me — with a few exceptions, of course — is less the pre-ordained Great Match wor…
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El Hijo Del Santo/La Parka/Lizmark Jr. vs. Bestia Salvaje/Scorpio Jr./Emilio Charles Jr., Monterrey (12/9/2001)
I am not writing about this match because of the quality of it. This is not to say the quality is lacking, or at least that the quality is lacking given what it has to work with. Lizmark Jr. is not…
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Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Naomichi Marufuji, NOAH Navigation in Raging Ocean 2001 Day Fourteen (12/9/2001)
This was for Takaiwa’s GHC Junior Heavyweight Title. I doubt it’s going to come as some great surprise to many of you who’ve been reading for some time, and definitely not to anyo…
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HANDWERK @handwerkreviews.bsky.social · 14d
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OH-Gun (Shinya Hashimoto/Naoya Ogawa) vs. Tom Howard/Mark Kerr, ZERO-ONE Shingeki IV (12/9/2001)
To help solve his problem with Cannon Films martial arts commando villain Tom Howard, as well even out his new backup in The Smashing Machine, Naoya Ogawa and Shinya Hashimoto attempt to end, or at…
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