History of Big Japan Pro Wrestling - 1999 (Part One)
Finally got the next part done after a long wait. Part two is in the works to complete episode 5, but as the years have more and more footage to comb through and translate, things are taking a lot longer than earlier episodes.
These are made for the die hard Big Japan sickos, but I think any puro fan can learn something given Big Japan is basically the top indie in Japan until DDT breaks through, and there's tons of cross overs with various other companies and wrestlers. Lots of good stuff in 1999. Ryuji Yamakawa, Tomoaki Honma, and Shadow WX continue to raise the bar to levels we've never seen before in the deathmatch world. Future deathmatch legend Ryuji Ito debuts. Great Kojika and Minoru Fujita have a major falling out. We finally get a wrestling bear... sort of. Good stuff this year.
My Youtube Channel also has a playlist with every episode. Everything is unlisted due to copyright laws getting things taken down immediately. If it's not the Samurai TV logo that I try and cover up it's the licensed music, but I didn't want to compromise and wanted to feature music that was commonly used for Big Japan at the time, a lot of Joe Satriani and Tak Matsumoto among others. Anyway, enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/@dai_nihon_die_hard - Back up links here