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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Masanobu Fuchi’s Book, Part I

After months of careful and tedious work I’ve translated several books written by or about the fabled Four Heavenly Kings of All Japan: Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Akira Taue, and Mitsuharu Misawa. So now that we know so much more about these legendary wrestlers’ lives and careers it’s time to turn the clock back even […]...2025
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• Misawa and Kobashi vs Kawada and Taue – The Battle of the Four Pillars of Heaven
‘On This Day’ is a commemorative article series dedicated to specific events, matches, and occurrences in wrestling history with Misawa and Kobashi vs Kawada and Taue – the Battle of the Four Pillars of Heaven. Mitsuharu Misawa. Kenta Kobashi. Toshiaki Kawada. Akira Taue. These four men are collectively known in Japan as Shitennou. That roughly [...]...2025
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Mitsuharu Misawa’s Books, Part I

Akira Taue was an easy wrestler to get through because he only has one book. Toshiaki Kawada technically has two but his second one talks about the ramen business and not wrestling so that’s nor particularly relevant. Kenta Kobashi has published four books but there’s a lot of repetition across them so it wasn’t too […]...2025
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• (Almost) 5-Star Match Reviews: Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata – NOAH, June 6, 2003

I’m taking a break from translating Japanese books go back to reviewing matches. But this time the two topics are related since one of the comments on my Akira Taue book reviews suggested this as a “hidden gem” and “an absolute blast of a sprint”. And you know what? He was right. Most of Taue’s […]...2025
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Akira Taue’s Autobiography, Part VI

Akira Taue had an interesting career as the ultimate utility player in All Japan and beyond. He was a jack of all trades that could fit into any role and succeed in it. Even though he didn’t have much time directly in the spotlight he was always close by. As such it’s interesting to see […]...2025
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Akira Taue’s Autobiography, Part V

Jumbo Tsuruta’s departure leaves Akira Taue in an odd place. With Tsuruta sidelined indefinitely due to hepatitis the last real remnant of AJPW’s old guard disappears without ever cleanly putting the next generation over decisively. This loss of a main event star, coupled with Tenryu’s departure a mere two years earlier, leaves Giant Baba in […]...2025
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• Found Footage Friday: TAJIRI~! HHH~! BABA~! EIGEN~! MVC~! SPIVEY~! FURNAS~!
Dr. Death Steve Williams/Terry Gordy vs. Dan Spivey/Doug Furnas AJPW 10/19/90MD: I like Kroffat as much as the next guy, move even, but Spivey being in there instead increased the hoss level considerably. This was heated from the start too. Doc had it out for Furnas for some reason. He gave him the middle finger before the match. Furnas returned the favor by swinging a kick at him as he was squari...2024
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• Found Footage Friday: SANTO VS CASAS~! DEATON~! KABUKI~! TINIEBLAS~! WAGNER~! ABBY~! TAUE~! SMOTHERS~!
Hijo del Santo/Tinieblas Jr. vs. Negro Casas/Dr. Wagner Jr. WWOMD: This is almost certainly Found and not New and there are a couple of probably new videos on the channel but I wanted to watch Santo vs Casas so that's what we're watching. This was 2/3 falls and went closer to 15 as there was a pre-taped interview with Tinieblas after the primera. That's the only Alushe appearance in case you're wo...2023
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"This match also includes something unusual as far as All Japan classics are concerned: Akira Taue as […]"

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"In this case, All Japan Pro Wrestling’s “Four Pillars of Heaven”: Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, and Akira Taue."

• Found Footage Friday: BABY TAUE~! HARA~! BRET~! VIRGIL~! BABY MONEY INC~! BLONDY~!
Akira Taue vs. Ashura Hara AJPW 10/28/88MD: This isn't long, but if I'm not mistaken, it might be the earliest Taue singles match on tape. And honestly? It wildly overachieves. I'm used to 89 and even into 90 Taue who is trying to figure out how to be Taue. This is not that guy. This is a big athletic guy trying to figure any of it out. And he's trying to do so against Hara who is stoic and brutal...2024
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• Found Footage Friday: SANTO VS CASAS~! DEATON~! KABUKI~! TINIEBLAS~! WAGNER~! ABBY~! TAUE~! SMOTHERS~!
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• Dean Rasmussen, Our Greatest Wrestling Writer, is Gone
Dean Rasmussen, a man whose wrestling writing was so perfect that literally any wrestling writer presently worth reading stole liberally from, has passed. Without DEAN's passionate, insightful, real, hilarious, and bracing writing, I doubt that I would be writing about pro wrestling today. I discovered the Death Valley Driver Video Review while in college, when they released either the 2nd or 3rd ...2023
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
ShopAEW.com On Sunday (May 28), Darby Allin & Jungle Boy Jack Perry will get in the ring with Sammy Guevara & Maxwell Jacob Friedman for a 4Way with MJF’s AEW World title on the line. It’s not just any 4Way, though. It’s a 4Way with the young men AEW labeled its “Four Young Pillars” back in 2021, after Friedman used the term on Dynamite. “We’re on the precipice of something truly specta...2023
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• 5-Star BOOK Reviews: Akira Taue’s Autobiography, Parts III and IV
Akira Taue doesn’t describe himself as a wrestling fan. He didn’t have some kind of childhood awakening like Kawada, or any innate desire to be famous like Misawa, or a constant 24/7 obsession with it like Kobashi. For Taue, wrestling was a job, a means to feed his family. At first glance someone like that […]...2025
• Found Footage Friday: TAJIRI~! HHH~! BABA~! EIGEN~! MVC~! SPIVEY~! FURNAS~!
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• Found Footage Friday: BABY TAUE~! HARA~! BRET~! VIRGIL~! BABY MONEY INC~! BLONDY~!
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• Found Footage Friday: SANTO VS CASAS~! DEATON~! KABUKI~! TINIEBLAS~! WAGNER~! ABBY~! TAUE~! SMOTHERS~!
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• Found Footage Friday: TSURUTA-GUN~! VS~! SUPER~! GENERATION~! ARMY~! BARR~! DANDY~! PANTHER~! CHARLES~! ESTRADA~! RAYO~! HERMANOS DINOMITA~!
Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi NJPW 3/3/91 MD: Oops, this one's on me guys, sorry. There was a big dump of handhelds that came into the community back in 2018 and it was a lot to parse through. Over the years, we've covered a lot here, and I'd had reached out to all the usual tape trading subjects from years past to see what was really n...2023
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• All Time MOTY List Head to Head 2003: Taue vs. Nagata VS. Lesnar vs. Mysterio
Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata NOAH 6/6/03ER: This is a match for the Taue fans. This is a Taue match. It's a match you can show any undesirable Taue-doubter as evidence of his deserved rep as a Pillar. I also understand that anyone who is reading this wouldn't bother wasting their fleeting life's time trying to convert a Taue-doubter at this point, but within this hypothetical, this match is a Taue M...2023
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
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• Dean Rasmussen, Our Greatest Wrestling Writer, is Gone
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• Darby Allin & Jungle Boy weigh in on ‘Four Pillars of AEW’ label
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• Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue in the GOAT Tag Match (and other Dream Matches!)

Welcome back to more Dream Matches! With the amazing Misawa/Taue match from last week reviewed, people brought up how it informs the June 9th 1995 tag match… one which has gone into wrestling lore as “The Best Tag Match Ever”. And HOLY SHIT does it live up to that hype, as it becomes the Ur […]...2024
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• Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (and other Dream Matches!)

Welcome back to more Dream Matches! This week I have the GOOD SHIT- King’s Road Style! Mitsuharu Misawa vs. another one of the Four Pillars- the huge Akira Taue! A Champion Carnival Final seeing some of the best “putting over the move” selling I’ve ever seen! Next up, a match of equal magnitude: The Power […]...2024
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• 5-Star Match Reviews: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue – AJPW Champion Carnival 1995
Few wrestlers better define the term ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ than Akira Taue. At first glance he didn’t look like much: a lanky Giant Baba copycat that moved slowly and lacked power behind his moves. And yet this unimposing man is part of the most fabled quartet in modern Japanese history (The […]...2024
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• (Almost) 5-Star Match Reviews: Tsuruta, Fuchi & Kabuki vs. Misawa, Taue & Kobashi – AJPW, May 26, 1990
This is the match that started a legendary two-year war between Jumbo Tsuruta and Mitsuharu Misawa. That brutal war carried All Japan until Tsuruta’s unfortunate and premature departure and while it went on All Japan was white hot. This match also includes something unusual as far as All Japan classics are concerned: Akira Taue as […]...2024
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• Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi vs. Misawa, Kawada & Kobashi (Part Three- and other Dream Matches!)

Welcome back to more Dream Matches! This time, I have the last match in the great AJPW trilogy from 1990-92, as Jumbo Tsuruta leads aging shitbird Masanobu Fuchi & young upstart Akira Taue against Mitsuharu Misawa & the next generation of superstars- Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi! This one pays off all the dramatic struggles […]...2023
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• Jumbo, Taue & Fuchi vs. Misawa, Kawada & Kobashi (Match Two!)

* It’s time for a rarity! A Friday Dream Matches, this one with just one bout! The sequel to the one I just did! Next week I’ll complete the trilogy! JUMBO TSURUTA, AKIRA TAUE & MASANOBU FUCHI vs. THE KIDS WHO WON’T GET THE FUCK OFF JUMBO’S LAWN (Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi): […]...2023
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• Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi (and other Dream Matches!)

Welcome back to more Dream Matches! This time… a GOOD match! It’s part of my trilogy of All Japan Legendary Six-Mans, as Jumbo Tsuruta leads his two minions (young ex-sumo Akira Taue and lightweight dickhead Masa Fuchi) against AJPW’s young upstarts- Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaki Kawada! Come see Kobashi’s best “fiery young guy” […]...2023
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• Found Footage Friday: TAJIRI~! HHH~! BABA~! EIGEN~! MVC~! SPIVEY~! FURNAS~!
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• Found Footage Friday: BABY TAUE~! HARA~! BRET~! VIRGIL~! BABY MONEY INC~! BLONDY~!
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• Found Footage Friday: TSURUTA-GUN~! VS~! SUPER~! GENERATION~! ARMY~! BARR~! DANDY~! PANTHER~! CHARLES~! ESTRADA~! RAYO~! HERMANOS DINOMITA~!
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• All Time MOTY List Head to Head 2003: Taue vs. Nagata VS. Lesnar vs. Mysterio
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• Found Footage Friday: TAJIRI~! HHH~! BABA~! EIGEN~! MVC~! SPIVEY~! FURNAS~!
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• Dean Rasmussen, Our Greatest Wrestling Writer, is Gone
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