Now this is more like it. Looking like a real contest instead of a choreographed dance. Love it.
@bigcountry45396 ай бұрын
These two sold this match and the Japanese audience showed their true appreciation for the NWA even before the match started with the flowers and pomp... when it ended, Steamboat showed his true character by handing the belt to Flair and shaking his hand, and waving to the crowd as well... back when pro wrestling was LEGIT!!!!
@manuelper6 ай бұрын
Man, I miss wrestling like this so much. Working, limited high spots, psychology, no spamming of finishers/kick-out, overuse of weapons, etc. This is what pro wrestling should be focused on with some exceptions when the story calls for it.
@JuliusC19735 ай бұрын
Sounds like you are describing Gunther's Matches?
@JuliusC19735 ай бұрын
course you know this was All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) at a time when it was one of the Best Professional Wrestling Promotions on the planet. The WWWF/WWF/WWE during that era wasn't even close.
@AdamPaul22225 ай бұрын
💯💯💯
@neverwintercitizen794515 күн бұрын
Whenever I need to relax with wrestling, I just go back and watch Steamboat/Flair matches. On KZbin or Dailymotion. Just two wrestling giants putting on entertaining and believable shows with elegant, error-free grappling
@rodzor6 ай бұрын
The quality and presentation from Japan from here in the early 80's and even back to the 70's makes it look to me wayyy ahead of it's time. It looks way closer to modern, even the people in the stands.
These two always had such good matches. I love unearthing these AWA and NWA title matches from the 70s and 80s that took part in Japan. The crowd and atmosphere is so unique. Love the Japanese commentary for more authenticity
@jamesbridgewater55822 жыл бұрын
That was a wrestling match!!
@kwasiaking1989 Жыл бұрын
Steamboat, was always a class act. They had a tremendous amount of respect for each other.
@JuliusC1973 Жыл бұрын
Hard to believe that they've know each other for 37 Years?
@HalcyonPure2 жыл бұрын
Please post each and every Flair Steamboat match you may have; probably my favourite marriage in all of wrestling.
Their in ring chemistry with one another was amazing.
@rustykuntz944 ай бұрын
Incredible everytime Flair & Steamboat wrestled.
@janesjanes6 ай бұрын
フレアーの防衛戦にしては珍しくきれいなピンフォール決着
@snarkyguy26572 жыл бұрын
Two masters of wrestling & selling, working the hell for each other.
@JuliusC1973 Жыл бұрын
They had 6 Years of Wrestling each other in Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling by this point. And battled over a number of Mid-Atlantic Championship Belts and NWA Champions Titles. Yes they were pretty evenly matched and could go hold for hold and move for move.
@davestaircrazedlocalactor7949 Жыл бұрын
Best rivalry in Wrestling history. Who knows what might have happened if Steamboat had never gone to the Wwf
@Mr504035 ай бұрын
At this point they had wrestled each other for over 10 years.
@raaawkstaaar4 ай бұрын
@@Mr50403 more like 6 years
@thomasdauphin45508 ай бұрын
The conditioning of these two legends is unreal !
@mikestanislaus11072 жыл бұрын
They remind me of Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter. Absolutely legends!
The 10 Pounds of Gold. The NWA title. Flair. Steamboat. Wow.
@takashikanno39802 жыл бұрын
この二人かつてはアイドルタッグチームだったんだよね。 さすがフレアー試合運びが上手い。
@JohnHoulihan-y5m Жыл бұрын
If Steamboat would have been 10 years younger, he would have won the World Championship belt several times. It's a shame they only ever put it on him one time.
@briannettles6696 ай бұрын
Steamboat came along in the wrong era. This was the period in which the NWA preferred heels as their world champion because the local promoters wanted the heel champion to defend the title against their most popular babyface to generate the biggest gates and make the most money.
@peterw.kocsis25206 ай бұрын
Steamboat won that match in my book.
@たにやん-z1g6 ай бұрын
リッキースティンボードとジミースヌーカのチョップ合戦が好きやった。
@スカイウォーク-g1g2 жыл бұрын
NWA世界ヘビー級のベルトは、これが一番しっくりくるよなぁ👍
@ericshawn37612 жыл бұрын
The wrestlers always look so mad when they finally make their way out of the crowd during the entrance.
@ikerichardson85106 ай бұрын
That's because that part we couldn't fake sometimes guys got stabbed hit with all kind of objects coming to the ring I'm sure they were not happy about having to go through that crowd even steamboat seem to be upset and he was the Babyface😊
@donaldmcgee63345 ай бұрын
Flair & Steamboat has always had the ultimate respect of each other
@dbsommers1 Жыл бұрын
Magnificent.
@reynaldoreyes992710 ай бұрын
Friday, 6/4/1982 (AJPW: Excite Series - Day 19 ) From: Nagaoka, Nigata ( Japan ) Match 10: Main Event: NWA World HW Title Match Ric Flair ( of. MACW: NWA World HW Champion- Day #260 of 631) ( Reign 1 of 8 ) defeated Ricky Steamboat ( of MACW)
@夢見るおじさん-d4o5 ай бұрын
リッキーの入場曲 ライディーン❤😂🎉 ドキドキしてました🎉🎉
@OptimisticMansion-yl1wq10 ай бұрын
People today don’t understand how popular Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat and Tito Santana were back then. They were like rockstars. When they entered the stadium people would go nuts. The Japanese fans loved Steamboat because he looked Asian and he was their “Bruce Lee”. I don’t think wrestlers got paid that much money back then, but if Steamboat was out today with all the social media, he would have been mega rich.
@briannettles6696 ай бұрын
If Steamboat or Tito were in their primes in the 2000s to 2010s, they would have been multiple times world champions. Today, there are more titles, and the title reigns tend to be a lot shorter. Back then, there were only a couple of big-name world titles, the WWF, the NWA, and the AWA, and the champions tended to hold onto the titles for years, thus there was not a whole lot of opportunity for a lot of guys to have world title reigns.
@tajdwg-s8t6 ай бұрын
アメリカでも滅多に見れない夢のようなカード😂
@いっけいアンダーロック6 ай бұрын
昔のレスラーにあって 今のレスラーに無いもの それは「色気」
@古田匡弘-u6l6 ай бұрын
ナウいタイトルマッチ‼️
@中山勉-n7l4 ай бұрын
ナウイは死語だね!(笑)
@joesalyers6 ай бұрын
I'm shocked they only went 20 minutes. LOL!! Ricky Steamboat was the perfect and greatest rival of Flair and the only man who was his equal in the ring!
@woltzwurld67605 ай бұрын
Flair was the ultimate bad guy, I “hated” him in ‘82
@Raphael-u9iАй бұрын
Flair literally wrestled the same match his entire career
@Yarimakuri586 ай бұрын
リッキーのセコンドに川田利明が、フレアーのセコンドにターザン後藤がそれぞれいる。
@SirLuciferVampiro Жыл бұрын
I just don't understand why wrestling isn't like this anymore....Sigh, watching this makes me hate the Young Bucks so much, lol....
@natetsutsumi7363 Жыл бұрын
AMEN or LIKEWISE!
@aaaaa-nw8hc11 ай бұрын
I hate Romans Reigns and Seths Rollings of new wrestling.
@vivahernando19 ай бұрын
Because the business got exposed to the public in the 90s. When I watched in the 80s we thought it was real. Can’t put the toothpaste back in
@SirLuciferVampiro9 ай бұрын
@@vivahernando1 Dude, wtf are you talking about? The business was actually exposed in the 30's and throughout the years people always knew that it was "fakish". It became "official" in the 90's when McMahon did it.....And as far as "can't put the toothpaste back in" is concerned, sorry but I disagree, unlike you I don't actually need it to be "real" to enjoy it. I just needed it to look real and pretend that it was real. And that IS the art of professional wrestling not the meaningless acrobatic bullsh#t we have today.........
@ddave70268 ай бұрын
Society got cheap and quick, they want fast-paced crap instead an actual mix of technical wrestling with high spots plus the allure of Kayfabe It's sad. It's a desperate cry of a fast food culture nowadays. Thank God for KZbin!! This will never die
@hk-fh5vh6 ай бұрын
リックフレアーのうまさよ
@jdbankshot Жыл бұрын
wow!!
@JonathanMungo-iw4ut3 ай бұрын
Does anyone remember when Steamboat saved Don Kernodle by ripping open the steel cage door!? Ivan an Nikita were beating him ti death in the cage!?
@正幸秦野2 жыл бұрын
リックフレアーはケチっぽい顔をしているが、凄い気前が いいらしぃ。
@NEWYORKGIANTS1FAN6 ай бұрын
Ric Flair has always said his toughest all time opponent is Ricky Steamboat ( The Dragon )
If only Steamboat put the “Shoot” on starting 17:17. NWA Champion.
@shiya91326 ай бұрын
リッキー・スティムボート! アジア系の顔立ちですごいイケメンですね
@紫秩父5 ай бұрын
辻よしなりさんなら、間違いなく『戦う蟹江敬三』って実況する😂
@firstnamefamilyname58445 ай бұрын
母親が日本人なんだよね。
@デコポン-z2c6 ай бұрын
フレアーが日本でのNWA戦でピンフォール負けをしたのは東京ドームでの藤波戦だけ
@KEVS69754 ай бұрын
Flair really sold that Chop Ha 🤣
@antoniobernardino4455 ай бұрын
Como esse Ricky Flair apanha hein !
@zackjay7110 ай бұрын
Harder for them to actually get to the ring.
@russenterprise65025 ай бұрын
Wonder why Steamboat wasn’t declared as the first Japanese American to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, it was history making but he was also first of Asian decent to win that title. Seems like racism there 😔
The territory system was slowly dying out when Vince McMahon Jr. Bought the WWF from his father in 1982 and started poaching all the talent from every territory. But Vince struggled with getting the southern fans, who supported the NWA, to switch over to his product. Flair was very over in the South and was the main reason the NWA stayed afloat as long as it did until Ted Turner purchased the company and renamed it to WCW. I loved the Crockett Jr. era of the 80s but he didn't have the infrastructure to compete with Vince. Flair always loved facing Steamboat. He's said on numerous occasions that Steamboat was one of his favorite opponents.
@岡洋介-g3g6 ай бұрын
@@Sweeptheleg83 Thank you very much for answering my comment and telling me the details. I can speak and understand English. There were a lot of proーwrestler I like. My favorite are Bruiser Brody and JohnーStanley Hansen(Stan Hansen)、Giant Baba、Harley Race, etc.
@めひこメヒコ6 ай бұрын
11:40
@tedvan552 жыл бұрын
This no Jim Ross announcer!
@JuliusC19732 жыл бұрын
Jim Ross was working for Mid-South Wrestling at that point in time, not All Japan Pro Wrestling, nor New Japan Pro Wrestling.
@rodzor8 ай бұрын
@@JuliusC1973lol...I think the OP was just saying that this announcer isn't as good as Jim Ross...
@JuliusC19738 ай бұрын
@@rodzor When it comes to Professional Wresting Play by Play, manny Fans have Him Ross on their Mount Rushmore of Professional Wrestling Announcers. I rank Jim Ross up there with The Legendary Gordon Solie and Lance Russell.
@rodzor8 ай бұрын
@@JuliusC1973 Same, I'd have Gorilla Monsoon on there too just for nostalgia. Also, the old Portland Wrestling announcer Frank Bonnema was very good.