Why did Baba refuse to put his hatred of Inoki aside to do this match just once? They would've sold out the Dome instantlyThere's never been another case like this in wrestling, of two guys who started wrestling on the same night, who would define the wrestling culture in their country with two rival companiesBaba should've let it go just for one night
Baba was in the right. Fuck Inoki, and fuck marks
>>20894672Giant Baba is the one man in all of wrestling history that valued his dignity more than money. To him, it was worth throwing all that money away just to not give Inoki the satisfaction of getting what he wanted
>>20894672Both these guys suck and “giant” baba lol dudes he’s Chinese they’re all like 5’7” and his arms where 10” around he would’ve been lucky to have been a referee in the WWF
They did do shows together at the Tokyo dome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF/AJPW/NJPW_Wrestling_Summithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Pro_Wrestling_Tokyo_Dome_Show
There’s actually very few fans who watch different promotions. New Japan highlighting big Japan back in the day may have actually got eyes on them. But every new Japan fan knew there was also an all Japan and just didn’t watch it and vice versa.
>>20895103The styles were different enough for people to watch one and not the otherUnironically not too dissimilar to how it is now with WWE and AEW
>>20894672Inoki wouldn't fuck Baba's wife
>>20895303Baba's cock still worked in those days.He was pretty athletic in his prime, was honestly right up there with Andre as the best giant of all time.But his body disintegrated extremely fast, faster than even Andre's. He was really impressive in the 60s but by the mid 70s he was already broken down.
>>20895367Baba was always a cuck
>>20894672Caring about gook indie wrestlers never made sense to me
>>20895371well you're the expert in being a cuck so ill concede
>>20895391you're right brohausen i lovehausen danhausen because he sells merchhausenOOOO WHOA OOOOOOOO CANT WAIT TO SINGALONG TO SOME THEMESWHOAAA OOOHHHH
>>20894672Because Inoki went to the gym and Baba hated faggots.
>>20895403I am an expert on cucking, I went to the "How To Cuck Japanese Men" lecture/seminar hosted by John Laurinaitis
it was supposed to happen in 1980 but inoki double-crossed baba by immediately going to the media right after their reunion tag match in 1979 and basically talking shit which baba seen as the final betrayalprobably wouldn't happen anyway because neither man would want to lose to the other and had huge fucking egos, but still
>>20895463But Baba was a faggot, it's been an open secret for years.
>>20895073>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Pro_Wrestling_Tokyo_Dome_Show>Johnny Ace in the semi main with the legends of AJPWstill so weird
it wasn't a question of who would go over because in that era DQ's in big matches were fine so they would've just had a couple big name foreigners run in.
>>20895367Babas not even in the top 20 big men
>>20894672They didn’t like each other because they saw themselves as heirs to their mentor Rikidōzan.>>20894712Inoki was more of an Anti Anti Smark like Baba.>>20894782Ragebait.>>20895391Yeah, we should care about the Amerimutts Wrestlers of 2002 to now in Muttmerica then.
>>20897839Inoki was Gotch's heir, fuck that k*rean dog!
>>20896972I remember him being the go to "did you know he had a 5 star match?" guy before throw away tag matches and multiman ladder matches started getting them.
>>20895391lmao you watch this
>>20895463>maybe he thought their form was off!
>>20895391The demented weeb faggots with their gook fetish didn't like this comment, huh?
>>20897963At least some midgets are getting work.
>>20897878Horace Hogan?
>>20898898This would have been pre Wikipedia so feel like one went under the radar.
