And Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Cruel Summer our look back at each and every G1 climax tournament

finals from the year 1991 to the year 2018.

And this is episode 16, so we're going to be covering 2006 which features

here Yoshi tansan versus Satoshi kajima a battle of former partners a battle of

top line stars in two respective companies,

New Japan Pro Wrestling, and all Japan Pro Wrestling.

And I'm very excited about today's co-host.

He is, I like to talk about this man as my gateway into the world of Japanese pro wrestling of tape trading and the such. He he provided me with my very first mixtape of seventh generation footage by that point

exactly and he is as you can probably guess who he is just from the laugh alone he is the man the legend the mouth Dan the

mouth Grandsky Dan how are you today? I'm doing great W.H. Yeah great to be

here this is an awesome idea that you're doing here running through all the old G1s like this.

And it still blows my mind because at the time I didn't realize that I was the one that introduced you to Japanese Pro Wrestling from showing the tapes

at O'Grady's after we would watch Raw. I thought you were already a fan, for some reason I thought

you were already a fan even when we were watching those so it wasn't until years later that you told me that and

I was amazed and that's so great. Do you still have the first tape that you got for me? Yes, well, yeah, it's like, what is it, Dr. Mouse mixtape?

Stiff history of your face.

But no, like, I was a fan already, but you were the person who introduced me to tape trading.

Okay, gotcha.

You know, like, like, and like I was, like more, I would say you really introduced me

more to all Japan because I was very familiar with New Japan at the time due to their relationship with W.C.W. at the time.

Yes, yes, right. And I saw footage here and there from that relationship, but it wasn't until I got my first

tape from you that I would like be introduced to like Masawa, Kowata,

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