LMTYS Match of the Week #043 - American Dragon vs. Lo-Ki (APW, 27-10-2001)
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English - March 09, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 47.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSports wrestling pro wrestling aew wwe wrestlemania new japan all japan puroresu Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The wrestling landscape in 2001 was in a constant state of flux. With no ECW to draw in the more anti-mainstream wrestling fan there was a clear vaccum in need of being filled. All across the US, and even beyond, little scenes were forming. It came down to Roland Alexander's APW to bring together many of the top rated unsigned talents plying their trades in the north-east, California, the deep south, and even the UK, and have a two-night tournament to crown the "King of the Indies". The presence of Nick Bockwinkel led to a change in plans, and the final pitted recent Shawn Michaels Texas Academy standout "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson and the north-east's most popular shoot-fighting influenced diminutive badass since Taz in Lo-Ki (or Loki or Low Ki or later Senshi and Kaval, or to many others who came to know him "that p***k"). It was a rematch of that other talent spotter of the late 90s/early 00s indie scene, the ECWA Super 8 final.
This was the event that helped convinced Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky to start up their own Ring of Honor promotion less than six months later, with the first two events' main events featuring Dragon and Ki. And now, twenty-two years later, we are where we are now.
Quite the journey, huh? Well, join Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) as they go back to that APW show to see how things changed and what was happening in that moment to beckon all the changes that ensued.
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