Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 5th and final part of my “Quick Guide to the Four Pillars of Heaven”, where we turned back the clock on one of the most influential, successful, and critically well received periods in pro wrestling history, 90’s All Japan Pro Wrestling. Technically we should have been finished with Taue last week, but I decided to extend it by one week to feature the…

Welcome back to our 3rd part of the “A Quick Guide to the Four Pillars of Heaven”, our 5 part look at the awesomeness of 90’s All Japan Pro Wrestling and the four (unofficially five) men who came together to create art during that wonderful decade. Last week I spent time talking about the King’s Road style, so this week, let’s talk about another important of AJPW as a whole, the gaijin.   Gaijins…

Before we begin this week, I would like to apologize for last week, as I had mistakenly decided to name the article “The Five Pillars of Heaven”. The problem was there was no such thing and that by writing that, I was doing a disservice to you readers as there is no such thing as “The Five Pillars”. It was only the four, but since I wanted to include Akiyama later on, I thought to change the…