It's one thing to hear about matches with crazy reputations that go in either direction; it's another to see them for yourselves. That perfectly describes the only ever encounter between Andre the Giant and the infamous Akira Maeda, one of the godfathers of Japanese shootfighting and a man who...well...to put this bluntly, has a reputation for himself in the wrestling realm.

Over the weekend, New Japan Pro Wrestling ran one of their two shows in the United States this year, The New Beginning USA, in Trenton, New Jersey's Cure Center; headlined by IWGP Heavweight and Global Champion Yota Tsuji defending the latter title against AEW's Andrade El Idolo, but there were a couple of other matches on this card that piqued my interest.

With Forbidden Door being the only major event left in the opening half of the year, I thought it would be fun to go and see who/what has...