2019's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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DarkstarIV: Apr 6, 2010; OFFICIAL RACIST

MOYTC: Kevin Owens vs Dolph Ziggler, WWE Extreme Rules 7/14/19

This match should be shown in every wrestling class ever. Truly a masterpiece. :golfclap:

# ? Jul 15, 2019 02:58

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# ? May 16, 2024 16:10

MassRafTer: May 26, 2001; BAEST MODE!!!

Instead of people nominating Dolph Ziggler matches in TYOOL 2019 and thinking they are doing irony, you can spend your night watching some good matches.

HM: Arisa Hoshiki & Tam Nakano vs. Momo Watanabe & Bea Priestley, Stardom (6/2)
MOTYC: Arisa Hoshiki vs. Tam Nakano, Stardom (6/16)

The latter is must see, the last 5 minutes especially if you love kicks.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 04:06

NienNunb: Feb 15, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

Instead of people nominating Dolph Ziggler matches in TYOOL 2019 and thinking they are doing irony, you can spend your night watching some good matches.

HM: Arisa Hoshiki & Tam Nakano vs. Momo Watanabe & Bea Priestley, Stardom (6/2)
MOTYC: Arisa Hoshiki vs. Tam Nakano, Stardom (6/16)

The latter is must see, the last 5 minutes especially if you love kicks.

Second!

# ? Jul 15, 2019 04:10

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

MOTYC: Sareee (c) vs. DASH Chisako for the Sendai Girls World Championship - Sendai Girls Korakuen Hall (7/7)

Undisputable WOTY 2019 Sareee does it yet again.

https://twitter.com/RealHero12089/status/1150491006112010240?s=19

# ? Jul 15, 2019 04:14

NienNunb: Feb 15, 2012

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC: Sareee (c) vs. DASH Chisako for the Sendai Girls World Championship - Sendai Girls Korakuen Hall (7/7)

Undisputable WOTY 2019 Sareee does it yet again.

https://twitter.com/RealHero12089/status/1150491006112010240?s=19

Second!

# ? Jul 15, 2019 04:47

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Akito (C) vs. ASUKA in an IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Deathmatch for the Extreme Title - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan - 7/15

This was masterfully put together, incredibly entertaining and is the best and only use I ever want to see a Light-tube have in a pro-wrestling match ever.

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jul 15, 2019

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:30

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

MOTYC: DDT Extreme Title � IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match: Akito (c) Vs Asuka Peter Pan 2019 15/07/2019 Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

e: gently caress beaten but this match loving owns.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:30

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Akito (C) vs. ASUKA in an IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Deathmatch for the Extreme Title - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan

This was masterfully put together, incredibly entertaining and is the best and only use I ever want to see a Light-tube have in a pro-wrestling match ever.

Yes

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:30

Draxion: Jun 9, 2013

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

MOTYC: DDT Extreme Title � IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match: Akito (c) Vs Asuka Peter Pan 2019 15/07/2019 Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

e: gently caress beaten but this match loving owns.

~~3rd! I think if it had gone another couple minutes I'd be giving it a MOTYC vote.~~

e. Yeah you know what MOTYC. Really unique and incredibly tense - not even just for a gimmick match, just in general.

Draxion fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jul 15, 2019

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:31

TTBF: Sep 14, 2005

You're crazy J-Ru. That match invoked an entirely different form of tension than most matches and it delivered way more than I expected. MOTYC for sure.

Draxion posted:

3rd! I think if it had gone another couple minutes I'd be giving it a MOTYC vote.

That's not a bad argument for going HM but I'm sticking to MOTYC myself

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:31

RealFoxy: May 11, 2011; I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Akito (C) vs. ASUKA in an IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Deathmatch for the Extreme Title - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan

This was masterfully put together, incredibly entertaining and is the best and only use I ever want to see a Light-tube have in a pro-wrestling match ever.

Seconding

And for those in total confusion, there's one light tube in the match and you lose instantly if you break it. They had a live demonstration with trainees and everything

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:31

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

MOTYC: DDT Extreme Title � IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match: Akito (c) Vs Asuka Peter Pan 2019 15/07/2019 Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

e: gently caress beaten but this match loving owns.

nth

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:33

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

RealFoxy posted:

Seconding

And for those in total confusion, there's one light tube in the match and you lose instantly if you break it. They had a live demonstration with trainees and everything

Yeah, you'll never see wrestlers move so gingerly in a ring. Absolute edge-of-your-seat stuff that people seriously should watch

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:33

J-Ro: Jul 26, 2005; Child Of The Revolution

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

MOTYC: DDT Extreme Title � IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match: Akito (c) Vs Asuka Peter Pan 2019 15/07/2019 Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

e: gently caress beaten but this match loving owns.

Yes!

# ? Jul 15, 2019 07:34

Sticky Nate: Jan 9, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

Instead of people nominating Dolph Ziggler matches in TYOOL 2019 and thinking they are doing irony, you can spend your night watching some good matches.

MOTYC: Arisa Hoshiki vs. Tam Nakano, Stardom (6/16)

The latter is must see, the last 5 minutes especially if you love kicks.

Third. I was certain I nominated this earlier but it was just in my notebook.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:38

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

MassRafTer posted:

MOTYC for Will The Thrill Ospreay/Sanada, KENTA/Tanahashi and EVIL/Ibushi

HM for Okada/ZSJ

Agree with all these, so that's a nth to each.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:44

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

HM: Hiroshi Tanahashi, KENTA, Clark Connors and Karl Fredericks vs. Zack Sabre Jr, Lance Archer, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanimaru, G1 Climax Night 4, 15/07

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:55

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

Rarity posted:

HM: Hiroshi Tanahashi, KENTA, Clark Connors and Karl Fredericks vs. Zack Sabre Jr, Lance Archer, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanimaru, G1 Climax Night 4, 15/07

Nth. Holy poo poo what a fun match. NJPW undercard tags are usually fine but skippable, this one wasn't anything to write home about as far as the wrestling but there were so many little sub-stories and character moments happening here all in the middle of a fun clusterfuck brawl. Definitely give this one a watch if you typically skip the multi-mans.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:59

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TriffTshngo posted:

Nth. Holy poo poo what a fun match. NJPW undercard tags are usually fine but skippable, this one wasn't anything to write home about as far as the wrestling but there were so many little sub-stories and character moments happening here all in the middle of a fun clusterfuck brawl. Definitely give this one a watch if you typically skip the multi-mans.

nthing that nth for the reasons specified in the above post

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:00

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

I won't go as far as an HM but the KENTA/Tanahashi stuff in particular I thought was really well done.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:03

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

Jerusalem posted:

I won't go as far as an HM but the KENTA/Tanahashi stuff in particular I thought was really well done.

Lance providing some guest commentary is what put it over the edge for me, honestly.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:06

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

MOTYC: Tetsuya Endo (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan (7/15)

jesus loving christ

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:46

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC: Tetsuya Endo (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan (7/15)

jesus loving christ

Nth

I need to watch more DDT

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:46

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

MOTYC: DDT Extreme Title � IPPON Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match: Akito (c) Vs Asuka Peter Pan 2019 15/07/2019 Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC: Tetsuya Endo (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship - DDT Wrestle Peter Pan (7/15)

jesus loving christ

Nth

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:10

Burn Down Canberra: Oct 27, 2005; GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

MOTYC Tomohiro Ishii v Switchblade G1 climax day 4 15/07/19

My favourite match of the tournament so far

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:27

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Switchblade Jay White - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Goddamn this match was so drat good, some absolutely crazy poo poo and moves and counters and false-finishes and an ending I absolutely did not see coming.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:27

TTBF: Sep 14, 2005

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Switchblade Jay White - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Goddamn this match was so drat good, some absolutely crazy poo poo and moves and counters and false-finishes and an ending I absolutely did not see coming.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:29

The Croc: Dec 19, 2004; A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird!

OH YEAH!

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Switchblade Jay White - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Goddamn this match was so drat good, some absolutely crazy poo poo and moves and counters and false-finishes and an ending I absolutely did not see coming.

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# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:29

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Burn Down Canberra posted:

MOTYC Tomohiro Ishii v Switchblade G1 climax day 4 15/07/19

My favourite match of the tournament so far

Yes they are cool and good together, 2nd that

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:31

lost my old email: Jun 20, 2019

Burn Down Canberra posted:

MOTYC Tomohiro Ishii v Switchblade G1 climax day 4 15/07/19

My favourite match of the tournament so far

i am now of the thinking that picking more than one MOTYC from the same show is a cowards gambit so i am going to second this match and this match alone. naitao and taicho will not top it :colbert:

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:32

jesus WEP: Oct 17, 2004

Burn Down Canberra posted:

MOTYC Tomohiro Ishii v Switchblade G1 climax day 4 15/07/19

My favourite match of the tournament so far

absolutely yes

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:34

an_mutt: Sep 29, 2010; I was,
I am,
and I remain a soldier!

Sworn to dedicate my heart and soul to the restoration of human kind!

Burn Down Canberra posted:

MOTYC Tomohiro Ishii v Switchblade G1 climax day 4 15/07/19

My favourite match of the tournament so far

nth and same. Ishii may v. well be my favourite wrestler right now.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:36

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:57

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Switchblade Jay White - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Goddamn this match was so drat good, some absolutely crazy poo poo and moves and counters and false-finishes and an ending I absolutely did not see coming.

nth

Also

HM: Juice Robinson vs Hirooki Goto - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

I will always mark when someone counters a move by headbutting it.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:57

SG Bamboo: Aug 21, 2013; Smile. Win. Yay!

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

Second. Main event Taichi is always a barrel of fun

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:57

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Nth

what a good day this Monday's already been :unsmith:

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:58

Burn Down Canberra: Oct 27, 2005; GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

Nth it was dumb in just the right ways. Taichi tricking red shoes by pointing was a highlight

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:58

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

yeah, the iron claw fuckin owns

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:59

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

Best Naito gets demolished for most of the match match I've seen for a while. Mostly thanks to the fuckery meaning it didn't deal too much like it fit that formula.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:59

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# ? May 16, 2024 16:10

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi - NJPW G1 Climax Night 4 - 7/15

Probably my favorite ever Naito/Taichi match, this was really drat good.

really fun, not quite as good as ishii/switchblade. months of build for a brass knux spot, gedo is a genius

edit: that is an endorsement

# ? Jul 15, 2019 12:59

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