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coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

it was a good exciting show with a raucous crowd after nearly 2 years of uncertain PPVs and cinematic experiments.

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Price Check
Oct 9, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Road to Dominion June 1st
MOTYC

Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c) vs Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr) - IWGP Tag Championship
- All it took for me to care about this feud again was love. Wasn't the best match i've seen this week, but gently caress it. Miho is back and I am happy

I will nth this.

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

HM: Penta vs Jack Evans, AEW Dark: Elevation 31/05

It's a Dark match so they don't go as hard as they both can, but it's still a fun match. They have great chemistry, there's some fun poo poo-talking and a heart-warming moment during Penta's entrance

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
4th May
DDT Max Bump 2021
37KAMIINA (Konosuke Takeshita, MAO & Shunma Katsumata) vs DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo & Yuji Hino) vs Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi) & Yuki Iino

HM
4th May
DDT Max Bump 2021
DDT Extreme Title / DDT Iron Man Heavy Metal Title
Chris Brookes vs Saki Akai

It's a cliché at this point to go "this would have been even better with a normal crowd" but it's doubly true here as this was a no-fans show so not even clap crowds getting behind Akai. Could have been a MOTYC. Still ruled a whole lot.
You can watch it here if you've somehow not seen a match that happened a month ago

HM
4th May
DDT Max Bump 2021
DDT Universal Title
Yuki Ueno vs Soma Takao

Ueno following in the footsteps of Ibushi by moonsaulting off places not meant to be moonsaulted from.

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jun 2, 2021

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

Rarity posted:

It's probably still not up to last year's Wrestle Princess

They both had 7 MOTYCs

Thanlis
Mar 17, 2011


MOTYC: Guerillas of Destiny (C) vs. Dangerous Tekkers for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Titles - NJPW Road to Dominion 6/1

Tekkers wrestling their best style of match, ZSJ doing more than face in peril, yep.

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Thanlis posted:

MOTYC: Guerillas of Destiny (C) vs. Dangerous Tekkers for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Titles - NJPW Road to Dominion 6/1

Tekkers wrestling their best style of match, ZSJ doing more than face in peril, yep.

Yeah agreed

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

CopywrightMMXI posted:

HM: Varsity Blonds vs Chaos Project, AEW Dark: Elevation May 31, 2021

A very solid match, enhanced by being in front of a live crowd. The Blonds are getting better week by week, and The Chaos Project’s schtick was over with the live crowd. Julia Hart does a great job interjecting herself into the match and the pairing of her with the Blonds has been very complementary so far.

ill nth this

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

CopywrightMMXI posted:

HM: Varsity Blonds vs Chaos Project, AEW Dark: Elevation May 31, 2021

A very solid match, enhanced by being in front of a live crowd. The Blonds are getting better week by week, and The Chaos Project’s schtick was over with the live crowd. Julia Hart does a great job interjecting herself into the match and the pairing of her with the Blonds has been very complementary so far.

Seconded

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

DDT Audience Tour in Fukuoka (Afternoon Show) May 29th
MOTYC
37KAMIINA (Konosuke Takeshita and MAO) vs HARASHIMA and Chris Brookes
- Holy gently caress this came out of nowhere. On a pretaped show, filmed completely with a handheld camera, without commentary, in front of barely more than 100 people, these four guys worked their asses off. Fast paced and hard hitting, this match shows off just how talented these guys are. Unless you're really against matches without commentary, make time to watch this, it ruled.
HM
Eruption (Saki Akai, Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Keigo Nakamura and Junretsu (Makoto Oishi and Yusuke Okada)
- Honestly could have been an HM straight off the bat from Eruption's entrance, because Eruption are so goddamn cool. But they backed that up with a real good match squeezed into 8 minutes. Everyone looked good, even the person who was very obviously taking the pin, and they continued the Sakaguchi/Okada stuff from their bombass match the other week.
37KAMIINA (Yuki Ueno and Shunma Katsumata) vs Akito and Yuto Aijima
- It was nice to see that Akito and Ueno had no problem getting banged up in preparation for their big singles match on the evening show maybe 5 hours later. The sauna boys remain great, Akito pulled out some real funky leg submissions and Aijima looked real good for someone that only does a couple of matches a year.

DDT Audience Tour in Fukuoka (Evening Show) May 29th
MOTYC
Yuki Ueno (c) vs Akito - DDT Universal Champion
- God, it was painful listening to Ueno wimpers of pain after Akito worked over his legs this match. Absolutely loved this, a great fusion of Akito's matwork and Ueno's high energy offence. Absolutely loved this, another one I would heartily recommend making the time to watch.
HM
37KAMIINA (Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata and MAO) vs Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sasaki and Yuji Hino)
- I could watch these teams battle every single show, no matter the combination it doesn't get old for me
Junretsu (Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada and Makoto Oishi) vs DisasterBox (HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura and Kazuki Hirata)
- TOKYOOOO with a handheld camera is a sight to behold, Junretsu made up for having to wait for Hirata's dance by beating the poo poo out of him. Yoshimura continues to look good after his extended absence and Harashima git me hyped up for the CyberFest challenge. Good stuff all around

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

NJPW Road to Dominion June 2nd
HM
United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) vs Kota Ibushi and Master Wato
- Cobb/Ibushi is going to be loving rad, because all of these preview matches have been loving rad
CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto) (c) vs LIJ (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI and Sanada) - NEVER 6-Man Championship
- YH and friends continue to make the 6-man belts something I care about after so long of it being a nothing accolade. Real fun match

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Road to Dominion June 2nd
HM
United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) vs Kota Ibushi and Master Wato
- Cobb/Ibushi is going to be loving rad, because all of these preview matches have been loving rad
CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto) (c) vs LIJ (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI and Sanada) - NEVER 6-Man Championship
- YH and friends continue to make the 6-man belts something I care about after so long of it being a nothing accolade. Real fun match

2nd. Cobb and Ibushi was awesome but Great O-Khan is doing some cool things too (and Master Wato takes one hell of an asskicking!). The Six Man match was really, really drat good as well.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
2nd June
AJPW Junior Battle of Glory Night 1
Hikaru Sato vs Hokuto Omori

HM
2nd June
AJPW Junior Battle of Glory Night 1
Dan Tamura vs Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Two veteran vs young boy matches, I really dug them both, partly because I've been invested in both Omori & Tamura. But I'm real into these matches, highlights of a good night of wrestling.

Price Check
Oct 9, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Road to Dominion June 2nd
HM
United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) vs Kota Ibushi and Master Wato
- Cobb/Ibushi is going to be loving rad, because all of these preview matches have been loving rad
CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto) (c) vs LIJ (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI and Sanada) - NEVER 6-Man Championship
- YH and friends continue to make the 6-man belts something I care about after so long of it being a nothing accolade. Real fun match

Nth - the former mostly for the post-match.

Sooper Gila
Apr 23, 2014

Love
Peace
and Harmony

forkboy84 posted:

HM
4th MAY
TJPW YES! WONDERLAND 2021
Mizuki vs Shoko Nakajima vs Yuka Sakazaki

Three of the top 5 wrestlers in TJPW go out and do a very fun match, obviously. There's not a lot of TJPW I'm invested in because a lot of it is character over anything else and I'm boring and like in-ring ability too much but these 3 rule.


Thanlis posted:

MOTYC: Guerillas of Destiny (C) vs. Dangerous Tekkers for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Titles - NJPW Road to Dominion 6/1

Tekkers wrestling their best style of match, ZSJ doing more than face in peril, yep.

Nth to both of these

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Thanlis posted:

MOTYC: Guerillas of Destiny (C) vs. Dangerous Tekkers for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Titles - NJPW Road to Dominion 6/1

Tekkers wrestling their best style of match, ZSJ doing more than face in peril, yep.

Agreed. Quite possibly the best GoD match I’ve ever seen. Everyone went hard as gently caress for over 25 mins. Love is real

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC: Citrus Wind (Nanae Takahashi & Arisa Nakajima) (c) vs. Las Fresas de Egoistas (ASUKA & Makoto) for the Beyond the SEA Tag Team Championship - SEAdLINNNG Shinkiba Night (5/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7Fhp5NA88

SEAdLINNNG's tag division has been on fire for a while and this match continued that hot streak. Wrestling is always at its best and most simple when you have people going at each other who look like they hate each other and whenever Asuka and Arisa Nakajima are going at it there is no shortage of venom to draw you into the match. Special shoutout to Makoto, who going into this match I expected to just be there to make up the numbers in the ring with three of the best but ended up being perhaps the MVP of this match.

After the match Ryo Mizunami returned to SEAdLINNNG to challenge Asuka for her singles championship so watch this space for another MOTYC nomination from me.

This absolutely ruled. 2nd. SEAdLINNNG shows are such easy, breezy watches. Just 4 great talents battering each other.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

AJPW Jr Battle of Glory Night 1 June 2nd
HM
SUGI vs Atsuki Aoyagi
- SUGI is a really impressive high flyer, and luckily the match was short enough that he didn't botch it all to hell
El Lindaman vs Rising HAYATO
- I really enjoyed this, despite how much I dislike El Lindaman's look

Every match was at the least entertaining, looking forward to tonight's

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

AJPW Jr Battle of Glory Night 2 June 3rd
MOTYC
Hikaru Sato vs El Lindaman
- Semi Finals, a great match made better with the knowledge that each guy had already wrestled today, and the winner had one more match still to work. Loved it, my favourite All Japan match since Kento/Ashino

HM
Hikaru Sato vs Fuminori Abe
- I was in pain just watching this, awesome stuff
Francesco Akira vs El Lindaman
- Tournament finals. Some great moments, but it was pretty obvious in parts that both guys were on their third match of the night. Still, real enjoyable match with a great winner

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jun 3, 2021

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





Dragon Gate, King of Gate Finals at Korakuen, 6/3

HM: King of Gate Semifinals - YAMATO vs. Kota Minoura
HM: High End (Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda, Ben-K, & Kagetora vs. Natural Vibes (Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi, U-T, & King Shimizu

MOTYC: King of Gate Finals - Kzy vs. Kota Minoura

Finals were a hell of a match. One of my absolute favorites of the year so far. Kota Minoura is only 22 years old and is already putting out matches of this quality on a regular basis. It's unfair just how good the Dragon Gate dojo is.

Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jun 3, 2021

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
MOTYC: Josh Alexander (c) vs. TJP for the Impact X-Division Championship - BTI/Impact 6/3

The Walking Weapon is going to be the guy to beat Kenny Omega, mark my words.

e: gently caress it, it was THAT GOOD, bumping up to MOTYC

Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jun 4, 2021

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Dimebags Brain posted:

Dragon Gate, King of Gate Finals at Korakuen, 6/3

HM: King of Gate Semifinals - YAMATO vs. Kota Minoura
HM: High End (Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda, Ben-K, & Kagetora vs. Natural Vibes (Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi, U-T, & King Shimizu

MOTYC: King of Gate Finals - Kzy vs. Kota Minoura

Finals were a hell of a match. One of my absolute favorites of the year so far. Kota Minoura is only 22 years old and is already putting out matches of this quality on a regular basis. It's unfair just how good the Dragon Gate dojo is.

Seconding all 3 of these. New Natural Vibes member makes me happy, as does the absolute banger in the King of Gate Final

IT'S KZY TIME

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

Dimebags Brain posted:

Dragon Gate, King of Gate Finals at Korakuen, 6/3
HM: High End (Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda, Ben-K, & Kagetora vs. Natural Vibes (Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi, U-T, & King Shimizu
I'm watching this first because of the Xs, but yeah this ruled. I loved the finish.

EDIT: Oh this is an Nth btw

Lily Catts fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jun 5, 2021

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer
HM: Brody King, Logan Riegel & Sterling Riegel vs. Chris Dickinson, JR Kratos & Tom Lawlor, NJPW Strong, April 2
HM: Clark Connors vs. Lio Rush, NJPW Strong, April 9

I loved the Connors-Rush singles match.

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: Josh Alexander (c) vs. TJP for the Impact X-Division Championship - BTI/Impact 6/3

The Walking Weapon is going to be the guy to beat Kenny Omega, mark my words.

e: gently caress it, it was THAT GOOD, bumping up to MOTYC

Seconded. The full (uncut) match will be available on YT in ~30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfv1Ss6hB0

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


MOTYC
3rd June
All Japan Junior Battle of Glory Night 2
Fuminori Abe vs Hikaru Sato

Look, this match is exquisitely stupid. It's very "2 guys who don't know this is a work" and just batter each other hard with slaps and kicks and of course headbutts. There's not really much flashy here, Abe catches a soccer kick into a dragon screw which is real neat, he also lands a tremendous snap German suplex, there's some good grappling but this is about these 2 smashing each other. But it's really loving compelling in that. If you don't feel nauseous watching someone cut themselves open hardway with headbutts I really recommend this. It's just visceral, can't look away viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcTmqlH6U4

MOTYC
3rd June
All Japan Junior Battle of Glory Night 2
Hikaru Sato vs El Lindaman

HM
3rd June
All Japan Junior Battle of Glory Night 2
Francesco Akira vs El Lindaman

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jun 5, 2021

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

Dimebags Brain posted:

Dragon Gate, King of Gate Finals at Korakuen, 6/3

HM: King of Gate Semifinals - YAMATO vs. Kota Minoura
MOTYC: King of Gate Finals - Kzy vs. Kota Minoura
Nth!

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer
These are both HMs from the April 9 NJPW Strong.

Brody King vs. Chris Dickinson
Ren Narita vs. Tom Lawlor

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
HM: The Young Bucks vs Penta El 0M and Pac, 6/4 AEW Dynamite

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

HM: The Young Bucks vs Penta El 0M and Pac, 6/4 AEW Dynamite

Seconded

Akileese
Feb 6, 2005

Dimebags Brain posted:

Dragon Gate, King of Gate Finals at Korakuen, 6/3

HM: King of Gate Semifinals - YAMATO vs. Kota Minoura
HM: High End (Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda, Ben-K, & Kagetora vs. Natural Vibes (Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi, U-T, & King Shimizu

MOTYC: King of Gate Finals - Kzy vs. Kota Minoura

Finals were a hell of a match. One of my absolute favorites of the year so far. Kota Minoura is only 22 years old and is already putting out matches of this quality on a regular basis. It's unfair just how good the Dragon Gate dojo is.


MassRafTer posted:

HM: The Young Bucks vs Penta El 0M and Pac, 6/4 AEW Dynamite

NTH.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Almost forgot

HM: The Young Bucks vs. Penta El Zero Miedo/PAC, AEW Dynamite, 04/06

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Very belated and probably unnecessary, but anyway:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs Riho
MOTYC: Hangman Page vs Brian Cage
MOTYC: Young Bucks vs Mox & Kingston
HM: Casino Battle Royal
HM: Cody Rhodes vs Anthony Ogogo
MOTYC: Miro vs Lance Archer
MOTYC: Hikaru Shida vs Britt Baker
MOTYC: Sting & Darby Allin vs Scorpio Sky & Ethan Page
MOTYC: Kenny Omega vs PAC vs Orange Cassidy
MOTYC: Stadium Stampede 2 (Inner Circle vs The Pinnacle)


All from AEW Double or Nothing 30.05

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

MassRafTer posted:

HM: The Young Bucks vs Penta El 0M and Pac, 6/4 AEW Dynamite

Nth

I've also been catching up on NJPW and I've finally dragged myself limping into 2021. A couple of almost MOTYC for me to nth:

01/04 | Hiromu Takahashi vs. El Phantasmo - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 1
01/25 | Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi & SHO vs. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi - NJPW Road to the New Beginning

Takuan
May 6, 2007

It might just be because I'm super high and it's the first deathmatch with a full crowd I've seen in over a year, but
MOTYC Effy vs G-Raver, GCW Tournament of Survival 6 6/5

Deathlove
Feb 20, 2003

Pillbug

Takuan posted:

It might just be because I'm super high and it's the first deathmatch with a full crowd I've seen in over a year, but
MOTYC Effy vs G-Raver, GCW Tournament of Survival 6 6/5

YEAH, 2ND

MOTYC: Orin Veidt vs Nolan Edward, GCW TOS 666 6/5/21
HM: Bam Sullivan vs Alex Colon, GCW TOS 666 6/5/21

e:

HM: Calvin Tankman vs Dante Leon vs Ninja Mack vs Starboy Charlie vs Dyln McKay vs Jack Cartwheel, GCW TOS 666, 6/5/21

do you like a) flips and b) exactly one giant man destroying the people doing flips? may i suggest this match

Deathlove fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jun 5, 2021

Deathlove
Feb 20, 2003

Pillbug
MOTYC: Atticus Cogar v Alex Colon, Finals of Tournament of Survival 666

Absolutely the pinnacle of deathmatch wrestling in America, and could hang with the best in Japan.

YourHumbleMessiah
Oct 11, 2005




Deathlove posted:

MOTYC: Atticus Cogar v Alex Colon, Finals of Tournament of Survival 666

Absolutely the pinnacle of deathmatch wrestling in America, and could hang with the best in Japan.

Yep! Nth

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Cerebral Bore posted:

MOTYC: Miro vs Lance Archer

All from AEW Double or Nothing 30.05

oo yeah forgot this one

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Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

Deathlove posted:

MOTYC: Atticus Cogar v Alex Colon, Finals of Tournament of Survival 666

Absolutely the pinnacle of deathmatch wrestling in America, and could hang with the best in Japan.

nth, that kicked rear end and the finishing stretch was great

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