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AEW New Year's Smash, 12/29 HM: Daniel Garcia & 2point0 vs. Eddie Kingston & Proud n Powerful HM: Adam Cole & ReDRagon vs. Chuck Taylor, Orange Cassidy, & Trent
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:22 |
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HM 30th December GLEAT Ver.2 Chihiro Hashimoto vs Michiko Miyagi
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:22 |
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MOTYC 30th December GLEAT Ver.2 Shuji Ishikawa vs Takanori Ito GLEAT rules
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:54 |
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MOTYC: Takanori Ito vs. Shuji Ishikawa - GLEAT Ver. 2 (12/30) This was so good. Aggressive young hothead vs lumbering giant. The best Shuji match in years.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:55 |
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forkboy84 posted:MOTYC nth, this loving kicked rear end.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:55 |
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forkboy84 posted:MOTYC Yep that was great
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 11:57 |
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HM 30th December GLEAT Ver.2 DASH Chisako vs Yukari Hosokawa I thought this would be a squash but it wasn't, it good a decent amount of time & Hosokawa didn't get eaten up. Feel confident in saying that's the best match of her career so far.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 12:29 |
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forkboy84 posted:HM I'll nth this. But as a ChocoManiac I'll say I really liked the work she did in the Heat Up dojo specials of ChocoPro and you can see the grounding from her experiences there in that fantastic sell late in this match.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 12:35 |
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HM 30th December GLEAT Ver.2 Michinoku Pro Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Title MUSASHI vs Kaz Hayashi
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 12:51 |
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HM: Daniel Garcia & 2point0 vs. Eddie Kingston & Proud n Powerful, AEW New Year's Smash, 12/29 HM: Thunder Rosa vs. Jade Cargill, AEW New Year's Smash, 12/29 MOTYC: Adam Cole/ReDragon vs. Orange Cassidy/Best Friends, 12/29
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 13:32 |
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MOTYC 30th December GLEAT Ver.2 Elimination Tag BULK Orchestra (Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Nobuhiro Shimatani, Quiet Storm & Ryuichi Kawakami) vs #STRONGHEARTS (CIMA, El Lindaman, Issei Onitsuka, Shigehiro Irie & T-Hawk) This might be the best Dragongate match of the year, at worst the 2nd best after Shun vs Ishida for me. Absolutely fantastic non-stop action, loved this a whole lot. Show is essential viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTzXS3W4HCs&t=1114s forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Dec 30, 2021 |
# ? Dec 30, 2021 13:47 |
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I've mulled it over for a few hours and judging by others giving it HM votes I may be harsh: WMOTYC: Thunder Rosa vs. Jade Cargill, AEW New Year's Smash, 12/29 This match completely exposed Jade. The story of the match was logical, but by the end of it I was significantly less enthused to see Jade wrestle again and that is a major problem seeing as this is a semi final of a tournament and all 4 competitors at this stage will be given extensive spotlight in 2022.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 13:48 |
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forkboy84 posted:MOTYC nth But Forkboy is no selling how nuts this match is 1. It's a delayed entry elimination tag for some reason 2. There's a bunch of wacky multiman spots spots 3. It ends with the triumphant return moonsault from an injured young prospect nipped in the bud too soon but not before there's a bunch of gnarly chair spots and an extended match break down sequence 4. It's a hair vs hair match on top of all of this. You can hear a woman break the clap only rules to cry out when the shaving begins at the end.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 13:54 |
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HM: Lucha Bros, Jurassic Excpress & Christian Cage vs FTR, Private Party & Matt Hardy HM: Eddie Kingston & PnP vs Daniel Garcia & Stab's Boys HM: Thunder Rosa vs Jade Cargill MOTYC: Best Friends & Orange Cassidy vs ReDDragon & BUDGE All from AEW Dynamite 29.12
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 16:44 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:HM: Lucha Bros, Jurassic Excpress & Christian Cage vs FTR, Private Party & Matt Hardy nth
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 20:06 |
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Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year?
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 23:56 |
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whatever TJPW match you liked the best.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 23:58 |
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Mata Ne rumble.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 23:58 |
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Lid posted:Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year? Lucha Bros/Bucks was the better match, Kenny/Hangman was the better moment and Maki/Miyu II woulda beaten them both but the wrong person one
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:14 |
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There have been a ton of incredible matches this year, and AEW has the lion's share of them (and Bryan Danielson showing up has REALLY tipped things in their favor), and TJPW and NOAH and DDT have had great stuff too. I still think my absolute favorite best matches of the year though came from New Japan in spite of all the obvious issues they're facing due to COVID but mostly because House of Torture loving sucks. Okada and Shingo had an insanely good match during the New Japan Cup in March, and Shingo and Ospreay also had a fantastic match at the New Japan Cup Final. Tanahashi and Switchblade for the Never Openweight Title and Shingo vs. Ospreay for the IWGP Title on the Wrestling Dontaku shows were incredible as well. Okada vs. Shingo for the vacant title at Dominion was crazy. But for me it's still got to be Ibushi/Switchblade at Wrestle Kingdom that stands out to me as an absolutely loving incredible match, completely different to the other matches on Wrestle Kingdom even including the Okada/Ospreay match which was also sensational, or the insanity of Cobb/Shingo. A simple story told masterfully: the perfect (dumb but beautiful) babyface against the perfect slimy dirtbag heel. God, once the crowds can cheer again, things are going to be incredible.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:16 |
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Still the the first Shingo/Ospreay match was the best one this year.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:24 |
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Gotta be the Chris Brookes vs. Lulu Pencil iron man match for me
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:26 |
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Lid posted:Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year? I still have some stuff to see, currently watching DDT with high hopes for Soup Boy vs Okabayashi, and Stardom with Utami vs Syuri, plus there's stuff I can't see yet like Violento Jack vs Jun Kasai, Nomura vs Hashimoto, Great Space War. And Ice Ribbon have RibbonMania tomorrow! That said, it's Nakajima vs Kenoh from 28/11 NOAH, 1 of 4 ***** I had this year
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:27 |
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MOTYC 26th December DDT Never Mind 2021 Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi, Saki Akai & Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Itoh Respect Army (Chris Brookes, Maki Itoh & Minoru Suzuki) This is loving phenomenal. Funny, violent, insane intensity between Suzuki & Sakaguchi, MiSu tagging out with full chops, it's exactly what this match should be.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:41 |
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Lid posted:Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year? Have to wait until I can watch Stardom to decide.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 00:44 |
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For me it's still Takeshita Vs Brookes for MOTY, beating out Takeshita Vs Akiyama, Tanahashi Vs Shingo and the two Nakajima Vs Kenoh matches
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 01:32 |
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Lid posted:Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year? I've got two SEAdLINNNG matches to post here later today still
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 02:48 |
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Lid posted:Well it's the 31st here, so now that this is all done (except for Rampage which will likely have one more MOTYC)... what was the Best Match of the Year? Shingo vs Ishii from the G1.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 02:50 |
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HM 26th December DDT Never Mind 2021 37KAMIINA (MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Toi Kojima & Yuki Ueno) vs Burning (Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku) HM 26th December DDT Never Mind 2021 KO-D Tag Team Titles Disaster Box (HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura) vs Bodyguard & Yuji Hino MOTYC 26th December DDT Never Mind 2021 KO-D Openweight Title Konosuke Takeshita vs Yuji Okabayashi This show ruled, even with the Pheromones stench.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:10 |
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Kevino07 posted:HM - Sonny Kiss vs Joey Janela, No DQ match, AEW Dark 12/29 Cerebral Bore posted:HM: Lucha Bros, Jurassic Excpress & Christian Cage vs FTR, Private Party & Matt Hardy Nth
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:28 |
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I'm only watching one more show this year (the Ganbare Climax finals that fell through the cracks) so unless there's something amazing on the DDT/BJW show tonight i'm going to end 2021 with 199 MOTYC Nominations. Broken down by promotion it's: NJPW - 56 DDT - 52 NOAH - 28 TJPW - 26 AJPW - 13 SEAdLINNNG - 10 GLEAT - 3 CyberFight Festival interpromotional matches, Ice Ribbon - 2 AEW, Big Japan, Dragon Gate, FREEDOMS, FMW-E, Ganbare Pro, Sendai Girls - 1 My top ten (actually 11) wrestlers of the year for nominations are: 20 Konosuke Takeshita (DDT) 15 Shunma Katsumata (DDT) 14 Katsuhiko Nakajima (NOAH), Yuki Ueno (DDT) 13 MAO (DDT), Miyu Yamashita (TJPW), Shingo Takagi (NJPW), Zack Sabre Jr (NJPW) 11 Chirs Brookes (DDT), Kenoh (NOAH), Maki Itoh (TJPW)
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 03:34 |
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MOTYC: CDK vs Best Bros(c) for the Asia Dream Tag Titles Cocoa Pro #187, 12/31 local time.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 04:29 |
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DarkstarIV posted:MOTYC: Syuri vs Utami, STARDOM: Dream Queendom, 12/29/21 Nth. Utami is really the only person should get consideration for MVP besides Omega, and the Head of the Table of course. (The Bunny.)
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:06 |
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Senerio posted:MOTYC: CDK vs Best Bros(c) for the Asia Dream Tag Titles Cocoa Pro #187, 12/31 local time. I'll nth this
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:37 |
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Senerio posted:MOTYC: CDK vs Best Bros(c) for the Asia Dream Tag Titles Cocoa Pro #187, 12/31 local time. I assume this is a typo but I absolutely cannot rule out that Gatoh Move Chocopro haven't renamed themselves to Cocoa Pro?
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:45 |
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Jerusalem posted:I assume this is a typo but I absolutely cannot rule out that Gatoh Move Chocopro haven't renamed themselves to Cocoa Pro? Neither. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krp7LsIXuA0
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 05:51 |
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Lamuella posted:HM: Lee Moriarty vs Shawn Spears, AEW Dark Elevation December 27. Kevino07 posted:HM - Sonny Kiss vs Joey Janela, No DQ match, AEW Dark 12/29 Testekill posted:HM: Lucha Bros/Jurassic Express/Christian Cage vs. FTR/Matt Hardy/Private Party, AEW New Year's Smash, 29/12 Punch McLightning posted:All from AEW New Year's Smash, 12/29 Testekill posted:MOTYC: Adam Cole & ReDragon vs Best Friends, AEW New Year's Smash, 29/12 yes indeed a great week of wrestling with more tomorrow
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 07:34 |
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MOTYC: Las Fresas de Egoistas (Asuka & Makoto) vs. Nanae Takahashi & Hiroyo Matsumoto (c) for the Beyond the SEA Tag Team Championship - SEAdLINNNG 2021 Final Battle (12/29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyWL082tEyQ SEAdLINNNG tag title matches are the matches I look forward to most in the world and this one did not disappoint me. It did drag a little toward the end and it wasn't as good as the match where Nanae & Hiroyo won the tag titles but it was a suitable end to Nanae's run in SEAdLINNNG, and continue to cement Makoto as a real fantastic wrestler as she once again was the star of the match. Also Asuka has new gear now. MOTYC: Arisa Nakajima vs. Ryo Mizunami (c) for the Beyond the SEA Singles Championship - SEAdLINNNG 2021 Final Battle (12/29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMibXkdz33k SEAd have started billing Nakajima as the "Violence Queen" and she absolutely earned that title in this match. One of the most violent matches of the year, and the crowd broke the rules on several occasions to gasp at what they were doing to each other. Easily makes my top 10 MOTY list.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 07:46 |
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In terms of the amount of genuinely amazing matches I saw this year, AEW is still in the lead for me. The Danielson run, the insane Bucks / Luchas cagematch, the almost casual throwing of five star matches onto random TV shows. This was their year. However I will say that the gap between them and other companies was smaller. Wrestle Universe as a whole remains my best purchase of the year. More shows than I can watch, pretty much a guaranteed banger on every live event, and each promotion within has a main event scene capable of producing some of the best wrestling in the world. People talk about TJPW having a lower workrate than, say, Stardom, and it kind of does, but I've enjoyed the TJPW I've seen this year much more than the Stardom. The story of the year for me was how many companies were producing awesome matches. Across the year I nominated 172 matches from: AEW 67 DDT 25 TJPW 23 NJPW 21 Noah 21 CyberFight Festival 3 Impact 2 Hana Kimura Memorial Show 2 AAA 2 You Are Cordially Invited 1 SEAdLINNNG 1 NXT 1 NWA 1 Enjoy Wrestling 1 Wrestling Resurgence 1 Outside of AEW the story for me of the year was how much my New Japan interest fell away and my Wrestle Universe interest grew. I may have nominated 67 AEW Matches, but I nominated 72 WU ones.
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# ? Dec 31, 2021 09:00 |
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Lamuella posted:You Are Cordially Invited 1 Still bullshit that J-Ru never counted this
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