2022's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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Metroid Fitzgerald: Feb 13, 2012; B O O O O B S . . . !

Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

THIS loving RULED

Absolutely nth!

# ? May 19, 2022 01:37

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 15:24

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

Love that a wider audience got to see how loving good Soup Boy is, and he and Page had an absolute banger in front of a hot crowd. Beautiful stuff.

Yeah that was pretty great

# ? May 19, 2022 01:39

Punch McLightning: Sep 19, 2005; you know what that means; Grimey Drawer

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

Love that a wider audience got to see how loving good Soup Boy is, and he and Page had an absolute banger in front of a hot crowd. Beautiful stuff.

this poo poo slapped, nth

# ? May 19, 2022 01:39

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

# ? May 19, 2022 02:15

Ivypls: Aug 24, 2019

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

nth, hell of a match

# ? May 19, 2022 02:15

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

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

Absolutely, holy poo poo what a match!

# ? May 19, 2022 02:15

Dango Bango: Jul 26, 2007

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

Nth. Goddamn what a Dynamite.

# ? May 19, 2022 02:15

Metroid Fitzgerald: Feb 13, 2012; B O O O O B S . . . !

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

nth

# ? May 19, 2022 02:16

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

nth

# ? May 19, 2022 02:17

The Berzerker: Feb 24, 2006; treat me like a dog

MOTYC votes from AEW Dynamite 5/18
Hangman vs Takeshita
Kyle O'Reilly vs Fenix

# ? May 19, 2022 02:19

TV Zombie: Sep 6, 2011; Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

Love that a wider audience got to see how loving good Soup Boy is, and he and Page had an absolute banger in front of a hot crowd. Beautiful stuff.

Nth

# ? May 19, 2022 03:08

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

AEW Dynamite 5/18

HM: Samoa Joe vs. JOHNNY ELITE
MOTYC: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita
MOTYC: Rey Fenix vs. Kyle O'Reilly

# ? May 19, 2022 03:11

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

Love that a wider audience got to see how loving good Soup Boy is, and he and Page had an absolute banger in front of a hot crowd. Beautiful stuff.

flatluigi posted:

MOTYC: KOR v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

holy loving poo poo KOR

nth these matches loving rocked

# ? May 19, 2022 03:12

Punch McLightning: Sep 19, 2005; you know what that means; Grimey Drawer

HM: O'Reilly v Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite May 18

# ? May 19, 2022 05:07

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

Cerebral Bore posted:

MOTYC: Hiromu Takahashi vs Francesco Akira NJPW BOSJ 18.05

Might be some hope for A Block after all. Probably the best match of the tournament so far.

Agreed

# ? May 19, 2022 05:54

Lily Catts: Oct 17, 2012; Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

GLEAT G-PRO Wrestling Ver. 25 (5/18)

MOTYC
El Lindaman (c) vs Shigehiro Irie for the G-REX Championship

Absolutely loving insane match. Irie absolutely tried to murder Lindaman. Probably one of the best three matches I've seen this year. Lindaman is an absolute machine doing this match while he's doing a full BOSJ

Nth

# ? May 19, 2022 06:19

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 5/18

HM: Samoa Joe vs. JOHNNY ELITE
MOTYC: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita
MOTYC: Rey Fenix vs. Kyle O'Reilly

Nth to these. Hell of a night.

# ? May 19, 2022 07:18

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

MOTYC: Hangman Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
MOTYC: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Britt Baker vs. Maki Itoh, AEW Dynamite, 18/05

I'm easily pleased

# ? May 19, 2022 07:58

Sooper Gila: Apr 23, 2014; Love
Peace
and Harmony

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Best of the Super Jr Night 3 May 18th
MOTYC
Hiromu Takahashi vs Francesco Akira
- Top tier junior violence, Akira showed out for his first New Japan main event

HM
Ace Austin vs Yoshinobu Kanemau
- Crowd really enjoys Ace, as do I

Ryusuke Taguchi vs Taiji Ishimori
- Gooch is a miracle worker, he made Ishimori care

Nth to these

Cerebral Bore posted:

MOTYC: El Desperado vs Tit�n NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 17.05

Just two guys trying to murder each other, as you do. Extremely vicious, extremely fast-paced, extremely good.

Nth to this as well, loved this match. Also nominating Titan for best dressed.

# ? May 19, 2022 08:04

Sooper Gila: Apr 23, 2014; Love
Peace
and Harmony

sorry for the double post, I've been wanting to check GLEAT out forever and finally had time to watch a few matches from yesterdays show.

SG Bamboo posted:

GLEAT G-Pro Wrestling Ver.25 May 18th
MOTYC
El Lindaman (c) vs Shigehiro Irie - G-REX Championship
- Irie is a loving monster

Takanori Ito vs Yu Iizuka
- I'm more used to these guys doing the UWF matches so this was different than what I was expecting, but still a fantastic match between two great talents. Yu Iizuka is one of those young guys who are extremely my poo poo

Nth to both of these, with Lindaman vs Irie being extra special hot poo poo. This probably had my highest "holy gently caress" count of any match I've seen this year. I don't know any of the story to this going in, Stronghearts used to do Singapore indy's pre covid so my memory was these two were supposed to be mates? Is there any particular reason behind Irie wanting him dead so bad in this match, or were they just in the mood?

Also from the same show

Pylons posted:

MOTYC Dash Chisako vs. Michiko Miyagi

I'll go motyc on this too. The ending was some of the higher quality brutality I've seen of late. If time allows I'll watch the rest of the show, really want to see Shingo and Cima against the bulk orchestra.

# ? May 19, 2022 10:23

Akileese: Feb 6, 2005

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 5/18

HM: Samoa Joe vs. JOHNNY ELITE
MOTYC: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita
MOTYC: Rey Fenix vs. Kyle O'Reilly

nth

# ? May 19, 2022 10:56

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW Dynamite 5/18

Love that a wider audience got to see how loving good Soup Boy is, and he and Page had an absolute banger in front of a hot crowd. Beautiful stuff.

nth. Owned

# ? May 19, 2022 11:41

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

NJPW Best of the Super Jr Night 4 May 19th
HM
Tit�n vs. El Lindaman
- Very fun match, made more fun knowing what Lindaman went through the previous day

Robbie Eagles vs BUSHI
- The most I remember enjoying a BUSHI singles match in years

El Desperado vs TJP
- Two very good wrestlers work well together

# ? May 19, 2022 12:57

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Best of the Super Jr Night 4 May 19th
HM
Tit�n vs. El Lindaman
- Very fun match, made more fun knowing what Lindaman went through the previous day

Robbie Eagles vs BUSHI
- The most I remember enjoying a BUSHI singles match in years

El Desperado vs TJP
- Two very good wrestlers work well together

Going MOTYC on Titan/Lindaman, Nth the other two

# ? May 19, 2022 12:59

A Fancy Hat: Nov 18, 2016; Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
MOTYC: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Britt Baker vs. Maki Itoh, AEW Dynamite, 18/05

I'm easily pleased

Britt vs the Joker was real good, nice way to play off some history with the "okay lay down and let me pin you" fakeout spot.

And Hangman is right up there with Danielson and Kenny as a guy who consistently has a good to great match with anyone, holy crap that was a fun one.

# ? May 19, 2022 13:07

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

Very much looking forward to when that Takeshita match goes up on World

# ? May 19, 2022 13:14

I Before E: Jul 2, 2012

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 5/18

HM: Samoa Joe vs. JOHNNY ELITE
MOTYC: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita
MOTYC: Rey Fenix vs. Kyle O'Reilly

SG Bamboo posted:

GLEAT G-Pro Wrestling Ver.25 May 18th
MOTYC
El Lindaman (c) vs Shigehiro Irie - G-REX Championship
- Irie is a loving monster

Takanori Ito vs Yu Iizuka
- I'm more used to these guys doing the UWF matches so this was different than what I was expecting, but still a fantastic match between two great talents. Yu Iizuka is one of those young guys who are extremely my poo poo

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

GLEAT G-PRO Wrestling Ver. 25 (5/18)

HM
DASH Chisako vs. Michiko Miyagi
- Probably the most I've enjoyed a Miyagi match. Really worked well together and a sick finish

Hayato Tamura vs. Hirooki Goto
- Slow start but once they got into it, it got really good. Nice to see Goto looking motivated and throwing bombs with someone who could match him but Tamura was definitely the star of the match

60 Seconds (Tetsuya Izuchi, Jun Tonsho & Keiichi Sato) vs. T-Hawk, Issei Onitsuka & Jack Cartwheel
- Cartwheel took about 5 seconds to get over with the Korakuen crowd. He won me over too by just looking so happy to be there. Some really great stuff between these two teams. Onitsuka is gonna be a star

Shingo Takagi & CIMA vs Bulk Orchestra (Ryuichi Kawakami & KAZMA Sakamoto)
- This was so much fun from start to finish. Shingo has great chemistry with Kawakami and CIMA was clearly enjoying teaming with Shingo again. Props to Nanae Takahashi for adding to the match by cracking up at Shingo throwing lariats at everyone

Seconding all of these

# ? May 19, 2022 14:21

Sooper Gila: Apr 23, 2014; Love
Peace
and Harmony

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Best of the Super Jr Night 4 May 19th
HM

Robbie Eagles vs BUSHI
- The most I remember enjoying a BUSHI singles match in years

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC on Titan/Lindaman,

Nth to both of these, I didn't get to see despy vs TJP though.

# ? May 19, 2022 14:48

PlatinumJukebox: Nov 14, 2011; Uh oh, I think someone just told Hunter what game he's in.

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Britt Baker vs. Maki Itoh, AEW Dynamite, 18/05

KOR/Fenix is my Honorable Mention of the Year, my favorite match this year that didn't quite hit MOTYC for me

Otherwise :yeah:

# ? May 19, 2022 18:57

Kevino07: Oct 16, 2008

MOTYC: Hangman Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Rey Fenix, AEW Dynamite, 18/05
HM: Britt Baker vs. Maki Itoh, AEW Dynamite, 18/05

KOR vs Fenix might have been MOTYC for me on another show tbf

# ? May 19, 2022 22:35

Purple Monkey: May 5, 2014; Hello

AEW Dynamite 18/5

MOTYC: Hangman vs Konosuke Takeshita
HM: Kyle O'Reilly vs Rey Fenix

# ? May 19, 2022 22:37

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

HM: El Lindaman vs. Titan, NJPW Best of Super Juniors Night 4, 19/05
HM: El Phantasmo vs. Master Wato, NJPW Best of Super Juniors Night 4, 19/05
HM: El Desperado vs. TJP, NJPW Best of Super Juniors Night 4, 19/05

Good night for Els

# ? May 19, 2022 22:40

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

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
King of Gate 1st Round
Ishin Iihashi vs Takuma Fujiwara

2022's rookie of the Year continues to impress

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
HIGH-END (Dragon Kid & YAMATO) vs Natural Vibes (Jason Lee & Kzy)

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
King of Gate 1st Round
Dragon Dia vs HYO

# ? May 20, 2022 01:23

Thanlis: Mar 17, 2011

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 5/18

HM: Samoa Joe vs. JOHNNY ELITE
MOTYC: "Hangman" Adam Page vs. Konosuke Takeshita
MOTYC: Rey Fenix vs. Kyle O'Reilly

Nth.

# ? May 20, 2022 01:39

Thanlis: Mar 17, 2011

Defenestrategy posted:

MOTY
AEW Dark 5/17/22 Wheeler Yuta vs Josh Woods Pure Championship.

There will certainly be better matches done this year, but there aren't going to be all that many. Just a technical show case with an excellent story told through the match.

I�m gonna nth, the lack of crowd noise was a shame but awesome match.

# ? May 20, 2022 01:40

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𝅘𝅥𝅮

HM: Laredo Kid vs. �Speedball� Mike Bailey, Impact on AXS 5/19

# ? May 20, 2022 01:44

Dimebags Brain: Feb 18, 2013

forkboy84 posted:

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
King of Gate 1st Round
Ishin Iihashi vs Takuma Fujiwara

2022's rookie of the Year continues to impress

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
HIGH-END (Dragon Kid & YAMATO) vs Natural Vibes (Jason Lee & Kzy)

HM
15th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
King of Gate 1st Round
Dragon Dia vs HYO

Yeah, that rookie match whipped, and Ishin looked real good on his own as well.

# ? May 20, 2022 01:47

achillesforever6: Apr 23, 2012; psst you wanna do a communism?

MOTYC
May 19th
Enjoy Wrestling Renegade Finale
Lee Moriarty vs Speedball Mike Bailey
HM
May 19th
Enjoy Wrestling Renegade Finale
JD Drake vs MV Young (c) for the Enjoy Championship

For the actual matches since Enjoy is a growing promotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT8zEXZ4Xgs

# ? May 20, 2022 14:49

Penguin Patrol: Mar 3, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

achillesforever6 posted:

MOTYC
May 19th
Enjoy Wrestling Renegade Finale
Lee Moriarty vs Speedball Mike Bailey
HM
May 19th
Enjoy Wrestling Renegade Finale
JD Drake vs MV Young (c) for the Enjoy Championship

nth

# ? May 20, 2022 16:26

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 15:24

Deathlove: Feb 20, 2003; Pillbug

MOTYC
4/29/22 - STARDOM Cinderella Tournament Night 4 - AZM (c) v Mei Suruga - High Speed Championship Match

hell yeah. gently caress yeah. high speed rules.

# ? May 20, 2022 19:04

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