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

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Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

every single time, nth

# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:17

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 13:07

STING 64: Oct 20, 2006

motyc young bucks vs lucha bros june 3 aew rampage

best match in rampage history

# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:19

Big Coffin Hunter: Aug 13, 2005

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

EVERY loving TIME

# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:20

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

nth, probably unnecessarily

# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:21

gripebomb: Dec 13, 2006; I wanted to fight the world.

- Eddie Kingston

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

Nth! Incredible.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:44

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

sup

# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:05

Thanlis: Mar 17, 2011

HM: Athena vs. Kiera Hogan, 6/3/2022, AEW Rampage

Good match, awesome wings, and the aftermath was reallly interesting.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:17

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

Nthing the MOTYC for Bucks/Bros. I love that AEW does lots of cool stories now but I do miss how we got more of these insane matches with little build in the early days.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:23

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Thanlis posted:

HM: Athena vs. Kiera Hogan, 6/3/2022, AEW Rampage

Good match, awesome wings, and the aftermath was reallly interesting.

Nth. Athena rules.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:24

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Thanlis posted:

HM: Athena vs. Kiera Hogan, 6/3/2022, AEW Rampage

Good match, awesome wings, and the aftermath was reallly interesting.

nth it was v good and athenas selling was :discourse:

# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:26

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

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Bros, AEW Rampage, 03/06
HM: Athena vs. Kiera Hogan, AEW Rampage, 03/06

# ? Jun 4, 2022 06:57

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: El Desperado vs. Hiromu Takahashi in the BOSJ Final - NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 6/3

Holy poo poo so loving good, so many cool moments. The 25 minute call blew me away because I swear the match had only been going for 10 minutes at that point. The wrong wrestler won but holy poo poo what a match.

Yes agreed

# ? Jun 4, 2022 07:20

sticklefifer: Nov 11, 2003; by VideoGames

HM: Bandido vs Flamita - MLW Fusion #147

Just two really cool luchadores in a really cool lucha-rear end match.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 08:42

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

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Bros, AEW Rampage, 03/06
HM: Athena vs. Kiera Hogan, AEW Rampage, 03/06

Nth.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 09:06

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros - AEW Rampage 6/3

I don't think they're physically capable of having a less than great match, and this was no exception. Phenomenal, and that ending was

Nth. Another classic. Two of the best teams ever.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 09:08

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

sticklefifer posted:

HM: Bandido vs Flamita - MLW Fusion #147

Just two really cool luchadores in a really cool lucha-rear end match.

Is there a date for this?

# ? Jun 4, 2022 09:49

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

Jerusalem posted:

Is there a date for this?

2nd June

Show also features Gangrel & LA Park on opposite sides of a tag match which I almost want to want

# ? Jun 4, 2022 09:59

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

MOTYC Aja Kong, Yuna Manase & NATSUMI vs. Jaguar Yokota, Chihiro Hashimoto & Asuka, Shinjiro Otani fundraising show, June 4th.

Joshi veterans, Joshi hosses, and fiery Joshi upstarts just kicking the poo poo out of each other. Really amazing match.

# ? Jun 4, 2022 10:27

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

ZERO1 Osu! Premium Team ZeroOne! Shinjiro Otani Aid June 4th
MOTYC
ASUKA, Chihiro Hashimoto and Jaguar Yokota vs NATSUMI, Yuna Manase and Aja Kong
- Hell yeah, this rocked. NATSUMI showed off great flexibility and youthful fire and Yuna got to show off that she's actually a real great hoss against Chihiro. Add in the legends on each team not giving a gently caress about these brats in their ring and you have a fantastic joshi showcase. Plus ASUKA doing ASUKA things, you should know by now how good she is

Takashi Sugiura (c) vs Masato Tanaka - ZERO1 World Heavyweight Title
- A fitting follow up to their war back in January, these two old men beat the gently caress out of each other and it was incredible

# ? Jun 4, 2022 12:13

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

ZERO1 Osu! Premium Team ZeroOne! Shinjiro Otani Aid June 4th
MOTYC
ASUKA, Chihiro Hashimoto and Jaguar Yokota vs NATSUMI, Yuna Manase and Aja Kong
- Hell yeah, this rocked. NATSUMI showed off great flexibility and youthful fire and Yuna got to show off that she's actually a real great hoss against Chihiro. Add in the legends on each team not giving a gently caress about these brats in their ring and you have a fantastic joshi showcase. Plus ASUKA doing ASUKA things, you should know by now how good she is

Takashi Sugiura (c) vs Masato Tanaka - ZERO1 World Heavyweight Title
- A fitting follow up to their war back in January, these two old men beat the gently caress out of each other and it was incredible

Yeah

# ? Jun 4, 2022 12:26

Thanlis: Mar 17, 2011

Thanlis posted:

Top 16 MotYC Participants

Big movers this month with 2 MotYCs apiece: Eddie Kingston, El Desperado, El Lindaman, El Phantasmo, Hangman Adam Page, Jungle Boy, Ricky Starks, Robbie Eagles, Swerve Strickland, Tomohiro Ishii, and Wardlow. You could build a promotion around those guys.

Updated for May!

# ? Jun 4, 2022 23:45

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

HM
3rd June
Dragongate Toryumon Reunion Volume 2
Aagan Iisou ("brother" YASSHI, Shogo 'Jet' Takagi, Shuji Kondo & Toru Owashi) vs M3K (Masaaki Mochizuki, Ryoto Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda)

Oh, no big deal, just Dragongate debuting another insanely good rookie. And this one is the first ever Dragongate roster member son to bat!

# ? Jun 5, 2022 01:18

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

HM
4th February
Sendai Girls Acceleration Night 1
ASUKA & Saori Anou vs Chihiro Hashimoto & Manami

Starts a bit light and then Big Hash & ASUKA beat the poo poo out of each other, it rules.

HM
4th February
Sendai Girls Acceleration Night 1
Mika Iwata & Miyuki Takase vs Reiwa Ultima Powers (DASH Chisako & Hiroyo Matsumoto)

Even better than the previous match. Takase the star, Matsumoto is underrated but those who know know, a fast-paced evenly matched tag clash

# ? Jun 5, 2022 02:46

YourHumbleMessiah: Oct 11, 2005

HM: Pretty Deadly vs The Creed Brothers NXT In Your House 6/4/22

Man this whipped

# ? Jun 5, 2022 02:55

xbilkis: Apr 11, 2005; god qb
me
jay hova

YourHumbleMessiah posted:

HM: Pretty Deadly vs The Creed Brothers NXT In Your House 6/4/22

Man this whipped

Nth. Pretty funny that the best thing rebooted WWE developmental has going for it is cruiserweights and tag teams

# ? Jun 5, 2022 02:57

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

YourHumbleMessiah posted:

HM: Pretty Deadly vs The Creed Brothers NXT In Your House 6/4/22

Man this whipped

this was real good, shame nxt is garbo

# ? Jun 5, 2022 03:01

Crapple!: Nov 1, 2019

MOTYC: Stardom 4.29.2022 Cinderella Finals - AZM vs Mei Suruga. loving incredible.

# ? Jun 5, 2022 14:30

Purple Monkey: May 5, 2014; Hello

AEW Dynamite 1/6

MOTYC: Undisputed Elite & Hikuleo vs Jurassic Express, Matt Hardy, Darby & Christian
MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs Daniel Garcia

AEW Rampage: 3/6

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs Lucha Bros

Edit: i think in the past I called the Bucks vs Lucha Bros the Okada/Omega or Flair/Steamboat of tag team wrestling and I still 100% stand by that statement

Purple Monkey fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 5, 2022

# ? Jun 5, 2022 21:30

Low Desert Punk: Jul 4, 2012; i have absolutely no fucking money

YourHumbleMessiah posted:

HM: Pretty Deadly vs The Creed Brothers NXT In Your House 6/4/22

Man this whipped

nth. This was an excellent, excellent match.

It blows my mind that WWE is doing something as cool as the Creed Brothers right now.

# ? Jun 5, 2022 21:40

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

HM
26th May
Gatoh Move Mei Suruga 4th Anniversary Show Apple & Crew
Asia Dream Tag Team Titles
CDK (Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi) vs Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI & Thanomsak Toba)

# ? Jun 5, 2022 21:52

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

Thanlis posted:

Updated for May!

I'm keeping quotes for each month on the first page as well, so anybody who is interested (probably just me!) can see how things developed over the year. Thanks as always for doing this

# ? Jun 5, 2022 21:55

Penguin Patrol: Mar 3, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

TJPW Spring Tour 5/29
HM: Kamiyu vs Moka Miyamoto
HM: Shoko Nakajima vs Yuki Arai
HM: Suzume vs Miu Watanabe

# ? Jun 6, 2022 00:38

KungFu Grip: Jun 18, 2008

HM: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch vs Asuka - WWE Hell In A Cell 6/5

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:37

DarkstarIV: Apr 6, 2010; OFFICIAL RACIST

KungFu Grip posted:

HM: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch vs Asuka - WWE Hell In A Cell 6/5

Sure. Finish was loving dumb though.

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:42

Oil!: Nov 5, 2008; Der's e'rl in dem der hills!; Ham Wrangler

KungFu Grip posted:

HM: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch vs Asuka - WWE Hell In A Cell 6/5

MOTYC for me because it was an extremely good women's match (aside from the finish).

Oil! fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jun 6, 2022

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:42

abraham linksys: Sep 6, 2010

MOTYC: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch vs Asuka - WWE Hell In A Cell 6/5

it's botchy enough i debated giving it the full MOTYC but i was genuinely on the edge of my seat throughout in a way i haven't gotten from wwe at all this year outside of the stunt matches at mania. absolutely going to be a top 10 WWE match of the year; i know that's grading on a curve but that's still better than a lot of the random-rear end dynamite/rampage matches that have pulled MOTYC noms here lol

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:43

KungFu Grip: Jun 18, 2008

KungFu Grip posted:

HM: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch vs Asuka - WWE Hell In A Cell 6/5

changing this to a MOTYC after thinking about it

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:58

SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

I'm going to nominate every TOS 7 match

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Cole Radrick - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - SLADE vs Matt Tremont - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - Hoodfoot vs Rima Yamashita - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM- Toru Sugiura vs Shane Mercer - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Rima Yamashita - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - Matt Tremont vs Toru Sugiura - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Matt Tremont - GCW Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

Holy poo poo TOS slapped. Every tournament match was great

SalTheBard fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jun 7, 2022

# ? Jun 6, 2022 03:21

LionYeti: Oct 12, 2008

SalTheBard posted:

I'm going to nominate every TOS 7 match

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Cole Radrick - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - SLADE vs Matt Tremont - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - Hoodfoot vs Rima Yamashita - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM- Toru Sugiura vs Shane Mercer - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Rima Yamashita - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

HM - Matt Tremont vs Toru Sugiura - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

MOTYC - Drew Parker vs Matt Tremont - Tournament of Survival 7 - 6/4/22

Holy poo poo TOS slapped. Every tournament match was great

Would you recommend checking it out if your death match capacity maxes out at like anarchy in the arena/ aew lights out matches?

# ? Jun 6, 2022 03:24

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 13:07

KungFu Grip: Jun 18, 2008

LionYeti posted:

Would you recommend checking it out if your death match capacity maxes out at like anarchy in the arena/ aew lights out matches?

how did you feel about the Nick Gage vs Chris Jericho match and the idea of intergender death matches

# ? Jun 6, 2022 03:30

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