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

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

HM: Ace Austin vs. Mike Bailey vs. Trey Miguel, Impact Rebellion, April 23
HM: Laredo Kid vs. Mike Bailey vs. Rich Swann, Countdown to Under Siege, May 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkblO6bwkbA

# ? Jun 11, 2022 20:05

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 14:02

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

HMs from AEW Rampage on June 10

Eddie Kingston vs. Jake Hager
Kris Statlander vs. Red Velvet
FTR & Trent Beretta vs. Aussie Open & Will Ospreay

# ? Jun 12, 2022 00:49

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Pro Wrestling Revolver 6/11

HM: Alex Shelley vs. Trey Miguel
MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs. Speedball Mike Bailey

Pylons fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 12, 2022

# ? Jun 12, 2022 02:16

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

AJPW Dynamite Series June 12th
MOTYC
STRONGHEARTS (Issei Onitsuka, Shigehiro Irie and T-Hawk) vs Shotaro Ashino, Seigo Tachibana and Ryuki Honda - AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship
- Fantastic hard hitting contest, all these guys brought a ton of energy considering they had already wrestled this show

HM
Team BJW (Astronauts (Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe) and Kosuke Sato) vs Shotaro Ashino, Ryuki Honda and Seigo Tachibana
- Goddamn team Big Japan are so cool. So are the other team, just a bit less so

Total Eclipse (Hokuto Omori and Yusuke Kodama) (c) vs NEXTREAM (Atsuki Aoyagi and Rising HAYATO) - All Asia Tag Team Championships
- A great jr heavy tag, these guys consistently work real well together

# ? Jun 12, 2022 05:49

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

HM: Taichi vs. Shingo Takagi, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

A 10-minute iron man match means an absolute sprint of two of New Japan's best strikers

# ? Jun 12, 2022 08:16

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

Rarity posted:

HM: Taichi vs. Shingo Takagi, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

A 10-minute iron man match means an absolute sprint of two of New Japan's best strikers

Second, I really enjoyed this.

# ? Jun 12, 2022 08:34

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

HM: SANADA vs. Will Ospreay, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

This close to being a MOTYC, great to have SANADA back

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:00

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

Rarity posted:

HM: SANADA vs. Will Ospreay for the IWGP US Title - NJPW Dominion 6/12

This close to being a MOTYC, great to have SANADA back

Second. Didn't realize how much I'd missed SANADA till he was back.

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:08

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

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo :stare:

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:47

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

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo

2nd and yeah, HOLY poo poo!

That ending.... mother of God.....

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:47

ThePariah: Feb 10, 2014

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo

Nth

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:47

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

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP US Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Jun 12, 2022

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:49

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

Yeah

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:54

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo

nth

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:54

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

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP US Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

Nth

# ? Jun 12, 2022 09:59

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

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP US Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

Nth to these, main event was another level of pro wrestling entirely. Enjoyed the entire show, even stuff like Goto vs Tana and Anderson vs Tama was entertaining enough.

Not really a spoiler so much as I don't want my enthusiasm to suggest to people the match finish - but there's a pretty good argument for Jay White being the best in the world today. There's literally nothing he can't do at the highest level: in ring work, promos, character, storytelling, crowd reactions. he's perfect at all of it. .

# ? Jun 12, 2022 11:25

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

CyberFight Festival June 12th
MOTYC
37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno, MAO and ASUKA) vs CDK (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) and DisasterBox (Naomi Yoshimura and HARASHIMA)
Kenoh vs Daisuke Sasaki

HM
Eruption (Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani and Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Ganbare☆Pro (Yuna Manase, Ken Ohka and Mizuki Watase)
Julia Nagano and 121000000 (Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita) vs Hikari Noa, Suzume and Yuki Aino
Shoko Nakajima (c) vs Yuka Sakazaki - Princess of Princess Championship
Go Shiozaki (c) vs Satoshi Kojima - GHC Heavyweight Championship

# ? Jun 12, 2022 13:21

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo

Nthing the nomination and the reaction

# ? Jun 12, 2022 17:12

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

NJPW Dominion 12th June 2022

HM: Shingo vs. Taichi
Fun match, Shingo's always great and I love the gimmick.

HM: Ospreay vs. SANADA
Two of my favourites putting on an absolute barnstormer, awesome.

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, NJPW Dominion, 12/06

Holy poo poo

# ? Jun 12, 2022 18:13

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

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

nth

# ? Jun 12, 2022 19:25

Purple Monkey: May 5, 2014; Hello

AEW Dynamite 8/6

HM: Pac vs Buddy Matthews
MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs Kyle O'Reilly

AEW Rampage 10/6

HM: Eddie Kingston vs Jake Hagar
HM: Kris Statlander vs Red Velvet
HM: FTR & Trent? vs United Empire

# ? Jun 12, 2022 21:02

Thanlis: Mar 17, 2011

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

I�m gonna go MOTYC on the KOPW match, in part probably because the format is so entertainingly novel, so nth.

# ? Jun 12, 2022 22:48

fez_machine: Nov 27, 2004

SG Bamboo posted:

CyberFight Festival June 12th
MOTYC
37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno, MAO and ASUKA) vs CDK (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) and DisasterBox (Naomi Yoshimura and HARASHIMA)
Kenoh vs Daisuke Sasaki

HM
Eruption (Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani and Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Ganbare☆Pro (Yuna Manase, Ken Ohka and Mizuki Watase)
Julia Nagano and 121000000 (Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita) vs Hikari Noa, Suzume and Yuki Aino
Shoko Nakajima (c) vs Yuka Sakazaki - Princess of Princess Championship
Go Shiozaki (c) vs Satoshi Kojima - GHC Heavyweight Championship

nth

# ? Jun 12, 2022 22:55

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP US Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

Yeah agreed

# ? Jun 12, 2022 23:55

Akileese: Feb 6, 2005

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Dominion June 12th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi (h) vs Taichi - KOPW Provisional Trophy
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Jay White - IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

HM
SANADA vs Will Ospreay - IWGP US Heavyweight Championship

Couple of fantastic matches, and even the meh ones didn't drag too much for me

nth

# ? Jun 13, 2022 01:14

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

HM: Buddy Matthews vs. TJP, MLW Fusion March 17 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBTJdRMeGes

Not as good as these two could do in different circumstances, but still worthy of a nod.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 04:08

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

MOTYC: Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Takumi Iroha, Marvelous January 10

This got MOTYC'd by forkboy back in January shortly after it happened. This is worth going out of your way to find - it's a great hoss off as the AAAW Championship is reactivated for the first time in nearly 17 years.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 04:44

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

MassRafTer posted:

Great Rampage.

HM: Hager vs Kingston
HM: Statlander vs Velvet
HM: United Empire vs FTR and Trent?

Basically the perfect Rampage a bunch of really good matches some of which made me want to see other matches and a main event where I'm not sure it could get time on Dynamite but fit as a perfect Rampage main event.

Nthing these.

Definitely Hager's best singles match (maybe his only good singles match?), Eddie Kingston rules so much.

Statlander also rules but Red deserves a ton of praise, ever since turning heel she's been on fire in the ring imho. This was the best match of the show to me, great stuff and I feel like a Statlander title run is just over the horizon.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 13:32

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

A Fancy Hat posted:

Nthing these.

Definitely Hager's best singles match (maybe his only good singles match?), Eddie Kingston rules so much.

Statlander also rules but Red deserves a ton of praise, ever since turning heel she's been on fire in the ring imho. This was the best match of the show to me, great stuff and I feel like a Statlander title run is just over the horizon.

Hager had two really good singles matches with Wardlow. Everything he did with Wardlow last year was great. Wardlow.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 14:15

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

MOTYC: Josh Alexander vs. Moose, Impact Rebellion, April 23
HM: Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin & Mike Bailey vs. Eddie Edwards, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett, Impact, April 28
HM: Moose vs. Josh Alexander, Impact, April 28
HM: Steve Maclin vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Impact, May 5

# ? Jun 13, 2022 21:12

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

6/10 CMLL Copa Jr. VIP Final

MOTYC: Mistico vs Atlantis Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHhB35iA8M&t=4420s

Go watch this. CMLL is back. This crowd made them feel powerful, like they could boss New Japan around.

Mistico is the best and Atlantis Jr is such a great dickhead heel who does such cool moves.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:02

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

HM: Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin & Frankie Kazarian vs. Eddie Edwards, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett, Impact, June 9 - this was just shy of a MOTYC for me.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 05:17

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

HM: Chris Sabin vs. Steve Maclin, Impact Under Siege, May 7

# ? Jun 14, 2022 12:45

coconono: Aug 11, 2004; KISS ME KRIS

SG Bamboo posted:

CyberFight Festival June 12th
MOTYC
37KAMIINA (Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno, MAO and ASUKA) vs CDK (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) and DisasterBox (Naomi Yoshimura and HARASHIMA)
Kenoh vs Daisuke Sasaki

HM
Eruption (Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani and Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Ganbare☆Pro (Yuna Manase, Ken Ohka and Mizuki Watase)
Julia Nagano and 121000000 (Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita) vs Hikari Noa, Suzume and Yuki Aino
Shoko Nakajima (c) vs Yuka Sakazaki - Princess of Princess Championship
Go Shiozaki (c) vs Satoshi Kojima - GHC Heavyweight Championship

nth

# ? Jun 14, 2022 14:20

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

HM: Trey Miguel vs. Ace Austin, Impact Under Siege, May 7
HM: Briscoes vs. Deaner & Eric Young, Impact Under Siege, May 7
MOTYC: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Josh Alexander, Impact Under Siege, May 7

# ? Jun 15, 2022 04:03

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

My MOTYC count so far for the year.

20: AEW
14: NJPW
5: WWE
4: Impact
3: Stardom
2 each: ACTION, Dragongate
1 each: AAA, AJPW, CMLL, DEFY, GCW, Marvelous, RoH, Warrior, WrestleCon, ZERO1

Congrats to WWE for being exactly one great match better than Impact so far.

# ? Jun 15, 2022 04:28

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

HM: Nyla Rose, Diamante & Emi Sakura vs Anna Jay, Ruby Soho & Kris Statlander, AEW Dark 6/14
HM: Nick Comoroto vs Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dark 6/14

# ? Jun 15, 2022 04:42

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

graph posted:

HM: Nyla Rose, Diamante & Emi Sakura vs Anna Jay, Ruby Soho & Kris Statlander, AEW Dark 6/14
HM: Nick Comoroto vs Konosuke Takeshita, AEW Dark 6/14

Nth these. Takeshita simply does not have bad matches.

# ? Jun 15, 2022 08:07

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

HM: Maki Itoh vs. Miyu Yamashita, Prestige Roseland 3, May 29 - just shy of a MOTYC for me, but really great. Definitely worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHArgxniAY

# ? Jun 15, 2022 21:54

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 14:02

Sticky Nate: Jan 9, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

6/10 CMLL Copa Jr. VIP Final

MOTYC: Mistico vs Atlantis Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHhB35iA8M&t=4420s

Go watch this. CMLL is back. This crowd made them feel powerful, like they could boss New Japan around.

Mistico is the best and Atlantis Jr is such a great dickhead heel who does such cool moves.

gently caress yes. 2nd.

# ? Jun 16, 2022 00:51

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