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Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21

HM: Josh Woods vs Tracy Williams - Pure Rules
HM: AR Fox vs Shane Taylor

HM: Kommander vs Gravity
HM: Four tag team clusterfuck Tag Championship
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
MOTYC: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
MOTYC: Dark Order vs Righteous(w/ Stu Grayson) Fight Without Honor
MOTYC: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship

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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Claudio Castagnoli (C) vs. PAC for the ROH World Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
This was really good but I wasn't a huge fan of the ending (but excited about what the post-match promised).

HM: Athena (C) vs. Willow Nightingale for the ROH Women's Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Definitely the right choice for the main event. Didn't quite hit MOTYC status but a great capstone to a really, really, really good PPV.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Claudio Castagnoli (C) vs. PAC for the ROH World Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
This was really good but I wasn't a huge fan of the ending (but excited about what the post-match promised).

HM: Athena (C) vs. Willow Nightingale for the ROH Women's Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Definitely the right choice for the main event. Didn't quite hit MOTYC status but a great capstone to a really, really, really good PPV.

seconding, incredible matches. roh is so good right now

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Gravity vs. Komander - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Great high action opener that really opened my eyes to Gravity who I don't think I'd ever seen wrestle before.

HM: Samoa Joe (C) vs. Dalton Castle for the ROH TV Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Joe is the best and Dalton was amazing, as were The Boys, and Stokely on commentary and his role as part of ROH's Board of Directors played a great part too.

HM: Lucha Bros (C) vs. Aussie Open vs. Best Friends vs. The Kingdom for the ROH Tag Titles - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Three of the best tag teams in the world and The Kingdom in a chaotic and exciting match.

HM: Katsuyori Shibata (C) vs. Daniel Garcia for the ROH Pure Title - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
Wrestling vs. Sports Entertainment condensed down to its (no pun intended) purest form, with a perfect finish.

HM: The Dark Order vs. The Righteous in a Fight Without Honor - ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21
With no real background on this match/feud outside of Dark Order's ongoing struggles to be taken seriously in AEW, I was delighted by how good this was and how the simple story was told extremely well.

Main events still to come but so far this entire card has been a banger, even the matches I didn't nominate were absolutely worthwhile watching.

Nth all these. As well as

HM: PAC vs. Claudio Castagnoli
MOTYC: Athena vs. Willow Nightingale

abraham linksys
Sep 6, 2010

:darksouls:

Defenestrategy posted:

ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21

HM: AR Fox vs Shane Taylor
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
HM: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
HM: Dark Order vs Righteous(w/ Stu Grayson) Fight Without Honor
HM: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship

Edited because I'm stingy but agreeing with everyone that it was a delightful show end to end

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

Defenestrategy posted:

ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21


HM: Kommander vs Gravity
HM: Four tag team clusterfuck Tag Championship
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
HM: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
HM: Dark Order vs Righteous(w/ Stu Grayson) Fight Without Honor
MOTYC: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship

boxcarhobo
Jun 23, 2005

ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21

HM: Kommander vs Gravity
HM: Four tag team clusterfuck Tag Championship
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
MOTYC: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
HM: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship


insanely good show, had no right to be that fun

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

TJPW Princess Cup 10 Night 4 July 22nd
HM
Raku Appreciation Society (Raku and Pom Harajuku) vs Suzume and Runa Okubo
- Raku and Pom is just such a fun pairing, and the debuts this year have actually introduced foes they have a chance against

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Burn Down Canberra posted:

G1 Climax 33 night 5

Hm: gabe Kidd v ren Narita

Hm : gok v elp

Hm: ospreay v kenta

Motyc : kaito Kiyomiya v shota umino

Motyc : Kazuchika Okada v taichi (match of the tournament so far)

Hm : sanada v yota tsuji

agreed

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

AJPW Summer Action Series July 22nd
HM
Zennichi Shin Jidai (Kento Miyahara, Rising HAYATO and Ryo Inoue) vs Satoshi Kojima, Soma Watanabe and El Lindaman
Yuma Aoyagi (c) vs Hokuto Omori - Triple Crown

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21

HM: Lucha Bros vs Best Friends vs Aussie Open vs The Kingdom
MOTYC: Dark Order vs The Righteous
HM: Claudio Castagnoli vs Pac
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena

That loving Fight Without Honor holy poo poo. I expected it to be good, but not quite that crazy. I also expected Willow vs Athena to be great, but not quite that great. What a finish.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


MassRafTer posted:

ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/21

HM: Lucha Bros vs Best Friends vs Aussie Open vs The Kingdom
MOTYC: Dark Order vs The Righteous
HM: Claudio Castagnoli vs Pac
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena

That loving Fight Without Honor holy poo poo. I expected it to be good, but not quite that crazy. I also expected Willow vs Athena to be great, but not quite that great. What a finish.

Nth to all. What a great night of wrestling.

Chinston Wurchill
Jun 27, 2010

It's not that kind of test.

Burn Down Canberra posted:

G1 Climax 33 night 5

Hm: gabe Kidd v ren Narita

Hm : gok v elp

Hm: ospreay v kenta

Motyc : kaito Kiyomiya v shota umino

Motyc : Kazuchika Okada v taichi (match of the tournament so far)

Hm : sanada v yota tsuji

Nth (though I might have preferred Shingo/Henare).

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 5 June 21st
MOTYC
Gabe Kidd vs Ren Narita
- Gabe in BC has been fantastic so far, the future is bright for that boy

Shota Umino vs Kaito Kiyomiya
- Fantastic match, the last 5 minutes they stepped up a whole other gear and it rocked

Kazuchika Okada vs Taichi
- These two watched the last match and thought 'yeah, we can top that poo poo easily'

SANADA vs Yota Tsuji
- Holy crap, so good

HM
YOSHI-HASHI vs Tanga Loa
Will Ospreay vs KENTA

G1 Baby!

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

AEW Rampage 7/21

HM: Marina Shafir vs. Kris Statlander

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Pylons posted:

AEW Rampage 7/21

HM: Marina Shafir vs. Kris Statlander

Seconding that they did some brutal looking stuff.

HM: The Royal Rampage from said Rampage.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

AEW Collision 7/22

HM: Action Andretti & Darius Martin vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & Juice Robinson)
HM: CM Punk & Darby Allin vs. Ricky Starks & Christian Cage

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Pylons posted:

AEW Collision 7/22

HM: Action Andretti & Darius Martin vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & Juice Robinson)
HM: CM Punk & Darby Allin vs. Ricky Starks & Christian Cage

nth

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

MassRafTer posted:

HM: The Royal Rampage from said Rampage.

also nth

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
HM: Royal Rampage, AEW Rampage, 21/07

HM: Darius Martin/Action Andretti vs. Jay White/Juice Robinson, AEW Collision, 22/07
HM: Skye Blue vs. Taya Valkyrie, AEW Collision, 22/07
HM: CM Punk/Darby Allin vs. Christian Cage/Ricky Starks, AEW Collision, 22/07

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 Zero Hour 7/21

HM: Josh Woods vs Tracy Williams - Pure Rules
HM: Darius Martin & Acion Andretti vs. The Workhorsemen
HM: AR Fox vs Shane Taylor


ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21

HM
: Komander vs Gravity
MOTYC: Four tag team clusterfuck Tag Championship
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
MOTYC: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
MOTYC: Dark Order vs Righteous(w/ Stu Grayson) Fight Without Honor
MOTYC: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship


h/t Defenestrategy for the template

what a show !!

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

DDT Wrestle Peter Pan July 23rd
MOTYC
Yuji Hino (c) vs Chris Brookes - KO-D Openweight Championship
- Crowd favourite Brookes takes on the invincible champion in the main event of the biggest show of the year

HM
Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida and Ryota Nakatsu) (c) vs Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai and Hideki Okatani) - KO-D 6 Man Championships
MAO vs TAKA Michinoku
Yukio Naya and HARASHIMA vs Jun Akiyama and Shigehiro Irie
Konosuke Takeshita vs Yuki Ueno
Daisuke Sasaki vs El Desperado

Takeshita vs Ueno could have absolutely been MOTYC with just one little change. A couple of dud matches and a couple that didn't hit the heights I hoped but still a very good show on the whole

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

SG Bamboo posted:

DDT Wrestle Peter Pan July 23rd
HM
Yuji Hino (c) vs Chris Brookes - KO-D Openweight Championship
Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida and Ryota Nakatsu) (c) vs Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai and Hideki Okatani) - KO-D 6 Man Championships
MAO vs TAKA Michinoku
Yukio Naya and HARASHIMA vs Jun Akiyama and Shigehiro Irie
Konosuke Takeshita vs Yuki Ueno
Daisuke Sasaki vs El Desperado

Takeshita vs Ueno could have absolutely been MOTYC with just one little change. A couple of dud matches and a couple that didn't hit the heights I hoped but still a very good show on the whole

Nothing got to MOTYC for me but Takeshita vs Ueno was the work rate highlight of the show. Absolutely brutal looking stuff there.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


SG Bamboo posted:

DDT Wrestle Peter Pan July 23rd
MOTYC
Yuji Hino (c) vs Chris Brookes - KO-D Openweight Championship
- Crowd favourite Brookes takes on the invincible champion in the main event of the biggest show of the year

the only match I got to see live on the show but drat was it worth it. nth

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
HM: Shingo Takagi vs. Tomohiro Ishii, NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 6, 23/07

I'd probably go MOTYC if not for the incredibly dire crowd

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
WMOTYC: David Finlay vs. EVIL, NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 6, 23/07

The main event this show deserved

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 6 July 23rd
HM
Shingo Takagi vs Tomohiro Ishii

Worst night so far. Crowd was completely dead for the first half, the first five matches didn't approach good, and EVIL was in the main event with BC civil war poo poo

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Daisuke Sasaki vs. El Desperado - DDT Peter Pan 7/23
I love watching Desperado wrestle everywhere, he's so loving cool.

HM: Yuji Hino (C) vs. Chris Brookes for the KO-D Openweight Championship - DDT Peter Pan 7/23
I am so happy for Chris Brookes :shobon:

HM: Shingo Takagi vs. Tomohiro Ishii - NJPW G1 Climax Night 6 7/23
Best match of the worst night of the tournament so far (only other highlight was Naito trolling Yano before their match, the match itself was okay).

WMOTYC: David Finlay vs. EVIL - NJPW G1 Climax Night 6 7/23
gently caress off.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


MOTYC
5th July
Gatoh Move In Shin-Kiba
Super Asia Title
Hagane Shinno(c) vs Emi Sakura
Watch this here

This was terrific. I really do enjoy Gatoh Move in a proper ring, it's a different kind of fun. Let's some of their real good wrestlers show off.

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 6 July 23rd
HM
Shingo Takagi vs Tomohiro Ishii

Worst night so far. Crowd was completely dead for the first half, the first five matches didn't approach good, and EVIL was in the main event with BC civil war poo poo

Nth

TriffTshngo
Mar 28, 2010

Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.
Been slipping on G1 stuff.

Night 3
HM: Wll Ospreay vs Yoshi-Hashi
HM: Ren Narita vs Yota Tsuji
HM: SANADA vs Shota Umino
HM: Kazuchika Okada vs El Phantasmo

Night 3 was pretty rough, the crowd being in a coma certainly didn't help, but I still enjoyed the second half of the show.

Night 4
MOTYC: Jeff Cobb vs Alex Coughlin
MOTYC: Henare vs Shingo Takagi
HM: Zack Sabre Jr. vs Toru Yano
HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs Tama Tonga

The crowd, similar to night 3, wasn't great here either, but who loving cares we got big boys slamming into each other and tossing each other around and that's all I really need. Also I know people who've stuck with Nooj through clap crowd era may have some negative emotions w/r/t Toru Yano nowadays but that was a masterful iteration of the typical Yano G1 Goof-Fest.

Night 5

MOTYC: Kaito Kiyomiya vs Shota Umino
MOTYC: Kazuhika Okada vs Taichi
MOTYC: SANADA vs Yota Tsuji
HM: Ren Narita vs Gabe Kidd
HM: Tanga Loa vs Yoshi-Hashi
HM: El Phantasmo vs Great O-Khan
HM: Will Ospreay vs KENTA

Maybe I'm a little too generous with my criteria for what makes a MOTYC but man this was a killer night, crowd was eating everything up and it really contributed a lot, and everyone was a lot more on their game than the prior 2 nights it felt like.

Been watching these on a delay so we'll see where night 6 lands.

super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014


boxcarhobo posted:

ROH Death Before Dishonor 2023 7/21

HM: Kommander vs Gravity
HM: Four tag team clusterfuck Tag Championship
HM: Samoa Joe vs Dalton Castle TV Championship
MOTYC: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia Pure Rules Championship
HM: Pac vs Claudio ROH Title
MOTYC: Willow vs Athena Womens Championship


insanely good show, had no right to be that fun

Nth to this.

I'd include:

HM: Darius Martin & Acion Andretti vs. The Workhorsemen (ROH:DBD Preshow)

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

AJPW Summer Action Series July 23rd
MOTYC
Zennichi Shin Jidai (Kento Miyahara and Yuma Anzai) (c) vs Minoru Suzuki and Hokuto Omori
- Fantastic stuff, Suzuki in All Japan this year has been so entertaining

HM
SUWAMA vs Yuma Anzai
El Lindaman (c) vs Ryo Inoue - PWF World Junior Championship

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
9th July
Dragongate King of Gate Night 3
Kota Minoura vs Naruki Doi
Watch this here

2nd best KofG match I've seen so far, real nice action between Triangle Gate partners.

HM
2nd July
DDT Dramatic Dreams! Vol.10 ~Spare Myself and Spare My Name~
Eruption (Saki Akai & Yukio Sakaguchi) vs Kazuki Hirata & Nanashi
Watch this here

Very enjoyable comedy match that ends up with Sakaguchi terrified. Actually, everyone is terrified of Nanashi including Hirata. Very silly/

HM
2nd July
DDT Dramatic Dreams! Vol.10 ~Spare Myself and Spare My Name~
Akito, HARASHIMA & Kazusada Higuchi vs Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama & Yuji Hino
Watch this here

Someone on Cagematch said that they were bored of Hino vs HARASHIMA & Hino vs Higuchi interactions. That person is not me, I am always entertained by these 3 guys, especially when they chop & headbutt each other (mainly Hino & Higuchi)

MOTYC
2nd July
DDT Dramatic Dreams! Vol.10 ~Spare Myself and Spare My Name~
HUB vs Yuki Ueno
Watch this here

This is a cracking match made better by a little context. Show is in Osaka, hometown of Yuki Ueno. It's also the home of Osaka Pro, where HUB made his name. And he's also Yuki Ueno's favourite wrestler, Ueno's signature move he borrowed from HUB (with permission). So it's cool and hey go out & have this match. Honestly this DDT Osaka show way exceeded my expectations for basically a spotshow.

Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:
Stardom 5 star opening night 23/7

HM : mariah May v azm
Hm : utami v Mina Shirakawa
Motyc: syuri v Suzu Suzuki
Motyc : hazuki v mayu iwatani
Motyc : giulia v saori anou (just two literal insane people going at it)

Really good show

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
5th July
Gatoh Move In Shin-Kiba
Super Asia Title
Hagane Shinno(c) vs Emi Sakura
Watch this here

This was terrific. I really do enjoy Gatoh Move in a proper ring, it's a different kind of fun. Let's some of their real good wrestlers show off.

Nth, this is great. A really frantic match. Emi rules

Crapple!
Nov 1, 2019


Burn Down Canberra posted:

Stardom 5 star opening night 23/7

HM : mariah May v azm
Hm : utami v Mina Shirakawa
Motyc: syuri v Suzu Suzuki
Motyc : hazuki v mayu iwatani
Motyc : giulia v saori anou (just two literal insane people going at it)

Really good show

nth. And from the same show I will also add

HM: Natsupoi vs Starlight Kid

MOTYC: MIRAI vs Momo Watanabe (nobody else will nominate this for MOTYC, this match was just for me)

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
9th July
Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Night 18
GHC National Title
El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr(c) vs AMAKUSA
Watch this here

Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr is absolutely one of the most under-rated guys around at the moment.

HM
2nd July
Stardom MidSummer Champions 2023
Nanae Takahashi vs Starlight Kid
Watch this here

This reminded me of watching SEAdLINNNG Nanae & makes me sad that she just won't get those opportunities very often because Stardom has a loaded roster. It's a cracker, she whoops SLK.

MOTYC
2nd July
Stardom MidSummer Champions 2023
Wonder of Stardom Title
Tam Nakano(c) vs MIRAI
Watch this here

MOTYC
15th July
Pro Wrestling NOAH One Night Dream
El Hijo del Dr Wagner Jr & Go Shiozaki vs Jake Lee & Kenoh
Watch this here

Really just a N-1 preview tag but so many great moments in it. Kenoh failing to get on with anyone since Kongo broke up. Go reminding everyone "oh hey, this dude is one of the best in the world" after a pretty underwhelming return all things considered. Jake being a smug prick. EHdDWJr being that steady hand he always is. Really loving good. And yet totally blown away by the main event. If I'd watched these in reverse order this would be lucky to get HM.

MOTYC
15th July
Pro Wrestling NOAH One Night Dream
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Kento Miyahara
Watch this here

Two of my favourite wrestlers. One of whom is the best wrestler in the world right now (well, in Japan. I can't really comment on stuff I don't watch). An interpromotional aspect, NOAH vs All Japan. A deep personal history as they both came up in Kensuke Sasaki's Kensuke Office gym, where Nakajima was the more experienced and frankly a bullying prick, he was very young & acted like it. So there's legit bad blood. Korakuen Hall isn't sold out to capacity but it's still one of the bigger crowds in Korakuen since March 2020, & the crowd is split pretty much down the middle, 50% Nakajima & 50% Kento. All of this adds up to a match that I absolutely adored, a ***** match that is at worst my #2 of the year & with a bit more reflection may well be my #1. But I've just seen it so don't want to get carried away. Sincerely, watch this.

Chinston Wurchill
Jun 27, 2010

It's not that kind of test.

Burn Down Canberra posted:

Stardom 5 star opening night 23/7

HM : mariah May v azm
Hm : utami v Mina Shirakawa
Motyc: syuri v Suzu Suzuki
Motyc : hazuki v mayu iwatani
Motyc : giulia v saori anou (just two literal insane people going at it)

Really good show


Crapple! posted:

nth. And from the same show I will also add

HM: Natsupoi vs Starlight Kid

Nth all of the above plus HM for Momo/MIRAI.

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Purple Monkey
May 5, 2014

:phone:Hello
ROH Death Before Dishonor

HM: AR Fox vs Shane Taylor
HM: Gravity vs Komander
HM: Aussie vs The Lucha Bros vs Best Friends vs The Kingdom
HM: Shibata vs Daniel Garcia
MOTYC: Dark Order vs The Righteous & Stu Grayson
HM: Claudio vs Pac
MOTYC: Athena vs Willow

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