2023's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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Germansimp: May 28, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Blackpool Combat Club (Mox & Claudio) vs. Best Friends in a Parking Lot Brawl - AEW Rampage 8/4

Real sicko poo poo from blood obsessed, pain loving lunatics.... and Jon Moxley is in the match too!

Unnecessary nth to this, and personally, no matter how much evil poo poo Mox and Claudio do, the one I want to see get his final comeuppance the most is that little poo poo Yuta.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 06:57

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 18:37

fez_machine: Nov 27, 2004

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Blackpool Combat Club (Mox & Claudio) vs. Best Friends in a Parking Lot Brawl - AEW Rampage 8/4

Real sicko poo poo from blood obsessed, pain loving lunatics.... and Jon Moxley is in the match too!

nth

these matches rule

# ? Aug 5, 2023 09:22

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

Germansimp posted:

the one I want to see get his final comeuppance the most is that little poo poo Yuta.

Everything really seemed to click into place for him re: his position/character within the stable the moment Danielson referred to him as,"This little poo poo" and I love it.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 09:30

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

MOTYC: Yota Tsuji vs. Gabriel Kidd, NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13, 05/08

Yota used dark magicks to create a body double, it ruled

# ? Aug 5, 2023 10:50

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

MOTYC: Ren Narita vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13, 05/08

This Osaka crowd is loving lit

# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:11

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

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:56

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

HM: Shota Umino vs. Hikuleo, NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13, 05/08

Started slow but the crowd picked it up and it finished strong apart from the bit where New Japan's next top guy jobbed out to the big Tongan dude wtf

# ? Aug 5, 2023 11:57

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

MOTYC: Yota Tsuji vs. Gabe Kidd - NJPW G1 Climax Night 13
Just ludicrous in the best way, with plenty of hardhitting action to boot.

HM: Ren Narita vs. Kaito Kiyomiya - NJPW G1 Climax Night 13
Match was drat good but I am so loving confused why people are allergic to investing in Kaito Kiyomiya as the obvious big time star he should be.

HM: Shota Umino vs. Hikuleo - NJPW G1 Climax Night 13
Shota rules and I was baffled by the ending.

Great night all told helped by an absolutely exceptional Osaka crowd.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:03

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

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

Nth

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:10

Price Check: Oct 9, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

Nth

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:59

Crapple!: Nov 1, 2019

SG Bamboo posted:

GLEAT Ver.MEGA August 4th
MOTYC
T-Hawk (c) vs Hayato Tamura - G-REX Title
- https://youtu.be/pgs9CVR5olU?t=12873

I watched this one because I'm vaguely familiar with T.Hawk and it was loving fantastic. nth. There's way too much wrestling to keep track of nowadays but if you post links like this I'll try to watch

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:24

Chinston Wurchill: Jun 27, 2010; It's not that kind of test.

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

Nth. Gabe vs. Yota was so good!

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:36

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

Yeah there's way too much high quality wrestling to watch in this day and age. The G1 still has 5 shows left, the N-1 starts tomorrow, 5Star just started last week, Royal Road starts in a fortnight, there's countless indies putting on fantastic work infront of tiny crowds and sticking it online to watch. I've had the New Japan Strong ppvs up in a tab for nearly a month now and there's jsut not enough time in the day to set aside the 5 hours to watch them in addition to all the live shows

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:38

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

SG Bamboo posted:

Yeah there's way too much high quality wrestling to watch in this day and age. The G1 still has 5 shows left, the N-1 starts tomorrow

So what you're saying is Kaito could have done both the G1 and N1 this whole time?

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:29

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

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Blackpool Combat Club (Mox & Claudio) vs. Best Friends in a Parking Lot Brawl - AEW Rampage 8/4

Real sicko poo poo from blood obsessed, pain loving lunatics.... and Jon Moxley is in the match too!

Nth. Amazing match and Claudio continues to look like the strongest man who�s ever lived.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:32

Crapple!: Nov 1, 2019

SG Bamboo posted:

Yeah there's way too much high quality wrestling to watch in this day and age. The G1 still has 5 shows left, the N-1 starts tomorrow, 5Star just started last week, Royal Road starts in a fortnight, there's countless indies putting on fantastic work infront of tiny crowds and sticking it online to watch. I've had the New Japan Strong ppvs up in a tab for nearly a month now and there's jsut not enough time in the day to set aside the 5 hours to watch them in addition to all the live shows

Sareee just put together a show that apparently had a blowaway MOTYC in the main event if you believe Twitter and I dont even know if anyone here saw it yet. its impossible. we need to delegate wrestling events to people so we dont miss anything

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:36

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

Crapple! posted:

Sareee just put together a show that apparently had a blowaway MOTYC in the main event if you believe Twitter and I dont even know if anyone here saw it yet. its impossible. we need to delegate wrestling events to people so we dont miss anything

I can believe that, pretty much every Arisa Nakajima main event is a MOTYC. It dropped on vk 9 hours ago so there's another thing to add to the watchlist, top two matches look to be crackers

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:46

flashy_mcflash: Feb 7, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Blackpool Combat Club (Mox & Claudio) vs. Best Friends in a Parking Lot Brawl - AEW Rampage 8/4

Real sicko poo poo from blood obsessed, pain loving lunatics.... and Jon Moxley is in the match too!

Nth, blood for the blood god

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:56

this kid is nuts: Mar 30, 2016

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

Nth

# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:49

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

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Taichi, G1 7/21
MOTYC: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. SANADA, G1 7/25
MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. YOSHI-HASHI, G1 7/25

HM: Shingo Takagi vs. Tomohiro Ishii, G1 7/23
HM: Gabe Kidd vs. Shota Umino, G1 7/25
HM: Great-O-Khan vs. Will Ospreay, G1 7/25

# ? Aug 5, 2023 20:03

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

NWA Powerrr 8/1

WMOTYC: Judais vs Gaagz The Gymp in a Submission Match

Hadn't bothered with the NWA for awhile because they were on hiatus, then showed two month old footage from the Australia tour (they do a few matches on Smashing Pumpkins tour dates) and by the time that was over I'd gotten it out of my system. But when you promise me a match this bad I have to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFlGMpZpX8c

So the announcers hype up the question of "Can Gaagz lose a submission match when he loves pain?" and Gaagz then spends the first half of the match running away, does a brief comeback and then gets beaten down at the end as the announcers tell us the crowd loves Gaagz and Judais has gotten more than he bargained for, all the while nothing of the sort is happening on screen. Then we get another Billy Corgan trademarked horrible finish.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:00

Purple Monkey: May 5, 2014; Hello

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Blackpool Combat Club (Mox & Claudio) vs. Best Friends in a Parking Lot Brawl - AEW Rampage 8/4

Real sicko poo poo from blood obsessed, pain loving lunatics.... and Jon Moxley is in the match too!

Nth I've gone a bit cold on AEW's deathmatch stuff recently but this was good

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:15

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

HM
3rd August
Dragongate King of Gate Night 12
King of Gate Semi-Final
BIG BOSS Shimizu vs Madoka Kikuta

HM
3rd August
Dragongate King of Gate Night 12
King of Gate Final
BIG BOSS Shimizu vs Kota Minoura

HM
26th July
SEAdLINNNG Shin-Kiba Series 2023 Vol.4
Mio Momono vs Riko Kaiju
Watch this here

HM
26th July
SEAdLINNNG Shin-Kiba Series 2023 Vol.4
Arisa Nakajima & Itsuki Aoki vs Riko Kawahata & Sareee
Watch this here

# ? Aug 6, 2023 00:54

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

HM: FTR (C) vs. Big Bill & Brian Cage for the AEW Tag Titles - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: Kris Statlander (C) vs. Mercedes Martinez for the TBS Title - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: CM Punk vs. Ricky Starks - AEW Collision 8/5

Good Rampage! Great promos, excellent crowd, drat solid matches, build for Wembley, Ricky Steamboat, Good ol' JR!

# ? Aug 6, 2023 02:59

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

HM: FTR (C) vs. Big Bill & Brian Cage for the AEW Tag Titles - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: Kris Statlander (C) vs. Mercedes Martinez for the TBS Title - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: CM Punk vs. Ricky Starks - AEW Collision 8/5

Good Rampage! Great promos, excellent crowd, drat solid matches, build for Wembley, Ricky Steamboat, Good ol' JR!

Nth all these.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 02:59

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

HM: Mikey Nicholls vs. Shingo Takagi, G1 7/26
HM: Shane Haste vs. Tetsuya Naito, G1 7/26
HM: David Finlay vs. Tama Tonga, G1 7/26
HM: Jeff Cobb vs. Zack Sabre Jr., G1 7/26
HM: Gabe Kidd vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, G1 7/27

MOTYC: Eddie Kingston vs. Tomohiro Ishii, G1 7/26
MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay, G1 7/27
MOTYC: Shota Umino vs. Yota Tsuji, G1 8/1

# ? Aug 6, 2023 03:03

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Jerusalem posted:

HM: FTR (C) vs. Big Bill & Brian Cage for the AEW Tag Titles - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: Kris Statlander (C) vs. Mercedes Martinez for the TBS Title - AEW Collision 8/5
HM: CM Punk vs. Ricky Starks - AEW Collision 8/5

Good Rampage! Great promos, excellent crowd, drat solid matches, build for Wembley, Ricky Steamboat, Good ol' JR!

nth but you forgot the motn?

MOTYC: House of Black (c) vs. Darius Martin, Action Andretti, and Lee Johnson - AEW Trios Championship - AEW Collision 8/5

# ? Aug 6, 2023 03:09

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

They gotta work on Cerberus some more first :colbert:

# ? Aug 6, 2023 03:13

PlasticAutomaton: Nov 12, 2016; Artoria Pendonut

WMOTYC: Roman Reigns (c) VS Jey Uso in TRIBAL KOMBAT

A slow, plodding mess of a supposed blood feud ending in the most absolutely asinine plot twist. So basically every Roman main event match but somehow even more offensive.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:19

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night 13 August 5th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gabe Kidd
- This is New Japan's future and it loving rocks

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Ren Narita
- Even the ending couldn't take away from how fantastic the first 99% of this match was

HM
Shota Umino vs Hikuleo
- Did not have the higest of hopes for this as Shota works best with more high energy guys but the crowd did a bunch of heavy lifting here and the action really picked up after a slow opening

Yes..agreed

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:24

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

PlasticAutomaton posted:

WMOTYC: Roman Reigns (c) VS Jey Uso in TRIBAL KOMBAT

A slow, plodding mess of a supposed blood feud ending in the most absolutely asinine plot twist.

Looked up what happened as a result of this post and :rubby:

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:39

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

PlasticAutomaton posted:

WMOTYC: Roman Reigns (c) VS Jey Uso in TRIBAL KOMBAT

A slow, plodding mess of a supposed blood feud ending in the most absolutely asinine plot twist. So basically every Roman main event match but somehow even more offensive.

nth nth nth

enough already

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:43

SatoshiMiwa: May 6, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

Looked up what happened as a result of this post and

Jey stealing most humiliated wrestler of the day from Kaito was not what I expected but lol and lamo

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:43

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

FOR gently caress'S SAKE IT WENT THIRTY-SIX MINUTES

Whatever Bloodline 4-way or whatever at Payback better get pelted with stuff like it's '97 WCW

# ? Aug 6, 2023 05:44

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

MOTYC: El Phantasmo vs. Will Ospreay - NJPW G1 Climax Night 14 8/6

The card was underwhelming and the crowd treated it as such, then came alive for this main event which made it clear from the very start that both guys intended to put it all out there and leave nothing behind. Crazy match.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 09:04

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

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: El Phantasmo vs. Will Ospreay - NJPW G1 Climax Night 14 8/6

The card was underwhelming and the crowd treated it as such, then came alive for this main event which made it clear from the very start that both guys intended to put it all out there and leave nothing behind. Crazy match.

I was ready to give this an HM and then it had a top-tier ending stretch so I'm gonna go ahead and Nth this as a MOTYC

# ? Aug 6, 2023 09:06

Ziggy Tzardust: Apr 7, 2006

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: El Phantasmo vs. Will Ospreay - NJPW G1 Climax Night 14 8/6

The card was underwhelming and the crowd treated it as such, then came alive for this main event which made it clear from the very start that both guys intended to put it all out there and leave nothing behind. Crazy match.

Second. Incredible main event

# ? Aug 6, 2023 09:06

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

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: El Phantasmo vs. Will Ospreay - NJPW G1 Climax Night 14 8/6

The card was underwhelming and the crowd treated it as such, then came alive for this main event which made it clear from the very start that both guys intended to put it all out there and leave nothing behind. Crazy match.

Nth

# ? Aug 6, 2023 09:12

Numero6: Oct 10, 2012; ここは地の果て　流されて俺
今日もさすらい　涙も涸れる
ブルーゲイル

PlasticAutomaton posted:

WMOTYC: Roman Reigns (c) VS Jey Uso in TRIBAL KOMBAT

A slow, plodding mess of a supposed blood feud ending in the most absolutely asinine plot twist. So basically every Roman main event match but somehow even more offensive.

Nth. Lol, lmao.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 10:21

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 18:37

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

HM: FTR (C) vs. Big Bill & Brian Cage for the AEW Tag Titles - AEW Collision 8/5

Love the big boys

# ? Aug 6, 2023 11:50

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