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Fish Of Doom
Aug 18, 2004
I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare


Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 1/17
MOTYC: Samoa Joe vs. HOOK

Nth. They basically had a Brock Lesnar match and the crowd was super into it.

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The Taxman
Jan 2, 2007

greetings sweeties, let me give you a back massage. for i am a whiz!


Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: Josh Alexander vs. Will Ospreay, TNA Impact 1/18



Crapple! posted:

16.1.2024 Sareeeism 3

MOTYC: Chihiro Hashimoto vs Sareee

Better than Syuri/Mayu in my opinion and my current favourite match of the year

Nth to these, though I think I liked Syuri v Mayu a lil bit more

Barry Bluejeans
Feb 2, 2017

ATTENTHUN THITIZENTH

Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: Josh Alexander vs. Will Ospreay, TNA Impact 1/18

big nth, I almost never watch TNA but I'm glad I went out of my way to see this one

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Barry Bluejeans posted:

big nth, I almost never watch TNA but I'm glad I went out of my way to see this one

neato they literally just posted it for free an hour ago

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

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
17th January
Pro Wrestling NOAH Sunny Voyage Night 1
El Hijo del Dr Wagner, Kaito Kiyomiya, Los Golpeadores (Alpha Wolf & Dragon Bane) & Ryohei Oiwa vs GLG (Anthony Greene, Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, Tadasuke & YO-HEY
Watch this here

No stakes but just a real fun multiman tag

HM
16th January
Sareee-ISM Chapter III
Azusa Inaba & Tomoko Inaba vs Mio Momono & Riko Kawahata
Watch this here

WMOTYC
16th January
Sareee-ISM Chapter III
Hiragi Kurumi & Unagi Sayaka vs Kaoru Ito & Nanae Takahashi
Watch this here

Kaoru Ito should just retire. No shame in that, she's been at this for 34 years.

MOTYC
16th January
Sareee-ISM Chapter III
Chihiro Hashimoto vs Sareee
Watch this here

And that's my new #2 MOTY. loving hell. Exactly what I like watching in wrestling. Sareee's return to Japan has been such a shot in the arm for the scene.

Also watched some stuff from promotions I don't normally check that was highly rated on Cagematch

HM
5th January
NORTH Wrestling Slamfest
NORTH Title
Leon Slater(c) vs Mike Bailey
Watch this here

NORTH are a Newcastle/Tyneside based promotion. Seems like their stuff goes up on their Patreon first & then drops on Fite TV+ about a month later as far as I can tell, but they stuck this on Youtube. Slater is apparently signed with TNA but hasn't actually appeared in America for them? He's only 19 so maybe they are wisely letting him grow while having first refusal if anyone else sniffs around? I dunno.

HM
5th January
Association les Professionnels du Catch 20th Anniversary
Aigle Blanc vs Mustafa Ali
Watch this here

First post-WWE Ali match I've seen & it's also possibly the first contemporary French wrestling match I've seen. APC are a regular running in the Parisian suburbs, Aigle Blanc is one of their most highly regarded homegrown talents & had about 6 weeks in Japan with All Japan last summer, hopefully he goes back. (Right now the European scene has been pretty rich pickings for smaller Japanese groups, Big Japan have been loaded with people like Leyton Buzzard, Ender Kara & Tempesta)

MOTYC
7th January
Osaka Pro New Year Special
Osaka Light Heavyweight Title
Ryuya Matsufusa(c) vs Billy Ken Kid
Watch this here

When Osaka Pro was resurrected by Zeus in 2022 I fully intended to check them out when I could but just never got around to it. But seeing this match I was intrigued. Matsufusa is one of the younger guys in the company, not from the original run of OPW, only debuted in 2019 & I've only seen him a couple of times on AJPW shows in Osaka. Meanwhile Billy Ken Kid is about as OPW as it gets, they were his main gig from 2002 until 2014, & after they mostly stopped running he started working mainly for Dotenbori Pro, another Osaka based group that was made up mainly of guys you'd have seen for Osaka Pro in the previous years. It's really cool to see an Osaka Pro match getting talked about for probably the first time in nearly 15 years & this is well worth being talked about.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

Nth both of these. Great hour of wrasslin.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

agreeing with jru

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

TJPW Max Heart Tag Tournament Night 1 January 20th
HM
Shinken Kusho (Juria Nagano and Moka Miyamoto) vs Miyu Yamashita and Toga

Main event was also pretty good, but was hampered by the crowd being subdued the whole show

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Jerusalem posted:



HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.
I agree.

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

SG Bamboo posted:

TJPW Max Heart Tag Tournament Night 1 January 20th
HM
Shinken Kusho (Juria Nagano and Moka Miyamoto) vs Miyu Yamashita and Toga

Main event was also pretty good, but was hampered by the crowd being subdued the whole show

nth

I enjoyed this one

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

yep yep nth

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

Hell yeah brother. Rampage was a lot of fun!

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Kenoh (C) vs. Go Shiozaki for the GHC Title - NOAH Star Navigation Night 1 1/13

Good to know who is NOAH :hmmyes:

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kenoh (C) vs. Go Shiozaki for the GHC Title - NOAH Star Navigation Night 1 1/13

Good to know who is NOAH :hmmyes:

Watched this earlier today and I agree. +1

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:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Queen Aminata - AEW Rampage 1/19
The Statlander/Stoke stuff is a delight and Aminata really took the chance to showcase what she can do.

HM: Darby Allin vs. Jeff Hardy - AEW Rampage 1/19
These dudes are insane.

Nthing these with one addition from Rampage as well:

HM: Chris Jericho vs Matt Sydal

Jericho’s mostly been a tag guy lately but this was a pretty great singles outing for him. And Sydal did a lot of heavy lifting, too.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
5th January
CMLL Super Viernes
El Barbaro Cavernario vs Esfinge
Watch this here

Feel like there was a while that Cavernario kind of just wasn't very fussed & I stopped hearing about him but the last year or so he's clearly found his mojo again & it's real fun because he's such an effortlessly charismatic guy. Also Zacarias el Perico in his corner is a proper little poo poo, a very fun rudo second. Wish CMLL would use the overhead camera shot slightly less though.

MOTYC
5th January
CMLL Super Viernes
Best 2 out of 3 Falls
Mascara Dorada vs Templario
Watch this here

Fantastic wrestling. First fall a bit sloppy but once they get going it gets going. Probably going to get a lot more attention than CMLL usually get because it got the ***** in the Observer (I think the first ever ***** for CMLL from Meltzer?), & while I'm not quite that high on it I do think it's a terrific showcase for Dorada & as good an excuse as any to catch some CMLL. Final fall is pretty terrific all told. You can see why the company are getting behind this dude like this. And you can see why people are high on CMLL as one of the best promotions in the world right now (if not the very best of 2023 according to many). And Templario deserves a nod too, terrific base here.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


WMOTYC
20th January
New Japan New Beginning In Nagoya
NEVER Openweight Title
Tama Tonga(c) Vs EVIL

I dunno why I watched this,was always going to hate it and so I did. So dull. Just in a miserable mood now. The worst kind of go away heat

Ziggy Tzardust
Apr 7, 2006

forkboy84 posted:

The worst kind of go away heat

Considering Tama is actually going away, I’d argue it’s the best kind of go away heat.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
HM: Thunder Rosa vs Queen Aminata, AEW Collision 1/20/24

These two ladies hit hard

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

forkboy84 posted:

WMOTYC
20th January
New Japan New Beginning In Nagoya
NEVER Openweight Title
Tama Tonga(c) Vs EVIL

I dunno why I watched this,was always going to hate it and so I did. So dull. Just in a miserable mood now. The worst kind of go away heat

I'll second this but specify it as the Lumberjack match that followed the initial thrown out match which I assume is what you're also nominating?

Just awful poo poo. At least Tama's speech at the end was nice.

Edit: On a more positive note:

HM: Taiji Ishimori (C) vs. Great O-Khan in a Ring Fit Match for the KOPW Provisional Title - NJPW New Beginning in Nagoya 1/20
This was very silly, and while Great O-Khan got the bulk of the comedy, Ishimori played his role very, very well. I lost it when they made GoK redo his last fitness segment.

Maxwell Lord posted:

HM: Thunder Rosa vs Queen Aminata, AEW Collision 1/20/24

These two ladies hit hard

Second, really getting into Queen Aminata this last week or so.

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jan 21, 2024

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Sareee-ISM Chapter III January 16th
MOTYC
Sareee vs Chihiro Hashimoto
https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252346?t=2h1m17s
- Watch this. Seriously, make the time

HM
Mio Momono and Riko Kawahata vs Tomoka Inaba and Asuza Inaba
- https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252346?t=22m31s

Takumi Iroha vs Miyuki Takase
- https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252346?t=56m47s

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Daniel Garcia vs. Buddy Matthews - AEW Collision 1/20
Either Buddy is one of the world's greatest sellers or he's a loving insane muscle freak who can power through crippling pain. Regardless of the case, it added a lot of spice to an already fired up match.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Jerusalem posted:

I'll second this but specify it as the Lumberjack match that followed the initial thrown out match which I assume is what you're also nominating?

Just awful poo poo. At least Tama's speech at the end was nice.


You couldn't pay me to watch for a second after the final bell ring. Ok, you could but nobody did so I shut that off asap

And I guess I mean the lumberjcka match, I was kind of counting it all as one interminable segment on my own spreadsheet but yeah, if i had to split it then the worse part is the part that dragged on for eternity

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: Blackpool Combat Club (Castagnoli & Danielson) vs. Eddie Kingston and Ortiz - AEW Collision 1/20
Bryan Danielson is a bastard man.

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.
AEW Collision - 1/20

HM: Queen Aminata v. Thunder Rosa
MOTYC: Daniel Garcia v. Buddy Matthews
HM: Ortiz & Eddie Kingston v. Daniel Bryan & Claudio Castagnoli

What a hot show!

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

apophenium posted:

AEW Collision - 1/20

HM: Queen Aminata v. Thunder Rosa
MOTYC: Daniel Garcia v. Buddy Matthews
HM: Ortiz & Eddie Kingston v. Daniel Bryan & Claudio Castagnoli

What a hot show!

Nth these

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

apophenium posted:

AEW Collision - 1/20

HM: Queen Aminata v. Thunder Rosa
MOTYC: Daniel Garcia v. Buddy Matthews
HM: Ortiz & Eddie Kingston v. Daniel Bryan & Claudio Castagnoli

What a hot show!

Nth. Haven’t gotten to watch Collision live in a while, this episode ruled.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

TJPW Max Heart Tag Tournament Night 2 January 21st
HM
Idol 2 Idol (Yuki Arai and Wakana Uehara) vs Mizuki and Shino Suzuki
- This is the first time Shino has really impressed me during a match, the sleeper she got Wakana in near the end of the match looked fantastic

DayDream (Miu Watanabe and Rika Tatsumi) vs Kyoraku Kyomei (Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima)
- Four very good wrestlers have a very good wrestling match, the standard ehr was higher even if I was more invested in the previous match

AlmightyPants
Mar 14, 2001

King of Scheduling
Pillbug

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
5th January
CMLL Super Viernes
Best 2 out of 3 Falls
Mascara Dorada vs Templario
Watch this here

Fantastic wrestling. First fall a bit sloppy but once they get going it gets going. Probably going to get a lot more attention than CMLL usually get because it got the ***** in the Observer (I think the first ever ***** for CMLL from Meltzer?), & while I'm not quite that high on it I do think it's a terrific showcase for Dorada & as good an excuse as any to catch some CMLL. Final fall is pretty terrific all told. You can see why the company are getting behind this dude like this. And you can see why people are high on CMLL as one of the best promotions in the world right now (if not the very best of 2023 according to many). And Templario deserves a nod too, terrific base here.

Seconding this. Dorada's going to be a big star and Templario is goddamn fantastic.

Also Rocky and Volador got ***** last year in CMLL, so this isn't the first one.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Maxwell Lord posted:

HM: Thunder Rosa vs Queen Aminata, AEW Collision 1/20/24

These two ladies hit hard

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Daniel Garcia vs. Buddy Matthews - AEW Collision 1/20
Either Buddy is one of the world's greatest sellers or he's a loving insane muscle freak who can power through crippling pain. Regardless of the case, it added a lot of spice to an already fired up match.

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Blackpool Combat Club (Castagnoli & Danielson) vs. Eddie Kingston and Ortiz - AEW Collision 1/20
Bryan Danielson is a bastard man.

HM: Jon Moxley vs. Shane Taylor - AEW Collision 1/20
HM: Adam Copeland vs. Darius Martin - AEW Collision 1/20
HM: Roderick Strong vs. Matt Sydal - AEW Collision 1/20


i thought the whole show was great, everyone's poo poo landed

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


AlmightyPants posted:

Seconding this. Dorada's going to be a big star and Templario is goddamn fantastic.

Also Rocky and Volador got ***** last year in CMLL, so this isn't the first one.

Cagematch has it at ****¾. I was also sure the Atlantis Vs Villano iii mask match got ***** but seemingly it was also just shy

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: Josh Alexander vs. Will Ospreay, TNA Impact 1/18

owned nth

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

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


HM: Bryan Keith vs MAO, DDT Sweet Dream Tour Night 4, January 21st.

Two hosed fuckers going super stiff. Loads of good stuff in and out of the ring.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Lamuella posted:

HM: Bryan Keith vs MAO, DDT Sweet Dream Tour Night 4, January 21st.

Two hosed fuckers going super stiff. Loads of good stuff in and out of the ring.

I'll second this, was a good watch.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

apophenium posted:

AEW Collision - 1/20

HM: Queen Aminata v. Thunder Rosa
HM: Daniel Garcia v. Buddy Matthews
HM: Ortiz & Eddie Kingston v. Daniel Bryan & Claudio Castagnoli



With my modification

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Ziggy Tzardust posted:

Considering Tama is actually going away, I’d argue it’s the best kind of go away heat.

Yeah but House of Torture has gone no where :(

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
17th January
AEW Dynamite
AEW World Title
Samoa Joe(c) vs Hook

Very fun.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
its early in the year but i thought this stank for a bunch of reasons both in ring and story

WMOTYC: EVIL vs. Tama Tonga 1/20 NJPW New Beginning in Nagoya

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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
10th January
Gatoh Move To The Future
Gaia Hox & Shuichiro Katsumura vs HARASHIMA & Masahiro Takanashi
Watch this here

MOTYC
10th January
Gatoh Move To The Future
Super Asia Title
Emi Sakura(c) vs Baliyan Akki vs Masato Tanaka
Watch this here

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