2021's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Dimebags Brain posted:

This ruled, nth.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 04:50

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 00:13

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gPh0UMJE4

# ? Aug 31, 2021 04:56

Kirios: Jan 26, 2010

DarkstarIV posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

You know how I said that Alexa/Eva was going to be the worst women's match of the year? Yeah, this match is actually worse. The audience was COMPLETELY dead, and then Nia won with the world's shittiest powerbomb, after botching every other move. It also devolved into some weird shoot poo poo where neither woman looked good.

Nth.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 05:01

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

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs. Nia Jax, WWE Raw, 30/08

Also what the gently caress was Nia doing with her hair/outfit?

# ? Aug 31, 2021 06:23

ThePariah: Feb 10, 2014

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

also

MOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

Nth for both.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 07:13

Glass Punkbull 141: Jan 9, 2008; This is the face of a winner. This is what winning looks like.

DarkstarIV posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

nth. All of the sudden Red Velvet vs. Jamie Hayder is so much better.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 07:20

Testekill: Nov 1, 2012; I demand to be taken seriously

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

WMOTYC: Omos vs John Morrison, WWE RAW 8/30/21

The latter will be overshadowed for obvious reasons but it was also real loving bad, just not as ,what will no doubt be, legendarily bad with the former.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 07:27

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

also

MOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

nth to both

# ? Aug 31, 2021 09:10

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

DarkstarIV posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

You know how I said that Alexa/Eva was going to be the worst women's match of the year? Yeah, this match is actually worse. The audience was COMPLETELY dead, and then Nia won with the world's shittiest powerbomb, after botching every other move. It also devolved into some weird shoot poo poo where neither woman looked good.

nth

i want to show this to lapsed wrestling fans and have them guess how many combined years of experience the two women have

# ? Aug 31, 2021 09:11

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

HM
1st August
NOAH Cross Over 2021 In Hiroshima
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles
Daisuke Harada & Hajime Ohara vs Stinger (Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu)

MOTYC
1st August
NOAH Cross Over 2021 In Hiroshima
GHC Heavyweight Title
Naomichi Marufuji vs Kazushi Sakuraba

# ? Aug 31, 2021 10:35

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

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
1st August
NOAH Cross Over 2021 In Hiroshima
GHC Heavyweight Title
Naomichi Marufuji vs Kazushi Sakuraba

Didn't remember to review this the first time, but Nth.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 12:14

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

also

MOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

nth to both

Finally WWE gets a real match of the year in 2021

Truly in awe

# ? Aug 31, 2021 12:19

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

also

MOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

nth. I think this is the first WWE match in years and it owns. WWE do more worked shoots. Have Hideki teach your roster to go full Inokiism.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 13:05

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Rarity posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs. Nia Jax, WWE Raw, 30/08

Also what the gently caress was Nia doing with her hair/outfit?

It's her natural hair, Raw-rity.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 13:43

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

MOTYC
27th August
AEW Rampage
Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus) vs Lucha Bros (Fenix & Penta El Zero Miedo)

More than makes up for the flat Tag match on Dynamite last week.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 15:28

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

HM: El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Taurus, AAA on Space, February 27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7lUSjMVnw

This isn't as great as I hoped it would be for these two guys - I'm envisioning a borderline MOTYC - but it's still very good and fun.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 19:35

sticklefifer: Nov 11, 2003; by VideoGames

Jesus, Vikingo, what ARE you? :stare:

Nth for that match.

# ? Aug 31, 2021 21:15

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

DarkstarIV posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs Nia Jax, WWE RAW 8/30/21

You know how I said that Alexa/Eva was going to be the worst women's match of the year? Yeah, this match is actually worse. The audience was COMPLETELY dead, and then Nia won with the world's shittiest powerbomb, after botching every other move. It also devolved into some weird shoot poo poo where neither woman looked good.

nth this was the worst match i have ever seen in my life lol

# ? Aug 31, 2021 21:54

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

MOTYC
1st August
ZERO1 Fire Festival Night 7
Masato Tanaka vs Shigehiro Irie

Neither man are in the finals so clearly someone just said "gently caress it, let's said these lads out there to steal the show". Tanaka is one of the wonders of the modern world, he was amazing in FMW & ECW over 20 years ago, working a style that couldn't have been easy on the body, and somehow he's still fantastic, one of the few reasons to keep up with ZERO1 at this point. And Irie is one of the best freelancers on the scene in Japan.

Anyway, they have terrific chemistry together and we get a match chock full of big stiff strikes. Extremely cool & good. I will grab a link when back at the PC.

# ? Sep 1, 2021 00:17

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

MOTYC
1st August
ZERO1 Fire Festival Night 7
Fire Festival Final

Shinjiro Otani vs Takuya Sugawara

The winner of this tournament doesn't just get a trophy, they also get a big loving sword, it rules.

Unrelated to this but everyone who enters the 01 Junior tournament gets an orb which I have been told is a Dragon Ball thing?

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Sep 1, 2021

# ? Sep 1, 2021 01:05

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

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
27th August
PWF Colby Corino's 25th Anniversary Show
PWF Crystal Coast Oceanic Championship
Colby Corino vs Steve Corino

I didn't expect to watch this but it was getting some buzz on Twitter, Chris Hero had it as his favourite Match of the year for example.

And yeah, it's real good, Colby resents his dad for being an absent father, Steve doesn't want to revert to his old cheating ways but maybe he has to? Just a very emotional and dramatic match

Should add, the show is on IWTV if you're interested.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EP4y1W7A2

Really cannot overstate that this is well worth watching. Steve's first match in 5 years

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
1st August
ZERO1 Fire Festival Night 7
Masato Tanaka vs Shigehiro Irie

Neither man are in the finals so clearly someone just said "gently caress it, let's said these lads out there to steal the show". Tanaka is one of the wonders of the modern world, he was amazing in FMW & ECW over 20 years ago, working a style that couldn't have been easy on the body, and somehow he's still fantastic, one of the few reasons to keep up with ZERO1 at this point. And Irie is one of the best freelancers on the scene in Japan.

Anyway, they have terrific chemistry together and we get a match chock full of big stiff strikes. Extremely cool & good. I will grab a link when back at the PC.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18f4y1V7vu

Tanaka vs Irie starts at 39:00, Otani vs Sugawara starts at 1:25:00

# ? Sep 1, 2021 02:09

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Penguin Patrol posted:

AEW Dark Elevation - 8/30
HM: Emi Sakura vs Ashley D'Amboise
HM: Nyla Rose & Diamante vs Big Swole & Julia Hart
HM: Sammy Guevara & Fuego del Sol vs Chaos Project (Luther & Serpentico)

these were all fun and good, nth

# ? Sep 1, 2021 04:16

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

AEW Dark - 8/31/21
HM: QT Marshall vs. Evil Uno
HM: Matt Sydal vs. PAC

# ? Sep 1, 2021 06:34

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

graph posted:

AEW Dark - 8/31/21
HM: QT Marshall vs. Evil Uno
HM: Matt Sydal vs. PAC

Nth

# ? Sep 1, 2021 06:35

Hellblazer187: Oct 12, 2003

Pylons posted:

newLEGACYinc All Out Simulation, 8/27

HM: Darby Allin vs. CM Punk
HM: Lucha Bros vs. Young Bucks

lmao these were so funny. Nth I laughed very hard.

# ? Sep 1, 2021 07:03

Evil Badman: Aug 19, 2006; Skills include:
EIGHT-FOOT VERTICAL LEAP

graph posted:

nth this was the worst match i have ever seen in my life lol

I had Sting/Hardy on top, but this was an actual match that just kept going and god, it's just memorizing.

# ? Sep 1, 2021 09:39

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

Rarity posted:

WMOTYC: Charlotte Flair vs. Nia Jax, WWE Raw, 30/08

nth. Not the worst match of this year (Zombie Lumberjacks, anyone?), but it was a mediocre at best Raw match that went twice as long as it should have with a dead crowd, and then the infamous two minutes of botchery.

# ? Sep 1, 2021 11:47

Jonny Nox: Apr 26, 2008

Evil Badman posted:

I had Sting/Hardy on top, but this was an actual match that just kept going and god, it's just memorizing.

me for about 20 seconds: I don't remember a Sting/Matt Hardy match in AEW. Especially a bad one.

I love wrestling in 2021

# ? Sep 1, 2021 14:42

Penguin Patrol: Mar 3, 2005; by Fluffdaddy

graph posted:

AEW Dark - 8/31/21
HM: QT Marshall vs. Evil Uno
HM: Matt Sydal vs. PAC

nth

# ? Sep 1, 2021 14:43

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

HM
1st August
Stardom 5☆ Grand Prix Night 2
5☆GP Red Block
Momo Watanabe vs Natsupoi

MOTYC
1st August
Stardom 5☆ Grand Prix Night 2
5☆GP Blue Block
Maika vs Syuri

MOTYC
1st August
Stardom 5☆ Grand Prix Night 2
5☆GP Red Block
Giulia vs Mayu Iwatani

Those last 2 matches were killer, especially Maika vs Syuri. Very glad I decided not to skip this tournament because so far 2 great shows out of 2

# ? Sep 2, 2021 00:27

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

MOTYC: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

Turns out you put two of the best tag teams in the world with a heated feud into a match where they get time and no injuries causing the match to end early and they loving deliver. Hell yeah, what a match.

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:17

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

Turns out you put two of the best tag teams in the world with a heated feud into a match where they get time and no injuries causing the match to end early and they loving deliver. Hell yeah, what a match.

fuckin nth

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:18

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

HM: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:21

Jackie D: May 27, 2009; Democracy is like a tambourine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

Definitely, had a lot of high points and was a lot of fun but also kind of disjointed at more than a couple points

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:22

A Real Horse: Oct 26, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

Turns out you put two of the best tag teams in the world with a heated feud into a match where they get time and no injuries causing the match to end early and they loving deliver. Hell yeah, what a match.

Nth.

It gave me a great idea for a special Dynamite. It�s called �The Dynamite where FTR and Proud �n� Powerful have a two hour Iron Man match�.

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:33

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

A Real Horse posted:

Nth.

It gave me a great idea for a special Dynamite. It�s called �The Dynamite where FTR and Proud �n� Powerful have a two hour Iron Man match�.

not sure about that as a dynamite

a Rampage where it's a 1 hour Iron Man Match? now that I will watch over and over

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:34

boxcarhobo: Jun 23, 2005

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

Turns out you put two of the best tag teams in the world with a heated feud into a match where they get time and no injuries causing the match to end early and they loving deliver. Hell yeah, what a match.

yea that was exactly my kind of poo poo

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:35

A Real Horse: Oct 26, 2013

Alaois posted:

not sure about that as a dynamite

a Rampage where it's a 1 hour Iron Man Match? now that I will watch over and over

That�s probably a better idea yes.

# ? Sep 2, 2021 01:44

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: FTR vs. Proud 'n' Powerful - AEW Dynamite 9/1

nth

# ? Sep 2, 2021 02:09

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 00:13

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

HM: Jungle Boy, Luchasaurus, Penta El Zero M, & Rey Fenix vs. Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Matt Jackson, & Nick Jackson, Dynamite, 9/1

# ? Sep 2, 2021 03:02

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