2019's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

TTBF posted:

MOTYC: Zack Sabre Jr^c vs Tomohiro Ishii for the Rev Pro Undisputed Heavyweight Title - Jan 4th - Wrestle Kingdom 13

As good as Ibushi vs Ospreay was, I do think this match was better.

Nth'd
Absolute gold.

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Chris Jericho (C) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship - New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 13

Chris Jericho is almost 50 years old

Nth'd.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 12:02

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 00:21

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Kenny Omega (C) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship - New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 13

Everything I wanted/expected and more. How Tanahashi can still do this at this point in his career blows me away and Kenny, of course, is in his prime and it shows.

Yes. Go Ace.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 12:53

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC - Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, EVIL, BUSHI, Shingo Takagi) vs Suzukigun (Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr, Taichi, El Deseprado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru), NJPW, 1/5

A really heated and wild brawl between two factions who are just polar opposites of each other, one side Tranquilo & the other side permanently seething. Thought it was tremendous though it'd have been even better if it was one of the great elimination tags New Japan do a few times a year.

Seconding the gently caress out that one.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2019 15:34

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

I am confident Dragon George vs Kazuchika Okada would be the match of the year, I�m willing to nominate it now on the premise that it would somehow encourage Gedo to book it. (Book it, you coward)

SatoshiMiwa posted:

HM: Dragon George & Sweet Gorilla Maruyama vs Ginbae Mask & Gokiburi Mask -

2nd.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 07:04

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Burn Down Canberra posted:

Motyc : KUSHIDA vs Tanahashi, road to new beginning 1/29

Obviously bittersweet but an excellent match and a nice goodbye for KUSHIDA. Good luck in the wwe

Seconded.

I bit on the knees to the High Fly Flow.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2019 12:53

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

From the moment Kushida got the knees up on the high fly flow, until Tanahashi kicked out of the back to the future; I was one hundred percent convinced Kushida was going to win and somehow stay in New Japan and move to heavyweight. That is how good that match was at making me believe in the babyface.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2019 07:55

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Benne posted:

HM: Shingo/BUSHI vs. Desperado/Kanemaru, NJPW New Beginning 2/3

Incredible second half

forkboy84 posted:

HM: 2nd February 2019, The New Beginning In Sapporo Night 1 - SANADA vs Minoru Suzuki
HM: 2nd February 2019, The New Beginning In Sapporo Night 1 - EVIL vs Zack Sabre Jr

Two really fun matches that build perfectly for tomorrow's IWGP Tag Team Championship clash

nthing all of these and:

HM: 3 Feb 2019, New Beginning in Sapporo - Yoshi-Hashi/Kazuchika Okada/Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chase Owens/Bad Luck Fale/Jay White

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 09:13

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Takashi Iizuka, Minoru Suzuki & Taichi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kazuchika Okada and Toru Yano - NJPW Takashi Iizuka Retirement Match - 2/21

Seriously, a match predominantly focused around Iizuka and Tenzan was good! Full of great callbacks to Iizuka's career and interactions, everybody was in on the joke (including the crowd and commentators) but took it seriously and produced a match that was just plain fun and about the best way a wrestler like Iizuka could ever hope to go out.

Seconded.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 12:56

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Your Boy Fancy posted:

HM: Shota Umino vs Zack Sabre Jr, Honor Rising Japan 2019, 2/22

What you�re expecting to be a fun romp with the Long Mover turns into a coming out party for Umino. He�s gonna be a loving star.

Wow, I almost forgot to Third this. What a shame that would have been.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2019 10:27

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Baron La Croix posted:

MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs Switchblade Jay White - NJPW 47th Anniversary Show
HM: Jushin Thunder Liger vs Taiji Ishimori

A damned fine show.

Nth.

forkboy84 posted:

Nth these.

Also want to HM
Bushi and Shingo Takagi vs Roppongi 3K from the same show

Nth.

Baron La Croix posted:

MOTYC: Tomohiro Ishii vs Yuji Nagata - New Japan Cup Night 1

yesss inject middle-aged japanese men angrily slapping each other directly into my veins

Nth.

forkboy84 posted:

nth

HM

Juice Robinson vs Chase Owens - New Japan Cup Night 1

Seconded.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 15:20

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

MassRafTer posted:

MOTYC: Ibushi vs Naito
HM: Umino vs Tanahashi
HM: ZSJ vs EVIL

Nth.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 00:09

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Match of the Year Taichi.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 20:51

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

MassRafTer posted:

WMOTYC:

Drago, Puma King and Pagano vs OGTs AAA Rey de Reyes

At least one wrestler had to be carted out with two others possibly injured. What a mess, two horrible botches to the outside.

Yeah, that was loving ugly and rough and really bad on top of it all.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 05:01

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Nth-ing Okada/SANADA

# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 09:56

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

sportsgenius86 posted:

MOTYC: Minoru Suzuki vs. Josh Barnett, Bloodsport 4/4

Holy gently caress it was so good. Nth.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2019 04:20

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

MassRafTer posted:

HM: MMM Dragon Lee vs Bone Soldier vs Bandido

Same.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 02:08

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

SatoshiMiwa posted:

HM: ZSJ vs Tanahashi -

Would probably have been a MOTYC if didn't come after a really dumb ROH angle

Third.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 03:04

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Benne posted:

MOTYC: KOTA IBUSHI VS. TETSUYA NAITO, G1 SUPERCARD

JESUS CHRIST

Nth.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 03:27

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

I Before E posted:

I'll say HM, they put a lot into it but there was some poor coordination going on for the early going.

Yeah, I'm of this mind about the match.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 04:17

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

NienNunb posted:

MOTYC: KAZU/JAY WHITE

Yeah, I'm on this team. Nth.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2019 05:06

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

jesus WEP posted:

MOTYC: Jay White vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, BOSJ Finals, 5th June

These two have gotten so drat good together. Jay White is an evil bastard

It is this, nthed.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2019 12:31

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Aye Doc posted:

MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs. Juice Robinson, BOSJ Finals 6/5

Forever.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2019 13:02

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs. Shingo Takagi - NJPW Best of the Super Juniors Final - 6/5

Absolutely loving incredible from start to finish.

Yes

# ¿ Jun 5, 2019 13:47

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

SatoshiMiwa posted:

HM: Shingo vs Kojima - Dominion

Fun hoss off

Nth.

Benne posted:

MOTYC: Taichi vs. Tomohiro Ishii, NJPW Dominion 6/9

Big Match Taichi does it again

Nth.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 09:35

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Benne posted:

MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs. Dragon Lee, NJPW Dominion 6/9

Aaaaaaaaaaa

AAAAAAAAAA
(that is Nth)

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 10:39

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

jesus WEP posted:

WMOTYC: Kota Ibushi vs Tetsuya Naito, IWGP IC Championship, NJPW Dominion 6.9

These two guys are awesome but that was utterly utterly gross and stupid

Would also agree with HM for it, but not MOTYC.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 11:10

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Stone Pitbull 141 posted:

So New Japan had a match so good it integer overflowed into the worst match they could have?

Ibushi and Naito had a dangerous bump overflow error.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 11:24

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Chris James 2 posted:

MOTYC: SCU vs Best Friends vs Private Party, AEW Fyter Fest 6/29

holy gently caress i love AEW so much

I can't not MOTYC by favorite Wrestler, Chuck Taylor.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 01:05

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

jesus WEP posted:

HM: Riho vs Nyla Rose vs Yuka Sakazaki, AEW Fyter Fest
Nyla Rose looked so much better in this match than at DoN it was insane.

Nth.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 02:09

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Junpei Hyde posted:

MOTYC: Cody/Darby Allin: AEW Fyter Fest

Five Star Cody does it again.

edit: oh, this was only HM, let me fix that.

karmicknight fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jun 30, 2019

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 02:58

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

HM: The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega vs. The Lucha Bros and The Laredo Kid: AEW Fyter Fest 6/29

This was a hell of a lot of fun from start to finish.

Nth.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 03:33

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

jesus WEP posted:

MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs Joey Janela, AEW Fyter Fest
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 04:15

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

MOTYC: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. SANADA G1 Climax Night 1, July 6.
Extremely my poo poo.

Also, note to Jerusalem when counting votes, check back here by midnight eastern US time, I still have to get through KENTA/Ibushi and Tanahashi/Okada, but I'll just edit them into this post (when they deliver as the should)

HM: KENTA vs. Kota Ibushi, G1 Climax Night 1, July 6
Strikes countering dives is also my poo poo.

karmicknight fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jul 9, 2019

# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 02:31

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Lucha Bros vs. SCU - AEW Fight for the Fallen

SCU are a very good tag team and Lucha Bros are the best tag team on the planet, so no surprise, this was good!

Yep, nth

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 03:23

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Chris James 2 posted:

MOTYC CIMA vs Kenny Omega - AEW Fight for the Fallen, 7/13

Nth, loving hell, Five Star Cody is going to have big shoes to fill alongside Dustin and the Bucks.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 03:50

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

HM July 18th AAA Show - Cody Rhodes and MJF vs. Black Taurus and Daga.

I really like the match.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 05:51

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

jesus WEP posted:

HM: Taichi vs Shingo Takagi, NJPW G1 Night 6, 7/19
This is the best Taichi match I�ve ever seen. Shingo is unbelievably great

Nth hell yeah

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 11:56

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jon Moxley - NJPW G1 Climax Night 6 - 7/19

AHHHH! DANGEROUS! DANGEROUSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Nth

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 13:07

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Chris James 2 posted:

MOTYC: Cuatrero, Forastero, Sanson and Volador Jr vs Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Soberano Jr and Templario - CMLL Arena Mexico Liger Farewell Show 7/19

Kicked into a big enough gear after the first two falls I couldn't justify posting this as merely an HM. See this match

Yeah, I'm in nth.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2019 03:59

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 00:21

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tetsuya Naito - NJPW G1 Climax Night 8 - 7/24

These two are ALWAYS fantastic together and this was no exception. Holy gently caress what a match, the crowd was in utter anguish at parts thinking their chosen wrestler was going to lose and hell, same.

Yes, Nth.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2019 13:21

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