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GenericMartini
Oct 22, 2012

AYYYYY PAPI
Barbaro Cavenario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Fandango and Tyler Breeze
Chris Dickinson
The North
Titan
Street Profits
Shuji Ishikawa

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





FIRST ROUND, PART TWO

Kaito Kiyomiya
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Yuji Okabayashi
Chris Brookes
Titan
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shuji Ishikawa

WatermelonGun
May 7, 2009
Barbaro Cavernario
Ryuske Taguchi
Chihihiro Hashimoto
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits
Shuji Ishikawa

Trying
Sep 26, 2019

Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Yuji Okabayashi
The North
Timothy Thatcher

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer
I forgot this the first time: Voting closes at 7 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Abstain
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits
Abstain

Queer Salutations
Aug 20, 2009

kind of a shitty wizard...

Kaito Kiyomiya
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Toni Storm
Timothy Thatcher

Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


Abstain
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Rusev
Britt Baker
Street Profits
Timothy Thatcher

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Breezango
Chris Dickinson
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shun Skywalker

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



Abstain
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Toni Storm
Timothy Thatcher

Trying
Sep 26, 2019

you do not need to write abstain they are just counting the names up

The Berzerker
Feb 24, 2006

treat me like a dog


Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits
Timothy Thatcher

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Abstain
Abstain
Breezango
Abstain
Rusev
Watanabe
Toni Storm
Abstain

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher

TV Zombie
Sep 6, 2011

Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Chihiro Hashimoto
Yuji Okabayashi
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shun Skywalker

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson love Yuji but got to go with the Dirty Daddy. i want Chris vs Yuji eventually.
Rusev
Titan
Street Profits
Timothy Thatcher love Shuji but seen more Thatcher.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
CHIHIRO HASHIMOTO
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
abstain
Timothy Thatcher

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Barbaro Cavernario
Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shun Skywalker

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Fandango & Tyler Breeze
Moose
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Taiji Ishimori
Yuji Okabayashi
Chris Brookes
Titan
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shun Skywalker

Some of these matchups were extremely hard. Mexican Caveman against GHC Champ, best tag wrestler of the decade maybe against drunk uncle against rear end man. And then some were easy like picking old grumpy kick grandad Mochi (who just had another great match against Kzy within the last month)

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Titan
Street Profits
Timothy Thatcher

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shun Skywalker

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
The North (monster mafia 4 life)
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Round 1.2

Barbaro Cavernario - this guy looks rad and I want to know more, is his name Barbarian Caveman?
COAAAAAAACCCCCCHHHHHHHHH - Taguchi has killed it this year, he's had a bunch of high profile matches that reminded us that he's more than just a comedy guy
Taiji Ishimori - his Jr Heavyweight run was hurt by his best contenders being injured (Despy, Hiromu), playing with the heavyweights (Ospreay) or in his own faction (Eagles), real shame that he's being sidelined for ELP right now
Chris Dickinson - why not?
Rusev - was literally the most over wrestler in America for about 6 months of this timeframe
Momo Watanabe - this one's for you, GEORGE W BUSHI
Street Profits - I got you, fam
Shun Skywalker - I'm not voting against someone who is clearly a Jedi

Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits
Shun Skywalker

chirico cuvie
Jan 23, 2004
Made of beef and beef byproduct
Lipstick Apathy
Barbaro Cavernario
Coach Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Moose
RUSEV MATCHKA
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Shuji Ishikawa

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer

Rarity posted:

Round 1.2

Barbaro Cavernario - this guy looks rad and I want to know more, is his name Barbarian Caveman?

Chris Dickinson - why not?

I like practically everyone in this portion of the tournament (though I have yet to get into Dragon Gate or joshi too much yet), so I'm happy to give info on any wrestlers I can without feeling like I'm really campaigning for them.

Barbaro Cavernario's name translates to Barbarian Caveman. He carries a giant club to the ring and wears a bone in his hair. Here are my two favorite matches of his this year, each of which I gave ****3/4:

vs. Titan on 2/22 http://youtu.be/y4hkfepT_D8?t=01h04m59s
vs. Mistico on 5/24 http://youtu.be/8-PaL2HSIdc?t=01h49m02s

Big Daddy Chris Dickinson was the biggest revelation to me in season one of Beyond Wrestling's Uncharted Territory. While none were above four stars for me, that's still really drat good, and he was doing them on a weekly basis for awhile. If you have independentwrestling.tv, check pretty much any of his matches out on that show. He's a hoss of a guy who's got a real cool kind of charisma where his interviews are simultaneously laid back and intense. He feels like he would have been a big star in 90s ECW or 00s RoH.

Insertnamehere31
Jan 23, 2012

This could be the most one-sided fight since 1973 when Ali faced an eighty-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazier. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed.

Man I do not know a lot of these people.

Ryusuke Taguchi
Fandango & Tyler Breeze
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits

Breezeango over bone soldier was the only tough one in this set for me. I know it’s probably a lost cause, but their fashion files schtick is some of the best stuff wwe has had on their tv in years and their comedic timing just works perfectly for me.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Insertnamehere31 posted:

Man I do not know a lot of these people.

Ryusuke Taguchi
Fandango & Tyler Breeze
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits

Breezeango over bone soldier was the only tough one in this set for me. I know it’s probably a lost cause, but their fashion files schtick is some of the best stuff wwe has had on their tv in years and their comedic timing just works perfectly for me.

Oh friend, I am going to have to indoctrinate you into the ways of the Dragon Gate. It's an offshoot of Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon system and it's the 2nd most popular company across Japan after New Japan (DDT might be a bigger deal in Tokyo) and it really follows a lot in the Ultimo tradition of meshing lucha libre and puroresu. Lots of fast paced action, multiman tags are a speciality, often some quite flamboyant gimmicks but also tremendous wrestling. For example there is this match from their biggest show of the year featuring Naruki Doi which is my tag match of 2019, the same show had this awesome match between Kzy & Shun Skywalker who is still early in his career but also loving awesome. Added bonus is the pre-match Natural Vibes performance, although this show is missing my favourite part of their dances, Susumu Yokosuka reluctantly and half-heartedly doing the moves.

Talking of Susumu, god he's great. At 41 he's obviously a veteran hand but he's really good and meshes well with a lot of different styles. Two matches from this year he's had that stick out in my mind are from his great Open The Brave Gate title reign, firstly against U-T whose style is very ground based and technical and against Flamita who is a luchadore who used to tag with Bandido a lot before he signed with ROH, so more of a flippy lucha dude. Both matches are great despite being different and Susumu is the glue.

I could go on and on because they've got so much underappreciated talent from veterans like Dragon Kid (who actually appeared in WCW at one point) to younger hands like Ben-K & Eita.

ThePariah
Feb 10, 2014
Barbaro Cavernario
Naruki Doi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street Profits
Abstain

Cool Post Beg
Mar 6, 2008

DADDY MAGIC
Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Breezango
Moose
Rusev
Street Profits

Insertnamehere31
Jan 23, 2012

This could be the most one-sided fight since 1973 when Ali faced an eighty-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazier. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed.

forkboy84 posted:

Lots of cool stuff about Dragon Gate

Cool, I’ll be sure to check out those matches! Dragon gate and DDT have always been promotions that I feel like I would love, but I just haven’t had the time to commit to. Introductory stuff like this is a great place to start, so thanks!

Big Dave
Nov 6, 2009

Friends don't shake hands, friends gotta hug!


Kaito Kiyomiya
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Chris Dickinson
The North
Titan
Street Profits
Timothy Thatcher

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Chihiro Hashimoto
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

wow there's a lot of dorks I've never heard of on this one

Punch McLightning posted:

Fandango & Tyler Breeze
Rusev
Street Profits

well, I have heard of a couple of them in matchups i didn't vote on but I didn't want to vote for them

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Taiji Ishimori
Yuji Okabayashi
Rusev
Titan
Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer

Punch McLightning posted:

I forgot this the first time: Voting closes at 7 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday

A reminder that the deadline is coming up in about 7 hours.

just rust
Oct 23, 2012

Barbaro Cavernario
Ryusuke Taguchi
Chihiro Hashimoto
Chris Dickinson
Chris Brookes
Momo Watanabe
Toni Storm
Timothy Thatcher

Somebody book my choices above as a real tournament I think it'd be pretty bad rear end.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

just rust posted:

Somebody book my choices above as a real tournament I think it'd be pretty bad rear end.
Partly there:

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

DDT announced the participants in the D-Oh Grand Prix, their big tournament

Konosuke Takeshita
HARASHIMA
Daisuke Sasaki
Tetsuya Endo
Soma Takao
Yukio Sakaguchi
Yuki Ueno
Naomi Yoshimura
Yuki Iino
Keisuke Ishii (Ganbare)
Bull James (free)
Chris Brookes (free)
Masato Tanaka (Zero-1)
Chihiro Hashimoto (Sendai Girls)

Tank44
Jun 13, 2005

We want the ball & We're going to score
Shane Taylor
Ryusuke Taguchi
Chihiro Hashimoto
Chris Dickinson
Rusev
Momo Watanabe
Street
Timothy Thatcher

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just rust
Oct 23, 2012

frankenfreak posted:

Partly there:

God bless DDT, the best sports entertainment organization in the universe.

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