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BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
CIMA
Oney Lorcan / Biff Busick
EVIL
Io Shirai
Speedball Mike Bailey
Psycho Clown
Susumu Yokosuka
Gentleman Jack Gallagher

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BTF
Oct 15, 2019

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

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Awesome Kong
LAX

Brian Cage
Undisputed Era
Nick Aldis
Marty Scurll
El Hijo del Vikingo

Mochi made it hell yeah

It's kind of weird that UE is in as a trio, since I feel Roddy and KOR would be solid entrants as singles but what do I know.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
The Briscoes
Juice Robinson
Sami Zayn
Volador Jr.
Session Moth Martina
Mercedes Martinez
El Phantasmo
PCO

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Bandido
Kzy
Daisuke Sekimoto
Keith Lee
Jeff Cobb
Robbie Eagles
David Starr
Kagetsu

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Kushida
Takashi Sugiura
Mustafa Ali
Cameron Grimes
Chad Gable
The Razcalz
Luke Harper
Jushin Liger

Just want to say that the Razcalz round is the absolute worst thus far, with Taven, Dunne and Xavier landing squarely on my top 5 most hated wrestlers.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Katsuhiko Nakajima
Jonathan Gresham
Candice LeRae
Tessa Blanchard
The Viking Raiders
Puma King
The Undertaker
Grizzled Young Veterans*

*I want to clarify that GYV get my vote only because of Zack "Number 1 heel in the WÄÄÄÄÄRLD since idontknow 2016?" Gibson. James Drake just absolutely sucks.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Davey Boy Smith Jr.
Silas Young
Brody King
The Revival
Jimmy Havoc
Ilja Dragunov
Jordan Devlin
MJF

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Ishii/Kzy: Have to go with my boy Kzy, even though the Stone Pupper is one of my favourites as well. One one the toughest calls on this round.

McMahon/Dunne: gently caress. Both of these suck. Neither of these deserve a vote, any vote.

UE/Cole: Cole is the third best member of UE, ergo, he loses to Roddy and KOR, deal with it :colbert:

Shibata/Kimura: Shibata, his last stand against Okada is burned in to my memory forever.

Kzy
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Undisputed Era
Katsuyori Shibata

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Gage/Go: M D K All loving day
Takahashi/Kagetsu: every time Hiromu is mentioned, someone will hope for his comeback at the next show, SURELY this will be the one
PAC/Rae: murdergoblin all the way, the DG run was awesome
Miyahara/Asuka: despite the light tube match, Kento gets my vote
P0M/Starr: One of these is one of the best in the world. Hint: it's not Pentagon
Owens/Gable: who gets screwed over the hardest my VKM? Owens wins via prior career achievements
Ito/PCO: absolute madman stole my heart at JJSB2
Rush/CIMA: even though Rush has been a bright spot in ROH, CIMA is love, CIMA is life
Cesaro/LAX: both of these rule, but Cesaro has ruled longer and harder. wait
Kingston/R3K: has Kingston gotten outchanted by a young lion in London? I didn't think so
Ospreay/Andrade: Ospreay all day
New Day/Sakazaki: AYAYAYA is not a good song
Ibushi/EVIL: Everything is EVIL... except this tournament
Bliss/Atlas: Bliss was never a decent wrestler
WATER/Iwatani: Walter is the best
Styles/Blanchard: another tough one, but have to go with Styles


Nick Gage
Hiromu Takahashi
PAC
Kento Miyahara
David Starr
Kevin Owens
PCO
CIMA
Cesaro
Roppongi 3k
Will Ospreay
The New Day
Kota Ibushi
Jake Atlas
AJ Styles

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven

Rarity posted:

You must have missed how nuts we were for Shooter at Royal Quest

Yeah, that's what I meant. Yoh trying to get a chant going with the crowd going nuts for Shooter and just giving up was a personal highlight. Best show I've ever been to.

I should learn how to write proper English.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
White/Sekimoto: B E E F
Riddle/Endo: "I'm not your bro" "Ok, bro!" I love Riddle
Tanahashi/Aldis: "Eliminated in Round 1 in 2009 by Jamie Noble" what
Park/Nakajima: murder skeleton sr. all the way
Naito/Bandido: a tough draw for Bandido, but you have to go with LOS
Flair/LuFisto: Charlotte has always been overrated
Friends/King: King is good, but he's not Chuck Taylor
Bayley/Janela: One of these people created Spring Break


Daisuke Sekimoto
Matt Riddle
Hiroshi Tanahashi
LA Park
Tetsuya Naito
LuFisto
Best Friends
Joey Janela

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Toru Yano
Naomichi Marufuji
Jon Moxley
Flamita

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
DBD/Mochizuki: the toughest draw of the first round. Mochi is still amazing and Bryan is one of my all time faves. Have to go with Mochi because he's losing anyways his last few years have been stronger.
Corbin/Thatcher: From one of the toughest to one of the easiest. Thathcer deserves to have his art appreciated by the US audiences.
Allin/Taguchi: suicidal half-skeleton turtle lover beats man who has an rear end
Bucks/Shirai: NXT-Shirai has been good (from what I've seen), Hitokiri was the best part of the Pentagon vs joshininjas match, but I haven't seen enough of her praised Stardom stuff to put her ahead of the Bucks.
Taichi/Kiss: Have to abstain here, neither haven't really made an impression on me.
Orton/Fatu: Headlocks or moonsaults. Hmm, that is indeed a choice.
Cassidy/Ishimori: Cassidy is a delight, always.
O'Shea/Boy: I've never been the biggest fan of Rick O'Shea, although I do acknowledge his incredible athletic skills and his great run as Prince Puma. Jungle Boy might be a bit generic at the moment, but the upside is huge(-ish)

Masaaki Mochizuki
Timothy Thatcher
Darby Allin
The Young Bucks
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Jacob Fatu
Orange Cassidy
Jungle Boy

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
edit: derped a double post here

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Takagi/Tozawa: I love both my DG boyz very much... but Tozawa is my favourite
Reigns/Umino: uuuuaaaa deez nuts.
Joe/Sane: He's slow, old and in a bad company, but he's still Joe.
Lesnar/Robinson: Juice deserves so, so much more
Luchasaurus/Martinez: One of these wrestlers is a shoot dinosaur, so it's an easy round.
Ciampa/Nakano: Despite the lackluster ending, Ciampa/Gargano was good poo poo. So, yeah.
Suzuki/MJF: MJF might be the most heel, but no. Just no. Kaze ni nare, mate.
Nakamura/Watanabe: I just watched purowave's Nakamura video and it reminded me about the good times. So there.

Akira Tozawa
Shota Umino
Samoa Joe
Juice Robinson
Luchasaurus
Tommaso Ciampa
Minoru Suzuki
Shinsuke Nakamura

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Jericho/Vikingo: As much as I've enjoyed the few matches I've seen from Vikingo, the longevity of Jericho wins out this time.
Baszler/Dickinson: I don't particularly enjoy either competitor, so I'll have to abstain here.
Kong/Guerrero: Two legends, but Kong wins out just barely. Both of her theme songs are kickass (Jungle Emperor and Electric Eye cover).
Fenix/Page: I legitimately believe Fenix is one of the best in-ring performers in the world currently. Page is good, but not that good. Although a match between these two would probably rule.
Sanada/Lee:" Keighley" is wasted in Florida. Sanada is merely pretty decent.
Rousey/Party: Yeah, Party wins this easily.
Cody/Cavernario: I wish I was more up to date with Cavernario, but Cody takes this one.
Banks/Goto: GOTO BED is enough of a reason for my BOY to get a vote.

Chris Jericho
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Aja Kong
Fenix
Keith Lee
Private Party
Cody
Hirooki Goto

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
ZSJ/Castle: While Castle has been extremely enjoyable, he's been physically a shell of his former self for a while now. Stretchy submission boi stole my heart in his PWG debut and has only gotten better. ZSJ goes over.
Wyatt/Scurll: Wyatt has been more or less hosed for, what, five years? Scurll's Progress run made him for me and has been good/great ever since.
Asuka/Brookes: Asuka might be the best women's worker in the WWE, but C C K 4 lyfe.
Rollins/Sugiura: I'm the first to admit I haven't seen as much material form Sugiura as I have from Rollins. But that Kiyomita match from this summer was better than anything Rollins has done since... 2015? also Sugiura is not a poo poo head on social media. Or well, I wouldn't know if he was, since I don't understand any Japanese.
Dream/KENTA: KENTA was always good.
Gargano/Guevara: Neither really stand out to me, but Gargano/Ciampa feud clears this hurdle.
Omega/Liger: uuuuuuuuuh *coin toss* yeah, Liger.
Lee/SCU: This is... the worst... possible pairing for Lee, since I genuinely enjoy SCU's shtick and Fallen Angel as almost two decades of quality matches in his back pocket.

Zack Sabre Jr.
Marty Scurll
Chris Brookes
Takashi Sugiura
KENTA
Johnny Gargano
Jushin Liger
SCU

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Ishii/Dunne: Pete Dunne loving sucks
UE/Shibata: UE boys are great, but Shibata's final stand eclipses most wrestlers in this tourney
PAC/Miyahara: argh, tough one. Both are great, but have to give the edge to Miyahara for basically carrying AJPW for the past few years.
Gage/Takahashi: M D K all fuckin day
Ospreay/Sakazaki: Ospreay might flip himself into an early grave, but he gets my vote.
LAX/R3K: LAX/EYFBO are one of the best teams going today, while I go hot and cold with the Roppongi boys.
Pentagon/Owens: For the good times and great memories, Owens gets the vote.
Itoh/Rush: Rush freed us from the terror of Matt Taven, he is god.

Tomohiro Ishii
Katsuyori Shibata
Kento Miyahara
Nick Gage
Will Ospreay
LAX
Kevin Owens
Rush

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Too tired to give bad reasons for my votes, so

Kota Ibushi
Tessa Blanchard
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Matt Riddle
Jon Moxley
Naomichi Marufuji
Tetsuya Naito
Best Friends

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Bryan/Thatcher: Love these guys to bits, but DBD is still the best in the world
Allin/Bucks: Allin is cool, but Bucks have been on the top of their game for almost ten years
Cassidy/Boy: OC all the way
Taichi/Fatu: Moonsault > Miho
Suzuki/Watanabe: I got to yell kaze ni nare three times in two days, I ain't voting against the King (yet)
Luchasaurus/Ciampa: Ciampa is a bit better and not as one-dimensional
Takagi/Umino: Shingo eats young boys for breakfast
Sane/Robinson: Juice is extremely underrated

Daniel Bryan
The Young Bucks
Orange Cassidy
Jacob Fatu
Minoru Suzuki
Tommaso Ciampa
Shingo Takagi
Juice Robinson

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Too busy to throw anything but the names in

Chris Jericho
Fenix
Hirooki Goto
Sanada
Jushin Liger
KENTA
Zack Sabre Jr
Asuka

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Katsuyori Shibata
Nick Gage - M D K
Will Ospreay
Pentagon Jr
Kota Ibushi
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Jon Moxley
Best Friends

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Ospreay and Naito already out, huh.

Nick Gage not going all the way through is a travesty M D K

Daniel Bryan
Orange Cassidy
Minoru Suzuki
Shingo Takagi
Fenix
Cody
Jushin Liger
Zack Sabre Jr.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Tomohiro Ishii
Pentagon Jr.
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Best Friends
Daniel Bryan
Minoru Suzuki
Fenix
Zack Sabre Jr.

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven

TheKingslayer posted:

I'll make an effort this weekend to check him out. Any suggestions for his good stuff that's easy to find?

Quick ZSJ hits from Youtube, the non-NJPW stuff.

The technical showcases:

vs A-Kid (Whitewolf Wrestling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PBWKJLGkjo

vs Mike Quackenbush (Chikara): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCm-TNCN5xE

The technical showcases, where the opponent is determined to kill ZSJ.

vs Walter (Evolve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwcGco1mZ04

vs Chris Hero (Evolve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnHrwzT_2us

(Sabre has had some absolute gems against Walter and Hero in PWG and Progress, but I don't think those matches are up on YT, so you'll get the Evolve matches and like it.)

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Tomohiro Ishii
Jon Moxley
Minoru Suzuki
Zack Sabre Jr.

Best Friends

BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Minoru Suzuki

Then, now, forever

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BTF
Oct 15, 2019

I love Matt Taven
Tomohiro Ishii

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