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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Hammer House: Stinger Splash Zone > 2020's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)
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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Liger Retirement Match I: Liger, Fujinami,Great Sasuke, and Tiger Mask w/ El Samurai vs. Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Ootani, Tatsuhiko Takaiwa, and Ryusuke Taguchi w/Kuniaki Kobayashi - Wrestle Kingdom 14

Rarity posted:

HM: FinnJuice vs. Guerrilas of Destiny, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14, 04/01

karmicknight posted:

MOTYC: IWGP United States Heavyweight Title Match: Jon Moxley vs. Lance Archer, 1/04 Wrestle Kingdom 14

STONE COLD 64 posted:

MOTYC: Will Ospreay (c) vs Hiromu Takahashi - January 4, 2020 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 at The Tokyo Dome

Rarity posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Jay White, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14, 04/01

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada (C) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 1


Backing all of these. Just tremendous stuff today. Absolutely amazing show.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Roppongi 3K vs. Phantasmo & Ishimori, NJPW WrestleKingdom 14 Night 2, 1/5

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Zack Sabre Jr vs. SANADA, NJPW WrestleKingdom 14 Night 2, 1/5

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

SatoshiMiwa posted:

HM: Jon Moxley vs Juice Robinson Wrestlekingdom 14 Night 2

Thirding this

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

HM: KENTA (C) vs. Hirooki Goto for the NEVER Openweight Title - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2

They brought the hate and it was good!

Seconding

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Kota Ibushi vs. Switchblade Jay White - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2

A complete clusterfuck and a mess of a match but extremely entertaining and terrifying.

Seconding

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho, NJPW WrestleKingdom 14 Night 2, 1/5

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada (C) vs. Tetsuya Naito (C) for the IWGP Heavyweight AND Intercontinental Championships - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2

A match/main event/story years in the making, executed to perfection. New Japan is the best wrestling promotion on the planet.

Seconding. loving incredible

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

I know I shouldn't be surprised since it's the Indies, but did Effy work two different shows for different promotions in the same day?

Also for Freelance Wrestling Effy is labeled as the Champion, what was the belt?

Freelance was last night unless the match was after midnight or something and we’re picking nits here

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Kay Lee Ray vs. Toni Storm vs. Piper Niven, NXT UK Takeover Blackpool 1/12

Started pretty average but this got good as hell for the last 5 minutes or so.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Tyler Bate vs. Jordan Devlin, NXT Takeover Blackpool 1/12


loving watch this match

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Gallus vs. Imperium vs. Grizzled Young Vets vs. Andrews/Morgan, NXT UK Takeover Blackpool 1/12

Totally different kind of candidate from the previous but this match was loving insane and awesome.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: WALTER vs. Joe Coffey, NXT UK Takeover Blackpool 1/12

Good match. Could’ve been great but I thought the middle messed it up quite a bit.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 Technically this was last year but I didn’t see any love in the previous thread for it so I just wanna say that everyone should watch Roderick Strong vs. Austin Theory from the Dec. 25 episode of NXT

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Omega/Page vs. SCU, AEW Dynamite 1/22

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Finn Bálor vs. Ilja Dragunov, NXT Worlds Collide 1/25

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Angel Garza vs. Jordan Devlin vs. Swerve Scott vs. Travis Banks, NXT Worlds Collide 1/25

This match owned a lot

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: DIY vs. Mustache Mountain, NXT Worlds Collide 1/25

All four of these dudes are loving amazing

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Undisputed Era vs. Imperium, NXT Worlds Collide 1/25

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

ShadowedFlames posted:

HM: Becky Lynch v Asuka, WWE Royal Rumble, 26 January.

Just shy of MOTYC for me but I enjoyed it.

Yea this was real good.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC Men's Royal Rumble WWE Royal Rumble, 26 January

its not over yet but still gently caress it

Good winner but what a dogshit awful match that was. So many different levels of awful too. You have to really work hard to make something suck as much as this did.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 To each their own but I can’t even fathom an argument for that being good.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Cody vs. Kip Sabian, AEW Dynamite 1/29

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Punch McLightning posted:

MOTYC: Page/Omega vs. SCU, Dynamite 2/12

no joke, you could say this was a five star match and i wouldn't argue

yup

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Tag Team Battle Royal, AEW Dynamite 2/19

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Dango Bango posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Shanna, AEW Dynamite 2/19

Two great women's matches in a row for AEW

I’ll nth this

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Kenny Omega & Hangman Page vs. Lucha Bros, AEW Dynamite 2/19

My thoughts on this match: :aaaaa:

Seriously though, this passed Okada/Ibushi as MOTY for me. And it was on free TV

NienNunb posted:

HM: Cody/ Wardlow, Steel Cage match, Dynamite, 2/19

Yes and yes


E: also, that’s the single greatest episode of regular televised wrestling ever

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:

HM: Austin Theory vs Tommaso Ciampa from this weeks NXT Feb 26.

I went in expecting to hate this after the way Theory was punked out on last weeks show. I was expecting this to be a squash however, Theory looked like a star here and it was a great match.

You should watch Theory-Strong from the Christmas NXT

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

karmicknight posted:

MOTYC: Cowboy Bebop (Adam Page and Kenny Omega vs. The Young Bucks, AEW World Tag Team Title Match AEW Revolution, 02/29

Yes very much this

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: PAC vs. Orange Cassidy, AEW Revolution, 2/29

Legit the most entertaining match I’ve seen this year. Superb.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Dango Bango posted:

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Riho vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Penelope Ford - AEW Dynamite 3/18

They busted their asses for this one. Still think it's worth an HM despite the botch.

Agreeing with this

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

MassRafTer posted:

From GCW's Acid Cup 2 Night 1 on 3/19
WMOTYC: Allie Kat vs Atticus Cogar
Allie Kat needs so much work. She tries really hard, but she's really bad, this match was a mess.

HM: Jordan Oliver vs Ellis Taylor
This was really fun! Some spots I haven't seen before too.

Seconding both of these. Allie Kat is very bad.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Blake Christian vs. Benjamin Carter, GCW Acid Cup 2, 3/19

Fun match.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 HM: Blake Christian vs. Matthew Justice, GCW Acid Cup 2 Night 2, 3/20

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

MassRafTer posted:

MOTYC: Joey Janela vs Jimmy Lloyd, Social Distancing Match, GCW Acid Cup 2 Night 2, 3/20

The best comedy match of the year, by far.

Agreeing. This was hilarious.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 MOTYC: Chris Dickinson vs. Blake Christian, GCW Acid Cup 2 Night 2, 3/20

This match owned. Blake Christian is a Star.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

That said, now it's over...

MOTYC: AJ Styles vs. The Undertaker in a Boneyard Match - WWE Wrestlemania 36

Exactly the kind of stupid, over-the-top nonsense I love, and shot in a distinct and fun way that made it stand out from everything else on the show. This saved an awful Wrestlemania.

Yes. 100%. This was incredible in every way.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

WMOTYC: Edge vs. Randy Orton, WWE Wrestlemania 36: Night 2 4/5

Yes, this. Holy Christ that was boring.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

uncurable mlady posted:

motyc: bray wyatt vs. john cena in a firefly funhouse match at wrestlemania 36

its such good poo poo!

Yes 100%

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

 WMOTYC: Sami Callihan vs. Ken Shamrock, Impact Rebellion Night 1, 4/21

Complete and total garbage in every way. Absolutely horrendous. The finish is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen though.

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