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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

this match only needs one more vote for MOTYC status and it was really really very good so you should watch it imo

Yeah, Nth. That was great, always enjoy what i'm seeing from Asuka

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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A good rule of thumb is don't skip Suzuki-gun multimans

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Aesculus posted:

MOTYC: Taichi vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, New japan Cup 22/06

What the gently caress

Taichi rules, Nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. YOSHI-HASHI - NJPW New Japan Cup Night 4 6/23

What the gently caress, I genuinely enjoyed what may be the best modern Tenzan match I've seen not counting the Iizuka Retirement match. This may be some kind of miracle.

Yoshi-Hashi was always good, get on the train. Nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

MOTYC: Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Toshiyuki Sakuda vs. Yuki Ishikawa in a 567 Lighttube Deathmatch - BJW Crisis Survivor Vol. 2 (6/21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa1kAGyN52I

well my favourite match last year had just one light tube, this one may have 566 more but it's almost as good. This is one of the few matches that is absolutely helped by the lack of an audience as it allowed them to film it in a grimy warehouse that added to the underground feel in a way that doing this in Korakuen Hall never could. Absolutely insane match that ended up looking like a warzone with all the light tube dust flying around.

CW: It is a Toshiyuki Sakuda match which means a bit of mouth gore that I know even other deathmatch fans can be uncomfortable with.

I'll give this a HM for now, but I'll gladly upgrade it if theres only one more MOTYC vote needed. I'm not a huge deathmatch guy anymore, but this was incredible all round. From the sound design to making the most of Abby's limits to the start of the match when Abby's making his entrance and cant get through the lightubes so the other two start winging poo poo at him on the apron. The mouth gore was cool too. I was expecting a random Thumbtack Jack spot but it actually played into the finish.

Seeing Abby with hair was weird, and the Sexxxy Eddy blood bit was a bit much for me in my old age, but it was still awesome.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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extradite THIS! posted:

How was Y-H vs BUSHI lol

Bushi is less carryable than Tenzan

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Rarity posted:

Whole lotta cowards in this thread not nominating EVIL/YOSHI-HASHI :colbert:

Please stop heaping misery onto me Rarity

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Giving Naito/EVIL a HM for DICK TOGO. That was nothing like what I expected

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
5th July
2AW Launching Business 1st Anniversary GRAND SLAM
TKP Garden City, Chiba
2AW Openweight Title
Yuji Okabayashi vs Ayato Yoshida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRikmONpuE

Nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
25/7
All Japan Summer Action Series
Triple Crown Title
Suwama(c) vs Shuji Ishikawa

Two big boys, tag team partners at that, and they batter the hell out of each other. Watch the match.

Does RealHero post All Japan? I'm always keen to see more Shuji Ishikawa

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Fair. Right now i've got NJ and DDT, so i'll have to see how my financial situation shakes out when i move into my own house next month. But more relevant to the thread.

HM - NJPW Sengoku Lord 25/07/20
Shingo Takagi vs El Desperado


Despy rules, and Shingo is an amazing wrestler. Just wish it ran a bit longer.

EVIL vs Hiromu Takahashi

This was way better than I feared it would be, but not as good as the matches i've nominated MOTYC already.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM: King of DDT Rd 1 08/08/20

Minoru Tanaka Vs Soma Takao
Tetsuya Endo Vs Akito

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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extradite THIS! posted:

HM: Golden Aces and Master Wato vs Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI, NJPW Summer Struggle 08/08/2020

This ruled a lot, had a ton of YOSHI-HASHI vs Wato, and still ruled a lot. Or maybe it ruled because of it

Nth, YH vs Wato ruled

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada/Toru Yano/SHO vs. Tomohiro Ishii/Hirooki Goto/YOSHI-HASHI, NJPW Summer Struggle, 09/08

My head says HM, my heart says MOTYC

I could have done with less Goto and Yano, but nth.

Get Back Up

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
10th August
Pro Wrestling NOAH The Chronicle Volume 3
GHC Heavyweight & GHC National titles
Go Shiozaki (c) vs Kenoh (c)

Nth. Glad I made the time to watch this, it was awesome. I absolutely love matches where you can feel the exhaustion as the match wears on both guys, really made me feel like I was watching a war. I'm loving everything i'm seeing from Kenoh, that buzzsaw kick and follow up double stomp around 45 minutes in was loving vicious.

I'm still thinking Arisa/Asuka is my match of the year, but this is certainly up there with Beef Tag (New Years Dash) and Okabayashi/Yoshida (2AW) in my top 5.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Going to stick them in spoiler tags in case people haven't caught up. All four QF matches were great if not spectacular.

HM: King of DDT Rd 3 13/08/20

T-Hawk vs Yuki Ueno
Minoru Tanaka vs Tetsuya Endo


Also if you like heavy grappling, quick pinfalls and submission transistions, check out Shinya Aoki vs Akito from the same show. I really enjoyed it but I know the style isn't for everyone.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

Nevermind, it made it anyway. That brings NJPW up to 25 MOTYCs this year, only a few behind AEW despite the fact they didn't run any shows AT ALL for most of the year :stare:

Beef Division took one look at Gedo's WTF booking, shrugged and went straight back to having amazing matches

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
29/8
IWGP Jr Title
Hiromu Takahashi vs Taiji Ishimori

Ruled

Nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Lamuella posted:

MOTYC: Dangerous Tekkers (C) vs. Golden☆Ace for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles - NJPW Summer Struggle 8/29

Yup. Nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Cerebral Bore posted:

HM: CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, and Yuya Uemura) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, YTR, SHO, and Gabriel Kidd) New Japan Road 09.09

Super fun tag with super hard-hitting action.

Nth, CHAOS mirrors are nearly as good as Suzuki-gun ones

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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It'll be interesting which day of the G1 New Japan eclipses AEW's MOTYC total for the year.

And also nth on these

Cerebral Bore posted:

HM: CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, and YOSHI-HASHI) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, and SHO) New Japan Road 11.09

Cerebral Bore posted:

HM: L.I.J (Hiromu Takahashi and BUSHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) New Japan Road 11.09

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NOAH N-1 Victory (18/09)

MOTYC
Masaaki Mochizuki vs Kaito Kiyomiya
Kenoh vs Katsuhiko Nakajima

HM
Go Shiozaki vs Manabu Soya

Wow, what a show. Mocchy is more than twice Kiyomiya's age and he manages to keep up every step of the way. And of course Kenoh/Katsu was great, just because they're both in Kongoh doesn't stop them beating the piss out of each other.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Schneider Heim posted:

Nth. This Mochizuki guy is pretty damned good

He'd been wrestling for 2 years before Kiyomiya was even born, he's the true anti aging hero

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Cerebral Bore posted:

HM: Will Ospreay vs Yujiro Takahashi G1 Climax Day 1 19.09

Billy may be a bad person but he's really loving good in the ring.

Nth, Big.Match.Yuj

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Rarity posted:

HM: Juice Robinson vs. YOSHI-HASHI, NJPW G1 Climax Night 2, 20/09

YOSHI-HASHI definitely held his end up and it's so great to have Juice back

G1-Hashi is here

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

Is this a 2nd, by the way?

Yeah, sorry

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM - Noah N-1 Victory 20th September
Manabu Soya vs Masa Kitamiya
Masaaki Mochizuki vs Kazushi Sakuraba
Takashi Sugiura vs Shuhei Taniguchi

Nothing groundbreaking when compared to the NJ card earlier, but some good to great matches that just flew by.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

HM
22nd September
Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 Victory
Go Shiozaki vs Kazushi Sakuraba

forkboy84 posted:

HM
22nd September
Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 Victory
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Masa Kitamiya

Nth to both of these, and also

HM - NOAH N-1 Victory 22/09/20
Kenoh vs Shuhei Taniguchi

Really cool ten minute match, both guys looked great. Thought the main event was pretty good too, but considering it was Suigiura vs Marufuji I expected a bit more. A good closing stretch but the middle was too slow for me.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM - NOAH N-1 Victory 23rd September (Afternoon Show)
Kenoh vs Yoshiki Inamura
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Shuhei Taniguchi

HM - NJPW G1 Climax 23rd September
Jeff Cobb vs Shingo Takagi
Taichi vs Minoru Suzuki
Jay White vs Kota Ibushi

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM - NOAH N-1 Victory 23rd September (Evening Show)
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Kazushi Sakuraba
Go Shiozaki vs Masaaki Mochizuki

Really all four block matches were great, watch them here for the next week free. Kenoh/Marufuji and Nakajima/Suguira are well worth a watch if you have the time.

Wrestling is good, and tournament season is even better.

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: Zack Sabre Jr vs. KENTA - NJPW G1 Climax Night 6 9/29

Basically a textbook example of an HM, I thought. Just two very, very good wrestlers having a very, very good match that played off their individual and conflicting strengths.

Nth. Thought it was really good, around the level of the N-1 matches i've been nominating, but not to the level of Ishii/Ibushi was

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM - NOAH N-1 Victory 26th September
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Yoshiki Inamura

Katsu's dedication to kicking the crap out of his new stablemates is something to be admired

Masaaki Mochizuki vs Manabu Soya

Mocchy is my pick for the best 50+ wrestler in the world, dude still brings the fire. Soya was great as the charging bull and more than held up his end of the match.

Go Shiozaki vs Masa Kitamiya

Go continues to be one of the best in the world, and plays the part of the wounded Ace really well. What a fun show

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NJPW G1 Climax September 30th
MOTYC
Shingo Takagi vs Tomohiro Ishii

HM
Kota Ibushi vs Jeff Cobb
Kazuchika Okada vs Taichi
Will Ospreay vs Jay White
Minoru Suzuki vs Yujiro Takahashi

Great card top to bottom, probably my favourite G1 card so far, and only behind NOAH's 23.09 evening show this month

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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HM - NJPW G1 Climax October 1st
Yoshi-Hashi vs Hiroshi Tanahashi


SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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forkboy84 posted:

HM
4th October
Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 Victory
Kenoh vs Takashi Sugiura

They've had better matches but this was good

Yeah, nth

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NJPW G1 Climax October 7th
MOTYC
Taichi vs Jay White
Shingo Takagi vs Kota Ibushi

HM
Yujiro Takahashi vs Tomohiro Ishii
Jeff Cobb vs Kazuchika Okada
Minoru Suzuki vs Will Ospreay

What a great show

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 7, 2020

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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I'm a foolish fool and can't read dates. Far as I can tell I saw the date as 08.10 on my desktop, realised it was after midnight when I was posting, and took 1 away from the wrong number

SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Oct 7, 2020

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NJPW G1 Climax October 8th
HM
Hirooki Goto vs Yoshi-Hashi
Yano Toru vs Zack Sabre Jr
Juice Robinson vs Tetsuya Naito

Tonights show didn't really grab me as much as others have

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NJPW G1 Climax October 14th
MOTYC - Yoshi-Hashi vs KENTA
Yoshi-Hashi promised us to try his best and he continues to make me believe :cry:

HM
Toru Yano vs Tetsuya Naito

Yano is Yano, and Naito is willing to play along with his nonsense.

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Sanada
Even with the years of injuries making him ten step slower than his prime, Hiroshi Tanahashi is still a fantastic enough wrestler to make Sanada watchable.

EVIL vs Hirooki Goto
BEEEEEEEF. And tolerable amounts of Dick

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SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

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NJPW G1 Climax October 16th
MOTYC

Taichi vs Kota Ibushi
Tomohiro Ishii vs Jay White

HM
Kazuchika Okada vs Will Ospreay

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