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Belated, but here goes: HM: Darby Allin vs Anthony Bowens MOTYC: TayJay vs Penelope Ford & The Bunny HM: Cody Rhodes vs Ethan Page All from AEW Rampage 31.12
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SG Bamboo posted:NOAH The New Year January 1st nth to all these
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Jan 3, 2022 20:25
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Jerusalem posted:I'm going to close this thread at 6pm Eastern (so just over 12 hours from now) and then make the 2022 thread. If you want any votes to be recorded/counted for 2021 wrestling, that's the cutoff! As last year, any 2022 nominations made here will be counted for the new thread. thank you for another fun year! 
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No problem Also, thanks to Punch McLightning's most recent nominations, Stardom has doubled its MOTYCs to....2! AEW is 3 short of 100 MOTYCs for the year, but has more than doubled its closest rival New Japan which has been the dominant promotion for MOTYCs the last few years. New Japan still managed a respectable 46 MOTYCs though, which basically works out to a little less than one MOTYC per week.... which is pretty good! The benefit of Wrestle Universe being such good value really paid off, NOAH, DDT and TJPW have managed their highest MOTYC counts ever thanks to people being able to see their shows relatively easily at a relatively cheap price. I think that is probably what "hurt" Stardom (they're doing great business wise, by all accounts, but what's REALLY important is some random internet forum's poll!), if you want to watch their shows you have to pay out a monthly fee plus PPVs to watch them and ONLY them. New Japan at least pumps out a huge amount of content to make it seem worth it for New Japan World, but on top of them, Wrestle Universe and what I assume are a bunch of people also paying monthly fees for Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Peacock (  ) etc, I imagine that adding ANOTHER just to see maybe one or two shows a month might be a bit much for some.Anyway, there's a little under 2 hours left before the thread closes, but here is the current tally: MOTY by Promotion: AEW: 97 | NJPW: 46 | TJPW: 23 | DDT: 16 | Gatoh Move ChocoPro: 10 | NOAH: 9 | CyberFight Festival: 5 | GCW: 4 | IMPACT: 4 | Hana Kimura Memorial Show: 2 | SEAdLINNNG: 2 | NWA: 2 | NXT (WWE): 2 | WWE: 2 | Stardom: 2 | AAA: 1 | Dragon Gate: 1 | FWME: 1 | GAEA: 1 | GLEAT: 1 | Ice Ribbon: 1 | ROH: 1 | Sendai Girls: 1 | WMOTY by Promotion: WWE: 29 | AEW: 4 | NJPW: 4 | GCW: 1 | IMPACT: 1 | NXT: 1
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Jan 3, 2022 22:11
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It's certainly been to Wrestle Universe's benefit that for one subscription cost you can get access to "wrestling" as a broad category that includes: Traditional strong style puroresu. (Noah) High workrate wrestling with a comedy inflection and hardcore matches. (DDT) Idol-inflected character driven joshi (TJPW) High energy sports-entertainment style wrestling (Ganbare) Traditional joshi wrestling (Ganbare Joshi) Lots Of Other Bullshit (Rojo, crossovers with Zero1, Cyber Fight Festival, Gake No Fuchi, etc) I really hope that the loss of Mr Haku doesn't hurt them too much on the English language accessibility.
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Jan 3, 2022 23:24
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For what it's worth, Stardom adds their PPVs to Stardom World about a week after the event. The Queendom show is up right now.
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Jan 3, 2022 23:28
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Lamuella posted:I really hope that the loss of Mr Haku doesn't hurt them too much on the English language accessibility. Staring blanky at the 10 minute promo that starts every DDT show Also train of the day  But for real, Wrestle Universe is the best value in streaming, the sheer amount and variance on offer is amazing
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Jan 3, 2022 23:30
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I nominated matches from 31 promotions for HM or MOTYC this year: 2CW, AAA, AAW, AEW, AJPW, Beyond, C4, Colega Pro, Dragongate, Enjoy Wrestling, Empire State, Freelance Underground, Gatoh Move, GCW, GSW, Impact, IWTV, Limitless, MLW, NJPW, NOAH, PWF, RoH, Stardom, The Crash, West Coast Pro, WWE, WWR+, wXw, YMZ, ZERO1 I nominated about 540 matches for HM and 110 for MOTYC. My top 10 wrestlers by stars awarded are a pretty normie list, in order from 1-10: Bryan Danielson, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Shingo Takagi, Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega, Sanada, Tomohiro Ishii, Darby Allin, & Rey Fenix.
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Jan 3, 2022 23:34
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Punch McLightning posted:I nominated matches from 31 promotions for HM or MOTYC this year: Honestly, mate, you were a powerhouse this year.
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2022 Thread is now live, thanks to everybody who nominated, 2nded, 3rded etc, or spoke up/argued/fought for raising awareness of some very cool matches!
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