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As of this typing, there have been eight wrestling matches given 5 stars or more by Dave Meltzer this year. Over the ten years from 2000-2009, Meltzer gave only seven matches 5 stars. It was an interesting time for wrestling to say the least, and I think it's time we shine a light on this decade. AUTOMATIC ENTRANTS NOMINATED ENTRANTS Toshiaki Kawada vs. Genichiro Tenryu - October 28, 2000 (AJPW October Giant Series) Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki - July 18, 2005 (Pro Wrestling Noah Destiny) EDWARD MASS' PICKS Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Jan 30, 2022 |
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samoa joe vs the necro butcher (IWA Mid South 11/06/05)
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John Cena vs Umaga last man standing at the 2007 Royal Rumble
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Kensuke Sasaki vs Toshiaki Kawada IWGP title match NJPW 10-09-00 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2aug7y Or https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00156_1_1 Think NJPW may clip the intro tho Atlantis vs Villano III mask vs mask match CMLL 03-17-00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3EZRKDkDVI (Didn’t Dave give this five stars? It was WON MOTY 2000)
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Karma Tornado posted:John Cena vs Umaga last man standing at the 2007 Royal Rumble Seconding this nomination. Also: Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki - July 18th, 2005 Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels - WWE Wrestlemania 24 The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels - WWE Wrestlemania 25 And there's a lot of very good reasons why nobody will vote for it, but I would feel remiss in not including: Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit - WWE Royal Rumble 2003 Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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nigel mcguinness vs bryan danielsion roh unified 2006 bryan danielson vs takeshi morishima, roh manhattan mayhem 2 briscoes vs el geen roh man up 2007 bryan danielson vs takeshi morishima, roh final battle 2008
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Dammit, J Ru beat me to mentioning Sasaki vs Kobashi. Kobashi's 2005 was wild
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You ever looked at two really big trees and thought,"Man, I wonder what it would look like if they beat the poo poo out of each other?" well then Sasaki vs. Kobashi is the match for you!
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Cactus Jack vs. HHH (Royal Rumble) TLC 2 Kurt Angle vs. Rock vs. Stone Cold vs. Triple H vs. Rikishi vs. Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell Eddie vs Brock at No Way Out Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena, ECW One Night Stand 2006 Mitsuharu Misawa Vs. Kenta Kobashi April 2000 Bryan Danielson Vs. Takeshi Morishima Final Battle 08 Chris Jericho Vs. Shawn Micheals Mania 19 Bryan Danielson Vs. Nigel McGuiness ROH Driven 07 Bryan Danielson Vs. KENTA Glory By Honor 02 Takeshi Morishima Vs. Bryan Danielson Manhattan Mayhem 2 Bryan Danielson Vs. Nigel McGuiness ROH Unified Eat My Fuc fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Eat My Fuc posted:CM Punk vs. The Undertaker, Wrestlemania 29 2013
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JOHN CENA posted:2013 drat, time flies you're right.
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LA Park vs El Hijo Del Santo, 12/23/2001 from Arena Coliseo Monterrey One of the most incredible bloodbaths of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAfvVhrwZr0&t=526s
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Randy Orton vs Cactus Jack Backlash 2004 Satoshi Kojima vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan 2-20-2005 - IWGP and Triple Crown Unification match
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KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Jushin Liger & Takehiro Murahama - 07/16/03 KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi - 09/12/03 KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Juventud Guerrera & Ricky Marvin - 11/01/03 KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Mutsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa - 04/25/2004 *** KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita - 05/08/05 KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikio - 07/16/06 KENTA vs. Naomichi Marufuji - 10/29/06 KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Kota Ibushi - 07/15/07 *** this match may not resonate nearly the same as the others but at one point where I was hating wrestling it brought me back in. HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Getting the subtle impression this KENTA fellow might be quite the wrestler! I think the first proper KENTA match I saw was him having a match against Misawa on a ROH show for the GHC Title, and while it wasn't the best match ever it was really, really enjoyable and KENTA screaming,"Misawa! MISAWA! MISARAGGHHH! MISAAAAWAARRRRGHHHHH!!!  " as he kicked the poo poo out of him was great.
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Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero [c] - PWG World Title Match - PWG Guerre Sans Fronteres - 9-4-2009 The best American match of the 2000s nobody ever talks about. This match was the genesis for the Golden Age of PWG. I think it might be Bryan and Hero's best match respectively. Watch and decide for yourself: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av12138397 Pinche Rudo fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Kobashi's 2003-05 reign was absolutely god tier, and outside of the three already mentioned I'll give a nod to Kobashi Vs Minoru Suzuki from January 8th 2005. We all know how good Suzuki is even now, just think about when he was a spry 35 year old. I'll have to edit in a link when I have a look after work but I also remember the Taue defence being great. Another great match that barely anyone remembers is Eddie Kingston Vs Claudio Castagnoli (now Cesaro) from Chikara Three Fisted Tales, both in terms of the action being great and the story leading into the birth of the BDK later that night.
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Hulk Hogan vs The Giant on the roof of cobo hall
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Pinche Rudo posted:Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero [c] - PWG World Title Match - PWG Guerre Sans Fronteres - 9-4-2009 late 2000s pwg was great. claudio was such a killer world champion.
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OP updated to include 42 total matches. Nominations will stop after the total reaches 64.
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Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama - NOAH - 25/4/04 Jun Akiyama vs Katsuyori Shibata - WRESTLE-1 - 4/8/05 KENTA vs Low Ki - ROH - 17/12/05 Akihiko Ito, Atsushi Aoki, KENTA & Kenta Kobashi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kensuke Sasaki, Kento Miyahara & Takashi Okita - Kensuke Office - 17/8/08 And to move away from matches featuring NOAH guys for a bit & look at some stuff that's overlooked a little Aja Kong vs KAORU - GAEA - 13/2/00 Akira Hokuto vs Meiko Satomura - GAEA - 29/4/01 Genichiro Tenryu vs Keiji Mutoh - AJPW - 8/6/01 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Satoshi Kojima - AJPW - 17/7/02 AJ Styles vs Paul London - ROH - 14/6/03 Crazy MAX vs Do FIXER vs Italian Connection vs Shin M2K - Toryumon Japan - 30/8/03 - It's classic Dragon system chaos Necro Butcher vs Toby Klein - IWA MS - 25/6/04 Satoshi Kojima vs. Toshiaki Kawada - AJPW - 16/2/05 Daisuke Ikeda vs. Yuki Ishikawa - Fu-Ten - 24/4/05 - Two dudes who just beat the ever longing poo poo out of each other. The Kings of Wrestling & The Dark Breed vs Chikara Army - Chikara - 22/10/05 - The first great Chikara matches. It's long, a 16 man elimination tag but man it's cool. Team ROH vs Team CZW - ROH - 15/7/06 - The perfect pay off to one of the best invasion/interpromotional angles of all time. I don't know how it stands without the context of the preceding 6 months of ROH but I don't care either coz I have that Takashi Sasaki vs Yuko Miyamoto - BJW - 14/3/07 Muscle Outlawz vs New Hazard vs Typhoon - Dragon Gate - 5/6/07 Chris Hero vs Eddie Kingston - IWA MS - 29/9/07 - Possibly the greatest street fight ever & a match that doesn't get talked about nearly as much as it should. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Suwama - AJPW - 9/4/08 Isami Kodaka & Masashi Takeda vs Takashi Sasaki & Yuko Miyamoto - BJW - 28/5/09 Bryan Danielson vs Naruki Doi - Dragon Gate USA - 6/9/09 Honestly, I got a bit carried away.
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Never enough Kobashi recommendations: - here is the Taue defence I mentioned earlier (September 10, 2004) - Kobashi vs Yuji Nagata (September 12, 2003) Kenta Kobashi was an absolute master of the craft, even after taking more than a year off to fix his demolished knees. It's nice to see him popping up every now and again if his life outside the ring, especially when his closest contemporary never got to walk away. And also my pick for the best Angle/Benoit match, Ultimate Submission at Backlash 2001 (April 29) forkboy84 posted:The Kings of Wrestling & The Dark Breed vs Chikara Army - Chikara - 22/10/05 - The first great Chikara matches. It's long, a 16 man elimination tag but man it's cool. The match itself was good, but Larry Sweeney was absolutely the best part with his commentary, the 100+ minutes flew by on his banter with Chikarason SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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I really didn't include enough Kojima from his Triple Crown run. That was rad
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John Cena v Shawn Michaels, RAW, April 23rd 2007 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz8hbf Kurt Angle v Shawn Michaels, Wrestlemania 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WMHSghZix8
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Eddy Guerrero vs. JBL - WWE Judgment Day 2004, May 16, 2004 Absolutely disgusting bloodbath, one of a handful of WWF matches I believe are Actually Good Rey Misterio vs. Kurt Angle - WWE SummerSlam, August 25, 2002 Rey is maybe the best babyface of all time and he deserved way better than he got. Probably the best PPV opener of the decade. Kohei Sato & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Shinjiro Ohtani & Takao Omori - ZERO1-MAX Make The Emotion, February 18, 2007 A few weeks ago I woke up and this was playing on my computer and for a little while I was wondering if I was still in a dream. Takayama bleeds so much and tears up Korakuen in ways I've never seen before and I loving loved it, Ohtani is one of the greats, everyone should watch as much Othani as they can.
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SLUM KING posted:Ohtani is one of the greats, everyone should watch as much Othani as they can. Very much agreed, Otani still rules to this day as an old rear end man, his two matches so far in this year's Champion Carnival have been great
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CM Punk (c) vs. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Misterio Jr - IWA Mid-South Spring Heat, March 1 2002. Remarkable that it happened, and remarkably good as a match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5EULLFRv9E
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OK, expanding to 128 total matches for the tournament. But that's it!
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Masaharo Morimoto Vs Bobby Flay Trilogy of matches
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Edward Mass posted:OK, expanding to 128 total matches for the tournament. But that's it! Oh, I'm sure we could get this up to 512  (I'm kidding, honest)Sticking to overlooked promotions, which in the 2000s is really everyone except NOAH, WWE & maybe ROH Genichiro Tenryu vs Toshiaki Kawada - AJPW - 28/10/00 - It's the first great match All Japan had post-NOAH split, Tenryu is back in the company he made his name with after a decade away & Kawada was his young boy. They beat the ever loving poo poo out of each other. American Dragon vs Low Ki - ECWA - 24/2/01 - It's one of the most important matches in US indie wrestling history. Finals of the Super 8 Tournament, which RF Video had the rights to sell. Along with their match in October '01 APW King of Indies Final, this is why the first ROH show had these 2 guys in the main event with Christopher Daniels. Alexander Otsuka vs Takashi Sugiura - ZERO-One - 18/4/01 - This match is not for everyone. This match is under 10 minutes, features a lot of grappling, & it takes a few minutes for the first strike to be thrown. And one of the first is the Diet Butcher headbutting Sugiura so hard he cuts himself open hardway. And then they go on to exchange headbutts because this is Japanese wrestling. And Otsuka is a bloody mess by the end. But man. If you like it, you'll love it. The crowd is so drat hot. Sugiura had only been wrestling for 5 months somehow. I haven't linked anything else I've posted but a) this is short & b) I was rewatching it anyway when I got reminded of it so no effort to get a link, even if the video quality is loving garbage. Minoru Tanaka vs Takehiro Murahama - NJPW - 20/4/01 - It blows hard that Minoru Tanaka's peak years coincide with an era of New Japan 8 weirdos on Twitter remember fondly. El Hijo del Santo vs LA Par-K - Monterrey - 23/12/01 - A Christmas Massacre. Two lucha greats bleed buckets in the epitome of the wild lucha brawl. I'd love it if any lucha heads could include more El Hijo del Santo because he's a guy I've read about but never seen too much of, bit of a blindspot.
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We'd be remiss to not mention probably the best Raw match of all time: Steve Austin & Triple H vs. Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit, WWE RAW 5/21/01 And some others I think went overlooked Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle, WrestleMania 19 Edge & Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle, WWE No Mercy 2002 Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker Hell in a Cell, WWE No Mercy 2002
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Benne posted:We'd be remiss to not mention probably the best Raw match of all time: chris benoit is canceled
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Aja Kong vs Meiko Satomura - AAAW Title - GAEA December 15th 2001 - Found this while looking for a link to their 2006 match in Sendai Girls and it's awesome Minoru Tanaka (c) vs Ryusuke Taguchi - IWGP Jr Heavyweight Title - NJPW 35th Anniversary Tour July 6th 2007 Speed Muscle (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) (c) vs New Hazard (BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi) - GHC Jr Tag Titles - Dragon Gate January 15th 2008 KENTA vs Naruki Doi Dragon Gate Dead or Alive May 5th 2008 Kota Ibushi vs Jigsaw vs Nick Jackson vs El Generico (now Sami Zayn) - 4-Way Elimination match - CHIKARA King of Trios March 29, 2009 Jun Kasai vs Ryuji Ito - Razor Cross Board Alpha Deathmatch - Big Japan November 20th 2009 (video is in 3 parts, but should autoplay)
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WatermelonGun posted:chris benoit is canceled Someone is back?!
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Someone is back?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAR-DurmA6o
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Some more free time so more recommendations American Dragon vs Christopher Daniels vs Low Ki - ROH - 23/2/02 Kaoru Ito vs. Manami Toyota - AJW - 24/2/02 Genichiro Tenryu vs Satoshi Kojima - AJPW - 24/2/02 AJ Style vs Jerry Lynn vs Lo-Ki vs Psicosis - TNA - 19/6/02 Kazunari Murakami vs Yuji Nagata - NJPW - 10/12/02 Shocker vs Ultimo Guerrero - CMLL - 13/12/02 Satoshi Kojima vs Shinjiro Otani - ZERO-ONE - 15/12/02 Manami Toyota vs Meiko Satomura - GAEA - 6/4/03 Heat & Tiger Mask vs Jushin Liger & Koji Kanemoto - NJPW - 2/5/03 Akira Taue vs Yuji Nagata - NOAH - 6/6/03 Do FIXER vs Shin M2K - Toryumon Japan - 29/6/03 Masato Tanaka vs Satoshi Kojima - ZERO-ONE - 30/7/03 Katsuyori Shibata vs Yoshihiro Takayama - NJPW - 15/8/03 - I'm mostly putting this here because Meltzer gave it *1/2 which is loving barmy. Doesn't even go 7 minutes but they beat each other up, the crowd eat it up. It's not pretty but it's pretty loving exhilarating.
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We're up to 99 matches right now, so I guess I should say that the bracket will be random draw, except for the seven auto qualifiers which will be placed so that they would not meet until the quarterfinals.
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Steve Austin vs Triple H - No Way Out 2001 Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama - NOAH Grand Voyage 2000
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Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW 19/07/04 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Keiji Mutoh - AJPW 08/06/01 Jun Akiyama vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan - NJPW 17/08/03 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Suwama - AJPW 09/04/08 Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho - WWE 21/01/01 The Dudley Boyz vs. Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho vs. Edge & Christian vs. The Hardy Boyz - WWE 24/05/01 will edit if I think of any more, but those are the ones that haven't been mentioned so far but really spring to mind e: four more: Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa - AJPW 27/02/00 KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takashi Sugiura & Yoshinobu Kanemaru - NOAH 05/06/05 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto - NJPW 11/11/07 The Rock vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - WWE 01/04/01 Venomous fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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There are room for 22 more matches, by my calculations.
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