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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Hammer House: Stinger Splash Zone > 2022's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)
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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Cerebral Bore posted:

WMOTYC: Tomohiro Ishii vs EVIL NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 04.01

EVIL did the impossible, he dragged Ishii to a legit bad singles match.

This.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: El Desperado vs Hiromu Takahashi NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 04.01

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Shingo Takagi (C) vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 Night 1 1/4

Shingo has been fantastic over the last year but Okada suffered during COVID. His slow return to form as his worshipers returned to fill seats culminated here with him seemingly back at close to full power and all the old magic of New Japan's great main events of the past seemed to be back too. Incredible match, it defied time just like Okada and Shingo defy the constraints of mortal man and moments like The Dragonmaker Pose made the crowd defy noise restrictions and gasp and bellow and cheer at what they were seeing. This was insanely great, holy gently caress.

This. The match breezed by, and I bit at so many of the near falls. Phenomenal storytelling

* # ¿ Jan 4, 2022 12:40
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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Katsuyori Shibata vs ~Mystery Opponent~ NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 04.01

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 Someone helpfully linked to this match in the WWE thread, so can add another match to the WMOTYC pile and save New Japan's blushes:

WMOTYC: AJ Styles vs. Omos - WWE Raw, 01/03

~4 minutes of dogshit

https://streamlala.com/jGOfr/

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Imperium vs. Riddle & MSK - NXT New Year's Evil, 01/04

Well worth checking out for obvious reasons

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Bron Breakker vs Tommaso Ciampa (c) for the NXT Championship, NXT New Year's Evil, 01/04

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Cerebral Bore posted:

MOTYC: Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask vs Taiji Ishimori & ELP vs Mega Coaches NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 05.01

Fantastic Junior clusterfuck. Also they finally paid off THE LORE OF THE BOOT.

2nd

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Cerebral Bore posted:

HM: Minoru Suzuki vs CIMA vs YTR vs Chase Owens NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 05.01

Extremely fun dumb clusterfuck of a match. Also a great ending.

E:

HM: SANADA vs GOK NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 05.01

An excellent technical match. Both SANADA and GOK are real good at the graps and it shows.

MOTYC: Tetsuya Naito vs Jeff Cobb NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 05.01

COBB STRONK: The Match. Also Naito is a fantastic dick. Brutal as all hell.

nthing these

MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Championship, Wrestle Kingdom 16 Night 2, 01/05

Sensational. Immaculately paced and I bit on so many near falls.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page (C) vs. Bryan Danielson for the AEW World Title - AEW Dynamite 1/5

Picked right back up from their hour-long draw and kept up the same quality, with wonderful callbacks to that first match and notable matches of the past (including to one of the judge's own career), both these guys are insanely good. Crazy match, hot crowd, great finish. Hell yeah.

nth

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Benne posted:

You know I'm right

HM: MJF vs. Shawn Dean, AEW Dynamite 1/5

I cackled at 1:40am, so will give it a HM instead

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 WMOTYC: Ruby Soho vs Jade Cargill for the TBS Championship AEW Dynamite 1/5
Grading AEW on a curve, but this was not good. Heatless, poorly paced and sloppy.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Jurassic Express vs. The Lucha Brothers for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, AEW: Dynamite 1/5/22

Good match, brought back a dead crowd. Some awkwardness in the middle preventing a full MOTYC nomination.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 AEW Rampage, 1/7

HM: Adam Cole vs. Jake Atlas - Why the hell did WWE let Jake Atlas go?! This kid looked like something special, and the ending was well worked considering the circumstances
HM: Britt Baker & Jamie Hayter vs. Riho & Ruby Soho - As I wrote in the Rampage thread, felt like it started at 1.5x speed and never let up
HM: Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz vs. 2.0 & Daniel Garcia - Was nearly a MOTYC. A wild and chaotic brawl, that was completely different to any other match I've watched this week

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Sammy Guevara vs. Dustin Rhodes for the Interim TNT Championship - AEW Battle of the Belts 1/8 - Bit too disjointed in the beginning to give it a full MOTYC nomination
HM: Ricky Starks (c) vs. Matt Sydal for the FTW Championship - AEW Battle of the Belts 1/8 - Nice to have a reminder every once in a while that Matt Sydal is very good
HM: Dr. Britt Baker DMD (C) vs. Riho for the AEW Women's Championship - AEW Battle of the Belts 1/8 - Echoing what Jersualem said earlier in the thread

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Lamuella posted:

HM: Eddie Kingston vs Gabriel Kidd, New Japan Strong, January 8. A King's Road vs Strong Style epic, as performed by an angry kid from Nottingham and a dirtbag from Yonkers. Eddie has the emotion of the wild veteran, Kidd has the fire of a young Shibata protégé. The strikes and throws here are great, and a version of this match that had a story going into it would be in MOTYC territory.

nth. Agreed

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: JD Drake vs. Orange Cassidy, AEW Dark, 01/11/22

HM: Eddie Kingston vs Joey Janela, AEW Dark, 01/11/22

HM: Dark Order's 5 & 10 and Hangman Page vs. Matt Hardy, Isiah Kassidy, and Serpentico, AEW Dark, 01/11/22

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Powerhouse Hobbs vs Dante Martin, AEW Dynamite, 01/12 Ricky Starks - best corner man in the business

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Rarity posted:

HM: Sammy Guevara vs. Daniel Garcia, AEW Dynamite, 12/01


After ruminating on it for a few hours, I'll nth this - awkward finish and all

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Taichi vs. DOUKI, JTO TakaTaichimania III, 10/01

Love a bunch of lads who beat the piss out of each other then knock back the drinks after

Got round to watching this. nth

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Adam Cole vs. Trent Baretta, AEW Rampage, 14/01
HM: Kris Statlander, Leyla Hirsch & Red Velvet vs. Nyla Rose, The Bunny & Penelope Ford, AEW Rampage, 14/01
MOTYC: Jurassic Express vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, AEW Rampage, 14/01

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Dango Bango posted:

HM: Orange Cassidy & Kris Statlander vs. Adam Cole & Britt Baker, AEW Dynamite 1/19
HM: Sting & Darby Allin vs. The Acclaimed, AEW Dynamite 1/19

Both matches were a TON of fun. And holy gently caress Sting you're sixty-two Goddamn years old!

2nd on both

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
HM: Jon Moxley vs. "All Ego" Ethan Page, AEW Rampage, 21/01
HM: Trent Baretta vs. Nick Jackson, AEW Rampage, 21/01
HM: Jade Cargill vs. Anna Jay, AEW Rampage, 21/01

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Penta El Zero M vs. Wheeler Yuta - AEW Dark 1/25

This could have easily been a nothing match, but instead both guys went hard and it absolutely ruled.

nth. Love when they let these Star vs Young Lion matches go long

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Cody Rhodes vs. Sammy Guevara, AEW Beach Break, 26/01
HM: Chris Jericho/Santana/Ortiz vs. 2.0/Daniel Garcia, AEW Beach Break, 26/01
HM: Adam Cole vs. Orange Cassidy, AEW Beach Break, 26/01

nthing all of these. Dynamite of the year so far

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Testekill posted:

WMOTYC: Women's Royal Rumble, WWE Royal Rumble 1/29

That was awful. None of the current stars are over and the match was sloppy and poorly put together as gently caress.

This, plus the camera work got worse and worse as the match went on

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Testekill posted:

WMOTYC: Becky Lynch vs Doudrop, WWE Royal Rumble 1/29

poo poo sucked. Obvious filler defense that nobody gave a poo poo about and Doudrop is not over at all.

nth

WMOTYC: Bobby Lashley vs Brock Lesnar (c) for the WWE Championship, WWE Royal Rumble 1/29

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

SalTheBard posted:

WMOTYC - Mens Royal Rumble - Royal Rumble 2022 - 1/29/22

Just appalling booking

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Jungle Boy/Luchasaurus (c) vs. Private Party for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, AEW Rampage: Beach Break Championship Friday, 28/01
HM: Jon Moxley vs. Anthony Bowens - AEW Rampage: Beach Break Championship Friday 1/28

Good show - washes the taste of that Rumble out of my mouth

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

graph posted:

HM: Joey Janela v. Lee Moriarty - AEW Dark - 02/01/2022


nth

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Jon Moxley vs. Wheeler Yuta, AEW Dynamite, 02/02
HM: Penta el Zero Miedo/PAC vs. Knights Kings of the Black Throne, AEW Dynamite, 02/02
MOTYC: CM Punk vs. MJF, AEW Dynamite, 02/02

Very good Dynamite. Ruby Soho and Nyla Rose was almost an HM for me too

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 MOTYC: Michael Oku vs. Will Ospreay(c) for the RevPro Undisputed British Championship, RevPro High Stakes 2022.01.30

That was sensational. Ospreay is something special as an unlikeable bullying prick. Well worth seeking out

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: CM Punk/Mystery Partner vs. FTR, AEW Dynamite, 09/02

Going HM here, thought it got a little too messy at the end, but a high quality match - on the cusp of MOTYC

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Jade Cargill vs AQA for the TBS Championship, AEW Dynamite, 09/02

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 MOTYC: Hangman Adam Page (c) vs. Lance Archer for the AEW World Championship in a Texas Deathmatch, AEW Dynamite, 09/02

Amazing. What a creative and brutal match to cap off an all-timer of a Dynamite.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: The Young Bucks vs. Roppongi Vice, AEW Rampage, 11/02
HM: Jungle Boy/Luchasaurus vs. The Gunn Club aka The rear end Boys for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, AEW Rampage, 11/02

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008

Testekill posted:

MOTYC: Bryan Danielson vs Lee Moriarty, AEW Dynamite 2/16


Two of the best technicians in the world.

nth. This ruled.

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 HM: Jericho & Hager vs. Proud & Powerful - AEW Dynamite 2/16
HM: Thunder Rosa vs. Mercedes Martinez in a No Disqualification Match - AEW Dynamite 2/16
HM: Sammy Guevara (c) vs. Darby Allin for the TNT Championship - AEW Dynamite 2/16

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 AEW Rampage 2/18

HM: 10 vs. Adam Cole
HM: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Dante Martin
HM: Trent Beretta vs. Jay White (This was on the edge of a MOTYC though)


Another solid Rampage

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Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
 WMOTYC - Roman Reigns (c) vs Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship, WWE Elimination Chamber, 02/19
lol

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