2022's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

MOTYC
4th January
Gake No Fuchi Joshi Pro Clockwork Gake No Fuchi 2022
Hardcore Match
Chris Brookes vs Suzu Suzuki

Yeah, that was loving bonkers.

nth

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 16:59

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 03:35

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

DarkstarIV posted:

WMOTYC: Jade Cargill vs Ruby Soho, TBS Title Match, AEW: Dynamite 1/5/22

nth

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 18:30

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

TJPW Winter in Kobe January 8th
HM
Rival Schools: United by Fate (Moka Miyamoto and Yuki Arai) vs Mahiro Kiryu and Pom Harajuku
- Fun back and forth match that had me questioning what I thought was a really obvious result going in

121000000 (Miyu Yamashita and Maki Itoh) and Kamiyu vs Magical Sugar Rabbits (Yuka Sakazaki and Mizuki) and Shoko Nakajima
- These are six of the best in the promotion, not at the level of their matches that have actual stakes but still very entertaining

nth

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 06:49

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Impact Wrestling: Hard to Kill 1/8

HM
Jake Something vs Madman Fulton
Inaugural Knockouts Ultimate X

MOTY
Ace Austin vs Chris Bey vs Speedball Mike Bailey vs Laredo Kid
Jonathan Gresham (C) vs Chris Sabin for the ROH title
Good Bros and Violent by Design vs Eddie Edwards, Heath, Rhino, Willie Mack and Rich Swann in a hardcore war match

The Knockouts Ultimate X match probably would have been a MOTYC for me on any other show. Impact's been knocking big events out of the park lately but this may be their best in a while

# ¿ Jan 9, 2022 04:18

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Rarity posted:

WMOTYC: CM Punk vs. Wardlow, AEW Dynamite, 12/01

I love Punk, I love Wardlow, they're capable of so much more than this. The layout for this match was dire and the Powerbomb Symphony is fine for crushing jobbers but absolutely sucks for building a proper match around.

Nth

# ¿ Jan 14, 2022 12:28

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

there were 3 successful WMOTY nominations total all month/year as of 8 hours ago and now there's 9, hell of a thing to wake up to

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 09:31

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

J-Ro posted:

Impact On AXS TV, 02.03.22

HM: Jordynne Grace (c) vs Matt Cardona / Digital Media Championship match
- Jordynne is very good; Matt Cardona is very good. Their work together - unsurprisingly - is very good. Just an old fashioned inter-gender slobber knocker.

HM: "Speedball" Mike Bailey, Jake Something, Ace Austin & Mad Man Fulton vs Bullet Club (Chris Bey, Guerillas Of Destiny & Jay White)
- everything here is firing on all cylinders, a lot of cool, smooth moves and dope spots.

Nth

# ¿ Feb 4, 2022 09:22

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: Ace Austin vs. Mike Bailey vs. Chris Bey vs. Jake Something
from Impact Wrestling No Surrender, 2/19

abraham linksys posted:

HM: Vikingo vs John Superstar - AAA 2/20

this takes a while to get going but climaxes in one of the hottest finishing stretches i've seen in this company. the rain probably scared them off a lot of spots and it's ultimately at the low end of HM for me but they definitely sent the crowd home happy on a very mixed show. vikingo is carrying this company and jomo had a great showing in his first match back

https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1495265888588681217

nthing both

# ¿ Feb 20, 2022 08:24

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Punch McLightning posted:

MOTYC: Swerve the Realest vs. Nick Wayne, DEFY 50, 2/26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbuLJT_AknQ

The hype is real.

nth

HM: Switchblade Jay White vs Alex Shelley, Impact Wrestling Sacrifice 3/5

Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 6, 2022

# ¿ Mar 6, 2022 04:57

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

I usually no longer even bother nominating AEW matches because everyone else will have it covered and then some, and this one in particular doesn't need it, but still,

Cerebral Bore posted:

MOTYC: Jurassic Express vs Young Bucks vs reDRagon AEW Revolution 06.03

Absolute insanity from three of the best teams in the business. Great action, great storytelling, great everything.

nth

# ¿ Mar 7, 2022 02:48

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

fez_machine posted:

WMOTYC
Britt Baker vs. Thunder Rosa, AEW Revolution, 06/03

too many of the same long ref distraction spots and the wrong woman winning killed the match dead

don't care if we get a much better match later don't put a spacer match on the PPV

Nth

# ¿ Mar 7, 2022 13:45

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Edward Mass posted:

HM: Eddie Edwards vs. Rich Swann, Impact on AXS 3/10

I didn�t expect a whole lot from this match upfront, but it was pretty good!

nth

# ¿ Mar 11, 2022 13:05

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MOTYC
Daisuke Sasaki (C) vs. Jun Kasai vs. MAO for the DDT Universal Championship - DDT Judgement 3/20
DisasterBox (HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura) (C) vs. CDK (Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi) for the KO-D Tag Team Championships - DDT Judgement 3/20
Konosuke Takeshita (C) vs. Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship - DDT Judgement 3/20

# ¿ Mar 26, 2022 19:36

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Penguin Patrol posted:

Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow 3/31
MOTYC: Taya Valkyrie vs John Morrison aka Johnny Wrestlecon aka Johnny Dishes aka Johnny Doghouse - Husband vs Wife, Dirty Dishes Match

nth

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 04:50

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MOTYC Switchblade Jay White vs Chris Sabin - Impact Multiverse of Matches 4/1 or 4/2 (idk how to really nominate the date as the show started on the night of 4/1 but the match occurred, and show is currently ongoing, on 4/2)

HM Trey Miguel vs Jordynne Grace vs Blake Christian vs Chris Bey vs Vincent vs Rich Swann in Ultimate X match for the X Division title - Impact Multiverse of Matches 4/1

Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 2, 2022

# ¿ Apr 2, 2022 05:41

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

boxcarhobo posted:

MOTYC
Impact Rebellion 4/23
X Division Championship
"Speedball" Mike Bailey vs. Trey Miguel vs. Ace Austin

Go loving find this, holy poo poo. The pace was insane and they didn't miss a single spot, I cannot believe what I just saw

J-Ro posted:

MOTYC
Impact Rebellion 4/23
World Championship
Moose (c) vs Josh Alexander

nth

# ¿ Apr 24, 2022 16:31

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

abraham linksys posted:

wmotyc: blue demon jr vs rayo de jalistico jr - triplemania xxx monterrey - 4/30/22

this wasn't nearly as catastrophic as the infamous minus five stars cmll match from a few years ago but boy its up there

Benne posted:

WMOTYC: Psycho Clown vs. Canek, AAA TripleMania 4/30

Wrestling wasn't even as bad as we expected but the booking was utter poo poo even by AAA standards

nth

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# ¿ May 1, 2022 15:13

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MOTYC Josh Alexander (c) vs Tomohiro Ishii for the Impact title, Impact Under Siege 5/7

# ¿ May 8, 2022 03:49

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

abraham linksys posted:

this and also

MOTYC Psycho Clown vs Villano IV - AAA Triplemania Tijuana 6/19

nth to both

# ¿ Jun 19, 2022 08:11

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia in a Best 2-out-of-3 Falls Match - AEW Dynamite 8/17

Daniel Garcia keeps proving his status as a star of the future (and the present!) and Bryan Danielson may be the greatest professional wrestler who ever lived

Nth

# ¿ Aug 18, 2022 01:48

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Edward Mass posted:

HM: Time Machine (KUSHIDA, Alex Shelly, and Chris Sabin) vs. Violent by Design (Eric Young, Joe Doering, and Deaner), Impact on AXS 8/25

It started off slow, but after the commercial it was pretty fun.

nth

# ¿ Aug 26, 2022 03:02

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

SG Bamboo posted:

DDT Dramatic Explosion September 4th
MOTYC
ASUKA vs Chris Brookes
- Turns out when two fantastic wrestlers get the chance to let loose and have a great match they in fact have a great loving match

Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi and Naomi Yoshimura) (c) vs DisasterBox (HARASHIMA and Toru Owashi) - KO-D Team Team Championships
- Not wanting to be upstaged by the previous match, these 4 beat the absolute hell out of each other. I honestly did not think Owashi had this kind of thing in him, he's been a comedy guy for so long

HM
DAMNATION T.A (Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul and KANON) (c) vs Eruption (Hideki Okatani, Yuki Sakaguchi and Saki Akai)
- Saki fights her second title match of the day and drags Damnation to the best match of their reign

Explosion Match was a bit disappointing but the rest of the upper card delivered in spades

Nth

# ¿ Sep 4, 2022 14:28

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

LionYeti posted:

AEW All Out 9/4/22

Wmotyc casino ladder match

nth

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 01:54

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

CMLL Grand Prix 8/19
MOTYC: Atlantis Jr., El Soberano Jr., Mistico, Stuka Jr., Templario, Titan, Ultimo Guerrero & Volador Jr. defeat El Mesias, Kenny King, Lince Dorado, Matt Taven, Oraculo, Robbie Eagles, Rocky Romero & Tiger Mask

the Grand Prix match is the best Cibernetico match I've seen since the 90s and one of the best matches of the year. Just absolutely bananas action with some really fun comedy too and tons of heat. Team Mexico is just loaded with talent and Team International knows how to get heat from this crowd. Mesias also has his best performance in ages, which means he's still kind of bad, but is able to go balls out for stretches. Great performance from Tiger Mask too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrUAo9x7_8

nth

# ¿ Sep 11, 2022 11:58

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

abraham linksys posted:

CMLL Aniversario 89 - 9/16/2022
HM Angel De Oro vs Mistico vs Volador Jr - just some good solid CMLL workin'

HM La Jarochita vs Reyna Isis - CMLL's womens division is one of the most baffling things to me because it seems to produce either completely unwatchable matches or total bangers with super hot crowds, no in between. this was certainly the latter

nthing both

# ¿ Sep 17, 2022 01:48

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Edward Mass posted:

MOTYC: "Speedball" Mike Bailey (c) vs. Frankie Kazarian for the Impact X Division Championship
MOTYC: The Kingdom (c) vs. the Motor City Machine Guns for the Impact World Tag Team Championship
MOTYC: Jordynne Grace (c) vs. Masha Slamovich for the Impact Knockouts World Championship
MOTYC: Josh Alexander (c) vs. Eddie Edwards for the Impact World Championship

All from Impact Wrestling Bound for Glory, 10/7

nth

# ¿ Oct 8, 2022 05:10

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Edward Mass posted:

HM: Alex Shelly vs. Matt Taven, Impact on AXS 10/6

nth

# ¿ Oct 8, 2022 23:06

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Impact Wrestling, 11/17
MOTYC
Sami Callihan vs Eric Young

# ¿ Nov 18, 2022 04:01

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MOTY
Elite vs Death Triangle
AEW Dynamite 11/23

# ¿ Nov 24, 2022 03:13

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

MOTY
Josh Alexander vs Speedball Mike Bailey
Impact Wrestling 12/8

# ¿ Dec 9, 2022 04:06

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 03:35

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Chris James 2 posted:

MOTY
Josh Alexander vs Speedball Mike Bailey
Impact Wrestling 12/8

Full match with stuff during the ads that we didn't even see yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzv4FIZw-ok

# ¿ Dec 9, 2022 18:00

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