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Working my way though all the tabs i've built up FREEDOMS The Gekokujo March 22nd MOTYC Masashi Takeda (c) vs Violento Jack - King of FREEDOM Title - loving ruled, deathmatch wrestling done absolutely right, even if the board with metal forks sticking out got me wincing more than once - https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252881?t=1h22m30s BAKA Gaijin + Friends Vol.13 April 9th MOTYC Chris Brookes vs Miyuki Takase - I love that these shows are largely light and breezy and then every so often Chris decides to have an war on 6 square feet of mats on the floor of a bar, a fantastic display of non traditional wrestling - https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252889?t=1h10m05s Sendai Girls January 7th MOTYC Chihiro Hashimoto and Mika Iwata vs Sareee and Mio Momono - Four of the best womens wrestlers in the world, of course this was going to rule - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8HG1S1gKDA BJW March 30th MOTYC Yuya Aoki (c) vs Takuya Nomura - BJW Strong Title - Knew I was going to enjoy this, Aoki's title run has been really strong and Nomura doesn't have bad matches. Features a little bit of clipping for SamuraiTV but judging from the time listed on cagematch it's less than a minute. Really sucks they were playing to a barely third full Korakuen, I don't rate Big Japan's Deathmatch division as highly as somewhere like Freedoms but their Strong division is entirely my poo poo - https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252833?t=57m37s AWG ACTwrestling in Korakuen Hall March 24th HM Mari (c) vs Natsumi Sumikawa - AWG Title - This was heckin rad, not up there with the best of somehwere like Sendai or SEAd but miles ahead of most of the offer matches AWG are putting on during All Japan shows - https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252841?t=2h10m48s Lily Catts posted:2024/04/07 I've already nominated it but heres a link to the match. Watch it, I guarantee you will not be disappointed
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DDT April Fool 2024 - 4/7 MOTYC: Chihiro Hashimoto v. Shinya Aoki Some context if you're unfamiliar with either of these wrestlers, as I was watching their first bout from DDT's Nevermind 2022 show: Chihiro Hashimoto is one of the best active joshi who wrestles a powerhouse style. Shinya Aoki is an absolute killer mixed martial artist with 31 career submission victories, despite looking like a skinny nerd. He's garnered some controversy for breaking people's arms in matches. This match was excellent, with a lot of drama for all the holds, escapes, and suplexes. It's really cool when submission holds are worked like this and treated as deadly. The crowd knows how vicious these two are and react huge when Aoki locks in an armbar or Hashimoto locks in a full nelson. NJPW Windy City Riot - 4/12 All HMs: Stephanie Vaquer (c) v. AZM for the New Japan STRONG Women's Title "Scapegoat" Jack Perry v. Shota Umino Matt Riddle (c) v. Zack Sabre Jr. for the NJPW World Television Title Tomohiro Ishii v. Nic Nemeth Tetsuya Naito (c) v. Jon Moxley for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title I get why it hasn't gotten any nominations, but the Matt Riddle and Zack Sabre Jr. match was my MOTN. Really great work with the upside that Matt Riddle is probably done with NJPW. Zack Sabre Jr. is fantastic and really put on a classic here. Riddle was rightly booed despite not really working heel and the crowd was really behind ZSJ. Riddle is an abhorrent person and I don't want to look past that or make light of that but it was a really good match. The show overall was excellent, despite no MOTYCs. I wish NJPW would run somewhere I could actually feasibly go.
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Jerusalem posted:4/12 show? 4/5. Added the date in my post sorry!
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The ZSJ match was definitely good, any match with ZSJ is, but I just couldn't enjoy it because I hated that his opponent was even there at all and I just wanted him to gently caress off. Luckily it would seem like he absolutely has now, thank God. If this turns out to be hotshotting the belt from ZSJ to Cobb I'll be happy, since I think Zack needs to move on from the belt and this was just the best case scenario to get rid of Riddle.SalTheBard posted:4/5. Added the date in my post sorry! Caught your edit when I saw somebody second the original post, but thanks!
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AEW Collision 4/13 HM: House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, & Buddy Matthews) vs. Top Flight (Action Andretti & Dante Martin) & Matt Sydal HM: Lee Moriarty vs. Katsuyori Shibata MOTYC: AZM vs. Toni Storm MOTYC: Don Callis Family (Kyle Fletcher & Will Hobbs) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli)
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Pylons posted:AEW Collision 4/13 I'd say HM for both, thought they were great, the main event was excellent and right on the cusp of MOTYC.
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SG Bamboo posted:Working my way though all the tabs i've built up 2nd this, Takeda & Jack always bring the sicko poo poo together
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AEW Battle of the Belts 4/13 HM: HOOK vs. Shane Taylor HM: Rocky Romero vs. Roderick Strong MOTYC: Red Velvet vs. Athena
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Pylons posted:AEW Collision 4/13 Pylons posted:AEW Battle of the Belts 4/13 mine. a drat loving fine 3 hours of pro wrestling
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Jerusalem posted:HM: Stephanie Vaquer (C) vs. AZM for the NJPW Strong Openweight Women's Title - NJPW Windy City Riot 4/12 caught up, big nth we saw a lot of great wrestling this weekend and shooter/jack was the best imo
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Jerusalem posted:HM: Stephanie Vaquer (C) vs. AZM for the NJPW Strong Openweight Women's Title - NJPW Windy City Riot 4/12 MassRafTer posted:AEW Collision 4/13 Nthing all of these. I watched a lot of wrestling yesterday and it was all very, very good!
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PRESTIGE Wrestling 4/15 HM: Trish Adora vs. Amira HM: Kevin Blackwood vs. Mustafa Ali HM: Akira vs. Minoru Suzuki HM: Miyu Yamashita vs. Kylie Rae HM: C420 (Cody Chhun, Guillermo Rosas, & Sonico) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (David Finlay, Gabe Kidd, & Clark Connors) MOTYC: Daniel Makabe vs. Zack Sabre Junior
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Stardom 12/4/24 Second, plus HM for Utami Hayashishida & Saya Kamitani vs. Maika & Saya Iida
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HM 11th April All Japan New Age Chronicle-Z 4 Dan Tamura, Fuminori Abe & Ryuki Honda vs Hokuto Omori, Kuma Arashi & Shotaro Ashino Watch this here The gimmick with the New Age Chronicle-Z shows is simple: only wrestlers who've been wrestling for less than a decade. Which is an easy thing for All Japan to do as that's more than half of their roster, plus some outsiders. This is a really silly match, I've probably over-rated it a bit but I just deeply enjoyed it, wrestling that makes you chuckle deserves love too! HM 11th April All Japan New Age Chronicle-Z 4 Rising HAYATO vs Yuma Anzai Watch this here Your Junior Champ vs the Triple Crown Champ here. Some might question how this was booked but I honestly thought it makes sense: HAYATO is more experienced than Yuma, by a few years, despite still being mid-20s. Maybe Yuma is a bit over-confident now he's the new champ & he under-estimates HAYATO. Either way, a very good wrestling match between 2 guys I love watching.
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Jerusalem posted:HM: Stephanie Vaquer (C) vs. AZM for the NJPW Strong Openweight Women's Title - NJPW Windy City Riot 4/12 finally got to see the show, nth to all these.
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Pylons posted:PRESTIGE Wrestling 4/15 this was a very good show nth, props to prestige
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AJPW New Age Chronicle-Z 4 - 4/11 WMOTYC: Imabari Towel Mascaras & Yakan Nabe v. Hideki "Shrek" Sekine in a 2-on-1 handicap match I've rated a lot of matches this year and a few I've rated pretty low, but I don't think I've actually nominated any WMOTYCs. I generally don't like being too negative unless it's really warranted. For this match, it's warranted. I tried to think about what aspects of a match would make it actively bad. I think for me, a bad match is one where no one looks good. Botched spots, people in the wrong place at the wrong time, finish gets messed up. And such. I try not to rate matches based on the booking. Like if the person I like doesn't win, I wouldn't give that a lower score or something. I don't think that's totally fair. So what went wrong here? Well, based on this match, Hideki Sekine really shouldn't be wrestling. I don't know a lot about him. He's a big weird lookin' dude. He's fifty, and he had an MMA career prior to getting into pro wrestling a few years ago. The story of the match is that he's big and strong and had a .500 record in MMA and that his opponents are lil twerps. There is something inherently funny about seeing Hideki Sekine lumbering towards Yakan Nabe. But he had a bad, bad match. His selling is to the point where I'm not sure if he's no-selling or just isn't aware that he should be selling. There's a blown spot where Imabari Towel Mascaras is being carried by Sekine and Yakan Nabe is supposed to jump off the top rope and do a splash and take them down, but Sekine doesn't go down. I thought maybe he was supposed to catch them both, but Yakan Nabe goes up again, redoes the spot, and they all go down. The finish also gets messed up. Sekine gets dropkicked in the face, Yakan Nabe twists him up in la magistral, and Towel Mascaras comes over with the jackknife to pick up the win. However, Sekine's shoulder is clearly off the mat, granted, it was the one on the other side of the ref. The ref counts three and Shrek seems legitimately confused. Granted, I'm not sure if this was the planned finish and maybe Shrek forgot or what. Anyways, he's visibly bleeding from the mouth, so injury to insult. The only saving grace was he hit a really sick German suplex at some point. So I think this is what I'm going to think of when I think of a bad match. No one ends up looking good. Not the wrestlers, not the ref, no one. It's embarrassing to watch and made me feel bad.
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CMLL 4/16 HM: Neon vs Rugido Neon is so loving cool and this also has the most satisfying KeMalito appearance of the year.
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HM 24th February AEW Collision Bryan Danielson vs Jun Akiyama Watch this here HM 4th April DEFY Can't Deny It CCK (Chris Brookes & Kid Lykos) vs Moonlight Express (MAO & Mike Bailey) [url=]Watch this here[/url] I think I've now watched more Mania week shows from this year than last now. Because I've watched matches from 2 shows.
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AEW Dynamite 4/17 HM: Brody King and Julia Hart vs. Willow Nightingale & Adam Copeland HM: The Elite (Nicholas & Matthew Jackson & Kazuchika Okada) vs. Red Death Triangle (Daniel Garcia, Penta El Zero Miedo & PAC) MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs. Claudio Castagnoli
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Only half way through the show but quoting pylons
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Nthing these for me
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Missed the first 2/3 of the show so I can only Nth this right now.
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Nth. The mixed tag was basically Cope vs Brody featuring Willow doing some wild poo poo to Brody. And it ruled.
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17
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AEW Dynamite 4/17 HM: The Elite (Nicholas & Matthew Jackson & Kazuchika Okada) vs. Red Death Triangle (Daniel Garcia, Penta El Zero Miedo & PAC) HM: Will Ospreay vs. Claudio Castagnoli
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Big nth!
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Pylons posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 these two, nth
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apophenium posted:So I think this is what I'm going to think of when I think of a bad match. No one ends up looking good. Not the wrestlers, not the ref, no one. It's embarrassing to watch and made me feel bad. Sounds like a pretty reasonable metric to judge these things by 
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MassRafTer posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Nth. Really really good match. I hope they run it back on ppv one day
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MassRafTer posted:AEW Dynamite 4/17 Nth!
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HM 18th April All Japan Champion Carnival Night 1 Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs Rising HAYATO & Seigo Tachibana HM 18th April All Japan Champion Carnival Night 1 Champion Carnival A Block Hokuto Omori vs Shotaro Ashino MOTYC 18th April All Japan Champion Carnival Night 1 Champion Carnival A Block Kento Miyahara vs Ren Ayabe Really coming out performance for Ren Ayabe, really looked good today with new gear & some new stiff strikes. MOTYC 18th April All Japan Champion Carnival Night 1 Champion Carnival B Block Jun Saito vs Yuma Anzai
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ROH on Honor Club 4/18 HM: Lee Johnson vs JD Drake Maybe Lee's most impressive performance yet because while JD Drake is good he's no Fletcher.
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