2024's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)

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Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

KungFu Grip posted:

MOTYC
2nd January 2024
Pro Wrestling NOAH The New Year 2024
Masa Kitamiya vs Tomohiro Ishii

Nth

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 06:06

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 02:15

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

HM: Bryan Keith vs MAO, DDT Sweet Dream Tour Night 4, January 21st.

Two hosed fuckers going super stiff. Loads of good stuff in and out of the ring.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 11:59

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

graph posted:

HM: Jon Moxley vs. Lee Moriarty - AEW Rampage - 1/26

Nth. Match rocked.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2024 08:41

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

NOAH Cross Over 2024 in Sendai 2/4

HM: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf vs. Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris & Anthony Greene)
HM: El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. KENOH

Nth to these, fun lucha nonsense.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2024 10:27

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW The New Beginning February 11th
MOTYC
Zack Sabre Jr vs Bryan Danielson
- It's crazy, you watch Danielson and he's a master grappler but put him against ZSJ and you realise that Zack is on a complete other level, just ungody smooth transitions from the long mover

United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Francesco Akira, TJP, HENARE and Will Ospreay) vs War Dogs (Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney, David Finlay, Alex Coughlin and Clark Connors) - Steel Cage
- An fuckin insane spectacle, if you only tuned in for Zack and Bryan watch this poo poo as well. Drags quite a bit in the last ten minutes but the stuff before that was fantastic

HM
Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Far from their best match but no less emotional, it really hit me after the bell that a rivalry that has been going my entire time watching New Japan is over

Nth. A sentimental match, a perfect wrestling match, and a chaos that could not be contained.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2024 13:43

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW/CMLL Fantasticamania February 18th
MOTYC
Templario vs Soberano Jr
- Match so good it had me checking out how much a Templario mask would set me back, fantastic stuff

HM
Brillante Jr vs Titán
Volador Jr vs Rocky Romero

Best night of the tour

Nth

# ¿ Feb 18, 2024 13:32

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

ROH Honor Club 2/22

HM: Sandra Moone vs. Red Velvet
HM: Billie Starkz vs. Robyn Renegade
HM: Komander vs. AR Fox vs. Matt Sydal vs. Exodus Prime
HM: Athena(c) vs. Nyla Rose, ROH Women's Championship, 2/3 falls tables match

Last match is a borderline MOTYC. Athena is the loving best.

Nth to all of these.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2024 09:39

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Mayu Iwatani (C) vs. Mina Shirakawa for the IWGP Women's Title - NJPW The New Beginning in Sapporo 2/23
Match of the night. The crowd basically had no idea who either of them were and by the end of the match they were fully into everything, and the ending was really, really good.

Nth. Very enjoyable, very scrappy.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2024 12:35

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

AEW Rampage 2/23

HM: Bryan Keith & Komander & Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Private Party (Mark Quen & Isaiah Kassidy) & Matt Sydal vs. Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) & Action Andretti

Nth, this rocked the house.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2024 08:54

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

MassRafTer posted:

AEW Collision 2/24

MOTYC: Will Hobbs vs Sammy Guevara
HM: Jun Akiyama vs Bryan Danielson

Sammy Guevara is the best at video game matches.

nth to both

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 09:24

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

HM: Four Way Tag Team Match: Gringo Loco & Jack Cartwheel vs. The WorkHorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake) vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean) vs. Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) - Ring Of Honor, March 7th.

Just a good fun multidirectional brawl.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 07:39

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW New Japan Cup March 10th
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Jeff Cobb
- BEEEEEEEF, really brough the mood back after the bullshit in the previous match

Nth. This is the kind of poo poo Nooj does better than anyone else.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2024 10:52

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 3/13

HM: Samoa Joe vs. Wardlow
MOTYC: The Elite (Nicholas & Matthew Jackson & Kazuchika Okada) vs. Eddie Kingston, PAC, & Penta El Cero Miedo
HM: Darby Allin vs. Jay White
MOTYC: Willow Nightingale vs. Riho

Nth, enjoyed this show a lot a lot.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2024 09:35

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

DDT Judgement ~ 27th Anniversary ~ March 17th
MOTYC
MAO (c) vs Takeshi Masada - DDT Universal Title
- This match hosed, it was a drat near perfect 5 minute match as far as i'm concerned

KONOSUKE TAKESHITA vs Yuma Aoyagi
- DDT's former ace pulling out all the stops to try to keep down All Japan's future ace

Yuki Ueno (c) vs HARASHIMA - KO-D Openweight Title
- loving insane that Harashima has been around since the attitude era and is still putting on such amazing performances, it's no wonder he was the ace before Takeshita. Ueno is Ueno, he's a supremely talented young man who i'm terrified is going to get fumbled any day now by the company after spending so long as an almost ran. Even after more than 5 hours of DDT this match absolutely ruled, absolutely watch this one as well if you're only tuning in for Takeshita vs Aoyagi

HM
Sanshiro Takagi vs Ken Ohka
- This was way better than I was expecting, such great fire between two guys way past their prime

Shunma Katsumata (c) vs Hideki Okatani - Painful Jungle Death Match for the DDT Extreme Title
- loving gnarly, such tonal whiplash between To-y looking so happy in his little plush hat and Okatani bleeding buckets from a gusset plate to the forehead

Burning (Tetsuya Endo and Yuki Iino) (c) vs New Period (Ryuki Honda and Yuma Anzai) - KO-D Tag Titles
- Heckin rad to see the All Japan boys come to enemy territory, even cooler that the fans were into them

Much like last year's Judgement the first couple of hours are largely skippable but goddamn did it pick up in the second half

Nth to all of these
Super good show.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 11:34

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

ROH Honor Club 3/21

HM: Mercedes Martinez vs. Billie Starkz
HM: Queen Aminata vs. Red Velvet
HM: TJ Crawford vs. Matt Sydal
HM: Mina Shirakawa vs. Anna Jay

Nth. Super solid night of women's wrestling.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 09:19

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

Sendai Girls ~ I'll never forget that day ~ March 17th
HM
VENY and Yura Suzuki vs Mio Momono and Yurika Oka
- https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252783?t=16m18s

Nth, still watching the rest of the show but this was kickass

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 10:12

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

Sendai Girls ~ I'll never forget that day ~ March 17th
HM

Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto and Yuu) vs Nanae Takahashi and ZONES
- https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252783?t=56m02s

Reiwa Ultimate Powers (DASH Chisako and Hiroyo Matsumoto) (c) vs Ryo Mizunami and Manami - Sendai Girls Tag Titles
- https://vk.com/video-4499945_456252783?t=1h21m56s

Neat show, only match I was disappointed by was Iwata vs Kawahata because I expected a lot from those two. Watch it on Wrestle Universe if you have it, to show CyberFight it's not a waste of time putting all these other promotions up

Nth to both of these too. Hyped that Cyber Fight are putting these shows up.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 08:11

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

AEW Dynamite 3/27

MOTYC: Will Ospreay vs. Katsuyori Shibata
HM: Private Party (Isaiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) vs. The Young Bucks (Nicholas & Matthew Jackson)
HM: Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Skye Blue vs. Anna Jay
MOTY: Swerve Strickland vs. Konosuke Takeshita

Nth, what a good wrestling show.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:42

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Pylons posted:

AEW Collision 3/30

HM: Matt Cardona vs. Adam Copeland
HM: The Infantry (Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler)
HM: The BCC (Claudio Castagnoli & Bryan Danielson) & Katsuyori Shibata vs. The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch) & Lance Archer

Nth, enjoyed all of these.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2024 09:28

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Cruddy Fatpoos 😔

Eat more fibre

# ¿ May 2, 2024 09:41

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

MOTYC: Alpha Wolf, Dragon Bane, Hiromu Takahashi, Shunma Katsumata & YAMATO vs El Desperado, HAYATA, Kota Minoura, MAO & Ninja Mack. United Japan Pro Wrestling All Together, 06/05/2024

Will review matches for the rest of the show later, but this match was good enough to justify the byzantine nonsense of finding the show in the first place. Some of the absolute best and absolute maddest Juniors in the world and also HAYATA. This was a four way company spotlight and absolutely wonderful.

# ¿ May 6, 2024 10:14

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 02:15

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

SG Bamboo posted:

UJPW presents All Together May 6th
MOTYC
Yuki Ueno, Shota Umino and Kaito Kiyomiya vs Yuya Uemura, KONOSUKE TAKESHITA and Shun Skywalker
- Exactly what I wanted from an interpromotional mainevent, everyone got a chance to look cool as poo poo (even the most humiliated man alive)

HM
Kenoh vs Kosei Fujita
Jeff Cobb and Masa Kitamiya vs Daisuke Sekimoto and Tomohiro Ishii
SchadenTekkers (Chris Brookes and Zack Sabre Jr) vs Taichi and KAI

Great show, well worth the dick around to get it in the first place

Nth to these. Loads of fun.

# ¿ May 6, 2024 11:54

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