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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Hammer House: Stinger Splash Zone > 2024's Best and Worst Pro-Wrestling Matches of the Year (plus Recommended)
 
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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Zack Sabre Jr.(c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the New Japan Television Title - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
Best match that Tanahashi has had in ages, and not just because human socialist octopus Zack Sabre Jr. is incredible (which he is) - the 15 minute time limit really works to both their advantage in terms of pacing.

HM: Shingo Takagi (C) vs. Tama Tonga for the Never Openweight Title - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
I knew the match would be good but also felt like I'd already seen all they had to offer in a match against each other. But the setting made all the difference, crowd was hot and both guys were giving it their all. Right on the edge of MOTYC for me.

MOTYC: Hiromu Takahashi (C) vs. El Desperado for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
It's two of the best Junior Heavyweight wrestlers in the world fighting for the title at Wrestle Kingdom, and it absolutely lives up to the hype.

HM: Will Ospreay (C) vs. Jon Moxley vs. David Finlay for the IWGP Global Championship - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
This was kind of incredible in the sense that they did absolutely everything they could to ruin this match on multiple occasions and somehow it kept being fantastic regardless until the end result was the least interesting person in the match and in his own faction winning the title.

MOTYC: Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
Two of the best to ever do it, doing it at the highest level. An absolutely incredible experience.

motyc: SANADA (C) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 1/4
It suffered from having to follow Danielson/Okada, and I know that some people were feeling less than enthusiastic about this as a main event, but I dig both guys and I like the storyline of former stablemates who had a mostly amicable parting but now are competing for the top spot in the company. Match built really well and had a fantastic finish, helped by a very, very, very hot crowd.

I'll also add

Hm: yuya uemura v yota tsuji from the same show. Also upgrading mainevent to motyc

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Jerusalem posted:

HM: El Desperado (C) vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title - NJPW Road to the New Beginning 1/23

Desperado rules, even the House of Torture stuff didn't pull the match down too much, and there is so much history between Despy and Uncle Nobu to really add to the intensity of the match.

Nth

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Chinston Wurchill posted:

Stardom January 20rh

HM: Syuri, MIRAI, & Ami Sourei vs. Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki, & Hanan

Nth

Excellent match tbh. Type of thing had I been watching live I might go motyc on

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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forkboy84 posted:



MOTYC
24th January
NJPW Road To New Beginning Night 3
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Titles
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii) & Hiroshi Tanahashi(c) vs TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste)
Watch this here

A very emotional farewell to Okada from Korakuen. I still think CHAOS should have dropped the belts but having watched it I understand more why they went for the feeling good ending. and they really did Fujita a lot of good in defeat, this was his match.

MOTYC
24th January
NJPW Road To New Beginning Night 3
Ren Narita vs Shota Umino
Watch this here

That table spot was pretty nutty. Bless these lads. A match with some usual HoT garbage & it still gets MOTYC nod is high praise.



Nth

Also HM stardom 21/1/2024 13th anniversary original members match

Hanan, mayu iwatani, utami hayashishita, saya kamitani v AZM, starlight kid, hazuki and Saki Kashima

Just a nice match to celebrate stardoms anniversary

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Road to the New Beginning February 4th
MOTYC
HENARE vs Gabe Kidd
- If Gedo doesn't have big plans cooking for Gabe then I don't know what the gently caress, what a war

HM
David Finlay vs Callum Newman
- A hell of a squash

Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira and TJP) (c) vs War Dogs (Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors) - IWGP Jr Tag Titles
- A very good wrestling match in front of a hot crowd that was let down by being a small part of a much larger puzzle

Nth

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

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

I had to sleep on the ME to see how I would vote on it lol. It was an indulgent violent spectacle that almost fell to bits at various points but it really was just nothing like I expected

Nth to all three

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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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

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: Dark Panther vs. OKUMURA - NJPW/CMLL Fantasticamania 2/19
HM: Atlantis Jr. vs. Hechicero - NJPW/CMLL Fantasticamania 2/19
HM: Mistico vs. Último Guerrero - NJPW/CMLL Fantasticamania 2/19
HM: Máscara Dorada vs. Stuka Jr. - NJPW/CMLL Fantasticamania 2/19

drat good final night, my match of the night was probably Atlantis Jr. vs. Hechicero but every match was a blast, including the fun multimans.

Nth those

But I'll bump mascara Dorado v stuka jnr to a motyc. I'm a sucker for that sort of story

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Chinston Wurchill posted:

Stardom February 17

HM: Hanan & Saya Iida vs. Mai Sakurai & Chanyota

This was action-packed and hard-hitting and the crowd was super hot. Over-delivered like crazy!

Nth very close to a motyc

There is a spot in the match where it just goes crazy

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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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.

It was a really good match

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW New Beginning in Sapporo February 24th
MOTYC
Hiromu Takahashi vs DOUKI
- Sicko poo poo with crowd favourite Douki going up against the most popular junior in the world

Shingo Takagi vs Taichi
- Shingo and Taichi do the Shingo and Taichi match, but this time in front of Taichi's hometown crowd. It ruled

HM
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii) vs United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Great O-Khan, Callum Newman and Francesco Akira) and Matt Riddle
- Literally every part of the match that didn't involve Riddle I greatly enjoyed, not the match I would have chosen for Okada's last but very happy with the match we got

Tetsuya Naito (c) vs SANADA - IWGP World Heabyweight Title
- Some great parts and the crowd were well behind Naito, something just felt really off about the last five minutes or so with a couple of incredibly deflating botches

Solid show, only down parts were the HoT match and being personally disappointed by the Hair vs Hair match


I'll go Nth

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Stardom Cinderella tournament night 1 9/3/2024

HM : Hanan v Hanako

Motyc : Saori anou/natsupoi v sareee/chiriro hashimoto

I have some motyc from today's show but I'll give it a few days because it spoils the winners of night 1. Needless to say stardom cooking

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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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 njpw at its best

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: SANADA vs. YOSHI-HASHI - New Japan Cup 3/11
Letting out an anguished scream at the horror of existence in support of my boy, YOSHI-HASHI :shobon:

Nth

Stardom Cinderella round 2 10/3/24

Motyc: Suzu Suzuki v starlight kid .

Motyc : Hanan v Mirai - legitimately this is the best Cinderella match I've ever seen. Absolute war between those two

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Jerusalem posted:

HM: Hirooki Goto vs. Yota Tsuji in the New Japan Cup Final - New Japan Cup 3/20

An excellent ending to a very good match, helped by the fact that I was desperately pleading for both guys to somehow win and apparently so was the crowd!

Motyc for me but nth

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Stardom Kyoto 24/3/24

HM: wing gori v hanako/waka

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Chinston Wurchill posted:

Stardom Cinderella Finals March 20

MOTY: Maika vs. Utami Hayashishida
HM: Hanan vs. Ami Sourei

Finally got a chance to watch this with fresh eyes because I watched it basically back to back with the nj cup

Nth to both these

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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New japan road to sakura genesis 3/4

HM : ishii/kushida/knight v newman/tjp/akira

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Stardom 12/4/24

Motyc : giulia/syuri v hanan/mayu iwatani

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Chinston Wurchill posted:

Stardom April 19

HM: Tam Nakano & Natsupoi vs. Hanan & Saya Iida

Great tag team main event!

I'll Nth that

Wing gori are great

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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SG Bamboo posted:

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku April 22nd
HM
Just 5 Guys (Taichi, SANADA, DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku and Yuya Uemura) vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, TJP, Jeff Cobb and Great O-Khan) - Gauntlet Match

NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku April 23rd
MOTYC
Yota Tsuji vs Gedo
- Perfection, this is one of those matches that'll stay with you

HM
Tetsuya Naito vs Drilla Moloney
David Finlay vs Hiromu Takahashi

Nth to these

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Stardom ASGQ 27/4/24

MOTYC: Mayu Iwatani v Sareee. This one is an easy nomination. They literally beat the poo poo out of each other. Pretty much the perfect way of doing a "dream match" where it did suffer from a lack of build but the wrestlers are just so insanely awesome that they could drag all the heat into the match.

MOTYC: Saori Anou v Hanan. This had every right to struggle. Saori at times leaves me very cold when she is on top and she can pace matches in a way that drags. Hanan is a 19 year old in her biggest ever match. They had to follow Iwatani v Sareee but they smashed it out the park. It was actually my motn. I think my investment in Hanan through the Cinderella and up to this match probably plays a role in my fondness for this match but they delivered big time.

HM: Maika v Momo Watanabe: This was a really good match but it was let down by the second fall I thought making it fall just a bit short of the other big title matches. I was also really invested in Momo through the first half of the year. Maika continues being a strong champion.

HM: Crazy Star v FWC v 02 line v SLK/Ruaka : A crazy high speed tag team match. Its probably the easiest recommendation because its just bonkers.

HM: Meltear v Aja Kong/Kaoru Ito: I am probably judging this match on some sort of crazy sliding scale in my mind but this was an otherworldly good performance by meltear. Tam Nakano has returned in good form

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Burn Down Canberra
Oct 27, 2005

GAME PLANS? We don't need no stinking game plans.

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Stardom 5/5/24

Hm : maika/xena/mina Shirakawa vs mayu iwatani/Hanan/saya iida

Motyc : crazy star v fwc

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