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Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

AEW Dark 5/18

HM: Fuego Del Sol vs. Lee Johnson
HM: Serpentico vs. Sonny Kiss

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The Taxman
Jan 2, 2007

greetings sweeties, let me give you a back massage. for i am a whiz!


Pylons posted:

AEW Dark 5/18

HM: Fuego Del Sol vs. Lee Johnson


I'll nth this one

Also

TJPW ~The Bullet~

HM Endo Arisu vs Yuka Sakazaki

Maybe I'm just a just a huge Endo mark, but this match had a lot of cool moments for a rookie, and Yuka took it very seriously.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Pylons posted:

AEW Dark 5/18

HM: Fuego Del Sol vs. Lee Johnson

nth

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
HM: Lee Johnson vs Fuego del Sol
HM: Sonny Kiss vs Serpentico
HM: Kris Statlander vs Diamanté


All from AEW Dark 18.05

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

forkboy84 posted:

HM
14th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 1
King of Gate C Block
Shun Skywalker vs YAMATO

Cracker of a match between 2 fantastic wrestlers

And this

Nth

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer
HM: Christian Cage vs. Matt Sydal, Dynamite 5/19

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

The Berzerker
Feb 24, 2006

treat me like a dog


Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

a big nth from me. Loved it

Pinwiz11
Jan 26, 2009

I'm becom-, I'm becom-,
I'm becoming
Tana in, Tana in my mind.



Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

Nth

Punch McLightning
Sep 19, 2005

you know what that means




Grimey Drawer
HM: Varsity Blonds vs. Young Bucks, Dynamite

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: Christian Cage vs. Matt Sydal, Dynamite 5/19

Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: Varsity Blonds vs. Young Bucks, Dynamite

Seconded on all of these

Jordan7hm
Feb 17, 2011




Lipstick Apathy

Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

HM for me on this one. Almost but not quite there. Best match of the night though.

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: Varsity Blonds vs. Young Bucks, Dynamite

Also this.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

Easy nth, this was great.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
5/19 Dynamite

HMs for
Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD

MassRafTer posted:

5/19 Dynamite

HMs for
Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds

agreed

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
I'll go HM for Deeb/Velvet. No blowaway matches tonight but everything was good.

J-Ro
Jul 26, 2005

Child Of The Revolution

MassRafTer posted:

5/19 Dynamite

HMs for
Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet

Nth to that.

That's J-PW #12, WrestleUniverse 05/19/21
HM:
Maki Itoh vs Mahiro Kiryu

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
HM: Varsity Blonds vs. Young Bucks, Dynamite 5/19
HM: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet, Dynamite 5/19

Metroid Fitzgerald
Feb 13, 2012

B O O O O B S . . . !


HM: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet, Dynamite 5/19

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
HM: The Acclaimed vs. Jon Moxley/Eddie Kingston, AEW Dynamite, 20/05
HM: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet, AEW Dynamite, 20/05
HM: The Young Bucks vs. The Varsity Blonds, AEW Dynamite, 20/05

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Dango Bango posted:

MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet - AEW Dynamite 5/19

Quite simply, this match ruled. Unbelievable intensity through the whole match.

yeah, nth. Velvet fought from underneath and Deeb was supremely vicious.

J-Ro posted:

Nth to that.

That's J-PW #12, WrestleUniverse 05/19/21
HM:
Maki Itoh vs Mahiro Kiryu

Nth. Hard hitting and well performed

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
HM: Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
HM: Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds


All from AEW Dynamite 19.05.

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

Pylons posted:

AEW Dark 5/18

HM: Fuego Del Sol vs. Lee Johnson
HM: Serpentico vs. Sonny Kiss

Nth

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

HM: Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
HM: Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley vs The Acclaimed
MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
HM: Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds

From AEW Dynamite 5/19/21.

People have already covered the greatness of 3 of these matches, but I also REALLY liked Eddie and Mox taking on the Acclaimed. It's not a match of the year or anything, but it was fun and Eddie and Mox's chemistry is amazing. Eddie perfectly plays the weird friend who keeps saying he'd murder someone if you need them to, it's great.

Akileese
Feb 6, 2005

Rarity posted:

HM: The Acclaimed vs. Jon Moxley/Eddie Kingston, AEW Dynamite, 20/05
HM: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet, AEW Dynamite, 20/05
HM: The Young Bucks vs. The Varsity Blonds, AEW Dynamite, 20/05


nth

Kosmo Gallion
Sep 13, 2013
HM: Tyler Bate v A-Kid NXT UK May 20 2021

I don't like A-Kid and I don't like these Heritage Cup matches but this was really great.

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

A Fancy Hat posted:

HM: Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
HM: Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley vs The Acclaimed
MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
HM: Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds

From AEW Dynamite 5/19/21.

People have already covered the greatness of 3 of these matches, but I also REALLY liked Eddie and Mox taking on the Acclaimed. It's not a match of the year or anything, but it was fun and Eddie and Mox's chemistry is amazing. Eddie perfectly plays the weird friend who keeps saying he'd murder someone if you need them to, it's great.

Nth, and just a fun vibe to the whole show. It really flew by

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

A Fancy Hat posted:

HM: Christian Cage vs Matt Sydal
HM: Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley vs The Acclaimed
MOTYC: Serena Deeb vs Red Velvet
HM: Young Bucks vs Varsity Blonds

From AEW Dynamite 5/19/21.

People have already covered the greatness of 3 of these matches, but I also REALLY liked Eddie and Mox taking on the Acclaimed. It's not a match of the year or anything, but it was fun and Eddie and Mox's chemistry is amazing. Eddie perfectly plays the weird friend who keeps saying he'd murder someone if you need them to, it's great.

Nth all these.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

graph posted:

HM: Varsity Blonds vs. Young Bucks, Dynamite 5/19
HM: Serena Deeb vs. Red Velvet, Dynamite 5/19

nth, good stuff


e: actually motyc for the bucks/blonds
loved it

Quantum of Phallus fucked around with this message at 07:54 on May 21, 2021

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

AJPW Champion's Night Shinkiba EXTRA May 21st
HM
Total Eclipse (Koji Doi and Kuma Arashi) vs Shotaro Ashino and Ryuki Honda
- Simply cannot go wrong with a bunch of beefy boys hitting each other hard and throwing each other about. I continue to be impressed by Ryuki Honda, and Doi/Kuma is my favourite Total Eclipse pairing
Total Eclipse (Hokuto Omori, Jake Lee, and TAJIRI) vs Evolution (Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura, and Suwama)
- Got me hyped up for Lee/Suwama, with the added bonus of seeing Sato throw some real sweet kicks at Omori. Also Tajiri was there, hanging out in the main event, as is his wont

That ancient ref needs to go however, he's so drat slow on the counts. Give me more Nikkan Lee

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Haven't seen the match, but let me guess, the 'ancient ref' you're on about is Kyohei Wada? Yeah, the main reason he's around is so the crowd can shout KYO-HEI after his name is announced, but they haven't even been able to do that for the past year lmao

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


HM
16th May
Dragon Gate King of Gate Night 3
Kaito Ishida vs Shun Skywalker

This isn't on the level of their Dream Gate match but it's a real good contest.

HM
16th May
Dragon Gate King of Gate Night 3
Dragon Kid vs Eita

Match of the night for me.

Dragon Kid vs Eita

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 22, 2021

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

MOTY
21 May
Paradigm Pro Wrestling: Terminal Combat
Reed Bentley vs John Wayne Murdoch

Sticky Nate
Jan 9, 2012

coconono posted:

MOTY
21 May
Paradigm Pro Wrestling: Terminal Combat
Reed Bentley vs John Wayne Murdoch

2nd

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

forkboy84 posted:

HM
14th May
Dragongate King of Gate Night 1
King of Gate B Block
Kzy vs Susumu Yokosuka

Two of my faves in DG, stablemates, and they had a banger. Susumu has a real nice lariat for a smaller dude. Loves the finishing stretch

Give it a watch

Nth holy poo poo what a match

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

NOAH All Out Attack May 22nd
HM
Kaito Kiyomiya vs NOSAWA Rongai
- Never thought i'd be nominating a Nosawa singles match but loving hell. SO MUCH BLOOD FOR THIS NOTHING MATCH, what are you doing you goddamn idiot. Still the most compelling match Nosawa has had for a long time

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

SG Bamboo posted:

NOAH All Out Attack May 22nd
HM
Kaito Kiyomiya vs NOSAWA Rongai
- Never thought i'd be nominating a Nosawa singles match but loving hell. SO MUCH BLOOD FOR THIS NOTHING MATCH, what are you doing you goddamn idiot. Still the most compelling match Nosawa has had for a long time

nth. I was just thinking about what a nothingburger Kaito Kiyomiya has been for me and this match really turned my opinion on him. Kaito should do more blood. Once he got to playing in the blood, I saw something of Misawa's violent legacy that's normally seen in Kenoh's matches. A dude in his happy spot, doing violence, the thing that makes him happy. Post-match emotion was great too.

NOSAWA has been the sneakiest guy in wrestling forever because every dude he touches gets over like a motherfucker. And you never acknowledge it was NOSAWA. But yeah, great singles outing on a card that's meant to sell a bigger card down the road.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

coconono posted:

MOTY
21 May
Paradigm Pro Wrestling: Terminal Combat
Reed Bentley vs John Wayne Murdoch

Wanted to stump for this one a little because its great pro wrestling. So the Terminal Combat gimmick is UWFi's rather arcane rules for 5 minutes then hardcore ko/sub until a finish. So the expectation is set how this match is supposed to go, since both guys are deathmatch wrestlers. What you get is two guys who are completely baffled by the rules and one almost losing to points. Props to the IWTV production crew for catching the snippets of banter between the competitors as they tried to work through the UWFi rules. Also the post match promo neatly tying everything together. Reed and JWM are def the aces of IWTV's collective scene and they're pretty relatable to a lot of midwesterners.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

SG Bamboo posted:

NOAH All Out Attack May 22nd
HM
Kaito Kiyomiya vs NOSAWA Rongai
- Never thought i'd be nominating a Nosawa singles match but loving hell. SO MUCH BLOOD FOR THIS NOTHING MATCH, what are you doing you goddamn idiot. Still the most compelling match Nosawa has had for a long time

Nth. Haven't been super impressed by Kaito in the short time I've been watching NOAH but this was great.

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Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

HM: HUB, Shisao & Eisa8 vs. Shota, FUMA & Mil Mongoose - Hana Kimura Memorial Show 5/23

This was really fun, and featured guys I've basically never seen before who all really impressed in-ring. There was a really nice diversity in size that changed up how and what they could (or should) do to each other and overall it just came together in a great package: really, really great as an opener to the show.

Edit:

HM: The All-Star Battle Royal - Hana Kimura Memorial Show 5/23

This was completely over the top and ludicrous and stupid and I loved every second of it, and it had the perfect winner. So many incredible wrestlers in this, so many fantastic little stories and interactions.

MOTYC: Kagetsu, Hazuki, Konami, & Death Yama-san vs. ASUKA, Syuri, Natsupoi, & Mio Momono - Hana Kimura Memorial Show 5/23

The emotional background and the circumstances that lead to the match even happening at all lifts this up just that little bit higher than an HM, but the wrestling was also drat good and holy poo poo Kagetsu hasn't lost a step since she her retirement. So many cool spots/moments it does make it feel like this could be the start of further rivalries or developments, and while that probably won't happen given the unique circumstances, it's a match well worth going out of your way to see.

Don't read below unless you want to be spoiled!

MOTYC: Kagetsu vs. ASUKA in an impromptu Main Event - Hana Kimura Memorial Show 5/23

Out of nowhere ASUKA challenged Kagetsu to a singles match, the retired Kagetsu accepted, they asked Hana's mother for permission and for the approval of the Korakuen crowd, got both, and then proceeded to have a fantastic match that absolutely nobody was expecting or could have dreamed of. Amazing stuff.

Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 05:29 on May 23, 2021

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