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Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

frankenfreak posted:

HM: Moxley vs Archer, Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 1/4
MOTYC: Ospreay vs Hiromu, Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 1/4
MOTYC: Okada vs Ibushi, Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 1/4

Backing these and agreeing that I thought Ospreay/Takahashi would be MOTN and Okada/Ibushi actually blew. it. away. :aaaaa:

Okada is maybe the best in-ring storyteller ever.

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Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

frankenfreak posted:

Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2 1/5:
HM: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. SANADA
HM: Jay White vs. Kota Ibushi
HM: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho
MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito

Going with all of these.

Punch McLightning posted:

I'm still holding off on watching WK Day 2 because of the technical issues earlier and not wanting to get invested right before I should go to bed.

The issues have been fixed.

e:
I forgot about

Schneider Heim posted:

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Day 2
HM: Jyushin Thunder Liger & Naoki Sano vs Hiromu Takahashi & Ryu Lee

Dango Bango fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 6, 2020

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

Screw you guys I'm going MOTYC

MOTYC: EVIL/Shingo vs. Ishii/Goto, NJPW New Year's Dash, 06/01

loving ridiculous amount of BEEF

OH MY GOD NTH

I have never screamed at a match like that. The four-way lariat spot :aaaaa:

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

WMOTY: Riho (C) vs. Kris Statlander for the AEW Women's Championship - AEW Dynamite 1/8

A terrible clusterfuck of bad booking. Neither Riho nor Kris are to blame for this dreadful poo poo, they deserved so much better.

Have to nth this one since I was adamantly posting WMOTYC nominations for WWE in late 2019.

Only time I've ever considered turning off Dynamite since it started.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

DarkstarIV posted:

MOTYC: Imperium vs TUE, World's Collide 1/25/20

WALTER rules, his chops rule. Match ruled. Right ending as well.

Nth. A lot of fun.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

mfcrocker posted:

WMOTYC: Roman Reigns vs. Baron Corbin, WWE Royal Rumble - 1/26
WMOTYC: Women's Royal Rumble, WWE Royal Rumble - 1/26

Looking forward to going back to not watching this company for another year

Nth to both of these. I'm with the WMOTYC nod for the women's Rumble because I was having fun watching the show until Santina came out then CHARLOTTE FLAIR GOES OVER AGAIN just made me want to turn the whole PPV off.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

KungFu Grip posted:

WMOTYC Men's Royal Rumble WWE Royal Rumble, 26 January

its not over yet but still gently caress it

Agreed, but I'll at least give them credit that they got the death slog out of the way early versus Big Show and Kane eliminating all the fan favorites at the end.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

blast0rama posted:

MOTYC: The Butcher & The Blade and Lucha Bros (Pentagon & Fenix) vs. Kenny Omega, Hangman Page and the Young Bucks - AEW Dynamite, February 5, 2020.

2nd. COWBOY poo poo

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Ryu Lee, NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka, 2/9

Just HM on this one for me. I was too nervous to really get into it I think.

MOTYC: Jon Moxley vs. Minoru Suzuki, NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka, 2/9

Holy. poo poo. These guys are crazy and Suzuki's elbows are nasty

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Riho (C) vs. Nyla Rose for the AEW Women's Championship - AEW Dynamite 2/12

Absolutely incredible match, even with the stream going down for several minutes in the middle I was still absolutely floored by how good this was.

Nth. This match is legit just beneath Okada/Ibushi for me as best of the year so far.

I'll add an HM for MJF vs. Jungle Boy - AEW Dynamite 2/12 as well. Showcased both guys well and Jungle Boy is over.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Keith Lee (C) vs. Dominik Dijakovic for the NXT North American Championship - NXT Takeover Portland 2/16

Big boys doin thangs. :hellyeah:

Solid HM. Nth.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

blast0rama posted:

MOTYC: NXT Tag Title Match: The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) vs. The Brosierweights (Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne) - NXT TakeOver: Portland, Feb 16, 2020.

I'll go HM on this one.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Shanna, AEW Dynamite 2/19

Two great women's matches in a row for AEW

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

MOTYC: Kenny Omega & Hangman Page vs. Lucha Bros, AEW Dynamite 2/19

My thoughts on this match: :aaaaa:

Seriously though, this passed Okada/Ibushi as MOTY for me. And it was on free TV

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

NienNunb posted:

HM: Cody/ Wardlow, Steel Cage match, Dynamite, 2/19

I'll agree although not having enough time really, really hurt this match

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Shingo Takagi (C) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the Never Openweight Championship - New Japan Road 2/20

I know you're going to be shocked but turns out these two have REALLY loving GREAT CHEMISTRY!

Nth. NXT guys - watch this match before you try your "no selling" again and take note of how Ishii does it.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Chris James 2 posted:

MOTYC: PAC vs Kenny Omega, half-hour ironman match, AEW Dynamite 2/26

Yep. Sudden death pushed this past Okada/Ibushi as my MOTY thus far.

What. A. loving. Match.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Inner Circle vs. Jurassic Express - AEW Dynamite 2/26

That match had every reason to die with the crowd after that monstrous iron man match yet they pulled the crowd in the whole way and had a lot of really cool spots.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

Looked these matches up online to see if they were as bad as they sounded on paper. They weren't. They were worse.

WMOTYC: Brock Lesnar (C) vs. Ricochet for the WWE Championship - WWE Blood Money Show in Saudi Arabia.
WMOTYC: The Fiend Bray Wyatt (C) vs. Bill Goldberg for the Universal Championship - WWE Blood Money Show in Saudi Arabia.

These were both dogshit but if I had to pick the worst it would be Brock vs. Ricochet. That was pathetic.

Ho-lee poo poo you weren't kidding. I thought there would be more to them than the gifs I saw, but nope. Trash all around.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Finally got through Revolution:

HM: Sammy Guevara vs. Darby Allin, AEW Revolution, 2/29
MOTYC: Kenny Omega/Hangman Page vs. The Young Bucks, AEW Revolution, 2/29
WMOTYC: Cody vs. MJF, AEW Revolution, 2/29
MOTYC: PAC vs. Orange Cassidy, AEW Revolution, 2/29


And in four days' time my personal MOTY has been topped. I watched through the tag match and had come back to the PPV later. That whole time I was thinking about how awesome the kick out at one after the Golden Trigger and HANGMAN DOES THE OWA :supaburn: were. This match is so good I'm literally going right back to it after watching the rest of the PPV.

Going WMOTYC for Cody/MJF because almost everything about that match kept me from getting into it. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't treat this one similarly to Miz/Fiend (although, lol) since they were both blood feuds where the face didn't come out like a house on fire to beat the poo poo out of the heel.

And then Pac/OC :allears: I was watching this alone in my house and yelling at the TV during OC's comebacks. I legit want him to get a title push someday (soon?).

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

HM: Darby Allin vs. Chris Jericho/Sammy Guevara, AEW Dynamite, 04/03

Darby looked like absolute gold here

Nth to this one. Darby's selling was great (heat segments that actually worked holy poo poo!) And the finish was incredibly innovative despite commentary not realizing what happened at first.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Riho vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Penelope Ford - AEW Dynamite 3/18

They busted their asses for this one. Still think it's worth an HM despite the botch.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

Ok I'm not watching 30 mins of 2 dudes staring at each other. How the hell is that not boring?

Cerebral Bore posted:

I'm not really sure where I stand on the Shiozaki/Fujita match, to be honest.

Both of these points for me. I thought the staredown was kind of funny but also skipped to the actual start. Didn't think the match itself was that remarkable and had way too many shots to the head. Especially the repeated kicks. No thanks.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Trent vs. Kenny Omega - AEW Dynamite 4/1

Trent is really good in singles matches y'all

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

MOTYC: Lance Archer vs. Marko Stunt, AEW Dynamite 4/1

I'm not kidding with this nomination.

:stare:

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

WMOTYC: Goldberg vs. Braun Strowman - WWE Wrestlemania 4/4

lol

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

That said, now it's over...

MOTYC: AJ Styles vs. The Undertaker in a Boneyard Match - WWE Wrestlemania 36

Exactly the kind of stupid, over-the-top nonsense I love, and shot in a distinct and fun way that made it stand out from everything else on the show. This saved an awful Wrestlemania.

Nth. A fever dream in the best way.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Quantum of Phallus posted:

WMOTYC: Rhea Ripley vs Charlotte Flair, WWE Wrestlemania Night 2, 4/5

NXT is buried. Awful spears. Way too long. Endless screaming. Horrible

Jerusalem posted:

Reminder that I don't count any nomination made before a match ended (I count ShallNoiseUpon's, it was basically posted the same time as this post).

WMOTYC: Edge vs. Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing Match at Wrestlemania 36 Night 2

This match loving SUCCCCCCCKED. I'm not gonna write why because gently caress even spending another second of effort on it.

Nth-ing these.

WMOTYC: Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre, WWE Wrestlemania Night 2, 4/5

Zero psychology and nothing but finishers in a poo poo match.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

karmicknight posted:

HM: Team High Risk vs. The Young Bucks, Being the Elite April 06, 2020.

A match I found super fun with some actually cool offense from the jobber team (with that being part of the story), it might have just been the AEW California peeps showcasing their creativity while unable to get to the Dynamite taping site.

I'll nth this as well since it was a lot of fun. I laughed at the one balding jobber with tassels on his pants but then he did a one-footed springboard flip dive. And it was a :siren: Young Bucks match with psychology :siren:.

Good stuff all around.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

HM: Hikaru Shida vs. Britt Baker, AEW Dynamite, 08/04
HM: Best Friends vs. Kenny Omega/Michael Naka-Naka-NAKAzawa, AEW Dynamite, 08/04


Would love to go MOTYC for Shida/Britt cause the spots were great and it flowed really well but Britt's still a bit too rough around the edges for that. She's on her way though, definitely her best match in AEW to date.

Nth to both of these. Hikaru Shida is the Bret Hart of the AEW women's division.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

HM: The Under the Limit Battle Royale, BTE Episode 199 Part 2, 14/04

Better booked than most Royal Rumbles

Also Nth-ing the HM nomination. I laughed at so much during this match but absolutely lost it at Nick "not on my court" Jackson

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Yaya posted:

WMOTY: Jon Moxley vs Jake Hager, AEW Dynamite 4/15

Yup. If this was a WWE match I'd absolutely be making GBS threads on it so it's only fair.

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

NienNunb posted:

HM: Best Friends vs Havoc/Sabien, 4/29 AEW

gently caress yea fuuuuuuuuck yea

Hell yeah

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

MOTYC: Marko Stunt vs. Brodie Lee, AEW Dynamite 4/29

I loving LOVE THESE SQUASH MATCHES

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

NienNunb posted:

MOTYC: Omega/Hardy vs Le Sex Gods, AEW 5/6

Nth. I don't know if I've ever laughed this hard at a match

e: Also, FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

Dango Bango fucked around with this message at 03:05 on May 7, 2020

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

WMOTYC: Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt - WWE Money in the Bank 5/10

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

HM: Kris Statlander vs. Hikaru Shida vs. Britt Baker vs. Penelope Ford - AEW Dynamite 5/13

Really fun match that had a furious pace.

Dango Bango fucked around with this message at 01:49 on May 14, 2020

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Punch McLightning posted:

HM: Orange Cassidy vs. Fenix, Dynamite 5/20

Yeah it was a lot of fun. Nth

Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Rarity posted:

MOTYC: Casino Ladder Match, AEW Double or Nothing, 23/05

:stare:

All of the OC stuff bumped this up to MOTYC for me. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard during a match

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Dango Bango
Jul 26, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Jungle Boy Jack Perry vs. MJF - AEW Double or Nothing 2020 5/23

These two are so young and SO talented it's insane. They exhibit control and poise and timing so far beyond their years, what a match.

Absolutely amazing. Nth.

e: Actually I'm changing mine to MOTYC. It was that good.

Dango Bango fucked around with this message at 02:11 on May 24, 2020

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