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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jerusalem posted:

MOTY: Lance Archer (C) vs. Jon Moxley for the IWGP United States Championship - Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 1

What an ugly, ugly match. It loving ruled.

:same:

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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MOTY: Hiromu vs Ospreay WK 14

Not a candidate because nobody will top this.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

HM: Tetsuya Naito vs. Jay White, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14, 04/01

Hurt by following up the Match of the Year but still very good

:hai:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Kazuchika Okada (C) vs. Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 1

Absolutely incredible from the entrances to the outfits to the wrestling to the character work to the facial expressions to the ending. Just the absolute best possible wrestling from the best possible wrestlers in the world today.

Yeah, I might have been premature when I said Ospreay/Hiromu would be the match of the night. This was an absolute loving classic.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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The hosed thing is that as good as Okada/Ibushi was, it might not even stay as MOTY for 24 hours.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2

HM: Roppingi 3k vs ELP and Taiji Ishimori
HM: ZSJ vs Sanada
HM: Moxley vs Juice Robinson
MOTYC: KENTA vs Goto
MOTYC: Knife Pervert vs Ibushi
MOTYC: Jericho vs Tanahashi
MOTYC: Okada vs Naito

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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jesus WEP posted:

MOTYC: EVIL and Shingo vs Ishii and Goto, NJPW New Year’s Dash, 6th January
So Much Beef

Yea, this is MOTYC for sure. Definitely one of the best matches in its style that I've seen.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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BTF posted:

Not going to bother with throwing more HMs and MOTYCs to WK matches, so I'm just going to nominate Finnish matches no one will see.

FCF Jatkosota, January 5th
HM: Shemeikka vs Jami Aalto
HM: Stark Adder(c) vs Vili Raato vs Jessica Love - Frank Andersson Nordic Wrestling Championship

Both were short and sweet but packed with action. Aalto/Shemeikka was extremely fun cruiserweight match. The three way barely got any time (six bloody minutes, com on) but filled those minutes with intensity. Love is just murder and I'm hoping she stays around for most of the year,

Wait hold the gently caress on, there's pro graps here in Bog Mongolia?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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extradite THIS! posted:

I've told you about this multiple times dude

Guess I must have been drunk or something when you did 'cause I can't recall that.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Guess I didn't get what you meant, because I've never heard of FCF before. Are they any good?

E: This is getting off-topic though. Is there a thread for talking about obscure euro promotions or something?

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

MOTYC: The Young Bucks vs. Proud n Powerful vs. Best Friends vs. Kenny Omega/Hangman Page, AEW Dynamite, 15/01
HM: Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara, AEW Dynamite, 15/01
HM: PAC vs. Darby Allin, AEW Dynamite, 15/01


As usual the scoopsgal knows what's up. Agree with all these.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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PantherWill posted:

HM: Page/Omega vs. SCU, Dynamite 2/12
MOTYC: Nyla Rose vs. Riho, Dynamite 2/12
HM: MJF vs. Jungle Boy, Dynamite 2/12

Crapple! posted:

Yes to these. Also:

HM: Moxley vs Santana, Dynamite 2/12

Yeah, this is about where I'm at as well. Riho/Nyla was just phenomenal stuff.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jerusalem posted:

AEW Dynamite 2/19

HM: Tag Team Battle Royal
HM: Kriss Statlander vs. Shanna
HM: Jon Moxley vs. Jeff Cobb
HM: Cody vs. WARDLOW in a Steel Cage Match
MOTY: Kenny Omega & Hangman Page (C) vs. The Lucha Bros for the AEW Tag Team Titles

What a loving show.

Yeah, this seems about right.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

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

Darby looked like absolute gold here

nth

It was good poo poo.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

HM: MJF/The Butcher and the Blade vs. Jurassic Express, AEW Dynamite, 11/03
HM: Private Party/Joey Janela vs. TRIÁNGULO DE LA MUERTE, AEW Dynamite, 11/03


nth to these.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Dango Bango posted:

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.

Agree on this.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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MOTYC: Kenny Omega vs. Sammy Guevara, AEW Dynamite, 25/03

The circumstances being what they are, I agree that this was MOTYC-worthy.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jerusalem posted:

The New Japan shows all being canceled (including what would have likely been the greatest New Japan Cup of all time) means that AEW has now equaled New Japan with the most MOTYCs so far this year, the first challenge in years to their rock-solid grip as the top MOTY generating promotion on the planet.

Well, when they come back all they have to do is send out Ishii to rack up them MOTYC:s and they should be safe.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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extradite THIS! posted:

NJC but every single match is Ishii vs someone

This could theoretically lead to an Ishii vs Ishii match, which would kill the entire wrestling business due to everybody realizing that perfection has been achieved and there's no point even trying anymore.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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New Japan has truly perfected the formula of creating fantastic matches by booking a walking fire hydrant as one of the competitors.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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J-Ru rename this thread to "Tomohiro Ishii Appreciation Station", tia.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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I could be mistaken, but I think it's Kenny Omega.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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I'm not really sure where I stand on the Shiozaki/Fujita match, to be honest. On the one hand it was definitely interesting and different, but on the other hand I'm a complete philistine who prefers action in my pro graps.

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

Feels like anything I recommend is going to pale in comparison to that last match but here's a match you could watch twice during that opening staredown for a nice contrast in terms of pacing. It's just as brutal though.

MOTYC - Arisa Nakajima (c) vs. Rina Yamashita for the Beyond the SEA Singles Championship - SEAdLINNNG New Leaf! (3/10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAcjsq--ao

This, on the other hand, unequivocally owned hard. Nthing.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

HM: Kenny Omega vs. Trent, AEW Dynamite, 01/04
MOTYC: Lance Archer vs. Marko Stunt, AEW Dynamite, 01/04
HM: Cody/Darby Allin vs. Sammy Guevara/Shawn Spears, AEW Dynamite, 01/04


Yeah, this is where it's at.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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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.

:yeah:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Animal Crackers posted:

AEW Dynamite 4/8

HM: Hikaru Shida vs Britt Baker
HM: Best Friends vs Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa
HM: Cody vs Shawn Spears

Nth to these.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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HM: Scorpio Sky vs Brandon Cutler vs Peter Avalon BTE Episode 199

A real solid match with some real solid storytelling.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Rarity posted:

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

Better booked than most Royal Rumbles

I'll give this an HM.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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It wasn't even bad, it was just a whole lot of nothing.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

I haven't seen the match but that sounds worse than a straight up bad match tbh

In a way, yeah. Mox did his best but the whole thing just dragged and it was impossible to maintain interest.

Only reason why I'm not giving it a WMOTY is because there technically was nothing egregiously wrong with the match itself.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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MOTYC: Matt Jackson vs Nick Jackson BTE episode 200

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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HM: Cody vs Janela
HM: Mox vs Kaz
MOTYC: Le Sex Gods vs Matt Hardy & Kenny


From AEW Dynamite 06.05.2020. Really good show this week.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Punch McLightning posted:

fuckin' a

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

Nth, it was real good.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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MOTYC: Casino Ladder Match
MOTYC: MJF vs. Jungle Boy
MOTYC: Shida vs. Nyla Rose
MOTYC: Moxley vs. Brodie Lee
MOTYC: Stadium Stampede Match


All from AEW DoN 2020. loving fantastic show top to bottom.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Crapple! posted:

HM: Omega and Page vs Havoc and Sabian, Dynamite June 3

HM: Cody vs Jungle Boy, Dynamite June 3

Agreed, these were some good poo poo.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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HM: Yota Tsuji vs. Gabriel Kidd
HM: Tomohiro Ishii & Yuya Uemura vs. El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
HM: Tanahashi, Ibushi, Nagata & Makabe vs. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI - NJPW Together Project 6/15
HM: Kazuchika Okada/Roppongi 3K vs. Tetsuya Naito/Shingo Takagi/Hiromu Takahashi


All from NJPW Together Project, 15/06. It's goddamn back baby.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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HM: Hiromu Takahashi vs Tomoaki Honma - New Japan Cup Night 1 6/16

Haven't seen the main event yet so I'll definitely be back, but I'm actually gonna buck the trend by giving a HM nom to Hiromu/Honma for one reason and one reason alone: It was an absolute masterclass in how to carry some barely mobile old lunk to a perfectly decent match and worth watching for that reason alone.

E:

Jerusalem posted:

HM: Tomohiro Ishii vs. El Desperado - New Japan Cup Night 1 6/16

Just so loving good, and all the false finishes had me biting on each one no matter who was doing the pinning.

To the absolute surprise of nobody I fully agree with this.

Cerebral Bore fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jun 16, 2020

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Chris James 2 posted:

Kota/Naito for the IC title June 9 2019, aka the "you don't hate your neck as much as I hate my neck" challenge

Then again that one also got a MOTYC. I don't think Yano/Jado had any such redeeming qualities.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Jerusalem posted:

MOTYC: Yuji Nagata vs. Minoru Suzuki - NJPW New Japan Cup Night 2 6/17

Two old men beat the utter poo poo out of each other and it absolutely loving ruled from start to finish. God I wish this had been in front of a crowd but even in an empty arena it was just so loving great.

Holy poo poo yes.

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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And all they had to do is have two old men murder each other.

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