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#2,826 ·
Oh, this could be fun. My top 10.

1. Cena vs Punk WWE MITB *****
2. Steen vs Generico PWG Steen Wolf *****
3. Steen & Tozawa vs Generico & Ricochet PWG ASWN2 ****3/4
4. Orton vs Christian WWE OTL ****1/2
5. Richards vs Edwards ROH BITW ****1/2
6. Tanahashi vs Nagata NJPW Alive ****1/2
7. Tanahashi vs Nagata NJPW ND ****1/2
8. Generico vs Claudio PWG Kurt Russel ****1/2
9. Generico vs Steen PWG BOLA ****1/2
10. Generico vs Claudio PWG BOLA ****1/4
 
#2,856 · (Edited)
^Phenomenal match up. Kingston's post match promo was GOLD.

Some more mentions atm. Two might not make my top ten list, but I'm sure Generico/Claudio II will.

1) El Generico vs Claudio Castagnoli ~ PWG BOLA 2011 ~ ****

2) RockNES Monsters vs Super Smash Brothers ~ PWG The Perils of Rock N' Roll Decadence ~ ****

3) RockNES Monsters vs The Fightin' Taylor Boys ~ PWG Steen Wolf ~ ***3/4
 
#2,891 ·
I don't really follow Chikara but you don't need to know much about Quack/King, apart from Kingston has a screwed leg and just watch Kingstons promo before the match (promo of the year btw) and the video package. They don't really have a feud going on.

Eddie/Roddy DBD is skippable imo. Apart from the second fall of the match were Strong is awesome, the rest is just them hitting moves for the sake of it and throwing any logic out the window. The second fall of the match is great though and probably worth almost **** on it's own.

There has been nothing of note after BITW for ROH apart from the Wolves vs Future Shock match.
 
#2,892 · (Edited)
I don't really follow Chikara but you don't need to know much about Quack/King, apart from Kingston has a screwed leg and just watch Kingstons promo before the match (promo of the year btw) and the video package. They don't really have a feud going on.
I'll definitely get a hold of that, then.

There has been nothing of note after BITW for ROH apart from the Wolves vs Future Shock match.
Thanks, will do.

Strong/Edwards is ok but be aware that you may find audio problems with the match. Not sure if they were able to fix that for the DVD release. Watch the Ladder War from DBD though.
I had audio probs with my Black/Richards DBD match, too. Weird, but it doesn't hinder the match for me, really. Any excuse to mute the commentary will suffice. :p

Was debating on watching that match, as well. I feel a bit bloated from my ladder fetish as late, and especially after Steen/Generico I don't see myself liking it as much as that, so I'll watch that after the other suggestions to give it a fair viewing.

Thanks for the recommendation.

EDIT: @Smitlick, I just saw your star ratings link in your sig. Going through your MotY list as I type this. I cannot believe I completely forgot about wXw's 16 Carat Gold. Damnit! Looking up "Akira Tozawa vs YAMATO - DGUSA Open The Ultimate Gate 2011", too.
 
#2,893 ·
I'm not a fan of mixed top lists, because I think there is too much differences in wrestling styles and storytelling to put all those MOTYCs in the same bag. Therefore, I believe that every company deserves the Top 5 or Top 10 list for themselves. Here's my MOTY for every company I followed (on and off) in 2011 (I will do Top 3 for every company in 10-15 days):

AJPW - SUWAMA vs. Jun Akiyama (10/23) ****3/4

NJPW - Shinsuke Nakamura vs Tetsuya Naito (8/14) ****1/2

NOAH - Takashi Sugiura vs. KENTA (10/10) ****3/4

SMASH - StarBuck vs. Fit Finlay (SMASH 23) ***3/4

DDT - Dick Togo vs. Kota Ibushi (3/27) ****1/2

Zero One - Munenori Sawa vs. Ikuto Hidaka (9/11) ****1/4

TNA - Fortune vs. Immortal (Lockdown) ****1/4

WWE - CM Punk vs. John Cena (Money In The Bank) ****3/4

ROH - The Briscoes vs. The ANX (Honor Takes Center Stage - Chapter 2) ****1/2

PWG - Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (Steen Wolf) ***** (MATCH OF THE YEAR)

Dragon Gate USA - YAMATO vs. BxB Hulk (Revolt!) ****3/4

EVOLVE - Fit Finlay vs. Sami Callihan (EVOLVE 9) ****1/4

Sadly, I didn't watch too much Lucha Libre and Dragon Gate (Japan) this year to see their contenders, and I've never watched a single CHIKARA match (YT podcasts don't count).
 
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#2,898 ·
Here's a few recommendations that (sadly) no one else in here mentions at all really. Personally thoroughly enjoyed all of them.

2/3 Falls - ROH Television Championship - Christopher Daniels(c) vs. Eddie Edwards [ROH 9th Anniversary Show] - ****1/2

PAC vs. Ricochet [DGUSA Freedom Fight 2011] - ****1/2

6 Man Elimination Match - Johnny Gargano, Rich Swaa, & Masato Yoshino vs. Austin Aries, CIMA, & Brodie Lee [DGUSA Enter The Dragon 2011] - ****1/4

PAC & Ricochet vs. Chuck Taylor & Akira Tozawa [DGUSA Open The Southern Gate] - ****1/4+ (that one may be hard to enjoy if you don't know any preexisting stories)
 
#2,899 ·
PAC & Ricochet vs. Chuck Taylor & Akira Tozawa [DGUSA Open The Southern Gate] - ****1/4+ (that one may be hard to enjoy if you don't know any preexisting stories)
your right I did forget about this Match, PAC and Ricochet just trying to one up each other, Tozawa trying to injury PAC for their match the next night (from memory, was it a head butt, that split PAC open, and looked like it really pissed of PAC?), and Chucky well just being awesome and getting back at Blood warriors wasn't it? That was an awesome match thou

shit will need to go and rewatch that show, cause CIMA/Gargano was also an awesome match from that night
 
#2,941 ·
Dragon Gate: USA Fearless: PAC & Masato Yoshino vs. YAMATO & Akira Tozawa - Open the United Gate Title Match

This is such an awesome match, I'm a big Akira fan, and god how awesome has he been this year! the last 5 minutes are amazing, the whole match is pretty awesome and fast paced, loved it, fantastic finish. ****1/4
 
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Steen vs Corino
KEVIN FUCKING STEEN! Awesome entrance and pop for Steen, this guy is over as shit right now. Jacobs looks so gay . Wow! I was not expecting this! An absolute war right here, I expected a hardcore match but not to this level. Some of the spots were fucking ridiculous including the powerbomb on the chair in the corner of the barricades, the suplex on to the guardrail and Steen falling through two chars and a table! An awesome hardcore match and both men looked great in it. I was scared for these guys on occasion, especially with that barricade spot, that was crazy. The after match stuff was so great, they are really making Steen out to be an unstoppable beast of a monster and it's amazing. MOTYC easily, infact I almost liked this as much as Steen/Generico from last years Final battle. ****1/2 I can't be the only one to love this? Maybe I just wasn't expecting anything really good and they delivered above my expectations or something, but I thought it was awesome.

Everything else was basic for the first half and a fucking abortion in the secind half. What the fuck was that double main event? A fucking joke, thats what.
 
#2,949 · (Edited)
Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards - ROH Best In The World

I watched it for the second time, it lasts 36 minutes, and I'm not regreting it. This was a lot of fun, I liked the exchanges, especially the armbreakers by Davey. Those headbutts were kinda man up and die hard thing of theirs, so I'm cool with it. Both man were selling great and I have no problem with the finish, like others. For the second time I watch this match, I can see nothing wrong with match ending like that. Bottom line, a great stuff, plus there was no so much intensity from Davey-props for that, and dangerous MOTYC, and I think definitely for ROH.

****3/4
 
#2,968 ·
Well in my opinion best Davey singles match is his match with Aries in 09, but then again Aries was the star of the match and thanks to him dictating proceedings the match didn't devolve into a strike fest or finisher fest. However I thought Davey played his role really well, nice comebacks, sold really well for him for about 85% of the match. I would say it was his best individual performance despite not being as good as Aries in the match itself.
 
#2,980 ·
Davey hate is a tad overblown, but I can see he has big faults in his ring work. He has all the physical abilities of a beast of wrestler, he just doesn't know how to structure matches right. It's sort of a hit and miss thing with Davey. He can have classics like the match with Ibushi at the first EVOLVE show or have trainwrecks like his match at Final Battle.
 
#2,985 ·
Best post on this subject, debate this post and you will fail.

I was a fan of Davey once, and I think he's pretty good in Japan when he turns it up(BOSJ 2011), but he hasn't had many great matches outside of Japan in 2011, I'm trying to come up with more than 1. I loved his match with Eddie at first, but then I watched it again and it was like "It was really good, but come on, it wasn't anything better than that".
 
#2,990 · (Edited)
Good sire, surely you doth protest? :p

Well, I fucking hate Necro. The "omg a wrestling move" finish is just stupid and really put me off RoH in 2010. To each their own.

Anyway, I managed to watch Sami Callihan Vs Fit Finlay from Evolve.

As much as I tried to hate it for being Sami, Finlay and Evolve I damn well loved it. It really was everything everyone posted about and then some. Hell, I'm sure I would have loved it even more if I wasn't forced to watch it hunched over and on such a small screen (I had to watch it on my phone as the TV at my holiday place decided to die :no:).

It won't break any records, but it's somewhere in my top 20 easily, I'm sure.
**** 1/4

Oh, and as for Akiyama Vs Suwama (23/10/2011)
:mark:
**** 3/4
 
#3,033 ·
Thanks man , I've been wanting to see this match for quite sometime actually. I posted about it in here when I heard rave reviews about it. Think only Seabs has seen it.

Card looks really good anyway. The Marion Fontaine/ Shiima Xion/ Chuck Taylor and the Gargano/Tim Donst matches intrest me in perticular.
 
#3,052 ·
Updated for 01/01 (New additions in bold)

Including Dec 2010, Observer style.

WWE:
CM Punk vs. John Cena (7/17) ****3/4
Royal Rumble (1/30) ****3/4
CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio (6/19) ****1/2
Cena/Punk/Ryan/Sheamus/Air Boom vs. Ziggler/Swagger/Del Rio/Christian/Rhodes/Otunga (10/3) ****1/2
Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian (Ladder Match) (5/1) ****1/2
Undertaker vs. HHH (4/3) ****1/2
Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk (11/20) ****1/4
CM Punk vs. John Cena (8/14) ****1/4
Yoshi Tatsu vs. Tyson Kidd (Necklace On A Pole) (7/26) ****1/4
Smackdown Money In The Bank (7/17) ****1/4
Randy Orton vs. Christian (5/22) ****1/4
Usos/Barretta vs. Slater/Gabriel/Kidd (6/30) ****1/4
Randy Orton vs. Sheamus (6/10) ****1/4
CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Alberto Del Rio (6/19) ****1/4
Smackdown Elimination Chamber (2/20) ****1/4
John Morrison vs. Sheamus (12/19) ****1/4
CM Punk vs. John Cena (8/22) ****1/4
Ziggler/Swagger vs. Sheamus/Ryder (11/25) ****
John Cena vs. Alberto Del Rio (Last Man Standing) (10/23) ****
Dolph Ziggler vs. Randy Orton (8/29) ****
Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston (6/19) ****
Randy Orton vs. Christian (6/19) ****
The Usos vs. Slater/Gabriel (6/2) ****
The Miz vs. John Cena vs. John Morrison (Cage Match) (5/1) ****
CM Punk vs. Randy Orton (Last Man Standing) (5/1) ****
Kofi Kingston vs. Sheamus (Table Match) (5/1) ****
David Hart Smith vs. Zack Ryder (4/28 ) ****
John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler (12/20) ****
Alberto Del Rio vs. Kofi Kingston (2/20) ****
Raw Elimination Chamber (2/20) ****
Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz (2/14) ****
CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio (5/30) ****
Yoshi Tatsu vs. Tyson Kidd (7/12) ****
Daniel Bryan vs. Tyson Kidd (8/5) ****
Raw Money In The Bank (7/17) ****

Puro:
Shingo Takagi vs. Susumu Yokosuka (10/22) (DG) *****
Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi (6/10) (NJPW) *****
Mochizuki/Fujii vs. Maraha Isappa (2/6) (DG) *****
Suwama vs. Jun Akiyama (10/23) (AJPW) ****3/4
Shingo Takagi vs. PAC (10/21) (DG) ****3/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito (10/10) (NJPW) ****3/4
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Yasushi Kanda (6/19) (DG) ****3/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata (4/3) (NJPW) ****3/4
Kaz Hayashi vs. Minoru (1/2) (AJPW) ****3/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto (6/18 ) (NJPW) ****3/4
Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs. Hama/Soya (4/28 ) (BJW) ****3/4
PAC/Dragon Kid vs. CIMA/Ricochet (7/17) (DG) ****3/4
Team Doi Darts vs. Gamma/Tominaga/Shachihoko (11/19) (DG) ****3/4
Yagi Bread Survival 10 Man Tag (11/4) (DG) ****3/4
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Akira Tozawa (10/13) (DG) ****3/4
Sanada/Soya vs. Sekimoto/Okabayashi (10/23) (AJPW) ****1/2
PAC vs. Ricochet (11/19) (DG) ****1/2
Akira Tozawa vs. Shingo Takagi (7/17) (DG) ****1/2
Blood WARRIORS vs. Junction Three (6/8 ) (DG) ****1/2
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tetsuya Naito (8/14) (NJPW) ****1/2
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (8/5) (NJPW) ****1/2
Dick Togo vs. Kota Ibushi (3/27) (DDT) ****1/2
Maraha Isappa vs. Takagi/YAMATO (4/12) (DG) ****1/2
Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs. Sanada/Soya (6/19) (AJPW) ****1/2
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (3/5) (NOAH) ****1/2
Sanada/Soya vs. Sekimoto/Okabayashi (2/6) (AJPW) ****1/2
Sanada/Soya vs. Sekimoto/Okabayashi (3/21) (AJPW) ****1/2
Yuji Nagata vs. Suwama (4/9) (AJPW) ****1/2
Masato Yoshino vs. Don Fujii (1/18 ) (DG) ****1/2
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Satoshi Kojima (1/4) (NJPW) ****1/2
Prince Devitt vs. Kota Ibushi (1/4) (NJPW) ****1/2
Takashi Sugiura vs. Takeshi Morishima (12/5) (NOAH) ****1/2
Kings Of Wrestling vs. Takayama/Sano (12/5) (NOAH) ****1/2
Kings Of Wrestling vs. Morishima/Taniguchi (5/14) (NOAH) ****1/2
PAC/Dragon Kid vs. Maraha Isappa (6/19) (DG) ****1/2
KENTA/Kanemaru/Genba/Minoru/Kanemoto vs. Nakajima/Suzuki/Devitt/Taguchi/KAI (8/27) (ALL TOGETHER) ****1/2
PAC vs. Dragon Kid (10/22) (DG) ****1/2
CIMA/Gamma vs. Scurll/Haskins (10/22) (DG) ****1/2
Takagi vs. YAMATO vs. KAGETORA vs. Cyber Kong vs. Tozawa vs. Hulk (Mascara Contra Caballera Steel Cage Survival) (9/16) (DG) ****1/2
Takashi Sugiura vs. KENTA (10/10) (NOAH) ****1/2
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Ryo Saito (11/3) (DG) ****1/4
Bad Intentions vs. Suzuki/Archer (11/6) (NJPW) ****1/4
Shingo Takagi vs. Ryo Saito (10/9) (DG) ****1/4
Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs. Soya/Suwama (11/19) (AJPW) ****1/4
Akira Tozawa vs. Naoki Tanizaki (10/22) (DG) ****1/4
KUDO vs. Hikaru Sato (10/23) (DDT) ****1/4
Sasaki/Nakajima/Miyahara vs. Sugiura/Morishima/Yone (8/24) (NOAH) ****1/4
Sugiura/Shiozaki/Taniguchi vs. KENTA/Takayama/Kanemaru (9/11) (NOAH) ****1/4
KAI vs. Kenny Omega (9/11) (AJPW) ****1/4
KAI vs. Hiroshi Yamato (8/13) (AJPW) ****1/4
Maraha Isappa vs. K-neSuka vs. AraIwa (8/25) (DG) ****1/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (9/19) (NJPW) ****1/4
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Kohei Sato (8/7) (Z1) ****1/4
KAI vs. Minoru (7/31) (AJPW) ****1/4
KENTA/Kanemaru vs. Suzuki/Aoki (5/25) (NOAH) ****1/4
Maraha Isappa vs. Mochizuki/YAMATO (8/3) (DG) ****1/4
Takashi Sugiura vs. Dave Mastiff (5/13) (NOAH) ****1/4
Katsuhuko Nakajima vs. Go Shiozaki (5/14) (NOAH) ****1/4
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuji Nagata (1/4) (NJPW) ****1/4
Apollo55 vs. Golden Lovers (1/23) (NJPW) ****1/4
YAMATO vs. BxB Hulk (12/26) (DG) ****1/4
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ikuto Hidaka (1/1) (Z1) ****1/4
KENTA vs. Naomichi Marufuji (12/5) (NOAH) ****1/4
Bad Intentions vs. Blue Justice (12/11) (NJPW) ****1/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto (12/11) (NJPW) ****1/4
Satoshi Kojima vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (12/11) (NJPW) ****1/4
Shuji Kondo vs. Minoru (3/21) (AJPW) ****1/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito (12/12) (NJPW) ****1/4
Dick Togo vs. Antonio Honda (1/30) (DDT) ****1/4
Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuya Naito (2/20) (NJPW) ****1/4
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Taiji Ishimori (3/21) (NOAH) ****1/4
Shuji Kondo vs. Kaz Hayashi (2/11) (AJPW) ****1/4
Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (3/6) (NJPW) ****1/4
PAC vs. Naoki Tanisaki (2/6) (DG) ****1/4
Yuji Nagata vs. Seiya Sanada (4/13) (AJPW) ****1/4
Dick Togo vs. HARASHIMA (2/27) (DDT ****1/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (5/3) (NJPW) ****1/4
Yuji Nagata vs. Masato Tanaka (5/3) (NJPW) ****1/4
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. YAMATO (5/5) (DG) ****1/4
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taichi (4/29) (NJPW) ****1/4
Suwama vs. Yuji Nagata (6/19) (AJPW) ****1/4
Prince Devitt vs. Kota Ibushi (6/18 ) (NJPW) ****1/4
KAI vs. Shuji Kondo (6/19) (AJPW) ****1/4
Davey Richards vs. Kota Ibushi (6/10) (NJPW) ****1/4
KUSHIDA vs. Kota Ibushi (6/28 ) (NJPW) ****1/4
Go Shiozaki vs. Shuhei Taniguchi (5/8 ) (NOAH) ****1/4
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Satoshi Kojima (8/14) (NJPW) ****1/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano (8/13) (NJPW) ****1/4
Takashi Sugiura vs. Kensuke Sasaki (7/23) (NOAH) ****1/4
Tetsuya Naito vs. Togi Makabe (8/5) (NJPW) ****1/4
Hirooki Goto vs. Satoshi Kojima (8/5) (NJPW) ****1/4
Bad Intentions vs. Tanahashi/Goto (7/3) (NJPW) ****1/4
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. BxB Hulk (7/17) (DG) ****1/4
CIMA/Dragon Kid/Ricochet vs. Takagi/Cyber Kong/Iwasa (5/4) (DG) ****1/4
CIMA/Dragon Kid/Ricochet vs. Takagi/Cyber Kong/KAGETORA (4/24) (DG) ****1/4
Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi (8/1) (NJPW) ****1/4
Masato Tanaka vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (8/7) (Z1) ****1/4
Go Shiozaki vs. KENTA (11/27) (NOAH) ****1/4
Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (11/27) (NOAH) ****1/4
Prince Devitt vs. Davey Richards (12/4) (NJPW) ****

KENTA/Kanemaru vs. Suzuki/Aoki (10/16) (NOAH) ****
Susumu Yokosuka vs. Masato Yoshino (10/21) (DG) ****
Akira Tozawa vs. Dragon Kid (10/21) (DG) ****
CIMA/Hulk/Doi vs. Scurll/Haskins/Lion Kid (10/21) (DG) ****
KENTA/Kanemaru vs. Aoki/Suzuki (8/24) (NOAH) ****
Apollo55 vs. No Remorse Corps (10/10) (NJPW) ****
Togi Makabe vs. Minoru Suzuki (10/10) (NJPW) ****
YAMATO vs. Akira Tozawa (No Rope/No DQ) (9/16) (DG) ****
Go Shiozaki vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (9/19) (NOAH) ****
PAC vs. Genki Horiguchi (10/16) (DG) ****
CIMA/Ricochet vs. Yoshino/Dragon Kid (10/16) (DG) ****
Kotaro Suzuki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (9/19) (NOAH) ****
KENTA/Kanemaru/Hirayanagi vs. Sugiura/Aoki/Ishimori (9/19) (NOAH) ****
Takagi/YAMATO vs. Tozawa/Hulk (8/21) (DG) ****
Munenori Sawa vs. Hayato Jr. Fujita (9/17) (Z1) ****
Prince Devitt vs. KUSHIDA (9/19) (NJPW) ****
Takagi/Yokosuka vs. Dragon Kid/Yoshino (8/6) (DG) ****
Ricochet vs. PAC (6/18 ) (DG) ****
Dick Togo vs. Gedo (6/30) (DDT) ****
Tozawa/Hulk/Cyber vs. Takagi/YAMATO/KAGETORA (7/24) (DG) ****
Suwama vs. Seiya Sanada (7/31) (AJPW) ****
Sekimoto/Takanashi vs. Omega/Nakazawa vs. HERO/HARASHIMA vs. GENTARO/Urano (7/24) (DDT) ****
Apollo55 vs. Golden Lovers (8/14) (NJPW) ****
Karl Anderson vs. MVP (8/14) (NJPW) ****
Karl Anderson vs. Minoru Suzuki (8/5) (NJPW) ****
Sekimoto/Okabayashi/Shinobu vs. Sasaki/Ishikawa/Kawakami (6/27) (BJW) ****
Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (8/1) (NJPW) ****
Takashi Sugiura vs. Go Shiozaki (7/10) (NOAH) ****
Kowloon vs. Sekigun (Elimination Match) (6/5) (M-Pro) ****
Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs. The Brahmans (5/27) (BJW) ****
Jun Akiyama vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (7/10) (NOAH) ****
Kota Ibushi vs. Prince Devitt (7/24) (DDT) ****
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Shingo Takagi (5/12) (DG) ****
Dragon Kid vs. PAC (5/12) (DG) ****
Nakajima/Kajiwara vs. Suzuki/Aoki (7/23) (NOAH) ****
Karl Anderson vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (8/10) (NJPW) ****
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Satoshi Kojima (8/2) (NJPW) ****
Hirooki Goto vs. Karl Anderson (8/7) (NJPW) ****
Togi Makabe vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (8/7) (NJPW) ****
Hayato “Jr” Fujita vs. Koji Kanemoto (3/26) (NJPW) ****
Davey Richards vs. Prince Devitt (3/26) (NJPW) ****
Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi (3/26) (NJPW) ****
Sekimoto/Tanaka vs. Hayato/Hidaka (12/11) (Z1) ****
Sekimoto/Okabyashi vs. Sasaki/Ishikawa (5/5) (BJW) ****
Taiyo Kea vs. Seiya Sanada (4/12) (AJPW) ****
Jun Akiyama vs. Seiya Sanada (4/10) (AJPW) ****
Taiyo Kea vs. Minoru Suzuki (4/9) (AJPW) ****
Masato Tanaka vs. Hayato Jr. Fujita (2/17) (Z1) ****
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. KAMIKAZE (2/17) (Z1) ****
Nakajima/Mashimo vs. Hulk/Fujita (2/11) (KO) ****
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Ryo Saito (1/23) (DG) ****
Togi Makabe vs. Satoshi Kojima (3/6) (NJPW) ****
PAC/Shiisa vs. Dragon Kid/Ricochet (2/10) (DG) ****
Shuji Kondo vs. Kaz Hayashi vs. Minoru (2/6) (AJPW) ****
Masato Tanaka vs. Yuji Nagata (3/6) (Z1) ****
Hirooki Goto vs. Satoshi Kojima (12/12) (NJPW) ****
El Generico vs. Shinichiro Tominaga (1/3) (UNION) ****
Aoki/Marufuji vs. Kanemoto/Tiger Mask (12/24) (NOAH) ****
No Limit vs. Motor City Machine Guns (12/11) (NJPW) ****
CIMA/Yoshino vs. Doi/Gamma (12/21) (DG) ****
K-neSuka vs. Fujii/Mochizuki (12/21) (DG) ****
Maraha Isappa vs. Mochizuki/Fujii vs. Shingo/Cyber (12/26) (DG) ****
Yoshino/PAC vs. CIMA/Kid (12/5) (DG) ****
Kondo/KAI vs. Doi/Tanisaki (1/24) (DG/AJPW) ****
Taniguchi/Morishima vs. Sasaki/Nakajima (1/29) (NOAH) ****
Eddie Edwards vs. Kotaro Suzuki (1/29) (NOAH) ****
Golden Lovers vs. Jado/Gedo (12/26) (DDT) ****
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (5/13) (NOAH) ****
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. KENTA (5/14) (NOAH) ****
Kings Of Wrestling vs. Morishima/Aoki (5/13) (NOAH) ****
Yuji Nagata vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (3/20) (NJPW) ****
Apollo55 vs. TAKA/Taichi (3/20) (NJPW) ****
Apollo55 vs. Richards/Romero (5/3) (NJPW) ****
PAC vs. Naruki Doi (5/5) (DG) ****
Madoka vs. Ryusuke Taguchi (4/3) (NJPW) ****
Sekimoto/Okabayashi vs. Numazawa/Kasai (11/22) (BJW) ****
KAI/Sanada vs. GET WILD (11/19) (AJPW) ****
Yuji Nagata vs. Tomohiro Ishii (11/12) (NJPW) ****
KAI vs. Kenny Omega (10/23) (AJPW) ****
KAI/Suwama vs. Akiyama/Marvin (10/10) (AJPW) ****

PWG:
Steen & Tozawa vs. The Young Buck$ (3/4) *****
Steen & Tozawa vs. The Kings Of Wrestling (3/4) ****3/4
Steen & Tozawa vs. Ricochet/El Generico (5/27) ****3/4
Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (Ladder Match) (10/22) ****3/4
The Young Buck$ vs. Future Shock (10/22) ****1/2
Claudio Castagnoli vs. El Generico (1/29) ****1/2
Kevin Steen vs. Akira Tozawa (12/11) ****1/2
The Young Buck$ vs. The American Wolves (3/4) ****1/2
Chris Hero vs. Akira Tozawa (5/28 ) ****1/2
Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (8/20) ****1/2
Claudio Castagnoli vs. El Generico (8/20) ****1/4
Kevin Steen vs. Eddie Edwards (8/20) ****1/4
Eddie Edwards vs. El Generico (5/28 ) ****1/4
Ricochet & El Generico vs. The Young Buck$ (4/9) ****1/4
Steen & Tozawa vs. The Briscoes (3/4) ****1/4
Kevin Steen vs. Chris Hero (1/29) ****1/4
Davey Richards vs. Low Ki (1/29) ****1/4
Peligro Abejas vs. Kings Of Wrestling (12/11) ****1/4
The Young Buck$ vs. Ryan/Sky (9/10) ****1/4
Kevin Steen vs. Davey Richards (9/10) ****1/4
Willie Mack vs. Davey Richards (10/22) ****
RockNES Monsters vs. Fighting Taylor Boys (10/22) ****
The Dynasty vs. Los Luchas (10/22) ****
Super Smash Bros vs. RockNES Monsters (9/10) ****
Alex Shelley vs. Eddie Edwards (5/27) ****
Chris Hero vs. Willie Mack (8/20) ****
PAC vs. Kevin Steen (7/23) ****
Young Buck$ vs. Fighting Taylor Boys (12/11) ****
Roderick Strong vs. Willie Mack (4/9) ****
The Young Buck$ vs. The RockNES Monsters (5/27) ****
Steen & Tozawa vs. RockNES Monsters (5/28 ) ****


DGUSA/EVOLVE:
Dave Finlay vs. Sami Callihan (7/26) ****1/2
Ricochet/CIMA/Tozawa vs. PAC/Swann/Fox (9/9) ****1/2
Tozawa/Taylor vs. PAC/Ricochet (4/1) ****1/2
Akira Tozawa vs. PAC (4/2) ****1/2
YAMATO vs. Austin Aries (4/2) ****1/2
Akira Tozawa vs. BxB Hulk (1/30) ****1/2
PAC vs. Ricochet vs. Rich Swann (6/4) ****1/2
Akira Tozawa vs. AR Fox (6/4) ****1/2
YAMATO vs. Johnny Gargano (11/13) ****1/4
PAC vs. Ricochet (11/13) ****1/4
PAC/Yoshino vs. CIMA/Ricochet (9/11) ****1/4
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Sami Callihan (4/19) ****1/4
PAC/Yoshino vs. Doi/Ricochet (1/29) ****1/4
CIMA vs. Johnny Gargano (4/1) ****1/4
YAMATO vs. PAC (6/5) ****1/4
PAC vs. Brodie Lee (11/12) ****
YAMATO vs. CIMA (9/10) ****
Gargano/Swann/Yoshino vs. Brodie/CIMA/Aries (6/5) ****
Cannon/Callihan vs. Yokosuka/Mochizuki (6/5) ****
Akira Tozawa vs. Austin Aries (1/29) ****
Chuck Taylor vs. Akira Tozawa (4/19) ****
Ronin vs. CIMA/Doi/Ricochet (4/2) ****
Ronin vs. Doi/Ricochet (1/28) ****
Ronin vs. CIMA/Dragon Kid (1/29) ****
Ronin vs. Aries/Horiguchi/Ricochet (1/7 airdate) ****


ROH:
Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (Fight Without Honour) (12/18 ) ****3/4
Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards (6/26) ****3/4
The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express (Ladder War) (9/17) ****1/2
American Wolves vs. Future Shock (7/9) ****1/2
The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express (Street Fight) (5/21) ****1/2
Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards (3/19) ****1/2
Roderick Strong vs. Davey Richards (12/18 ) ****1/2
Kings Of Wrestling vs. American Wolves (12/17) ****1/2
The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express (4/2) ****1/4
Kings Of Wrestling vs. Cole/O’Reilly (4/2) ****1/4
Kings Of Wrestling vs. Haas & Benjamin (4/1) ****1/4
Davey Richards vs. TJ Perkins (1/28 ) ****1/4
Jay Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong (1/15) ****1/4
Kings Of Wrestling vs. American Wolves (5/6) ****1/4
The Young Buck$ vs. Cole/O’Reilly (6/26) ****1/4
Eddie Edwards vs. Chris Hero (5/7) ****1/4
Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards (9/17) ****1/4
The Bravados vs. The Young Buck$ vs. Future Shock (9/17) ****
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kyle O’Reilly (5/7) ****
Davey Richards vs. Claudio Castagnoli (3/18 ) ****
Kings Of Wrestling vs. LAX (3/19) ****
The Briscoes vs. Cole/O’Reilly (4/1) ****
Eddie Edwards vs. Christopher Daniels (4/1) ****
Davey Richards vs. Roderick Strong (4/1) ****
Haze/Nakagawa vs. Kurihara/Matsumoto (4/2) ****
Jay Briscoe vs. Kyle O’Reilly (2/25) ****
Eddie Edwards vs. Kenny King (2/25) ****
All Night Express vs. Cole/O’Reilly (12/18 ) ****
Kyle O’Reilly vs. TJ Perkins (12/17) ****

wXw:
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. El Generico (3/13) ****3/4
Leaders vs. Cole & O’Reilly (3/13) ****3/4
Davey Richards vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (3/12) ****3/4
Chris Hero vs. KENTA (5/15) ****1/2
Leaders vs. Cole & O’Reilly (4/9) ****1/4
Chris Hero vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (4/9) ****1/4
Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (4/10) ****1/4
Go Shiozaki vs. Johnny Moss (3/11) ****1/4
Go Shiozaki vs. Big Van Walter (3/11) ****1/4
Sami Callihan vs. Big Van Walter (3/13) ****1/4
Sami Callihan vs. Tommy End (3/11) ****1/4
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Bad Bones (3/11) ****1/4
Cole & O’Reilly vs. Generico/Sitoci (3/12) ****
Go Shiozaki vs. Kotaro Suzuki (3/12) ****
El Generico vs. Kotaro Suzuki (3/11) ****
Davey Richards vs. Jon Ryan (3/11) ****
Colt Cabana vs. Marty Scurll (3/12) ****
Moss/Sekimoto vs. The Briscoes (4/10) ****
Ricky Marvin vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima (5/15) ****

Other:
Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose (9/18 ) (FCW) ****3/4
Eddie Kingston vs. Mike Quackenbush (11/13) (Chikara) ****1/2
Leaders vs. Peligro Abejas (12/5) (IPW:UK) ****1/2
El Generico vs. 123 Kid (4/17) (Chikara) ****1/2
AJ Styles vs. Bully Ray (6/12) (TNA) ****1/2
Low Ki vs. Austin Aries vs. Shiima Xion vs. Jack Evans (7/10) (TNA) ****1/4
The Colony vs. FIST (4/17) (Chikara) ****1/4
Akira Tozawa vs. Eddie Kingston (4/17) (Chikara) ****1/4
El Generico vs. Eddie Kingston (1/23) (Chikara) ****1/4
El Generico vs. Marty Scurll (3/6) (IPW:UK) ****1/4
FIST vs. Team Osaka Pro (4/16) (Chikara) ****1/4
Sami Callihan vs. Adam Cole (4/9) (CZW) ****1/4
William Regal vs. Dean Ambrose (11/6) (FCW) ****
The Young Buck$ vs. The Colony (11/13) (Chikara) ****
Mike Quackenbush vs. Hallowicked (5/21) (Chikara) ****
Sami Callihan vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (4/9) (CZW) ****
AR Fox vs. Sami Callihan vs. Jake Crist (4/9) (CZW) ****
Tomasso Ciampa vs. Adam Cole (4/30) (ECWA) ****
Jigsaw/Quackenbush vs. The Colony (3/13) (Chikara) ****
The Osirian Portal vs. Tursas/Donst/Sanchez (3/13) (Chikara) ****
Leaders vs. Cole & O’Reilly (3/6) (IPW:UK) ****
Eddie Edwards vs. Mark Haskins (12/5) (IPW:UK) ****
Philly’s Most Wanted vs. The Osirian Portal (12/11) (CZW) ****
 
#3,069 ·
Masato Tanaka & Fujita Jr. Hayato vs Daichi Hashimoto & Akebono - ZERO-1 18.12.2011
Awesome sprint for 10 minutes. Akebono wasn't a factor until the last few minutes for the finish where he was great and they did a smart job of keeping him out of the match until that point. Daichi looked tons better and his strikes are stiffer. Great stuff between him and Hayato.

***3/4

Masato Tanaka & Fujita Jr. Hayato vs Shinjiro Otani & Yoshikazu Yokoyama - ZERO-1 18.12.2011
Probably the best Z1 match all of last year and they had a great year. Otani proved yet again why he's easily a top 10 worker right now. Amazing exchanges between him and Hayato. Yokoyama's an amazing young gun and he was superb throughout this. Him and Otani go so well together as a team. Really good workover period on Yokoyama. Tanaka does his table spot that he does in every single match of any significance but it fit in well here at least. Shame it didn't happen earlier in the year so it could be more appreciated just like the amazing Sekimoto vs Hayato tag from the end of 2010.

****1/4
 
#3,087 ·
I'm not sure if anyone has watched or I just missed the rave about it but did anyone check out KENTA vs. Bison Smith? Seriously superb match and great match of having a guy just totally out powered. RIP Mr. Smith and he got his great singles match before he left. Really really out of nowhere fantastic match.
 
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