[TelkEvolon]

Shinobu is the best junior!

[Caponex75]

Yeah, Ricky Marvin kinda sucks. I don't know where people are getting this best from and that is even if we just excluded it down just to Gajin. Outside of the ring, great personality but inside the guy is garbage. His title match with Nakajima was a show of why he is pretty fucking bad.

[topper1]

Originally Posted by Caponex75

His title match with Nakajima was a show of why he is pretty fucking bad.

His great match with Nakajima is a good reason why he is bad

[seancarleton77]

Actually, Marvin's leg was mangled and nearly ripped off by Nakajima, which Marvin sold brilliantly... until the end when Marvin used 99% fucking leg moves, like a double knee drop and didn't even sell the after effects. #FuckingStupid

[The Streak]

Can't believe people watch a match and think "MY GOD, THIS IS A 4 AND 3/4 STAR MATCH!"

If it's good and it entertains you, that's all you need to know in my opinion.

[Bubz]

Originally Posted by seancarleton77

Actually, Marvin's leg was mangled and nearly ripped off by Nakajima, which Marvin sold brilliantly... until the end when Marvin used 99% fucking leg moves, like a double knee drop and didn't even sell the after effects. #FuckingStupid

Exactly. It really annoyed me because he was doing such a great job up to the last 5 minutes and everything just went out the window.

I also don't like his music, his hair or his face and his girly screams of pain .

And the poster above, stop trolling and go back to the WWE section. Plus a lot of people had this conversation around mania time last year and it lasted for fucking pages so no thanks to that again.

[Rah]

Originally Posted by The Streak

Can't believe people watch a match and think "MY GOD, THIS IS A 4 AND 3/4 STAR MATCH!"

If it's good and it entertains you, that's all you need to know in my opinion.

So, to you, the point of any review is inherently stupid and pointless?

We might as well not even say X match was good because we're not basing it on anything but a word without any comparison for others to work on. It's not that we believe ratings to be the be all and end all to matches (for most of us, anyway) but we don't always have time to sit down and write eloquent, 1000 word reviews for others to read a description of how we marked for each arm bar or lariat~! that's given in the match. Once you've watched a few matches you can begin to see how you fit in with other posters and their likes/dislikes and, most importantly, ratings so you can judge which matches to go out of your way to see.

This is but an example, seeing his name is above yours, but say seancarleton77 gave one of the CM Punk Vs Daniel Bryan matches a 4.5-star rating and I know us to share an average difference of 1-star then I know not to watch it in the hopes of it being a MotYC because 3.5-stars is too low a threshold. If he was to simply say "great" or "outstanding" I wouldn't know exactly how good it is and I'll have had wasted my time (possibly not the greatest example of a match, seeing I enjoyed it, but you get the point).

Your belief is exactly how a forum I used to post on operates. I decided to check on their MotY 2012 list and I see a few posters nominating matches by simply saying "good" or "this match met all of my expectations and then some!" and leaving it at that. Now I don't know what that poster's expectations were, so I cannot say how good the match is. I decided to watch their nominations, anyway, and none of their matches are above the 3.5-star mark so I did waste my time. If they had stated that rating beforehand, however (seeing I know their tastes, too), I would have avoided all three matches.

It's just easier for other posters...

Originally Posted by Bubz

And the poster above, stop trolling and go back to the WWE section. Plus a lot of people had this conversation around mania time last year and it lasted for fucking pages so no thanks to that again.

Why is it that my luck always ends up with me writing a comment only for interjecting opinions/facts to make their way into a thread just before I post? FFS.

Now, speaking of people just dropping ratings without giving in-depth reasons behind them:
Jun Akiyama Vs Takao Omori (AJPW 03/02/2012)
Rating: around **** 1/4

[Bubz]

Originally Posted by Rah

Why is it that my luck always ends up with me writing a comment only for interjecting opinions/facts to make their way into a thread just before I post? FFS.

I don't mind it if it's a sensible conversation lol, and your reply was very good and you have an intelligent argument, but then theres that guy above who obviously doesn't lol.

[Caponex75]

Originally Posted by topper1

His great match with Nakajima is a good reason why he is bad

Great match? You mean the match where he didn't even bother to sell any of the long leg work? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind if a guy does his move and THEN sells the pain but he was just sprinting around as like nothing happened. His intensity is non existent and everything about him is pretty much terrible(Even his theme music sucks). Guy is pretty bad. The only match I remember liking of Marvin's in the past couple years is that one minute match with KENTA. That is about it.

[Martyn]

Zero-1 11th Anniversary & Daichi Hashimoto 1st Anniversary
Daichi Hashimoto & Shinjiro Othani vs. Kensuke Sasaki [D-RING] & Katsuhiko Nakajima [D-RING] - (**** 1/4). My MOTY so far.