[New Blood]

This is still a work under development as they still have yet to finish their ballots for 2003 in December.

2000
1. Kawada & Fuchi vs Nagata & Iizuka, New Japan December 14th, 16 votes, 435 points
2. Sasaki vs Kawada, New Japan October 9th, 15 votes, 433 points
3. Misawa vs Akiyama, All Japan February 27th, 16 votes, 383 points
4. Kobashi vs Akiyama, NOAH December 23rd, 14 votes, 286 points
5. Kawada & Tenryu vs Hansen & Kea, All Japan July 23rd, 14 votes, 284 points
6. Kobashi vs Omori, All Japan April 15th, 12 votes, 221 points
7. Kawada vs Tenryu, All Japan October 28th, 12 votes, 200 points
8. Kobashi vs Takayama, All Japan May 26th, 11 votes, 195 points
9. Liger, Tanaka & Makabe vs Delfin, Murahama & Tsubasa, New Japan December 14th, 11 votes, 171 points
10. SUWA vs Dragon Kid, Toryumon August 24th, 12 votes, 166 points

2001
1. Hashimoto & Nagata vs Misawa & Akiyama, Zero-One March 2nd. 10 votes, 239 points
2. Misawa vs Takayama, NOAH April 15th. 8 votes, 214 points
3. Tenzan & Kojima vs Barton & Steele, New Japan December 11th. 9 votes, 186 points
4. Tenryu vs Mutoh, All Japan June 8th. 8 votes, 167 points
5. Kawada vs Kojima, New Japan June 6th. 9 votes, 160 points
6. Mutoh vs Nagata, New Japan August 12th. 6 votes, 149 points
7. Tenryu & Fuchi vs Kawada & Araya, All Japan June 30th. 8 votes, 130 points
8. Misawa vs Akiyama, NOAH July 27th. 7 votes, 126 points
9. Mutoh & Hase vs Akiyama & Nagata, New Japan October 8th. 6 votes, 107 points
10. Mutoh vs Kawada, All Japan April 14th. 7 votes, 104 points

2002
1. Misawa & Kobashi vs Akiyama & Nagata, NOAH February 17th - 8 votes, 229 points, 6 top 5 votes, 1 2nd place vote, 4 #1 votes
2. Tenryu vs Kojima, All Japan July 17th - 7 votes, 225 points, 7 top 5 votes, 4 2nd place votes, 3 #1 votes
3. Kikuchi & Kanemaru vs Liger & Inoue, NOAH February 17th - 9 votes, 210 points, 6 top 5 votes, 2 2nd place votes, 1 #1 vote
4. Nagata vs Takayama, New Japan May 2nd - 9 votes, 179 points, 3 top 5 votes
5. Liger & Tanaka vs Kikuchi & Kanemaru, New Japan August 29th - 8 votes, 175 points, 4 top 5 votes, 1 #1 vote
6. Akiyama & Saito vs Kobashi & Shiga, NOAH October 19th - 8 votes, 154 points, 3 top 5 votes
7. Takayama vs Nishimura, New Japan August 10th - 8 votes, 149 points, 2 top 5 votes
8. Takayama vs Misawa, NOAH September 23rd - 7 votes, 120 points, 1 2nd place vote
9. Tenryu vs Kojima, All Japan February 24th - 7 votes, 98 points, 1 top 5 vote
10. Rikio & Morishima vs Akiyama & Saito, NOAH September 23rd - 6 votes, 98 points, 1 top 5 vote

2006
1. KENTA / Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takeshi Rikio / Takeshi Morishima (NOAH; 7/16)
2. Giant Bernard vs. Yuji Nagata (NJPW; 4/30)
3. Naomichi Marufuji vs. Akira Taue (NOAH; 3/5)
4. Mitsuhara Misawa vs. Takeshi Morishima (NOAH; 3/5)
5. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW; 12/10)
6. Kaz Hayashi vs. Shuji Kondo (AJPW; 8/27)
7. Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Takashi Sasaki (BJW; 3/31)
8. Koji Kanemoto vs. Yuji Nagata (NJPW; 8/12)
9. Kenta Kobashi / Kensuke Sasaki vs. Genichiru Tenryu / Katsuhiko Nakajima (Kensuke Office; 2/11)
10. KENTA vs. Naomichi Marufuji (NOAH; 10/29)

2007
1. Tanahashi vs Nagata, NJ 4/13 (19 votes, 452 points, 13 top 5 votes, 2 #1 votes)
2. Kobashi & Takayama vs Misawa & Akiyama, NOAH 12/2 (17 votes, 439 points, 13 top 5 votes, 7 #1 votes)
3. Tanahashi vs Hirooki Goto, NJ 11/11 (16 votes, 406 points, 12 top 5 votes, 2 #1 votes)
4. T. Sasaki vs Miyamoto, BJPW 3/14 (15 votes, 302 points, 8 top 5 votes, 3 #1 votes)
5. KENTA & Ishimori vs Marufuji & Ibushi, NOAH 7/15 (12 votes, 259 points, 10 top 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
6. Nagata vs Makabe, NJ 7/6 (11 votes, 241 points, 7 top 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
7. Akiyama & Rikio vs Takayama & Sugiura, NOAH 4/28 (14 votes, 238 points, 5 top 5 votes)
8. Muscle Outlaw'z vs Typhoon vs New Hazard, DG 6/5 (8 votes, 121 points, 1 top 5 vote)
9. Suzuki vs Mutoh, AJ 7/1 (5 votes, 121 points, 3 top 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
10. Briscoe Brothers vs Marvin & Suzuki, NOAH 1/21 (6 votes, 119 points, 1 top 5 vote, 1 #1 vote)

2008
1. Mashimo & Madoka vs Teioh & Shinobu, Big Japan 5/23. 12 votes, 342 points
2. Ishikawa, Sawa & Otsuka vs Ikeda, Usuda & Super Tiger II, Battlarts 7/26. 14 votes, 341 points
3. Hidaka & Sawa vs Ishikawa & Yoshikawa, Battlarts 8/31. 15 votes, 304 points
4. Burning vs Kensuke Office Survival Match, KO/SEM 8/17. 12 votes, 303 points
5. Misawa vs Morishima, NOAH 3/2. 11 votes, 198 points.
6. Kobashi, Honda & Taniguchi vs Morishima, Marufuji & Sugiura, NOAH 2/21. 10 votes, 197 points.
7. Kobashi & KENTA vs Saski & Nakajima, NOAH 6/14. 11 votes, 178 points.
8. SHINGO & Hulk vs KENTA & Ishimori, Dragon Gate 3/20. 11 votes, 166 points
9. Tanahashi vs Suwama, All Japan 4/9. 10 votes, 163 points
10. Kobashi, Honda & KENTA vs Takayama, Sano & Aoki, NOAH 3/2. 9 votes, 160 points

2009
1. Sasaki & Nakajima vs Shiozaki & KENTA, NOAH June 22nd - 13 votes, 340 points
2. Miyamoto & T. Sasaki vs Isami Kodaka & Takeda, Big Japan March 26th - 12 votes, 295 points
3. Nakamura & Goto vs Misawa & Sugiura, New Japan January 4th - 18 votes, 274 points
4. Sugiura & Shiozaki vs Nakamura & Milano Collection AT, NOAH March 1st - 16 votes, 263 points
5. Kanemoto vs Hayato, New Japan December 22nd - 13 votes, 252 points
6. Akiyama vs KENTA, NOAH May 17th - 14 votes, 224 points
7. Nakajima vs KENTA, NOAH March 1st - 8 votes, 202 points
8. KENTA vs Suzuki, NOAH January 25th - 11 votes, 192 points
9. Goto & Okada vs Sugiura & Aoki, New Japan May 5th - 11 votes, 176 points
10. Tanahashi vs Nakamura, New Japan February 15th - 9 votes, 152 points

 

[seancarleton77]

Burning vs Kensuke Office was the best elimination match of all time (Royal Rumble's included) definitely should have been voted number one in 2008. Anyone got links?

 

[New Blood]

I would agree with you had I not seen the various elimination matches from New Japan in the 80s. Definitely check those out.

Here are the full lists:
http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=49213

 

[acracker]

how could you not have Misawa vs Kobashi from 2003?

 

[seabs]

They're doing each year individually and havent finished the ballot for 2003 yet.

 

[Caligula]

Burning vs Kensuke Office was the best elimination match of all time (Royal Rumble's included) definitely should have been voted number one in 2008. Anyone got links?

wasn't even the best elimination match in the summer of 2008 in japan

 

[antoniomare007]

i like the DVDVR boards, there's great info and some cool posters there, but it's anoying how most of the people in there are obsessed with limb selling and nitpicking everything about a match.

 

[Tombstonetellsall]

Those people over at Death Valley driver are farrrrr to picky when it comes to matches. They say there wrestling fans when infact all they do is nitpick.

 

[peachchaos]

Nah, they're great. You say they nitpick when in fact all they do is watch wrestling and record their opinions.

 

[starship.paint]

whoa... a single toryumon and a single dragon gate match for 10 years granted I don't watch other puro other than dg but are the rest of the promotions really that good lol

 

[USAUSA1]

T. Sasaki vs Miyamoto, BJPW 3/14 is just an awesome showcase. My favorite Puro match of the decade

 

[fallaway1988]

Wow, this list should be pretty helpful in getting me more into puro. The sheer amount of good quality matches is quite overwhelming, so a really selective list is somewhere handy to start.

 

[D'Angelo]

I like the DVDR boards but as people say, they are too nitpicky. If what they want to happen happened in a match, there would be a few classics but most would be dull and repetitive.
Most of them are a bunch of FUTEN and BattlARTS marks too, which I like but they are ridiculously protective over it.

 

[topper1]

There is a reason there is only like 20 members left over there. With that said Ditch and crew needs to understand not every match needs to be a 90s AJPW HW match.

There 2010 list is a joke. I watch MMA to see MMA fighting I don't need wrestling trying to be MMA.

 

[D'Angelo]

There is a reason there is only like 20 members left over there. With that said Ditch and crew needs to understand not every match needs to be a 90s AJPW HW match.

There 2010 list is a joke. I watch MMA to see MMA fighting I don't need wrestling trying to be MMA.

Pretty much this.
I love what they're doing over there and I get to see a LOT of great matches because of it but they do over-analyse EVERYTHING to a ridiculous degree.

 

[USAUSA1]

They banned me for disagreeing with them a lot years ago. They not accepting new members anymore though, it's a secret society now.

 

[smitlick]

They banned me for disagreeing with them a lot years ago. They not accepting new members anymore though, it's a secret society now.

I just joined there in the last 2 weeks.