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Survival Tobita matches are funny and all, but why is it this opponent that grabs people the most? I think If we didn't call him such a funny name in English he probably wouldn't have gotten nominated, if his name had been translated properly on bootleg tapes as Ken the Wooden Man or Wooden Ken or whatever this thread wouldn't exist.

How do I get the motivation to get back into wrestling again to try to take part in this for 2026?

Dunno if this is worth posting but Jimmy Rave has had to have an arm amputaed and so his wrestling days are done. I know Dylan Hales liked him a lot I don't know how other people here felt about him. But definitely a talented guy in my eyes and it's really sad to hear about something like this happening to anyone

Daisuke Sekimoto isn't someone who'd come to my mind when asked a question like this, but yeah he's got a really substantial body of work of great tags

Cesaro is great, and is great at working tags is part of that. I don't see him as a top 10 tag team wrestler all time or anything though. I really think for the most part the wrestlers who are best at working tags are the best at putting on entertaining matches in general. Like the best tag worker ever for me might be Kenta Kobashi.

Shingo vs Ospreay is probably my pick right now. But yeah that Walter - Bate is a good shout. Maybe I'm insane or maybe being at the front of the crowd biased me but Mike Bailey vs David Starr from OTT a couple weeks ago is up there. Omega - Tanhashi from the dome too

The Kurt Anlge match from Summerslam '01, this doesn't really count as under the radar but please god include it

Last summer I went to Milton Keynes (the worst city in England) to see a Rev-Pro/NJPW co-promoted show. When I was getting the bus the next morning a pair of old women started talking to me, I mentioned that I had come here to see wrestling. One of them remembered the World of Sport stuff when it was on ITV, and upon talking a little bit about it I realised she thought that stuff was real, and I could not convince her otherwise

Sounded ridiculous to me but there's proof it exists:

Piledriving someone onto a wrench feels like a very strange move to me, like just hit him with the fucking wrench

I cannot think of a sloppier match that I've seen in an AJPW ring, Dr Death and Yatsu both fucking sucked here.

Sorry if this is weird and mods delete this thread if this is bad etiquette but this video showed up my youtube recommendations and i'm not sure but I think it's Parv/Jerry Von Kramer. Can someone confirm if I'm imagining things or if it's him? Thomas Hobbes's Argument For Absolute Monarchy

Going to be in New York for this, going to NXT & MSG and those are looking like the on paper best shows, with NXT clearly looking better. The Wrestlecon supershow probably be very enjoyable too, with Bandido-Osprey and Cavernario-Dragon Lee. And if anyone wants two tickets to the Friday night Janella show hit me up in the DMs. The friend i'm going with bought them before the NXT show got announced as being at the same time.

If a very good match with a dead crowd is something you don't mind watching I'd say check out this Kana & Nanae Takahashi vs Natsuki Taiyo & Ray match: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ha1qm

How many people voted for or against Jake without thinking about his AAA run? I feel like for such an insanely hot, albeit short, run it gets overlooked but maybe i'm mistaken on that

He's gone in like May

Maybe I'm off base here but if we're still on this, now it's not even the Nia vs Rousey match that I though was best this year. Their match at TLC was better.

L.A. Park, Jerry Jarrett, Jimmy Hart, Bill Apter, Howard Finkel, Gary Hart and Yuji Nagata are all in. So not a real fix for the Lucha logjam. 5 non wrestlers was unexpected

I can see getting more out of The Clusterfuck if you were in the building watching at home I felt it went way too long and the shenanigans got pretty old by the end. Ronda vs Nia was excellent for a first singles match and yeah I can't think of a better one. Doesn't mean I thought it was a great match, to me that MITB wasn't a special show, there was more than one match on it just as good or better than this so just struck me as a very unexpected thing to come up in a MOTY thread.

What the?

This is not where anything 'completely changed' sure Nitro never had higher ratings then Raw after that but they were losing most weeks at that point anyway and were in the early stages of the decline already. Oh and the best Raw of the Attitude era might be 02/07/2000

Can you explain how this can really happen when the guaranteed revenue from TV starting in 2019 exceeding their current income from all other sources by a huge margin?

This is not the case, the dumbass thing you're thinking of is for the non-wrestlers. So for example a vote for Jim Crockett Sr means you're a historical group voter and it counts against all the historical wrestlers even if you didn't intend to vote in that category.

I've been watching the Arena Mexico Friday night shows almost every week for about 6 months now and Negro Casas despite being super over never seems to have a great match or performance. He had an incredibly long of being a good wrestler, but is it finally over? Is Negro Casas finally no longer good?

right now 3883; but it's a work in progress, and also by the time i get to 2018 on the list it'll probably be 2025 or some shit so that'll be a lot of extra years to add by then