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70s All Japan is a goldmine for great matches. Call me crazy but I'd say that era was as good as 90s All Japan.

From what I've seen, it has to be those French matches from the 60s that trickled their way onto the net a few years back. One of the singles matches from 62(?) in particular was blowaway great.

I couldn't think of a streaming service I'd throw my money at faster than a ROH network with the full catalouge, honestly.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing that's going on in modern ROH at the moment but I've illegally downloaded every show from 2004 and plan to binge watch it all soon. All of it holds up really well, even the stereotypical early-2000s spotty stuff holds up in a charming way. CM Punk has gotta be the MVP of the promotion so far although I assume that'll change once Joe's reign kicks into that second gear.

Hmm, I'll just say that a lot of the Pancrase I've watched seemed heavily worked. I understand MMA in 2017 and MMA in 1996 were totally different worlds but it always seemed to me that unless those guys never trained striking a day in their lives, they left far too many openings on the feet for me to buy that it was a real fight. Maybe I just need to rewatch but that's the vibe I always got.

Wow, you were very high on Danielson/Shiozaki. In my opinion Shiozaki was utterly useless in the match. Total one man show. At the very most it's a testament to Danielson's greatness that he can make a match watchable with nothing to work with.

Yeah this is gonna be interesting stuff. Can't say I've seen much outside of the usual Han/Tamura/Kohsaka/Maeda/Yamamoto combination so any other discoveries would be awesome.

Not a star ratings guy but I don't see how anyone can give those G1 matches ****+ and not rate this in the same tier. Just a tremendous match with a big fight feel, with awesome transitions, false finishes that actually fooled me, and a few geniune holy shit moments. Possibly the WWE MOTY.

Yeah that was an excellent match. Might actually be one of my favorite overall matches of 2017.

Scrolling thru this thread has inspired me to go back and check out some of the stuff from the 'golden' period of TNA. It's largely a blind spot for me as I'd imagine it is for many who chose to ignore TNA and it's history just due to the stigma the company has. Anyway, started off by checking out the AJ/Daniels iron man from AAO '05. I gotta be honest, I was embracing myself for disappointment as the clock was winding down. Not that the work was bad or anything, it was actually quite good although a few things did bug me, it just wasn't anything that blew me away or anything I'd really classify as all time great stuff. Thankfully I went into it not knowing there was an overtime period so my reaction of "that was it?" quickly turned into intrigue when the match was restarted. And HOT DAMN did that overtime period put it over the top. Even though it was very brief, it tied the match together perfectly and both guys really executed that finishing narrative brilliantly. I still don't know if it's something I'd say is in the discussion with the upper echelon stuff in wrestling history, but it was a great match. Gonna check out some of the Joe stuff now.

I'd say a GWE-style Greatest Match Ever project would be a much better way to go as opposed to a Match Hall of Fame. That's just my opinion.