Tetsujin

I'm currently working on a personal project to find my MOTYs, so this'll be a nice thread. Right now, this is all I've got: 1980: Roddy Piper vs Buddy Rose (PNW, 13/9) - Rick Martel vs Buddy Rose (PNW, 26/4) - Johnny Saint vs Steve Grey (JP, 28/1) 1981: Stan Hansen vs André the Giant (NJPW, 23/9) - Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (CWA, 23/3) - Jim Breaks vs Jon Cortez (JP, 2/2) 1982: Ric Flair vs Kerry Von Erich (WCCW, 15/8) - Dutch Mantell vs Jerry Lawler (CWA, 29/3) - No more runner ups this time, weak year in terms of MOTYC 1983: Bill Dundee vs Jerry Lawler (CWA, 6/6) - Nick Bockwinkel vs Wahoo McDaniel (AWA, 28/8) - Roddy Piper vs Greg Valentine (NWA, Starrcade) 1984: Rick Martel vs Nick Bockwinkel (AWA, 20/9) - Américo Rocca vs Mocho Cota (EMLL, 27/1) - El Satánico vs Shiro Koshinaka (EMLL, 30/7) 1985: Ric Flair vs Rick Martel (AJPW, 21/10) - Jim Duggan vs Ted DiBiase (MidSouth, 30/3) - Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (CWA, 30/12) 1986: Nick Bockwinkel vs Curt Hennig (AWA, 21/11) - Buddy Rose & Doug Sommers vs Midnight Rockers (AWA, 30/8) - Ric Flair vs Barry Windham (JCP, Battle of the Belts 2) 1987: Ric Flair vs Barry Windham (JCP, 20/1) - Carlos Colón vs Stan Hansen (WWC, 6/1) - Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas (WWA, 18/7) 1988: Espanto Jr vs Hijo del Santo (UWA, 10/4) - Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs Barry Windham & Lex Luger (NWA, Clash of the Champions I) - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 16/12) 1989: Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 5/6) - Masakatsu Funaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (UWF II, 24/7) - Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair (NWA, WrestleWar) 1990: Ángel Azteca vs El Dandy (EMLL, 1/6) - El Dandy vs El Satánico (EMLL, 14/12) - El Satánico vs El Dandy (EMLL, 26/10) 1991: Masahiro Chono vs Keiji Mutoh (NJPW, G1 Climax) - Naoki Sano vs Minoru Suzuki (PWFG, 26/7) - Wayne Shamrock vs Naoki Sano (PWFG, 19/5) 1992: Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai (AJW, DreamRush) - Ricky Steamboat vs Rick Rude (WCW, Beach Blast) - Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat vs Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW, 25/5) 1993: Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 29/7) - Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW, DreamSlam I) - No more runner ups this time, weak year in terms of MOTYC 1994: Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta (AJW, 24/01) - Aja Kong vs Manami Toyota (AJW, 20/11) - Owen Hart vs Bret Hart (WWF, WrestleMania X) --------- The following is my current "list" (I don't really have one, but you know), the years I have more or less clear, but could change throughout the project) 1995: 9/6/95 - Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 15/4) - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 25/10) 1996: Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW, G1 Climax) - Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels (WWF, WrestleMania XII) - Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (AJPW, 6/12) 1997: Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 20/1) - Bret Hart vs Steve Austin (WWF, WrestleMania 13) - Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas (EMLL, 19/9) 1998: Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 31/8) - Burning vs Stan Hansen & Vader (AJPW, 5/12) - Mankind vs Undertaker (WWF, King of the Ring) 2002: Low Ki vs Bryan Danielson (ROH, Round Robin Challenge) - Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker (WWE, No Mercy) - Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit vs Rey Mysterio & Edge (WWE, No Mercy) 2003: Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (NOAH, 1/3) - Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit (WWE, Royal Rumble) - Akira Taue vs Yuji Nagata (NOAH, 6/6) 2004: Samoa Joe vs CM Punk (ROH, World Title Classic) - Samoa Joe vs CM Punk (ROH, All Star Extravaganza II) - Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama (NOAH, 10/7) 2005: Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi (ROH, Joe vs Kobashi) - Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle (WWE, WrestleMania 21) - Christopher Daniels vs Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles (TNA, Unbreakable) 2013: Katsuyori Shibata vs Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW, G1 Climax) - CM Punk vs Brock Lesnar (WWE, SummerSlam!) - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW, Invasion Attack) 2014: The Shield vs The Wyatt Family (WWE, Elimination Chamber) - AJ Styles vs Minoru Suzuki (NJPW, G1 Climax) - Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn (NXT, Takeover R Evolution) 2015: Bayley vs Sasha Banks (NXT, Takeover Respect) - Shinsuke Nakamura vs Kazuchika Okada (NJPW, G1 Climax) - Sasha Banks vs Bayley (NXT, Takeover Brooklyn) 2017: Kazuchika Okada vs Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW, Sakura Genesis) - Tetsuya Naito vs Kenny Omega (NJPW, G1 Climax) - Trevor Lee vs Chip Day (CWF, 25/3) Work in progress. I'll be editing the list very often, 'cause I've not watched most part of the 90s/00s/10s matches in a while and my tastes may have changed since then; and 'cause I need to watch a lot from the years I didn't picked; and yeah, I definitely need to watch a lot from the 70s.

Just watched this for the first time, and it was awesome. What an all-time-great performance by Fujiwara, being an arrogant jackass, working the crowd wonderfully and making Yamazaki earn every single one of his little victories. I totally agree with Phil, as this is the Fujiwara show, but Kazuo's determination was amazing too. He was pissed off by Yoshiaki's attitude and used that feeling as a weapon, learning about his rival and evolving into a better oponent for him. Also, I really liked that fucking finish. I'm kinda new watching shoot style stuff, but I loved every second of this: great character development and cool technique from both guys. One of the most underrated matches of the year and mayyyyybe of the whole decade? Maybe. ****1/2.

Throughout all 2017 I've heard about some great matches in NOAH, EVOLVE, PROGRESS and PWG that I didn't watch (any suggestions?), but right now I have 20 MOTYC. After several days thinking about it, I ranked them. But first, some HHMM in chronological order: Ok then, here I go, my top 20 matches of 2017: ****1/2 20. Daisuke Sekimoto vs Hideki Suzuki - BJW 30/3 19. Kyle O' Reilly vs Mike Bailey - WCPW World Cup 18. Brock Lesnar vs Samoa Joe - WWE Great Balls of Fire 17. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tetsuya Naito - NJPW G1 Climax 27 16. Kento Miyahara vs Shuji Ishikawa - AJPW 21/5 15. Timothy Thatcher vs Daniel Makabe - 3-2-1 BATTLE! 28/7 14. Hiromu Takahashi vs KUSHIDA - NJPW Sakura Genesis 13. Kota Ibushi vs Zack Sabre Jr - NJPW G1 Climax 27 12. Shinsuke Nakamura vs Bobby Roode - NXT Takeover San Antonio 11. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kota Ibushi - NJPW Power Struggle 10. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman vs Samoa Joe vs Roman Reigns - WWE SummerSlam! 9. Matt Riddle vs WALTER - PROGRESS Chapter 51 8. Tetsuya Naito vs Michael Elgin - NJPW The New Beggining 7. Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega - NJPW WrestleKingdom 11 6. Tyler Bate vs Pete Dunne - NXT Takeover Chicago ****3/4 5. Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega - NJPW Dominion 4. Kento Miyahara vs Suwama - AJPW 9/10 3. Trevor Lee vs Chip Day - CWF 26/4 ***** 2. Tetsuya Naito vs Kenny Omega - NJPW G1 Climax 27 1. Kazuchika Okada vs Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW Sakura Genesis

Hi, I'm new here but I follow the forum since last year's GWE (which was fucking incredible). Awesome community! I'm not a native English speaker, so excuse me for my Steinerism. Hope to have fun here, and happy new year