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Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki from 07/20/04 has to be at the top of my list. Bryan has said he thought it was one of the best matches of his career.

Great stuff as always, Shoe! Have you seen Jun Akiyama vs. Kento Miyahara from AJPW? I haven't watched it yet, but it has got some MOTYC talk.

1974: Jack Brisco vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 01/30) 1975: 1976: Terry Funk vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 06/11) 1977: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Billy Robinson (AJPW 03/05) 1978: 1979: 1980: Bob Backlund vs. Ken Patera (WWF 05/19) 1981: Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (CWA 04/06) 1982: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (CWA 03/29) 1983: Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW 08/31) 1984: Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik (WWF 06/16) 1985: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (CWA 12/30) 1986: Curt Hennig vs. Nick Bockwinkel (AWA 11/15) 1987: Carlos Colon vs. Stan Hansen (WWC 01/06) 1988: Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW 12/16) 1989: Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (NWA 11/15) 1990: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 09/01) 1991: Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko vs. Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat (WCW 11/19) 1992: Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 05/22) 1993: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 12/03) 1994: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/03) 1995: Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/09) 1996: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 12/06) 1997: Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF 03/23) 1998: Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 07/24) 1999: 2000: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 02/27) 2001: The Rock vs. Steve Austin (WWF 04/01) 2002: American Dragon vs. Low Ki (ROH 03/30) 2003: Bryan Danielson vs. Paul London (ROH 04/12) 2004: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (ROH 12/04) 2005: Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe (ROH 10/01) 2006: Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (ROH 09/16) 2007: Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH 08/25) 2008: Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH 02/23) 2009: Chris Hero vs. Bryan Danielson (PWG 09/04) 2010: Bobby Fish vs. Bryan Danielson (EVOLVE 07/23) 2011: John Cena vs. CM Punk (WWE 07/17) 2012: CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE 05/20) 2013: John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE 08/18) 2014: Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H (WWE 04/06) 2015: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi (NJPW 01/04) 2016: Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE 04/01)

Hero vs. Liger will be so much fun.

Went ***3/4 for Balor/Nakamura myself. Nakamura's selling was really shitty, but man, Balor was so awesome in it. The best performance I've ever seen from him.

Had to check this out after reading your review, and man, it was so great. I really need to check out more of Trevor's work in CWF, his performance in this match reminded me of a classic 2006 Bryan Danielson championship defense performance and I loved it.

ProWrestlingTees, here's a link to Hero's store there: http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/chrishero

Did you watch Hero vs. Mark Andrews from PROGRESS Strong Style Tournament? The best match I've seen from the UK this year. Absolutely amazing, imo.

Have you seen Hero/Sabre Jr & Tracy Williams/Drew Gulak from EVOLVE 60 & 61 yet? Would love to hear your thoughts on those matches!

Lawler, Kawada, Kobashi, Rey Rey, Liger, Bryan, Misawa, Hansen, Funk & Flair. That is one hell of a top-10.

AWA ***** Curt Hennig vs. Nick Bockwinkel (11/15/86) ****3/4 Rick Martel vs. Nick Bockwinkel (09/20/84) Memphis ***** ****3/4 Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (04/06/81) Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (12/30/85) NWA/WCW ***** Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (11/15/89) Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (10/26/97) ****3/4 Tully Blanchard vs. Magnum TA (11/28/85) Ric Flair vs. Ricky Morton (07/05/86) Ricky Steamboat vs. Ric Flair (04/02/89) Ricky Steamboat vs. Ric Flair (05/07/89) Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko vs. Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat (11/19/91) Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat (02/29/92) Arn Anderson, Beautiful Bobby, Larry Zbyszko, Rick Rude & Steve Austin vs. Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, Ricky Steamboat & Sting (05/17/92) Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat (06/20/92) Vader vs. Ric Flair (12/27/93) WWE ***** Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik (06/16/84) 30-Man Royal Rumble (01/19/92) Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (03/20/94) Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (03/23/97) Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (10/05/97) Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (04/05/09) CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan (05/20/12) Daniel Bryan, Kane & Ryback vs. Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins (12/16/12) Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk (08/18/13) John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan (08/18/13) Cesaro vs. Sami Zayn (02/27/14) Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H (04/06/14) Daniel Bryan vs. Roman Reigns (02/22/15) Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (04/01/16) Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson vs. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa (11/19/16) AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar (11/19/17) Andrade Almas vs. Johnny Gargano (01/27/18) ****3/4 Bob Backlund vs. Ken Patera (05/19/80) Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair (01/09/93) Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (08/29/94) Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon (08/27/95) Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind (09/22/96) Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (11/17/96) The Rock vs. Steve Austin (04/01/01) Steve Austin vs. Chris Benoit (05/31/01) Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle (08/19/01) Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker (10/20/02) Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels (12/29/03) Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio (06/23/05) Ric Flair vs. Triple H (11/01/05) Edge & Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels & Triple H (01/07/07) Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (03/28/10) John Cena vs. CM Punk (07/17/11) Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose (08/11/11) Dean Ambrose vs. William Regal (10/13/11) Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan (04/29/12) Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena (04/29/12) CM Punk vs. John Cena (09/16/12) Kassius Ohno vs. William Regal (04/10/13) Antonio Cesaro vs. William Regal (11/21/13) Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton (12/16/13) Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton (02/03/14) Randy Orton vs. Batista vs. Daniel Bryan (04/06/14) John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar (08/17/14) Adrian Neville vs. Sami Zayn (12/11/14) Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns (03/29/15) Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles (05/22/16) Brian Kendrick vs. Kota Ibushi (08/26/16) Braun Strowman vs. Roman Reigns (04/30/17) Bobby Roode vs. Hideo Itami (05/20/17) TNA ***** ****3/4 Bobby Roode vs. AJ Styles (12/11/11) NJPW ***** Riki Choshu vs. Shinya Hashimoto (08/02/96) Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (10/14/13) AJ Styles vs. Minoru Suzuki (08/01/14) Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi (01/04/15) Kazuchika Okada vs. Katsuyori Shibata (04/09/17) Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega (08/12/17) Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson (03/25/18) ****3/4 El Samurai vs. Jushin Liger (04/30/92) Jushin Liger vs. The Great Sasuke (04/16/94) Shinya Hashimoto vs. Hiroshi Hase (12/13/94) Shinya Hashimoto vs. Lord Steven Regal (04/16/95) Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shinya Hashimoto (04/29/96) Jushin Liger vs. Shinjiro Otani (02/09/97) Genichiro Tenryu vs. Shinya Hashimoto (08/01/98) Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Shinya Hashimoto (08/02/98) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Minoru Suzuki (10/08/12) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (04/07/13) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii (08/04/13) Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii (02/11/14) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (04/06/14) Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tomohiro Ishii (08/01/14) Kazuchika Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki (08/08/14) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Katsuyori Shibata (09/21/14) AJ Styles vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (08/14/15) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (08/16/15) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tetsuya Naito (07/30/16) Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito (08/13/16) Hirooki Goto vs. Kenny Omega (08/14/16) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Hirooki Goto (01/04/17) Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (06/11/17) Kazuchika Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki (08/08/17) Tomohiro Ishii vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (08/11/17) Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito (08/13/17) Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho (01/04/18) AJPW ***** Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (09/01/90) Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (05/22/92) Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (05/25/92) Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (12/03/93) Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (05/21/94) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (06/03/94) Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (04/15/95) Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (06/09/95) Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (12/06/96) Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (01/20/97) Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (07/24/98) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (02/27/00) Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (05/26/00) ****3/4 Terry Funk vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (06/11/76) Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (08/31/83) Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (12/16/88) Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (06/08/90) Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (10/19/90) Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (04/20/91) Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (02/28/93) Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (07/24/95) Toshiaki Kawada vs. Shinya Hashimoto (02/22/04) Shuji Ishikawa vs. Kento Miyahara (08/27/17) NOAH ***** Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji (04/25/04) Kenta Kobashi vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (04/25/04) ****3/4 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (03/01/03) Jushin Liger & Takehiro Murahama vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji (07/16/03) KENTA vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (06/27/04) KENTA vs. Kenta Kobashi (10/09/04) KENTA vs. SUWA (09/18/05) Genichiro Tenryu vs. KENTA (10/08/05) Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki vs. KENTA & Kenta Kobashi (06/14/08) Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (10/13/08) KENTA vs. Jun Akiyama (05/17/09) Kensuke Office ***** Akihiko Ito, Atsushi Aoki, KENTA & Kenta Kobashi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kensuke Sasaki, Kento Miyahara & Takashi Okita (08/17/08) ****3/4 BJW ***** Hideki Suzuki vs. Yuji Okabayashi (05/05/17) ****3/4 Stardom ***** ****3/4 Io Shirai vs. Viper (02/21/16) Io Shirai vs. Shayna Baszler (02/23/17) CMLL ***** ****3/4 MS-1 vs. Sangre Chicana (09/23/83) Mocho Cota vs. Negro Casas (09/23/94) El Dandy vs. El Hijo del Santo vs. Negro Casas (12/06/96) WWC ***** ****3/4 Carlos Colon vs. Stan Hansen (01/06/87) IWA-MS ***** ****3/4 Chris Hero vs. CM Punk (02/09/02) Chris Hero vs. CM Punk (02/07/03) Necro Butcher vs. Samoa Joe (06/11/05) ROH ***** Bryan Danielson vs. Low Ki (03/30/02) Bryan Danielson vs. Paul London (04/12/03) Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (12/04/04) Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi (10/01/05) Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (08/12/06) Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (09/16/06) Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (06/09/07) Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (08/25/07) Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (02/23/08) Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (11/22/08) Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (12/27/08) El Generico vs. Kevin Steen (12/18/10) ****3/4 AJ Styles vs. Bryan Danielson (11/09/02) AJ Styles vs. Paul London (06/14/03) AJ Styles vs. Bryan Danielson (11/01/03) Austin Aries vs. Bryan Danielson (08/07/04) Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson (10/02/04) Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (10/16/04) Samoa Joe vs. Austin Aries (12/26/04) Austin Aries vs. CM Punk (06/18/05) Bryan Danielson vs. Roderick Strong (11/05/05) Bryan Danielson & Samoa Joe vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji (03/25/06) Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer & Samoa Joe vs. Chris Hero, Necro Butcher & Super Dragon (04/22/06) Ace Steel, Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer, Bryan Danielson, Homicide & Samoa Joe vs. Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, Nate Webb & Necro Butcher (07/15/06) Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (06/23/07) Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (11/30/07) Nigel McGuinness vs. Austin Aries (12/29/07) Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Tyler Black (08/02/08) Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards vs. Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black (04/18/09) Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly (06/24/12) Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (12/16/12) Dalton Castle vs. Jay Lethal (03/09/18) PWG ***** Chris Hero vs. Bryan Danielson (09/04/09) ****3/4 Bryan Danielson vs. Claudio Castagnoli (05/20/06) Bryan Danielson vs. Necro Butcher (07/29/07) Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Bryan Danielson & Roderick Strong (05/22/09) Akira Tozawa & Kevin Steen vs. El Generico & Ricochet (05/27/11) El Generico vs. Kevin Steen (08/20/11) Kevin Steen vs. El Generico (10/22/11) Roderick Strong vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (04/03/15) Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (06/26/15) Chris Hero vs. Timothy Thatcher (08/29/15) Chuck Taylor & Trent vs. Marty Scurll & Zack Sabre Jr. (03/18/17) Chuck Taylor vs. Ricochet (10/21/17) CHIKARA ***** ****3/4 Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jigsaw & Mike Quackenbush (09/13/09) Mike Quackenbush vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (04/01/17) WWN ***** Timothy Thatcher vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (02/25/17) ****3/4 Bobby Fish vs. Bryan Danielson (07/23/10) Bryan Danielson vs. SHINGO (07/24/10) Fit Finlay vs. Sami Callihan (07/26/11) Fit Finlay vs. Sami Callihan (04/13/12) Chris Hero & Tommy End vs. Sami Callihan & Zack Sabre Jr. (01/22/16) Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (04/02/16) Matt Riddle vs. Roderick Strong (07/16/16) Chris Hero vs. Matt Riddle (10/16/16) Chris Hero vs. Matt Riddle (11/13/16) Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Lio Rush (05/21/17) CWF Mid-Atlantic ***** Trevor Lee vs. Chip Day (03/25/17) ****3/4 Trevor Lee vs. Brad Attitude (12/30/16) Trevor Lee vs. Michael Elgin (06/03/17) 3-2-1 BATTLE! ***** ****3/4 Daniel Makabe vs. Timothy Thatcher (07/28/17) wXw ***** ****3/4 Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero (03/09/08) Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (03/07/09) Chris Hero vs. KENTA (05/15/11) David Starr & Jurn Simmons vs. Timothy Thatcher & WALTER (10/08/17) Absolute Andy vs. David Starr (03/11/18) Ilja Dragunov vs. WALTER (05/05/18) RevPro ***** ****3/4 Chris Hero vs. Tomohiro Ishii (11/10/16) Katsuyori Shibata vs. Matt Riddle (01/21/17) PROGRESS ***** WALTER vs. Timothy Thatcher (01/28/18) WALTER vs. Zack Sabre Jr. (04/07/18) ****3/4 Marty Scurll vs. Chris Hero (06/19/16) Matt Riddle vs. Will Ospreay (11/27/16) Matt Riddle vs. Timothy Thatcher vs. WALTER (09/10/17)

Extremely happy that Bryan made it to top-5!

Pretty shocked that Tenryu didn't make it to top-10. #13 is still a damn good ranking, though.

Been loving these. This was another great episode, loved the Bryan talk. Can't wait for part 7!

1. Ric Flair 2. Daniel Bryan 3. Stan Hansen 4. Terry Funk 5. Toshiaki Kawada 6. Mitsuharu Misawa 7. Jushin Liger 8. Kenta Kobashi 9. Rey Mysterio Jr. 10. Genichiro Tenryu

Finally able to post! Thanks to whoever made it possible, haha. Major props to Grimmas for doing this. Been loving the list reveals so far!