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Well she's had a couple of MOTYC calibre matches in the last few months now and they were totally different to each each stylistically. If Mariah May vs. Toni Storm isn't the #1 women's match to ever take place outside Japan it's probably #2.

They do a lot of 6/8/10 man tags, not many multi-mans.

Mio Momono The best pure babyface of her era and even just that doesn't quite do her justice. From very early on in her career she'd developed a distinct personality that she incorporated into her matches brilliantly. She's an over-energetic little pest who does things like screaming her opponent's face to throw them off. Done by almost anyone else her gimmick would just be annoying but she pulls it off and makes you think it's just her real personality. She's also an incredibly athletic cardio machine despite not looking like one and takes some incredible bumps. Her feud with Mayumi Ozaki in 2023-24 came closer than anyone to the visceral and emotional vibe of the Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto feud. vs. Maruko Nagasaki - SEAdLINNNG 5/5/17 vs. Takumi Iroha - Marvelous 11/3/19 w/ Yumi Ohka vs. Hibiki & Sareee - WAVE 12/27/20 w/ Mei Hoshizuki & Rin Kadokura vs. Chihiro Hashimoto, DASH Chisako & Mika Iwata (Elimination) - GAEA 6/13/21 vs. Miyuki Takase vs. Sakura Hirota (Tomoe Battle Rules) - WAVE 6/29/21 vs. Chikayo Nagashima - Marvelous 5/3/23 vs. Mayumi Ozaki - Marvelous 8/7/23 vs. Mayumi Ozaki - Oz Academy 4/28/24

Chihiro Hashimoto Debuted in 2015, by 2017 had succeeded Meiko Satomura as the top star of Sendai Girls and still holds that position as of 2025. She has an amateur background and incorporates those skills into her pro-wrestling about as well as anyone in her era. She tremendous raw power/strength that makes her suplexes look especially damaging. In 2023-24 she's been out of the main title picture for a while, her tag team with Yuu (Team 200kg) is one of the best tag teams in the scene, and Chihiro is definitely the better of the two. vs. Meiko Satomura - Sendai Girls 9/24/17 vs. Sareee - Sendai Girls 6/8/19 vs. Mei Hoshizuki - Marvelous 8/20/21 vs. MIRAI - Stardom 2/4/23 w/ Yuu vs. Mio Momono & Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 2/11/24

Here is my Top 100. I might add new matches later on. ****1/2 1. Darby Allin & Sting vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson - AEW 3/3/24 2. Demus vs. Mad Dog Connelly - ACTION 4/4/24 3. Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston - AEW 3/3/24 4. Mayumi Ozaki vs. Mio Momono - Oz Academy 4/28/24 5. CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre - WWE 10/5/24 6. Nanae Takahashi vs. Sareee - Marigold 12/13/24 7. Bryan Danielson vs. Jon Moxley - AEW 10/12/24 8. Bryan Danielson vs. Swerve Strickland - AEW 8/25/24 9. Mayu Iwatani vs. Sareee - Stardom 4/27/24 10. Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Junior - NJPW 2/11/24 ****1/4 11. Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay - AEW 4/21/24 12. Bryan Danielson vs. Jeff Jarrett - AEW 8/7/24 13. Blue Panther vs. Ultimo Guerrero - CMLL 11/30/24 14. Chihiro Hashimoto & Mika Iwata vs. Mio Momono & Sareee - Sendai Girls 1/7/24 15. El Cuervo vs. Pedro Portillo III - IWA Puerto Rico 11/21/24 16. HARASHIMA vs. Yuki Ueno - DDT 17/3/24 17. Bryan Danielson vs. Hechicero - AEW 2/3/24 18. Hechicero vs. Zack Sabre Junior - CMLL 6/22/24 19. Sami Zayn vs. Gunther - WWE 4/6/24 20. Blue Panther vs. Hechicero - CMLL 6/11/24 21. VENY & Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Mayu Iwatani & Sareee - Sareee-ISM 9/2/24 22. Hideki Suzuki vs. Yuma Anzai - AJPW 6/24/24 23. AJ Styles vs. Cody Rhodes - WWE 6/15/24 24. PAC vs. Bryan Danielson - AEW 7/3/24 25. Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Hanako Nakamori & Hiroyo Matsumoto - SEAdLINNNG 8/23/24 26. Demus vs. Lunatik Xtreme - Zona 23 1/21/24 27. Nanae Takahashi vs. Sareee - Marigold 9/23/24 28. Rei Saito vs. Yuma Anzai - AJPW 8/3/24 29. Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada - NJPW 1/4/24 30. Kris Statlander vs. Mercedes Mone - AEW 12/28/24 31. AZM & Takumi Iroha vs. Natsupoi & Sareee - Sareee-ISM 7/29/24 32. Arisa Nakajima & Leon vs. KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane - PURE-J 7/5/24 33. Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Mio Momono & Riko Kawahata - Sareee-ISM 7/29/24 34. Christian Cage, Luchasaurus & Nick Wayne vs. Cash Wheeler, Daniel Garcia & Dash Wilder - AEW 2/3/24 **** 35. 1 Called Manders vs. Mad Dog Connelly - SLA 1/26/24 36. Hook vs. Samoa Joe - AEW 1/17/24 37. Blue Panther vs. Bryan Danielson - CMLL 4/5/24 38. Chad Gable vs. Sami Zayn - WWE 6/15/24 39. Sami Zayn vs. Gunther - WWE 10/7/24 40. Kris Statlander vs. Mercedes Mone - AEW 11/23/24 41. Atlantis Jr vs. Hechicero - NJPW 2/19/24 42. AJ Styles vs. Cody Rhodes - WWE 4/2/24 43. Blue Panther, Mistico, Ultimo Guerrero & Volador Jr vs. Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley & Matt Sydal - CMLL 3/29/24 44. AKINO vs. Mio Momono - Oz Academy 1/7/24 45. Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu vs. Mio Momono & Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 2/11/24 46. Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher - AEW 4/20/24 47. La Parka vs. Rush - Lucha Libre Elite 4/21/24 48. Mercedes Mone vs. Willow Nightingale - AEW 5/26/24 49. Bozilla vs. Sareee - Marigold 10/24/24 50. Kento Miyahara vs. Yuma Anzai - AJPW 5/29/24 51. HARASHIMA vs. Shinya Aoki - DDT 10/20/24 52. Jon Moxley vs. Orange Cassidy - AEW 11/23/24 53. Masa Kitamiya vs. Tomohiro Ishii - NOAH 1/2/24 54. Ludwig Kaiser vs. Sheamus - WWE 6/3/24 55. Hechicero vs. Zack Sabre Junior - Revolution Pro 8/24/24 56. Mio Momono & Tomoko Watanabe vs. Ryo Mizunami & Sonoko Kato - Marvelous 3/30/24 57. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mike Bailey - MLP 10/19/24 58. Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Sareee - Sareee-ISM 1/16/24 59. Miu Watanabe vs. Ryo Mizunami - TJPW 9/22/24 60. Mei Seira vs. Yuna Mizumori - Stardom 10/27/24 61. Natsupoi vs. Starlight Kid - Stardom 12/29/24 62. Hazuki vs. Mercedes Mone - NJPW 12/15/24 63. Arisu Endo & Suzume vs. Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi - TJPW 2/10/24 64. Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley vs. Dash Wilder & Dax Harwood - AEW 3/3/24 65. Samoa Joe vs. Swerve Strickland - AEW 4/21/24 66. Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay - AEW 12/28/24 67. Aja Kong & Sareee vs. Manami & Meiko Satomura - Sendai Girls 11/17/24 68. Miu Watanabe vs. Miyu Yamashita - TJPW 3/31/24 69. Christian Cage vs. Daniel Garcia - AEW 3/3/24 70. Riko Kawahata vs. Takumi Iroha - Marvelous 9/29/24 71. Masha Slamovich vs. Miyu Yamashita - TJPW 1/4/24 72. Malakai Black, Brody King & Buddy Murphy vs. Daniel Garcia, Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood - AEW 1/27/24 ***3/4 73. Chikayo Nagashima, DASH Chisako, Drake Morimatsu & Tomoko Watanabe vs. Maria, Mio Momono, Riko Kawahata & Takumi Iroha - Netflix 9/12/24 74. El Hijo de Fishman vs. Mascara Sagrada - Riba Auditorio 3/22/24 75. Fuminori Abe vs. Roderick Strong - DPW 5/19/24 76. Miu Watanabe vs. Shoko Nakajima - TJPW 5/6/24 77. Randy Orton vs. Gunther - WWE 8/31/24 78. Pete Dunne vs. Sheamus - WWE 10/7/24 79. Sheamus vs. Gunther - WWE 5/6/24 80. Jon Moxley vs. Josh Barnett - GCW 6/22/24 81. AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton - WWE 5/10/24 82. Hazuki & Koguma vs. Mei Seira & Suzu Suzuki - Stardom 5/5/24 83. Kofi Kingston vs. Gunther - WWE 5/13/24 84. Darby Allin vs. Konosuke Takeshita - AEW 1/3/24 85. Bozilla & Sareee vs. Giulia & Utami Hayashishita - Marigold 5/20/24 86. Bron Breakker vs. Sami Zayn - WWE 8/12/24 87. Adam Page vs. Jeff Jarrett - AEW 7/3/24 88. Mascara Dorada vs. Stuka Jr - NJPW 2/19/24 89. Mercedes Mone vs. Stephanie Vaquer - AEW 6/30/24 90. Io Shirai vs. Utami Hayashishita - Marigold 7/13/24 91. Chihiro Hashimoto & Mika Iwata vs. Nanae Takahashi & Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 3/24/24 92. Orange Cassidy vs. Roderick Strong - AEW 3/3/24 93. Manami & Ryo Mizunami vs. Mio Momono & Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 7/15/24 94. AZM vs. Mayu Iwatani - Stardom 8/18/24 95. Pete Dunne vs. Sheamus - WWE 8/19/24 96. John Hawking vs. Savio Vega - IWA Puerto Rico 12/28/24 97. Daniel Garcia vs. Kyle Fletcher - AEW 12/25/24 98. Go Shiozaki & Jun Akiyama vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura - NOAH 6/19/24 99. Aja Kong vs. Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 3/8/24 100. Daniel Garcia vs. Maxwell Jacob Friedman - AEW 9/7/24

I recently rewatched this (probably for the 4th or 5th time) and I loved it more than ever. Involuntarily fist-pumping as Steamboat intervened to alert the referee to Punk still moving his arm. It's a moment that really works if you watched the Punk vs. Steamboat feud beforehand capping off with the Punk face-turn. It feels like a moral lesson almost than Punk deciding to 'be that man' and defend Steamboat ended up getting him a reward that he couldn't possibly have predicted, so it's not like he was being cynical about it or anything. Joe was also pitch-perfect in this. His strikes look like he's totally demolishing Punk and really puts over what a great effort Punk was putting in to actually get any offense together. But it's not like Joe was invincible either, he shows just enough chinks in the armour to make you believe this isn't a lost cause. The moment where he illegally uses the ropes was amazing, especially the crowd reaction. This is one of the best matches ever. *****

I've only watched the first two episodes and I've enjoyed it a lot so far. I don't think it being a bit historically inaccurate is a big deal really, everyone knows these things are semi-fictional. The stuff they've changed (e.g. compressing the timeline) is justifiable when you've got to tell this story in 5 episodes to a mostly unfamiliar audience. Toshikuni having a bigger role than he did in real life makes sense for an 'adaptation' because you don't have the time to flesh out the characters of all 4 Matsunaga Brothers. The Jaguar-Sato drama wasn't even that far off the truth. I think they communicated the audience that this is promotion where not all the matches have predetermined winners and the older stars who aren't drawing anymore get ruthlessly put to pasture. That's the truthful substance of it. That they got that across by fudging the details a bit to get it across within the time constraints doesn't really matter. I say all this as a massive Zenjo nerd.

Can you imagine the reaction of the ROH fans if Kobashi actually did a sneaky coward heel gimmick and got the win after throwing salt in Joe's eyes.

Chris Jericho was like a better version of Sid Vicious in that he was generally a lot more over than his talent level would normally warrant as he had the knock of disappearing for long periods whenever fans were close to tiring of him. Now he's gone and been a consistently pushed act for 5 years in the same promotion and, oh no.

Black Sabbath are in as a band.

I'd really like it if he wrestled the way he did against Rey Mysterio all the time. Angle's true disposition is he's a super-intense bully and bringing that aspect of his personality to the forefront created much better flowing matches than when he got obsessed with trading finishers/pretty reversals for the sake of it with Benoit etc... Or that brief 2006 WWECW run was also a much more optimal version of Angle than his default mode. The more frustrating thing about him really is he does show potential to have been a real top tier wrestler, in some ways I think he did actually get it, but there's just this aggravating bit of brainworms going on that stops him ever reaching his potential except in some specific circumstances. He's a very high-level prop wrestler, by which I mean wrestlers who have a certain set of talents/abilities but needed to be used in the correct way to really get high-level stuff out of them. There's certainly room for in wrestling, might even make towards the bottom of my list if I'm feeling generous towards them in 2026. The Summerslam 2001 match vs. Austin I think is a great example of Kurt being in that kind of role. Austin is the main driver of the match narrative and his performance is the best thing about it, but calling it a "carry job" or something like that would be grossly unfair. Angle's talents elevate the whole thing to higher level that the vast majority of wrestlers are capable of. For all the criticisms of his selling, he has a great selling performance in this match, and that's not his only great selling performance, his flaw is more than he doesn't seem to have a good sense of when he should be selling, so left to his own devices we often get total messes like those TNA Jeff Hardy matches.

Roman's an increasingly weird case because the period where I think he's a Top 15 worker in the world was 2015-18 when half the internet insisted he sucked. That's where the bulk of his case is made to me, even if his contribution to The Shield is a bit underrated at this point. 2019-21 he's still pretty good at times, though the Bloodline stuff can get pretty grating with his stopping in the middle of matches to deliver his monologues. But it's really his huge run as the Ace of a booming WWE in 2022-24 that throws everything off, it's by far his most successful run where he's given tremendous opportunities, but that's the run where this guy just sucks. I liked the Brock Summerslam match a lot but other than that it's the most boring Ace run in WWE history to me. He insists on slowing every match to a crawl whenever it looks like it might be getting interesting, and the constant Bloodline interference and shenanigans just becomes a bit of a joke before long.

The AEW run has really added to his case, probably the best run of a 60+ wrestler in US wrestling history. He definitely wasn't making my list without that but I think he might sneak in now. I don't think he had a single match which didn't at least deliver, and the way he reinvented himself in his 60s as some daredevil maniac old man is really astonishing. Yes he was protected by only ever wrestling in tags, but really that just tells you that other companies should be doing that with their older wrestlers who can still go in other ways. And despite that Sting did have quite a lot of ring time in a lot of these tags. When his run first started I suspected he was just gonna be on the apron 90% letting Darby do the heavy lifting before he gets in for a hot tag and hits his signature stuff, you know the drill, but that wouldn't be a fair characterisation of his run at all. The FTR match at Grand Slam 2021 was the first one when I was really realising that Sting is simply a really good tag wrestler.

Dude if you don't like a wrestler don't put them in your Top 100 Ever list. And I'm gonna use that as a jumping off point because I've never experienced the feeling that I'm being peer-pressured by some astroturfing campaign into saying a wrestler is "objectively" great like with Will Ospreay the last year or so. It's really quite weird. I've actually seen him live many many times in 2013-16 when he was a regular on the UK indies and I can't remember ever having strong feelings about him. He was just a guy. If people enjoy his style of wrestling then more power to them but it's not something that interests me at all. To me his kayfabe character is "guy who is phenomenally great at every aspect of wrestling" (I wonder if that makes people think he's actually that in real life), like you've put in a cheat code to give your video game character maxed out stats on everything. It all feels aimed at people who mainly appreciate the most surface elements of pro-wrestling (e.g. athleticism and moves) which most obviously require "real" skill to uninitiated eyes, but there's no pro-wrestling soul to any of it. He's like the culmination of "sports entertainment" over pro-wrestling. I don't believe in any of it. The comparisons with Misawa feel bizarre to me as I simply cannot imagine ever believing in a Will Ospreay comeback the way I get sucked into e.g. Misawa's big comeback against Taue 4/15/95. Misawa has a certain level of vulnerability and determination to struggle against the odds that Ospreay can't convey because nothing ever really affects him. I don't hate it, there are a bunch of Will Ospreay matches I thought were really good, but the overall package is a bit boring and uninspired to me.

Marvelous 2/18/18 Review Not a good show so let's just get this over and done with. Megumi Yabushita vs. Miki Tanaka The most entertaining part of this match was the start where Miki was upset that Megumi wouldn't shake her hand so pushes her in the back very petulantly. The match itself was largely just sitting around in bodyscissors and half crabs. Bizarrely there was a moment where Miki was out of breath from being in a submission so long that she needed to stop for a moment and Megumi even passed her a bottle of water and let her catch her breath in the ropes for about 30 seconds before restarting. I don't know if that was meant to be funny or what but it ended up just making Miki look useless. 1/4* Chikayo Nagashima & KAORU vs. Momoe-chan & Rin Kadokura This was a pretty good showing considering who is involved, especially when the match was actually dragged down a bit by Tommy doing her annoying "Nooooooooooooo!" schtick way too much making herself the centre of attention. I thought Rin looked good on her hot tag and she even got a believable nearfall on Chikayo which got a big reaction from the audience and it felt like she was getting over a bit. **1/4 Sakura Hirota vs. Pandita This was just stupid. DUD Kyuri, Maruko Nagasaki & Mio Momono vs. Natsumi Maki, Tomoko Watanabe & Yuu Yamagata Natsumi has now joined Level 5 following the events of the last show and is fighting Mio Momono's army of hyper-active dungaree-clad little pests. I couldn't help but notice Kyuri was all over the place with her timing multiple times in this match and constantly slowed everything to a halt whenever she got involved. She's probably always been the least of these 3 who regularly tag together but I've never seen it be this obvious. The best segments here were when Mio and Natsumi faced off and we got lots of cool battles over rollups, and Tomoko coming into to lariat everyone was fun. I actually don't remember Yuu doing anything heh. This was mostly good except when Kyuri was making a mess of things. **3/4

Danhausen would probably be featured more if he weren't constantly injured.

It's funny how after hyping up the "Bidding War of 2024" for so long, 2024 arrived with MJF's value having completely tanked.

Marvelous 1/28/18 Review Back to watching stuff from the beginning again. I know most of this stuff isn't going to be good but I still get some enjoyment out of seeing the core roster develop and knowing where they'll end up. Kakeru Sekiguchi vs. Megumi Yabushita This match feels like it's only here to get Megumi and the W-Fix crew a bit of heat. The match is predictably very one-sided as Kakeru is from Actwres girl'Z and less than a year into her career here. Unfortunately Megumi isn't interesting on offense enough to make this entertaining, her beatdown segment goes on way too long and just kinda buries Kakeru more than anything else. We do get a finishing stretch which was ok but too little too late to salvage this. * Miki Tanaka & Sakura Hirota vs. Tomoko Watanabe & Yuu Yamagata Dumb low-effort comedy match where the comedy was mostly unfunny. I will concede there was one funny moment where Sakura tried to have Miki catapult her as offense only to be bounced back into taking and inadvertent backbreaker from her own partner, mainly coz of the absurdity of it. But apart from that this was a waste of time. 1/2* We next have a segment where Chigusa introduces the American wrestler Aja Perera, who'll be wrestling for Marvelous under the name Momoe-chan. She is now working for WWE as the referee Daphanie LaShaunn if anyone recognises that name, I never pay attention to WWE's referees. Chigusa also shouts at ASUKA/VENY who is in the crowd for some reason. Chikayo Nagashima & KAORU vs. Mio Momono & Yumi Ohka First time seeing BOSS To Mammy! More used to seeing them in Pro-Wrestling WAVE. At the start of the match W-Fix hand out masks to everyone, not wrestling masks I mean the "don't spread infectious diseases" masks and Mio gets upset about it. I don't know what's going on exactly but am finding this funnier than the actual comedy match. This was pretty fun I guess but it had some awkward moments where the action just kinda stops. Surprised that Yumi got the win in this one I assumed Mio would be taking the pin. ** Natsumi Maki & Tae Honma vs. Rin Kadokura & Takumi Iroha (NEW-TRA) Natsumi and Tae are both from Actwres girl'Z and debuted in 2015. I'll just note that NEW-TRA's entrance is delightfully dorky. They come out in light-up LED clothes holding glowsticks and dance to their electric mix of Dvorak's New World Symphony, but the lighting is really low so you can barely see them apart from the lights so we just have to use our imagination that they're doing really cool dance moves heh. This was mostly a good match, I thought Natsumi looked pretty good with her selling here and she took a huge bump on the neck off one of Takumi's Germans. The issue with the match though is none of it really seemed to flow together even if everyone played their roles fine. **3/4 In the post match they did an angle where it looked like Natsumi joined up with Tomoko Watanabe & Yuu Yamagata's LEVEL 5 group. We'll see if that goes anywhere. Another nothing show though.

Heh well remembered. Marvelous 9/12/23 Review Hibiscus Mii & Maya Yukihi vs. Maria & Riko Kawahata Firstly it's a bit weird how Maya went from main eventing a Stardom PPV to working the opener of Marvelous shows in about 6 months, and that's been her trajectory all across the scene. What happened there? There's a funny moment at the start where Mii & Maya make their entrance but Chigusa has a word with them, dunno what was said but it resulted in them going to the back and doing their entrance all over again but doing sexy dances to the ring this time (I saw sexy because Chigusa was shouting "YEAAHHHH SEXXXYYYYY" all the way through this so that was clearly the intention). Well it looked like they were all having fun The match itself wasn't much, although there was a nice energy to it. The most memorable moment was Maria messing up a springboard strike move but just about saving herself from landing badly. *3/4 Bryan Ishizaka vs. Leo Isaka Thought I'd give this a chance. Eh. Probably shouldn't have bothered. This match was in two halves. The first was a ringside brawl which absolutely sucked. They worked at about 0.25 speed with zero energy. The total opposite of a "wild" brawl. The 2nd half they got in the ring and had a decent basic match, but previous few minutes left a bad taste in my mouth. * Azusa Inaba & Tomoko Inaba vs. Itsuki Aoki & Yuu A battle of the little kickers vs. the power wrestlers. This went a bit too long and got repetitive at parts but it was a good match and they were throwing their strikes well. I thought Aoki looked better than Yuu when it was time to exchange some clobbering as she was working with the Karate Sisters and reacting to them rather than just doing her usual spots regardless of what they were doing. *** Ai Houzan & Unagi Sayaka vs. Ayame Sasamura & Sandra Moore We start off with the long awaiting Sandra vs. Unagi showdown. It goes down with Unagi saying she wants to teach Sandra some Japanese and whispers something into her ear, but then attacks her as Sandra tries to teach what she learned. They then both miss some moves and tag out. Heh ok. The best part of this match was Unagi getting clobbered by Ayame. Ayame hits hard. It looks like we're going to get a strike exchange but after taking some hits Unagi just goes for a codebreaker rather than hit back, which I thought was a good twist. **1/2 Chikayo Nagashima & Takumi Iroha vs. Mio Momono & Tomoko Watanabe (AAAW Tag Team Titles) Packed main event for a small show here. The energy in the room really changes as soon as this starts, right from the entrances the crowd seems to have got a lot more hyped and serious all of a sudden. There's a bit of a scary moment early on where Takumi backs Tomoko into the ropes for an Irish whip, but something goes wrong and Tomoko's neck gets caught under the top rope. Takumi puts her in a headlock on the ground and Mio quickly runs in to stomp on Takumi, fights Chikayo in the corner and forces Takumi to come over and throw her out of the ring. I guess this was really just buying Tomoko a bit of time to recover from the ropes mishap but it was an organic way to do it, as by the time that's all over it's clear Tomoko is fine and they get back to fighting. I'm steering away from going into play-by-play mode so I'll just say everyone has their working boots on here and things are laid out logical to produce a great match. One spot I'll highlight is this little bit where Tomoko has Chikayo up on her shoulders to take a crossbody from Mio but it gets countered into a pin. Very Chikayo counter. It's also notable how, even though she's still the underdog, Mio takes a lot more of the match than she would have done a year ago. There's a good few minutes where she's just kicking Takumi ass and I'm not sure I remember her ever straight out be in control of Takumi for so long before this. There's a big turning point where Tomoko catches one of a Takumi's kicks to turn it into a dragonscrew and then follows up with a Figure 4. Mio tries to hold Chikayo back from breaking it up for a while but eventually she gets through, how hard she was fighting to break up that figure 4 sells how much trouble Takumi's in. It gets worse for her when she takes another Tomoko dragonscrew in the ropes, followed by a Mio dropkick to the knee on the apron and then another dragonscrew. The story of that match now is that Takumi's knee is hurt and she needs Chikayo to take the lead for the rest of the match. That's where we get Mio's big control segment on Takumi about 11 minutes in working the leg, with Takumi having to be saved by Chikayo running in to break things up. This whole layout has thrown expectations out the window. Takumi's the Ace of the company but circumstances have pushed her down to the bottom of the totem poll. There's a moment where it looks like she's about to get a comeback in, hoists Mio on the top turnbuckle to do something but her leg gives out climbing up the ropes and it all falls apart, Chikayo has to run in again to take out Mio to keep Takumi in the game. The finishing stretch is fantastic. Mio looks like the best babyface in the world in those last 5 minutes or so. I read the main narrative of this match is Mio really wants to show she can hang with Takumi as an individual rivalry, and she certainly achieves that. However, this was a tag match, and her constantly gunning for Takumi meant Chikayo could constantly wreck things for her and her and Tomoko weren't working as a team as well as Mio and Tomoko weren't. You can interpret this as Mio leveling up, but also showing she has some immaturities holding her back. It's great stuff and a great match. ****1/4

Marvelous 9/3/23 Review Hikari Shimizu & Riko Kawahata vs. Itsuki Aoki & Rina Amikura Hikari and Rina are both former Actwres girl'Z wrestlers who're now part of the Colors offshoot unit. We get the obligatory comedy but they get it out of the way early. For some reason Rina seems to only do two moves for the first half of this match, bodyslams and that screaming splash move. There's a pretty entertaining chop exchange where Riko bares her chest and demands Rina hit her after demeaning her a bit. Decent enough. ** Ai Houzan & Maria vs. Nightshade (Handicap Match) Marvelous have screwed up uploading the match it's been put up at 1.5 speed. What a silly company. Shame coz this is surprisingly good. Right from the start Nightshade terrifies Ai by just screaming at her when she goes to shake hands. Ai doesn't want to fight Nightshade anymore and begs Maria to start the match. The rest of this is Ai & Maria treating Nightshade like a puzzle, trying to figure out ways to bring this monster down. They show some great camaraderie and I thought Ai looked particularly good here, at one point she defends herself by poking Nightshade in the eye but she'd been such a good babyface in the buildup that it didn't feel like she did anything bad. I liked the moment where Maria has the idea of airplane spinning Ai to use her as a weapon to whack Nightshade in the head with. Plus another good Nightshade showing. *** Chikayo Nagashima, Takumi Iroha & Unagi Sayaka vs. Mio Momono, Sandra Moone & Tomoko Watanabe Mio is disappointed that he attempt to spin into her streamers didn't work. We get some birthday girl bullying at first with Team Mio grabbing Unagi and bullying her in the ropes while shouting 'Happy Birthday', but eventually Mio starts overdoing it so Chikayo & Takumi feel the need to step in. This is a really well laid out trios match. Everyone gets in the match for about the right amount of time. The best part is the Mio vs. Takumi exchange. They make sure Sandra vs. Unagi never happens heh, Sandra's main contribution was a good suicide dive while a ringside brawl was happening. Tomoko & Chikayo are both solid. There was a nice moment where Takumi was going for her leg-lariat off the ropes, but annoying Unagi trying to be helpful misunderstood the assignment and grabbed Sandra Moone to hold her against the ropes, inadvertently saving her from the leg-lariat. Takumi looked pissed. I don't remember seeing this spot before done exactly like that, and it was pleasingly character specific. I also liked a very simple exchange between Mio and Chikayo where it's just a couple of knees, but it's really good how Chikayo follows through on the push-off to deliver the knee, and then Mio sells it with perfect timing to get up in time to take the 2nd one but without ever looking like she's waiting for it. Good work. This whole thing was a real good main event without anything especially good about it. ***1/4

Just in general, if anyone's been thinking about going to Japan for a while but put off by how much it'd cost, there's probably never been a better time to go than now. The Yen's falling exchange rate has made everything so cheap and who knows how long that will last.

Marvelous 8/18/23 Review Ai Houzan vs. Sandra Moone Sandra is not very convincing with her strikes. She seems too hesitant and it's a bit weird when Ai is playing the physical underdog role here yet her strikes look more impactful. Sandra's powerbomb moves were good though, the sideways one she does looks unique at least. These two didn't seem to gel well. *1/4 Chikayo Nagashima & Takumi Iroha vs. Itsuki Aoki & Unagi Sayaka The photo on Itsuki's entrance video needs updating it must be 3 years old and she looks totally different now. This is another kinda weird match as it feels like they're not entirely sure whether to take this one seriously or not. It's actually Unagi who seems to want to go hard but then the others do some comedy spots and Unagi isn't good enough to elevate things in-ring. Chikayo attacking Unagi's nose was pretty good/funny though, especially when Itsuki got revenge by grabbing Chikayo's nose. **1/4 Maria, Nightshade & Yuu vs. Mio Momono, Riko Kawahata & Tomoko Watanabe Chigusa is going wild on the entrances announcing Mio as THE JAPANESE CHUCKY lol. Not sure how helpful that is. There was a lot of good stuff in this match, but it never really came together as a cohesive match. The best part was the brief Mio vs. Nightshade segment. Nightshade is pretty good, sometimes she's goes a little overboard with her evil monster mannerisms, but I did enjoy stuff like her menacing Riko not letting her escape to tag out. **3/4 Bit of a nothing show.

Is Bray Wyatt the first wrestler to win a "Worst" award the same year he died?

2023 Observer Awards LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD (WRESTLER OF THE YEAR) WILL OSPREAY (302) 1,814 Cody Rhodes (119) 1,330 MJF (80) 927 Roman Reigns (106) 904 Bryan Danielson (49) 590 MIXED MARTIAL ARTS MOST VALUABLE JON JONES (57) 474 Islam Makhachev (51) 472 Leon Edwards (34) 332 Israel Adesanya (33) 224 Sean Strickland (18) 139 MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER WILL OSPREAY (548) 3,086 Bryan Danielson (122) 1,773 Kenny Omega (19) 590 Zack Sabre Jr. (15) 282 Kento Miyahara (11) 185 MOST OUTSTANDING FIGHTER OF THE YEAR ISLAM MAKHACHEV (129) 793 Leon Edwards (26) 367 Sean Strickland (32) 306 Alex Pereira (10) 114 Jon Jones (6) 79 TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR FTR (344) 2,341 Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn (106) 1,128 Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi (71) 712 Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe (82) 473 Young Bucks (42) 435 BEST ON INTERVIEWS EDDIE KINGSTON (199) 1,483 MJF (140) 1,441 Christian Cage (148) 921 Jon Moxley (50) 705 Cody Rhodes (51) 626 PROMOTION OF THE YEAR WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT (406) 2,359 All Elite Wrestling (194) 1,965 New Japan Pro Wrestling (17) 1,011 CMLL (90) 965 UFC (52) 580 BEST WEEKLY TV SHOW AEW DYNAMITE (430) 2,707 AEW Collision (74) 1,483 WWE Smackdown (128) 1,434 CMLL Super Viernes (67) 518 WWE NXT (3) 309 PRO WRESTLING MATCH OF THE YEAR KENNY OMEGA VS. WILL OSPREAY 1/4 TOKYO (474) 3,018 Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 6/25 Toronto (116) 1,227 MJF vs. Bryan Danielson 3/5 San Francisco (115) 1,065 Swerve Strickland vs. Adam Page 11/18 Los Angeles (33) 464 FTR vs. White & Robinson (5) 266 MMA FIGHT OF THE YEAR ALEXANDER VOLKANOVSKI VS. ISLAM MAKHACHEV 2/11 PERTH, AUSTRALIA (164) 822 Alexandre Pantoja vs. Brandon Moreno 7/8 Las Vegas (7) 285 Justin Gaethje vs. Rafael Fiziev 3/18 London (2) 171 Geoff Neal vs. Shavkat Rakhimonov 3/4 Las Vegas (3) 91 Jamahal Hill vs. Glover Teixeira 2/21 Rio de Janeiro (8) 83 “CATEGORY B” AWARDS UNITED STATES/CANADA MVP CODY RHODES 268 Bryan Danielson 139 MJF 135 Roman Reigns 109 Jon Moxley 36 JAPAN MVP WILL OSPREAY 434 Kazuchika Okada 243 Tetsuya Naito 80 Kento Miyahara 67 Yuma Aoyagi 30 MEXICO MVP MISTICO 416 El Hijo del Vikingo 314 Rocky Romero 68 Volador Jr. 30 Pentagon Jr. 7 EUROPE MVP WILL OSPREAY 754 Michael Oku 45 Zack Sabre Jr. 26 Spike Trivet 8 **HODGE AWARD/NON-HEAVYWEIGHT MVP EL HIJO DEL VIKINGO 189 Hiromu Takahashi 144 Darby Allin 139 Orange Cassidy 83 Mistico 34 WOMEN’S WRESTLING MVP RHEA RIPLEY 359 Giulia 162 Athena 114 Tam Nakano 65 Becky Lynch 63 WOMEN’S MMA MVP ALEXA GRASSO 147 Zhang Weili 45 Amanda Nunes 20 FEUD OF THE YEAR SAMI ZAYN & KEVIN OWENS VS. BLOODLINE 268 Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland 119 Kento Miyahara vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima 98 Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay 91 Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley 44 BEST BOX OFFICE DRAW MMA JON JONES Israel Adesanya Islam Makhachev BEST BOX OFFICE DRAW PRO WRESTLING ROMAN REIGNS Cody Rhodes John Cena MOST IMPROVED JULIA HART 117 Dominik Mysterio 86 Mariah May 49 Shota Umino 49 Swerve Strickland 47 MOST CHARISMATIC MJF 162 Roman Reigns 88 Kento Miyahara 81 Giulia 57 Cody Rhodes 49 BRYAN DANIELSON AWARD (BEST TECHNICAL WRESTLER) BRYAN DANIELSON 549 Zack Sabre Jr. 427 Josh Alexander 17 BRUISER BRODY MEMORIAL AWARD (BEST BRAWLER) JON MOXLEY 383** Tomohiro Ishii 91 Adam Page 78 Eddie Kingston 74 Gunther 46 BEST FLYING WRESTLER EL HIJO DEL VIKINGO 595 Will Ospreay 52 Rey Fenix 37 Mascara Dorada 36 Komander 28 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR YUMA ANZAI 205 Action Andretti 140 Megan Bayne 65 Oleg Boltin 49 Kelani Jordan 38 BEST NON-WRESTLER DON CALLIS 266 Paul Heyman 198 Prince Nana 175 Renee Paquette 31 RJ City 18 MOST OVERRATED SANADA 114 Roman Reigns 109 CM Punk 63 Tyrus 62 MJF 55 MOST UNDERRATED CHAD GABLE 84 Konosuke Takeshita 80 Daniel Garcia 50 Mike Bailey 49 Yota Tsuji 42 BEST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER EXCALIBUR 183 Ian Riccaboni 139 Kevin Kelly 137 Nigel McGuinness 133 Chris Charlton 89 WORST TELEVISION ANNOUNCER BOOKER T 198 Kevin Patrick 162 Jim Ross 90 Michael Cole 48 Corey Graves 42 BEST MAJOR WRESTLING SHOW AEW REVOLUTION 3/5 SAN FRANCISCO 188 AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door 6/25 Toronto 128 AEW All In 8-27 London 111 WWE WrestleMania night one 4/1 Los Angeles 101 AEW All Out 9/3 Chicago 72 WORST MAJOR WRESTLING SHOW WWE CROWN JEWEL 11/4 RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA 141 NWA Samhain 10/28 Cleveland 89 AEW Worlds End 12/30 Uniondale, NY 79 WWE Fastlane 10/7 Indianapolis 51 AAA TripleMania 8/12 Mexico City 50 BEST WRESTLING MANEUVER WILL OSPREAY HIDDEN BLADE 139 Will Ospreay stormbreaker 76 Kenny Omega one winged angel 68 El Hijo del Vikingo second rope step up 630 58 Komander ropewalk shooting star 32 MOST DISGUSTING PROMOTIONAL TACTIC WWE ENABLING VINCE MCMAHON AND HIM BEING BACK IN POWER/TKO KEEPING HIM IN POSITION OF POWER 197 WWE Continued relationship with Saudi Arabia 140 NWA cocaine spot on PPV 89 Powerslap and continuing on TV after Dana White slapped his wife 83 AEW signing Ric Flair 49 WORST TELEVISION SHOW 1. NWA POWERR 194 WWE Raw 176 WWE NXT 112 Powerslap: Road to the Title 109 AEW Rampage 80 WORST MATCH OF THE YEAR BRAY WYATT VS. LA KNIGHT 1/28 SAN ANTONIO 105 Tyrus vs. EC 3 8/27 St. Louis 85 Shane McMahon/Snoop Dogg vs. The Miz 4/2 Los Angeles 58 Baron Corbin vs. Gable Steveson 7/30 Cedar Park, TX 47 Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler 8/5 Detroit 44 WORST FEUD OF THE YEAR MJF VS. THE DEVIL 167 Outcasts vs. AEW Originals 114 Tyrus vs. EC 3 74 Ronda Rousey vs. Shayna Baszler 57 Adam Cole vs. Chris Jericho 48 WORST PROMOTION OF THE YEAR NWA 456 AAA 88 WWE 61 Control Your Narrative 17 MLW 16 BEST BOOKER PAUL LEVESQUE 360 Tony Khan 146 Juan Manuel Mar 104 Shuji Ishikawa 74 Rossy Ogawa 68 PROMOTER OF THE YEAR NICK KHAN 371 Tony Khan 239 Dana White 146 Chavo Lutteroth III 112 Rossy Ogawa 34 BEST GIMMICK TONI STORM 239 Christian Cage 204 Orange Cassidy 48 Bloodline 38 Brochachos 36 WORST GIMMICK THE DEVIL 76 QTV 72 Toni Storm 49 House of Torture 40 Outcasts 39 BEST PRO WRESTLING BOOK THE LAST REAL WORLD CHAMPION BY TIM HORNBAKER 77 Tod is God by Tod Gordon 50 Ringmaster by Abraham Josephine Riesman 49 Keirn Chronicles by Steve Keirn and Ian Douglass` 39 Wrestling Observer Complete Collection 1989 by Dave Meltzer 22 BEST PRO WRESTLING DOCUMENTARY DARK SIDE OF THE RING: CHRIS AND TAMMY 97 VOW: The Life, career and death of Eddie Gilbert 80 American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes 69 Dark Side of the Ring: Marty Jannetty 65 Dark Side of the Ring: Magnum T.A. 34

Here is my list. I like to watch things in some context and my viewing of historic stuff tends to be in big chunks of one promotion/era at a time rather than just haphazardly watching random matches. So where you see huge gaps where a promotion just isn't there (e.g. 90s NJPW), it's probably me just having not watched any of that stuff since I started saving my ratings than me saying none of it is worthy. Pre-1980 1. Buddy Rogers vs. Pat O'Connor (NWA - 6/30/61) - 4.75 2. Abdullah The Butcher & The Sheik vs. Dory Funk Jr & Terry Funk (AJPW - 7/15/79) - 4.75 1980s 3. Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen (NJPW - 9/23/81) - 4.75 4. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Ric Flair (AJPW - 4/14/83) - 4.75 5. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Ric Flair (AJPW - 6/8/83) - 5 6. MS-1 vs. Sangre Chicana (EMLL - 9/23/83) - 4.75 7. Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik (WWF - 6/16/84) - 4.75 8. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Crane Yu & Dump Matsumoto (AJW - 2/25/85) - 4.75 9. Jaguar Yokota vs. La Galactica (AJW - 2/27/85) - 4.75 10. Jim Duggan vs. Ted Dibiase (MSW - 3/22/85) - 5 11. Chigusa Nagayo vs. Devil Masami (AJW - 8/22/85) - 5 12. Bull Nakano & Dump Matsumoto vs. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka (AJW - 10/10/85) - 4.75 13. Dump Matsumoto vs. Yukari Omori (AJW - 3/20/86) - 5 14. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Morton (JCP - 7/5/86) - 5 15. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers vs. Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels (AWA - 8/30/86) - 4.75 16. Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto (AJW - 11/7/86) - 5 17. Carlos Colon vs. Stan Hansen (WWC - 3/14/87) - 5 18. Lioness Asuka vs. Yukari Omori (AJW - 4/15/87) - 4.75 19. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW - 10/28/88) - 4.75 20. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW - 12/16/88) - 5 21. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 2/20/89) - 4.75 22. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW - 4/2/89) - 5 23. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW - 6/5/89) - 5 24. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW - 7/23/89) - 4.75 1990s 25. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/8/90) - 4.75 26. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 9/1/90) - 4.75 27. Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 4/20/91) - 4.75 28. Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 11/29/91) - 4.75 29. Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (AJPW - 5/25/92) - 5 30. Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki vs. Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW - 11/26/92) - 5 31. Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 2/28/93) - 4.75 32. Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (AJW - 4/2/93) - 5 33. Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW - 7/29/93) - 5 34. Aja Kong, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa & Takako Inoue vs. Cutie Suzuki, Dynamite Kansai, Hikari Fukuoka & Mayumi Ozaki (JWP - 7/31/93) - 5 35. Kenta Kobashi vs. Steve Williams (AJPW - 8/31/93) - 4.75 36. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 12/3/93) - 5 37. Akira Hokuto & Manami Toyota vs. Kyoko Inoue & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW - 12/10/93) - 5 38. Aja Kong vs. Yumiko Hotta (AJW - 1/24/94) - 4.75 39. Sakie Hasegawa vs. Toshiyo Yamada (AJW - 3/3/94) - 4.75 40. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (WWF - 3/20/94) - 4.75 41. Aja Kong & Bull Nakano vs. Akira Hokuto & Shinobu Kandori (AJW - 3/27/94) - 5 42. Great Sasuke vs. Jushin Liger (NJPW - 4/16/94) - 4.75 43. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW - 6/3/94) - 5 44. Bull Nakano vs. Shinobu Kandori (LLPW - 7/14/94) - 5 45. Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 4/15/95) - 4.75 46. Chigusa Nagayo & Dynamite Kansai vs. Devil Masami & Mayumi Ozaki (GAEA - 4/15/95) - 4.75 47. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 6/9/95) - 5 48. Manami Toyota vs. Yumiko Hotta (AJW - 9/3/95) - 4.75 49. Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo (FMW - 5/5/96) - 4.75 50. Mick Foley vs. Shawn Michaels (WWF - 9/22/96) - 4.75 51. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF - 11/17/96) - 4.75 52. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 12/6/96) - 5 53. Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW - 1/20/97) - 5 54. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF - 3/23/97) - 5 55. Dustin Rhodes, Ken Shamrock, Road Warrior Animal, Road Warrior Hawk & Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart, Brian Pillman, British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart & Owen Hart (WWF - 7/6/97) - 4.75 56. Toshie Uematsu vs. Yoshiko Tamura (GAEA - 7/19/97) - 4.75 57. Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (WWF - 10/5/97) - 5 2000s 58. Aja Kong vs. Kaoru Maeda (GAEA - 2/13/00) - 4.75 59. Steve Austin vs. Triple H (WWF - 2/25/01) - 5 60. Steve Austin vs. The Rock (WWF - 4/1/01) - 4.75 61. Akira Hokuto vs. Meiko Satomura (GAEA - 4/29/01) - 5 62. Kurt Angle vs. Steve Austin (WWF - 8/19/01) - 4.75 63. Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (NOAH - 3/1/03) - 4.75 64. Eddie Guerrero vs. John Layfield (WWE - 5/16/04) - 4.75 65. CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/16/04) - 4.75 66. CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe (ROH - 12/4/04) - 5 67. Chris Harris & James Storm vs. Christopher Daniels & Elix Skipper (TNA - 12/5/04) - 4.75 68. Necro Butcher vs. Samoa Joe (IWA Mid-South - 6/11/05) - 4.75 69. AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe (TNA - 9/11/05) - 4.75 70. Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe (ROH - 10/1/05) - 5 71. Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH - 8/12/06) - 4.75 72. John Cena vs. Umaga (WWE - 1/28/07) - 4.75 73. Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH - 8/25/07) - 5 2010s 74. CM Punk vs. John Cena (WWE - 7/17/11) - 5 75. Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena (WWE - 4/29/12) - 5 76. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW - 8/4/13) - 4.75 77. Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena (WWE - 8/18/13) - 4.75 78. Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk (WWE - 8/18/13) - 4.75 79. Bray Wyatt, Erick Rowan & Luke Harper vs. Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins (WWE - 2/23/14) - 4.75 80. Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H (WWE - 4/6/14) - 4.75 81. Kota Ibushi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW - 1/4/15) - 4.75 82. Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns (WWE - 3/29/15) - 4.75 83. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (NXT - 8/22/15) - 4.75 84. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (NXT - 10/7/15) - 4.75 85. Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NXT - 4/1/16) - 4.75 86. AJ Styles vs. Roman Reigns (WWE - 5/22/16) - 4.75 87. Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson vs. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa (NXT - 11/19/16) - 4.75 88. Io Shirai vs. Mayu Iwatani (Stardom - 12/22/16) - 4.75 89. AJ Styles vs. John Cena (WWE - 1/29/17) - 5 90. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kazuchika Okada (NJPW - 4/9/17) - 4.75 91. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW - 8/11/17) - 4.75 92. AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE - 11/19/17) - 4.75 93. Andrade Cien Almas vs. Johnny Gargano (NXT - 1/27/18) - 5 94. Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega (NJPW - 6/9/18) - 4.75 95. Kota Ibushi vs. Tomohiro Ishii (NJPW - 7/28/18) - 4.75 96. Jordan Devlin vs. Walter (OTT - 8/18/18) - 4.75 97. Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston (WWE - 4/7/19) - 4.75 98. Mio Momono vs. Takumi Iroha (Marvelous - 11/3/19) - 4.75 2020s 99. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson (AEW - 1/5/22) - 4.75 100. CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley (AEW - 9/4/22) - 4.75 101. Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood vs. Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe (ROH - 12/10/22) - 5 102. Bryan Danielson vs. Maxwell Jacob Friedman (AEW - 3/5/23) - 4.75