Tetsujin

Naito was amazing in his tag match against Mox, what a superstar he still is. Archer/Ibushi and EVIL/ZSJ were pretty damn good, but man Okada/KENTA was decent at best. KENTA tried and he did had his moments here and there, but Okada has become a very lazy big match worker (and I hate to call a pro wrestler 'lazy'). And the fucking Gedo booking again making Okada unbeatable, just to make SANADA's victory even more predictable. It sucks.

Really loved the last 12 minutes of this. The first half didn't say anything to me, not bad but nothing was going on from a storytelling perspective.

Yeah, I totally agree with SmartMark15 on this. Outstanding Ishii performance and a very, very good match overall. White was great, but seriously, Ishii looked like the biggest wrestling star in the world in this match. The crowd was 100% with him, once again. Really enjoyed this, and a top 3 match of this current G1 for me (just behind Archer/Ospreay and Yano/Naito, icyw).

If anyone would have told me that it was possible to have a -10 minutes match with Jeff Cobb, almost squashing him without being another powerhouse and doing it in a legit, credible way, I wouldn't have believe it. But Moxley did. Such a great carryjob.

Sorry to be that guy, but such amazing sequence dont' deserve that really awful commentary

Juice/Mox was MOTY material. Incredible brawl.

All K wanna say about this is that the magic of pro wrestling is when you enjoy a very bad match.

The start was great but the first half as a whole was a little bit up and down for me, some strange spots and sequences but also some great moments (most of them by D-Bray). But oh boy, the final three was awesome, specially the final battle. It's a shame Ali didn't received this push, but man Kofi deserved some spotlight after being one of the better workers of the midcard for eleven fucking years in a row. Both Bryan and him were fantastic (also Joe at the beginning), but this is not a great match, just a good one with a crazy career defining moment for Kofi. And I loved it. ***3/4.

This was Tana's formula applied in autopilot mode. If this was the match to put White over, why was It worked so... lazily? It felt like Tanahashi didn't have interest in making White look like the new big thing, which is strange coming from someone as professional as him. Jay definitely should have been the star of the match and instead he was the other guy Tana was working with. Also, we all already know White doesn't need more than 20 minutes or so, please New Japan do not make the same mistakes of his USA Title run. Very bad approach that condemned the whole match.

This was a very good match and a great angle for Velveteen, not just this match but the whole tournament. Shades of Bret's 93 KOTR run. It's a shame WWE decided to do this thing in such a poor way, this could've been a great Network special like CWC or MYC, but instead everything had an awful atmosphere, like an indy show at the bottom of Parts Unknown.

Yeah, great segment overall. First match was a funny debut, Bugenhagen got himself over pretty quickly with that curious gimmick and Gulak's facial expressions were a delight. And then we had the real deal, a very good mat-based, 'shootesque' match. Not as great as Gulak/Gallagher from last year, another very different match from what WWE formula actually is, but both Gulak and Riddle teached the Full Sail crowd to enjoy this style of wrestling and that's always great to see.

This was a decent match with some good moments here and there (and some awful ones too, like everytime EVIL hits a forearm). MiSu and ZSJ are atractive as a team but they need to work together more because the"I put this guy in the submission and you watch for the other to not save him" thing is not the best dynamic for a tag match. EVIL and SANADA also need to cooperate more, because on their own they're not great workers and they should be capable of hiding each other weaknesses. Also, Suzuki what the hell did you do with your hair c'mon man stop it.

This was awesome. Having something new and fresh in your big matches is always good, and yeah, maybe It went too long (fuck you Iizuka you slow bastard), but Naito's superb selling, Taichi's sunovabitchesque performance and the crowd buying everything carried this from a cool segment to a great match. Naito was in a position where he needed bombs to equalize thingd and survive, and that's the role he shines the most. Fantastic big spots and counters were seen here. I was so invested... That's pro wrestling magic, fellas. Not a MOTYC or whatever but maybe the best NJPW match in 2019 thus far.

It's a shame modern jrs in NJPW wrestle as heavyweights 2.0, because this could have been great if they used the tone of the -fantastic- second half in the whole match. But nope, we have to deal with some boring ringside brawling, painfully weak looking forearms and intrascendent legwork first. Only Bushi and Desperado máscaras show was worth watching in the first ten minutes or so. Takagi and Kanemaru killed it in the climax of this, I'm currently looking at a BOSJ singles between those two, there's some chemistry there.

What a great Jay White performance here. The guy has improved a lot and finally he's booked like someone dangerous on his own. Between him, the 'Okadahashi' moments and some very good nearfalls at the end, this was a very enjoyable tag team match that sets up both singles matches for night 3 perfectly.

Finished with 1994, what a fucking hell of a year. So many great matches, and more elite stuff than I thought. Aja Kong was no doubt the WOTY and the top two spots of my MOTY podium are two of the greatest matches of the decade. The Hart brothers gave us the rivalry of the year and one of the most clever matches ever produced by WWE. Imagine how good this year is, Misawa/Kawada, while still tremendous, didn't even make the top 3! That's my biggest revelation thus far in this mini project of mine. Looking forward to 1995 now. 9/6/95 is one of the only few matches I'm seeing myself giving it GOAT treatment, but everything can happen and maybe, just maybe, something else can take the #1 spot. We'll see...

I have problems with this match. Entertaining enough, but they wanted to be the MOTY instead of just having a great opener and that clearly damaged It. Too long, overkill, anticlimatic "hey-look-how-awesome-this-match-is" spots. Just not my cup of tea. **3/4.

Kenoh was great here, his attitude and vicious offence added a lot. These two will be huge stars in NOAH in the next decade, they have the charisma and in ring potential, but right now they need to improve some things like short-term selling, escalation, or Kaito's elbow strikes if they wanna produce great big title matches. This was good, with even really good moments here and there, but not great in general. ***1/4.

This match sucked, but it didn't suck as much as I expected to. Richard's acting is very bad, his mannerism, his facial expressions, everything, it's like a prelude to current Kenny Omega. All the 90s AJPW cosplay was terribly done. Too many nearfalls, to the point where nothing mattered anymore. The crowd wasn't even invested, even if they wanted to, and that was... Sad. I'm surprised Elgin was the best performer of the match (well, obviously despite McGuinness at commentary lmfao), he actually sold himself to the fans that at the beggining didn't care about him at all. At least some of his moves and strikes were good. But fuck Davey Richards really sucked here. Before giving it stars or whatever, I need to know: was this the first match of this... "style"? You know, all this "let's put all the puro's big matches clichés together to create the ultimate epic match" tendency so often seeing today. Because if it was, I'm going to give it even less snowflakes.

I know it sounds a bit cliché, but he's gonna be so underrated at the main roster...

Rewatched this yesterday and I'm kinda shocked about one thing: this is no longer one of the greatest matches of all time for me. Hell, it's not even my MOTY anymore (Kong/Hotta). It's still holy fucking great, one of the best matches of the 90s and one of the biggest performances from both legends, but not top tier material for me. What I think this match needs to be top tier material, the thing other king's road masterpieces have, is the in ring work being trascendent. The stuff they do is amazing in terms of action and emotion, but not very important in terms of storytelling. Yeah, Kawada is very focused and closer than ever to reach the top of the mountain, and Misawa manages to look like the biggest final boss in pro wrestling history while at the same time making you feel that his reign is in true danger for the first time; but the transitions are kinda poor, the legwork and the bloody ear meant nothing, there was no strong cohesion between the different phases... Maybe I'm overanalyzing it, but this match has the reputation of being one of the greatest matches of all time, if not the greatest one. With that reputation, I believe you should have a highly demanding test.

I'd book a champion vs champion, title for title, at the main event. The winner unifies both women's championships and their rosters, and an exclusive women brand starts. You know, if cruiserweights and even NXT freaking UK have their own weekly shows, why not women?

I'm surprised how much love Okada/Omega IV have on this website, to be honest. To me it was one of the worst big matches I've ever seen. Am I alone on that? And, just to be clear, I'm a huge fan of their 2017 trilogy.

Not as great as their time limit draw earlier this year, and not even close to the epicness of their two singles bouts last year, but damn these two have eternal chemistry and can never have "just a good match". Really loved the struggle on every fucking thing, the slow paced grappling and Sekimoto's fighting spirit, although the finish was a bit anticlimactic for me. Really good match, but it suffers from both workers having even better matches together. Totally good stuff though! ***3/4

So, did you guys saw that spanish indy match feat. ZSJ that Metlzer gave the full five recently? I'ts on youtube apparently.