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Yeah Naito's case should be considered. He brought a great match against Jericho at the Dome, had an spectacular MOTYC with Taichi, the New Japan Cup with Ibushi is really good (although then their MSG and Dominion matches are not good at all), his G1 is very very strong (Juice, Shingo, Moxley, Yano, White...), a banger with White again, another great match with Taichi, completely different from their first one earlier on the year... You just couldn't get wrong with him.

Oh I"ve never Heard about Rose in New Japan before. Needless to say I'm interested. Any match recs about his run there?

These two have done literally everything: being babyfaces, being heels, cheating, dominating, selling as underdogs, long matches, short matches, technical stuff, brawls, comedy stuff, gimmick matches, tags, carryjobs, they have worked everywhere and went over, they have longevity, they both cut great promos, they both have tons of charisma, they are very good at blading... You name it, they're good at It. Great, I would say. And more often than not their best matches share a lot of those things, too. I believe Bryan is better because, except for mastery of overselling and creativity with weapons, I like him more in every category than Terry (earlier I would have said that Funk had better long matches, but then this very year Bryan had the all time classic Ironman with MJF). Maybe Terry's floor is higher and I trust him more for a random match against whoever, but Bryan's ceiling is higher as well and at the end of the day I think his catalogue of great matches and performances might be bigger.

Every Big match I see or her on STARDOM, she looks like one of the very best wrestlers ever. Amazing final boss aura, perfectly portrayed throughout every aspect of her ringwork: you can't outsmart her, you can't outbrawl her, she's always the strongest, the fastest, hell even the most athletic. Gaining momentum over her feels like a true accomplishment, specially paired with cool underdogs like Mayu. I can't wait to watch even more of that part of her career. Fucking WWE.

His 2018 is one of those years you just have to try and watch everything he was a part of, just like Kobashi's 1998 or Aja's 1994 for example. Just for that, everybody should consider him. Then you add everything he has achieved berore and (specially) after that, and you get one of the absolute best wrestlers of our generation and one I can't see outside my 2036 list, once most of his career has probably already happen.

Roman has a celebration segment. Cody is supposed to come out, but we cut to him being unconscious at backstage after some misterious attack. In the middle of the confusion, Jay White debuts and challenges Roman. Then he beats him clean.

Naito/Okada at WK 12 is definitely more shocking than this was. Nothing beats the ending of the Streak though.

That Fatal Four Way is easily the best ever made, an Cesaro being the juggernaut to beat in it is a big part of why. From his WWE run, I would add the Regal match, the SmackDown Orton match, basically every Sheamus match (the US title match in 2014) and the Bar run, specially the Ironman against the Hardys and the first Ambrollins match where he fucking breaks his teeth and keeps going like an absolute madman.

He just went through a barbed wire table and started laughing and screaming "OH BOY". Top 100 lock.

It's honestly either Moxley or Dax Harwood. Cash Wheeler would be up there, but Harwood's singles stuff gives him the edge.

This motherfucker has one of the most amazing peaks I've ever seen in a pro wrestling, back when his incredible charisma melted with really solid and full of personality ringwork. Sadly he hasn't been like that since coming to the main roster (with only just a couple of exceptions, the LMS with AJ being the main one). So, very strong lack of consistency is going to hurt him, and I bet he won't be at 2026's final list. He won't be in mine, at least. Such a shame because at his best, he's one of my favourites to ever do it.

Big smile on my face when I heard those during Bryan/Rush. Amazing crowd for an amazing match. Haven't seen the rest of the show yet but it looks absolutely top tier Dynamite stuff.

It's crazy to me that, of all three big matches announced for this Dynamite, Bryan/Thatcher was the one that "underdelivered". The match was still super good, so that speaks more about how high the average level for these last dynamites have been than anything.

That Mox/Hangman match was fucking awesome guys. What a war.

You can put Sami with literally anyone and he will make it work regardless of booking. I think he has proven that enough already. But whatever, without thinking too much: a Reigns rematch, Jey, Owens, Drew, Orton when he comes back. I don't think anybody here is saying he should be the Ace of the company. I mean, he definitely can be that and if you see him at NXT in 2014 that's a guy you start to build as your new top babyface. But whatever, he doesn't need that, and I think the fanbase understands that. If he wins the titles, then time will tell when he has to drop them. Sometimes (hell, most of the times), looking at long term booking too much hurts the stories. The guy is fucking over as hell as a foe of the world champ? Fuck it, have him beat him with a proper build up then, and let's see where that goes later. It's not like WWE is gonna suffer financially with or without him on top (nobody has that effect anymore, not even Brock or Roman).

You're not wasting it. You're feeding him to Roman in order to give him even more heat, so Sami's victory can feel even more satisfying. And you can run Cody's story later on, and not necessarily with Roman; his is one of those stories that it doesn't matter if he fails the first time, it'll add a redemption arc for later. Sami's momentum, on the other hand, feels much more like a "now or never" deal to me.

Have Cody lose to Roman at night 1 and then Roman/Sami from night 2 can be for both titles instead of just the UC as originally announced.

They dropped the ball. They should have done the title match the opener, with the very exact same post match angle, and then have Sami come into the Rumble by surprise (have him take Rey's place, whatever) and win it. But they're cowards and they almost never accept when the flow of things have changed and that they need to rewrite some stories. That said, there's still some chance we might get Roman/Cody for the WWE Title (the one Dusty never won) on night 1 and then Roman/Sami for the Universal Title (the one Roman's being with since the very beginning of this run, HIS true title). Roman losing both championship in two nights in a row could be a very satifying end to his legendary run, like a "the higher you go, the harder you fall" situation. I'm not sure we're getting KO/Sami vs Usos though. Jey is clearly conflicted, and he might get out of Bloodline sooner or later. A proper way for Bloodline to end should be everyone realizing they're alienated by Roman, who doesn't really care about family if is not in his own interest, and stepping up for themselves. That's been the whole point since the initial Roman vs Usos storyline two years ago. Cody is over now because he just returned, but this RTWM is very fragile it seems. I won't like it if they just do Sami/Roman in Canada and then drop their storyline like nothing happened in order to quickly build a one-month Roman/Cody feud. Anticlimactic.

Wasn't HOOKhaunsen the hottest thing in the company not so long ago? What happened with that, what did I miss?

Bryan/Bandido was a little masterpiece if you ask me. In fact, I don't think I have seen a better Bandido match, and this was my favourite Bryan singles match since the last title match with Hangman. MOTYC level, for sure. Please tell me they're not gonna do a love triangle with Hangman, René Paquette and Mox.

One of the absolute best shows they have done in a while, not without its flaws but overall a big improvement on content and build up to the PPV. I even enjoyed the Acclaimed-Lethal/Jarrett thing.

The magic of pro wrestling, folks. I hate Omega. I really hate Ospreay. But that match was fucking amazing and a clear early MOTYC for me.

Yeah I agree. Landing looked pretty nasty, too. To be clear, I wasn't refering to that spot when talking about the good offence on display in the match, Inwas talking about some creative strike exchanges, ways of setting up different spots and the rythim and intesinty behind everything they did. The match as a whole is pretty good.

Kaito/Kenoh from the NOAH show was really good. Not MOTYC level for me, but I'm sure it can be for a lot of people. Tbh I really apareciste their take on the usual big match, making it shorter and with more original and fluid offence.

HHHH you coward you better give Zayn the win over Reigns at WM. At this point people shouldn't want anything less than that.