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Jimmy Rave vs. AJ Styles "Street fight" 7-23-05 Man, these guys had me... until the end when it all fell to shit. This is the perfect match for AJ Styles... where he doesn't actually wrestle like AJ Styles but channels his inner-Buzz Sawyer. Seriously, if all AJ matches were like this, Loss would be proclaiming him the savior of wrestling. Still, another match that leaves a bad taste in your mouth because of the ending and another spot that bothered me... When you guys get the MOTYC DVDs, you will see one match where the guys chop the shit out of each other for 5 minutes. Another where one guy chops the shit out of another guy for 5 minutes. Now, you will see another guy headbutt a guy 30 times around the ring. Sorry, but it was over-the-top, I didn't believe it.

Right, I gave credit to Suzuki. I blame Kobashi for the shortcomings. Also, I marked for the ending of the WM20 main event. Doesn't mean the match was actually great. Just making sure... is this the 11-5-05 match?

We will have to disagree here... strongly. The headlock was an excuse to do the spot where he holds onto it going into the ring. If he wanted to show the guy he could control him at will then why was he getting his arm busted up the whole match? The only problem here is that Suzuki applies 2 armbars, kicks the living shit out of the arm, an arm ringer, and a friggin hanging armbar. Regardless of who the wrestler is, if that does not incapacitate a wrestler's limb, well, that is just shitty selling. A better finish wuld have shown Kobashi winning despite his arm, not because of it. However, you have changed my mind. I will include it... on Disc 4... at the end

I am trying to watch my language

If you can find me five people (hell, three people)who would put this on thier top 5 for the year and actually elaborate on why they love this match, I would put it on there in a heartbeat. Yeah, that is just nucking futs. I have a similar taste in matches that he does. I would even gather to say that this is a good match with serious flaws. Still, I think I lost track of what this was suppsoed to be... a MOTYC comp.

---I didn't take notes so I'll try and explain as best from memory... - The headlock back into the ring spot was stupid. I have seen too many matches where a headlock means something and leads to something as well. Then there are matches where a headlock means nothing except a spot in the match. This falls into the latter. - Suzuki's arm work is very impressive but in typical Kobashi fashion, when it comes time for him to take control, bye bye first half of the match. -No selling of head drops that has become so cliche that it takes my enjoyment of half of the puro matches on this set down a notch. I will fully admit that this isn't the worst match that would be included in the set. I am still pissed I got conned into putting Super Dragon v. Joe on there. I am also dreading the thought of having to track down the Cannon-Hero IWA 8/05 match although it might be good. Also, I am including matches that have been highly debated in various circles including Kobashi-Sasuke, Necro-Joe and the TNA Joe-Styles-Daniels 3-way even if I do not care for them myself. However, every NOAH tag I have seen has been head and shoulders above this. The Kojima-Kawada match was much better. KENTA-Suwa and KENTA-Kanemaru blow this away. Also, I think when this match was nominated, people were listing good matches instead of actual true MOTY candidates. Seriously, would this rank in the Top 5 or even Top 10 matches from this year? In fact, if there were not so many debatable matches, I was hoping I could trim this bad boy to 2 discs. As it is, the monster grew uncontrollably and I felt this was one match that could be left off and nobody would miss. If I have room, I will include it at the end of Disc 4 but I am going to procrastinate as long as I can before putting this on there.

I watched Suzuki vs. Kobashi from NOAH 1/05 tonigt. I was so unimpressed that I took it off the 2005 MOTYC comp. Seriously, I could think of about 15 WWE matches that I enjoyed better than this and that was enough reason for me to leave it off.

A best of 2006 for TNA or all promotions?

Well, when judging it, do not sit within 2 feet of the screen.

I am re-pinning it. It isn't about additions since I am editing my post and not posting every time I edit.

Early prelim stage as we speak

Good idea actually. After talking to Dan, I do not think I will be participating in any future voting sessions. I know for a fact that we can create a more comprehensive w/ better VQ Mid South set.

Yeah, I am working on Vol. 3 right now and searching for about 6 more matches. I have the WWE TV but am looking for upgrades. If not, they will get their own 2 hour dvd.

I remember being depressed by this when I watched it. Another depressing sight is when Percy Pringle goes into a long rant about the deaths of the Von Erichs and other World Class alumni and how many friends he lost. He then asks if it was worth it. Can you imagine if you lost that many friends in that short of a time?

Did you mean $40?

EastCoastJ... are you talking about the interview that Herb Kunze used to have posted on his site? If so, I have it printed out somewhere.

Where did you find this little nugget of info?

EDIT: This was a lazy answer. I'll respond later.