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  1. tim
    I really liked the tearing down the ring spot to get over the Nash/Giant match. Great spot to build anticipation for a match where Giant hasn't been allowed to touch Nash in the buildup.
  2. tim
    The dyanamic of Ilioukhine strength on the mat vs. Tamura's unmatchable speed in striking on the feet made this really compelling to add to all the great exchanges on the mat. Ilioukhine's strength on the mat really came down to his power -- Tamura showed plenty of technique but Ilioukhine was always able to power each exchange to his advantage early on. Tamura shows an advantage on the feet with his super quick striking, much faster than any strikes Ilioukhine can attempt to land. Even this takes a while to pay off as Ilioukhine is so big and powerful that he can even withstand headkicks without going down, but in time Tamura really wears him down and is able to take the advantage. It really turns when Tamura secures a clinch and unleashes a fury of knees to the head -- there's a great spot where Tamura has the clinch and Tamura is hitting knees while Ilioukhine is hitting body shots. At the end Tamura has done enough damage with strikes to lock in an armbar for the submission. Great story and some really awesome mat work especially toward the beginning, and a really good crowd that buys a lot of the submission attempts. Real MOTYC.
  3. tim
    Pretty sure Navarro is the first guy in my top 50 to go, had him at 28.
  4. tim
    Surprised to see Rogers do worse than in 2006. The Joshi wrestlers and a less well known NJ junior dropping big isn't surprising given the shift of focus in hardcore fandom, but you would think that same shift would have helped a US 80s wrestler compared to 10 years ago.
  5. tim
    Really good Battlearts match. Loved the headbutts while in the test of strength in the beginning. Lots of really cool mat stuff and they bust out the big moves toward the end. I love Otsuka's shoot hurricanrana and his leg-trap triangle choke was a particularly cool submission. Otsuka drills Ishikawa with suplexes looking for the KO but Ishikawa reverses on into a Kimura in a really awesome visual -- Ishikawa grabs onto one of Otsuka's arms in mid air and locked it on when they fall to the mat. Not a Battlearts classic but a damn good match.
  6. tim
    The Dreamrush 92 tag?
  7. tim
    Michaels sure continues to take some wild bumps after destroying his back on the casket, getting press slammed onto the floor immediately after. Overall I thought this was a solid enough match but it didn't do much for me.
  8. tim
    One of the best angles ever in wrestling, easily. Almost unbelievable how good this is really. Such a great feel of exciting unpredictability, to the timing of Austin coming out and all the officials hurrying into the ring to keep him from ruining everything. Totally feels like a careless badass ruining the boss's crowning moment. Vince is great too, playing the clearly furious boss who is still trying to keep his decorum, then totally going crazy after the brawl, screaming at Austin and kicking at him. WWF earned their boom with how great this segment was.
  9. tim
    Simple and very effective build for this match. Makes it feel like a big deal. Great promo from Flair and good stuff from Bret too.
  10. tim
    Solid match, Vader is really over. The Vaderbomb with Luna on his back was a crazy visual.
  11. tim
    This had sort of a big match feel for a Thunder cruiserweight match. Opening stuff was a lot of fun and then Juvi hits an outstanding dive to settle into being in control. Rey gets some brief hope spots but doesn't really pull off much of a run of offense for a comeback, and then hits a quick hurricanrana on Juvi when he misses a 450 splash which I really liked as a finish. Good stuff.
  12. tim
    I thought this was really a MOTYC level match. Both teams played their roles really well with their style of work and selling. Kato and Satomura were especially great really in everything they did here, their runs of offense really had a great feel of an underdog implausibly stringing together some big hits against a higher ranked opponent. I liked the inclusion of some weapons and crowd brawling, added some intensity to what was already an intensely worked match. LCO both hitting the faces with big dives that took them both out was a great spot. A big run of believable nearfalls toward the end, each swing of momentum I bought as the finish.
  13. tim
    I thought this was really damn good until Sabu breaks his jaw. It's still good after that but loses the scrappy bar-fight feel as Sabu understandably needs to take some time and probably has his range of motion limited. Up until then it really felt like a wild fight, Sandman at his best playing a drunken, barely trained brawler. His offense here -- flinging a table up into Sabu's face, a poorly position legdrop that doesn't quite go through the table, the wild ladder suplex into the crowd -- is awesome gritty offense and his selling goes right along with it. This match is profoundly unpolished and all the better for it. Even after Sabu gets hurt there's still some real good stuff, I especially liked Sabu hitting his springboard moonsault on the legs, the way Sandman sells it puts it across less as a jarring botch than as a high risk move that didn't hit as intended but still had impact. Ending felt abrupt and anticlimactic but given what Sabu was dealing with it's hard to fault it. Of course, even to the extent that Sabu's injury hurts the flow of the match a little, it adds to the brutality and intensity, if you're just considering how it affects the quality of the match.
  14. tim

    A Few Initial Stats

    tim replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    ~40 IIRC 49 So only about a quarter of those who participated in the 2006 poll participated in this, interesting.
  15. tim

    A Few Initial Stats

    tim replied to Grimmas's topic in 2016

    Anyone know how many ballots the 2006 SC poll got?
  16. tim
    Sent mine in a couple days ago. I didn't watch as much as I intended to for this but I'm happy enough with my list as a representation of what I liked the most over the last 10 years.
  17. tim

    1999 MOTY List

    tim replied to tim's topic in 1999

    I'll definitely do lists for each Yearbook I watch. I hope to watch a number of them eventually, time permitting.
  18. tim

    1999 MOTY List

    tim replied to tim's topic in 1999

    1999 done! It has the reputation as one of the worst in ring years that we have extensive footage for but really it's a hell of a year. That top 20 I think is very strong, the top 10 has some real classics and the MOTY is something that would probably be in my top 20 matches of all time. Lots of variety in terms of promotions and styles putting out great stuff -- in fact, maybe what gets 1999 its bad rep is the fact that there's not really a dominant "scene." The glory days of 1990s AJPW are clearly over, the NJPW juniors isn't as hot a scene as it was earlier in the decade, shoot style is a very minor player, the best days of Joshi are clearly behind us ring work in WWF is in the garbage and WCW is falling apart, there are some indie promotions doing great stuff but they're not too prominent. The US indie boom hasn't taken hold yet and so for smart fans following US wrestling, ECW isn't lighting the world on fire despite its new national TV platform and of the top two promotions one is stunningly financially successful but critically (in terms of ring work) at an all-time low and WCW is falling apart and with the arrival of Russo clearly turning its back on having strong ring work also. It's easy to understand the pessimism coming from fans looking for great wrestling. With the internet taking off, "smark" culture really starting to take shape and tape trading surely growing at huge rates, I can imagine that a lot of fans picking up the classic 'smark' gateway stuff like NJ juniors and mid-90s AJPW are feeling like they're coming in at the wrong end of some amazing pro wrestling scenes of the 90s. But although some of the major scenes are declining or clearly have declined, there was still great wrestling coming out from all over if you looked close, and it's a great thing that this project looked close and got it all together. It was a hell of a year for matches, very possibly in the top half of the 1990s years, and the boom in the US made following week to week stuff very interesting. Great project and big thanks to Loss and goodhelmet for the work to put it out.
  19. tim
    Maybe a little less absurdly over the top than their other matches so far. Probably the best incarnation of the match also. Entertaining match overall with more of a bomb throwing feel than an exhibition feel as compared to their other matches. So ends 1999!
  20. tim
    Really well laid out and hot ending. WWF is really getting into gear for their great 2000 run.
  21. tim
    Bret probably could've had a hell of a match with Goldberg if the circumstances were right. But yeah, dumb stuff here. At least we get Piper spreading class consciousness in the back.
  22. tim
    Really good match with some fantastic spots. Fleisch's comeback where he jumps off Daniels' shoulders to hit a hurricanrana is insane, as was the ending spot where Daniels jumps onto the ropes to turn a Fleisch dive attempt into a urinage. Lots of other great stuff here including some fantastic dives and generally a well worked MPro style match.
  23. tim
    Surrealist in how unbelievably bad this all is.
  24. tim
    Really good match. Kanemura's heeling was cool and I liked him working over the back while in control, though Tanaka doesn't offer much in the way of selling it.
  25. tim
    Very good match, sort of a lucharesu style with some ECW elements and a nice dive segment. Here you can really feel the atmosphere of what became the 2000s indie scene, a highly smarky crowd with a strong appreciation for workrate and foreign styles who love to chant things.
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