EricR Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 Added: 1978-Mark Rocco vs. Marty Jones, 7/26 1979-Dory Funk Jr./Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba/Jumbo Tsuruta, 11/30 Also, I changed my 2008 pick to Panther/Villano. I'm not 100% in love with it, but it's good enough for what I think is a pretty weak year overall. What could you not possibly love about Panther/Villano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted May 13, 2013 Report Share Posted May 13, 2013 I wish people wouldn't call Hart/Austin an I Quit match. It may seem like nitpicking, but it's really an important difference. It's better than an I Quit match precisely because it doesn't have the nonsense with the microphone.The microphone can be goofy, but in Magnum/ Tully it's an essential part of the match. The one that's the greatest of all time, not just 1985. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted May 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 I've changed my 1987 pick to Choshu/Fujiwara, which has increasingly grown on me. I've developed such an appreciation for it, in fact, that I've added it to my list of 50 favorite matches. For those of you keeping track, feel free to check out the updated list in the other thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted August 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 It's official. Punk/Lesnar is my current 2013 MOTY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 92: Bret Hart vs British Bulldog, Summerslam 93: Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect, King of the Ring 94: Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon, Wrestlemania 95: Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon, Summerslam 96: Juventud Guerrera vs Rey Misterio Jr, Big Ass Extreme Bash 97: Bret Hart vs Steve Austin, Wrestlemania 98: Mankind vs Undertaker, King of the Ring 99: Stone Cold vs The Rock, Backlash 2000: Chris Benoit vs Chris Jericho, Backlash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted November 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 I figured this was worth a bump since we're almost at the the end of the year. At this point, I have no idea what my MOTY for 2014 is. I'd say it's between Shield/Wyatts and Atlantis/UG, with Okada/Ibushi as a dark horse pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzombie1988 Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 From an old post of mine: My memory is kind of bad and I'm going off of matches I haven't seen in a while but here's my various MOTY's for different years: 1977 - Mil Mascaras vs Jumbo Tsuruta 8/25/77 1978 - Zoltan Boscik vs Steve Grey 3/18/1978 1981 - Funk vs Lawler Empty Arena. One of the most disturbing matches I've ever seen. You can never unhear Terry Funk screeching about being blind. 1982 - Dutch Mantel vs Jerry Lawler Memphis TV or Bockwinkel/Lawler MSC. Dutch/Lawler was a classic angle on TV with some awesome hate filled work and Lawler/Bock was just an awesome brawl with Nick showing another side. 1983 - Lawler vs Dundee Loser Leaves Town with props to The Von Erichs vs The Freebirds 1984 - Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger 1985 - Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo Hair Match or Lawler/Dundee Loser Leaves Town. Dump vs Chiggy is unforgettable and probably broke the innocence of every teenager in attendance. 1986 - Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo Return Hair Match with Bockwinkle/Henning or Jumbo/Tenryu vs Yatsu/Choshu as other candidates. Midnight Rockers vs Rose and Sommers was good too. 1987 - Flair vs Windham 40+ minute TV match 1988 - Not sure but Maeda vs Takada, The Fantastics vs The MX and others are possibilities. 1989 - Steamboat vs Flair 2/3 Falls. My favorite of the series. 1990 - El Dandy vs Angel Azteca with Vader/Hansen maybe 2nd. Vader/Hansen was a war while Dandy/Azteca was a technical classic. 1991 - Wargames 1991. Awesome match. Great heat, great work and an unforgettable finish. 1992 - Yamada/Toyota vs Kansai/Ozaki from Dreamrush. Legit my favorite match of all time. 1993 - This year is incredibly hard to pick but I'll go with Toyota/Yamada vs Ozaki/Kansai from Dreamslam 2. Super hot year here with Hokuto vs Kandori from Dreamslam, Kobashi vs Hansen and others. The girls tag was amazing but not as good as the year before, Hokuto/Kandori is rated as 5 stars by everyone and Hansen/Kobashi was a stiff shootout. 1994 - Misawa/Kawada 6/3/94 with a nudge to Toyota/Kong from Big Egg and Kobashi/Misawa vs Kawada/Taue. I really also enjoyed Liger/Sasuke from the J-Cup and believe it or not, Kawada/Williams which happened to take place on the same day in the same city as Liger/Sasuke. Loved Tenryu/Onita Exploding Cage also but it's not quite on the same level. Hard not go to with 6/3/1994 as its universally regarded in the IWC as the greatest match ever. 1995 - Kobashi/Misawa vs Kawada/Taue or Aja Kong vs Manami Toyota from Queendom. Really hard pick. Misawa/Kobashi was also very good as was Hokuto/Toyota. Loved Kong vs Toyota for the stiffness and the nasty Victory Star Drop. This one was the Toyota show. Hokuto/Toyota was an incredible spotfest. 1996 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Shinya Hashimoto NJPW Tokyo Dome with major props to Kudo/Toyoda Explosion Match. Takada/Hash is simple pro wrestling at its best. Nuclear heat to cap off the hottest and biggest money making feud ever. 1997 - Misawa/Kobashi or LLPW 8-Woman Tag match. The Kobashi/Misawa match was great but did have armwork that went nowhere and the LLPW Women's match had some of the best facework I've seen with great heeling. 1998 - Kawada/Kobashi aka The Last Great AJPW match. 1999 - Kyoko Inoue vs Manami Toyota 12/8 - Much like Kawada/Kobashi, this was the last great AJW match. 2000 - Atlantis vs Villano 3. El Super Classico. Lucha at its finest. 2001 - Rock vs Austin. Best WWF match ever. They went above and beyond to close out The Attitude Era. 2002 - Angle and Benoit vs Rey and Edge from No Mercy. The Smackdown 6 tore it up and this was my favorite match of their series. 2003 - Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa. Loved Benoit vs Lesnar too. Misawa/Kobashi was their last true AJPW style match and it had some huge bumps with stiff shots. Benoit/Lesnar was stiff and the finish was memorable. 2004 - Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama. Eddie Guerrero vs Brock Lesnar is close. Akiyama/Kobashi did everything they could and I thought Kenta got too much in. Brock vs Eddie was a classic and it was great to see Eddie finally get the big one. 2005 - Angle vs Michaels with Kensuke Sasaki and Nakajima vs Go Shiozaki and Kenta Kobashi in 2nd. I was live for Angle/Michaels and loved it. The tag was very good and the first sign that Shiozaki would be a star. 2006 - Benoit vs Finlay 5/5. Stiffness and headbutts baby. (2005 and 2006 were really bad years for wrestling all around aside from Finlay being amazing on Smackdown) 2007 - New Hazard vs Typhoon vs Muscle Outlaw'z or Takashi Sasaki vs Yuko Miyamoto scaffold match. The 3 way tag was nuts with a fast pace and tons of big moves. The scaffold match had some huge bumps in it and made Miyamoto. 2008 - Floyd Mayweather vs The Big Show (being serious too). Props also have to be given for Jimmy Jacobs vs BJ Whitmer I-Quit from IWA-MS. Whitmer vs Jacobs was disgusting and was so violent. Those two got the best out of each other. 2009 - Yuko Miyamoto vs Masashi Takeda Scaffold Match or HBK/Taker and a small nudge to Azumi Hyuga vs Kayoko Haruyama. Hyuga/Haruyama was a classic but HBK/Taker was a huge match on the biggest stage and Miyamoto/Takeda pretty much did everything you could in a scaffold match without killing each other. 2010 - The Miz vs Jerry Lawler TLC match. For a big Memphis fan like me, this was gold. I really thought King was going to do it and the heat was off the charts. 2011 -CM Punk vs John Cena. Great heat with great work. 2012 - Tanahashi/Okada Dominion. Everything was just perfect here and it was obvious to me that it was the MOTY. Didn't like Suzuki/Tana as much, but it was very very good. 2013 - Ishii/Shibata 1 with Polvora vs Titan 1/1 coming in 2nd. I stopped regularly watching in September so if there's been something good since then, I didn't see it. Ishii/Shibata was just unreal with nasty strikes and intensity upped to 11. Titan/Polvora was well paced with traditional lucha, flashy moves and a dangerous head drop. I haven't seen any wrestling this year really, so nothing from me for 2014. I saw maybe two Wyatt's/Shield matches but I work nights, so I miss everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxnj Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Trying to keep this to matches I saw relatively recently 1988: Jumbo vs Tenryu 1989: Tenryu/Hansen vs Baba/Kimura 1990: Jumbo vs Misawa I 1991: Jumbo/Fuchi/Taue vs Misawa/Kobashi/Kawada 1992: Misawa vs Kawada 1993: Misawa/Kobashi vs Kawada/Taue RWTL Final 1994: Misawa vs Kawada TC 1995: Misawa/Kobashi vs Kawada/Taue 6/9 1996: Misawa/Akiyama vs Kawada/Taue 12/6 1997: Misawa vs Kobashi 1/20 1998: Misawa/Kobashi 10/31 1999: Kobashi/Vader CC Final 2000: Kawada/Fuchi vs Nagata/Iizuka 2001: Misawa vs Takayama GHC Final 2002: Kawada/Mutoh TC 2003: Misawa vs Kobashi 2004: Kobashi vs Akiyama 2005: Kobashi/Shiozaki vs Sasaki/Nakajima 2006 KENTA vs Marufuji GHC Title 2007: KENTA/Ishimori vs Marufuji/Ibushi 2008: BattlArts 8-man 2009: Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels 2010: Sugiura vs Takayama GHC 2011: Sugiura vs Shiozaki GHC 2012: Kota Ibushi vs Kenny Omega 2013: Kobashi retirement tag Haven't seen enough from 2014 to feel comfortable listing a MOTY, though I really loved the Okada/Nakamura G1 final. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 I'm keeping this to what I've watched since my return to wrestling earlier in 2014 (I'll probably update this along the way), 1951: Fred Kohler Enterprises: Chicago International Amphitheatre (01-01-1951) Buddy Rogers vs. Lou Thesz 1975: All Japan Pro Wrestling: Open Championship League ’75 – Day 10 (12-15-1975) Dory Funk Jr. vs. Horst Hoffman 1976: All Japan Pro Wrestling: Summer Action Series ’76 (07-24-1976) Billy Robinson vs. Giant Baba 1980: Universal Wrestling Association: El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos (04-13-1980) Gran Hamada & Satoru Sayama vs. Perro Aguayo & Babe Face 1981: New Japan Pro Wrestling: Bloody Fight Series ’81 – Day 29 (09-23-1981) Stan Hansen vs. Andre the Giant 1982: New Japan Pro Wrestling: 5th Madison Square Garden Series (04-01-1982) Steve Wright vs. Tiger Mask 1983: Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre: Arena Mexico (11-25-1983) Atlantis & El Hijo del Santo vs. Fuerza Guerrera & Lobo Rubio 1984: Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre: Arena Mexico (03-02-1984) Herodes vs. Tony Salazar 1985: National Wrestling Alliance: Starrcade ’85 (11-28-1985) Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard 1986: World Wrestling Council: Anniversario ’86 – Day 1 (09-19-1986) Ron Starr vs. Invader #1 1987: World Wrestling Federation: WrestleMania III (03-29-1987) Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat 1988: All Japan Pro Wrestling: Summer Action Series ’88 – Day 20 (07-27-1988) Stan Hansen vs. Genichiro Tenryu 1989: National Wrestling Alliance: Chi-Town Rumble (02-20-1989) Ricky Steamboat vs. Ric Flair 1990: Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre: Super Viernes (06-01-1990) El Dandy vs. Ángel Azteca 1991: World Wrestling Federation: WrestleMania VII (03-24-1991) Randy Savage vs. Ultimate Warrior 1992: World Championship Wrestling: WrestleWar ’92 (05-17-1992) Dangerous Alliance (Arn Anderson, Beautiful Bobby, Larry Zbyszko, Rick Rude, & Steve Austin) vs. Sting’s Squadron (Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, Ricky Steamboat, & Sting) 1993: World Championship Wrestling: SuperBrawl III (02-21-1993) Big Van Vader vs. Sting 1994: World Wrestling Federation: WrestleMania X (03-20-1994) Owen Hart vs. Bret Hart 1995: New Japan Pro Wrestling: Battle Rush ’95 – Day 3 (04-16-1995) Lord Steven Regal vs. Shinya Hashimoto 1996: World Wrestling Federation: In Your House 10 (09-22-1996) Mankind vs. Shawn Michaels 1997: World Wrestling Federation: WrestleMania 13 (03-23-1997) Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart 1998: Extreme Championship Wrestling: Heat Wave ’98 (08-02-1998) Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka 1999: Extreme Championship Wrestling: November to Remember ’99 (11-07-1999) Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome 2000: World Wrestling Federation: Royal Rumble ’00 (01-23-2000) Cactus Jack vs. Triple H 2001: World Wrestling Federation: Unforgiven ’01 (09-23-2001) Kurt Angle vs. Steve Austin 2002: World Wrestling Entertainment: Unforgiven ’02 (09-22-2002) Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit 2003: World Wrestling Entertainment: Royal Rumble ’03 (01-19-2003) Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle 2004: Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre: Guadalajara Domingos (04-18-2004) L.A. Park vs. Último Guerrero 2005: Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre: On Televisa (02-25-2005) Último Guerrero vs. Místico 2006: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling: Genesis ’06 (11-19-2006) Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle 2007: World Wrestling Entertainment: Royal Rumble ’07 (01-28-2007) Umaga vs. John Cena 2008: Ring of Honor: Northern Navigation (07-25-2008) Claudio Castagnoli vs. Bryan Danielson 2011: Pro Wrestling Bushido: La Jaimica (10-16-2011) Timothy Thatcher vs. Fit Finlay 2012: All Pro Wrestling/Vendetta Pro Wrestling: Terror Dome ’12 (10-20-2012) Chris Masters vs. Timothy Thatcher 2013: Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre: Domingos Arena Mexico (10-06-2013) Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Virus 2014: Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre: 81. Aniversario (09-19-2014) Atlantis vs. Último Guerrero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 We decided to take this project on over at Segunda Caida Review for every new match we add http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/01/ongoing-all-time-moty-list.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 Just a few I haven't seen mentioned yet that are my favorites off the top of my head. 1986: Flair vs. Morton cage, 7/5. 2004: Guerrero vs. JBL, Judgment Day. 2005: Edge vs. Hardy cage, Unforgiven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 We decided to take this project on over at Segunda Caida Review for every new match we add http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2015/01/ongoing-all-time-moty-list.html Absolutely wonderful. Can't wait to see how this works going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted February 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 EDIT: deleted because I got tired of keeping track of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 For 2003, I highly recommend Kobashi vs Yoshinari Ogawa. It was my personal favorite match of the decade from Japan and just a super, super fun performance from both wrestlers. Kobashi is just at his best against a pure heel. Kawada vs Naoya Ogawa from Z-1 was MOTYC for me that year and was a terrific chaotic brawl. 2004 - I agree. 2005 - I recommend watching Kobashi/Taue vs Tenryu/Akiyama if you have not seen as that was just an awesome performance from all four people. Tenryu and Kobashi want to kill each other and Taue just owns it. Also, Ishikawa vs Ikeda from FUTEN if like ultra-stiff, ass-kicking shoot-style. For 2006, I recommend Taue vs Akiyama for the GHC title as last great All Japan Pillars of Heaven singles match and Danielson vs KENTA was my runner up in what was a very weak year. 2007 - I agree with you. 2008 is all about the BattlArts resurgence my two favorites were Ishikawa, Sawa & Otsuka vs Ikeda, Usuda & Super Tiger II, Battlarts July 26th & Ishikawa & Sawa vs Hara & Super Tiger II, Battlarts November 16th 2009 - Fujita Hayato Jr had a crazy awesome year. His best match was against Kanemoto, but check out his match with Sasuke too. The only other contender for me is KENTA vs Kotaro Suzuki, which is awesome chickenshit heel performance from Suzuki and then a great asskicker performances from KENTA.2014 - Tanahashi vs Nakamura 4/6 Invasion attack and Styles vs Suzuki G-1 Climax. Other would recommend Nakamura vs Okada, which I thought was excellent, but a step below those two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 This list was long overdue for an update, so I finally added selections for 2014 and 2015. I also changed a few of the selections from previous years. As always, all selections are subject to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTNW Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Current list: 1972:Jim Breaks vs Adrian Street-World Of Sport 12.2.1972.1973:Jim Breaks vs Johnny Saint-World Of Sport 5.5.1973.1974:Mick McManus vs Alan Sarjeant-World Of Sport 23.11.1974.1975:Antonio Inoki vs Billy Robinson-NJPW 11.12.1975.1976:Terry Funk vs Jumbo Tsuruta-AJPW 11.6.1976.1977:Billy Robinson vs Jumbo Tsuruta-AJPW 5.3.1977.1978:Tatsumi Fujinami vs Ryuma Go-NJPW 30.11.1978.1979:Tatsumi Fujinami vs Ryuma Go-NJPW 2.10.1979.1980:Mile Zrno vs Charly Verhulst-12.7.1980. CWA1981:Terry Funk vs Jerry Lawler-Memphis 6.4.1981.1982:Jerry Lawler vs Dutch Mantell-Memphis 29.3.1982.1983:Sangre Chicana vs MS1-CMLL 29.3.1983.1984:Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger-UWF 5.12.1984.1985:Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger-UWF 11.9.1985.1986:Nobuhiko Takada vs Shiro Koshinaka-NJPW 5.8.1986.1987:Nobuhiko Takada vs Shiro Koshinaka-NJPW 5.2.1987.1988:El Hijo Del Santo vs Espanto Jr.-UWA 10.4.1988.1989:Masakatsu Funaki vs Tatsuo Nakano-UWF 27.7.1989.1990:Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara-UWF 25.10.1990.1991:Vader vs Keiji Mutoh-NJPW 10.8.1991.1992:Negro Casas vs El Dandy-CMLL 3.7.1992.1993:Shinya Hashimoto vs Hiroshi Hase-NJPW 3.8.1993.1994:Nobuhiko Takada vs Vader-UWFi 18.8.1994.1995:Nobuhiko Takada vs Vader-UWFi 20.4.1995.1996:Shinya Hashimoto vs Riki Choshu-NJPW 2.8.1996.1997:Negro Casas vs El Hijo Del Santo-CMLL 19.9.1997.1998:Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama-24.7.1998.1999:Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto-RINGS 24.6.1999.2000:Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jun Akiyama-AJPW 27.2.2000.2001:Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Shinya Hashimoto & Yuji Nagata-Zero-1 2.3.2001.2002:Genichiro Tenryu vs Satoshi Kojima-AJPW 17.7.2002.2003:AJ Styles vs Low Ki vs Paul London-ROH 8.2.2003.2004:Shinya Hashimoto vs Toshiaki Kawada-AJPW 22.2.2004.2005:Daisuke Ikeda vs Yuki Ishikawa-Futen 24.4.2005.2006:Mitsuharu Misawa vs Takeshi Morishima-NOAH 5.3.2006.2007:Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama-NOAH 2.12.2007.2008:Yuki Ishikawa, Munenori Sawa & Alexander Otsuka vs Daisuke Ikeda, Super Tiger II & Katsumi Usuda-Battlarts 26.7.2008.2009:Mitsuharu Misawa & Takashi Sugiura & Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto-NJPW 4.1.2010:Daisuke Ikeda & Takahiro Oba vs Kengo Mashimo & Makoto Hashi-Futen 24.10.2010.2011:Koji Kanemoto vs Fujita "Jr" Hayato-NJPW BOSJ 26.5.2011.2012:Daisuke Ikeda & Shuri vs Kenichi Yamamoto & Kana-Kana Pro 17.6.2012.2013:KENTA vs Takashi Sugiura-NOAH 12.05.2013.2014:Negro Casas vs Rush-CMLL 1.8.2014.2015:Atlantis vs La Sombra-CMLL 18.9.2015. 2016:AJ Styles vs Roman Reigns-WWE Payback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InYourCase Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 I guess this is my new project. Compiling (hopefully) a Top 10 for each year from now-1990. It's a large work in progress but here's what I have so far. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ssuZaw6piS8O_wb9q7HHoWiU_y7tAyGTgRkLcwUltgk/edit?usp=sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShittyLittleBoots Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 1974: Jack Brisco vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 01/30)1975:1976: Terry Funk vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 06/11)1977: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Billy Robinson (AJPW 03/05) 1978:1979:1980: Bob Backlund vs. Ken Patera (WWF 05/19)1981: Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (CWA 04/06)1982: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell (CWA 03/29)1983: Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW 08/31)1984: Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik (WWF 06/16)1985: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (CWA 12/30)1986: Curt Hennig vs. Nick Bockwinkel (AWA 11/15)1987: Carlos Colon vs. Stan Hansen (WWC 01/06)1988: Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW 12/16)1989: Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (NWA 11/15)1990: Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 09/01)1991: Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko vs. Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat (WCW 11/19)1992: Akira Taue, Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 05/22)1993: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 12/03)1994: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/03)1995: Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/09)1996: Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 12/06)1997: Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (WWF 03/23)1998: Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 07/24)1999:2000: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 02/27)2001: The Rock vs. Steve Austin (WWF 04/01)2002: American Dragon vs. Low Ki (ROH 03/30)2003: Bryan Danielson vs. Paul London (ROH 04/12)2004: Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (ROH 12/04)2005: Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe (ROH 10/01)2006: Bryan Danielson vs. KENTA (ROH 09/16)2007: Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH 08/25)2008: Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (ROH 02/23)2009: Chris Hero vs. Bryan Danielson (PWG 09/04)2010: Bobby Fish vs. Bryan Danielson (EVOLVE 07/23)2011: John Cena vs. CM Punk (WWE 07/17)2012: CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE 05/20)2013: John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan (WWE 08/18)2014: Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H (WWE 04/06)2015: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi (NJPW 01/04)2016: Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE 04/01) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted August 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2016 Added a selection for 2016. I figured we're deep enough in the year that I can make a pick with a reasonable degree of certainty. Of course, I'll probably change my mind before the end of the year and then change it back the next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 This seems like fun...so much I need to watch, but lets do this. Have not watched much 1980s Japan recently. 1978: WWWF Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund vs Ivan Koloff - MSG 1979: WWWF Heavyweght Champion Bob Backlund vs Greg Valentine - MSG 2/19/79 1980: WWF Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund vs Ken Patera - MSG 5/19/80 1981: Terry & Dory Funk vs Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka - AJPW 12/13/81 1982: Southern Heavyweight Champion Jerry Lawler vs Dutch Mantell 1983: Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Dory & Terry Funk - AJPW 8/31/83 1984: Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger - UWF 12/5/84 1985: NWA US Champion Tully Blanchard vs Magnum TA - NWA Starrcade 1985 1986: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton - NWA Great American Bash 7/11/86 Steel Cage 1987: WWF intercontinental Champion Randy Savage vs Ricky Steamboat - WrestleMania III 1988: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Lex Luger - NWA Starrcade 1988 1989: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair - NWA Chi-Town Rumble 1990: Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Nobuhiko Takada - UWF II 10/25/90 1991: Randy Savage vs Ultimate Warrior - WrestleMania VII 1992: WCW World Heavyweight Champion Sting vs Vader - Great American Bash 1992 1993: Kenta Kobashi vs Stan Hansen - 7/29/93 1994: Bret Hart vs Owen Hart - WrestleMania X 1995: 6/9/95 1996: Volk Han vs Kiyoshi Tamura - RINGS 9/25/96 1997: AJPW Triple Crown Champion Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi - 1/20/97 1998: AJPW Triple Crown Champion Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa - 10/31/98 1999: WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page vs Sting - WCW Nitro 4/19/99 (Need to watch more Japan) 2000: Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jun Akiyama - 2/27/00 2001: AJPW Triple Crown Champion Genichiro Tenryu vs Keiji Mutoh - 6/8/01 2002: IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yuji Nagat vs Kazunari Murakami - 12/12/02 2003: GHC Heavyweight Champion Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi - 3/01/03 2004: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenta Kobashi vs Yoshihiro Takayama - 4/25/04 2005: AJ Styles vs Abyss - TNA Lockdown 2005 2006: GHC Heavyweight Champion Akira Taue vs Jun Akiyama - 1/22/06 2007: WWE Heavyweight Champion John Cena vs Umaga - Royal Rumble 2007 2008: Yuki Ishikawa & Muneori Sawa vs Super Tiger II & Usuda - 7/26/08 2009: Fujita Jr Hayato vs Koji Kanemoto - 12/02/09 2010: The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels - WrestleMania XXVI 2011: Dick Togo vs Antonio Honda - DDT 1/30/11 2012: John Cena vs Brock Lesnar - Extreme Rules 2012 2013: IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada - Invasion Attack 2013 (I feel like I am missing an obvious WWE match) 2014: Daniel Bryan vs HHH - WrestleMania XXX 2015: Shinsuke Nakamura vs Kazuchika Okada - G-1 Climax Semifinals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachchaos Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 This is a project that really needs to grow some legs. I started a spreadsheet with all the candidates for each year which have already been referenced ("nominated") in this thread. So far the spreadsheet only goes up to 1979. My intention is to find all the nominated matches and post links to them on the spreadsheet. Eventually we can start individual threads for each year and vote on the Match of the Year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Amen, brutha! I have multiple projects ongoing for different countries and time periods with goal of finally making one massive list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Work in progress forever: 1979: Bob Backlund vs. Greg Valentine - WWWF - (02/19/1979) 1980: Buddy Rose & Ed Wiskowki vs. Roddy Piper & Rick Martel - PNW - (08/02/1980, 2/3 Falls)1981: Andre The Giant vs. Stan Hansen - NJPW - (09/23/1981)1982: Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantell - Memphis (03/29/1982)1983: Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee (6-6-1983) - Memphis "LLT"1984: Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik - WWF - (06/16/1984)1985: Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard (11/28/1985) - Starrcade1986: Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig - AWA - (11/21/1986)1987: Stan Hansen vs. Carlos Colon - (01/06/1987)1988: Lex Luger and Barry Windham vs. Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard - Clash of the Champions - WCW - (03/27/1988)1989: Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (04/02/1989) - Clash 61990: El Dandy vs. El Satanico - (12/14/1990)1991: Randy Savage vs. The Ultimate Warrior - WrestleMania VII (03/24/1991)1992: War Games - Sting's Squad vs. Dangerous Alliance - (05/17/1992)1993: Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (07/29/1993)1994: Misawa vs. Kawada - (06/03/1994) - AJPW1995: Misawa and Kobashi vs. Kawada and Taue (06/09/1995) AJPW1996: Kawada & Taue vs. Misawa & Akiyama (12/06/1996)1997: Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi - (01/20/1997) - AJPW1998: Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama - AJPW - (07/24/1998)1999: Sting vs. DDP - WCW Nitro - 04/19/19992000: Atlantis vs. Villano III - 03/17/2000 2002: Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar - Hell in a Cell - (10/20/2002)2003: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (03/01/2003) NOAH2004: CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe II - ROH - (10/16/2004) HR Draw2005: Kobashi and Taue vs. Tenryu and Akiyama (09/18/2005) 2007: John Cena vs. Umaga - WWE - Royal Rumble (01/28/2007)2008: HBK vs. Chris Jericho - No Mercy - Ladder Match (10/05/2008)2009: HBK vs. Undertaker - WrestleMania 25 2011: CM Punk vs. John Cena - MITB - WWE - (07/17/2011)2012: Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena - Extreme Rules - WWE2013: CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar (04/18/2013) WWE - Summerslam2014: HHH vs. Daniel Bryan - WrestleMania XXX2015: Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar - WrestleMania 31 - (03/29/2015) 2016: The Revival vs. #DIY - (11/19/2016) MOTD in BOLD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
World's Worst Man Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 1985 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Devil Masami 8/22 1986 - Akira Maeda/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Osamu Kido/Nobuhiko Takada/Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Antonio Inoki/Tatsumi Fujinami/Kengo Kimura/Umanosuke Ueda/Kantaro Hoshino 3/26 1987 - Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham 1/20 1988 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada 12/16 1989 - Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 6/5 1990 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 9/1 1991 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs Toshiaki Kawada 10/24 1992 - Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki 11/26 1993 - Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi 7/29 (Sorry Akira and Shinobu) 1994 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada 6/3 1995 - Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa 6/9 1996 - Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama 12/6 1997 - Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa 1/20 1998 - Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada 6/12 1999 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi 6/11 2000 - Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama 12/23 2001 - Jushin Liger vs. Minoru Tanaka 6/4 2002 - Masayuki Naruse & El Samurai vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru 9/23 2003 - Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jun Akiyama 8/17 2004 - CM Punk vs. Samoe Joe 10/16 2005 - Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima 11/5 2006 - Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson 8/5 2015 - Kota Ibushi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 1/4 2016 - Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kazuchika Okada 8/6 I really need a compilation of MOTYCs from 2007-2014. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted October 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 Updated my US/Japan/Mexico MOTY list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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