Grimmas Posted December 28, 2021 Report Share Posted December 28, 2021 Who is the greatest wrestler of the year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 28, 2021 Report Share Posted December 28, 2021 Okada. One of the best year ever anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted December 28, 2021 Report Share Posted December 28, 2021 Black Terry. Other contenders are Brian Kendrick, Rush, LA Park, Hechicero, and Meiko Satomura. Looking back, it was an extremely weak year though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makai Club #1 Posted December 28, 2021 Report Share Posted December 28, 2021 Okada had a dodgy Post-Wrestle Kingdom period with the Goto "under the waterfall" feud falling flat on its face and then getting overshadowed by Naito until the Summer but Okada had an excellent ride after that. The Marufuji matches are sublime, the Ishii match is one of the more acclaimed matches of the period, the 30 draw with Tanahashi. Gosh. Okada had a great run in 2016, and it got shot out of the water by his 2017. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 28, 2021 Report Share Posted December 28, 2021 Actually, you're right, for whatever reason I seemed to remember Okada's legendary title reign being from 2016, when in fact most of it was in 2017 and only began in mid 2016. There you go. Still probably Okada though. Or Naito. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kas Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Okada was the best by the end of the year, but from January to December it's either Omega or AJ and it's razor-thin between 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 4, 2022 Report Share Posted January 4, 2022 Just asking, but ... Chris Hero? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reel Posted January 4, 2022 Report Share Posted January 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, Loss said: Just asking, but ... Chris Hero? Was just thinking about this. The indies were really great in 2016 and especially the Evolve guys were on fire. Hero, ZSJ, Matt Riddle, Tim Thatcher. Hero especially was everywhere and killed it everywhere, except for his tag matches which are always at least 5 minutes too long, but his run as elder statesman of the indies ruled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetsujin Posted January 4, 2022 Report Share Posted January 4, 2022 Shibata had a killer NEVER Championship reign with great stiff matches against Ishii, some WOS-NJPW hybrid cool matches with ZSJ (helping him to achieve his peak in New Japan), both reDragon members, the Third Generation (gotta LOVE the first Nagata match the most), Riddle, Hero, giving EVIL his best matches, an amazing G1 match with Naito... A really, really strong year. Underrated WOTYC for 2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss Rock Posted January 4, 2022 Report Share Posted January 4, 2022 A.J. or Chris Hero probably. Hero probably had the longer list of matches but A.J. arguably had higher peaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed. Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 I'd go with AJ Styles, thought that was about as great of a first year in WWE as you can have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El McKell Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 1/4/2022 at 2:46 AM, Tetsujin said: Shibata had a killer NEVER Championship reign God I love the Kyle O'Reilly match during that run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kas Posted June 7, 2022 Report Share Posted June 7, 2022 On 12/29/2021 at 1:09 AM, kas said: Okada was the best by the end of the year, but from January to December it's either Omega or AJ and it's razor-thin between 'em. Changed my mind, it's Io Shirai. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnviousStupid Posted June 7, 2022 Report Share Posted June 7, 2022 Strong year for plenty of wrestlers. Styles, Okada, Shirai, Hero, Trevor Lee, Gresham, Zack Sabre Jr. Also secretly a really great year for Mustafa Ali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Microstatistics Posted July 15, 2022 Report Share Posted July 15, 2022 I'd go with Io Shirai as well. vs. Kairi Hojo (1/17, 9/3) vs. Mayu Iwatani (12/22) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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