2018 Match of the Year Contenders

Mr.Moon

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Watched that Ospreay/Walter match last night. Pretty good, definitely elevated by the crowd, but I was more impressed with OTT production. Not sure how I feel about Walter's war motif considering the last guy with a stupid hair cut who came out of Austria. He needs to grow some facial hair or something. Dudes giant baby look is so disconcerting.
WALTER did a great Job in 2018. I watch him many years @ wXw and feel kinda happy for him, that he finally takes the step to NXT UK. (AEW would be :banderas:)


LA Park vs Rush: CMLL Super Viernes


Omega vs Okada: Dominion 6.9


Marty Scurll vs Ospreay - Sakura Genesis


ROH Best in the World 2018: The Young Bucks vs. The Briscoes
Cant find a link ..



and maybe

Daniel Bryan vs Brock Lesnar - Survivor Series
 

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2018 been over for 10 days, y’all still deciding MOTY? :dahell:


There were a lot of matches in 2018 :picard:


My pick is as it was when it happened: Gargano vs Almas. Ibushi/Tanahashi and Ibushi/Ishii are tied for 2 and neck and neck with Gargano/Almas. Might even top it if I'm being honest. There's a ton of shyt on that list that aren't WWE/NXT/NJPW that's worth a watch. Really dug that ZSJ/A-Kid match from Spain that was worked like British shootstyle in a castle or some shyt.
 

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Shingo and that beefy boi clubbing each other to death in what seemed to be a warehouse so everything echoed like crazy :feedme:

Io and Meiko joshi excellence :blessed:

Really liked the dynamics of Akiyama/Marufuji where Marufuji instinctively reverted to overmatched cocky youngin about to take that ass beating for spouting off. In reality he's 40 and in the same stage of his career as Akiyama, but watching this you'd think it was 2000 and uncle Jun wasn't going to let a fukking junior get over on him. :whoo:

I think Walter is better in RingKampf matches than singles matches. He's just better suited to come in and wreck shyt from time to time instead of doing 25 minutes of chops, imo.

Shingo in the CC....hopefully he isn't stuck in a junior tag for the next 4 years in NJ :beli:

Miyahara/Marufuji is like the inverse of Marufuji/Akiyama where Maru is now the cagey old vet outmatched by the younger bigger stronger faster ace and has to rely on old man c*ntiness to get him through it. Note: NOAH and AJPW have shytty refs who highly telegraph literally every close 2 count by slowing down and waiting for the guy to kick out to the point where the wrestlers always seem to be waiting for the hand to come down more but the refs just let it hang in the air and it just becomes a mistimed thing. Constantly.
 

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Kinda getting back into wrestling slowly, watching some stuff

Bryan/Lesnar was soooooooooo underwhelming
 
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