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Post by Cap on Oct 17, 2019 21:00:26 GMT -5
I am working my way through the WXW Tag League weekend from this month and Timothy Thatcher might be the best wrestler in the world (or at least my favorite right now). He is always so believable, but he put on some bangers this week (and I haven't even gotten to his final match of the weekend). I think his strengths have always been believably, technical wrestling, facial expressions, and storytelling. He has really sharpened his selling and timing to add even more drama to a match in the last year or so in way that makes him stand out as pretty elite. Plus, he is one of the best modern shoot style workers for my money. He doesn't currently have a match in my list, but I think his best work is in front of him.
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Post by fxnj on Oct 17, 2019 23:17:46 GMT -5
Thatcher is a guy I really want to watch more of. I was really impressed by his technique he displayed in the Graves, Gulak, and Busick matches that I watched. He seems clearly a step above the 2000's indy darlings on the mat in his execution, counter-wrestling, and escapes. Could be interesting comparing the matwork in Hero/Punk or Bryan/Nigel to Thatcher/Gulak or another of Thatcher's pimped series. Haven't seen the latest batch of pimped matches he's done this year yet.
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Post by Cap on Oct 18, 2019 9:12:49 GMT -5
I would say his last two years were really good. He had a lot of standout tags last year with Walter and a big one against Walter in Progress (among others). This year especially he has found more stages, between Bloodsport and Ambition, to do more high end shoot style stuff, which has been a blast. Between 2018 and 2019 he has really flexed his deceptive versatility.
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Post by violentbydesign on Jun 7, 2020 4:43:50 GMT -5
I started seeing Thatcher for the first time recently and he's great. I am a bit confused on what his absolute best matches are? I want to see if any of his matches can make my top 100.
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Post by Kadaveri on Jun 7, 2020 7:38:30 GMT -5
His best match is vs. Walter at Progress 68 imo. That one was on my Top 100 list in 2019 until very late on.
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Post by Cap on Jun 7, 2020 10:02:38 GMT -5
That match JUST missed my list last year. It is comfortably my favorite of his. Their BOLA match from 2018 was also really really good.
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Post by Cap on Jun 7, 2020 10:16:20 GMT -5
Some of my favorite Thatcher matches...
Thatcher vs Finlay (10/16/11)
Thatcher vs Hero (8/29/15) Thatcher vs Sabre Jr (2/25/17)* Ring Kampf vs BSS (4/23/17) Thatcher vs Sabre Jr (7/8/17)
Thatcher vs Makabe (7/28/17)
Thatcher vs Dijak (8/12/17)
Thatcher vs Riddle vs Walter (9/10/17)* Thatcher vs Walter (1/28/18)* Thatcher vs Bailey (3/10/18)
Ring Kampf vs Sekimoto and Sawa (3/4/18) Thatcher vs Walter (9/15/18)* Thatcher vs M. Suzuki (10/13/18) Thatcher vs Ishikawa (3/9/19)* Thatcher vs H. Suzuki (4/4/19)*
Thatcher vs Dickinson (7/24/19) Thatcher vs Ishikawa (8/9/19) Thatcher vs Lorcan (10/6/19) Thatcher vs Gresham (10/6/19) Thatcher and Ishikawa vs Ikeda and Walter (3/8/20) Thatcher vs Riddle (5/27/20)
*matches I would say are at least in the conversation for my list (though right now none of them are on there as of now)
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