Tetsujin's Ultimate List
Aug 19, 2020 6:59:44 GMT -5
Post by tetsujin on Aug 19, 2020 6:59:44 GMT -5
So, I couldn't make it to the first GME last year. I won't have my list finished this year either. I still need to watch a ton of classics, hidden gems, underrated stuff, yadayada. I've been working on this list for almost two years and I'm still working on it (and I only have like, 100 matches listed). I also need to rewath all my 80s and 00s stuff, because I changed my criteria a couple of years ago and everything I had rated before that (basically those two decades' best stuff) needs another rewatch to give them new ratings and put them on the list; that's why, right now, I don't have almost any 80s and 00s match on it (but don't worry, there are tons of matches there that I know will make it).
I'm only ranking matches I have ****1/4 or higher, because 4'25* to me is a match that perfectly could be a MOTY so, yeah, any MOTYC has some chances to be in a top 100 I guess. We'll see. Hopefully I can have it finished for the 2021 ballot.
These are the star ratings and their meaning:
****1/4: great match but also has some excellent touches here and there.
****1/2: an excellent match in its entirety. As good as it can be without being all time great level.
****3/4: could have been an all time great match BUT has something (a few bad details, a stupid finish, a heavy botch that took me out of the match, whatever) that doesn't make it perfect. Very rare.
*****: one of the best matches of all time, perfect at everything it has. Extremely rare.
Here's my list so far. Obviously, work in progress. I don't even know if everything I have on it is nominated yet, please let me know if some match isn't.
*****
1. Kazuchika Okada vs Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW, Sakura Genesis 2017
2. Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa - AJPW, Champion Carnival 1995 Finals
3. Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa - AJPW, 20/01/1997
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kazuchika Okada - NJPW, Invasion Attack 2014
5. Akira Hokuto vs Meiko Satomura - GAEA, 29/04/2001
6. 9/6/95
7. Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto - NJPW, G1 Climax 6
8. The Shield vs The Wyatt Family - WWE, Elimination Chamber 2014
9. Kenny Omega vs Tetsuya Naito - NJPW, G1 Climax 26
10. Manami Toyota/Toshiyo Yamada vs Mayumi Ozaki/Dynamite Kansai - AJW, DreamRush 1992
11. #BROKEN Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy - TNA, The Final Deletion
****3/4
12. Antonio Inoki vs Billy Robinson - NJPW, 11/12/1975
13. Ricky Steamboat vs Rick Rude - WCW, Beach Blast 1992
14. Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta - AJW, 24/01/1994
15. Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi - AJPW, 29/07/1993
16. Manami Toyota vs Aja Kong - AJW, Big Egg Universe 1994
17. Owen Hart vs Bret Hart - WWE, WrestleMania X
18. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Tetsuya Naito - NJPW, G1 Climax 27
19. Tetsuya Naito vs Hiroshi Tanahashi - NJPW, WrestleKingdom 11
20. Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori - AJW, DreamSlam I
21. Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi - NJPW, Kings of Pro Wrestling 2013
22. Doug Furnas/Dan Kroffatt vs Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - AJPW, 25/05/1992
23. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada - AJPW, 3/06/1994
24. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Shinsuke Nakamura - NJPW, G1 Climax 25 Finals
25. Volk Han vs Kiyoshi Tamura - RINGS, Mega Battle Tournament 1997
26. Brock Lesnar vs John Cena vs Seth Rollins - WWE, Royal Rumble 2015
****1/2
27. AJ Styles vs Minoru Suzuki - NJPW, G1 Climax 24
28. Masahiro Chono vs Keiji Mutoh - NJPW, G1 Climax 1 Finals
29. Sasha Banks vs Bayley - WWE NXT, Takeover Brooklyn 2015
30. Harley Race vs Terry Funk - NWA, 1/07/1977
31. Shawn Michaels vs Diesel - WWE, IYH Best Friend Better Enemies
32. Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker - WWE, WrestleMania XXV
33. Negro Casas vs El Dandy - CMLL, 3/07/1992
34. New Day vs Lucha Brothers vs The Usos - WWE, TLC 2015
35. Daniel Bryan vs Triple H - WWE, WrestleMania XXX
36. Shinsuke Nakamura vs Kota Ibushi - NJPW, WrestleKingdom 9
37. The Shield vs Ryback & Team HellNo! - WWE, TLC 2012
38. The Undertaker vs Triple H - WWE, WrestleMania XXVIII
39. Volk Han vs Yoshihisa Yammamoto - RINGS, 17/06/1995
40. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Minoru Suzuki - NJPW, Kings of Pro Wrestling 2012
41. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi - AJPW, 25/10/1995
42. Juice Robinson vs Jox Moxley - NJPW, Best of Super Jrs Finals show
43. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Volk Han - RINGS, 26/09/1997
44. Mitsuharu Misawa/Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue - AJPW, Real World Tag League 1996 Finals
45. Jushi Thunder Liger vs Shinjiro Ohtani - NJPW, 9/02/1997
46. Hiromu Takahashi vs KUSHIDA - NJPW, Dominion 2017
47. Tetsuya Naito vs Katsuyori Shibata - NJPW, G1 Climax 26
48. The Miz vs Cesaro vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn - WWE, Extreme Rules 2016
49. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Yuji Nagata - NJPW, 13/04/2007
50. Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas - CMLL, 64º Aniversario
51. Manami Toyota vs Akira Hokuto - AJPW, Destiny 1995
52. El Samurai vs Shinjiro Ohtani - NJPW, 21/01/1996
53. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka - RINGS, 27/06/1998
54. Diesel vs Bret Hart - WWE, Survivor Series 1995
55. Sami Zayn vs Kevin Owens - WWE, Battleground 2016
56. Tetsuya Naito vs Hiroshi Tanahashi - NJPW, Dominion 2017
57. Stan Hansen/Vader vs Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama - AJPW, Real World Tag League 1998 Finals
****1/4
58. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Bret Hart - WWE, WrestleMania 13
59. Daisuke Ikeda vs Alexander Otsuka - BattlARTS, 11/05/1997
60. Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle - WWE, WrestleMania 21
61. Sami Zayn vs Shinsuke Nakamura - WWE NXT, Takeover Dallas
62. Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan, WWE, Extreme Rules 2012
63. Tomohiro Ishii vs Kazuchika Okada - NJPW, G1 Climax 26
64. Roddy Piper vs Bret Hart - WWE, WrestleMania VII
65. Combat Toyoda vs Megumi Kudo - FMW, 7th Anniversary Show
66. Kurt Angle vs The Undertaker - WWE, No Way Out 2006
67. Kenta Kobashi vs Yuji Nagata - NOAH, 12/09/2003
68. Tetsuya Naito vs Kenny Omega - NJPW, G1 Climax 27 Finals
69. Katsuyori Shibata vs Jun Akiyama - W-1, Grand Prix 2005
70. John Cena vs Daniel Bryan - WWE, SummerSlam! 2013
71. Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama - AJPW, 24/07/1998
72. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman vs Samoa Joe vs Roman Reigns - WWE, SummerSlam! 2017
73. Randy Orton vs Batista vs Daniel Bryan - WWE, WrestleMania XXX
74. Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi - NJPW, Dominion 2012
75. Pegasus Kid vs Villano III - UWA, 2/02/1992
76. CM Punk vs John Cena - WWE RAW, 25/02/2013
77. Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio Jr - WCW, Halloween Havoc 1997
78. Brock Lesnar vs AJ Styles - WWE, Survivor Series 2017
79. Akira Hokuto/Shinobu Kandori vs Aja Kong/Bull Nakano - AJW, Wrestling Queendom 1994
80. Bret Hart vs Owen Hart - WWE, SummerSlam! 1994
81. Tatsumi Fujinami vs Shinya Hashimoto - NJPW, 5/06/1998
82. Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi - AJPW, 12/06/1998
83. Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi - AJPW, 3/09/1994
84. The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels - WWE, Bad Blood 1997
85. Roman Reigns vs AJ Styles - WWE, Payback 2016
86. Bayley vs Sasha Banks - WWE NXT, Takeover Respect
87. AJ Styles vs Kazuchika Okada - NJPW, Dominion 2015
88. Clive Myers vs Steve Grey - Joint Promotions, 20/11/1975
89. Giant Baba vs The Destroyer - JWA, 5/03/1969
90. Jerry Lawler vs Bam Bam Bigelow - CWA, 7/09/1986
91. Volk Han vs Kiyoshi Tamura - RINGS, 25/09/1996
92. Lance Archer vs Will Ospreay - NJPW, G1 Climax 29
93. Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels - WWE, WrestleMania XII
94. Will Ospreay vs Shingo Takagi - NJPW, Best of Super Jrs 2019 Finals
95. Antonio Inoki vs Riki Choshu - NJPW, 2/08/1994
96. Shinya Hashimoto vs Hiroshi Hase - NJPW, Final Battle 1994
97. Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks - WWE, Hell in a Cell 2019
98. Roman Reigns vs AJ Styles - WWE, Extreme Rules 2016
99. Hideki Suzuki vs Katsuhiko Nakajima - NOAH, 16/02/2020
100. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kota Ibushi - NJPW, G1 Climax 28 Finals
Still ****1/4 but already eliminated from my top 100
101. Daniel Bryan vs Drew Gulak - WWE, Elimination Chamber 2020
102. AJ Styles vs Hiroshi Tanahashi - NJPW, G1 Climax 25
103. Razor Ramon vs Shawn Michaels - WWE, WrestleMania X
104. Kurt Angle vs Brock Lesnar - WWE, WrestleMania XIX
105. Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama - NOAH, 10/07/2004
106. Triple H vs Stone Cold Steve Austin - WWE, No Way Out 2001
107. Terry Funk vs Jumbo Tsuruta - AJPW, 11/06/1976
Shit, now I'll have to edit all the fucking numbers when introducing a new match. Fuck it, I'll just put its ranking in the comments. Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think! I know it's very "puroresu and WWE big matches" heavy for the moment, but I'm confident it will be more diverse as I rewatch the 80s and 00s and discover new stuff from genres I don't know that much like lucha, non-RINGS shoot style or pre-80s stuff. I'll also do a mini review for every new match on the list, but excuse me for not doing it with all those already on it, I'm extremely lazy.