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Post by microstatistics on Mar 11, 2022 20:06:43 GMT -5
The reign of Danielson/Page II as the best AEW match seems to be short-lived. This was a blast; a hard-hitting hybrid between a hateful brawl and a late 90s AJPW/early 2000s NOAH epic with compelling psychology. The opening half-nelson suplex was the perfect way to set up the rest of the match and was effectively paid off in the finish. That degree of commitment to psychology is quite rare. Whenever Kingston abandoned the neck strategy and resorted to fighting spirit nonsense, he squandered control of the match. Jericho's smart orbital bone cut-offs made his life doubly difficult. Jericho had it in the bag but became greedy going for the Judas Effect and it cost him dearly. Kingston was fine overall, and I especially liked his babyface selling but this was the Chris Jericho show. Stiff shots, focused offense, veteran heel mannerisms, consistent selling. Maybe his career performance.
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Post by [Darren] on Mar 11, 2022 21:33:10 GMT -5
I need to rewatch. I had Page/Danielson 2, both Punk/MJF matches and Mox/Danielson above it still. I’ve been spoiled with great matches.
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Post by gramsci on Mar 12, 2022 4:07:07 GMT -5
Jericho's best match in years and proof that Eddie Kingston is probably the best wrestler in the world, I didn't expect this match to be this good. It's a worthy nomination, but I think it was the third best match of the night and I have like 20 or 30 AEW matches above this as the best match in AEW history.
***1/2
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Post by tetsujin on Mar 12, 2022 6:33:07 GMT -5
Copied from what I said on PWO: Kingston/Jericho was the MOTN, something I never expected. I fucking love Eddie Kingston man, he just works in any context against any type of opponent. He's so natural and relatable.
And I'd add: Props to Jericho as well, his best match since Omega at the Dome.
Not a top 100 contender to me, but definitely a great match and the second best AEW match this year, thus far. What a crazy start of 2022 they're having.
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Post by makaiclub on Mar 12, 2022 9:20:42 GMT -5
Needless to say, this was unexpected. Jericho goes out and has an 90s All Japan inspired sprint. Nothing as good as the original can give you but the effort from Jericho and Kingston is always admirable. Immediately Jericho gets dropped on his head, sending the match into its second guy right away. Unfortunately, Jericho’s strikes in the strike exchange were awful but he had some of the better suplexes of the match. Kingston clearly put this together although Jericho has the stand out spots of the match. So it’s a good combined effort. Kingston’s Stretch Plum was bad though. ***1/4
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Post by Cap on Mar 12, 2022 10:27:17 GMT -5
I liked this match a lot, but don't quite rank it amongst the companies best. I may actually be a touch low on it right now, but even if I bump it up I don't see it jumping either Dragon/Page match.
I have nothing bad to say about the match. It was a great performance from Kingston and Jericho's best AEW match by some distance. I would actually say that I did expect this to be good, but maybe not THIS good. A few nit picky things keep it from being elite, but I do think it is worth consideration.
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Post by [Darren] on Dec 5, 2022 14:26:10 GMT -5
I made this post in response to another thread but figured I’d throw it on the match itself too:
The Kingston/Jericho match is a fun one. I really like how neither go seems to stop fighting forward. There’s some ugly struggle in the middle of moves that make it stand out.
Kingston is one of my favorite wrestlers because he allows me to get behind him so much even if I don’t always care for his style or his AJPW homages.
I just want Eddie to win.
Also, I can’t remember a time that Jericho was this good in a singles match. It was definitely him trying to leech of the Eddie/Bryan/Punk angle as Jericho does for any hot angle. But I think it works. I wouldn’t bat an eye if somebody called this the MOTY
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Post by tetsujin on Dec 5, 2022 20:09:32 GMT -5
Something interesting about Jericho is that, while you can't probably consider him one of the most consistent wrestlers ever, he now has some great matches in four different decades. The 1997 Eddie match, the 2008 Unsanctioned HBK match, the 2018 Omega match and this one in 2022 are all of them good examples of different parts of Jericho's career and character.
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Post by Cap on Dec 6, 2022 7:50:21 GMT -5
Like a lot of people, my taste for Jericho in general ebbs and flows a good bit, but I think he might be a bit unfairly maligned in the past few years. I feel like there was, at least for a bit, a very strong anti-Jericho sentiment in the little corner of wrestling twitter I frequented for example. I have not been high on every part of his AEW run by any stretch and there have been moments when I thought he was involved in the absolute WRONG move. However, he - more often than not - goes out there and does what he can to show out. Even when it is a miss I can often see the ambition and I'll take that kinda effort in my wrestling. I don't think he is the GOAT or anything, but he is a guy the pendulum seems to swing pretty dramatically on and I'm trying to talk through steadying it for myself.
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Post by Cap on Dec 12, 2022 12:34:03 GMT -5
Rewatched this recently and it jumped up to what I'd call "the best of the rest" spot. Right now there are 3 matches that are all time, full marks matches and will be considered for my GME list (Page/Dragon, Anarchy, and FTR/Briscoes III). This currently sits at #4, but it remains comfortably behind those three for me.
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Post by elliott on Oct 22, 2023 1:01:56 GMT -5
Tried it.
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