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Post by TheDutifulWebmaster on Dec 21, 2023 14:38:03 GMT -5
It's the end of the calendar year and so let's publish our awards for the year 2023. Just a list of ideas: - Your top matches of the year
- The wrestler of the year
- Best wrestling show/PPV of the year
- Worst wrestler of the year
- Most overrated match/es of year
Of course, you can post whatever you want, you don't need to stick to any guidelines. The above are just ideas .
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Post by TheDutifulWebmaster on Dec 21, 2023 15:00:22 GMT -5
I have not seen many matches which took place this year, but my vote for match-of-the-year would be Kenny Omega v Konosuke Takeshita at All Out 2023; followed by the underrated 4 v 4 Like A Dragon Street Fight on AEW Dynamite; followed by Darby v Cage @ WrestleDream; followed by MJF v Kenny Omega on Collision.
Wrestler of the year for me has to be Kenny Omega. I don't think any wrestler had close to a better year .
Worst wrestlers of the year: Bayley, Randy Orton, Bo Dallas, that English guy in the Brawling Brutes faction. All English wrestlers.
Best PPV, I have no idea, but All In at Wembley is probably the most bump-heavy single-night PPV I've ever seen. So many nice bumps in that PPV, so it gets my vote.
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Post by [Darren] on Dec 21, 2023 15:44:39 GMT -5
Joe v. Punk from All In is the only match I’m really gonna think about after this year.
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Post by elliott on Dec 21, 2023 15:58:44 GMT -5
MOTY is Miz vs Shane McMahon vs Snoop Dogg.
Runners up were Chikayo Nagashima vs Mio Momono 5/3/23 and Jeff Jarrett vs Orange Cassidy 3/15/23
Wrestler of the Year for in ring was Orange Cassidy
All Out on 9/3/23 had 5 matches on it that I liked which feels like a lot for modern day big shows.
Pass on the two negative categories.
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Post by [Darren] on Dec 21, 2023 16:08:44 GMT -5
I don’t like year end discussions.
All Out was a consistently good show and Double or Nothing was the worst ppv I have ever paid for.
I don’t like WOTY discussion because I’m only going to pick my favorite wrestlers every time.
And worst wrestlers? I don’t watch bad wrestlers.
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Post by puroraisedme on Dec 21, 2023 16:16:05 GMT -5
MOTY for me is Bryan/Rush
As far as the other categories I'm not really sure.
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Post by timm on Dec 22, 2023 8:18:31 GMT -5
Honestly, the two matches I enjoyed the most with the least reservation -- by which I mean, matches I loved without thinking they had significant flaws which I loved them despite of -- were the Acclaimed vs. Jeff Jarrett/Jay Lethal tag matches earlier in the year.
For me I think the 2023 MOTY is probably the worst MOTY of any year I can think of going back to the 70s, whatever it is. Even 2020 had the Best Friends vs. Santana/Ortiz parking lot brawl, and the Danielson/Gulak Elimination Chamber match.
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Post by tetsujin on Dec 22, 2023 9:04:24 GMT -5
The MOTY is either MJF/Bryan, Nomura/Abe or the Hangman/Swerve texas deathmatch. Nothing else comes close, although there have been a lot of really great matches as well. But those three are GME list worthy.
As for the WOTY, I was going to say MJF but the devil stuff starts to hurt him, sadly. So it's probably either Danielson (injury and all) or Ospreay. I still need to watch a lot of Astronauts stuff because probably Nomura and/or Abe deserve consideration as well, though.
Show of the year is easy for me. I went to Wembley. Six hours of nonstop excitement, and the sense of making history added a lot to the experience as well. There's probably better AEW PPVs this year, but I can't pretend to try to objective with this one.
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Post by timm on Dec 24, 2023 9:32:46 GMT -5
For some reason I always forget them when thinking of my 2023 MOTYCs, but those first two Collision main events, the multi-man tags with Punk and FTR would rank very highly for me. Honestly one of them might be my MOTY.
I also liked Daniel Garcia vs. Brody King last night tremendously.
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Post by Kadaveri on Dec 24, 2023 12:51:32 GMT -5
My top 10 MOTY list:
1. Bryan Danielson vs. MJF - AEW Revolution
2. Bryan Danielson vs. Ricky Starks - AEW All Out
3. Drew McIntyre vs. Gunther vs. Sheamus - WWE Wrestlemania
4. Fuminori Abe vs. Takuya Nomura - We Are Fighting Detectives 10/12/23
5. Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley - AEW Revolution
6. Mayumi Ozaki vs. Mio Momono - Marvelous 8/7/23
7. Cash Wheeler/Dax Harwood vs. Jay White/Juice Robinson (2/3 Falls) - AEW Collision 7/8/23
8. Arisa Nakajima vs. Sareee - SEAdLINNNG 8/25/23
9. Arisu Endo/Miu Watanabe/Moka Miyamoto/Suzume/Yuki Arai vs. Miyu Yamashita/Mizuki/Rika Tatsumi/Shoko Nakajima/Yuka Sakazaki (2/3 Falls) - TJPW 12/1/23
10. Chad Gable vs. Gunther - WWE Raw 9/4/23
I'll have to do a bit of more watching to decide WOTY but I'm pretty sure by top 3 in some order are Bryan Danielson, Gunther & Mio Momono.
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Post by timm on Dec 24, 2023 13:00:00 GMT -5
I actually totally forgot about that 2/3 falls FTR match. The night I watched it I thought it was MOTY. Maybe the fact that I haven't thought about it in a couple months says it isn't, but I should rewatch it.
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Post by [Darren] on Dec 24, 2023 22:34:28 GMT -5
My Top 10 of 2023
1. CM Punk v. Samoa Joe (AEW - 8/27/2023)
2. Swerve Strickland v. Hangman Page (AEW - 11/18/2023)
3. Bryan Danielson v. Zack Sabre Jr. (AEW - 10/1/2023)
4. Kazuchika Okada v. Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH - 2/21/2023)
5. Gunther v. Drew McIntyre v. Sheamus (WWE - 4/2/2023)
6. Darby Allin v. Samoa Joe (AEW - 2/1/2023)
7. Eddie Kingston v. Claudio Castagnoli (ROH - 3/31/2023)
8. Bryan Danielson v. MJF (AEW - 3/5/2023)
9. The Acclaimed v. Jeff Jarrett/Jay Lethal (AEW - 1/4 & 1/6/23)
10. Sami Zayn v. Roman Reigns (WWE - 2/18/2023)
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Post by TheDutifulWebmaster on Dec 25, 2023 14:35:40 GMT -5
Thank you to all the posters above. I love reading people's wrestling-themed lists.
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Post by 4pillars on Dec 28, 2023 1:09:21 GMT -5
MOTY is unquestionably Abe-Nomura for me. Deep personal connections to a match will do that.
Danielson & Mio had incredible years so I'll say oe of them as my WOTY.
Best show of the year is KTDan by a mile, never left me bored or not enjoying myself, but watching it at 6 in the morning will do that.
Worst Wrestler of the Year for me is probably MJF or Jericho.
The Pillars Four way actively made me stop watching wrestling for like a week. Cole-MJF was at least funny bad so I can't be too mad about it.
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