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[Ditch]

In the course of running these votes, I do a spreadsheet to keep track of matches and ballots. It's a big help for me to know what to expect on ballots in advance so I don't have to do all the work on the final weekend. So, if there's a match you plan to vote for and it's not on the list, speak up! Also, make the case for why YOUR top matches deserve high placement. Yes/No threads focus on "is this match good" but don't have a lot of "this match is better than the rest".

Nominations MUST have been brought up in a yes/no thread to be eligible!



NOMINEES
Hayashi vs Minoru, All Japan January 2nd
Nagata vs Suzuki, New Japan January 4th
Takayama vs KENTA, NOAH January 15th
Yoshino vs Fujii, Dragon Gate January 18th
Kotaro vs Edwards, NOAH January 29th
Ono vs Moriyama, Futen January 30th
Nagai vs Suruga, Futen January 30th
Togo vs Antonio Honda, DDT January 30th

Sanada & Soya vs Sekimoto & Okabayashi, All Japan February 6th
Saito & Horiguchi vs Mochizuki & Fujii, Dragon Gate February 6th
Hayashi vs Kondo, All Japan February 11th
Satomura vs Kana, Triple Tails February 13th
Goto vs Naito, New Japan February 20th
Tanahashi vs Kojima, New Japan February 20th
Ishikawa & Hideki Suzuki vs Ikeda & ST2, Battlarts February 27th
Togo vs HARASHIMA, DDT February 27th

Suzuki vs Nakajima, NOAH March 5th
Hidaka vs Ito, Zero1 March 6th
Minoru vs Kondo, All Japan March 21st
Sanada & Soya vs Sekimoto & Okabayashi, All Japan March 21st
Togo vs Ibushi, DDT March 27th

Tanahashi vs Nagata, New Japan April 3rd
Akiyama vs Kea, All Japan April 8th
Suwama vs Nagata, All Japan April 9th
Akiyama vs Sanada, All Japan April 10th
Nagata vs Sanada, All Japan April 13th
Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Hama & Soya, Big Japan April 28th

Kanemoto vs Hayato, New Japan May 26th
Liger vs Sasuke, New Japan May 28th
Kanemoto vs Taichi, New Japan May 29th
Devitt vs Hayato, New Japan May 29th
Tanahashi & Nagata vs Goto & Nakanishi, New Japan May 29th

Kowloon vs Sekigun elimination match, MPro June 5th
Ibushi vs Richards, New Japan June 10th
Ibushi vs Taguchi, New Japan June 10th
Tanahashi vs Goto, New Japan June 18th
Ishikawa vs Sawa, Battlarts June 19th
Mochizuki vs Kanda, Dragon Gate June 19th
Suwama vs Nagata, All Japan June 19th
Sekimoto vs Y. Sasaki 6-man, Big Japan June 27th
Togo vs Gedo, DDT June 30th

Akiyama vs Nakajima, NOAH July 10th
Sugiura vs Shiozaki, NOAH July 10th
Shingo vs Tozawa, Dragon Gate July 17th
Pac & Dragon Kid vs CIMA & Ricochet, Dragon Gate July 17th
Sasaki vs Sugiura, NOAH July 23rd
Kobashi & Shiozaki vs Akiyama & Saito, NOAH July 23rd
Kai vs Minoru, All Japan July 31st

Nakamura vs Tenzan, NJ August 5th
Shiozaki vs Akiyama, NOAH August 6th
Tanahashi vs Makabe, NJ August 7th
Tanahashi vs Yano, NJ August 13th
Nakamura vs Suzuki, NJ August 14th
Nakamura vs Naito, NJ August 14th
Shinobu & M. Ohtani vs Y. Sasaki & K. Hashimoto, Big Japan August 20th
Sasaki vs Sugiura 6-man, NOAH August 24th
Juniors 10-man, All Together

Shiozaki, Sugiura & Taniguchi vs No Mercy, September 11th
Devitt vs Kushida, New Japan September 19th
Tanahashi vs Nakamura, New Japan September 19th
Shiozaki vs Takayama, NOAH September 23rd

Sugiura vs KENTA, NOAH October 10th
Tanahashi vs Naito, New Japan October 10th
Suwama & Kai vs Akiyama & Marvin, All Japan October 10th
Mochizuki vs Tozawa, Dragon Gate October 13th
Suwama vs Akiyama, All Japan October 23rd
Satomura & Kagetsu vs Takahashi & Yoshiko, Sendai Girls October 27th

Mochizuki vs Saito, Dragon Gate November 3rd
10-man, Dragon Gate November 4th
Ono & Hijikata vs Mashimo & Junji, Battlarts November 5th
Tanaka & Hidaka vs Usuda & Yamamoto, Battlarts November 5th
Ishikawa vs Ikeda, Battlarts November 5th
Sasaki vs KENTA, NOAH November 8th
Nagata vs Ishii, New Japan November 12th
Tanahashi vs Yano, New Japan November 12th
Sasaki vs Sugiura, NOAH November 14th
Suzuki vs Kanehara, U-Spirits November 16th
Team Doi vs Team Gamma, Dragon Gate November 19th
Team BJW vs Suwama & T. Soya, All Japan November 19th
Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Kobayashi & Takeda, Big Japan November 23rd
Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Kasai & Numazawa, Big Japan November 23rd
Shiozaki vs KENTA, NOAH November 27th

Sekimoto & Okabayashi vs Suwama & T. Soya, Big Japan December 18th
Tanaka vs Honma, New Japan December 23rd
6-man, SMASH December 30th

[Alan4L]

Will get on this over the next couple of days Ditcher

[ダニエル]

Not sure how helpful this is, but here is my working Top 10 matches. I think it goes without saying that I see these as must watch for people making their ballots:

• Nakamura Shinsuke -vs- Suzuki Minoru NJPW 2011-08-14
  
• Takayama Yoshihiro -vs- KENTA NOAH 2011-01-15
  
• Sasaki Kensuke -vs- Sugiura Takashi NOAH 2011-11-14
  
• Dick Togo -vs- Antonio Honda DDT 2011-01-30
  
• Fujita Hayato 'Jnr' -vs- Kanemoto Kouji NJPW 2011-05-26
  
• Nakajima Katsuhiko -vs- Suzuki Kotaro NOAH 2011-03-05
  
• Tanaka Minoru & Hidaka Ikuto -vs- Usuda Katsumi & Yamamoto Yujiro BattlARTS 2011-11-05
  
• Akiyama Jun -vs- Suwama AJPW 2011-10-23
  
• Sekimoto Daisuke & Okabayashi Yuji -vs- Soya Manabu & Hama Ryota BJW 2011-04-28
  
• Kenou, ken45°, Kenbai, Yapper Man #1 & Yapper Man #2 -vs- Fujita 'Jr' Hayato, KAGETORA, Minamino Takeshi, Sato Shu & Sato Kei M-Pro 2011-06-05

[Alan4L]

Will start with my 1 and 2.

Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi 6/10 NJPW
One of my all time favourite matches and definitely my favourite NJPW Juniors match ever. Big match feel, two guys coming in desperate to take home the trophy, white hot crowd and some of the best action of the whole year. Incredible.

Maraha Isappa vs. Fujii/Mochizuki 2/6 DG
This was pre-Blood Warriors being full fleded heels so Genki and Ryo play total babyfaces here and Mochi and Fujii let them have it. An all time great beatdown with a classic comeback.

[Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan]

Hey Daniel, you wouldn't happen to still have that MPro 10-man tag would you? I asked for it in the request thread a week ago and no one has responded, and it's not on DailyMotion or YouTube anymore. I need to rewatch it, I don't really remember shit about except for that I really liked it. Someone help me out here.

As for my top 20, I'm thinking all the stuff I'll be voting for is already up there. I'm not done watching yet, so if you could go ahead and let me know when you want to lock these nominations in, the sooner you could announce that deadline the better.

[ダニエル]

I re-upped it a little while ago.
http://www.dailymoti...011-06-05_sport

[Alan4L]

Tanahashi vs. Naito 10/10 NJPW

Was shocked to see this not on the list as alot of people called it the best New Japan match last year. So I investigated and what do I see - it only has ONE vote in the yes/no. Has nobody else watched this??? I mean it was a pretty big match and got alot of praise in other circles. To me it was the best Tanahashi match last year, as Naito brought some serious energy to it. Foreshadowing of what was to come on March 4th.

PAC/Dragon Kid vs. CIMA/Ricochet (7/17) (DG)

This on the other hand I'm not surprised to see absent. I know it's not a DVDVR style match but screw that it's an ALAN style match and it'll be in my top 10. Crazy match!

Team Doi Darts vs. Gamma/Tominaga/Shachihoko (11/19) (DG)

A God damn great underdog match. So well worked, everything came together perfectly. The triple Asai moonsaults and the jujigatame tease were two of my favourite spots of the year.

[Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan]

ダニエル, on Mar 16 2012, 04:34 AM, said:

I re-upped it a little while ago.
http://www.dailymoti...011-06-05_sport

I think I love you.

[fxnj]

Is this online anywhere

Sanada & Soya vs Sekimoto & Okabayashi, All Japan March 21st

EDIT: NM, found it.

[Crew]

Alan, you talked on your audio show months ago about your ***** matches to that point in the year. I assume the two listed are among them, I am sure you said there was one more. What was it, and are there any other you think are worth watching? I don't have a ton of time so I'm being really picky as I catch up.

Also, Ishikawa vs Ikeda from Nov. 5 felt like Misawa vs Kobashi would've felt in 2006 right before Kobashi left for cancer treatments. There, I said it. That being said, I still liked it a lot more than the 2005 match.

[Alan4L]

Crew, on Mar 17 2012, 05:42 PM, said:

Alan, you talked on your audio show months ago about your ***** matches to that point in the year. I assume the two listed are among them, I am sure you said there was one more. What was it, and are there any other you think are worth watching? I don't have a ton of time so I'm being really picky as I catch up.

Also, Ishikawa vs Ikeda from Nov. 5 felt like Misawa vs Kobashi would've felt in 2006 right before Kobashi left for cancer treatments. There, I said it. That being said, I still liked it a lot more than the 2005 match.

yeah last year had the most matches I've ever given the big 5 in a year.

Kota Ibushi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi 6/10 NJPW

Maraha Isappa vs. Fujii/Mochizuki 2/6 DG

Shingo Takagi vs. Susumu Yokosuka (10/22) (DG-UK)

Steen & Tozawa vs. The Young Buck$ (3/4) (PWG)

[Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan]

You just don't like people who weigh over 100kg, do you?

[Ditch]

I think "you just don't like people under 100kg" could be thrown at a lot of people (ie. me). It's about stylistic preferences.

[fxnj]

Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan, on Mar 18 2012, 04:43 AM, said:

You just don't like people who weigh over 100kg, do you?

I think it's more that he really, really likes the junior stuff. Like to the point where I don't think there's anybody on the planet who gets more enjoyment out of wrestling.

[Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan]

Ditch, on Mar 18 2012, 01:01 AM, said:

I think "you just don't like people under 100kg" could be thrown at a lot of people (ie. me). It's about stylistic preferences.

Yeah, that could apply to me as well for the most part. I wasn't being serious, I was just busting his beans.

[ダニエル]

Shut up Daniel, you just dont like people not named Yone.

[Alan4L]

the thing is, only one of those matches was wrestled "juniors style".

The PWG match was all about babyface/heel drama, Shingo/Susumu was a hard hitting war, and the Mochi tag was an underdog beatdown match.

[Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan]

DDT4 was the only PWG show I didn't see from last year. I know this is a little off-topic, but did you see the Bucks vs. Steen/Dragon from December? It's kinda like halfway between a Dragon Gate main event and an early FMW brawl. It's probably my non-Sami non-Finlay indy MOTY.

[Alan4L]

Jesus Dammit Tom Reagan, on Mar 19 2012, 01:51 AM, said:

DDT4 was the only PWG show I didn't see from last year. I know this is a little off-topic, but did you see the Bucks vs. Steen/Dragon from December? It's kinda like halfway between a Dragon Gate main event and an early FMW brawl. It's probably my non-Sami non-Finlay indy MOTY.

yeah the Super D match rocked. Such a wild, crazy affair. I love the Bucks as brawlers. Really underrated.

Definitely try to watch DDT4 man - maybe my fave PWG show ever.

[fxnj]

Just out of curiosity, how did you rate Generico vs. Steen from Steen Wolf?