World's Worst Man

There's probably not a whole lot of crap on the AJ TV. NJPW TV is so clipped that it probably doesn't even matter. The FMW/W*ING stuff will vary depending on whether or not you like garbage wrestling. That's probably where most of the crap will be on that set though. Outside of that, it's too hard to single out matches that will likely be lousy, as a lot of the stuff will usually include at least 1 good wrestler.

1 CM Punk vs. Samoe Joe (10/16/04, ****3/4) 3 CM Punk vs Samoa Joe (12/4/04, ****1/2) 5 Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe (10/2/04, ****1/4) 9 Low Ki & Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe & Jushin Thunder Liger (11/6/04, ****1/4) 10 Mark Briscoe vs Colt Cabana vs Austin Aries vs Homocide vs Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe (6/24/04, ****1/4) 13 Austin Aries vs Samoa Joa (12/26/04, ****) 15 Austin Aries vs Bryan Danielson (8/7/04, ****) 16 Jay and Mark Briscoe & Johnny Rave & John Walters vs Alex Shelley & Jack Evans & Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (5/22/04, ****) 18 CM Punk vs Samoa Joe (6/12/04, ***3/4) 21 Bryan Danielson vs Jushin Thunder Liger (11/5/04, ***3/4) 23 Low Ki vs Bryan Danielson (12/26/04, ***3/4) 4 Bryan Danielson vs. James Gibson (9/17/05, ****1/4) 5 AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe (12/11/05, ****1/4) 7 Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe (10/1/05, ****) 8 Kenta Kobashi & Homicide vs. Low Ki & Samoa Joe (10/2/05, ****) 11 James Gibson vs. Austin Aries (4/16/05, ****) 13 Chris Daniels vs. James Gibson vs. Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (8/12/05, ****) 15 Chris Daniels vs. CM Punk (7/23/05, ****) 16 CM Punk & Spanky vs. Samoa Joe & Jay Lethal (3/12/05, ****) 22 Colt Cabana vs. Austin Aries (2/19/05, ***3/4) 23 Spanky vs. Bryan Danielson (4/2/05, ***3/4) 27 Low Ki & Homicide vs. Samoa Joe & Jay Lethal (8/13/05, ***3/4) 29 James Gibson vs. Homicide vs. Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe (7/8/05, ***3/4) Dat's what I got. There was some good stuff on the ROH Reborn shows (April '04). I remember Homicide vs. Danielson and Punk/Cabana vs. Briscoes were real good. There was also another good Briscoes vs. Punk/Cabana match a month later. I don't know exactly how good any of that stuff is, as it's been 2 years since I've seen them and I don't have access to the matches now.

I would agree. Some people might treat that statement as heresy, but I believe JvP II was indeed better than anything Benoit's done. Of course, Benoit has a shit load more ****+ matches than Joe, so it's not like Joe is > Benoit just because his best is better than Benoit's best.

Looking forward to Danielson's reign. I love the guy, and he supposedly has improved even more during that time. 2005 is large because I pretty much followed a bunch of promotions really close. I have a lot of full NOAH/NJPW/ROH shows, and the odd AJPW shows. NOAH just produced a ton of high end (by today's standards) stuff. NJPW didn't produce any high end stuff, but they produced quite a few good-very good matches. ROH was pretty much putting out 2-3 ***+ matches per show, along with a few high end matches as well. And then there were a couple ****+ matches from unexpected sources, like WWE and TNA. It was really a good year for depth of quality wrestling. I also credit the larger lists for 2004/2005 because there's more complete wrestling accessible. In the 90's, AJPW was producing incredibly large amounts of mid-high end wrestling. But many of the matches were edited on their TV show, and weren't available anywhere else, so they didn't make my list. Whereas today, the 2 best promotions in the world air/release their shows pretty much unclipped. There's a larger pool to choose from these days. I haven't seen the most highly pimped 2002/2003 ROH stuff. Some stuff I have seen just failed to make the cut, although I probably could have added them to fill out those years. Ki-AmDrag (3/30/02), Ki-Joe (10/5/02), AmDrag-Styles (11/9/02) I all had at ***1/2. I originally had Daniels vs. Williams (3/22/03) rated quite high, but I didn't want to post it without seeing it again. Actually, fuck it. I added the first 3 matches I mentioned to the list. I haven't seen the Austin vs. Hart matches in ages (same reason the Steamboat-Flair matches aren't listed yet). I'll probably see their WM match fairly soon, because I have it via the Bret Hart DVD. I don't have access to their Survivor Series match though.

The trolling, attention whoring is annoying. Shit like "there are 100 better matches than..." where the subject is some ****3/4 match.

I've only watched up to and including the 10/1/05 show. I just have so much stuff to watch.

Stolen completely from Loss. I like putting together lists, so I'm going to do one of the top wrestling matches by year, according to me. It should also give me a good idea of which years I'm lacking in footage of. I left out matches that were significantly edited. Challenge me on matches you disagree with. I'm itching to watch some of this stuff again, but I can't justify it without a good reason. Part of the reason is that I have a depressing amount of unwatched stuff. Updates at the bottom. 1970 1 Antonio Inoki vs Dory Funk Jr. (9/2/70, ***3/4) 1973 1 The Destroyer vs Mil Mascaras (10/9/73, ****1/4) 1974 1 Mil Mascaras vs The Destroyer (7/25/74, ****1/2) 1976 1 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Terry Funk (6/11/76, ****1/2) 2 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Jack Brisco (8/28/76, 2/3 Falls, ****) 3 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Giant Baba (5/1/76, ****) 1977 1 Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (8/29/77, ***3/4) 2 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Harley Race (6/11/77, 2/3 Falls, ***1/2) 1980 1 Dynamite Kid vs. Tatsumi Fujinami (2/5/80, ****) 1981 1 Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr. (12/13/81, ****1/4) 2 Bob Backlund vs. Sgt. Slaughter (3/21/81, ***1/2) 1982 1 Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask (8/5/82, ****1/2) 2 Bob Backlund vs. Adrian Adonis (1/18/82, ****1/4) 3 Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask (1/28/82, ***3/4) 4 Bruiser Brody vs. Dory Funk Jr. (3/21/82, ***3/4) 5 Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask (7/23/82, ***3/4) 6 Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask (1/1/82, ***1/2) 1983 1 Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask (4/21/83, ****) 2 Stan Hansen & Brusier Brody vs Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu (12/12/83, ***3/4) 3 Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood vs. Sgt Slaughter & Don Kernodle (3/12/83, ***1/2) 1984 1 Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Sheik (6/16/84, ****) 2 Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch vs. The Brisco Brothers (12/28/84, ****) 3 Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (12/5/84, ***3/4) 4 Super Tiger vs Akira Maeda (9/11/84, ***3/4) 5 Adrian Adonis/Dick Murdoch vs. Bob Backlund/Brian Blair (7/7/84, ***3/4) 6 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (12/5/84, 25:36 of 27:19 shown, ***1/2) 7 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Nobuhiko Takada (10/22/84, ***1/2) 8 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Nick Bockwinkle (2/24/84, ***1/2) 9 Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (9/7/84, ***1/2) 1985 1 Jaguar Yokota vs. La Galactica (2/27/85, ****1/2) 2 Devil Masami vs. Chigusa Nagayo (8/22/85, ****1/2) 3 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (9/11/85, ****) 4 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (9/11/85, ***3/4) 5 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (7/17/85, 10:23 of 15:15 shown, ***3/4) 6 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda (3/2/85, ***3/4) 7 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Super Tiger (9/6/85, ***3/4) 8 Dump Matsumoto & Rosy Moreno vs. Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo (1/5/85, ***3/4) 9 Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/8/85, 11:23 of 15:04 shown, ***1/2) 10 Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (1/7/85, ***1/2) 11 Ricky Steamboat vs. Bob Orton Jr. (7/20/85, ***1/2) 12 Greg Valentine vs. Ricky Steamboat (6/21/85, ***1/2) 13 Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/24/85, ***1/2) 1986 1 Akira Maeda/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Osamu Kido/Nobuhiko Takada/Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Antonio Inoki/Tatsumi Fujinami/Kengo Kimura/Umanosuke Ueda/Kantaro Hoshino (3/26/86, ****1/2) 2 Hart Foundation vs. Killer Bees (2/17/86, ****1/4) 3 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Keiichi Yamada (5/1/86, ****) 4 Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (7/27/86, ****) 5 Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka vs. Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido (12/8/86, ****) 6 Akira Maeda/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Osamu Kido/Nobuhiko Takada/Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami/Kengo Kimura/Shiro Koshinaka/George Takano/Kantaro Hoshino (9/16/86, ***3/4) 7 Nobuhiko Takada vs. The Cobra (6/17/86,***3/4) 8 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (8/7/86, ***1/2) 9 Nobuhiko Takada vs Shiro Koshinaka (9/19/86, ***1/2) 10 Ricky Steamboat vs. Jake Roberts (8/9/86, ***1/2) 1987 1 Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham (1/20/87, ****1/2) 2 Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Muto & Shiro Koshinaka (3/20/87, ****1/4) 3 Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage (3/29/87, ****) 4 Yukari Omori vs. Lioness Asuka (4/15/87, ***3/4) 5 Nobuhiko Takada & Akira Maeda vs. Keiji Muto & Shiro Koshinaka (3/26/87, ***1/2) 6 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi (8/20/87, ***1/2) 1988 1 Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (12/16/88, ****3/4) 2 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu (10/28/88, ****1/4) 3 Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (11/10/88, ****1/4) 4 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Hiro Hase (3/11/88, ****1/4) 5 Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (8/13/88, ****) 6 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Tiger Mask (3/9/88, ****) 7 Akira Maeda vs Gerard Gourdeau (8/13/88, ****) 8 Nobuhiko Takada vs Bob Backlund (12/22/88, ***3/4) 9 Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/12/88, ***3/4) 10 Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (6/11/88, ***1/2) 1989 1 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (6/5/89, ****3/4) 2 Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (4/2/89, ****3/4) 3 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (10/11/89, ****1/4) 4 Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (5/7/89, ****) 5 Yoji Anjoh vs Masakatsu Funaki (6/14/89, ****) 6 Masakatsu Funaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (7/24/89, ****) 7 Naoki Sano vs. Jushin Liger (7/13/89, JIP, 10:56 of 13:48 shown, ****) 8 Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (8/1/89, JIP 11:04 of 15:26 shown, ****) 9 Akira Maeda vs. Nobuhiko Takada (6/14/89, ****) 10 Akira Maeda vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/13/89, ***3/4) 11 Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (10/25/89, ***3/4) 12 Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/21/89, ***3/4) 13 Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (9/20/89, ***3/4) 14 Kazuo Yamazaki vs Yoji Anjoh (8/13/89, ***3/4) 15 Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (5/4/89, ***3/4) 16 Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (1/10/89, ***3/4) 17 Shiro Koshinaka vs. Hiroshi Hase (3/16/89, ***3/4) 18 Riki Choshu & Masa Saito vs. Super Strong Machine & George Takano (3/16/89, ***3/4) 19 Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (10/25/89, ***1/2) 20 Jumbo Tsuruta & Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu (8/6/89, ***1/2) 21 Atsushi Onita vs Masashi Aoyagi (10/6/89, ***1/2) 22 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (1/7/89, ***1/2) 23 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada (2/23/89, ***1/2) 24 Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (4/14/89, 13:41 of 19:39 shown, ***1/2) 1990 1 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (6/8/90, ****3/4) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (9/1/90, ****3/4) 3 Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano (1/31/90, ****1/2) 4 Mtsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Masa Fuchi/Akira Taue (10/19/90, ****1/2) 5 Southern Boys vs. Midnight Express (7/7/90, ****1/4) 6 Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams (4/19/90, ****) 7 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (2/9/90, ***3/4) 8 Steve Williams vs. Toshiaki Kawada (JIP, 13:27 of 16:22 shown, ***3/4) 9 Steve Williams & Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen (3/6/90, ***3/4) 10 Genichiro Tenryu & Ricky Fuyuki vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Tiger Mask II (1/14/90, ***3/4) 11 Genichiro Tenryu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (4/19/90, ***1/2) 1991 1 Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (10/21/91, ****1/2) 2 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Toshiaki Kawada (10/24/91, ****1/2) 3 Keiji Muto vs. Masahiro Chono (8/11/91, ****1/4) 4 Jumbo Tsuruta vs Mitsuharu Misawa (4/20/91, ****1/4) 5 Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (3/3/91, ****1/4) 6 Mitsuhara Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Terry Gordy & Steve Williams (07/24/91, ****) 7 Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect (8/26/91, ****) 8 Nobuhiko Takada vs Kazuo Yamazaki (10/6/91, ****) 9 Ric Flair/Larry Zbyszko/Barry Windham/Sid Vicious vs. Sting/Brian Pillman/Scott Steiner/Ric Steiner (2/24/91, ****) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Terry Gordy (6/1/91, ****) 11 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono (8/9/91, ***3/4) 12 Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue (1/15/91, ***3/4) 13 Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (5/24/91, JIP, 16:07 of 23:42, ***3/4) 14 Mitsuhara Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue (09/24/91, ***1/2) 15 Bull Nakano vs Yumiko Hotta (1/23/91, ***1/2) 16 Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi vs. Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (10/27/91, ***1/2) 1992 1 Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki (11/26/92, ****3/4) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (10/21/1992, ****1/2) 3 Manami Toyota vs. Toshiyo Yamada (8/15/92, ****1/2) 4 Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (4/30/92, ****1/4) 5 Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto (1/4/92, ****1/4) 6 Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto (11/26/92, ****1/4) 7 Vader vs Sting (12/28/92, ****1/4) 8 Jushin Liger vs. Pegasus Kid (2/10/92, ****1/4) 9 Jushin Liger vs. Brian Pillman (2/29/92, ****) 10 Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue vs. Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (12/13/92, ****) 11 Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (8/29/92, ****) 12 Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (4/5/92, ****) 13 Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (9/21/92, ****) 14 Pegasus Kid vs. Jushin Liger (8/12/92, ****) 15 Hiroshi Hase vs Great Muta (12/14/92, ****) 16 Stan Hansen vs. Mitsuhara Misawa (08/22/1992, ****) 17 Bull Nakano & Aja Kong vs. Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada (8/15/92, ****) 18 Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue & Jun Akiyama (12/04/1992, ****) 19 Masa Chono vs. Keiji Muto (8/11/92, ***3/4) 20 Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong (11/26/92, ***3/4) 21 Vader vs. Sting (7/12/92, ***3/4) 22 Jumbo Tsuruta/Masanobu Fuchi/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi (1/12/92, JIP, 19:30 of 26:00 shown, ***3/4) 23 Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (5/8/92, ***3/4) 24 Stan Hansen vs Mitsuharu Misawa (4/17/92, ***1/2) 25 Kyoko Inoue & Mariko Yoshida vs Manami Toyota & Sakie Hasegawa (5/24/92, ***1/2) 26 Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Akira Hokuto & Etsuko Mita (5/24/92, ***1/2) 27 Bret Hart vs. Roddy Piper (4/5/92, ***1/2) 28 Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (1/2/92, ***1/2) 1993 1 Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (4/2/93, *****) 2 Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (7/29/93, *****) 3 Toshiyo Yamada & Manami Toyota vs. Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki (4/11/93, ****3/4) 4 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (06/01/93, ****1/2) 5 Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada (1/30/93, ****1/2) 6 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (3/27/93, ****1/2) 7 Stan Hansen vs Toshiaki Kawada (2/28/93, ****1/4) 8 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (2/28/93, ****1/4) 9 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (7/29/93, ****1/4) 10 Steve Williams vs Mitsuharu Misawa (9/3/93, ****1/4) 11 Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (4/16/93, ****1/4) 12 Vader vs. Sting (2/21/93, ****1/4) 13 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Stan Hansen (3/30/93, ****1/4) 14 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi (1/26/93, ****1/4) 15 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (12/3/93, ****) 16 Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa (7/2/93, ****) 17 Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect (6/13/93, ****) 18 Steve Williams vs Kenta Kobashi (8/31/93, ****) 19 Aja Kong & Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori & Eagle Sawai (4/11/93, ****) 20 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (12/10/93, ****) 21 Shinya Hashimoto vs Genichiro Tenryu (8/8/93, ****) 22 Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue vs. Mayumi Ozaki & Cuty Suzuki (4/2/93, ****) 23 Nobuhiko Takada vs Vader (12/5/93, ***3/4) 24 Akira Hokuto vs. Yumiko Hotta (8/21/93, ***1/2) 25 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Stan Hansen (5/21/93, ***1/2) 26 Vader vs. Cactus Jack (10/24/93, ***1/2) 27 Kenta Kobashi vs Terry Gordy (5/21/93, ***1/2) 28 Kyoko Inoue/Takako Inoue/Toshiyo Yamada vs. Aja Kong/Kaoru Ito/Infernal Kaoru (8/21/93, ***1/2) 1994 1 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (6/3/94, *****) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (5/21/94, ****3/4) 3 Super Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada (8/18/94, ****3/4) 4 Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta (1/24/94, ****3/4) 5 Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams (9/3/94, ****3/4) 6 Toshiaki Kawada vs Steve Williams (4/16/94, ****1/2) 7 Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (3/20/94, ****1/2) 8 Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda (1/24/94, ****1/2) 9 Wild Pegasus vs. Great Sasuke (4/16/94, ****1/2) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (4/11/94, ****1/4) 11 Toshiaki Kawada vs Steve Williams (10/22/94, ****1/4) 12 Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue (4/1/94, ****1/4) 13 Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Gary Albright (8/18/94, ****1/4) 14 Jushin Liger vs. Great Sasuke (4/16/94, ****1/4) 15 Bull Nakano vs Kyoko Inoue (1/24/94, ****) 16 El Samurai vs. Great Sasuke (4/16/94, ****) 17 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (12/10/94, ****) 18 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (3/27/94, ***3/4) 19 Giant Baba & Stan Hansen vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (12/10/94, ***3/4) 20 Jushin Liger vs. Super Delfin (6/18/94, ***3/4) 21 Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (6/10/94, ***1/2) 22 Bret Hart vs 1-2-3 Kid (07/01/94, ***1/2) 23 Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan vs. The Nasty Boys (5/22/94, ***1/2) 1995 1 Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (6/9/95, AJPW Double Tag Titles, *****) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (1/24/95, ****3/4) 3 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (4/15/95, ****1/2) 4 Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue (4/8/95, ****1/2) 5 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (3/26/95, ****1/2) 6 Jushin Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon (12/95, ****1/2) 7 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (7/24/95, ****1/4) 8 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (4/6/95, ****1/4) 9 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (7/24/95, ****1/4) 10 Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog (12/17/95, ****1/4) 11 Koji Kanemoto vs. Shinjiro Otani (7/13/95, ****1/4) 12 Jushin Liger vs. Gedo (12/95, ****1/4) 13 Toshiaki Kawada vs Gary Albright (10/25/95, ****) 14 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (4/12/95, ****) 15 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi (3/21/95, ****) 16 Lionheart vs. Wild Pegasus (12/95, ****) 17 Ultimo Dragon vs. Shinjiro Otani (12/95, ****) 18 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (9/10/95, ***3/4) 19 Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (10/15/95, ***3/4) 20 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kensuke Sasaki (1/4/95, ***3/4) 21 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (12/9/95, ***3/4) 22 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (5/3/95, ***3/4) 23 Bret Hart vs. Diesel (11/19/95, ***3/4) 24 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (10/25/95, ***3/4) 25 Jushin Liger vs. Gran Naniwa (12/95, ***3/4) 26 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (3/4/95, ***1/2) 27 Ric Flair vs. Keiji Muto (8/13/95, ***1/2) 28 Toshiaki Kawada vs Jun Akiyama (3/21/95, ***1/2) 29 Nobuhiko Takada vs Vader (4/20/95, ***1/2) 1996 1 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (12/6/96, *****) 2 El Samurai vs. Shinjiro Otani (1/21/96, ****3/4) 3 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (5/96, ****1/2) 4 Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (7/9/96, ****1/2) 5 Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinjiro Otani (3/17/96, ****1/2) 6 Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (11/17/96, ****1/2) 7 Shinjiro Ohtani vs. Ultimo Dragon (8/4/96, ****1/2) 8 Shinjiro Otani vs. Wild Pegasus (3/20/96, ****1/2) 9 Black Tiger vs. Wild Pegasus (6/11/96, ****1/2) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (11/29/96, ****1/4) 11 Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue (3/31/96, ****1/4) 12 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (3/31/96, ****1/4) 13 Jushin Liger vs. Black Tiger (6/12/96, ****1/4) 14 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (5/24/96, ****1/4) 15 Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shinya Hashimoto (4/29/96, ****) 16 Antonio Inoki vs. Vader (1/4/96, ****) 17 Chris Benoit vs. Dean Malenko (8/10/96, ****) 18 TAKA Michinoku/Koji Kanemoto/Shinjiro Otani vs. Gran Hamada/El Samurai/Jushin Liger (4/5/96, ****) 19 Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (7/24/96, ***3/4) 20 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Steve Williams & Johnny Ace (11/22/96, ***3/4) 21 Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Kenta Kobashi & The Patriot (11/22/96, ***3/4) 22 Jushin Liger vs. Dick Togo (British Jr. Title, ***3/4) 23 Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada (5/24/96, ***1/2) 1997 1 Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (1/20/97, *****) 2 Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (10/21/97, *****) 3 Jushin Liger vs. Shinjiro Otani (2/9/97, ****3/4) 4 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (12/5/97, ****3/4) 5 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (4/19/97, ****1/4) 6 Hiroshi Hase vs Kenta Kobashi (8/26/97, ****1/4) 7 Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin (3/23/97, ****1/4) 8 Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama (3/30/97, ****) 9 Jushin Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon (1/4/97, ****) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa & Hiroshi Hase & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi & Akira Taue & Jun Akiyama (9/26/97, ****) 11 Toshiaki Kawada vs Mitsuharu Misawa (6/6/97, ***3/4) 12 Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi (4/19/97, ***3/4) 13 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jun Akiyama (9/6/97, ***3/4) 14 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (4/2/97, ***1/2) 15 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Akira Taue (7/25/95, ***1/2) 16 Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (6/5/97, ***1/2) 17 Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace & Johnny Smith vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama & Satoru Asako (8/22/97. ***1/2) 1998 1 Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada (6/12/98, ****3/4) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (10/31/98, ****1/2) 3 Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (6/5/98, ****1/2) 4 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (3/29/98, ****) 5 Jun Akiyama vs Mitsuharu Misawa (1/26/98, Triple Crown, ****) 6 Jun Akiyama vs Kenta Kobashi (7/24/98, Triple Crown, ****) 7 Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace (1/25/98, ****) 8 Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Stan Hansen & Vader (12/5/98, ***3/4) 9 Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (10/11/98, ***3/4) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jun Akiyama (4/18/98, ***3/4) 11 Shinjiro Otani vs. Ultimo Dragon (1/4/98, ***3/4) 12 Toshiaki Kawada vs Mitsuharu Misawa (5/1/98, ***1/2) 13 Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi (9/11/98, Triple Crown, ***1/2) 1999 1 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (6/11/99, ****1/2) 2 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (1/7, 17:28 of 25:58 shown, ****1/4) 3 Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (10/23/99, ****1/4) 4 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (1/22/99, ****) 5 Ryuji Yamakawa vs Tomoaki Honma (6/20/99, ****) 6 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Vader (5/1/99, ****) 7 Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit (10/4/99, ****) 8 Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa (3/6/99, ****) 9 Vader vs Kenta Kobashi (4/16/99, ***3/4) 10 Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (7/23/99, ***3/4) 11 Kenta Kobashi & Toshiaki Kawada vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue (6/4/99, ***3/4) 12 Raven & Saturn vs. Dean Malenko & Chris Benoit (4/11/99, ***1/2) 13 CIMA vs Minoru Fujita (10/19/99, ***1/2) 2000 1 Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama (12/23/2000, ****1/2) 2 Jun Akiyama vs Mitsuharu Misawa (2/27/00, ****) 3 Vader vs Kenta Kobashi (2/27/00, ****) 4 Jun Akiyama vs Kenta Kobashi (8/6/00, ****) 5 Kensuke Sasaki vs. Toshiaki Kawada (10/9/00, ***3/4) 6 Masa Fuchi & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka (12/14/00, ***3/4) 7 Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi vs Vader & Steve Williams (2/20/00, ***3/4) 8 Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada (1/17/00, ***3/4) 9 Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Akira Taue (8/5/2000, 2/3 Falls, ***1/2) 10 Toshiaki Kawada vs Genichiro Tenryu (10/28/00, ***1/2) 11 Genichiro Tenyru vs. Kensuke Sasaki (1/4/00, ***1/2) 12 Shinya Hashimoto & Takashi Iizuka vs. Naoya Ogawa & Kazunari Murakami (1/4/00, ***1/2) 2001 1 Jushin Liger vs. Minoru Tanaka (6/4/01, ****1/4) 2 Minoru Tanaka vs. AKIRA (5/28/01, ****) 3 Toshiaki Kawada vs. Satoshi Kojima (6/6/01, ****) 4 Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Mike Barton & Jim Steele (12/11/01, ****) 5 Jun Akiyama vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (7/27/01, ****) 6 Naomichi Marufuji vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa (4/18/01, ****) 7 Keiji Muto & Taiyo Kea vs. Osamu Nishimura & Tatsumi Fujinami (10/28/01, ****) 8 Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Yuji Nagata (3/2/01, ***3/4) 9 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Toshiaki Kawada (1/4/01, ***3/4) 10 Keiji Muto vs Genichiro Tenryu (6/8/01, ***3/4) 11 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Yuji Nagata (1/4/01, ***3/4) 12 Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuya Nagai vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (9/16/01, ***3/4) 13 Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs Naomichi Marufuji (12/9/2001, ***3/4) 14 Takehiro Murahama vs. Minoru Tanaka (4/20/01, ***3/4) 15 Keiji Muto & Jushin Liger vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura (10/19/01, ***3/4) 16 Yuji Nagata/Osamu Nishimura/Takashi Iizuka vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan/Satoshi Kojima/Scott Norton (4/20/01, ***3/4) 17 Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (4/11/01, ***1/2) 18 Taiyo Kea vs. Genichiro Tenryu (3/3/01, ***1/2) 2002 1 Masayuki Naruse & El Samurai vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (9/23/02, ****) 2 Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Yuji Nagata & Jun Akiyama (2/17/02, ***3/4) 3 Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito (10/19/02, ***3/4) 4 Satoshi Kojima vs. Genichiro Tenryu (7/17/02, ***3/4) 5 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Osamu Nishimura (2/16/02, ***3/4) 6 Osamu Nishimura vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (8/10/02, ***3/4) 7 Jushin Liger/Great Sasuke/Tiger Mask IV vs. Dick Togo/Gedo/Jado (1/4/02, ***3/4) 8 Yuji Nagata vs. Jun Akiyama (1/4/02, ***3/4) 9 Great Sasuke/Jinsei Shinzaki/Dick Togo vs. TAKA Michinoku/Gran Naniwa/Kaz Hayashi (11/8/02, ***3/4) 10 Masahiro Chono vs. Yuji Nagata (10/26/02, ***1/2) 11 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (8/4/02, ***1/2) 12 American Dragon vs Low Ki (3/30/02, ***1/2) 13 Samoa Joe vs Low Ki (10/5/02, ***1/2) 14 American Dragon vs AJ Styles (11/9/02, ***1/2) 2003 1 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jun Akiyama (8/17/03, ****1/2) 2 Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito (6/06/03, ****1/4) 3 Makai Mask IV & Makai Mask V vs. Yutaka Yoshie & Hiroshi Tanahashi (7/09/03, ****) 4 AKIRA/Super Crazy/HEAT/Masahito Kakihara/Tiger Mask IV vs. Minoru Fujita/Gedo/Koji Kanemoto/El Samurai/Jushin Lyger (2/16/03, ****) 5 Jun Akiyama/Makoto Hashi/Akitoshi Saito/Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Tamon Honda/KENTA/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi/Kenta Kobashi (5/14/03, ***3/4) 6 Tamon Honda vs. Kenta Kobashi (4/13/03, ***1/2) 7 Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle (1/19/03, ***1/2) 8 Kazunari Murakami vs. Yuji Nagata (12/10/02, ***1/2) 9 Osamu Nishimura vs. Yuji Nagata (2/02/03, ***1/2) 2004 1 CM Punk vs. Samoe Joe (10/16/04, ****3/4) 2 Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kenta Kobashi (4/25/04, ****1/2) 3 CM Punk vs Samoa Joe (12/4/04, ****1/2) 4 Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi (9/10/04, ****1/4) 5 Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe (10/2/04, ****1/4) 6 Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Kensuke Sasaki (12/12/04, ****1/4) 7 Takeshi Rikio & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kenta Kobashi & KENTA (11/28/04, ****1/4) 8 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8/15/04, Final, ****1/4) 9 Low Ki & Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe & Jushin Thunder Liger (11/6/04, ****1/4) 10 Mark Briscoe vs Colt Cabana vs Austin Aries vs Homocide vs Bryan Danielson vs Samoa Joe (6/24/04, ****1/4) 11 Brock Lesnar vs Eddy Guerrero (2/15/04, ****) 12 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki (11/03/04, ****) 13 Austin Aries vs Samoa Joa (12/26/04, ****) 14 Low Ki vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru (9/10/04, ****) 15 Austin Aries vs Bryan Danielson (8/7/04, ****) 16 Jay and Mark Briscoe & Jimmy Rave & John Walters vs Alex Shelley & Jack Evans & Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (5/22/04, ****) 17 Takeshi Rikio vs. Kenta Kobashi (3/06/04, ***3/4) 18 CM Punk vs Samoa Joe (6/12/04, ***3/4) 19 Great Sasuke & Dick Togo & Nobutaka Moribe vs Minoru Fujita & Ikuto Hidaka & Macho Pump (8/22/04, ***3/4) 20 SUWA vs. Magnum Tokyo (2/08/04, UDG Title, ***3/4) 21 Bryan Danielson vs Jushin Thunder Liger (11/5/04, ***3/4) 22 Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA (4/03/04, ***3/4) 23 Low Ki vs Bryan Danielson (12/26/04, ***3/4) 24 KENTA vs. Kenta Kobashi (10/09/04, ***1/2) 25 Toshiaki Kawada vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (12/5/04, ***1/2) 26 Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi (7/10/04, ***1/2) 27 Kenta Kobashi & KENTA vs. Akitoshi Saito & Takashi Sugiura (11/28/04, ***1/2) 28 Kurt Angle vs Eddy Guerrero (3/14/04, ***1/2) 2005 1 Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima (11/5/05, ****3/4) 2 Kenta Kobashi & Makoto Hashi vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (8/19/05, ****1/2) 3 Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita (5/7/05, ****1/2) 4 Low Ki vs. KENTA (12/17/05, ****1/4) 5 Bryan Danielson vs. James Gibson (9/17/05, ****1/4) 6 AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe (12/11/05, ****1/4) 7 KENTA vs. SUWA (9/18/05, ****) 8 Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe (10/1/05, ****) 9 Roderick Strong vs. Bryan Danielson (10/29/05, ****) 10 Kenta Kobashi & Homicide vs. Low Ki & Samoa Joe (10/2/05, ****) 11 Eddy Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio (6/23/05, ****) 12 Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs. Naomichi Marufuji/KENTA/Makoto Hashi (4/2/05, ****) 13 James Gibson vs. Austin Aries (4/16/05, ****) 14 Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki vs. Akitoshi Saito & Takashi Sugiura (9/11/05, ****) 15 Chris Daniels vs. James Gibson vs. Samoa Joe vs. CM Punk (8/12/05, ****) 16 KENTA vs. Mushiking Terry (10/28/05, ****) 17 CM Punk & Spanky vs. Samoa Joe & Jay Lethal (3/12/05, ****) 18 Kenta Kobashi vs. Takeshi Rikio (3/5/05, ***3/4) 19 Satoshi Kojima vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (3/26/05, ***3/4) 20 Satoshi Kojima vs. Toshiaki Kawada (2/16/05, ***3/4) 21 Satoshi Kojima vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (2/20/05, ***3/4) 22 Chris Daniels vs. Samoa Joe (11/5/05, ***3/4) 23 KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru (7/18/05, ***3/4) 24 Colt Cabana vs. Austin Aries (2/19/05, ***3/4) 25 Roderick Strong vs. Bryan Danielson (11/5/05, ***3/4) 26 Spanky vs. Bryan Danielson (4/2/05, ***3/4) 27 Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura vs. Richard Slinger & Low Ki (8/27/05, ***3/4) 28 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata (4/19/05, ***3/4) 29 Mitsuharu Misawa & Mohammed Yone vs. Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiozaki (4/17/05, ***3/4) 30 Low Ki & Homicide vs. Samoa Joe & Jay Lethal (8/13/05, ***3/4) 31 KENTA/Naomichi Marufuji/Kotaro Suzuki/Ricky Marvin vs. Takashi Sugiura/Yoshinobu Kanemaru/Makoto Hashi/SUWA (4/17/05, ***3/4) 32 James Gibson vs. Homicide vs. Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe (7/8/05, ***3/4) 33 Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle (4/3/05, ***3/4) 34 Toshiaki Kawada vs. Minoru Suzuki (8/11/05, ***1/2) 35 Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (8/7/05, ***1/2) 36 Satoshi Kojima vs. Kensuke Sasaki (11/19/05, ***1/2) 37 Samoa Joe vs. Jay Lethal (12/3/05, ***1/2) 38 Black Tiger vs. Koji Kanemoto (10/30/05, ***1/2) 39 Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Yuji Nagata (1/30/05, ***1/2) 40 Jun Akiyama & Makoto Hashi vs. Minoru Suzuki & Naomichi Marufuji (7/18/05, ***1/2) 41 Kenta Kobashi vs. Kensuke Sasaki (7/18/05, ***1/2) 42 Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8/13/05, ***1/2) 43 Chris Daniels vs. CM Punk (7/23/05, ***1/2) 44 Minoru Suzuki vs. Mohammed Yone (9/18/05, ***1/2) 45 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano (8/4/05, ***1/2) 46 Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura (6/5/05, ***1/2) 47 Kenta Kobashi/Mohammed Yone/Go Shiosaki vs. Takeshi Rikio/Takeshi Morishima/Naomichi Marufuji (2/20/05, ***1/2) 48 Takeshi Rikio/Mohammed Yone/KENTA vs. Jun Akiyama/Genichiro Tenryu/Go Shiosaki (5/17/05, ***1/2) 49 Satoshi Kojima vs. Keiji Muto (7/26/05, ***1/2) 2006 1 Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson (8/5/06, ****1/2) 2 KENTA vs. Bryan Danielson (9/16/06, ****1/4) 3 Kenta Kobashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji (4/23/06, ****) 4 Samoa Joe/Adam Pearce/BJ Whitmer/Ace Steel/Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero/Claudio Castagnoli/Nate Webb/Necro Butcher/Eddie Kingston (7/15/06, ****) 5 Naomichi Marufuji vs. Akira Taue (3/5/06, ***3/4) 6 Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (8/12/06, ***3/4) 7 Roderick Strong vs. Bryan Danielson (3/31/06, ***3/4) 8 Kenta Kobashi vs. KENTA (3/5/06, ***3/4) 9 Kurt Angle vs. Undertaker (2/19/06, ***3/4) 10 Yuji Nagata vs. Giant Bernard (4/30/06, ***1/2) 11 Homicide vs. Bryan Danielson (6/3/06, ***1/2) 12 Colt Cabana vs. Bryan Danielson (8/26/06, ***1/2) 13 Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Takashi Sasaki (3/31/06, ***1/2) 14 Lance Storm vs. Bryan Danielson (4/1/06, ***1/2) 15 Edge vs. Mick Foley (4/2/06, ***1/2) 16 Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson (10/28/06, ***1/2) 17 Jimmy Rave vs. Bryan Danielson (2/25/06, ***1/2) 18 Genki Horiguchi/Ryo Saito/Dragon Kid vs. CIMA/Naruki Doi/Masato Yoshino (3/31/06, ***1/2) 8/3/06 - Added Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (4/5/92, ****) 8/4/06 - Added Dump Matsumoto & Rosy Moreno vs. Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo (1/5/85, ***3/4), Chris Benoit vs. Dean Malenko (8/10/96, ****) 8/5/06 - Added Vader vs. Cactus Jack (10/24/93, ***1/2), Southern Boys vs. Midnight Express (7/7/90, ****1/4), Ric Flair/Larry Zbyszko/Barry Windham/Sid Vicious vs. Sting/Brian Pillman/Scott Steiner/Ric Steiner (2/24/91, ****), Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan vs. The Nasty Boys (5/22/94, ***1/2), Raven & Saturn vs. Dean Malenko & Chris Benoit (4/11/99, ***1/2) 8/6/06 - Added Jumbo Tsuruta & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi (1/2/92, ***1/2) 8/9/06 - Added Edge vs. Mick Foley (4/2/06, ***1/2) 8/14/06 - Added Jumbo Tsuruta/Masanobu Fuchi/Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Kenta Kobashi (1/12/92, JIP, 19:30 of 26:00 shown, ***3/4) 9/11/06 - Added Yukari Omori vs. Lioness Asuka (4/15/87, ***3/4) 9/22/06 - Added Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (9/7/84, ***1/2), Super Tiger vs Akira Maeda (9/11/84, ***3/4), Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Nobuhiko Takada (10/22/84, ***1/2) 9/23/06 - Added Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (12/5/84, 25:36 of 27:19 shown, ***1/2) 9/24/06 - Added Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (12/5/84, ***3/4) 9/25/06 - Added Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (1/7/85, ***1/2) 9/29/06 - Added Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Akira Maeda (3/2/85, ***3/4), Super Tiger vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (6/24/85, ***1/2) 9/30/06 - Added Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (7/8/85, 11:23 of 15:04 shown, ***1/2) 10/1/06 - Added Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (7/17/85, 10:23 of 15:15 shown, ***3/4) 10/4/06 - Added Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (9/11/85, ***3/4) 10/9/06 - Added Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/12/88, ***3/4), Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (8/13/88, ****) 10/10/06 - Added Akira Maeda vs Gerard Gourdeau (8/13/88, ****) 10/12/06 - Added Nobuhiko Takada vs Bob Backlund (12/22/88, ***3/4) 10/19/06 - Added Nobuhiko Takada vs Akira Maeda (1/10/89, ***3/4) 10/23/06 - Added Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (4/14/89, 13:41 of 19:39 shown, ***1/2) 11/6/06 - Added Kazuo Yamazaki vs Nobuhiko Takada (5/4/89, ***3/4) 11/7/06 - Added Akira Maeda vs Kazuo Yamazaki (5/21/89, ***3/4), Yoji Anjoh vs Masakatsu Funaki (6/14/89, ****), Masakatsu Funaki vs Tatsuo Nakano (7/24/89, ****) 11/8/06 - Added Kazuo Yamazaki vs Yoji Anjoh (8/13/89, ***3/4) 11/9/06 - Added Akira Maeda vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/13/89, ***3/4) 11/10/06 - Added Jimmy Rave vs. Bryan Danielson (2/25/06, ***1/2) 11/12/06 - Added Genki Horiguchi/Ryo Saito/Dragon Kid vs. CIMA/Naruki Doi/Masato Yoshino (3/31/06, ***1/2) 11/13/06 - Added Roderick Strong vs. Bryan Danielson (3/31/06, ***3/4) 11/16/06 - Added Atsushi Onita vs Masashi Aoyagi (10/6/89, ***1/2) 11/18/06 - Added Lance Storm vs. Bryan Danielson (4/1/06, ***1/2) 11/28/06 - Added Yoji Anjoh vs Minoru Suzuki (10/25/89, ***3/4) 11/30/06 - Added Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (10/25/89, ***1/2) 12/4/06 - Added Satoshi Kojima vs. Kensuke Sasaki (11/19/05, ***1/2) 12/6/06 - Added Shinya Hashimoto vs. Masahiro Chono (8/9/91, ***3/4) 12/12/06 - Added Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (12/10/93, ****), Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (5/3/95, ***3/4), Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto (6/5/97, ***1/2) 1/16/07 - Added Homicide vs. Bryan Danielson (6/3/06, ***1/2) 1/19/07 - Added Samoa Joe/Adam Pearce/BJ Whitmer/Ace Steel/Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Hero/Claudio Castagnoli/Nate Webb/Necro Butcher/Eddie Kingston (7/15/06, ****) 6/20/07 - Added Bret Hart vs 1-2-3 Kid (07/01/94, ***1/2) 7/7/07 - Added Abdullah Kobayashi vs. Takashi Sasaki (3/31/06, ***1/2), Yuji Nagata vs. Giant Bernard (4/30/06, ***1/2) 7/8/07 - Added Kenta Kobashi vs. Naomichi Marufuji (4/23/06, ****) 7/12/07 - Added Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (8/29/77, ***3/4) 7/14/07 - Added Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson (8/5/06, ****1/2) 7/15/07 - Added Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (8/12/06, ***3/4), Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood vs. Sgt Slaughter & Don Kernodle (3/12/83, ***1/2) 7/16/07 - Added Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi/Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue/Yoshinari Ogawa (7/2/93, ****) 7/17/07 - Added Colt Cabana vs. Bryan Danielson (8/26/06, ***1/2) 7/18/07 - Added KENTA vs. Bryan Danielson (9/16/06, ****1/4) 7/23/07 - Added Kyoko Inoue/Takako Inoue/Toshiyo Yamada vs. Aja Kong/Kaoru Ito/Infernal Kaoru (8/21/93, ***1/2), Akira Hokuto vs. Yumiko Hotta (8/21/93, ***1/2) 8/7/07 - Added Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson (10/28/06, ***1/2) 441

Well said. A couple other things. The build towards the powerbomb was absolutely incredible. The way it was fought for and avoided, when it was finally hit, it made for a great nearfall. The whole match seems to send the message that Misawa is having an off day, and Kawada is on, and should be the victor. Except Misawa pulls out his killer move, and escapes by the skin of his teeth because of it. It works fairly well I'd say.

That's correct. He publicly spoke and said AJPW needed to be doing more cross promotion stuff a la NJPW-UWFi. Baba punished him for it. Now that you mention it, I do remember hearing something like that. What a shame. It clearly means the feud wasn't any good and the matches were only "decent

I don't recall hearing anything about why things were booked the way they were. All I know is that their 1994 match was the perfect time for Kawada to get the win. But instead, Kawada got his win on the biggest stage in AJPW history, so it was somewhat of a consollation. You'd have to ask Johnny Ace about that one.

Pretty much all of their matches pre-97 were at least excellent. After that, things fell off a bit, but their matches were still usually at least good-very good, and a couple of them were excellent or better. There are comps around with all of their title matches. The rest of their singles matches would have taken place during the Champion Carnival tournaments in March/April of each year.

I don't think anyone would have a problem with that. Now, if you started making a bunch of irrelevant points while completely ignoring some important facts, then some people might take you to task

Cut the bullshit. "Kawada's never gotten that one major victory over Misawa." Own up to what you said or retract it. Kawada got a victory over Misawa on AJPW's biggest show in its history (to that point). Misawa had beaten Kawada in most of their matches before then. People knew that. So on the biggest show in the promotion's history, in the biggest match, Kawada got the victory after years of defeat. Oh, but that was meaningless! Yea! And regardless of what you want to believe, the FACT is that Misawa was the more popular of the two, and he was the bigger draw. It's common sense that he's the one that would come out on top of the rivalry. It wasn't some "passing the torch" feud like Jumbo vs. Misawa where the older guys is the one who needs to lose the feud. So really, this whole point of yours is completely irrelevant, and I will not address it any further. Oh, and I suppose that's why Misawa asked Kawada to unmask him (Which was a important event in Misawa's career, as it signalled that he was done playing second fiddle, and was going break through into the top position). Or the fact that they were friends earlier in their lives. Yea, they didn't care for each other. Stop trying to be a contrarian troll and cut the ignorant bullshit.

So much bullshit, where to begin? Firstly, their matches stand on their own. The incredibly high level of selling, building to moves, execution and timing in their matches needs no historical context to be understood. And most of their matches had these things in spades, and at quite a higher level than many other matches. The matches are great on their own, the added long-running story just makes them better. This is utterly ridiculous. You don't consider All Japan's first stand-alone Tokyo Dome show to be a big deal? That was their biggest show to that point in their history, and Kawada wins the main event, yet it didn't matter? How the fuck is that justified? Because he lost the title to Kobashi a month later? I fail to see how that matters in the context of the Misawa feud. If anything, it makes Misawa look worse for losing to a guy who lost the title a month later. Now I'm suspecting that you actually haven't seen or even read about the entire Kawada-Misawa feud, because their feud pretty much unravelled the same way that you describe the Misawa-Kobashi feud. I mean seriously, have you actually seen the whole feud, or what? My god, if you want to take such a contrarian position, at least make some good points. All you've really done is post factually incorrect information combined with irrelevant points that make me question whether you've actually seen or understood the whole feud.

Devil Masami vs. Chigusa Nagayo (8/22/85) Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto (1/4/92) Bull Nakano & Aja Kong vs. Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada (8/15/92) Manami Toyota vs. Toshiyo Yamada (8/15/92) Kyoko Inoue vs Akira Hokuto (11/26/92) Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki (11/26/92) Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue vs. Mayumi Ozaki & Cuty Suzuki (4/2/93) Aja Kong & Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori & Eagle Sawai (4/11/93) Toshiyo Yamada & Manami Toyota vs. Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki (4/11/93) Bull Nakano vs Kyoko Inoue (1/24/94) Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda (1/24/94) Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta (1/24/94) Interestingly enough, the 1/24/94 show seems to be better than the Dreamslam shows.

I loved how they were watching a CFL game in the house right near the end of the episode. (I recognized the announcers voice)

This is getting to be circular, so I'll just sum up my thoughts. Hogan and Andre worked the right match for that crowd. But they didn't work the right match for me (and no doubt countless others). To the crowd and to people who believe if the masses believe something, it must be true, it was a good match. To me, it was not. It's not a fact, just like you saying it was good isn't a fact. The only facts in this scenario are that it was successful. If that means it was good to you, great. Success doesn't equal quality to me. The two are completely seperate. And you can't make any argument to change that, because "good" is a complete variable from person to person. This argument is about differing standards. That's it. And trying to get someone to change their mind isn't going to happen unless they want to change their mind. That's a fact of life with artforms and media. So that's it. You took exception to me saying it was horrible, you presented your reasons why. I agreed with some points, while others were irrelevant to me. And that's when it should end, because there's nothing more to discuss.

Your whole argument is based around a fallacy. A lot of people thinking something is good, doesn't make it so. And regardless of that, I'm talking about the quality of the wrestling, bell to bell. Why should I care if the audience liked it? Why should anyone care? People have their own ideas of what good wrestling is. Some people don't care about Kurt Angle's shitty selling and match structure. So what am I going to do, force them to think it's important? You say the wrestlers' standards are different. Well, their standard is to make money. If they could make money holding an armbar for 20 minutes of a 20 minute match, they'd do it. Is that good wrestling? It would be successful wrestling, yes. To me, quality doesn't equal success and vice-versa. And that's pretty much the end of it. My standards can apply to any sort of wrestling. Your movie analogy was just completely irrelevant. Looking at Schindler's List and not liking it because it wasn't funny would be akin to looking at Hogan-Andre and not liking it because it wasn't stiff and didn't have tons of nearfalls. Meaning someone is only a fan of a certain genre, and they don't think anything outside of it is good. Obviously, that isn't going on here. Two of the basic things I look for in a wrestling match (story/execution) are so general that any type of pro-wrestling can have them. A story in some king's road match is going to be different than a story in a 1980's WWF match. But they can both have a great story. So however you want to justify my dislike of the match, the fact is that my standards take into a account that not every wrestling match is going to be wrestled in the same way or in the same style. Having seen a bunch of 1980's WWF stuff, and knowing what the style was, I can say that Hogan vs. Andre wasn't even close to being good compared to the rest. So now it's clear that I'm comparing the match to its peers, rather than comparing it to some impossible to top match in a totally different style.

Maybe something like AmDrag vs. Low Ki from the 3/30/02 show. Daniels vs. Williams from 3/22/03. AmDrag vs. Joe from 10/2/04 AmDrag vs. Gibson from 9/17/05 Good somewhat standalone matches that might be good for introducing someone to ROH.

Joe vs. Kobashi had a bit of psychology, mostly based around a story of "2 of the most powerful wrestlers in the world collide". There wasn't a lot of story, but there was enough to where it wasn't a huge, huge problem. I don't recall too many selling problems either. And I wouldn't call it a spot fest either, as the big moves were built to with smaller stuff. But in general, I would agree that it was something of a spectacle match. The selling/build/execution was just really strong, and it had a wee bit of story to it, so I don't think it could be viewed as a "spectacle and nothing else".

Rudo, you need to understand that some people don't enjoy wrestling the same way you do. I'm not going to argue whether or not the match got over. The fans were going crazy, it drew a huge PPV and live audience. The match clearly got over, it clearly "worked". And I couldn't care less. I don't care if other people enjoyed it. That doesn't prove it was a good match. It doesn't. In fact, that's a fallacious argument all together. But I have an idea of what good wrestling is to me. It's a fairly general idea that applies to all sorts of wrestling. Hogan vs. Andre was not a good match under that criteria. I could see a problem if I was making stuff up about the match. Or if I bashed that match for something that I praised in another. But that's not really happening. What consitutes good wrestling to me, what "works" for me, was not abundant in that match. Are you going to say I'm wrong? You'd have a rather hard time factually proving that my idea of good wrestling is wrong. Good wrestling isn't a round earth. It's not 1+1. There's no absolute answer. To me, the match sucked. And I'll glady admit it was a huge success. But I won't ever say the quality of wrestling was good. Also, while you make a few good points in the review that I didn't give the match credit for (mainly about the comebacks, I'll have to watch the match again) a lot of the PBP was just such dime-a-dozen stuff. For example "Boot to send Hogan down (which looks great given both guys’ faces and Hogan does a nice job concealing the look-back). Andre clubbing Hogan three times. What I like about this is that all three clubs were different – one was when Andre had Hogans bent/head tucked under his arm, another was when Hogan was standing, and another had Andre holding Hogans hair. It doesn’t seem repetitive because he changes it up each time. Hogans selling of all of these were like he got shot. And in between clubs Andre was looking out into the crowd, taunting Hogan and telling him to get up." I really have a hard time buying something like this as justification for the match being good. You see common stuff like this in almost every single wrestling match. It seems like this is just making a big deal out of something completely normal. If someone wanted to, they could talk up ANY match this way, by making it seem like every standard piece of offense had some great meaning. Again, maybe you dig it, that's cool. But I don't really consider that to be anything special.

Hogan vs. Andre was absolutely atrocious from a purely physical point of view. The offense was terrible, the pace was terrible, and Andre could hardly do anything. It was alright from a story sense, as they built to the bodyslam rather well, but the rest was typical Hogan bullshit. It certainly wasn't -**** bad (that's what Meltzer apparently gave it, I only go to DUD though), but I definitely wouldn't give it more than *.

I think a lot of it is the spectacle too. Certain mediocre (to me) Tokyo Dome main events get tons of praise too, along with horrible wrestling matches like Hogan vs. Andre. The crowd heat, the setting, the angles preceding the match I guess. What that has to do with the quality of the match itself, I do not know.

***** doesn't mean perfect. It just means that the match is one of the absolute best compared to all others. That's all star ratings are, a way to compare matches on a more pin-point level rather than just using words like "good" or "great". Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori (4/2/93) Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (7/29/93) Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (6/3/94) Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada vs Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (6/9/95) Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (12/6/96) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (1/20/97) Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa (10/21/97) My criteria are on my blog. It's a fairly traditional critical approach.

There is a faction of critics that trumpets that match as being great, and even Austin circa 2001 as being a great in-ring wrestler. All I can say about that view point is that it doesn't seem take the physical side of wrestling into account at all. I believe that ideology came about from the earlier days of wrestling analysis, when "workrate" was cherished above all else, with little regard to story and character of a match. So now, there are some who maybe saw that and disagreed with it, and now take the opposite approach, where workrate or execution is completely meaningless and story and character is everything. I personally think both extremes are disagreeable, but I suppose I have no problem with it as long as the those holding those view points are consistent with them.