Greatest Match of 2020 - The Countdown
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Not a fan of a lot of modern NJPW main events but that Okada/Ibushi worked very well for the length. I felt they let most of everything breathe instead of trying to throw out tons of big moves one after the other. Ironically I thought Okada took things a slower pace in this match, than the Naito match the next night and I felt like each move had more meaning as a result.
Its crazy that Bryan/Gulak even happened. Danielson was a Wrestlemania main eventer by that point and opens a ppv by being repeatedly shown up someone who was practically a 205 Live guy, and they just have this excellent, rugged match with insane suplexes. Goddamn ROPE BURN! I would call it the best Danielson match in WWE I think tbh.
edit - I am just realising I didn't rewatch Finn Balor vs. Kyle O'Reilly from Takeover and I'm annoyed at myself because I think I would have found a spot for it.
Its crazy that Bryan/Gulak even happened. Danielson was a Wrestlemania main eventer by that point and opens a ppv by being repeatedly shown up someone who was practically a 205 Live guy, and they just have this excellent, rugged match with insane suplexes. Goddamn ROPE BURN! I would call it the best Danielson match in WWE I think tbh.
edit - I am just realising I didn't rewatch Finn Balor vs. Kyle O'Reilly from Takeover and I'm annoyed at myself because I think I would have found a spot for it.
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2. WWE Intercontinental Championship
AJ Styles vs Daniel Bryan
WWE Smackdown
June 12
56 Points
RDT(4), Crocker(10), GARBAGE(10), Jacob Fox(13)
1. NXT UK Champiknship
WALTER(c) vs Ilja Dragunov
NXT UK
October 29
59 Points
Crocker(1), GARBAGE(4), RDT(14)
AJ Styles vs Daniel Bryan
WWE Smackdown
June 12
56 Points
RDT(4), Crocker(10), GARBAGE(10), Jacob Fox(13)
1. NXT UK Champiknship
WALTER(c) vs Ilja Dragunov
NXT UK
October 29
59 Points
Crocker(1), GARBAGE(4), RDT(14)
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Honestly if you asked me gun-to-head where I put that Styles/Danielson I wouldn't have said top ten because I can't remember the match terribly well but it definitely was a really good, hard hitting bout. I wasn't super looking forward to its length but I don't think it lost me either. I remember being kind of distracted looking for wrestlers in the audience. Seeing Von Wagner next to Matt Menard, how do I not lose focus.
I'm not a Dragunov fan, really. I'm in the camp that thinks his selling tends to be overdoing it, like he wants every match I see to look like a tremendous ordeal that he has to struggle through with his (frankly kind of annoying) yelling and all that stuff. Walter, though, is a different animal than most opponents and this match is different from most matches. How they kept going for 25 minutes despite dementedly stiffing each other right out of the gate I don't know. Maybe the only actual match from the year where the lack of crowd helped, so you hear every gunshot these two inflicted on each other (well, mostly Walter inflicting on Dragunov). I didn't place it right at the top myself, but a deserved #1. You could call it match of the decade still four years later and not get much push back from anybody.
I'm not a Dragunov fan, really. I'm in the camp that thinks his selling tends to be overdoing it, like he wants every match I see to look like a tremendous ordeal that he has to struggle through with his (frankly kind of annoying) yelling and all that stuff. Walter, though, is a different animal than most opponents and this match is different from most matches. How they kept going for 25 minutes despite dementedly stiffing each other right out of the gate I don't know. Maybe the only actual match from the year where the lack of crowd helped, so you hear every gunshot these two inflicted on each other (well, mostly Walter inflicting on Dragunov). I didn't place it right at the top myself, but a deserved #1. You could call it match of the decade still four years later and not get much push back from anybody.