Tuesday 24 February 2009

ALAN'S BEST OF 2008

My top 20 puro matches for the year 2008:

1. Kensuke Office vs. Burning (8/17) (KO)
2. Speed Muscle vs. Shingo/BxB (1/15) (DG)
3. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kohei Suwama (4/9) (AJPW)
4. Mashimo/Madoka vs. Men’s Teioh/Shinobu (5/23) (BJW)
5. Nakanishi/Nagata vs. Ohtani/Tanaka (7/7) (NJPW)
6. Naomichi Marufuji vs. Shuji Kondo (11/3) (AJPW)
7. Briscoes vs. Ibushi/Nakajima (9/6) (NOAH)
8. Speed Muscle vs. Shingo/Dragon Kid (8/28)(DG)
9. Masato Yoshino vs. Dragon Kid (11/16) (DG)
10. Kobashi/Honda/Taniguchi vs. Marufuji/Sugiura/Morishima (2/21) (NOAH)
11. Nakajima/Sasaki vs. Akiyama/Rikio (4/27) (NOAH)
12. KENTA vs. Naomichi Marufuji (10/25) (NOAH)
13. Yugi Nagata vs. Masato Tanaka (10/13) (NJPW)
14. Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Kanemoto (4/13) (NJPW)
15. Shingo/BxB Hulk vs. KENTA/Ishimori (3/20) (DG)
16. Suzuki/Kanemaru vs. KENTA/Ishimori (12/7) (NOAH)
17. Naruki Doi vs. KENTA (5/5) (DG)
18. Doi/Tanisaki vs. Cyber Kong/YAMATO (11/16) (DG)
19. Kobashi/KENTA vs. Nakajima/Sasaki (6/14) (NOAH)
20. Suwama/Kondo vs. TenKoji (11/24) (AJPW)

I also did a top 20 for all of wrestling, but this was done under the Observer criteria (Dec2007-Nov2008)

1. Kensuke Office vs. Burning (8/17) (KO)
2. Typhoon vs. Muscle Outlaw’z (3/29) (ROH)
3. Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson (2/23) (ROH)
4. DoiYoshi vs. Shingo/BxB Hulk (1/15) (DG)
5. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kohei Suwama (4/9) (AJPW)
6. Mashimo/Madoka vs. Men’s Teioh/Shinobu (5/23) (BJW)
7. Nigel McGuinness vs. Tyler Black (5/30 airdate) (ROH)
8. El Generico vs. Kota Ibushi (4/19) (ROH)
9. Nakanishi/Nagata vs. Ohtani/Tanaka (7/7) (NJPW)
10. Steen/Generico vs. Age Of The Fall (11/14 airdate) (ROH)
11. Naomichi Marufuji vs. Shuji Kondo (11/3) (AJPW)
12. McGuinness vs. Black vs. Danielson vs. Castagnoli (8/2) (ROH)
13. Nigel McGuinness vs. Austin Aries (3/7 airdate) (ROH)
14. New Hazard vs. Steen/Generico (3/29) (ROH)
15. DoiYoshi vs. Steen/Generico (3/28 ) (ROH)
16. Chris Bosh vs. Scorpio Sky (7/6) (PWG)
17. Kobashi/Takayama vs. Misawa/Akiyama (12/2) (NOAH)
18. Briscoes vs. Ibushi/Nakajima (9/6) (NOAH)
19. Chris Hero vs. Human Tornado (7/6) (PWG Guerrilla Warfare Cage Match)
20. Volador Jr./Sombra/Sagrada vs. Valiente/Hijo Del Fantasma/La Mascara (4/30) (CMLL)

9 ROH matches
2 NOAH
2 All Japan
2 PWG
1 CMLL
1 Kensuke Office
1 BJW
1 Dragon Gate
1 New Japan

2 comments:

Craig said...

Heh, we have about three matches in common on our puro ballots. But which ones? WHICH ONES?

Patrick Lowe said...

Hey Alan, we do not have a single match at the same #. Honestly, I thought our opinions were more parallel, but eh, what can you do? Yours is still a great list though!