The Best Matches I’ve Watched This Week (2023-05-05)
The strike is over, tentatively, as of Thursday. It’s a weird range of stuff this week, but very good matches from all over!
#9
WALTER vs Pete Dunne
“WWE United Kingdom Championship”
NXT UK
April 19, 2019, airing May 22
The match is what you would expect from these two. Stiff violence. It had a really nice beat-down segment by WALTER on the floor, and a pretty hot comeback by Dunne afterward. After that, it was going for too epic a match then had an old school seconds distract and attack finish. A good match, but could have been better.
Rating: 7/10
#8
Jordynne Grace vs Deonna Purrazzo
“Impact Knockouts World Championship”
Impact Wrestling Rebellion 2023
April 16, 2023
The classic power vs technique match up in the main event. They worked it really well and it was a worthwhile main event. I could watch Purrazzo pick apart bigger wrestlers all day.
Rating: 7.5/10
#7
Maya Yukihi vs Giulia
“ICExInfinity Championship”
Ice Ribbon New Ice Ribbon #962 ~ Osaka Ribbon 2019 II
May 25, 2019
A young and upcoming Giulia vs the Ice Ribbon ace in a big title match. It’s weird to see after my previous experience with these two and a role-reversal title match from earlier this year in Stardom.
Giulia is a little green here, but you can see the violence these two have in 2023 all the way back here in 2019. It kept escalating toward a violent finish and a really awesome match.
Rating: 7.75/10
#6
Aja Kong & Yuu vs Meiko Satomura & Mika Iwata
Sendai Girls Women’s Pro Wrestling Big Show In Niigata
June 8, 2019
This was a pretty good tag match. Kong and Yuu worked like The Colossal Connection, only with Kong being a lot more mobile than 1990 Andre the Giant. Kong and Satomura still have amazing chemistry from their past and they really lead the finishing sequence to be very exciting.
Rating: 7.75/10
#5
Momo Watanabe vs Tam Nakano
“Wonder of Stardom Championship”
Stardom 8th Anniversary
January 14, 2019
It’s fun going back and watching a match from four years ago where Tam is trying to prove she’s worthy of the White Belt! That story was told really well and the kicks from both were deadly. Tam is such a great storyteller and Momo is such a beast. As awesome as this was, it’s amazing how much both have improved since then.
Rating: 8/10
#4
KAORU & Sonoko Kato vs Michiko Nagashima & Miki Handa
GAEA Second Battle Story
May 14, 1995
For the second GAEA show they come back with another crazy violent tag team brawl. This time with way less star power, but they made up for it with more flying. The blood really kicked the match up to another gear and I loved all the chair and kendo stick shots. Usually, those can come off as lame or overdone, but they really worked here.
Rating: 8/10
#3
Takumi Iroha vs Unagai Sayaka
Marvelous 7th Anniversary
May 3, 2023
What an excellent match and one of the best in Unagi Sayaka’s career. Her indie run has been awesome, but this was the biggest match she had facing the best wrestler she’s faced on a big show, and boy did she deliver. Her offense looked really mean and it was a great heat segment she had on Iroha. Iroha looks great as always and they built up a match that was a very worthy big dream match.
Rating: 8.25/10
#2
Nanae Takahashi vs Takumi Iroha
“SEAdLINNNG Beyond The Sea Championship”
SEAdLINNNG Stay Tune 2019
May 29, 2019
These two are truly a great match-up for each other. Both throw bombs and stiff shots and can really escalate things to an exciting finish and that is exactly what we get here. Everything hit and Takahashi was really on her game.
Rating: 8.25/10
“Match of the Week”
Chihiro Hashimoto vs Sareee
“Sendai Girls World & World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana World Championship”
Sendai Girls Women’s Pro Wrestling Big Show In Niigata
June 8, 2019
It would be hard to pick better underdog vs dominant badass competitors for a big unification title match than this. I loved how they worked this with Hashimoto just dominating early and Sareee trying to battle back. At first, Sareee tried speed and technique, but when that didn’t work she resorted to vicious headbutts and German suplexes and just came head-on to Hashimoto. The finishing stretch was great and this match was intense and dramatic. A must-watch!
Rating: 8.75/10
Watch Party!
I’ll be back next week with whatever I’m watching, hopefully, Stardom and a lot more 2019! Remember to join the discord for Sunday at 4pm EST for this great Joshi Night lineup:
- Bolshoi Kid vs Cutie Suzuki, JWP, 1995-06-16
- Candy Okutsu vs Hiromi Yagi vs Hiromi Sugo, Triangle Rules, JWP, 1995-06-16
- Devil Masami & Mayumi Ozaki vs Hikari Fukuoka & KAORU, JWP, 1995-06-16
- Chigusa Nagayo vs Dynamite Kansai, JWP, 1995-06-16
- Meiko Satomura vs Toshie Uematsu, GAEA, 1995-06-18
- Bomber Hikari & Sumio Toyoma vs Hiromi Yagi & Mayumi Ozaki, GAEA, 1995-06-18
- Chigusa Nagayo vs Devil Masami, GAEA, 1995-06-18
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