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Every 5 Star Wrestling Match...Ever...

Tuesday, September 15, 2015



I rate wrestling matches, as one does.  I've rated 50+ matches at 5 stars.  If you don't see a match here that you believe to be 5 stars, there are three possibilities.

1. I haven't seen it.
2. I've seen it.  It's a 5 star match.  I've just forgotten to put it here.
3. It's not a five star match.

3 is most likely; there aren't too many super elite matches I just haven't seen.  It's probable that I've scored it below 5 stars. My non WWF/WCW record keeping is not complete for sub 5 star matches, so were you to say "what did you give to X" I wouldn't necessarily know, but if there are queries I'd give it a shot.  Ain't nothing wrong with a 4 3/4 star match.  That's not a slight.  Someone says "hey, do you want to watch this 4 3/4 star match, I'm gonna say yes, yes, yes, I would like to watch that match, yes."  It's just not quite 5.  I give fewer five star matches than do most people, admittedly.  I try to limit the grade inflation.

1983
Dynamite Kid v. Tiger Mask (Apr-NJPW)

1984
Ric Flair v. Ricky Steamboat (Mar-NWA)

1988
Nobuhiko Takada v. Akira Maeda (Nov-UWF)

1989
Ric Flair v. Ricky Steamboat (Feb-WCW)
Ric Flair v. Ricky Steamboat (Apr-WCW)
Ric Flair v. Ricky Steamboat (May-WCW)

1990
Jushin Thunder Liger v. Naoki Sano (Jan-NJPW)

1991
Akira Taue Jumbo Tsuruta Masanobu Fuchi v. Kenta Kobashi Toshiaki Kawada Mitsuharu Misawa (Apr-AJPW)

1992
Jushin Thunder Liger v. El Samurai (Apr-NJPW)

1993
Kenta Kobashi v. Toshiaki Kawada (Apr-AJPW)
Manami Toyota/Toshiyo Yamada v. Dynamite Kansai/Mayumi Ozaki (Apr-AJPW)
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi v. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (Dec-AJPW)

1994
Owen Hart v. Bret Hart (Mar - WWF)
Shawn Michaels v. Razor Ramon (Mar-WWF)
Kenta Kobashi v. Dr. Death Steve Williams (Apr-AJPW)
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Toshiaki Kawada (June - AJPW)

1995
Mitsuharu Misawa/Kenta Kobashi v. Toshiaki Kawada/Akira Taue (June-AJPW)

1996
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Kenta Kobashi (Mar - AJPW)
Great Sasuke/Shiryu/Tiger Mask IV v. Taka Michinoku/Super Delfin/Naniwa (Mar-Mich Pro)
Taka Michinoku/Dick Togo/Shriyu/Mens Teioh/Sho Funaki v. Super Delfin/Tiger Mask IV/Gran Hamada/Naniwa/Yakushiji (Oct-Mich Pro)

1997
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Kenta Kobashi (June-AJPW)

1998
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Kenta Kobashi (Oct - AJPW)

1999
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Kenta Kobashi (June-AJPW)

2000
Kenta Kobashi v. Jun Akiyama (December NOAH)


2001
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Jun Akiyama (July - NOAH)


2002
Bryan Danielson v. Low Ki (March - ROH) 


2003
Chris Benoit  v. Kurt Angle (Jan - WWF)
Mitsuharu Misawa v. Kenta Kobashi (March - NOAH)
Kenta/Naomichi Marufuji v. Jushin Liger/Takehiro Murahama (July - NOAH)
Kenta Kobashi v. Yuji Nagata (Sept - NOAH)


2004
Kenta Kobashi v. Jun Akiyama (July - NOAH)
Kenta Kobashi v. Akira Taue (Sept - NOAH)
CIMA v. Susumu Yokosuka (Sept - Dragon Gate)

2005
Kenta Kobashi v. Kensuke Sasaki (July - NOAH)

2006
Kenta v. Bryan Danielson (Sept - ROH)

2007
Kotaro Suzuki/Ricky Marvin v. Taiji Ishimori/Rocky Romero (Feb - NOAH)
Briscoes v. Roderick Strong/PAC (May - PWG)
Bryan Danielson v. Nigel McGuinness (Sept - ROH)
Taka Michinoku/Dick Togo v. Kota Ibushi/Madoka (Dec - KDojo)


2008
Masato Tanaka/Shinjiro Otani v. Yuji Nagata/Manabu Nakanishi (May - Zero 1)

2009
Kenta v. Katsuhiko Nakajima (Feb - NOAH)
Kenta v. Jun Akiyama (May - NOAH)

2010
Tyler Black v. Davey Richards (June - ROH) 
Takashi Sugiura v. Takeshi Morishima (Dec - NOAH)

2011
Katsuhiko Nakajima v. Kotaro Suzuki (March - NOAH)
Go Shiozaki v. Takashi Sugiura (July - NOAH )

2012
Davey Richards v. Michael Elgin (March - ROH) 
Kota Ibushi v. Kenny Omega (August - DDT) 

2013
Kenta v. Takashi Sugiura (May-NOAH)

2014
Kenny Omega v. Harashima v. Isami Kodaka (Aug - DDT)

2015
Kota Ibushi v. Shinsuke Nakamura (Jan- NJPW)
Kota Ibushi v. Harashima (Feb - DDT)
Tomohiro Ishii v. Tomoaki Honma (Feb-NJPW) 
Kyle O'Reilly v. Yujiro Kushida (June-NJPW)

2017
Kenny Omega v. Kazuchika Okada (Jan-NJPW)
Kazuchika Okada v. Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW, Apr) 
Kenny Omega v. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW, Aug) 

Yujiro Kushida v. Will Ospreay (NJPW, June) 










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