Top 10 Wrestling Matches - 2013

I watch professional wrestling.  More than I should.  The following are the 10 best professional wrestling matches from 2013.

1. Kenta v. Takashi Sugiura May NOAH


2. CIMA v. Shingo Takagi July Dragon Gate

CIMA (c) vs. Shingo Takagi (Dragon Gate) by JAHMAL1111

3. Suwama v. Go Shiozaki July AJPW


4. Kota Ibushi/Katsuhiko Nakajima v. Kotaro Suzuki/Yoshinobu Kanemaru August D-Ring

04. Nakajima & Ibushi vs Kanemaru & Suzuki... by SenorLARIATO

5. Fujita Jr. Hayato v. Koji Kanemoto June Mich Pro

06. Fujita 'Jr' Hayato (c) vs Koji Kanemoto... by SenorLARIATO

6.Takashi Sugiura v. Naomichi Marufuji June NOAH


7. Akira Tozawa/BxB Hulk v. Naruki Doi/Ricochet July Dragon Gate


8. Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Kazuchika Okada April NJPW

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (NJPW) by JAHMAL1111

9. Kenny Omega v. Harashima February DDT

06. Kenny Omega (c) vs HARASHIMA - (DDT 02/17/13) by SenorLARIATO

10. Kenta v. Naomichi Marufuji July NOAH

I Watch 4 Star Matches

This clears through my backlog.

Bucks v. Mochizuki/Fox (Nov DGUSA) 4 1/4
Hero v. Gargano (Nov DGUSA) 4 1/4
Naito v Tanaka (Sep NJPW) 4 1/4
Nakamura v. Benjamin (Sept NJPW) 4
Okada v. Kojima (Sept NJPW) 4
Shibata v. Ishii (Oct NJPW) 4 1/4
Yujiro v. Naito (Oct NJPW) 4
Okada v. Tanahashi (Oct NJPW) 4

#FarewellCandlestick: The 100 Greatest Moments in Candlestick Park History #18

#19 is here.

#18 December 7, 1980 Niners 38 Saints 35

More than 30 years later, Joe Montana's 6th career start is still the greatest regular season comeback in NFL history.

The Saints led 35-7 at halftime, the Niners limited to 21 yards of first half offense, their touchdown coming on a Freddie Solomon punt return.  New Orleans had over 300 yards and 20 first downs.  Archie Manning had thrown 3 touchdown passes.

Down 4 scores at the half to a winless Saints team hardly seems like the script for the 18th best moment in Candlestick history.

The Niners got half of that back in the third; Montana ran one in and then threw a 71 yard score to Dwight Clark.

An 83 yard 4th quarter drive culminated in a scoring pass to Solomon - and with under two minutes to go, a 78 yard drive ended with a Lenvil Elliott game tying touchdown.

In overtime - a Ray Wersching field goal wins the game. 38-35.

The 17th Greatest Moment in Candlestick History is tomorrow.

RAW Script 9-25-00

What was I doing on my 30th birthday?

Watching this episode of RAW.

#FarewellCandlestick: The 100 Greatest Moments in Candlestick Park History #19

#20  is here.

#19 October 2, 1971 1971 NLCS Game One

The first postseason game at Candlestick since McCovey's lineout ended the '62 World Series.

We win Game 1 of the NLCS against the Pirates 5-4, on a big 4 run 5th inning. We were down 2-1 hitting against not yet crazy Steve Blass; Chris Speier led off with a single; Gaylord Perry moved him over to second; Ken Henderson grounded out – and then Tito Fuentes hit an improbable 2 run homer (he had only 4 homers during the season). Willie Mays, who had a solid bounceback season in ’71 walked and then Willie McCovey hit our second two run homer in the inning, giving us the 5-2 lead. Gaylord Perry gave up 2 in the 7th – but it was 1971 and that didn’t automatically mean a pitching change (beyond Perry and Juan Marichal, who were both just okay, we had a really poor pitching staff) and Perry not only finished the inning – but finished the game – even when, with 1 on and 1 out and a 1 run lead in the 9th inning he had to face Clemente and Stargell.

He got them both and we took game 1.

The 18th Greatest Moment in Candlestick Park History is tomorrow.