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180. Los Ice Creams vs Lince Dorado/Sicodelico Jr. , CHIKARA Best Imitation of Myself (March 23rd)
-This match being so awesome was a freak accident. Sicodelico is pretty bland, and Lince at this point was real inexperienced, and LIC did mostly comedy. However, Reckless no-showed, and they had to give this more time to make up for it, and they put on a showcase of comedy, heel work, and luchatastic double teams and counters to double teams.

179. KENTER vs Atushi Aoki, NOAH (August 10th)
-This was an outside show in downtown Tokyo or something like that, and this was the one match that was more than just a spectacle, although that did help this match out. KENTER and Aoki were practically made for each other, with aoki being a fantastic seller off KENTER's strikes, and Aoki being a tremendous highflyer and flash submission guy.

178. PAC/Roderick Strong vs Super Dragon/Davey Richards, PWG DDT4 Night 1 (May 19th)
-This had another fantastic story of PACdrick Strong winning because the opponents underestimated them, which became a running theme in the tournament. However, it was far too long at 25-30 minutes. Trim off 5-10 minutes, and we're looking at the top 150.

177. CIMA vs SHINGO, Dragon Gate (November 25th)
-Another excellent SHINGO match in 2007, and it also had the student vs teacher classic storyline involved, as well as power vs speed and youth vs experience. Also, both men are fucking awesome. Problem is that they went 30 minutes, and this style is best suited to around 20 minutes, and that they didn't play up the story of the finish in the match. The idea was that CIMA had to use flash cradles repeatedly at the end to escape with the title, esxcept that he didn't use close to all of his vast arsenal on SHINGO. I expect that next time, they'll do much better.

176. Chris Hero vs Lince Dorado, CHIKARA Showdown in CrisisLand (July 22nd)
-Another completely amazing outing by Hero against a rookie highflyer, as he takes Lince and elevates him up to his level and makes him look like a million bucks for the night.

175. Matt Sydal vs Delirious, ROH Man Up (September 15th)
-To anyone who was there that night...fuck you guys. Where were Sydal's streamers? Yeah, that's right bitches. I said earlier that their Liverpool match was their best, but this was also pretty great, and I happened to be more entertained here, given that this was much more of a fun athompshere celebrating Sydal's outstanding ROH run, EVEN THOUGH HE GOT NO STREAMERS YOU FUCKERS! I hold all of Chicago Ridge that night accountable besides Maxwell.

174. Susumu Yokosuka/CIMA/SHINGO vs Ryo Saito/Dragon Kid/Masaaki Mochizuki. ROH Supercard of Honor II (March 31st)
-I stil ldon't get these teams. ROH could have easily done a DoFIXER reunion with DK, Ryo, and Susumu vs an allegience of Blood Generation and Crazy MAX, but that kind of stuff is beyond most ROH fans. Outstanding match, but I didn't get any real sense of story beyond putting on a good match where as the previous yer's match was based on DoFIXER never beating Blood Gen. in a trios match. It was left down to spotz, movez, and double teamz, and when I've wathced a smuch DG as I have, it's not special then.

173. Bryan Danielson vs Takeshi Morishima, ROH Rising Above (December 28th)
-So I pretty much just revieewed this one a few days ago, but whatever. It rules based mostly on hate and trying to kill each other.Their other matches are all WAY better though, which really is a testament to those matches' greatness and not this one's badness.

172. Hallowicked/Up in Smoke vs Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, CHIKARA Showdown in CrisisLand (July 22nd)
-Another CHIKARA multiman that had no right to be this good, as everyone happened to be on on this night, leading to a near prefect blend of comedy, fancy lucha shit, Hydra stepping up, great double teams, and Hallowicked getting more vicious when he saw Kingston.

171. Jun Akiyama vs Atsushi Aoki, SEM (December 23rd)
-Like the best SEM match ever, imo. Akiyama took Aoki under his w2ing, but shit, it's the Trial Series, and the boy has to pay the dues like everyone else. Aoki knows this and he jumps Akiyama and tries to get a jump on his boss, except that Akiyama withstands it and proceeds to murderize the boy for his punk attitude. Akiyama than helps his boy up and puts him over, because Akiyama is a fucking great mentor.

From here on, all of the matches are **** and over.
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170. The Briscoes vs Nigel McGuinness/Bryan Danielson, ROH RTTT Night 1 (July 27th)
-Like the Briscoes/KOW match from PWG DDT4, but better given the hotter crowd. Same story through the match with the Briscoes having to use teamwork just to stand a chance, but then they went in another direction with Nigel and Danielson disintegrating and losing.

169. Samoa Joe vs Takeshi Morishima, ROH 5YF: NYC (February 16th)
-So a lot of people liked this much more than I did. It was good and all, but I felt like it exposed Morishima as not actually being the supposed future of puroresu, and made Joe look really good. I see why people liked it more than I do, so there's that. Having this above the next matches make me look crazy, but fuck that, I'm making this list based on my enjoyment.

168. Chris Hero vs El Generico, ROH RTTT Night 2 (July 28th)
-On July 28th and 29th, Generico had the greatest weekend of any wrestler this year, being involved in FOUR matches I put at **** or over against Hero, Claudio, Danielson, and in a tag against PAC and Strong. Really awesome opener with comedy, great counterwrestling, some fun MOVEZ, and overall Hero greatness.

167. Mitch Ryder vs Lince Dorado, CHIKARA Chapter 11 (November 18th)
-If not for Lince breaking his head and having a seizure, this would have been much higher, as the overall drama level was already high and then built to unbelievable levels at the end of the match.

166. Claudio Castagnoli vs Naomichi Marufuji, ROH GBH6 night 2 (November 3rd)
-I loved this match far more than pretty much everyone else. Maru underestimates basically all of the ROH roster while still having fun, and he starts to joke around and dance with Claudio, and unlike Generico, Sydal, and others, Claudio plays into it, and scores on Marufuji with a flash cradle, showing Maru a little of his own medicine.

165. Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli, CHIKARA Colbert > O'Reilly (December 9th)
-So this was supposed to be at the Arena, and was supposed to be real epic, but it wasn't, and it wasn't, unfortunately. Still, it was pretty great with Hero typical shenanigans and Claudio greatness. It felt like an ROH match from them, which isn't an insult, more so saying that both men are lesser in ROH than CHIKARA.

164. Bryan Danielson vs Necro Butcher, ROH Reckless Abandon (November 30th)
-Anyone who wnated a 20 mnute brawl, is fucking dumb. This was Gabe trying to make Danielson look tougher while also copying a rreally great match they had in PWG earlier that year, but that match worked mostly because nobody expected it. Still, really really awesome brawlish match.

163. Mike Quackenbush/Helios/Trik Davis vs Hawke Like an Egyptian, CHIKARA Chapter 11 (November 18th)
-Another one of those insanely fun CHIKARA trios matches, as Osirian Portal once again steps up huge when guided by great babyfaces like Heliochet and Quackenbush, and Shayne Hawke stooges for everyone perfectly.

162. Chris Hero vs Nigel McGuinness, ROH DBD5 Night 1 (August 10th)
-This is the awesome Pure Rules match, where Hero completely schooled Nigel at how to cheat in a Pure rules match, in the first sign that Nigel had lost his edge. Also, Hero is the most entertaining/best wrestler in the world here.

161. Jimmy Jacobs vs Larry Sweeney, FIP New Year's Classic (January 7th)
-Sweeney insulted Lacey, so Jimmy had to try and kill him. Jimmy rules as a face, and Sweeney is one of the best heels alive especially in FIP, so they blended PERFECTLY here, producing an amazing old school match here.
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Pretty cool list so far. I don't know what it is but I didn't get into Claudio/Marufuji like I wanted I personally like the Rocky Romero Respect is Earned, Davey Richards, Nigel and AD singles matches in ROH with Marufuji more. Maybe I need to rewatch it but it just didn't do a lot for me.

Also I didn't like the BUtcher vs Danielson Reckless abandon match. It wasn't even brutal imo. Necros punches looked weaker than normal and Dragons strikes weren't as good as they could of been. I definatley didn't like this one and I love both guys. The PWG match with those 2 is worlds better though.
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Yeah, but let's really think about it. That PWG match is just something special as far wrestling matches that feel like fights go.
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Yea I did have expectations for the Reckless Abandon match after seeing the PWG one first. Maybe thats why I got so let down by the match even though I didn't think it'd be 20 minutes or anything I was looking for a little more brutality.
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160. Takashi Sasaki vs Yuki Miyamoto, BJPW (March 14th)
-I typically don't like a lot of deathmatches, but this was incredible. Thing about BJPW DM's is that therte's typically lots of story it's puro conventional booking but with lighttubes and more bumps. Miyamoto is trying to step up in his hometown, but Sasaki says no thanks and kills him at the end.

159. The Briscoes vs DIFH vs Whitmer/Albright vs Jack Evans/Ruckus, ROH Reckless Abandon (November 30th)
-This is another one of those that I hold a soft spot for, as I love a well done Scramble. The Briscoes and DIFH got to string together double teams as well as try and maim each other, Whitmer and Albright actually looked menacing throwing around little guys for the first time ever, and the Vultures brought the crowd interactions and high flying.

158. Samoa Joe vs Christian Cage, TNA Destination X (March 11th)
-This also came out of nowhere for me. TNA wasn't too exciting in the first half of 2007 as far as good wrestling goes, but this was almost the perfect dominating face/sneaky underdog title match, with Joe looking like a completely unstoppable monster until the ending, which was my big problem with the match. Joe looks like the best in the world, and Christian only needs the rope to beat him? Kinda lame.

157. Nigel McGuinness vs Takeshi Morishima, ROH Fighting Spirit (April 14th)
-This is the best of their 3 matches in 2007 for a few reasons. First being that it was their first match and the stuff they repeated in their other ones like Nigel taking to the air was new here and it really added to the importance of the match. The second was that Nigel cut an amazing promo early on the show that set the tone that he would die tonight to become champion, and he almost did.

156. Kel Steenerico vs Dragon Kid/Susumu Yokosuka, PWG BOLA Night 1 (August 31st)
-This is what Steenerico in DG would be like, except there wasn't much of a story here besides "who can do the most baqdass doubleteams?" Steenerico won that contest, and Susumu and DK aren't really much of a team in the long run, and that was a deciding factor here.

155. Chris Hero vs Human Tornado, ROH Chaod At The Cow Palace (October 21st)
-For the thousandth time, I liked a match more than anyone else. This was imo the perfect use of both men on this night. The crowd was not very alive, so they needed a big entertaining match to start, and Hero transitioned effortlessly from main event heel on SOTF to opening match goofy heel on this show. Tornado is also wildly entertaining, and these two are just great together. This is like a real awesome Smackdown match.

154. The Vulture Squad vs No Remorse Corpse, ROH GBH6 Night 2 (November 3rd)
-This show is underrated. Sure, there's some shit on there, but there's also some great great matches,4 of which I had at over ***3/4. This was one of the better examples of ROH using the DG formula for their stable warz, as when you put these two in a trios match, sapparently, they're just perfect for each other. Ruckus and Jigsaw are trios veterans, and the NRC REALLY came into their own as a trio in late 2007.

153. Chuck Taylor vs Ricochet, CHIKARA Invaders 2007 Night 2 (August 18th)
-I like this one the best, because this one has something else on the line. Ricochet put his CHIKARA career on the line for another shot at Chuckie T. So he fought harder, and Chuckie was a little more serious, and things felt more urgent and serious here. Also, Chuckie wins via repeated judo slaps to the balls, which is awesome.

152. Team FIST/Mitch Ryder/Robbie Ellis vs Mike Quackenbush/Tim Donst/Super Smash Bros., CHIKARA Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence (November 17th)
-Just a heaping barrel of fun here, as SSB bring the sexy double teams, while the Kings' team brings the heel shenanigans and the great stooging for the comebacks and offense of all the technicos. Just a perfect illustration of what I love in CHIKARA.

151. Roderick Strong vs Necro Butcher, FIP Stronger Than Ever (May 10th)
-Whenever I watch FIP, I see something I really love. Sometimes, it's CHIKARA guys breaking out, other times it's a great piece of heel work from YRR or Sweeney. This time, it was Necro and Roderick having a fantastic brawl around the building that for once, actually made me interested in an FIP Title match.
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150. Claudio Castagnoli vs Mike Quackenbush, CHIKARA Time Will Prove Everything (March 24th)
-They started their matches a lot slower this year, which I notivce as I write match writeups for the top 250. The matches are still good, but these two are much better against each other when they go balls out for like 10-15 minutes. Still, amazing amazing match as Claudio is just a machine in 2007.

149. Claudio Castagnoli vs Chris Hero, ROH Unscrioted III (December 1st)
-I, again, loved a match that a lot of people didn't love. Apparently the typical ROH fan has no patience and cannot understand two guys trading limbwork if they aren't Danielson, Nigel, or Aries. Shit, they could have done better, but the clearly could have done worse out of the 8 matches these two had in 2007, this was the 4th best. Two of them didn't place (their KoE match was **3/4 and I never saw their WXW match from the same weekend), so this was in the bottom half of their matches on the list.

148. SHINGO/BxB Hulk vs Susumu Yokosuka/PAC vs Yosushi Kanda/Masato Yoshino vs Masaaki Mochizuki/K-Ness, Dragon Gate (December 5th)
-This match was DG doing CHIKARA, where a multiman match came out of nowhere to be fucking awesome. No real story, but a lot of SPOTZ and MOVEZ hit cleanly and amazingly for a good 15-20 minutes to the extent that I had to take a break after I watched it.

147. Roderick Strong/Jack Evans vs Arrogance, PWG ASW5 Night 2 (April 8th)
-Finally, 2 of the best indy teams squared off, and luckily it happened here, as Bosh went on indefinite absence in July and this is Roderick and Jack's last tag match together for now. Outstanding indy formula tag, as Bosh and Lost work as great heels working over Jack whilst being dicks to Roderick, and then he comes in and kills them, using his own partner as a weapon occasionally. Plus, we got to see the Skipping a Generation, which is that Backflip Double Stomp move that Roddy and Jack do.

146. Team FIST/Chuck Taylor vs KUDO/MIYAWAKI/Yoshiaki Yago, CHIKARA KOT Night 3 (February 18th)
-Great formula heel/face trios match, as FIST and Chuck use every shortcut available to subdue the fiery JAPONESE~! before they get a comeback and kill FIST and Chuckie with strikes and headdropz.

145. The Briscoes vs SHINGO/Naruki Doi, ROH 5YF: Liverpool (March 3rd)
-So this was very Briscoes-y, but before the formula got stale and overexposed. At the end, it did get pretty ridiculous, but when I watched it, I really really loved it. This is the good side of the Briscoes formula.

144. Icarus vs Tim Donst, CHIKARA New Star Navigation (October 27th)
-Again, this match has NO right to be as good as it was. Tim Donst has under 50 matches probably, and Icarus isn't a great singles wrestler, even if he does get some great heat and has that amazing Shane Storm match from 2005. The night before, he lost the tag titles in a match that he feels shouldn't have taken place given his partner was injured. So he takes it out on Donst, and beats the shit out of him. Icarus tries for Headbutt of the Year and comes close. Also, he throws Tim THROUGH THE WALL of the Barnesville Thunderdome, and in response, Donst beats Icarus down with a stack of hay.

143. QuackSaw vs Matt Cross/Erick Stevens, ROH Manhattan Mayhem II (August 25th)
-QuackSaw are probably the sleeper tag team of 2007. They only teamed a few times, but all of those matches were freaking great, and this was no different. Cross and Stevens come in thinking they're hot shit, and Quack completely embarasses both of them, and then the match gets increasingly more awesome until the finishing stretch.

142. Austin Aries vs Bryan Danielson, ROH Honor Nation (October 5th)
-Yeah, this was awesome, but I didn't think it was as great as everyone says it is. It was basically matwork that had no bearing on the rest of the match for the first half, and then a lot of movez and ROH signature sequences (exchange of forearms and chops, finisher reversals), and it was well done as like an ode to 90s NJPW juniors style, except that instead of taking the match structure of Liger/Ohtani in Feb. 97, they took the structure of like Benoit/Kanemoto from 3/96. Which is not to say it's bad, but it's not as good as it could have been.

141. The Colony vs Shane Storm/Super Smash Bros. , CHIKARA Chapter 11 (November 18th)
-Fucking awesome trios match. The Colony are the perfect wrestlers for their enviroment, as they can bring the comedy, awesome double/triple-teams, and are becoming excellent at fast paced lucha-ish wrestling and rule at trios matches. SSB have some real real neat spots, and Stormer stays out of the way long enough to let the other 6 have an incredibly fun spot-tastic trios match.
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140. Chuck Taylor vs Jimmy Jacobs, IWA-MS TPI Night 1 (September 28th)
-Oustanding serious match from Chuckie. Jimmy returned to own this punk kid who broke his record as IWA-MS Champion, and Chuck had to prove he could hang with the big boys and be serious, and he did just that. Also, the Basketball Hoop Spear was really cool live.

139. Bryan Danielson vs Matt Sydal, ROH DBD5 Night 1 (August 10th)
-Both men bring the awesome shit here. I always wanted to see these 2 fight in early 2006, as that was Sydal's peak of being the best junior on Earth. NOW IF FIP WOULD FUCKING RELEASE THE SHOW WHERE THAT HAPPENED...I could see that exact match. Anyways, this ruled, sending Sydal back to his roots as an underdog against Danielson in his Ace role made this really great.

138. Chris Hero vs Erick Stevens, ROH RTTT Night 1 (July 27th)
-People liked this far less than I did. It was a really well done variant on the WWE Style main event, but done by indy guys. Simple formula of dominating face vs cheating heel with a big stable, but it was done really well and made Erick look awesome and made Hero look even more like the best in the world.

137. The Briscoes vs Matt Sydal/Claudio Castagnoli, ROH Respect is Earned (May 12th)
-Fuck, this match ruled. Sydal and Claudio are both complete pros at working a fast paced sprint style, and they help the Briscoes to getting the most out of that style of match, and it's so so fucking good.

136. Bryan Danielson/Nigel McGuinness vs Takeshi Morishima/Naomichi Marufuji, ROH United We Stand (June 22nd)
-This had several fun elements, most of which stem from Danielson vs Nigel as they try and one up each other. Nigel can handle Morishima a bit better than Danielson, which led Danielson to use the strategy he used at MM2. Conversely, Danielson can handle Maru easier than Nigel, as he's quicker. Also, there's some NOAH vs ROH interpromotional violence.

135. Jimmy Jacobs vs Jack Thriller, IWA-MS A Rotten Farewell (December 7th)
-So this came out of nowhere when I saw it last weekend. Really great shit, and Jimmy sold like a champ to make Thriller look like he could actually beat him, and then when Jimym came back, it looked like he had to really fight for the advantage, which to me, put Thriller of huge.

134. Erick Stevens vs Steve Madison, FIP Unfinished Business (January 13th)
-Amazing amazing feud ending brawl. I'm thinking this was Stevens' first big bladejob, as he hit a big fucking gusher in this one, which no doubt added HUGE to the overall drama of the match.

133. Low-Ki vs Roderick Strong, IWA-MS Hurt 2007 (January 5th)
-This went basically as you'd expect it to, with it based mostly around chops, kicks, and backbreakers. It also ruled like you'd expect.

132. Rocky Romero vs Roderick Strong, PWG ASW5 Night 1 (April 7th)
-Roderick showed that he's so much better in PWG as he actually guided Romero to a tremendous match and when rocky focuses on a story and shit, that he's really quite good, and they had great back and forth arm/back work and a focus in the whole match.

131. Elijah Burke/Kevin Thorne/Marcus Cor Von/Matt Striker vs Rob Van Dam/Sabu/Tommy Dreamer/The Sandman, ECW on Sci Fi (April 3rd)
-This is that Street Fight that seemed to just be the perfect combination of time and place, as their WM match just wasn't that interesting, where as this one was this great heated TV length brawl.
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130. The Briscoes vs Kel Steenerico, ROH Driven (June 23rd)
-This was the point where the feud got personal, as Steen was unsatisfied after losing and decided that Jay and Mark needed to die, which produced some great great things. There's still 3 Steenerico/Briscoes matches to go.

129. Crazy Tag Gauntlet, CHIKARA KOT Night 3 (February 18th)
-This was nostalgia greatness for any viewers of older CHIKARA shows as the Prescription Thugs returned, in addition to this being the longest and most fun hour of wrestling I saw this year. Plus, the motherfucking Sharecropper returned!

128. HARASHIMA vs Kota Ibushi, DDT (December 30th)
-A few weeks ago, I realixed I'd only seen Kota in the NTV Cup this summer, so I hunted down some of his DDT work, and this really stood out. The best possible overkill juniors match possibley this year, and I now need to see more HARASHIMA.

127. Edge vs Randy Orton, WWE Raw (April 30th)
-Exceptional match to end their mini-feud, as each tried to outcheat and outheel the other man early on, and then Orton became the face by default.

126. El Generico vs PAC, PWG ASW5 Night 1 (April 7th)
-This was not a patch on their first match, but that's like the Necro/Danielson thing, where a large part of what made their 1st match so great was that nobody saw it's greatness coming and in the rematcj, greatness was expected. There was truly some great stuff here, but it felt more like each man wanted to do crazy moves instead of winning the match to the point where I was taken out of the match.

125. Chuck Taylor vs Lince Dorado, CHIKARA Rey De Voladores (April 22nd)
-Chuck Taylor is the fucking man, and he helps a slightly banged up rookie look really awesome while he dominates a lot of the match and just being Chuckie and being a dick for like 10 minutes before the ending, and because of Chuck's beating, Lince's comeback felt much more dramatic.

124. Rocky Romero/KENTER/Taiji Ishimori vs Ricky Marvin/Kotaro Suzuki/Ippei Ota, NOAH (August 19th)
-Again, this came out of nowhere. KENTER and Marvin immediately gun for each other, and Ota tries to help Marvin, but KENTER throws him to the floor like he's nothing, and Ota then guns for KENTER to prove himself the whole match, and it becomes half junior insanity, and half Ota trying to step up.

123. The Colony vs Hallowicked/Up in Smoke, CHIKARA KOT Night 2 (February 17th)
-Yeah, I liked this more than a majority of people, so fuck off. This is the Colony deciding to show their greatness, and Wicked and UIS help them out and sell like hell for their new shit. Also, Hallowicked has the GREATEST INTERNATIONAL OBJECT EVER when he throws a brick of snow at Fire Ant, putting out the fire.

122. Chris Hero vs Jimmy Jacobs, ROH Motor City Madness (September 14th)
-Yes, I am insane. I LOVED this match, and apparently everyone else thought it was boring. I guess I suck at being an ROH fan. I loved the opposition of their characters here, as Hero is the personification of the jock mentality Jacobs always says he hates about the ROH locker room, and when Hero makes passes at his woman, Jimmy has a reason to be fiery and awesome when he comes back and brings the fight.

121. Alex Shelley vs Matt Sydal, PWG BOLA Night 3 (September 2nd)
-Finally, these two have a match. Them never meeting is a rare flaw with 2005-6 ROH imo, and it got resolved here. This goes how wyou'd think it would with it being mat skillz vs highflying.
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120. Erick Stevens/The Briscoes vs No Remorse Corpse, ROH Unscripted III (December 1st)
-Thankfully for ROH, 5 of these 6 have proven to be clutch players, and I just dislike Romero. They needed to put on at least a good match, and I think they did a great match. Stevens and the Briscoes have great teamwork, and both looked like well oiled machines.

119. The Age of the Fall vs The Vulture Squad, ROH GBH6 Night 1 (November 2nd)
-This was just a completely awesome spring for a little under 10 minutes. So so awesome the way that they layed out the characters and shit, and had a bunch of awesome divez and spotz before ending at pretty much the perfect time. I really want to see a normal trios match from these two factions.

118. Mike Quackenbush vs Bryan Danielson, ROH DBD5 Night 2 (August 11th)
-This was just so so fucking great, and much beyond what it should have been given that Danielson was doing squashes on that weekend. Quack repeatedly owned Danielson on the mat, so Danielson got more agrressive and then when Quack matched him at that, Danielson had no choice but to knock him the fuck out. Two of the best in the world make a good match, and I'd really love to see a rematch at some point.

117. Bryan Danielson vs Takeshi Morishima, ROH Man Up (September 15th)
-IT turns out that these two fuckiing rule against each other. At this point, shit became serious as Shima went after Danielson's injured eye, and then the matches got even better.

116. Naomichi Marufuji vs Takeshi Morishima, NOAH (December 2nd)
-This played brilliantly off their match on Spt. 9th, and this time Morishima just waited and caught Maru and fucking beat him into oblivion. Also, Marufuji attempted to die to win with a Shiranui Kai off the ramp to the floor, which always makes matches more exciting.

115. Roderick Strong vs Alex Shelley, PWG BOLA Night 3 (September 2nd)
-This was like a slightly lesser version of their The Final Showdown match in May 2005. They did the same amazing counter sequence, but Roderick dominated a lot more since he's grown a lot as a wrestler since then. I still miss his longer tights.

114. Chuck Taylor vs Low-Ki, IWA-MS It's Gotta Be The Shoes (March 31st)
-Case 1 for Chuckie belonging in ROH, as he completely excells at being a cowardly heel in this case, resorting to every possible measure, while selling huge for Ki's exciting shit and then using a cloth soaked in ether to retain.

113. Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli, ROH Honor Nation (October 5th)
-Again, these two go out and have a completely awesome and fun as hell match. A common complaint is that it ended right as it was getting awesome, but I don't mind that once and a while. Wrestling's supposed to leave you wanting more, you dig?

112. Kel Steenerico vs The Briscoes, ROH Manhattan Mayhem II (August 25th)
-Another really awesome match from these two, and they got the good side of the Briscoes formula here, as shit was really fun and crazy. My big problem here is that they completely telegraphed the finish by using everything they had in the 2nd fall, which is why these 2-0 matches shouldn't be in the main event, and this happens when they do. Still a fantastic match though.

111. Roderick Strong vs Erick Stevens, ROH Final Battle 2007 (December 29th)
-Student and teacher have another outstanding match, and it really shows Stevens progression in 2007, as he avoids a lot of the shit thatt beat him in their Man Up match, and ups the level of brutality and takes more punishment to get back in and hit a hella dramatic comeback. Of course, the result of this was eventually completely negated by retarded booking, so it loses much of the impact.
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110. SHINGO vs Takeshi Morishima, ROH Good Times, Great Memories (April 28th)
-This is what a power vs power match should be. There was just the right amount of struggle for shit where it looked like SHINGO could win, but at the same time Morishima looked dominant for the most part, which is harder than it seems.

109. The Undertaker vs Batista, WWE WrestleMania 23 (April 1st)
-Another near-perfect heavyweight epic. I can't think of anything terribly wrong with this match, it's just that I liked a lot of other shit better than this in 2007. Just a good year for wrestling.

108. Bryan Danielson vs Necro Butcher, PWG Giant Sized Annual #4 (July 29th)
-This came out of pretty much nowhere to be really really awesome and great. Everything in this match felt like a struggle and a fight between the best technician and the best brawler in the world. Also, Necro randomly pulled a plastic bag out of his back pocket to choke Danielson with and it was so awesome,

107. BJ Whitmer vs Jimmy Jacobs, ROH 5YF: Finale (March 4th)
-I think this one is WAY better than it gets credit for anywhere, as it wa sjust a completely insane brawl. You could tell they didn;t want to overshadow Nigel/Rave later on, but it was still so fucking great, with a bunch of crazy shit like Jacobs diving off the balcony, some spiking stuff, and a Jumping Tombstone onto the seat of a chair.

106. Kings of Wrestling vs Up in Smoke, CHIKARA YLC5 Night 3 (June 24th)
-another example of why the KOW were the best team on Earth. Logically, Cheech and especially Cloudy should never be able to go toe to toe with them and look credible. the height difference is too much, right? Well, Claudio and Hero say nay to you, good sir, and they make UIS look really really awesome for 20 minutes before they bring them down to Earth.

105. Chris Hero vs El Generico, ROH GBH6 Night 2 (November 3rd)
-Chris Hero owned this particular weekend, and this is no different. Both men look like stars here, and it's basically their RTTT match magnified and amplified to be even more awesome.

104. The Colony vs Sabian/Ruckus, CHIKARA YLC5 Night 3 (June 24th)
-The Colony decided that this point is when they make it known that they fucking mean business. Sabian and Ruckus lost once to them on a "fluke", sothey jumpstart this shit and try to kill the Ants. They then find themselves in unfamiliar territory as the heels when they show no mercy, and it makes for a really awesome match.

103. Bryan Danielson vs Austin Aries, ROH GBH6 Night 1 (November 2nd)
-This is the match that they had in them, and it's really really great. All the matwork plays off their last matches, and they do everything in their power to avoid getting into the small package or the Horns of Aries, and because Danielson is so wary of the new submission, Aries catches him offguard with THE COMBO~~!

102. Matt Hardy vs Finlay, WWE Smackdown (June 15th)
-Matt Hardy was on a damn hot streak in 2007, taking over the Benoit/Finlay role of being the dude who has a real great match every other week, which is convenient as 9 days after this, Benoit decided to go a bit crazy.

101. Davey Richards vs Naomichi Marufuji, ROH Final Battle 2007 (December 29th)
-This was really really good, and normally would have made the top 100. However, the limbwork went nowhere really, and the opening mat sequences were pretty much there without any real purpose. On the plus side, Davey was an outstanding heel here and Maru brought the greatness and the finishing stretch was outstanding.

NEXT: THE TOP 100~!
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Yeah the majority of Matt Hardy's Smackdown matches were really great. I was always pretty indifferent about Hardy until that streak of matches (Kennedy, Finlay, Regal, all of them) and since then I've been a big fan.
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THE TOP 100~~!!eleventy!

100. CIMA/Susumu Yokosuka/Dragon Kid/Matt Sydal vs Speed Muscle/Cyber Gang/Jimmy Rave vs SHINGO/Cyber Kong/Jack Evans/El Generico, Dragon Gate (July 19th)
-This is the annual JAM Cup battle royal tag thingie. Full of comedy, hot nearfalls, heel shenanigans, awesome double teams, movez, spotz, and the final was 5-10 minutes of Matt Sydal vs Doi.

99. Chris Hero vs Bryan Danielson, ROH Undeniable (October 6th)
-I loved this match so much more than anyone else does. Hero and Danielson were pretty even on the mat, so Hero does flips and cartwheels to celebrate and to lull Danielson into a false sense of security. Hero doesn't really do a lot to press the advantage though, and gets his fucking head kicked in as a result. If you notice, after this match, Hero started to get more serious and pick up more wins, and I think the assstomping he got here was a large reason why.

98. Claudio Castagnoli vs Mark Briscoe vs Roderick Strong vs Pelle Primeau vs Matt Cross vs SHINGO, ROH 5YF: Dayton (February 23rd)
-Just a complete festival of fun shit and reasons I watch ROH, which would be a bit of comedy, stiff chop exchanges, underlying stories, and Claudio Castagnoli ruling the world. Because of this match, the pop up European is now called the Pelle Primeau Memorial Uppercut.

97. Claudio Castagnoli vs Alex Shelley, PWG ASW5 Night 2 (April 8th)
-In short, this was their OCtober 2005 match but magnified and with more action as Claudio grew a lot since then, which is scary because he ruled already in October 2005.

96. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Koji Kanemoto, NJPW (February 18th)
-This being only 96 illusrates the greatness of this year, as after it happened, it was in my top 5. Great defense for Tanahashi, as based on Marufuji winning the big one in NOAH a few months ago, the crowd really believes Koji, a mere junior, can pull it out here, which is like half of being a great champion to me.

95. NRC/Matt Sydal vs The Resilience/Delirious, ROH DBD5 Night 2 (August 11th)
-I almost feel bad for Night 2, as Night 1 had a better title match, a btter street fight, and a better Hero/Nigel feud match. However, this was still really awesome and really helped elevate Stevens and set him in motion to break through. This went on way too long though, and that's why it's only here, and the other street fight is MUCH higher. Also, Cross' wall flip fucking ruled.

94. Koji Kanemoto vs Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Gate (July 1st)
-Awesome shit. Kanemoto is always a dick outside of NJPW and acts like a fucking big shot, and Massaki isn't going to let this bitch disrespect his hood, and greatness ensues.

93. Randy Orton vs Shawn Michaels, WWE Survivor Series (November 18th)
-So I enjoyed their other matches, but this was just shockingly good. They worked brilliantly around the stipulation, with HBK using holds that had beaten Orton before with the Ankle Lock, Sharpshooter, and *GASP* THE DANIEL LOCK!

92. Jimmy Rave vs Nigel McGuinness, ROH 5YF Liverpool (MArch 4th)
-I wasn't too fond of the overall feud, but this really really ruled. Nigel in England is just something special. I would say there was definite overkill here, but they seemed to have an attitude where if they were going to do an overkill match, then they went all the fucking way with it and made it completely fucking nuts, and it totally worked in this situation.

91. The Young Bucks/TJ Perkins vs Scott Lost/Bino Gambino/Karl Anderson, PWG Giant Sized Annual #4 (July 29th)
-Again, this had no right to be this good. Scott Lost is a great technician, if a bit unexciting at points, as is TJ Perkings. The Bucks are pretty new, but have some really inventive shit. Karl Anderson isn't meant for this type of match, and Bino is mostly comedy. Somehow though, shit was awesome on this night, and TJ looked like the dynamic leader of a new generation of SoCal guys, even if he's been around for years.
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90. Roderick Strong/Jack Evans vs SHINGO/Jimmy Rave, FIP New Year's Classic (January 7th)
-Goddamn, I miss the Strong/Evans team. Just the most exciting team in the world when they teamed, and it really was a "sum of the two is greater than each individually" situation for them. Rave is also a kickass heel in FIP, and SHINGO happens to be awesome in general.

89. Chris Hero vs Nigel McGuinness, ROH GBH6 Night 1 (November 2nd)
-Holy shit, this was great. Not a big ROH main event style epic, but this short intense match where Nigel was in serious fucking danger of losing the title, and Hero got fucking serious to get shit done. Hero should be ROH Champion as Nigel tapped out cleanly here.

88. Roderick Strong/PAC vs The Briscoes, PWG DDT4 Night 2 (May 20th)
-The Briscoes prove that they can work tag matches with stories involved, which makes them not doing it all the more disappointing. The Briscoes underestimate PAC and Roddy, buying into their own hype as the best team in the world, and it costs them.

87. Eddie Kingston vs Hallowicked, CHIKARA Chapter 11 (November 18th)
-A great brutal violent brawl from Kingston, as should be expected. ROH does violent brawls with lots of weapons and awesome spots, but Kingston does them with striking and crowd violence and drama in his own unique way and this shows this. There were also some really neat moments for older CHIKARA fans, like Wicked busting out the Super Fisherman's Buster.

86. Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli vs Rocky Romero vs Roderick Strong vs Austin Aries vs Human Tornado, ROH Survival of the Fittest (October 19th)
-A lot of people disliked this. I fucking loved it. Excellent merging of several storylines, such as Hero/Claudio, Aries/NRC, Tornado debuting, Hero becoming a main eventer, and Claudio's quest to win the big one. Also, it was the Chris Hero show, and that'll make me love a match.

85. Claudio Castagnoli vs PAC, PWG BOLA Night 3 (September 3rd)
-This is basicall PAC plugged into the Claudio Castagnoli vs High Flyer formula, but fuck, it's an awesome formula and it's a formula for a reason, because it works to perfection roughly 98% of the time.

84. Los Ice Creams vs Team FIST, CHIKARA Invaders Night 1 (August 17th)
-Amazing story here. Icarus basically made this match, putting LIC over huge as a threat and continuing perfectly from the dissension after the FIST/Briscoes match 12 days earlier, where he always had to save Akuma, but Icarus had to kick out on his own power more often than not, and when Akuma finally came through, Icarus was able to get the winning fall.

83. John Cena vs Edge vs Shawn Michaels vs Randy Orton, WWE Backlash (April 29th)
-The WWE happens to do main event multiman matches very very well, and it's amplified by the fact that all four fucking rule at wrestling, and when HBK is the worst one in the match, you know it'll be good. Great combination of spots and story here.

82. Kel Steenerico vs Roderick Strong/PAC, PWG Giant Sized Annual #4 (July 29th)
-Unfortunately for PAC and Strong, they did not see Rocky III. I say that because they made the same mistake. They thought they were on top of the world because they won the titles when they were underestimated and had a defense against Romero and Reyes. They also took it easy, thinking Steen and Generico would never stop fighting long enough to mount a comeback in a unscheduled match. However, they were wrong, and they lost for their insolence. Also, there were lots of kickass MOVEZ!

81. Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli, ROH Manhattan Mayhem II (August 25th)
-This is like the signature Hero/Claudio match these days. Hero does his great shenanigans, Claudio does some "HEY!" shit, and they have a fantastic formula match. I love both men, so their typical match entertains the fuck out of me. And if you've read this far, you should know that my personal enjoyment is all that fucking matters.
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Slow down Simon I can't keep up lol list is looking great so many great matches on it already the top 100 is winding down nicely
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80. The Briscoes vs Team SyDaniels, ROH 5YF: Chicago (February 24th)
-Again, the Briscoes work a more formula-ish tag, and I love it more than their crazy formula-is-bad shit. Also, Sydal bumps like a madman here, and Daniels isn't too boring for a large part of it.

79. Eddie Kingston/Joker/Sabian vs Tim Donst/Incoherence, CHIKARA Battle of Who Could Care Less (November 16th)
-Look at that...another CHIKARA trios match. Well, this focused less on lucha and comedy, and more on asskicking. Kingston hates Hallowicked and Donst, and BLKOUT helps him destroy them before they fight back. Also, it was fucking stiff, which is not a reason why something is good, but an enhancer.

78. Rey Mysterio vs Finlay, WWE Smackdown (November 9th)
-So, Rey's one of the best wrestlers in the world, as is Finlay. Put them together and give them 15+ minutes, and you'll get something that just happens to fucking rule. It's like plugging numbers into a math formula.

77. Bryan Danielson vs CIMA, PWG DDT4 Night 1 (May 19th)
-This is one of those rare matches where a longer feeling out process actually felt warranted and not just tacked on to kill time. Legit, these are two of the best in the world and the top guys in their respective promotions, so i get that they started slow. Plus, it built to the really awesome final stretch, and now I'm hyped for their 2nd match, whenever that gets online.

76. Claudio Castagnoli vs PAC, CHIKARA Invaders Night 2 (August 18th)
-This is the better of their two matches, and again I say the 1st one is better, because you didn't know what exactly they would be doing. I mean, it was still the Claudio v. flyer formula match, but PAC brought some far different spots to the table here that it felt original and unique.

75. Speed Muscle vs Ryo Saito/Susumu Yokosuka, Dragon Gate (November 25th)
-This is what happens when great wrestlers do the formula that the Briscoes tried to emulate, in the KENTERFuji style tag, which works when the team is made up of two far different wrestlers, like Roderick and Jack, KENTER and Marufuji, and like Doi and Yoshino here. Just a completely insane juniors tag great match, but trim 5-10 minutes off of this and it's in the top 50.

74. Jeff Hardy vs Umaga, WWE Raw (November 19th)
-This is like a much better and more drmatic variant on their outstanding GAB match, because at points here, you actually felt Jeff could pull this shit off and beat the guy fair and square this time.

73. Chris Hero vs Claudio Castagnoli vs Nigel McGuinness vs Naomichi Marufuji, ROH Man Up (September 15th)
-This might be the best PPV opener this year, as far as sheer entertainment goes. I wasn't bored for a second, whether it was Hero's shenanigans, Nigel throwing Lariats like his life depended on it, Claudio trying to kill Hero, or Marufuji and Claudio doing the DOUBLE CLAW~! spot.

72. Nigel McGuinness vs El Generico, PWG BOLA Night 3 (September 2nd)
-Nigel underestimated Generico, which in PWG, if you don't know yet, is a really bad idea. There's the story and one should also not the ungodly bump Generico took on the Rebound Lariat, maybe only topped by Rave and Aries' bumps off of it.

71. Mitsuharu Misawa vs KENTER, ROH GBH6 Night 2 (November 3rd)
-Really really awesome shit, and I'm pleasently surprised that Misawa turned on his A-Game here to go strike for strike with young KENTER.
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70. Shuji Kondo vs Katsuhiko Nakajima, AJPW (February 17th)
-The classic battle of speed vs strength and rookie vs champion. Really really well done, in addition to both men being really fucking awesome. It had a tad bit overkill, but fuck, it's puroresu juniors style, you're gonna get that.

69 hehe. Chris Hero vs Jigsaw, ROH Reckless Abandon (November 30th)
-Just some superb shit here, with Hero expecting another job guy like he'd been given a lot of lately. Except that Jigsaw is Quack's boy, and Hero is kind of his archnemesis by association thusly. Jig busts out a shitload of fancy lucha armdrags and even the Skayde Special and Tornado Clutch to try and put down Hero, but no dice, as Hero decides to get more brutal to stop it. This is like the CHIKARA Chris Hero deciding to come into ROH.

68. Bryan Danielson vs Go Shiosaki, ROH Live in Tokyo (July 16th)
-So this is a prime example of why one would call Danielson the BITW if they happened to believe that, considering he pretty much leads Go to a completely amazing match, and makes Go look almost on his level, which is no slight to Go, but more of how great Dragonson is.

67. James Storm vs Chris Harris, TNA Sacrifice (May 13th)
-This is an oddity. Their Lockdown match sucked, and their Impact brawl was nowhere near as good as this was. Just acompletely awesome brawl, and everything you want in a feud ending blood bath as far as hate, blood, and cool spots are concerned.

66. Los Tres Deliriosos vs The Colony, CHIKARA Maximum Overdraft (August 5th)
-The definition of why I love CHIKARA. Just so so much fun here, from the multiple Delirious spots (Deliriouscito and Deliriouscitocito were great replacements for Up in Smoke) to insane triple teams.

65. Matt Hardy vs William Regal, WWE Smackdown (June 22nd)
-Another Matt Hardy gem. Not as long as the Finlay or Kennedy matches, but much more intense and vicious due to Regal being like a rabid hyena on Hardy's leg here.

64. Incoherence vs Up in Smoke/Incoherencito, CHIKARA Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence (November 17th)
-Why I love CHIKAR Part Deux. Comedy + awesome spotz + movez + story + drama = happy Simon.

63. The Briscoes vs Kel Steenerico, ROH Man Up (September 15th)
-Yeah, fuck you too to the first person who questions this. I mean, shit, it was good and all, but eventually it just turned into another ladder spotfest. I don't care how good it was live, I wasn't there live. I don't care how much you enjoyed it, I didn't enjoy it that much. I mean, I get why people liked it, because it was really really fun, but on the 2nd viewing, it wasn't exciting any more and was just kind of there. Which means it wasn't as good as was hyped, because I can still watch the 6 man from the 100th Show and be excited for it, same the the Saints/WhitMaff street fight.

62. Matt Sydal vs Claudio Castagnoli, ROH Driven (June 23rd)
-Sydal is the 2nd best possible opponent for Claudio, and this is possibly the best sub 10 minute match in ROH all year, because it was fucking great shit for 9 or so minutes, before the completely jawdropping ending. But it wasn't state-of-the-art. It was SOTA when Claudio and Quack had this same match in the 2006 TPI.

61. MCMG/Sonjay Dutt vs Los Technicos, CHIKARA KOT Night 2 (February 17th)
-Interpromotional hatred meets the random hate that Quack and Shelley have for each other, and it fucking rules, with Team TNA showing more character than they ever do on TV when they openly piss on all that CHIKARA stands for, which of course...Quack will not stand for.
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Hold up. Back to 83. Did you say that HBK was the worst in that four way match? Now don't get me wrong. Edge, Orton, & Cena are all just fine in the ring and underrated, but to say that they're better than HBK just seems to be a bit of a stretch. I mean, I don't know about you but I have never seen HBK in a boring match where as the three others have had a few yawners in their career. But then again, different strokes.
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I meant as of that point in time. Overall, for sure HBK's the best, but in April 2007 and 2007 in general, Orton, Cena, and Edge were all at the top of their games. Hope that clarifies.
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I bet Harris vs Storm is Simons TNA match of the year.
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