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A match happened that got five stars. It did a lot of the things that five star matches tend to do these days. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are offering their thoughts on the match.lmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the second five (and a quarter) star match to happen in one day, but on a different continent as AEW presents its final PPV show before becoming a weekly TV show. It's one of the founders that yet again takes part in the match as The Young Bucks take on their non-union Mexican equivalents in The Lucha Bros. Add to a feud already known for its crazy high spots, they add ladders (and, as you'd...

Our final WWE match of the series, and our first one under the NXT UK brand. It's also the first match wrestled in the UK to gain (more than) the perfect score from Dave Meltzer. "The Big Strong Boy" Tyler Bate attempts to reclaim his WWE United Kingdom Championship from "Der Ring General" WALTER. So early into this latest WWE spin-off brand and they're already going beyond the five-star barrier....

It's the final of the G1 Climax and, as of time of uploading, the final match on this list to gain a perfect score (or higher!) from Dave Meltzer to be presented by New Japan. This time Kota Ibushi attempts to jump that final hurdle that eluded him the previous year and win the biggest tournament in wrestling. The man standing opposite him is the apple of Gedo's eyes (both on-screen and, many beli...

Kota Ibushi's hopes to go one step further from the previous year's G1 Climax runner-up has the intimidating penultimate hurdle of 'The Rainmaker', recently reunited with his precious IWGP Heavyweight Championship. 'The Golden Star' is also burdened by the fact that whilst he needs to win the match within the 30-minute time-limit, Okada does not have the same problem with his superior points total...

It's a battle of the burly, brawny powerhouses as G1 Climax debutant Shingo Takagi has been tearing a path through New Japan with his chops, lariats, and bruising strikes. Now he's up against a man who made a reputation out of chopping, lariating, and brusing everyone in their way for the past five years of G1 show-stealing matches. It's 'The Dragon' against 'The Stone Pitbull' and it's Lorcan (@l...

It's another faction civil war during the G1 Climax, as it's Los Ingobernables de Japon's turn to put friendships aside to battle it out. But this goes beyond faction friends, as there is a deep-lying story between these two wrestlers spanning twenty years! Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to try to decide whether it gains full marks or not.lmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acas...

A match happened again in Japan. A guy in America again gave it five out of five. Two guys from England called Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) watch it. This is what they thought.lmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a return to Reseda, California, and another match of six men flying through the air, hitting high spot after high spot, and all in front of the notoriously rabid PWG crowd. This time it's six of Mexico's finest doing everything they can to steal the show and continue to push forward the Lucha Libre tradition of in-ring action. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to try to...

It's another CHAOS civil war to gain a perfect score from Dave Meltzer. As is usually the case, the only reason stablemates are facing each other is because it's one of New Japan's annual tournaments, and the heavyweight ace Okada is facing the junior ace Ospreay. It's IWGP Heavyweight Champion vs. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and it's one of the earliest matches for a rivalry that could event...

This is such good shit. Recently liberated from WWE and the Dean Ambrose moniker, Jon Moxley is reborn and has been travelling around many a promotion to pick a fight. He enters the G1 Climax with something to prove, and a man in Tomohiro Ishii is more than happy to provide the test he's looking for in a New Japan ring. Your wartime correspondents Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) ar...

It's fair to say that the first half of 2019 has been a remarkable six month period for Will Ospreay. He opened the year winning the Never Openweight Championship in the Tokyo Dome at Wrestle Kingdom, he claimed his second Best of the Super Juniors tournament, and followed that up with reclaiming the IWGP Junior Heavyweight championship only four days later. Entering the second half of 2019 he's g...

It's been a mere four days since Will Ospreay both won the Best of the Super Juniors tournament and scored another five-star match in the eyes of Dave Meltzer. But here is doing it again in the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match that his BOSJ victory guaranteed. Facing him on the opposite corner is Dragon Lee, one of the most exciting young prospects in wrestling who has already garnered m...

It's the third consecutive Best of the Super Juniors to gain five stars, and it's between two men that were treading the fine line of the junior and heavyweight divisions of New Japan. Powerhouse and longtime Dragon Gate ace, as well as newest LIJ member, Shingo Takagi enters on a perfect group stage record of 9-0 whilst Ospreay battles through a pain and adversity to reach the first BOSJ final to...

After a last-minute booking for the previous NXT Takeover show, this time Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole have had time to develop their feud, and this was all about proving something. Gargano has to prove that he's not a flash in the pan, and Cole is challenged to prove he can win the big match without any interference from his fellow Undisputed Era team-mates. On the external level, however, the bi...

From its official announcement on New Year's Day 2019, to its first five-star match less than six months later, it's fair to say this has been an impressive first year for All Elite Wrestling. What makes this even more unlikely is that it's a match between two brothers who had previously wrestled a disappointingly forgettable match with each other a few years earlier in the WWE. But the restrictio...

It's Best of the Super Juniors time yet again, but for the first time in the tournament's history, it's a block match and not just the final that gains the perfect score from Dave Meltzer. If there's been a stand-out star in 2019 you can make a valid case that it's Will Ospreay, and this match with fellow hot up-and-comer Bandido is the start of a two-month period where Ospreay scored five matches...

After more than a year of build-up, the epic feud between Johnny Gargano and NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa was supposed to finally blow-off in the NXT Takeover before WrestleMania. However, with only weeks to go, Ciampa required neck surgery and Takeover had lost its main event. With little time to get people interested, leader of the Undisputed Era Adam Cole steps into the Ciampa-shaped hole as he...

A match happened in Japan. A guy in America gave it five out of five. Two guys from England called Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) watched it. This is what they thought.lmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So the Meltzer Five-Star Project has finally lapped itself with the first match to get the perfect score rating from Dave that happened after Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) had started this project and uploaded episodes. Appropriately enough, it starts with the main event of a match at the Tokyo Dome as Kenny Omega now enters a Wrestle Kingdom in the new role of defending IWGP Hea...

It's the final Debrief before Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have finally completed their year-long five-star project. 2018 was when the five-star dam truly broke, resulting in twenty-one matches given the perfect rating that had only a few years earlier had gaps of over a year between matches. What changed? What non-five-star match is there for Lorcan and Simon to discuss? Has th...

With only two weeks left in a miraculous year of perfect matches, in the opinion of Dave Meltzer, New Japan were able to squeeze one last five-star affair before 2018 reached its conclusion. It involved four men who have all been involved in multiple perfect matches this year, and it was one of the final chances for the IWGP Heavyweight and NEVER Openweight champions and challengers to size each o...

As we wind our way down to the end of the record-breaking year for five-star matches that was 2018, we have our one and only match featuring Kazuchika Okada to be a team affair, as 'The Rainmaker' teams up with his CHAOS cohort 'The Stone Pitbull' to face The Golden Lovers. It is, at time of release, the final in-ring encounter between Okada and Kenny Omega, and features four of the top performers...

Hiroshi Tanahashi continues his miraculous journey back to the main event of Wrestle Kingdom to challenge once again for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In order to reach that match against Kenny Omega, though, he must first finally claim a victory over the man who replaced him as the Ace of the promotion in 'The Rainmaker' Kazuchika Okada. Whilst Okada has been in a different, more troubled mo...