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After producing six five-star (and above) matches in the build up, it seems that once again they've saved the best for last as the G1 Climax final for 2018 earned a whopping five-and-three-quarter stars from Dave Meltzer. A generational conflict that sees the Ace of the Universe Hiroshi Tanahashi try once again to turn back time as he faces off against the younger upstart Kota Ibushi who entered t...

When Golden Lovers collide! It's a match everyone wanted but feared what would happen if it did. Having finally reunited a few months earlier, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi find themselves in opposite corners to decide who wins the G1 Climax B Block and faces Hiroshi Tanahashi in the final. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are still battling with the nastiest feedback they've ever rec...

It's fair to say that losing the IWGP Heavyweight Championship has affected Okada. We're not explicitly saying he might be partaking in certain narcotics that has affected his behaviour, but he certainly seems to be a man feeling a since of liberty sincce he's no longer carrying the mantle of champion. In the other corner is his greatest rival, and a man who always seems to have stuck to the strai...

It's the final match of the self-contained round robin in B Block of the 2018 G1 Climax. Kenny Omega and Tomohiro Ishii both have victories over Hirooki Goto that gained the full five stars from Dave Meltzer, they now go head-to-head themselves as the flash and spectacle of the leader of the Bullet Club meets the no-nonsense Stone Pitbull in a bruising and literally smash-mouth encounter. Lorcan (...

According to Google Translate, the appropriate Japanese word to call this match is a Surobbānokkā (the equivalent of a 'slobberknocker'). Two big burly brawling bastards battle it out in a G1 Climax group match. Goto has already fallen to Kenny Omega in our previous five-star match, and just a few days later he's in another match (wrestled in an entirely different style) to get the perfect score f...

Apologies in advance, but somehow recording in a hired studio face-to-face (instead of the usual recorded Skype conversation) has somehow resulted in a lower quality audio recording and us having to contend with (and mostly edit out) issues with feedback. But Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) carry on regardless as they review another G1 Climax B Block match, as IWGP Heavyweight Cham...

It's the start of the summer bonanza of five-star matches that is New Japan's G1 Climax tournament. The tour starts as it means to go on as the opening round of matches in B Block is headlined by the 2017 block final and the 2018 tournament final, as Kenny Omega and Tetsuya Naito battle in a G1 rubber match that sees Omega being cock of the walk with his newly acquired IWGP Heavyweight Championshi...

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So here is the match that's so good it's 40% above a perfect score! In their fourth singles outing, a year on from their 60-minute draw, 'The Rainmaker' and 'The Best Bout Machine' face off in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match with no time limit. Can Omega finally win the big one for the title? Will Okada solidfy his place as a cut above everyone, even his biggest rival? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@...

It's the time of the year where New Japan's junior stars take centre stage, and it's the top junior rep for Los Ingobernables de Japon and Bullet Club clashing for the silver glass trophy and an IWGP Junior Heavyweight title shot against Will Ospreay a week later. It's fair to say that both BC's Ishimori and particularly LIJ's Takahashi are willing to punish their bodies for the sake of having an...

It's another chapter of the feud of the decade. Whilst Kazuchika Okada may have finally surpassed his rival Hiroshi Tanahashi in the last IWGP title match between the pair at Wrestle Kingdom, he still felt he had something else to prove by extending the challenge to his elder for this match. Because victory here would see Okada surpass Tanahashi with the most successful title defences in one reign...

It's our first trip to mainland Europe as the world of wrestling continues to both expand and contract at the same time! This time Spain's hero, and hot young prospect, The A-Kid attempts to defend his home country's honour against the British technical wrestling abilities of Zack Sabre Jr. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) watch on as they catch up on a match that took quite a while...

The second of two Meltzer five-star matches in one event (to this day the only instance of that happening) sees Johnny Gargano attempt to exorcise all the demons he's suffered for months at the hands of his former DIY partner Tommaso Ciampa. An epic of many acts in front of a rabid crowd, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) reflect on a match that in many ways has provided the template...

The WWE usually has to wait ages for a five-star match rating from Dave Meltzer, and then two come along one after the other! The first in this one-night one-two punch is to decide who will be the first NXT North American Champion as a cross-section of indy stars, international imports, returning stars, and developmental talent clash under Ladder match stipulations. There have been numerous exampl...

The first all-England five-star affair, but it's taking place in Japan! However, it is part of a storyline that started back in their days in the UK, as 'The Aerial Assassin' defends in IWGP Junior title whilst also trying to finally claim a singles victory over 'The Villain', who has made a living out of beating his Essex counterpart and claiming plenty of titles from those victories along the wa...

So much conflict resolution abounds in this match you'd expect Dr Phil to find some way to get his publicity-seeking bald head to turn up at some point. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) turn into gossipy soap opera obsessives this time as they try to figure out the emotional twists and turns the Jackson brothers and their erstwhile friend Kenny and reunited friend Ibushi try to sort...

It's the first match under the auspices of WWE to gain a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer for the first time since Cena-Punk at Money in the Bank seven years earlier, and its under the NXT banner for the very first time. Two men who had suffered periods of wilderness before reaching the point of main eventing a Takeover. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to try to figure o...

Yet again, we recorded this before we realised our Tanahashi-Okada October 2013 omission, but the rest of the discusison still remains valid. Or at least as valid as you think Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon's (@simoncross3) opinions are on such matters. As in other debriefs, they return and revise their definitive lists, discuss a match that Meltzer didn't give five stars to, but others may cons...

So at the time of recording, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) believed that this was the 100th match to be given five-stars from Dave Meltzer and acted accordingly with grand statements about how appropriate this truly was and many profound statements. Unfortunately, they're both morons who can't read. But hopefully that won't stop you from listening to their ramblings about the all...

A huge milestone for the show. It's a shame Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) didn't realise it at the time because they'd missed one of the Okada-Tanahashi matches before recording and correcting! The second straight match to come from PWG's show in Reseda, but an all-European clash between the mouthy lad from Kent Zack Sabre Jr faces the stern Austrian WALTER. No conforming to ster...

Before they were invading Raw and making waves in NXT, these two huge men were battling it out in the smark fan mecca of the Reseda American Legion Hall during the Battle of Los Angeles tournament of 2017. Big men exchanging big moves in front of a molten crowd, and Meltzer himself in the front row, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to provide whatever stands for insight.lmt...

It's the final of the G1 Climax 2017 as last year's winner Kenny Omega faces the 2013 winner, and the man he defeated in the previous year's Block B final, Tetsuya Naito. Omega is coming in hot having finally defeated Kazuchika Okada the previous night. Naito is also in a better frame of mind, defeating Hiroshi Tanahashi two nights earlier and exorcising whatever demon he had left from losing the...

It's the final of Block B of the 2017 G1 Climax and it's the third in the series of matches to perhaps break Dave Meltzer's brain. Can the leader of the Bullet Club finally claim a victory over the Rainmaker, even if it's not for the IWGP title, but instead a berth in the final of the G1 Climax. Okada is walking wounded going into this match, and they only have half of the usual 60-minute time lim...

It's a triple bill of 2018 G1 Climax clashes, and also the final chapter of a trilogy of 2018 bouts between the leader of Los Ingobernables de Japon and the Ace of the Universe. They have traded wins battling over the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, but this time it's an A block decider. Can Naito's tranquilo anti-establishment attitude trump Tanahashi's embodiment of New Japan's fighting spir...

After you break the wrestling world with your match, and then one person's review of said match breaks the internet wrestling world, where on Earth do you possible go from there to top it? If you're Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada you go long. Six months on from their six-star encounter, witness the match that Dave Meltzer rated a quarter-star higher. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross)...