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It took twenty years but finally another final in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament has earned the perfect score from Dave Meltzer and allow Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross) to discuss the aerial exploits of KUSHIDA and Will Ospreay, both with huge monkeys on their backs that they're hoping winning this BOSJ tournament will finally put to rest. But has the fact that huge moves...

It's flash against fundamentals, colour against monochrome, cockiness against resilience, as 'The Rainmaker' defends his IWGP Heavyweight Championship against 'The Wrestler'. Okada goes into this match full of confidence, to the point of dismissal against a man who has had to wait more than a decade to challenge for New Japan's top title against a man who has basically owned the belt since his ret...

Usually a match for a championship is reason for a wrestler to be at the top of their game in order to achieve the pinnacle of their sport. Unless your name is Tetsuya Naito and you're defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. In which case, you're only hoping to defend the title in order to deny someone else happiness, insult your company, and physically abuse the physical embodiment of e...

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to adjust their list, discuss a listener's corrspondence, and provide an alternative five-star match to discuss. Obviously, we recorded this before we realised we screwed up about Okada vs. Tanahashi from October 2013. Rest assured it will be factored in as soon as we've caught up with ourselves!lmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Here it is. The match that, perhaps more than any other, is responsible for the increased public profile of New Japan, Kenny Omega, Kazuchika Okada, the creation of AEW, and even the significance of Dave Meltzer's star ratings. This was also the match that maybe broke the system as we know it. It's not the first six-star match, but it's the one that changed the scale forever after. Lorcan (@lorcan...

It's our first foray into where Meltzer likes to hang out for some wrestling fun (but with his trusty pad and pencil with him) as he sits front row to watch a bumper collection of all the moves as three-quarters of PWG's main event faction Mount Rushmore (interesting name...) face off against the high flying dream team of Ricochet, Matt Sydal, and a young up-and-comer making waves from Essex calle...

The leaders of the top two heel stables of New Japan, Bullet Club's Omega and Los Ingobernables de Japon's Naito, collided in the block decider for the 2016 G1 Climax and they went out of their way to tear the house down. The first of many five-star matches for both individuals, the changing fortunes of both Naito and Omega are charted both in their backstory and in the match itself. Lorcan (@lorc...

Okada may now be the Ace of the promotion, but that doesn't mean he has to face challengers, even within his own faction! It's G1 Climax time, and it's the only year where faction civil war takes place, and the 'Stone Pitbull' has risen in the ranks to become the de factor second-in-command of the group. Will that mean he can finally get a win over the 'Rainmaker' in one of his rare chances to tak...

We are back on the chronological track (at least in release order, it'll be a long time before we get back to the right record order!) but we're still with the great rivalry of the decade as Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada once again battle it out for supremacy. Whilst Tanahashi is trying to once again reclaim the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, it's the defending champion Okada with even mor...

So we made a little screw up. We're sure you're all shocked. We got a little mixed up with the multiple Okada-Tanahashi matches and which match was rated what. So we're turning back the clocks a couple of years to play catch up and watch another match in what may come to be seen as the greatest rivalry in pro wrestling history. Will Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) contain their emb...

Whilst they main evented three separate Wrestle Kingdom events, this was the only time that the two top New Japan stars of the fourth generation both clashed in the G1 Climax final and had a match together that gained the perfect five-star rating from Dave Meltzer. It's Ace vs. King and Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) place all their cards on the table when it comes to combat criti...

It's fair to say that Ishii and Honma are two of the most unlikely wrestlers to ever become stars big enough to find themsevles headlining a New Japan event, contesting a vacant title. Neither were a home-grown talent, both started at the lowest point of the pecking order you can be whilst not being a Young Lion, and both have an unconventional wrestling style. Yet, it all came together in an alch...

It's a debut for two of the top current stars in wrestling, as the 'King of Strong Style' Shinsuke Nakamura defended his beloved IWGP Intercontinental Championship against newly signed DDT 'Golden Star' Kota Ibushi. A clash of hard strikes and unusual haircuts, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) take it all in and consider each man's respective place at the start of this match, the en...

As much a family dispute in a soap opera as it is a wrestling match, the Ace who spent the past decade shouldering the main event burden of the promotion faces off against the man who should have been sharing that weight as part of the Fourth Generation's new "Three Musketeers", this is a very personal one. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to find out "what's gaing on!" and...

The first G1 Climax match to gain five stars, but the first of many as August becomes a hotbed of perfect wrestling in the eyes of one Dave Meltzer. To start things off we've got a quick, violent slice of strong style striking as The Wrestler faces off against The Stone Pitbull and everyone in the audience in the venue and watching at home starts to feel pain in their own jaw just watching the mat...

It's been a long time for everyone for ten five-star matches to occur. more than a full decade. So Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have a long period of time to discuss in their alternative 5-star match, to the point that they've decided to cover both a highly-rated match and its equally lauded re-match that didn't quite gain a perfect score from Dave Meltzer. As well as that they...

As the era of New Japan dominance in this list kicks off, this golden age of five-star matches wrestled on the cereleun blue mat was born from the epic rivalry for the role of 'Ace' of the promotion between the long-standing top star and 'Once in a Century Talent' Hiroshi Tanahashi and the cocky 'Rainmaker' Kazuchika Okada. Going into the fourth match of this series (and the first to gain a perfec...

It's the first of many, MANY matches this decade from New Japan that Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) will be covering for the rest of this five-star series. This one sees the Ace of Universe defend his IWGP Heavyweight Championship against every Young Lion's worst nightmare, and a man who could steal your girl as a young man and steal one of your limbs now, Minoru Suzuki.lmtyspod@g...

When it burst on the scene in 2002, Ring of Honor quickly became the wrestling hipster fan's promotion of choice. A decade on and the praise was increasingly infrequent. Despite this, they achieved their fourth and final five-star clash during WrestleMania 28 weekend as Davey Richards defended his ROH Championship against "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin in what is frequently cited as his star-making t...

It's been a long time, but you will be happy for the wait because we've got A LOT of audio to provide you with over the rest of the year. After Meltzer also took a long break from rating a match five stars, we took a little break from uploading. So we thought we'd make up for that with the longest episode in this series so far, and there's no more fitting a match to make Meltzer go the full five a...

It's the final five-star match for over five years as Ring of Honor plays host to a six-man Dragon Gate clash between the rival facctions of Blood Generation (CIMA, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino) against the Do Fixer trio (Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito). Can Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) keep up with rapid fire move-for-move exchange? Listen to find out and then stick aro...

It's a double conclusion for LMTYS as the Samoa Joe trilogy of five-star matches ends, at the same time it's the final of the twenty-two five star matches for his opponent, and obvious inspiration, Kenta Kobashi. In front of a rabid crowd in New York, the Japanese legend is given a reaction that greatly surprises him and inspires him to have the best possible match. He couldn't have chosen a bette...

It's the one and only entry in this series that came from the second biggest US promotion for around ten years. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross) are here to discuss the only triple threat/three way dance match on this list and why those types of matches, as prevelant as they now are, only claimed one perfect score, and why it was this one match for the X-Division championship. Hosted...

Seven years after Dave Meltzer awarded five stars to the first ever WWF Hell in a Cell match, he gave the perfect score to a match in a very different environment. Two-and-a-half years into its existence, and Ring of Honor had come to be synonymous as the crown jewel promotion on the US indy scene. The promotion's two top stars of the time were a couple of hungry young competitors by the names of...

After finally claiming the position of ace in NOAH, Kenta Kobashi already has the heir apparent snapping at his heels as he makes his tenth defence of the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Jun Akiyama at the Tokyo Dome where he had won the title from Misawa previously. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here once again to assess the match and reflect on the slightly less promin...