Dragon Gate “Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2013” (7/21/2013) ~ Kobe, Japan
A truly fascinating show, and one that perfectly sums up Dragon Gate. On a great match level, this has it too. YAMATO vs. Mochizuki is a really heated little fight. Masato Yoshino and K-Ness predictable tore the house down, despite some of that DG Brain Sickness. The Open the Twin Gate match between the MAD BLANKEY standard bearer team of Tozawa & ...
NJPW “Wrestle Kingdom 7” (1/4/2013) ~ Tokyo, Japan
The Dome Show rarely ever hits as well as this. The trick is that there isn’t really a wasted spot on the show, outside of “only” giving out Togi Makabe as Shibata’s first singles opponent back and not having more for Karl and Goto to do than loser to the mediocre Killer Elite Squad. The show works so well for the same reason that New Japan was at ...
PWG “All Star Weekend 9 Night One” (3/22/2013) ~ Reseda, California
In the first show after El Generico’s departure and the formal end of PWG’s absolute peak, the great plateau of 2013 through 2015 starts off real strongly. It’s that same rule again. Have two of the best matches of the year on one show, and it’s worth considering. Have two of the best matches of the year on one show, and a a lot of fun stuff undern...
WWE “Smackdown #745” (11/29/2013) ~ Uncasville, Connecticut
The best episode of wrestling television of the year, and for several of them before it. It’s one of my favorite televised wrestling experiences ever. The first hour is standard WWE b show stuff. You get some simple showcase matches. Titus O’Neil throws up on JBL. You know, the classics. The magic in this is primarily in the last hour. It’s a spraw...
NJPW “Kizuna Road 2013 Day Nine” (7/20/2013) ~ Akita, Japan
Quietly, this was one of the best top to bottom New Japan shows of their banner year. It’s a picture perfect exhibition of what worked so well about New Japan in this 2012-2015 high golden age, which is how much they had to offer. If you want your big moves epic title match, this show has it in the second ever Shinsuke Nakamura vs. La Sombra title ...
NJPW “G1 Climax 23 Day Four” (8/4/2013) ~ Osaka, Japan
This is a famous one, and one that I think we all knew would be on here. It might be overrated at this point, it’s not the perfect wrestling show. But what it happens to be is a near perfect display of tournament style wrestling. There are six different great matches on this show, two of them among the top twenty five of the year, and they’re all p...
NJPW “Invasion Attack 2013” (4/7/2013) ~ Tokyo, Japan
If that was the platonic ideal of a G1 show, this is the platonic ideal of a Sumo Hall show. It isn’t just all these great matches underneath the one you know about. Before the big angle that births the most famous stable of the decade, Apollo 55’s challenge against The Time Splitters is a real blast. Laughter7 against Yuji Nagata and Hirooki Goto ...
WWE “Summerslam 2013” (8/18/2013) ~ Los Angeles, California
Another major show that managed to be both great and important. The card here is great. The only bad matches are your token pre-2015 WWE womens match and a very silly RING OF FIRE match that was like an Inferno Match, but you could win in a regular fashion and nobody was even lit on fire. Otherwise, it’s an exceptional card. Christian once again ge...
PWG “Ddt4 2013” (1/12/2013) ~ Reseda, California
Fittingly, the Obama era company begins his second term by saying goodbye to its heart and soul. Once again, PWG does it and produces not simply the show of the year as it did in 2012 or one of the most important shows of the decade as it did in 2011. Instead, it simply produces one of the all around best shows of the era and one of the most emotio...
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