In chronological order, here's what made the list including some notes from the corresponding Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. This match was a classic and fantastic climax to the tournament, which wasn’t easy since the semifinals were so great and the every round had great matches. This was one of the best matches of the year.

It was like a cross between PWG with the brutality of one of the A-Kid classics in Spain. "Kazuchika Okada captured the 2019 New Japan Cup and as expected, will headline Madison Square Garden on 4/6 and challenge Jay White for the IWGP heavyweight title.

He has also written for the Oakland Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! Twitter. July 19, 2019. 12 matches earned Dave Meltzer's five star rating in 2019, dominated by (you guessed it) New Japan Pro Wrestling. But they had an absolutely insane spot where Ospreay was sitting on the barricade when Lee hit him with a tope and both went flying over the announcers table, talking former wrestler Milano Collection A.T out with them. NJPW G1 Climax 30 night seven results: Ishii vs. Takagi, New Japan Cup night nine results: Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay, PWG BOLA night three results: The 2019 champion is crowned, AEW Dynamite anniversary show live results: Four title matches, WWE NXT live results: North American title on the line, Daily Update: AEW anniversary, Dan the Dad-The Collective, Ryan Smile, Two matches added to WWE NXT, Toni Storm set for action, Ember Moon sit-down interview announced for WWE NXT, Updated NJPW G1 Climax 30 standings and scenarios, NJPW G1 Climax 30 night 16 results: Tanahashi vs. SANADA, October 27, 2003 Observer Newsletter: Deaths of Stu Hart and Road Warrior Hawk, Four matches set for BFG go-home edition of Impact Wrestling, Impact Wrestling results: Madman Fulton vs. Doc Gallows. This was about as good of a 12:00 match as you could possibly see. But it felt like a match that viewed live would be one of those matches that you would never forgot that you were at. His success as a wrestling writer has helped strengthen the media's role in covering professional wrestling. "The match was probably the most emotional match in North America since maybe the Atlantis vs. Ultimo Guerrero mask match at the 2014 CMLL anniversary show. September 22, 2019. Dave Meltzer's pro wrestling evaluation process, wherein he uses a five-point rating system to critically analyze matches and rank them in order of these ratings, is one of the most interesting talking points in the wrestling world. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart at Summerslam 1994 received the top honors, while the journalist also awarded a full five stars to C.M Punk vs. John Cena at Money in the Bank 2011. There have been multiple Meltzer-rated 5-star matches in WWE in the past. Tons of dives and moves that nobody had ever seen before. ", David Starr vs. Jordan Devlin | OTT It had super wrestling, super flying, insane spots, two super charismatic guys, and a crowd going nuts. The whole building was in tears in a way that may happen every few years in Mexico, on occasion in Japan, but hasn’t happened in the U.S. for a match in decades. August 4, 2019, "This match was so physical. ", Jon Moxley vs. Tomohiro Ishii | New Japan G1 Climax This was the best show so far in G-1 and one of the best shows of the year. The match got a 5.5 from Meltzer, meaning that it was the first from WWE to have broken his five-star rating system.

June 9, 2019. When it was over, I thought the show should have ended, because nothing could top that. The first-to-third hour drops were significant in every demo, with women 18-49 dropping 26 percent, men 18-49 dropping 13 percent, teenage girls dropping 12 percent, teenage boys dropping 15 percent, and over 50 dropping 11 percent. Blood is very much a debatable issue today. Okada escaped from the kamigoye and used the same cradle he used to beat Jericho and Omega, but Ibushi kicked out. March 24, 2019.

", Will Ospreay vs. Bandido | New Japan Super Juniors Tournament ", Dave Meltzer's 2019 top-rated matches: Cole-Gargano, G1 tourney. Naito got the pin with Destino and afterwards praised Takagi and said that some time we have to do this again. ", Shingo Tagaki vs. Tetsuya Naito | New Japan G1 Climax Fight For the Fallen 2019 - July 13, 2019 Shawn Spears, MJF, & Sammy Guevara vs. Jimmy Havoc, Darby Allin, & Joey Janela *** The Dark Order vs. Jack Evans & Angelico vs.

Okada vs. SANADA | New Japan Cup Finals ", Okada vs. SANADA | New Japan G1 Climax "Between the fantastic video building the match where Starr champions the independent scene against Devlin having signed with WWE, and Devlin taunting back saying that Starr has attended multiple WWE tryouts and only has this attitude because WWE won’t take him.

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Even though Cody was the spiritual leader, his working heel style worked for the match because for it to work, Dustin had to be the sympathetic character. Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus ***1/2 August 3, 2019, "This broke the record-setting G-1 unbeaten streak of 13 matches dating back to last year.

July 18, 2019, "The story here is both were injured legit. As 2019 comes to an end, let us revisit the WWE matches Dave Meltzer awarded more than a full five stars this year: During the lead up to WrestleMania 35, NXT blessed the wrestling world with one of the finest WWE PPVs in a long time. Cody then said, “I don’t need a partner, I don’t need a friend, I need my older brother.” That was it. May 23, 2019, "To me, this was the match of the tournament so far.

May 25, 2019. Black Taurus/Laredo Kid/Puma King vs. Bandido/Flamita/Rey Horus | PWG 16th Anniversary Show

This was nothing but big moves like futuristic Lucha Libre. The idea was to tease going the 30:00 but at no point was this telegraphed or did they slow down to pace or stall for a long match. It was an incredible match that, because of the timing of the pinfall and the drama of using the time, made a great match classic. It was a nine percent drop from last week with lesser competition, with significant losses in every hour. I’d go ***** for this one and I think it’s the rare kind of a match that will appeal to every kind of fan except the ones who need great production values or they won’t accept it. The big pop was when Bandido finally got his 21 plex on Ospreay, he landed on his feet and hit a Spanish fly. The emotion of Sanada beating Okada when everyone was convinced they were going to a draw was evident as they showed the fans in the front row and women all had tears in their eyes. The only other shows finishing lower were on this past Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Evil Uno vs. Blade, WWE announces North American title match for NXT, Number one contender's tag match set for WWE NXT, Daily Update: RETRIBUTION, Natalya, Britt Baker.

WWE Raw draws third-worst ratings of 2019 By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Oct 29, 2019 2:08 pm. The show did 2.13 million viewers on average, barely beating the September 9 episode this year and the June 10 episode against the NBA finals.

A Raw episode built around the Rusev and Lana marriage split angle last night ended up doing the third-worst non-holiday number in the modern history of the show. Magic shows and sh*t shows; the bizarre fascination of modern WWE, distilled. A Raw episode built around the Rusev and Lana marriage split angle last night ended up doing the third-worst non … All WWE matches in 2019 Dave Meltzer ranked more than a full five stars. ", Dragon Lee vs. Will Ospreay | New Japan Dominion


"Ospreay beat Lee to follow his Super Juniors tournament win with an IWGP jr. title win, clearly making him the star of the division. Naito used a brainbuster but Takagi came back with a sick lariat. WOR: RAW, AEW, New Japan, Moxley, tons more! 1 / 3 NEXT Published 22 Dec 2019, 21:04 IST Raw was 13th for the night on cable, also far lower than usual. These are the top 10 rated Wrestling Matches of 2019 so far! Football hurt, as it does all fall, but that's not the excuse since the Pittsburgh Steelers-Miami Dolphins game did 9.98 million viewers, the lowest Monday game so far this season. ", Kazuchika Okada vs. Kota Ibushi | New Japan G1 Climax Ibushi got the pin after two Kamagoyes. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but would say it was the best PWG match I’ve seen since The Young Bucks & Adam Cole vs. Will Ospreay & Matt Sydal & Ricochet many years back, and would be among the best U.S. bouts of the past decade. But it was so good with the fight feel that you would love the match not knowing the background, like the pro wrestling version of Corrales/Castillo (one of the great boxing fights ever which was one of those fights that even people who didn’t know either fighter ended up in awe of) or Zombie-Leonard Garcia in MMA. So from a crazy athletic standpoint, it was not as good as their Tokyo Dome match, but for drama and story telling it was much better. WWE Elimination Chamber 2019: Star Ratings For All 7 Matches. "Having been in the same spot nearly 31 years earlier for the famous Flair-Steamboat match in Chicago, where, at the finish, everyone around us proclaimed it as the greatest match they had ever seen, when this was over, my reaction was, it was better than Flair-Steamboat in every way except the historical aspect of seeing a “real” world title change in an era when that meant something.
August 10, 2019, "Then, in what was the spot of the tournament, Ibushi ran in with the Bom Ba Ye and out of nowhere, Okada dropkicked him. NXT TakeOver: New York received universal acclaim for its high-class wrestling and for beautifully delivering the narrative. David Allen Meltzer (born October 24, 1959) is an American journalist and sports historian who reports on professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.. July 26, 2019, "The 7/26 show still drew a sellout crowd of more than 600 fans and featured an incredible match that some were talking was the best in the history of the company with Bandido & Flamita & Rey Horus beating Laredo Kid & Black Taurus & Puma King. Cody won, but it wasn’t over.