Match Of The Year Podcast

The match that should have won the 1996 Match of the Year, and one that changed the WWF forever!

The final of the 3 Michaels-Taker Match of the Year matches, and the final match in Michaels' career. It's an impressive match that closed out this amazing feud!

A look at the important aspects of the Michaels vs. Undertaker matches that took Match of the Year in various forms in 1997, 2009, and 2010.

The first-ever Hell in the Cell, featuring the first bump off the cage through a table performed by Michaels, and the storyline that is was a part of!

The Wrestling Observer Match of the Year for 2009 between Shawn Michaels and Undertaker where 'Taker takes a bad bump and the two tell an amazing story!

We're looking at the biggest-drawing match in English wrestling history between The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith and The Hitman Bret Hart from SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium.

So, after re-watching Mick Foley's destruction in the most brutal match of all-time, I recorded an emotional episode that looks at it as a cultural artifact with an impressive depth of impact.

Here we go, giving out our own awards! We talk about the year's bests, and somehow manage to not duplicate ANY other major awards...

The most famous Match of the Year ever, as far as I'm concerned. Arguably the best American match of the 1980s, and perhaps one of the ten best to this day!

One of the most lauded matches of all-time - Rey Misterio and Edge take on Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the World Tag Team titles in an incredible match from WWE's No Way out 2002! It's on the WWE Network, but the SmackDown! Re-match between the teams is well-worth watching!

The best WWF matches ever? Maybe. We look at the two Match of the Year winners (Wrestling Observer Newsletter, RSPW, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated winner 1994, RSPW winner 1995) and what they meant to the future of wrestling.

The third of the three Ring of Honor Match of the Year winners is Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima for the RoH World Title. Chris looks at various reasons why this might be the perfect Match of the Year for him! Thrill to the hard-hitting description of Morishima as the hybrid of Stan Hansen and Terry Gordy! Enjoy Chris totally misremembering things! You can see the match at ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Zms-3xXg0

Recorded in the back of a Google Self-Driving Car, it's the episode of Match of the Year Podcast that looks at the Dragon Gate six-man tag match from 2006 that won the WON Match of the Year. Chris talks about it, about how it probably wasn't the best Six-man/Japanese-Lucha hybrid, and why you need to look at TNA for what was the best of 2006. You can find the match at https://vimeo.com/109053397 And you can find other great 2006 matches at ​https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhbVYaAanIR9DYvCfms9fH2MwHPosvl6y

A look at a match that SHOULD have won every Match of the Year for 1985: Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard in the I Quit Cage match at Starrcade 1985!

Ring of Honor's 2005 classic between Samoa Joe and Pro Wrestling NOAH legend Kenta Kobashi! We use this as a jumping on point to discuss what wrestling means to smarts, how match of the year is dealt with, when wrestlers are awesome, and the careers of these two amazing performers! You can see the match at ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZNiNWKC5jY

Arguably the most important series of matches of the 1980s, Tiger Mask vs. Dynamite Kid is legendary, and we talk about these two guys' careers, the feud, the drugs, the 'roids, the way they changed wrestling, the people they inspired, and the ideas behind it. We've also put together a YouTube Playlist for Tiger Mask! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhbVYaAanIR-_ZeFFb6YCj3yjVsC1pBuZ

The only Lucha match to ever win the Observer Match of the year, we look at the real world of Lucha, what makes Lucha Lucha, why the mask matters, and so much more! You can see the match at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nB09BVj4Ww and a Best of Lucha Heavyweights at ​https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhbVYaAanIR8uTFb_EYoKkvSix9-hE8Cl