What I'd like to do is have everyone who ever reviews shows or matches make a post in this thread. Everytime you rate a match as *** or more, edit it into your list and keep a track of them. Then by at the end of the year, we'll have a great source when it comes to putting together a match of the year list.

I'll start mine with the next post, though I'd like to see the rest of you do the same.

And if Scrooge likes the idea, maybe he could pin this :D

Kane vs Shawn Michaels (1/2/06 Raw) ***1/4
Chris Benoit vs Randy Orton (1/13/06 Smackdown) ***
Kurt Angle vs Shawn Michaels (1/16/06 Raw) ***1/2
Edge vs Ric Flair (1/16/06 Raw) ***
Shawn Michaels vs Shelton Benjamin (1/23/06 Raw) ***1/2
Chris Benoit vs Randy Orton (1/27/06 Smackdown) ***3/4
The Naturals vs. Austin Aries and Roderick Strong (2/12/06 Against All Odds) ***
America's Most Wanted vs Chris Sabin and Sonjay Dutt (2/12/06 Against All Odds) ***1/4
Rhino vs Abyss (2/12/06 Against All Odds) ***1/2
Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles (2/12/06 Against All Odds) ***1/2
Jeff Jarrett vs Christian Cage (2/12/06 Against All Odds) ***1/4
Kurt Angle vs Undertaker (2/19/06 No Way Out) ***1/4
Kurt Angle vs Undertaker (3/3/06 Smackdown) ***1/2
Alex Shelley vs Jay Lethal (3/12/06 Destination X) ***1/4
Puma vs Sonjay Dutt vs Chris Sabin vs Petey Williams (3/12/06 Destination X) ***3/4
AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels (3/12/06 Destination X) ***
Kurt Angle, Randy Orton, and Rey Mysterio vs MNM and Mark Henry (3/17/06 Smackdown) ***
Rob Van Dam vs Finlay vs Ric Flair vs Matt Hardy vs Bobby Lashley vs Shelton Benjamin (4/2/06 WrestleMania XXII) ***1/2
Chris Benoit vs John Bradshaw Layfield (4/2/06 WrestleMania XXII) ***
Mick Foley vs Edge (4/2/06 WrestleMania XXII) ***3/4
John Cena vs Triple H (4/2/06 WrestleMania XXII) ****
Christopher Daniels vs Samoa Joe (4/13/06 iMPACT!) ****
JBL vs Chris Benoit (4/14/06 Smackdown!) ***1/2
Kurt Angle vs Randy Orton (4/14/06 Smackdown!) ***
Rob Van Dam vs Shelton Benjamin (4/30/06 Backlash) ***1/2
John Cena vs Triple H vs Edge (4/30/06 Backlash) ****
Bobby Lashley vs Finlay (5/12/06 Smackdown!) ***
MNM vs Paul London and Brian Kendrick (5/21/06 Judgment Day) ***1/4
Chris Benoit vs Finlay (5/21/06 Judgment Day) ****1/4
Rey Mysterio vs John Bradshaw Layfield (5/21/06 Judgment Day) ***1/4
Rey Mysterio vs John Bradshaw Layfield (5/23/06 Smackdown!) ***1/2
Rey Mysterio vs Kurt Angle (5/30/06 Smackdown!) ***
Rey Mysterio vs Finlay (6/6/06 Smackdown!) ***
John Cena vs. Rob Van Dam (6/11/06 ECW One Night Stand) ***3/4
Senshi vs Sonjay Dutt vs Shark Boy vs Alex Shelley vs Jay Lethal (6/18/06 Slammiversary) ***1/2
Kurt Angle vs Rob Van Dam (6/27/06 ECW) ***1/4
Rob Van Dam vs John Cena vs Edge (7/3/06 Raw) ***
Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. Jamie Noble and Kid Kash (7/23/06 Great American Bash) ***
Gregory Helms vs. Matt Hardy (7/23/06 Great American Bash) ***1/2
Edge, Randy Orton, and Lita vs John Cena, Carlito, and Trish Stratus (9/4/06 Raw) ***
Rey Mysterio vs. Ken Kennedy (9/15/06 Smackdown) ***1/4
Bobby Lashley vs. Finlay (9/15/06 Smackdown) ***
Johnny Nitro vs. Carlito vs. Randy Orton vs. Super Crazy vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Masters (9/18/06 Raw) ***
Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly (9/26/06 ECW) ***1/2
Gregory Helms vs. Matt Hardy (10/8/06 No Mercy) ***3/4
Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. KC James and Idol Stevens (10/8/06 No Mercy) ***
Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero (10/8/06 No Mercy) ***1/2
Chris Benoit vs. William Regal (10/8/06 No Merch) ****

Don't you think it'd be safe to say **** or more?

Not with the current crop of WWE matches. :D *** is a nice round rating for a really good match, especially for free T.V.

Pinned!

And here's my on-going list for 2006...


1. Kane vs. Shawn Michaels - *** (1/2/06 Raw)
2. Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton - ***1/2 (1/13/06 Smackdown)
3. Shawn Michaels vs. Shelton Benjamin - *** (1/23/06 Raw)
4. Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton - ***1/4 (1/27/06 Smackdown)
5. Ric Flair vs. Triple H - *** (2/6/06 Raw)
6. Kurt Angle vs. Rey Mysterio - *** (3/31/06 Smackdown)
7. MNM vs. London/Kendrick - *** (4/7/06 Smackdown)
8. Chris Benoit vs. JBL - ***1/2 (4/14/06 Smackdown)
9. Matt Hardy vs. Booker T - *** (4/21/06 Smackdown)

Exactly. I don't envision myself seeing too many pay-per-views this year, so *** tv matches may just be my niche for 2006.

What's with the love for HBK/Kane? Has WWE put on so many bad matches lately, that THIS is considered good?

That is a retorical question by the way. It was slow and plodding and the only thing that made it decent was the "HBK can't use the superkick" story. Without that, it's boring as hell.

Anyway, I'll try and bring the ROH and Puro luv to this thread...

That's the thing with 3-star matches, it's hard to give a real explanation why. I just enjoyed it for a free TV match, and my bias is canceled out, because I really hate HBK (duh) and really like Kane (duh x2).

Batista/Rey Mysterio vs. MNM : Steel Cage - Jan. 6
Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam - June 27

Cena/Angle was better than Michaels/Kane, and that wasn't *** either. So in 2006 so far I'd say Benoit/Orton and Batista/Rey vs MNM were at that level.

Cena/Angle wasn't good. It was Angle doing a million suplexes and the crowd boo'ing Cena out of the building.

Oh no, it wasn't good but it was just a fun, solid match. Angle throwing his suplexes was good, Daivari interfering always made sense since he's Angle's manager and Cena did a good blade job at the end. This match really should've been given more time.

Judging from crowd reactions, it shouldn't have happend at all. On my personal scale of rating, the match constantly hovered between * (Cen'as offense) and ** (Angle), so call it *1/2. Cena's shit is old and boring (and out-dated. This is 2006, not 1986), and Angle really didn't do much to make it a good match. Just the usual.

You had me until there. Not sure what you meant exactly.

He wrestles as if he were going by 1986 standards of wrestling. You know, punch punch punch slam punch fist drop punch punch slam firemans carry punch.

That's pretty much Cena's entire moveset, and he does it with no emotion, except for his stupid five-knuckle shuffle crap. That's almost as bad as the People's Elbow, but at least he never pinned someone with it. Yet.

I still don't get people's obsessions with the idea of a "move set"; save move set for CAW, but not for real wrestling matches. Sometimes you can have wrestlers with a great move set who are still bad wrestlers because they can't tell a story during the match.

Cena can't tell a story and has a pathetic moveset, so he loses either way. A firemans carry slam hasn't been a credible finishing move since Mike Rotundo used it (except he combined it with an airplane spin), and Cena is actually beating everyone with it.

I think if you're gonna wrestle 20+ minute PPV matches every month, it would be a good idea to learn how to wrestle. Punching people is as basic as you can get, especially if you do it all the time.

But what about the days when a finisher could have been a suplex, fisherman suplex, sleeper hold, back-breaker, bear hug, elbow drop, leg drop, lariat, et cetera. Aren't those credible moves? I think the F-U is ahead of some of those moves. As long as Cena drops with his finisher, it looks like a great impact hit against the mat.

Maybe if Cena weren't 6'1" and 240 lbs., I might buy that move as a finisher. But it would work much better with a hoss like Mark Henry. Cena should just use some gay suplex. :D

If only they would call it......the "gay suplex".

Joey Styles: "Release gay suplex from Cena, no bridge, all impact."

That literally made me laugh out loud.

Uhhh, Aries/Strong/Shelley v Styles/Daniels/Sabin from 1/7/06 Impact. I'll go ***.

CRAAAAAAAAAP! I forgot to tape Impact this past week to see that. :(

If it makes you feel better, I forgot to tape it too.


Hopefully when TNA does a Best of the X-Division Vol. 2, it will be on it.

HA-HA!!! :lol:

It probably won't make a best-of. It just wasn't long enough. But go check out pwtorrents. I bet it is on there somewhere.

For WWE so far it's...

1. Batista/Rey Mysterio vs. MNM - SmackDown! 1/6/06
2. Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton - SmackDown! 1/13/06

I have that Rey/Bastista vs MNM match on tape somewhere and I have been meaning to watch it.

I can't say for sure, but it sounded like a match I would have enjoyed.

Edge/Flair TLC and Angle/Michaels IV were both ***, I'd say.

I edited both of those into my list in the second post.








Which is what I'm hoping everyone else is doing.

Really? They were good, but ***?

Yep.

Angle/Michaels IV was, not Edge/Flair. So far in WWE it's...

1. Batista/Rey Mysterio vs. MNM - SmackDown! 1/6/06
2. Chris Benoit vs. Randy Orton - SmackDown! 1/13/06
3. Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels - Raw 1/16/06

Finally got around to watching Benoit/Orton from last week's Smackdown, and on first viewing, I'd probably put it at ***1/2. I disagree with giving Angle/HBK a ***+ rating, since commercials butchered the match (only went about 15:00 with 2 breaks), and it was rest-heavy IIRC.

Yep, Orton/Benoit's the best match I've seen so far this year. Awesome matwork, Benoit bringing the moveset (fisherman's suplex bridge, anyone?), and Orton bumping his ass off along with his great selling and facial expressions. Probably Orton's best match ever, including his one with Foley. ***1/4 I'd say.

Angle/Michaels seemed like the finish of a PPV match, with tons of reversals/playing off other spots, without the beginning part of the match that their PPV matches have had. However the reversals seemed a lot cleaner this time and it looks like they developed quite the chemistry. ***

Edge/Flair was a lot better than I was expecting. They didn't go too overkill aside from the three main bumps (splash off ladder thru table, superplex off ladder, Edge falling off the ladder thru the table) but take those three parts out and it's just weapon shots. Finish was pretty bad too. A fucking punch knocks Flair off the ladder? Still decent for a TLC match involving Ric Fucking Flair. ***

Scrooge, I guess you'd just cream yourself to watch a match with complete non-stop action as it looks like resting REALLY fucks up a match for you. It was a lot more fun than Kane/Michaels from a couple of weeks ago which was really boring, and a match that you consider good.

I didn't like Edge/Flair too much, but I'll admit it was one of Flair's better performances since coming back to the company 4 years ago. It was good how he worked the climbing spot at the end of the match, eventhough some say it was bad that he was moving so slow but that was the purpose of the spot.

I guess you missed the "commercials" part. 6 minutes of commercials during a 15 minute period hurts a match, no matter how good. It interupts the flow of a match, and it wasn't that good to begin with. It was like the first and last 5 minutes of a big 30 minute match.

Did anyone watch NYR? If so, would you call any *** matches on there?

Probably not. the only match that probably did was HHH/Show, or MAYBE Trish/Mickie, but with WWE's Women's Division, those ratings are very rare indeed.