Aug 4, 2019 I have a running list I’ll post at the end of all the best matches for anyone interested Looks like we are the only three watching though
Aug 9, 2019 Pretty safe to say this tournament is better than last years or 2017 Which is f---ing insane since we still have more to go 2019 is the best year ever in pro wrestling
Aug 9, 2019 Dave said we are desensitized to good wrestling and he’s absoljtely right The fact that njpw can put on this many A-tier matches in one month and everyone doesn’t lose their minds makes no sense at all
Aug 9, 2019 It all comes down to the finals, but we have said this each of the last three years. We are in a golden age and have been watching the business change before our eyes.
Aug 9, 2019 He told a story about how he and Mike Tenay would talk about how if a four star match happened in the old days, you would talk about it for weeks and watch it multiple times. Now nobody gives a s--- because there's great matches every week.
Aug 10, 2019 Tana/Ospreay and Ibushi/Okada are probably both in my top 5 for the tournament. Unbelievable top two matches.
Aug 11, 2019 I was disappointed in both the match and result last night, which means it worked. Big test for Jay tonight.
Aug 12, 2019 Incredible final. Best angle I've ever seen in the Ishii/Kenta six man. Awesome tag in the semi. Three years of this awesome company gone by in a flash. It won't always be this way, enjoy it
Aug 12, 2019 Incredible final. Best angle I've ever seen in the Ishii/Kenta six man. Awesome tag in the semi. Three years of this awesome company gone by in a flash. It won't always be this way, enjoy it
Aug 12, 2019 Incredible final. Best angle I've ever seen in the Ishii/Kenta six man. Awesome tag in the semi. Three years of this awesome company gone by in a flash. The best there's ever been. It won't always be this way, enjoy it.
Aug 12, 2019 Was just going to watch the main but Big Dave's Twitter has me convinced to watch the whole show, starting it now
Aug 14, 2019 @NJPWBros Here is my comprehensive list of the best matches throughout G1 2019. Some of these I kept track of and rated the night of, while others I forgot and went back to add them, so hopefully I didn’t forget anything and hopefully there are no repeats. I had 19 4.5+ star matches, so I ordered them with my favorite being #1, my second favorite #2, etc. Everything past 19 is not in order. The matches from around 11/10 to 1 are absolute must see in my mind but really the top 19 are all incredible(!) matches. 20-37 are awesome matches, and the fact that I thought 17 MORE matches where greater than 4* speaks to the massive amount of high quality wrestling here. 38-42 are odds and bits I had wrote down for whatever reason. Everything > 4* should be comprehensive, everything under is not. There were too many good wrestling matches around 4* to ever keep track of. 1. Will Ospreay vs Kazuchika Okada 5* 2. Kota Ibushi vs Will Ospreay 5* 3. Tomohiro Ishii vs Shingo Takagi 4.75* 4. Tomohiro Ishii vs Jon Moxley 4.75* 5. Kazuchika Okada vs Kota Ibushi 4.75* 6. Tetsuya Naito vs Shingo Takagi 4.75* 7. Kazuchika Okada vs SANADA 4.75* 8. Kota Ibushi vs Jay White 4.75* 9. Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi 4.5* 10. Will Ospreay vs Hiroshi Tanahashi 4.5* 11. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Kota Ibushi 4.5* 12. Will Ospreay vs SANADA 4.5* 13. Tomohiro Ishii vs Jay White 4.5* 14. Zack Sabre Jr vs SANADA 4.5* 15. Will Ospreay vs Zack Sabre Jr 4.5* 16. Tomohiro Ishii vs Tetsuya Naito 4.5* 17. Tomohiro Ishii vs Jeff Cobb 4.5* 18. Jay White vs Tetsuya Naito 4.5* 19. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs KENTA 4.5* 20. Juice Robinson vs Tomohiro Ishii 4.25* 21. Kazuchika Okada vs KENTA 4.25* 22. Jon Moxley vs Shingo Takagi 4.25* 23. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs SANADA 4.25* 24. Will Ospreay vs KENTA 4.25* 25. Kota Ibushi vs SANADA 4.25* 26. Will Ospreay vs EVIL 4.25* 27. Tetsuya Naito vs Hirooki Goto 4.25* 28. KENTA vs Zack Sabre Jr 4.25* 29. Kazuchika Okada vs Zack Sabre Jr 4.25* 30. Lance Archer vs Will Ospreay 4.25* 31. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Zack Sabre Jr 4.25* 32. EVIL vs Kota Ibushi 4.25* 33. Shingo Takagi vs Jeff Cobb 4.25* 34. Kota Ibushi vs Zack Sabre Jr 4.25* 35. Tomohiro Ishii vs Hirooki Goto 4.25* 36. Kazuchika Okada vs EVIL 4.25* 37. Taichi vs Tomohiro Ishii 4.25* 38. Juice Robinson vs Shingo Takagi 4* 39. EVIL vs SANADA 4* 40. Jon Moxley vs Jay White 4* 41. Hirooki Goto vs Shingo Takagi 4* 42. KENTA vs Kota Ibushi 3.75* In retrospect, what a month. It’s splitting hairs at this point to really compare this G1 to the other two I’ve watched because they’re all so unbelievable it is a shame to try and say one is better than another. The three shows spanning my top 2 matches is the best three day stretch of wrestling I’ve ever watched, outside of maybe the 2017 semi-finals/finals. G1 MVP — it was tough this year and came down to three men. Ishii had 8 matches in my favorite 37. 2 matches in the top 5, and 5 matches in my top 19 overall. He did this while being in the weaker block. Ospreay also had 8 matches within my favorite 37. He was involved in both of my top two highest rated, favorite matches in the tournament. These matches were within days of eachother. He had 3 matches in the top 10, and 5 in the top 19. Okada has 7 matches in my top 37. He was involved in almost half (4) of my top 5 favorite matches of the G1 this year, including my favorite match. Those were his only 4 matches within the top 19. Winner — Will Ospreay
Aug 14, 2019 Can't speak for others, but the month of G1 is always a blur to me. Especially so with my life right now. It's an absolute odyssey. Think about what Big said - He rated NINETEEN matches 4.5 or above. Mine are going to be higher. It's f---ing insanity.
