by Muscle Temple
This Is Awesome is an informal research project with no methodology asking the question: What makes a great pro wrestling match and why? We watch the best wrestling matches of all time, suggested by you, and then we show it to a non-fan to see if it holds up!
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February 28, 2023
<p>Our rewind series comes to a close with the match that sits atop the STAR rating board. We are of course talking about the final episode from season 3, Kazuchika Okada with Gedo vs Kenny Omega with the Brothers Jackson for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. </p> <p>The match that famously caused Big Dave to turn that star dial all the way to six for the first time in a long time and collectively melted the minds of every fan watching Wrestle Kingdom 11. </p> <p>We want to thank you once again for joining us on this Rewind series as we looked back into our TIA past before we set off into our WGW future with the first episode of season 10. </p> <p>Remember gang, Watch Great Wrestling -- same flavor, new wrapper!</p> <p>[Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada, Wrestle Kingdom 11, January 4 2017]</p>
February 7, 2023
<p>Our TIA Rewind series is nearly over as we look back to the very first episode of the accursed season 9 of This is Awesome and one of the best matches in the history of the original NXT. </p> <p>This is Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate for the NXT UK Championship from NXT TakeOver: Chicago, and features all the joint manipulation and mustache twirling that any warm-blooded wrestling fan could ever desire. </p> <p>It is wild that both of these guys put on this kind of display considering how young they both were. The sky is truly the limit with both performers. </p> <p>[Pete Dunne vs Tyler Bate, NXT TakeOver: Chicago, May 20 2017]</p>
January 30, 2023
<p>Live from Comiskey Park in Chicago, it is a 2 out of 3 falls contest for the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship and the season 5 entry in our TIA Rewind series!</p> <p>"Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers takes on champion Pat O'Connor. Don't let the black and white or the fact that this match is from 1961 but feels like it is from 1941 - this is practically a Cover Girl match. If you skipped it the first time we released this don't make same mistake twice. Incredibly watchable even 60+ years later.</p> <p>And, because we're shameless, who better to discuss the "Match of the Century" that ends with one of the most infamous botches in pro wrestling history than Maffew Gregg of Botchamania.</p> <p>If you're looking for a bite sized discussion of this mat classic, look elsewhere. We talk too much.</p> <p>[Buddy Rogers vs Pat O'Connor, June 30 1961]</p>
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This Is Awesome is an informal research project with no methodology asking the question: What makes a great pro wrestling match and why?
We watch the best wrestling matches of all time, suggested by you, and then we show it to a non-fan to see if it holds up!
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