King Steventon

Let's see if this can get some good discussions...

- Best match(es) of 2007?

- Performer(s) of the year?

- Fued of the year?

- Biggest bomb of the year?

- Which company delivered the most that year?

- Best wrestling moment of 2007?

Any other thoughts on the year that was 2007?


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Tyler Durden

Do you really mean 2007?

I can't even remember half of 2008 in wrestling!

King Steventon

Yeah, lol. I was going to do a new year every week >_>

I'll post mine later..

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Tyler Durden

Ah, good idea.

I'll need to read up some of the 2007 PPV's but will come back to this.

King Steventon

- Best match(es) of 2007?
From the world of WWE, I'd have to say the first couple of months of 2007 were easily the best they had all year. Pretty much all my favourite wwe matches last year came from the spring PPVs. D-X vs Rated RKO, an extremely over-looked and underated match (in the sense it doesn't get much talking about) was at NYR. Even with the fucked up finish, they still put on a hell of a match before it and coped well (somewhat) with HHH's injury. The next PPV, Royal Rumble, gave us one of the best, if not the best Last Man Standing match ever between John Cena and Umaga. Whilest I didn't really care much for the fued or their first match, this intensity and brutality of this match made it a classic. Speaking of Cena, he also put on TWO great matches with Shawn Michaels. Both matches (Wrestlemania and RAW) were fantastic, though I actually prefer the RAW rematch simply because of how surprising it was. But Wrestlemania gave us not one, but two brilliant matches last year. I may be in the minority, but I actually prefered Batista/Undertaker to HBK/Cena. They made it seem like such a big deal even though it wasn't the main event, the crowd heat for the match was insane and Batista pretty much turned his whole career around in that one match. One of the few WM matches where I thought Taker could have actually lost. As for other companys.... TNA... lol fuck all tbh. ROH gave us the incredibly brutal and emotional Jacobs/Whitmer steel cage match. I'd say it's one of the best steel cage matches ever and one of the best ROH matches in recent memory... easily the best match of both men's careers, just incredible. Then there was the epic Briscoes/Motor City Machine Guns match. Some feel it was just overkill, but I feel it was a classic and one of the best tag matches I've ever seen. They built the match up and escalated it to insane levels. Other matches I loved from last year would be the much-praised KENTA/Ishimori vs Marufuji/Ibushi tag match (so much hate and insane-ness), Nagata/Makabe (one of my favourite bloody brawls ever), Nagata/Tanahashi (just fantastic story-telling) and of course Kobashi's incredible return match.

- Performer(s) of the year?
Looking at the matches I named above, only one man really comes to mind. John Cena, despite being booked like a whore, having one of the lamest championship runs in recent memory and being a hated figure of the e-tards managed to be one of the most consistantly great wrestlers around. If it wasn't giving Umaga the best match of his career, it was wrestling a 50 minute classic with Michaels to an awesome fued with Orton. Other worthy mentions would be Bryan Danielson, even though I think some of his matches from last year are overated, I remember any of his matches I didn't enjoy, and Yuji Nagata for simply putting out great matches and carrying some mediocre wrestlers to great matches.

- Fued of the year?
As weird as it sounds, none of my favourite matches came from good fueds. Umaga/Cena, HBK/Cena, Batista/Taker were all pretty bleh fueds that didn't interest me. I think the best fued from last year was actually Benoit/MVP, it was a great example of the newb over-coming the veteran. The thing I liked the most about it was how the story of the fued was told in the ring. In their first matches, Benoit dominated, but as the fued progressed MVP seemed to take over. Their WM match was alllllllllll about MVP learning Benoit's moves and countering them, then at Backlash MVP was in full control of the match but got beat by a veteran-style roll-up, then MVP finally got the better of Benoit and won the title. Runner-up fued would probably be Danielson/Morishima, for the exact same reasons. They only had like four matches together but each one told a different story. First they have a match for the title, then in their second match Morishima destory's Danielson's injured eye, third match was all about Danielson's revenge... then the fourth about Miroshima's revenge. Good stuff.

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