This is a discussion on DVDR Best Puro Matches of 2000 within the Independent Wrestling forums, part of the Wrestling Forums category; I hope this isn't not allowed...
At another board I venture we did a project to find the best puro ...
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At another board I venture we did a project to find the best puro matches of 2000. It involved a good few months of watching, voting, discussing and finally sending in ballots. Overall it was a fun project to participate in. I am posting these here and at a few other boards in hope that it will encourage people to check out a few matches because there are some genuine classics here.
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1. Kawada & Fuchi vs Nagata & Iizuka, New Japan December 14th, 16 votes, 435 points
2. Sasaki vs Kawada, New Japan October 9th, 15 votes, 433 points
3. Misawa vs Akiyama, All Japan February 27th, 16 votes, 383 points
4. Kobashi vs Akiyama, NOAH December 23rd, 14 votes, 286 points
5. Kawada & Tenryu vs Hansen & Kea, All Japan July 23rd, 14 votes, 284 points
6. Kobashi vs Omori, All Japan April 15th, 12 votes, 221 points
7. Kawada vs Tenryu, All Japan October 28th, 12 votes, 200 points
8. Kobashi vs Takayama, All Japan May 26th, 11 votes, 195 points
9. Liger, Tanaka & Makabe vs Delfin, Murahama & Tsubasa, New Japan December 14th, 11 votes, 171 points
10. SUWA vs Dragon Kid, Toryumon August 24th, 12 votes, 166 points
11. Kobashi vs Akiyama, NOAH August 6th, 11 votes, 145 points
12. Hashimoto & Iizuka vs Ogawa & Murakami, New Japan January 4th, 9 votes, 140 points
13. Tenryu vs Sasaki, New Japan January 4th, 10 votes, 135 points
14. Ishikawa vs Murakami, Battlarts November 26th, 8 votes, 128 points
15. Kanemoto & Tanaka vs Liger & Makabe, New Japan September 12th, 11 votes, 120 points
16. Vader vs Kobashi, All Japan February 27th, 7 votes, 108 points
17. Sano vs Tanaka, Battlarts January 30th, 7 votes, 102 points
18. Misawa vs Kawada, All Japan March 31st, 5 votes, 77 points
19. Vader vs Kawada, All Japan February 17th, 8 votes, 71 points
20. Mita, Shimoda & Maekawa vs Ito, Nakanishi & Takahashi, AJW November 23rd, 3 votes, 62 points
21. Tanaka vs AKIRA, New Japan December 10th, 7 votes, 60 points
22. Kobashi vs Kawada, All Japan January 12th, 3 votes, 58 points
23. Chono vs Fuchi, All Japan September 2nd, 4 votes, 56 points
24. Tenzan & Kojima vs Nagata & Iizuka, New Japan November 30th, 6 votes, 55 points
25. Kong vs Satomura, GAEA May 16th, 2 votes, 50 points
26. Kobashi vs Misawa, All Japan April 11th, 4 votes, 49 points
27. Kanemura vs Yamakawa, BJPW February 22nd, 3 votes, 44 points
28. Kobashi & Akiyama vs Misawa & Taue, NOAH August 5th, 3 votes, 43 points
29. Yamakawa vs Honma, BJPW January 2nd, 4 votes, 42 points
30. Kong vs KAORU, GAEA February 13th, 2 votes, 41 points
In total, 83 matches were nominated. Whilest I had naturally disagreed with a few placements, it's still a really great representation of the year and it's best matches. Kawada was undoubtably the best worker in the world in 2000, and Kobashi, Akiyama and Vader all had great years too. I would say the top five atleast are all must-see.
So... yeah. Even if posting this encourages just one person to seek out a match, that would be good.
Is this the list from Death Valley? It was an all right year for puro, but definitely nothing like the preceding years (or some of the years that would follow). Akiyama was really coming into his own at this point in time, so I'm glad to see that he got a nice showing in this poll. I've always been a fan of Kawada, but, unfortunately, I don't think any matches of his in 2000 were as significant as his being the only major holdout during the NOAH exodus. But, it's a good list.
Kawada's matches were pretty significant in terms of keeping All Japan afloat after the split. They did pretty big business for both AJ and NJ. From an in-ring perspective, he had an incredible year. Easily the best match of Sasaki's career and it was because Kawada held his hand through it, and the tag which is #1 (which I didn't think was that good... only my #4) is the best thing Nagata and Iizuka have done and the best Fuchi match since the early '90s.
I agree Akiyama was fucking great that year too. Both his singles with Kobashi were great and I had the Misawa match as my #1.
Pretty good list. Out of that list I think I've only seen like five or six of those matches. Going to have to check out some of the other ones! Cool post!
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