Welcome back to Part Eleven of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this… 1st – 5
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Taiji Ishimori – I frelling loved this year’s Best of the Super Junior tournaments. Collectively, they were some of my favorite matches to watch this year. I feel like this year’s tournament was a real breakout year for El Desperado especially, but honestly, I’m somewhat turned off by the lack of praise and attention that Taiji Ishimori, you know the frelling IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, is getting. Ishimori’s matches were some of my favo
Welcome back to Part Seven of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this… 1st – 5
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Finn Balor – For the record, Pentagon and PAC would both be in the top 5 if they hadn’t missed so much time in AEW due to travel restrictions during the pandemic. Love both of those guys. But for me, Finn’s year felt like Johnny Gargano’s from a year or two ago. He just put on match after match after match. I never cared about Damien Priest… until Finn pulled a great encounter out of him. Never had an affinity for Timothy Thatcher… until he a
Loading. Hamilton’s New Japan World Tag League 2020 & Best of the Super Junior 27 – Night Seventeen (Finals) 12.11.2020 Review
Quick Results
Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale & Taiji Ishimori pinned Robbie Eagles, SHO & Toru Yano in 5:53 ( ½)
Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay pinned Toa Henare, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada in 10:45 ( )
Shingo Takagi & SANADA pinned Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL in 4:58 ( )
Kota Ibushi & Master Wato pinned BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito in 10:06 ( ¼)
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa pinned Juice Robinson & David Finlay in 22:15 to win World Tag League 2020 ( ½)
Hiromu Takahashi pinned El Desperado in 30:14 to win Best of the Super Junior 27 ( )
We’re at Tokyo’s Budokan Hall for the finals, which is going back to the six-match card that worked so well for the bulk of the tour, and we’ve live English commentary from Kevin Kelly, Chris Charlton and Gino Gambino. I guess the road to WrestleKingdom is just about to start (I mean,