Phil's Ongoing 2008 MOTY List

1. Blue Panther v. Villano V CMLL 9/19
2. Yuki Ishikawa + Alexander Otsuka + Munenori Sawa v Daisuke Ikeda + Katsumi Usuda + Super Tiger II BattlArts 7/26
3. Jimmy Jacobs v. B.J. Whitmer IWA-MS 3/1
4. Floyd Mayweather v. Big Show WWE 3/30
5. Mike Quakenbush v. Johnny Saint WXW 3/8
6. Teddy Hart v. Eddie Kingston v. Homicide JAPW 1/19
7. Yuki Ishikawa v. Carl Greco BattlArts 6/1
8. Necro Butcher v. Sami Callihan IWA-MS 10/4
9. Rey Cometa/Pegasso/Freelance vs Los Oficiales IWRG 10/17
10. Bull Pain/Todd Morton v. Jerry Lawler/Chris Michaels XCW-Midwest 8/9
11. Necro Butcher v. Predator IGF 6/23
12. Blue Panther v. Atlantis CMLL 7/11
13. Necro Butcher v. 2 Cold Scorpio IWA-MS 8//17
14. Blue Panther v. Villano V CMLL 9/29
15. Meiko Satomura v. Aja Kong SENDAI 10/26
16. Yuki Ishikawa v. Alexander Otsuka RJPW 6/18
17. Mitsuhara Misawa v. Takeshi Morishima NOAH 3/2
18. Bryan Danielson v. Nigel McGuiness ROH 2/23
19. Erick Stevens v. Roderick Strong FIP 2/8
20. Trik Davis v. Sami Callihan IWA-MS 8/17
21. Hayato Jr. Fujita v. Yoshitune MPRO 12/12
22. Nigel McGuiness v. Austin Aries ROH 3/28
23. Evan Bourne v. Chavo Guererro WWE 10/14
24. Finlay v. Chuck Palumbo WWE 5/20
25. Finlay v. JBL WWE 3/30


Previously on the List

Shawn Michaels v. Ric Flair WWE 3/30
El Valiente + El Hijo Del Fantasma + La Mascara v. La Sombra + Volador Jr. + Sagrado CMLL 4/30
Blue Panther v. Averno CMLL 11/4

21. Hayato Jr. Fujita v. Yoshitune MPRO 12/12

Yoshitune is a guy with a bunch of nutty spots, but I had no expectation that he had a real singles match in him. This pretty much ruled though, Fujita is a Battlartsy junior, lots of nasty kicks and triangle chokes, I hadn’t seen a ton of him before but he looked good here, especially his selling. Most of the match is built around Yoshitune finding crazy ways to rupture Fujita’s abdomen, lots of nasty looking kicks and double stomps, including one off a balcony, and Fujita spent the entire match about to puke. Fujita meanwhile is just trying to knock Yoshitune out, and kicks him really hard in a bunch of ways. You had a big puro juniors finish, but their wasn’t any kick outs which made me scoff, and there was some really awesome looking spots, including a couple of variations of Yoshitune’s rope running. Match kind of came out nowhere, which is kind of the theme of 2008 wrestling for me.