jaedmc Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 TANAHASHI, NAGATA, & KOJIMA vs. SUGIURA, YONE, & SAITO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTtCf23pcsM CHRIS MASTERS vs. KHAN KUSSION(No. Seriously. That's this dude's name)
Matt D Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I think the one element of wrestling that matters the most to me, when you really, really break it down is selling. All wrestling storytelling hinges on it. It's how moves ultimately matter. It's the most primal form of crowd interaction. Knowing how much to sell, when to sell, and when to taper off the selling and how much in order to make a comeback is the very essence of pro wrestling. Chris Masters is really, really good at it. He understands how it works both on top and on bottom. From what I've seen, I don't think Tanahashi is nearly as good at it. It's not been a great year when it comes to body of available work for Masters. I'm still perfectly fine with my decision. 1
RIPPA Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 Chris Masters ripped a tree out of the ground with his bare hands during this time period That is kinda tough to top 2
odessasteps Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I wish we could vote for him just for being the DVDVR spinsored guest at the Mid South Fan Fest, but it was not meant to be.
DylanWaco Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 Masters best performance from last year falls outside the time period. On the other hand he did carry lance archer to the match of his life and the kris Travis match was good. The period in question probably had more tanahashi matches I liked than any other 12 month period ever, but also a lot of tanahashi matches I hated or thought were boring as piss. Not voting, mainly in solidarity with ignored indie kings vordell walker and mike Cruz.
NintendoLogic Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I like Masters, but did he do anything this year besides dick around on the indies?
ultimoDANK Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 The people voting Masters are clearly too smart and cool for me.
Matt D Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 The people voting Masters are clearly too smart and cool for me. It's like the irony you were trying to convey went full circle somehow to make your comment, in and of itself, true. Amazing. 6
DylanWaco Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 The people voting tanahashi are clearly too cultured and enlightened to vote for a guy who performs almost exclusively for rednecks Matt
DylanWaco Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I like Masters, but did he do anything this year besides dick around on the indies? I love masters but he shouldn't have been in the tourney this year. He was in my top 64 on my wko ballot but given how this thing works there were a lot of guys more deserving of his spot.
JonnyLaw Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I like Masters, but did he do anything this year besides dick around on the indies? He saved his mother during a house fire. Who did Tanahashi save?
NintendoLogic Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I like Masters, but did he do anything this year besides dick around on the indies? He saved his mother during a house fire. Who did Tanahashi save? New Japan.
scatterheart Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I don't like Tanahashi anywhere near as much as Meltzer and his mates do but I don't hate him either. I really enjoyed one of the Okuda matches from last year. I like his silly air guitar dickery. Cool hair. His matches can generally be boring. Masters had a decent match with Archer but nothing else really notable in ring. Hash I'm afraid.
SirSmUgly Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I really like Tanahashi! He has flaws (consistency of selling, strikes), but he does the things that he does well very well (cutting a quick pace, facial expressions, being charismatic as hell). Plus, he and Okada against one another are pretty much a guaranteed good time at this point.
AND THE BEAT GOES ON! Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 I've seen quite a bit of masters live in the voting period and he is a cut above anyone else appearing in pcw with a couple of exceptions. However, the series with okada is just tits, and I'll overlook hashi's faults for highs like that. This is one of those deals where masters just hadn't had the chance of a big scale main event, but thems the breaks... Is anyone interested in masters though? They really should be. His whole career trajectory of the huge push when he was green cos of his look, getting injured and then getting really good by the time no one in wwe gave a shit is kind of tragic
Ultimo Necro Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 Tanahashi was pretty excellent all year, I only ever hear about Masters and his heroic ways on here. In ring I dont think he has done all that much. I do like Masters, but Tanahashi for me.
cubbymark Posted March 10, 2014 Posted March 10, 2014 My vote for Masters is more out of being a contrarian, but Cenahashi (compliments to TJ Hawke) is something I just can't get into at all. For as much as Meltzer extols how good he is, when he went to Mexico he wasn't very good. A worker as good as he is claimed to be should have been able to pull something serviceable out of Dragon Rojo Jr, arguably one of the worst guys in CMLL not named Thunder or Pierroth. But he didn't. Whereas Nakamura in Mexico seemed excited, happy to be there, and worked his ass off to get Sombra over.
Goodear Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Look out Chris! Khan Kussion has a battle ax! I'm really kind of shocked this is so close.
NintendoLogic Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Hey, wait a minute. That dude's name is Khan Kussion? Jesus, that's Terra Ryzing level bad. 1
Ryan Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 This is far too close by any sane metric even if Masters had a good year which I'm not aware of if he did or not.
Matt D Posted March 11, 2014 Posted March 11, 2014 Last year Masters, on Twitter, was pretty happy at beating the Rock. I think this result is actually a lot more impressive than that, even if he's not going to win it. It also makes me wonder if our buddy J. Uso might have a real shot against the WON Air Guitar Player Of the Year.
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