I think Ronda vs Charlotte deserves some love. 5 star classic? No. Would it make my top 10? No. But it was a great match, arguably match of the night on Sunday, and had some great story and progression during/post match.

On reflection, I was harsh on Brock vs Bryan. Yes, the suplex city part of the match was seen a million times before. But it had a significance beyond just Brock dominating. Bryan took a high angle on that first German suplex and he sold it like he was knocked loopy. Heyman was shocked on the outside, not popping like he usually does when Brock dominates, but looking concerned for Bryan's health. The commentary sold it well. Even Brock played a part - he started doing belly-to-belly suplexes, maybe to get the audience to believe that the ref told him to not throw him on his neck? I didn't really believe Bryan was injured for real, but the doubt was there, and I wasn't convinced Bryan was actually going to make a comeback because of how he was selling. So when he did, it was that much more special.

Ronda vs Charlotte was fantastic as well. Could it be the stiffest women's match in WWE history, even if we discount the postmatch? They were beating the shit out of each other. A real scrappy affair.

Golden Lovers vs Tanahashi and Ospreay - Road to Tokyo Dome - ****1/4

Great match for NJPW to close out the year.

Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega and PCO vs. Walter were the best of the admittedly few matches I saw this year. If pressed I’d give Jericho/Omega the nod.

I wasn't able to watch as much in the second half of the year as I was in the first so may have missed one or two, but here's my final top ten for the year. What an incredible year for match quality. Any of these matches would be match of the year easily ten years ago.

1. Kazuchika Okada vs, Kenny Omega - IWGP Championship - NJPW Dominion - *****
2. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kota Ibushi - G1 Climax Final - *****
3. Andrade Cien Almas vs. Johnny Gargano - NXT Championship - Takeover Philadelphia - *****
4. Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa - Unsanctioned Match - Takeover New Orleans - *****
5. Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi - G1 Climax Day 18 - *****
6. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte - Smackdown Women's Championship - Evolution - ****3/4
7. Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa - Street Fight - Takeoever Chicago - ****3/4
8. Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho - IWGP US Championship - Wrestle Kingdom 12 - ****3/4
9. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr. - New Japan Cup Finals - ****3/4
10. Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan - Champion vs. Champion - Survivor Series - ****3/4

Johnny Gargano is my wrestler of the year.

1. Brock VS Daniel Bryan
2. Brock VS Roman Reigns
3. Randy Orton VS Bobby Roode
4. Buddy Murphy VS Cedric Alexander
5. Ronda/Angle VS HHH/Steph
6. The 7 man Gauntlet Match
7. The Royal Rumble Match
8. The Undertaker VS Triple H
9. AJ Styles VS Samoa Joe (CJ)
10. Kenny Omega VS Okada

PB Brock/Bryan was at Survivor Series, not Summerslam 👍🏻.

JANUARY
AJPW - 2/1/18 - Joe Doering vs. Zeus
NJPW - 4/1/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito
NJPW - 4/1/18 - Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega
NJPW - 4/1/18 - Hiromu Takahashi vs. KUSHIDA vs. Will Ospreay vs. Marty Scurll
DDT - 5/1/18 - Mike Bailey vs. Shuji Ishikawa
NOAH - 5/1/18 - Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Kenou
PWG - 12/1/18 - Chuck Taylor vs. Ricochet
PWG - 12/1/18 - Jeff Cobb & Matt Riddle vs. Timothy Thatcher & WALTER
EVOLVE - 14/1/18 - WALTER vs. Will Ospreay
NXT - 27/1/18 - Andrade Almas vs. Johnny Gargano
NXT - 27/1/18 - Aleister Black vs. Adam Cole
NJPW - 27/1/18 - Minoru Suzuki vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
WWE - 28/1/18 - 2018 Men's Royal Rumble
NJPW - 28/1/18 - The Young Bucks vs. Roppongi 3K
NJPW - 28/1/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Jay White
PROGRESS - 28/1/18 - Timothy Thatcher vs. WALTER

FEBRUARY
Dragon Gate - 7/2/18 - Kzy vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
NJPW - 10/2/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. SANADA
NJPW - 10/2/18 - Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi
PROGRESS - 11/2/18 - Tyler Bate vs. Zack Sabre Jr
PROGRESS - 11/2/18 - Mark Davis vs. WALTER
STARDOM - 18/2/18 - Io Shirai vs. Momo Watanabe
NJPW - 24/2/18 - Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi vs. Cody & Marty Scurll

MARCH
NJPW - 6/3/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay
NJPW - 9/3/18 - Michael Elgin vs. Tomohiro Ishii
ROH - 9/3/18 - Jay Lethal vs. Dalton Castle
ROH - 9/3/18 - Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky vs. Hangman Page & The Young Bucks
WXW - 10/3/18 - Ilja Dragunov vs. John Klinger vs. WALTER
NJPW - 11/3/18 - Tetsuya Naito vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 11/3/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. YOSHI-HASHI
NOAH - 11/3/18 - Kenou vs. Takashi Sugiura
WRESTLE-1 - 14/3/18 - Manabu Soya vs. Shotaro Ashino
NJPW - 15/3/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 16/3/18 - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Juice Robinson
NJPW - 18/3/18 - SANDA vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 21/3/18 - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr
PWG - 23/3/18 - Matt Riddle vs. Zack Sabre Jr
PWG - 23/3/18 - Will Brooks vs. Will Ospreay
NJPW - 25/3/18 - Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi vs. The Young Bucks
DDT - 25/3/18 - Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shuji Ishikawa

APRIL
NJPW - 1/4/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 1/4/18 - Marty Scurll vs. Will Ospreay
205 Live - 3/4/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Kalisto
EVOLVE - 5/4/18 - Matt Riddle vs. Zack Sabre Jr
EVOLVE - 5/4/18 - Daisuke Sekimoto & Munenori Sawa vs. Timothy Thatcher & WALTER
WWN - 6/4/18 - Matt Riddle vs. Will Ospreay
GCW - 6/4/18 - PCO vs. WALTER
ROH - 7/4/18 - Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky vs. Flip Gordon & The Young Bucks
ROH - 7/4/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Hangman Page
NXT - 7/4/18 - Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
NXT - 7/4/18 - Aleister Black vs. Andrade Almas
NXT - 7/4/18 - Adam Cole vs. Ricochet vs. EC3 vs. Killian Dain vs. Lars Sullivan vs. The Velveteen Dream
WWE - 8/4/18 - Asuka vs. Charlotte
NOAH - 11/4/18 - Go Shiozaki & Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Kenou & Takashi Sugiura
WXW - 14/4/18 - WALTER vs. Ilja Dragunov
AJPW - 15/4/18 - Shingo Takagi vs. Yuji Hino
Sendai Girls - 19/4/18 - Io Shirai vs. Meiko Satomura
PWG - 20/4/18 - Dezmond Xaver & Zachary Wentz vs. Jeff Cobb & Matt Riddle vs. The Young Bucks
PWG - 20/4/18 - Timothy Thatcher & WALTER vs. Brody King & Tyler Bateman
WXW - 22/4/18 - David Starr vs. Zack Sabre Jr
AJPW - 25/4/18 - Jun Akiyama vs. Naomichi Marufuji
NJPW - 27/4/18 - Hirooki Goto vs. Juice Robinson
AJPW - 29/4/18 - Shingo Takagi vs. Shuji Ishikawa
AJPW - 30/4/18 - Kento Miyahara vs. Naomichi Marufuji
AJPW - 30/4/18 - Joe Doering & Jun Akiyama & Yuji Hino vs. Shingo Takagi & The Bodyguard & Zeus

MAY
NJPW - 4/5/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
NJPW - 4/5/18 - KUSHIDA vs. Will Ospreay
EVE - 5/5/18 - Charlie Morgan vs. Sammii Jayne
EVE - 5/5/18 - Kay Lee Ray vs. Meiko Satomura
WWE - 6/5/18 - Seth Rollins vs. The Miz
205 Live - 8/5/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Mustafa Ali
OTT - 12/5/18 - Matt Riddle vs. Will Ospreay
WXW - 18/5/18 - WALTER vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 19/5/18 - Dragon Lee vs. SHO
NJPW - 22/5/18 - El Desperado vs. Hiromu Takahashi
STARDOM - 23/5/18 - Io Shira vs. Momo Watanabe
AJPW - 24/5/18 - Kento Miyahara vs. Naomichi Marufuji
NJPW - 25/5/18 - Dragon Lee vs. Hiromu Takahashi
CMLL - 25/5/18 - El Terrible & La Bestia Del Ring & Rush vs. Flyer, LA Park & Volador Jr
205 Live - 29/5/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Cedric Alexander

JUNE
NJPW - 3/6/18 - Hiromu Takahashi vs. KUSHIDA
NJPW - 4/6/18 - Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori
NJPW - 9/6/18 - EVIL & SANADA vs. The Young Bucks
NJPW - 9/6/18 - Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi
NJPW - 9/6/18 - Chris Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito
NJPW - 9/6/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega
NOAH - 10/6/18 - Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura
NXT - 16/6/18 - Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
NXT - 16/6/18 - Ricochet vs. The Velveteen Dream
NXT - 16/6/18 - Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan vs. Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong
WWE - 17/6/18 - AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
NJPW - 17/6/18 - Michael Elgin vs. Hirooki Goto
WWE UK - 18/6/18 - Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong vs. Pete Dunne & Trent Seven & Tyler Bate
WWE UK - 19/6/18 - Pete Dunne vs. Zack Gibson
WWE UK - 19/6/18 - Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong vs. Trent Seven & Tyler Bate
BJW - 20/6/18 - Isami Kodaka vs. Masashi Takeda
NXT - 21/6/18 - Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong vs. Trent Seven & Tyler Bate
PROGRESS - 24/6/18 - Jordan Devlin vs. Will Ospreay
NOAH - 26/6/18 - Kenou vs. Takashi Sugiura
CMLL - 29/6/18 - El Barbaro Cavernario vs. King Phoenix
ROH - 29/6/18 - The Briscoes vs. The Young Bucks
NJPW - 29/6/18 - Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi
RPW - 30/6/18 - Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr

JULY
RPW - 1/7/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Zack Sabre Jr
205 Live - 3/7/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Mustafa Ali
DDT - 3/7/18 - Kazusada Higuchi vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. MAO vs. Masashi Takeda
NJPW - 7/7/18 - EVIL & SANADA vs. The Young Bucks
NJPW - 7/7/18 - Dragon Lee vs. Hiromu Takahashi
NJPW - 7/7/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Cody
NJPW - 7/7/18 - Jay White vs. Juice Robinson
Freelance (Riki Chosu Produce Power Hall) - 10/7/18 - Hideyoshi Kamitani & Takuya Nomura vs. Katsuhiki Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya
PWG - 13/7/18 - WALTER vs. Brody King
NJPW - 15/7/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito
NJPW - 15/7/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NXT - 18/7/18 - Aleister Black vs. Tommaso Ciampa
NJPW - 19/7/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Juice Robinson
NJPW - 19/7/18 - Tetsuya Naito vs. Tomohiro Ishii
NJPW - 19/7/18 - Hirooki Goto vs. Kenny Omega
NJPW - 20/7/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page
NJPW - 21/7/18 - SANADA vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 21/7/18 - Hirooki Goto vs. Tomohiro Ishii
NJPW - 21/7/18 - Juice Robinson vs. Tetsuya Naito
ROH - 21/7/18 - Jay Lethal vs. Jonathan Gresham
Impact - 22/7/18 - Pentagon Jr vs. Sami Callihan
Impact - 22/7/18 - Hernandez & Homicide vs. Ortiz & Santana
WXW - 22/7/18 - Pete Dunne vs. WALTER
Dragon Gate - 22/7/18 - Ben-King & Big R Shimizu vs. BxB Hulk & YAMATO
NJPW - 26/7/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. SANADA
NJPW - 26/7/18 - Tomohiro Ishii vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 28/7/18 - Kenny Omega vs. SANADA
NJPW - 28/7/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Tomohiro Ishii
AJPW - 29/7/18 - Kento Miyahara vs. Zeus

AUGUST
NJPW - 1/8/18 - Hirooki Goto vs. Kota Ibushi
NJPW - 1/8/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Zack Sabre Jr
NJPW - 4/8/18 - Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito
NJPW - 4/8/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii
NJPW - 5/8/18 - EVIL vs. Kazuchika Okada
EVOLVE - 5/8/18 - Darby Allin vs. Joey Janela
WWE - 5/8/18 - Big E & Kofi Kingston vs. The Bar
NJPW - 10/8/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
NJPW - 11/8/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi
NJPW - 11/8/18 - Zack Sabre Jr vs. Tetsuya Naito
NJPW - 11/8/18 - SANADA vs. Tomohiro Ishii
NJPW - 12/8/18 - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kota Ibushi
RPW - 17/8/18 - Chris Brookes & Jonathan Gresham vs. Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis
OTT - 18/8/18 - WALTER vs. Jordan Devlin
NXT - 18/8/18 - Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong vs. Tyler Bate & Trent Seven
NXT - 18/8/18 - Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano
NXT - 18/8/18 - Shayna Baszler vs. Kairi Sane
NXT - 18/8/18 - Adam Cole vs. Ricochet
NOAH - 18/8/18 - Go Shiozaki vs. Takashi Sugiura
WWE - 19/8/18 - AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe
205 Live - 21/8/18 - Buddy Murphy & Tony Nese vs. Gran Metalik & Lince Dorado
LU - 22/8/18 - Cage vs. Pentagon Dark
NXT - 23/8/18 - Ricochet vs. Pete Dunne
TJP - 25/8/18 - Miyu Yamashita vs. Yuu
Defiant - 26/8/18 - WALTER vs. Will Ospreay
AJPW - 26/8/18 - Shuji Ishikawa vs. Zeus
WWE - 27/8/18 - Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens
205 Live - 28/8/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Kalisto
FREEDOMS - 28/8/18 - Jun Kasai vs. Masashi Takeda
WXW - David Starr & Ilja Dragunov vs. Timothy Thatcher & WALTER

SEPTEMBER
ALL IN - 1/9/18 - Hangman Page vs. Joey Janela
ALL IN - 1/9/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Pentagon El Zero M
ALL IN - 1/9/18 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Marty Scurll
ALL IN - 1/9/18 - Brandido & Rey Fenix & Rey Mysterio vs. Kota Ibushi & The Young Bucks
NOAH - 1/9/18 - Atsushi Aoki & Jun Akiyama vs. Daisuke Harada & Takashi Sugiura
NOAH - 1/9/18 - Hideo Itami vs. Naomichi Marufuji
WRESLTE-1 - 2/9/18 - El Lindaman & T-Hawk vs. Koji Doi & Shuji Kondo
NJPW - 7/9/18 - Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Will Ospreay
CMLL - 14/9/18 - Caristico & El Hijo de LA PARK & LA PARK vs. Diamante Azul & King Phoenix & Penta El Zero M
NJPW - 15/9/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii
WWE - 16/9/18 - Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler
OZ Academy - 17/9/18 - Aja Kong vs. Hikaru Shida
AJPW - 17/9/18 - Naoya Nomura vs. Zenus
AJPW - 21/9/18 - Jake Lee vs. Kento Miyahara
NJPW - 23/9/18 - Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada
AJPW - 24/9/18 - Kento Miyahara vs. Kengo Mishimo
DDT - 25/9/18 - Akito & Konosuke Takeshita & Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ino vs. CIMA & Duan Yingnan & El Lindaman & T-Hawk
ROH - 28/9/18 - Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay
NJPW - 30/9/18 - Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi
NJPW - 30/9/18 - Marty Scurll vs. Will Ospreay

OCTOBER
SEAdLINNNG - 3/10/18 - Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Nanae Takahashi
NOAH - 4/10/18 - Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Takashi Sugiura
WWE - 6/10/18 - Buddy Murphy vs. Cedric Alexander
WWE - 6/10/18 - Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles
NJPW - 8/10/18 - Cody vs. Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi
NJPW - 8/10/18 - KUSHIDA vs. Marty Scurll
LU - 10/10/18 - Pentagon Dark vs. Reklusa
OTT - 13/10/18 - WALTER vs. Will Ospreay
IMPACT - 18/10/18 - Austin Aries vs. Johnny Impact
PWG - 19/10/18 - Bandido vs. Rey Fenix
AJPW - 21/10/18 - Kento Miyahara vs. Zeus
DDT - 21/10/18 - CIMA vs. Konosuke Takeshita
STARDOM - 23/10/18 - Mayu Iwatani vs. Momo Watanabe
PROGRESS - 28/10/18 - WALTER vs. Zack Sabre Jr
WWE - 28/10/18 - Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair
WWE - 30/10/18 - AJ Styles vs. Daniel Bryan

NOVEMBER
NJPW - 3/11/18 - Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomohiro Ishii
Dragon Gate - 6/11/18 - Ben K & Big R Shimizu & PAC vs. BxB Hulk & Flamita & YAMATO vs. Genki Horiguchi & Kzy & Susumu Yokosuka vs. Jason Lee & Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi
LU - 7/11/18 - Marty Martinez vs. Pentagon Dark
NOAH - 8/11/18 - Kenou vs. Naomichi Marufuji
NOAH - 8/11/18 - Go Shiozaki vs. Kazusada Higuchi
NEW - 9/11/18 - Kenny Omega vs. Rey Fenix
NXT - 17/11/18 - Adam Cole & Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly & Roderick Strong vs. Hanson & Pete Dunne & Ricochet & Rowe
NXT - 17/11/18 - Tommaso Ciampa vs. Velveteen Dream
NXT - 17/11/18 - Aleister Black vs. Johnny Gargano
WWE - 18/11/18 - Charlotte Flair vs. Ronda Rousey
WWE - 18/11/18 - Daniel Bryan vs. Brock Lesnar
CMLL - 23/11/18 - El Barbario Cavernario vs. King Phoenix

DECEMBER
Dragon Gate - 4/12/18 - PAC vs. Masato Yoshino
AJPW - 11/12/18 - Dylan James & Joe Doering vs. Shuji Ishikawa & Suwama
ROH - 14/12/18 - Adam Page vs. Jeff Cobb
ROH - 14/12/18 - Young Bucks vs. Briscoe Brothers vs. SoCal United
NJPW - 15/12/18 - Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi
WWE - 16/12/18 - Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles
WWE - 16/12/18 - Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch
NOAH - 16/12/18 - Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura
NOAH - 16/12/18 - Daisuke Harada vs. Kotaro Suzuki
Dragon Gate - 23/12/18 - Bandido & Flamita vs. Ben-K & Big R Shimizu vs. Kagetora & YAMATO vs. Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi
FREEDOMs - 25/12/18 - Jun Kasai vs. Masashi Takeda
Ice Ribbon - 31/12/18 - Maya Yukihi vs. Tsukasa Fujimoto

Is that your personal list? You watch a lot of wrestling.

God no.

It's an update from an earlier post where I recorded every match with an 8+ User-rating on CageMatch.com. It's a useful reference guide, especially for the smaller promotions.

My personal MotY doesn't even feature on the list. It's the greatest debut in Pro Wrestling history: Ronda Rousey & Kurt Angle vs. Stephanie McMahon & Triple H, 'sports entertainment' at it's finest.