(0:00:00) New Japan - Silver King/Dr. Wagner, Jr./El Samurai vs. Koji Kanemoto/Minoru Tanaka/Tetsuhito Takawa (2/18/01)
Wild six man tag match from the resurgent New Japan Juniors. Tanaka and Silver King have some crazy magic and their work against each other is just great. Really neat stuff.

(0:20:24) NWA – Terry Funk vs. Eddy Guerrero (5/20/89)
1989 Terry Funk was probably on the hottest heel run I can remember as he was just awesome at playing the insane heel. Here he wrestles a super young Eddy Guerrero. They have a hell of a sqaush match with Eddy bumping like a freak and even hitting a plancha. Great Terry post match promo too.

(0:24:32) GAEA - Mayumi Ozaki/Devil Masami vs. Sugar Sato/Chiyako Nagashima
Another great tag match from Sato and Nagashima who are the best team in the world. Masami is on some freakish menopausal wrestling run, and she just rules it in this match.

(0:46:09) ECWA - American Dragon vs. Spanky (2/24/01)
American Dragon comes into Delaware and delivers one of the greatest one night performances in wrestling history. He opens up with a neat match against fellow Micheals' Academy running buddy Spanky and they chop the shit out of each other, while Dragon breaks out the swank arm work

(0:57:02) ECWA - American Dragon vs. Reckless Youth (2/24/01)
Dragon and Reckless go super All Japan with the worlds greatest lariat and lots of cool near falls. Youth’s best match ever and really great overall. Totally had me marking out live.

(1:07:54) ECWA - American Dragon vs. Low-Ki (2/24/01)
One of the stiffest US Indy matches ever. They work almost a BattlArts style - just punting the crap out of each other and slapping on freaky submissions. Legitimate MOTY contender.

(1:23:53) EMLL - Fuerza Guerrerra vs. Octagon (1/31/91)
Fuerza had some sort of rudo magic, as he could always make the mediocre Octagon look world beating. This is an awesome lucha singles match, with tons of blood, great wrestling, huge dives and the awesome Fuerza defining the job of a rudo.

(1:57:21) RINGS - Volk Han vs. Yoshiya Yammamoto (12/19/95)
Volk Han is like good bourbon, the first time you drink it you might not like it, but soon you find yourself ordering it at every bar you go to, and all of sudden you look down on everyone who dismisses it. This match is like single malt.

(2:12:23) NJ - Minoru Tanaka/Koji Kanemoto vs. Shinjiro Ohtani/Tetsihito Takiawa (10/11/99)
Great NJ tag titles match with the awesome team of Tanaka and Kanemoto, plus the still junior, still awesome Ohtani. Great tag match

(2:38:06) MPRO - James Mason/Bret Como vs. Men’s Teioh/Tiger Mask IV (1/22/01)
Mason and Men’s Teioh break out the freaky Brit mat wrestling and I lose it. Nothing in the world is odder and cooler then British mat work and James Mason brings the weirdness.

(2:54:40) BattlARTS - Daisuke Ikeda vs. Yuki Ishikawa (5/26/98)
The Steamboat vs. Flair of BattlArts bangs out another classic, not as awesome a wrestling match as the YGB ’99 final, but is even stiffer. Just an incredibly violent brawl, with cringingly stiff kicks and headbutts.

(3:12:48) APW - West Side Playaz vs. Jardi Franz/Vinny Massarro (5/6/00)
One of my favorite Indy matches of 2000. Nice standard US tag work in the beginning, then a super hot finish with tons of big spots and near falls. Fun stuff.

(3:42:33) EMLL - El Signo/Blue Panther/Fuerza Guerrerra vs. Safari/Olimpico/Mr. Niebla (3/30/01)
Classic legends vs. youngsters lucha match, with the oldsters taking to the mat HARD, and the young guys doing some big time flying. Panther shows why he is a top ten worker and just rules it the whole match.

(4:09:08) Zero-One - Naohiro Hoshikawa vs. Naomichi Marafuji (3/2/01)
MOTYC from the first ZERO-ONE show. Just incredible stuff, with both guys delivering star making performances. Hoshikawa delivers hard, with nasty kicks and great pacing for Marafuji’s highspots. Best juniors singles match in a while.

(4:30:14) AJW – Momoe Nakanishi/Nanane Takahashi vs. Mima Shimoda/Etsuko Mita (7/16/00)
The young girls from AJW step up and have a really good brawl with LCO, less irritating then some LCO matches, with good spots, drama and blood.

(5:01:04) UWFI - Kauzo Yamazaki vs. Masahito Kakihara (11/30/94)
Awesome UWFI match with really great psychology and use of the points system, may not be as technically great as the Takada match, but it may be my favorite UWFI match for drama and stiffness.

(5:16:46) WWF – Dynamite Kid vs. Bret Hart (1985)
Hey guess what, this was really great, who would have thought? Kid drops a knee off the top rope and crushes his face.

(5:29:13) NJ - Shinya Makabe/Jushin Liger vs. Minoru Tanaka/Koji Kanemoto (9/12/00)
This my favorite of the Tanaka + Koji tag matches. Liger is just awesome and Makabe really holds his own. Really neat stuff.

(5:53:09) Monterey - El Dandy/Blue Panther/Shocker/Zumbido vs. Tarzan Boy/Negro Casas/Antifaz Del Norte/La Parka (10/00)
Great 8 man lucha match from the usually underwhelming Monterey, all the guys do great and El Dandy looks awesome, dives, matwork, comedy, lots of fun stuff.

(6:24:38) Zero-One - Takeshi Suigara vs. Alexander Otsuka (4/18/01)
Suigara is the funnest new guy in NOAH and Alexander Otsuka is one of the kingpins of BattlARTS. They do a very amature style match and then decide to bust each other legit with headbutts. Really funny and nasty.

(6:37:45) APW - Christopher Daniels/Mike Modest vs. Westside Playaz 2000 (12/16/00)
The two best unsigned wrestlers in the world team up and have a 30 minute match with the neat WSP2K. I was at this match live and it was my live MOTY. Holds up really well on tape too.

(7:18:46) BattlARTS – Tiger Mask IV/Alexander Otsuka vs. Carl Malenko/Ikuto Hidaka (2/13/01)
Four of the best in BatBat have a lucha flavored shoot fest. Carl Malenko is the best worker you haven’t seen enough of, everyone else is awesome. Hidaka is getting so good

(7:45:15) WAR - Dean Malenko/Ultimo Dragon vs. El Samurai/Chris Beniot (6/15/93)
How can you go wrong? You can’t, four of the best ever. Beniot vs. Malenko, Beniot vs. Dragon. Good shit daddy.