What's new, friends?
Welcome, one and all, to the beginning of the 2026 Match of the Year Tournament! For those that want a refresher on how things work in the tournament, please refer to my Rules and Regulations post I drafted up last year.
But, if you're already a seasoned reader, click right on through and see what I felt was more than up to snuff this month!
The Pre-Quarterfinalists
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| The January Pre-Quarterfinalists |
What's the story, subscribers to staged strife?!
A fantastically fun TV match from AEW on offer this week, one I did not expect to review but knew I was going to the second it was advertised. You think I'm just going to glaze over Tommaso Ciampa's AEW debut like that? Ha! Do you even know me? Give me a break!
Let's not waste anymore time! Let's get on with the review!
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| AEW |
Welcome back folks to another edition of Matches of the Month! I'll be shaking up the format a touch here for the start of the new year, as after running my "Match of the Year" tournament for 2025, I can't help but feel I should be a bit more particular about what I consider in these posts each month. Let me break it down real quick.
In the sidebar of the blog, I will continue to make not of matches I have watched in the month and if they are under consideration as a "Match of the Month" contender. These can be matches from any time, they don't need to be specifically from this month.
But going forward, I will separate the matches from this month specifically and historic/later matches I watched this month. This may not matter to some, but I will be carrying this over to when I make my choices for a match of the year. I will clarify this in my first post next week, but I will only be considering matches that took place in the calendar year for Match of the Year going forward. Makes sense, yeah?
So, you can read about the matches from this month specifically in the first half of this post, and the "historic" matches will be listed in the final half of this post.
Sound good? We all clear? Cool, let's get into this!
What's the story, spectators of synthetic submissions?!
Back with another pick from my Twitch stream this week! I was in a UWF-I kick so you guys are treated to a wonderful blend of work-shoot wrestling this week.
Let's not waste any more time, yeah? On with the show!
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| UWF-I |
What's new, spectators of synthetic submissions?!
I won't waste any time at the start here, I've got a real ambitious edition of the Watchlist laid out for you guys here, so jump right in and get to it. One of the biggest wrestling cards out there makes for one of, if not, THE most ambitious and lengthy Watchlist to date.
Enjoy, friends.
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| AJW |
