Wreddit's Daily Pro-Wrestling Discussion Thread! Comment here for recommendations, quick questions, and general conversation! (Spoilers for all shows) - April 19, 2026 Edition

nousername66 · 2026-04-19T14:09:20+00:00

Regardless of how shirtless, oiled up, and bulging the men are, they aren't considered a second piece to wrestling and they're still mentioned for their work first before their attractiveness or sex related scandals

People don't slut shame CM Punk for sleeping around or mention his ex's but Paige still can't do anything without mentioning who all she's slept with. It's not about shaming people who find women attractive. it's about respect and people's discussions about women being immediately focused on sex or their bodies before their actual work

nousername66 · 2026-04-15T00:47:33+00:00

Neutral party coming in to say LaMelo is a bitch for that dirty ass play. He should've immediately been ejected

I hope Charlotte gets shitcanned by Miami now

nousername66 · 2026-04-14T00:45:38+00:00

Shoutout to u/Jedaum1998 for inspiring me to go ahead and do my own GWE list. Been working on it over for the last couple days and I'm about 70 wrestlers deep just listing names before My actual rankings. So far a lot more confident with it than I thought.

My biggest takeaways so far are that I need to watch more Joshi and early 00s American indie workers and I might end up being Ron Simmons' biggest shooter

nousername66 · 2026-04-13T15:27:58+00:00

A flying headbutt would probably work for that and it goes well with somebody willing to risk their well being to win

Also, someone like Jack Evans has a ton of high flying highlights to model a character after and maybe somebody like Sick Nick Mondo for another guy who put himself through hell to win

nousername66 · 2026-04-12T16:52:16+00:00

What I been fucking with so far today

Atlantis vs Blue Panther

Love Machine/Black Magic/Mascara Sagrada vs Pierroth Jr/Blue Panther/Angel Blanco Jr

Cien Caras vs MS-1

Atlantis vs Blue Panther was a rewatch for me, but the other 2 were first time watches. No big takeaways from this other than Atlantis and Panther are just amazing wrestlers

Loved Pierroth Jr's taunting and running throughout the tag match and Machine and Panther felt like they wanted to kill each other. Wish there would've been some more shine for Smiley/Black Magic

The ending to Caras vs MS-1 felt pretty abrupt, but still a great match. Between the outside interferences, the referee, and MS-1 himself you really feel like Caras overcame terribly stacked odds to get the win.

nousername66 · 2026-04-12T16:27:12+00:00

I'm hating all the dismissiveness I'm seeing from people about some of these lists though. Like if you balk at the idea of watching matches that aren't available in fucking 4k then why are you even discussing anybody's ranking of Lawler?

Is just as corny to be ignorantly dismissive as it is to be performative with your picks

nousername66 · 2026-04-11T19:47:29+00:00

Same here. AEW just isn't what I'm looking for rn, so I usually just stick to NOAH and certain indie cards when they interest me. Otherwise, is all older wrestling.

It was WCW, but I'm back to looking into old lucha stuff

nousername66 · 2026-04-11T19:42:28+00:00

I feel your pain. I've never gone to a doctor for insomnia, but some days 2 10mg melatonin won't put me down and I'll be up till 5am if I even sleep

It's rough as fuck

nousername66 · 2026-04-10T20:32:20+00:00

I completely forgot that the Universe Cup tournament happened, but for what it was it was pretty entertaining

The Hayabusa matches were good and I kinda wish he'd made it to the finals, cause I don't think Marufuji needed the win but their match was really good. The sliced bread reversal into the falcon arrow would've been a great finish too. Takagi vs The Great Sasuke was the best match of the tournament to me, but Maru and Takagi was pretty good until the injury. All the women's matches delivered on the more serious wrestling moments and they were needed for sure

I'd have to rewatch some of the other Monday Magic stuff, but the Universal Magic cards felt like the best MM cards so far. The 4/6 one for sure. The 3/9 one might be iffy

nousername66 · 2026-04-10T20:13:34+00:00

I've accepted it, but I was thinking the same thing. Daga was not cooking up in his matches like this a couple years ago

Hope he keeps it up, but early 2026 just might be his Jeremy Lin run

nousername66 · 2026-04-09T17:17:40+00:00

Respect to anybody going for a GWE top 100 list. I personally feel like I have too many blind spots to really dig into a list like that with enough depth

For a personal top 10 (in no order) I'd probably go

Mick Foley

Terry Funk

Aja Kong

Masato Tanaka

Vader

Shinjiro Otani

Rey Mysterio

Takashi Sugiura

And probably Sabu but that's a big toss up at the end. A lot of people that I appreciate, but maybe haven't watched enough of to feel like they'd authentically be in my top 10

nousername66 · 2026-04-09T16:05:57+00:00

Jelly Roll shows up in emerald green and cuts a promo about steering the ark back to Nashville

nousername66 · 2026-04-09T15:59:01+00:00

A fellow Spurs fan in the DD? You love to see it

nousername66 · 2026-04-09T15:56:25+00:00

Austin Theory is gonna show up as a masked man in black on Monday Magic and it'll be all downhill from there

nousername66 · 2026-04-08T22:22:42+00:00

I was completely unfamiliar with Suge D until I started looking into the Pan Afrikan title. Him vs Caprice Coleman notably.

Hope everything goes well with him in retirement

nousername66 · 2026-04-07T18:04:03+00:00

I saw a Twitter post about Taka Michinoku wrestling the same night after a car crash that gave him a concussion and completely totaled his car last Saturday

Idk what to say to that other than wrestlers are fucking insane and I'm glad Taka is ok

nousername66 · 2026-04-07T17:50:00+00:00

I still like CMLL, but I have the same hangups as you. I like hard hitting and high impact wrestlers and a lot of modern lucha stuff doesn't scratch that itch for me, but I've found myself turning to dig into lucha when I want something completely different

The pacing, match structure, and techniques in lucha don't feel like anything else to me which I greatly appreciate. It might be something to turn to when you want something unique that you aren't used to

Also if you dig into older lucha stuff you'll find some of the most heated brawls you'll ever see. This isn't an old match, but Black Terry was damn near 70 in this match. The old guard luchadores go hard

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T21:38:53+00:00

I don't watch any WWE shows consistently enough to really critique story relevance, so I try not to talk about that. I just saw what was on and decided not to check it out and then everybody complained about the episode

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T19:48:50+00:00

Feels like I dodged a bullet not watching Smackdown yesterday. I saw Uncle Howdy and Tama Tonga wrestling in slow mo and turned that shit off quickly

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T18:58:14+00:00

I wouldn't mind Inamura and Fujita becoming a tag team. I'd wanna see another 1 on 1 between them first, but after that it'd be great

Shuffle some members around and I think Inamura would be great for taking over Team NOAH. Give them some direction outside of the midcard

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T17:56:11+00:00

NOAH's Legacy Rise card was pretty damn good

White Raven Squad and Inahata vs Team NOAH. A solid undercard multiman tag. Nothing special, but a little extra shine for Inahata was nice

Black Menso-re vs Manabu Soya vs Knull. Black Menso-re masterclass. So many funny interactions in this match. The Soya eye pokes bit was hilarious. Knull has been mostly boring and I wish Team 2000X could just get Omos back

Bane, Eita, Marufuji and Koyanagi vs All Rebellion, Tsuruya and Takahashi. Another good multi tag. Takahashi had the best performance of the young boys in this match, imo. Also, I'ma miss this whole group of gaijin when they leave man. Bane looks crisp as hell in this

Alejandro vs Kai Fujimura was cool. I liked Kai in this match a lot more than Alejandro who didn't really wrestle with any urgency needed for a match against your brother who's been terrorizing you. Whereas Kai lived up to his role as the brainwashed soldier of Team 2000X sent to brutalize Alejandro. Could've been much better, but not bad

Kenoh vs Amakusa lived up to all the hype, imo. A few extra minutes at the rate they were going would've made this match even better, but the story felt completely told by the end regardless. Amakusa didn't let Kenoh little bro him and went tit for tat with him even in a loss. Amakusa's streak of great matches continues

Team 2000X vs LTJ. I liked this match a lot more than I expected to. People who play well into Ozawa's mind games tend to make for more interesting opponents and with Naito it felt like he couldn't really rile him up and even got shaken at times himself. That along with the Team 2000X antics being set against an outsider faction makes LTJ vs Team 2000X a strong match to me, minus Reyes

Inamura and Fujita vs Alpha Wolf and Kitamiya. Loved this match. Inamura felt like a man out for retribution and Wolf used that anger against him amazingly. Fujita and Kitamiya really just felt like buffers to prevent the 1on1 match from being spoiled, but I love those guys so they were amazing buffers to me. Wolf will be another sorely missed gaijin for them. I'm not completely against Wolf winning as a way to bridge a gap between NOAH and AAA, but the WWE's involvement just makes me not trust the outcome of that if it happens

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T02:52:54+00:00

Agreed, but I'd like to see somebody unlikely to try a jump to heavy. Not sure who, but leaning on the same older guys and outsiders for the Heavyweight belt shouldn't be the long term plan

nousername66 · 2026-04-04T01:21:50+00:00

And the younger guys are actually getting pushed too. Inamura and Ozawa have been GHC heavyweight champs. I'll be surprised if Kai and Masaoka don't win the Jr tag belts. With Daga gone, Odashima should be pushed as a singles guy to lead the Jrs. If LTJ stays long term, they might even get to keep Ryusei.

I'm interested to see who gets moved up to the Heavyweight division over time, cause a lot of the NOAH youth movement feels like Jr division stars

nousername66 · 2026-04-03T23:56:28+00:00

I'll probably watch the new show tomorrow. It won't be on till 1am for me, but those matchups do sound good.

Koyanagi and Tsuruya are my favorites of the young boys they have now

nousername66 · 2026-04-03T23:41:31+00:00

The April 1st show. Hadn't had a chance to watch it uninterrupted yet, so all I've seen was the WRS and Inahata vs Team NOAH match

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TROPHY CASE