The Wrestling Bucket

Manobu Soya/Seiya Sanada vs Daisuke Sekimoto/Yuji Okabyashi, All Japan 2/6

Kind of hard to rate a match like this, because they only showed 20 minutes of a thirty minute draw, and you *know* the other ten minutes were either a bunch of restholds or laying around because there's no way these guys would have been able to go hard for half an hour. But still, they paced themselves reasonably well considering they all still had enough in the tank at the end of the match, and the 20 minutes that is shown is actually very good. 20 minutes of rock solid Japanese heavyweight wrestling, with big dudes hitting hard, slamming into each other and throwing each other around. The spots were cool, the crowd was hot, plenty of drama down the stretch and everyone seemed really motivated. The BJW guys make a great team, their double splash and double German suplex were both epic. Best Sekimoto match in a while and best AJ match in forever.

Best Of 2011