Saw Kenny Omega talking about rating matches and it reminded me how dumb Meltzer's star ratings are. So now I wanna list of my Totally Better Than Dave 5-Star List of matches that cap out at 5 because who makes a serious ranking system then breaks it 59 times:
Macho Man vs Ricky Steamboat, Wrestlemania 3
Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat, Chi-Town Rumble
Ric Flair vs Terry Funk, Clash of the Champions 9
Mitsuharu Misawa vs Jumbo Tsuruta, 6/8/90
Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong, 11/14/90
Super Generation Army vs Tsuruta Gun, 4/20/91
Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 10/21/92
Sting vs Vader, 12/28/92
Shinobu Kandori vs Akira Hokuto, Dream Slam 1
Bret Hart vs Owen Hart, Wrestlemania 10
Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita, 5/5/93
Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 6/3/94
Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa, 4/15/95
Manami Toyota vs Aja Kong, 6/27/95
Juventud Guerrera vs Rey Misterio, 3/9/96
Kaientai DX vs Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji, Super Delfin, and Tiger Mask 4, 10/10/96
Bret Hart vs Stone Cold, Wrestlemaina 13
Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 6/6/97
Rey Misterio vs Eddie Guerrero, Halloween Havoc 97
Vader vs Mitsuharu Misawa, 10/30/99
Kenta Kobashi vs Vader, 2/27/00
Atlantis vs Villano III, 3/17/00
Steve Corino vs Yoshihiro Tajiri, 5/14/00
Triple H vs Cactus Jack, Royal Rumble 2000
E&C vs The Hardy Boys vs The Dudley Boys, Wrestlemania X-7
Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa, 3/1/03
Brock Lesner vs Kurt Angle, 9/18/03
Eddie Guerrero vs Brock Lesner, 2/15/04
Samoa Joe vs CM Punk, 10/16/04
Kurt Angle vs Shawn Michaels, Wrestlemania 21
Kenta Kobashi vs Kensuke Sasaki, 7/18/05
Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 7/18/05
Necro Butcher vs Samoa Joe, 6/11/05
Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe, 10/1/05
AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe 12/11/05
John Cena vs Rob Van Dam, 6/11/06
Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness, 8/12/06
KENTA vs Bryan Danielson, 9/16/06
Samoa Joe vs Takeshi Morishima, 2/16/07
The Briscoes vs El Generico and Kevin Steen, 8/10/07
Nigel McGuinness vs Takeshi Morishima, 10/6/07
Undertaker vs Edge, wrestlemania 24
Samoa Joe vs Kurt Angle, 4/13/08
Nigel McGuinness vs Bryan Danielson, 11/22/08
Bryan Danielson vs Takeshi Morishima, 12/27/08
Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels, wrestlemania 25
KENTA vs Ricky Marvin, 10/15/09
Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels, Wrestlemania 26
El Generico vs Kevin Steen, 12/18/10
Eddie Kingston vs Claudio Castagnoli, 3/13/11
CM Punk vs John Cena, 7/17/11
Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton, 6/24/13
CM Punk vs John Cena, 2/15/13
Daniel Bryan vs John Cena, 8/18/13
Sami Zayn vs Cesaro, 2/27/14
Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton vs Batista, Wrestlemania 30
Sami Zayn vs Adrian Nevile, 12/11/14
Bayley vs Sasha Banks, 8/22/15
Atlantis vs La Sombra, 9/18/15
Shinsuke Nakamura vs AJ Styles, 1/4/16
Sami Zayn vs Shinsuke Nakamura, 4/6/16
Kenny Omega vs Hiroki Goto, 8/14/16
DIY vs The Revival, 11/19/16
Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada, 1/11/17
AJ Styles vs John Cena 1/29/17
Katsuyori Shibata vs Kazuchika Okada, 4/9/17
Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada, 6/11/17
Allister Black vs Adam Cole, 1/27/18
Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada, 6/9/18
Undisputed Era vs Danny Birch & Oney Lorcan, 6/16/18
Brock Lesner vs Daniel Bryan, 11/18/18
Briscoes vs SCU vs The Young Bucks, 12/14/18
WALTER vs Pete Dunne, 4/6/19
Kofi Kingston vs Daniel Bryan, Wrestlemania 35
Cody vs Dustin Rhodes, 5/25/19
WALTER vs Tyler Bate, 8/31/19
Jon Moxley vs Kenny Omega, 11/9/19
Kenny Omega & Hangman Adam Page vs The Young Bucks, 2/29/20
Cody vs Brody Lee, 10/7/20
WALTER vs Ilja Dragunov, 10/29/20
Wheeler Yuta vs Daniel Garcia, 8/8/21
WALTER vs Ilja Dragunov, 8/22/21
Bryan Danielson vs Kenny Omega, 9/22/21
CM Punk vs Eddie Kingston, 11/13/21
Hangman Adam Page vs Bryan Danielson, 12/15/21
Hangman Adam Page vs Bryan Danielson, 1/5/22
Jon Moxley vs Wheeler Yuta, 4/6/22
FTR vs The Briscoes, 4/1/22
FTR vs The Briscoes, 7/23/22
Bryan Danielson vs Daniel Garcia, 8/17/22
Jon Moxley vs CM Punk, 8/24/22
El Desperado vs Jun Kasai, 9/12/22
Atlantis jr vs Stuka jr, 9/16/22
Pentagon jr. vs Villano IV, 10/15/22
FTR vs The Briscoes, 12/10/22
Hangman Adam Page vs Jon Moxley, 3/5/23
GUNTHER vs Drew McIntyre vs Sheamus, Wrestlemania 39 night 1
Athena vs Willow Nightingale, 7/21/23
CM Punk vs Samoa Joe, 8/27/23
Jon Moxley vs Orange Cassidy, 9/3/23
Eddie Kingston vs Claudio Castagnoli, 9/20/23
Takuya Nomura vs Fuminori Abe, 10/12/23
Sting & Darby Allen vs The Young Bucks, 3/3/24
There's a few big gaps in my watch history, namely 90's NJPW, 10's Noah, most joshi post 2000 and anything wrestling pre 80's. I'll edit this if I find a new 5 star match but not rn because this took me literal hours I'm beat
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Kay's Whumptober Day 13
Prompt #13: Aftermath of Betrayal
Pairing: Kyle O'Reilly/Destiny Layfield (OC)/Adam Cole
Mentions Of: Roderick Strong, Bobby Fish, Finn Balor, Pete Dunne
Verse: Main
It wasn't supposed to be like this.
Vengeance Day was the first time in a long time that one of four members of the Undisputed Era was not booked for the program. It meant that Kyle had plenty of time to enjoy the show, specifically the main event of Finn Balor and Pete Dunne. The match had gone well enough, with Finn coming out the better man. That would have been the end of it had Pete's cronies, Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, not attacked Finn after the match.
That would have been the end of it if Kyle O'Reilly had not been a bleeding heart.
Kyle had led his Undisputed Era teammates Adam Cole and Roderick Strong down to the ring. The Undisputed Era, minus Bobby who was back at home, had beaten back Dunne, Lorcan, and Burch. Kyle had been the one to offer a helping hand to NXT Champion Finn Balor, pulling him to his feet and offering him a spot in the Era. Kyle had been the one to watch in horror as Adam laid out Finn with a superkick.
And then Kyle had been the one dropped by a superkick from the same man.
Kyle's eyes still watered as he sat in the medic's office, holding his jaw. He didn't know what hurt more, the physicality and shock of the attack or the fact that it wasn't the first time that this had happened. Like clockwork, when Adam didn't get exactly what he wanted when he wanted it, he would turn on those closest to him. To Adam, no was never good enough. It didn't matter that he and Adam had been partners outside of the ring for years, Kyle had sided with someone who wasn't him and that was a betrayal.
The sound of heels on tile alerted Kyle to the other person Adam had inadvertently turned on out there, their partner Destiny Layfield.
"Kyle, are you-"
Kyle outstretched his arms and made a grabbing motion to Destiny, a signal that he wanted to be held. His arms wrapped around Destiny and he closed his eyes, face pressed against her chest as he openly cried. Destiny's manicured hand, nails painted black and gold, gently scratched at Kyle's head in a comforting manner. "Why did he..."
"No clue, baby boy," Destiny soothed. What had started as Destiny dating Adam and acting as both a financial backer and manager to the Undisputed Era had turned into a...what was the world he had heard before...polycule? Polycule sounded right. She was genuinely everything to Kyle and one of the only thoughts racing through his mind as the medics had helped him back here was that she would leave too.
Obviously that wasn't the case.
"Did I do wrong?" Kyle sniffed, pulling back to look at her, "Is that why he..."
"No, you didn't do this, Kyle. This is all Adam's fault," Destiny assured, cupping Kyle's face in her hands, "You let me take care of it, baby boy. We'll get to the bottom of it."
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