#After The Wrestling Match

[scruff-and-brawn]

I own you now, bro. Just taking possession of what’s mine.

Inspecting the loser of the male wrestling match.

[handsomeundressing]

Men Are Beautiful @SexyHomoerotic

[matchamiko]

Wriothesley is so husband shaped; those big shoulders for sleeping on snuggled in bed, thick forearms to bite when he’s fucking you down into the mattress, capable hands for kneading dough when you don’t want to, beautiful kind eyes that are the first thing you see in the morning, big wide hairy chest for leaning on in the bath, such a strong back for hoisting furniture around when you want to change the sitting room around, legs heavy and wide enough to sit on as you arrange flowers you’d both bought from the farmers market, fingers weathered from work and age sitting pretty between your thighs.

[lghockey]

If I had a nickel for everytime my bf went "hey whatever happened to [insert tag team name here]" while watching wrestling only for said tag team to show like 20 minutes later... I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but the fact it happened twice is weird

[vanityangel]

they are so babygirl and did nothing wrong, actually.

[sycamoretrees]

wrestling 2024 tag meme

inspired by the ShuPro awards and my struggle to remember what I've actually I've watched this year, I thought it would be cool to have a year-end wrestling round-up.

I would love for anyone else to also do this! Everyone's experience of wrestling is so unique and I'd love to read about everyone's different wrestling ~journeys in 2024. You do not need to write this much lol. Tagging with no pressure @benchwarming @thistledropkick @yoshihashismattebum @wrestleish but forreal anyone who wants to do this consider yourself tagged!

Please tag me if you do it or use the tag '#wrestling 2024 tag meme' so I can see them 🤗

MVP/Wrestler of the Year

Match of the Year

Favourite Feud

Favourite Tag Team/Faction

Favourite Show

Breakout (ish) Star

Horniest Moment

Most Anticipated in 2025

[NB - I'm more interested in recording my specific experience of wrestling this year rather than the actual chronological wrestling year of 2024, so if I saw a match for the first time this year, or got to know someone new, I'm counting them. Confusing? Yes! You do you.]

MVP/Wrestler of the Year

El Desperado (NJPW). This was tough. My rationale was - who was I consistently excited to see on any card and can I think of multiple specific great matches they had off the top of my head (my recall for specific matches is very bad). From Wrestle Kingdom with Hiromu, to his Super Juniors match with Fujita, to the Despe Invi, to his DDT match with Chris Brookes, Despe has been my number one guy in 2024. Runners Up: Konosuke Takeshita, Gabe Kidd

Match(es) of the Year

In no particular order: Shibata vs Okada (NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017) - obviously this is an 8 year old match now, but I watched it for the first time this year, and it is not at all overrated. Unreal.

Hiromu Takahashi & Jun Kasai vs Minoru Suzuki & Takayuki Ueki (NJPW Despe Invitacional) - an absolutely perfect comedy hardcore match.

El Desperado vs Chris Brookes (DDT Wrestle Peter Pan) - the storytelling they manage to pack into this match is incredible. Intensely romantic, erotic, funny, a visual delight.

Gabe Kidd vs Kenny Omega (NJPW/AEW Wrestle Dynasty) - recency bias perhaps, but contextually one of the most interesting and impactful matches of the year (I'm counting it for 2024 don't @ me).

Hirooki Goto vs David Finlay (NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling) - kind of a wildcard pick but I remember having a fucking blast. Finlay is my favourite guy to watch get flung into barricades, and his 'I didn't win the G1 and it only exacerbated my crushing insecurity because I know I'm not as good as Jay White so I'm gonna go after a bunch of easy wins to try to feel like a big man' tour peaked for me with this match.

Favourite Feud

Toni Storm and Mariah May (AEW) - easily the best women's feud AEW have ever done, for me one of the best storylines period. Toni Storm's character work this year was exquisite, and she and Mariah (and Mina Shirakawa) absolutely killed this narrative arc. In a promotion that increasingly felt like it wasn't For Me this year, this feud was For Me.

Favourite Tag Team/Faction

The Bang Bang Gang (AEW). Look, the Bang Bang Gang profoundly overdeliver in almost all regards, they are consistently entertaining and they commit to the bit. Also NJPW is having a such a weird faction time rn and I'm just not really a tag team person.

Favourite Show

Despe Invitacional (NJPW). A truly joyful show from start to finish, warm and fun and excited and exciting. Runner up: Beer Garden Fight in Shinjuku Day 2, the show that made me fall in love with DDT.

Special Mention: AEW Grand Slam, the most fun I had watching a show because I went to see it live with @benchwarming.

Breakout (ish) Star

Yuki Ueno (DDT). Ueno is obviously not any kind of rookie, but I only became really familiar with him this year, and to me (and ZSJ) he's the most exciting young wrestler in Japan. I can't get over how good he is at, well, everything. Runners up: Taichi (took me a minute but I realised just how good Taichi is this year, his pre-G1 matches were incredible), Takeshi Masada, Yuya Uemura

Horniest Moment

GIF by schadentekkers

i mean. This wasn't a tough call. The first time I saw this match (El Desperado vs Chris Brookes, DDT Wrestle Peter Pan) I had to pause it and yell inside my own t shirt for several moments, and it hasn't become any less insane after the third rewatch. And like, I'm not even counting the Just Straight Up Kink nipple stuff after this, but uh also that!!

Most Anticipated In 2025

Gabe Kidd was one my standouts when I started watching NJPW with the 2023 G1, and it's been a delight to watch him progress and develop. Obviously he's poised to step up even more in 2025... I'm here for it.

Taichi vs Sanada is coming and I'm so fucking seated.

The NJPW junior heavyweight division has a bunch of super talented guys and exciting stories right now, and if everyone can just stop getting injured I think there's a ton of fun to be had there.

And then IDK if 'anticipation' is the word but - I'm very curious to see what happens with Shota Umino. Been kind of a brutal year for him, and I personally feel like there MUST be some kind of change coming? Either way, I have no idea where he'll sit in the NJPW landscape this time next year.

Oh also I really fucked my own enjoyment of the G1 this year between getting obsessed with Walker's terrible commentary and getting stressed about the G1 art project I decided to do 'for fun' (hence no G1 matches included in my favourites even though I remember several of them being very good) so uh would love to enjoy the G1 this year.

[likehephaestionwhodied]

A short story about two dudes with attitudes

[bedlamsbard]

I think one of the weirder things about the CATWS/IM3 --> AoU --> CACW --> IW --> Endgame progression is that each of them reads like the PTB hated the previous film, which was probably true for AoU and CACW since they had different PTB, but is absolutely baffling for CACW, IW, and Endgame, which had the same writers and directors. (CATWS and IM3 both feel very respectful of Avengers and like natural progressions of it.) (as we all know I still think Endgame's greatest sin was making fun of Avengers so that one has...other problems...on top of its problems.)

[blizzardsuplex]

Roderick Strong versus the British crowd's shitty little boot chants + Adam Cole's reactions from PROGRESS Chapter 21: You Know We Don't Like To Use The Sit Down Gun, 09/06/2015

[dynamitekansai]

Jade_Cargill: ⚡️👩🏾‍🦳

[knaveofmogadore]

You ever wake up from a dream so fucked that you have to sit there for 10 minutes after waking to rewrite the ending so that you can move on with your day or are you normal

[zedxspacess]

ok yeah, AEW in that video package summarizing the CMLL 91st anniversary is uhhh NOT good.

It was edited and told in a way that made it seem like Chris Jericho won the 3rd fall, when in reality, Mistico won with La Mistica.

I was ready to accept that match would be just mid and carried by the spectacle/crowd still loving Jericho, and it was painfully average, but holy shit Jericho was a terrible base to help Mistico pull off the worst looking La Mistica I've ever seen.

Even if the video package got the facts right, it doesn't erase how the whole ending of the match was used as an angle to fuel fucking OC vs the Learning Tree, which immediately stunk up the vibes. I don't know who okayed this, but letting the fucking Learning Tree, a midcard act people hate and an AEW angle take up the ending of the main event of CMLL's 91st anniversary show is a DOGSHIT decision.

It didn't help that right before the main event, there was a MOTY contender lucha apuestas match where Hechicero beat Euphoria to take his mask in an emotional event. To have to follow that is a death spot, and the crowd kept on chanting for Hechicero. THAT should've been the main event, not an average "dream match" that was ultimately fuel for a midcard AEW act.

Add to that the video package just blatantly getting the facts wrong is a massive disrespect and looks terrible on AEW. We have GOT to get Jericho out of here.

[the-kipsabian]

whoever said that the nick/kip match on friday needs to be quick (in their credit at least they wanted kip to win) excuse you i deserve at least 10 to 15 minutes of one of the greatest matchups of all time thank you very much

[thistledropkick]

Posting this for my own reference and motivation, but here's my translation priority list right now.

First, I want to post translations of some older Chris Brookes and Desperado twitter conversations, along with a few more recent tweets relating to their match.

After that, I want to translate some old Douki tweets that I keep forgetting to post.

Longer-term, I want to post a lot of translations of lots of stuff relating to Desperado and Kasai's series of matches, including some free-to-read articles and some tweets and twitter conversations, including some that were removed from the internet when Despe deleted his old twitter account and Kasai's old account got banned.

[handsomeundressing]

"Let's get to know each other better. You're hot. Interested too?"