{"id":25447,"date":"2022-01-04T11:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T11:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/?page_id=25447"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:49:53","slug":"2022-contenders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/2022-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year &#8211; and a fresh list of our Match of the Year Contenders. All of these matches either got ****\u00bc and above in our reviews, our would have (if we reviewed it, for shows we don\u2019t fully cover).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi (New Japan, WrestleKingdom 16 \u2013 Night One, January 04, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Will Ospreay vs. Kazuchika Okada (New Japan, WrestleKingdom 16 \u2013 Night Two, January 05, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Francesco Akira vs. Gabriel Kidd (Rev Pro, High Stakes 2022, January 29, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Oku vs. Will Ospreay (Rev Pro, High Stakes 2022, January 29, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Luke Jacobs vs. Michael Oku (Rev Pro, Live in Southampton 16, February 13, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Nick Wayne vs. Sw3rve The Realest (Defy, 50, February 26, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Cara Noir vs. Ilja Dragunov (PROGRESS, Chapter 131: 10th Anniversary Show, March 25, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Jon Moxley vs. Biff Busick (GCW, Josh Barnett&#8217;s Bloodsport 8, March 31, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Bailey vs. Bandido (WrestleCon, Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show 2022, March 31, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>FTR vs. The Briscoes (ROH, Supercard of Honor 2022, April 01, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Oku, Connor Mills &amp; Luke Jacobs vs. Will Ospreay, Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher (Rev Pro, Live in London 61, May 08, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Oku vs. Connor Mills (Rev Pro, Epic Encounter 2022, May 22, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher vs. Paris De Silva &amp; Jude London (Rev Pro, Epic Encounter 2022, May 22, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Cobb vs. Kazuchika Okada (New Japan, G1 Climax 32 &#8211; Night One, July 16, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Shingo Takagi vs. Will Ospreay (New Japan, G1 Climax 32 &#8211; Night Twelve, August 06, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (New Japan, G1 Climax 32 &#8211; Night Fourteen, August 10, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Tetsuya Naito vs. Will Ospreay (New Japan, G1 Climax 32 &#8211; Night Nineteen, August 17, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Will Ospreay vs. Kazuchika Okada (New Japan, G1 Climax 32 &#8211; Night Twenty, August 18, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Connor Mills &amp; Michael Oku vs. Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher (Rev Pro, Ten Year Anniversary &#8211; Night One, August 20, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Bailey vs. Will Ospreay (Rev Pro, Ten Year Anniversary &#8211; Night One, August 20, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Knight Jr. vs. Will Ospreay (Rev Pro, Ten Year Anniversary &#8211; Night Two, August 21, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Masha Slamovich vs. Fuminori Abe (wXw, Inner Circle 12, September 30, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Gunns vs. Mike Bailey (wxw, World Tag Team Festival 2022 &#8211; Night One, October 01, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher vs. Dax Harwood &amp; Cash Wheeler (New Japan, Royal Quest 2 &#8211; Night One, October 01, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Shigehiro Irie &amp; Fuminori Abe vs. Dominic Garrini &amp; Kevin Ku (wxw, World Tag Team Festival 2022 &#8211; Night Two, October 02, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Tetsuya Naito vs. Will Ospreay (New Japan, Battle Autumn 2022 &#8211; Night Sixteen, November 05, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Hirooki Goto &amp; YOSHI-HASHI vs. Mark Davis &amp; Kyle Fletcher (New Japan, Tag League 2022 &amp; Super Junior Tag League 2022 &#8211; Night Seventeen, December 14, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Connor Mills vs. Michael Oku (Rev Pro, Uprising 2022, December 17, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Tomohiro Ishii vs. Will Ospreay (Rev Pro, Uprising 2022, December 17, 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year &#8211; and a fresh list of our Match of the Year Contenders. All of these matches either got ****\u00bc and above in our reviews, our would have (if we reviewed it, for shows we don\u2019t fully cover). Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi (New Japan, WrestleKingdom 16 \u2013 Night One, January 04,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25447","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P73vbt-6Cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25447"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26528,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25447\/revisions\/26528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}