{"id":28360,"date":"2025-01-18T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/?page_id=28360"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:13:06","slug":"2025-contenders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/2025-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 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 do full-show reviews on).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Tihanyi vs. Elijah Blum (wXw, Back to the Roots 2025, January 18, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Leon Cage vs. Leon Slater (Rev Pro, Live in London 92, February 02, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Fuminori Abe &amp; Takuya Nomura vs. 1 Called Manders &amp; Thomas Shire (wXw, Inner Circle 17, March 06, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Aigle Blanc vs. Leon Slater (wXw, 16 Carat Gold 2025 &#8211; Night One, March 07, 2025)<br \/>\nTakuya Nomura vs. Fuminori Abe (wXw, AMBITION 16, March 08, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>1 Called Manders vs. Michael Oku (Rev Pro, Epic Encounter 2025, March 16, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Oku vs. Luke Jacobs (PROGRESS, Chapter 179: Las Vegas, April 17, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Ahura vs. Elijah Blum (wXw, Pro Wrestling Grand Prix &#8211; Show 4, September 28, 2025)<\/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 do full-show reviews on). Peter Tihanyi vs. Elijah Blum (wXw, Back to the Roots 2025, January<\/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-28360","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P73vbt-7nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28360","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=28360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28747,"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28360\/revisions\/28747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbodydrop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}