The Wrestling Section

 Well, the 2021 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards have been released, and I have a problem regarding the Worst Match of the Year award. Not with the fact that the Zombie Lumberjack match won, because it absolutely deserved it, but because I've already covered the match previously, I don't have the opportunity to cover it again now that the awards have been announced. Covering the Worst Match of the Year winner is generally something I do, so now, I have to go back to the drawing board. And low and behold, I've got something, courtesy of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's resident Sublime Master Theif; Toru Yano. Like I said the last time Yano popped up in the series, Yano's not exactly a bad wrestler, and I do find some of his comedy spots funny, but when the bar for in-ring work is a lot higher like it is in New Japan, Yano's work is a lot worse by comparison. Case and point; Yano has three of the lowest-rated matches from Dave Meltzer in 2021, and two of the lowest-...

Note: Hey everyone, thanks for coming back for the newest edition of the Worst in the World. As you'll notice very quickly, there are zero pictures from the shows these matches take place on. The reason for that is because New Japan (more specifically its minority owner TV Asahi) has become a lot stricter on people sharing material from their shows online, even issuing DMCA takedowns to people sharing GIFs on Twitter . Because of that, I'm still going to cover New Japan matches if they get recommended, but they'll be free of images from the show. With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy! (Special thanks to Frost for suggesting one of the matches covered here. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) Back in November this past year, I got a recommendation from Frost, a frequent contributor to the recommendations, to cover an interesting match; Kazuchika Okada vs Gedo from Day 2 of the 2020 New Japan Cup. The reason th...