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Sunday means it's my Match of the Week list time! We had the first week of Best of the Super Juniors, the last two nights of Super Strong Style 16, Rev Pro's Epic Encounter, a hell of an IMPACT main event, and a sub-par week of Network shows. Also, if you're into it, Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee would technically have been eligible this week! Plus, in content I didn't even get round to seeing (can you blame me with all of this other stuff?), Dragon Gate's King of Gate has been rolling on all week. WWE even put on a nice little Mysterio/Cesaro match on Raw! I say it every week but, a fantastic week of wrestling yet again.

That said, here's my top 5!

5. Jordan Devlin vs Kyle Fletcher (Progress Super Strong Style 16, Night 2)
This was the first quarter final of Super Strong Style 16 this year, and another big part of Kyle Fletcher's breakout year as a singles star after his widely praised match with Will Ospreay in Fight Club Pro a few months back. Devlin is a bonafide star at this point and he was able to give all of that rub to Fletcher here. This match was set the crowd on fire and had a tremendous finish

4. Will Ospreay vs. Rocky Romero (16/5, NJPW)
Look at these names. How on earth did I ever buy a Rocky pin attempt in this match? Because these two guys are absolute pros. Ospreay is top 5 in the world week in and week out, and Rocky has been this good for 15 years. This had some of the best hope spots for an underdog in recent memory and matches like this that wouldn't matter in any other circumstance are why tournaments like Best of the Super Juniors are awesome

3. Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Aussie Open (Revolution Pro Wrestling: Epic Encounter)
Nobody has been pushed harder in Rev Pro in recent years than Suzuki Gun, with Zack and Suzuki holding the titles for nearly 18 months after winning them from none other than Moustache Mountain, and Zack is also the current British Heavyweight Champion (as seen in NJPW). On the other hand, Aussie Open have come so close so many times. This match was that story in a microcosm. Aussie Open were just full of heart and fire and Suzuki Gun would not let them take the titles without a hell of a fight.

2. SHO vs. Shingo Takagi (13/5, NJPW)
I can't believe this match didn't end up my number 1. This was the talk of the internet the day after it happened and is definitely a MOTYC - but I just slightly preferred number 1 here. But god, for all the fire and heart I talked about in the tag match, this was all of that to an even greater degree. The story here is Shingo is undefeated since coming to New Japan, and SHO has become his heated rival in all the Roppongi 3K vs. Shingo/BUSHI junior tag title matches, so SHO is more eager than anyone to hand Shingo his first loss. Shingo is a favourite to win the whole BoSJ but if anybody was to stop him going undefeated, his rival SHO seemed as good a candidate as any, and boy did he have me believing in this match. They're going to have many more matches, and SHO is probably going to lose many more times before he finally gets that win, but even in a loss here SHO's star was made.

1. David Starr vs. Jordan Devlin (Progress Super Strong Style 16, Night 3)
I went full 5 bananas on this. These are two of the very best on the planet today in a high stakes, high drama match in the Finals of Super Strong Style 16, delivering everything you would want in the action, setting the crowd alight for 20 minutes straight and giving a finish that called back to the excellent Devlin/Fletcher finish I talked about earlier, this was just everything you want in wrestling and if I hadn't gone 5 stars on it, I would have added a quarter star for the post match promo anyway. This deserves your attention and I might be willing to say Progress deserves your attention again after this.
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