January (Nominations)

[Rich Kraetsch]

We're making a few big changes to Match of the Month in 2016 starting with the nomination process. Last year, we allowed people to nominate via a Google form, which was fine but there were some issues with people sending in multiple ballots and a general lack of understanding on a few other things. We're going to tighten that up a bit and have most of Match of the Month contained on these forums. This will help reward all of you who frequent the forums here and are apart of this great community. The process for nominations will now simply be two mentions in this thread to get into the voting pool.

Anyway, that's it for the house-keeping, you'll see more changes as the process goes on. In the meantime, get to nominating, what were your favorite matches from the month of January?

[Quentin Moody]

Kamaitachi vs Maximo Sexy: CMLL 1/1

Johnny Gargano vs Jimmy Rave: AWE 1/10 (the fan cam footage of this was floating around on Facebook)

Michael Elgin vs Cedric Alexander: PWX 1/10

[thammerfist]

Marty Scurll vs. Will Ospreay, RevPro High Stakes, 1/16/16

AJ Styles vs. Zack Sabre Jr., RevPro High Stakes, 1/16/16

[dancecab]

My Top 5 from the month was

1. Okada Vs. Tanahashi - NJPW 1/4
2. Ospreay Vs. Scurll - Rev Pro 1/16
3. Nakamura Vs. Styles - NJPW 1/4
4. Ishii Vs. Shibata - NJPW 1/4
5. Dragon Lee Vs. Kamitachi - NJPW 1/24

[Morten VH]

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Wrestle Kingdom 10, 1/4/16 (Clearest MOTM winner ever.)

Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Wrestle Kingdom 10, 1/4/16

[cbacon87]

Heroes Eventually Die vs. Sabre Jr. and Callihan EVOLVE 1/23
Heroes Eventually Die vs. Roppongi Vice EVOLVE 1/24
Gulak and TJP vs. Callihan and Sabre Jr. EVOLVE 1/24

[dylanjstx]

Tanahashi vs. Okada - 1/4
Heroes Eventually Die vs. Sabre and Callihan - 1/22
Ospreay vs. Scurll - 1/16
Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi - 1/24
Ishii vs. Shibata - 1/4
Styles vs. Nakamura - 1/4

[Mike]

Owens/Ambrose from the Rumble and, honest, Owens/Swagger and Rusev/Ryback from the Main Event last Tuesday. Maybe my three favorite WWE matches this month. I don't know if the last two will make my top 50 at the end of the year, but I'm nominating them because I think the effort the four guys did for those two matches is something they should be rewarded for by nominating them.

Kamataichi vs. Maximo from 1/1 that aired on Lucha Azteca not last weekend but the weekend before is great too.

[Arn Furious]

Ishii vs. Shibata 1/4
Styles vs. Nakamura 1/4
Okada vs. Tanahashi 1/4
Scurll vs. Ospreay 1/16
Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi 1/24

[Statoke]

How many matches can one person nominate? Is it still three max or more?

[skrambr0]

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles (NJPW 1/4)
Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW 1/4)
Akira Tozawa, Don Fujii, Stalker Ichikawa, Cyber Kong & YAMATO vs. Jimmy Kanda, Masaaki Mochizuki, CIMA, Gamma & Shingo Takagi (DG 1/13)
Ryuji Ito vs. Masato Inaba (BJW 1/2; aired 1/14)

[dylanjstx]

Tanahashi vs. Okada - 1/4
Heroes Eventually Die vs. Sabre and Callihan - 1/22
Ospreay vs. Scurll - 1/16
Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi - 1/24
Ishii vs. Shibata - 1/4
Styles vs. Nakamura - 1/4

Throw the Doi Darts match from the 1/13 Dragon Gate show on there too. Can't believe I forgot about that.

[K. Hare]

Doi Darts 1/13
Tanahashi vs. Okada 1/4
AJ vs. Nakamura 1/4
Dragon Lee vs Kamaitachi 1/24
Maximo vs. Kamaitachi 1/1
Scrull vs. Ospreay 1/16

[strikamura]

Ishii vs. Shibata 1/4
Doi Darts 1/13
Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi 1/24

[brianjackson]

Suzuki/Tanaka 1/1
Akiyama/Suwama 1/2
Kodaka/Takeshita 1/3
Ishii/Shibata 1/4
Nakamura/Styles 1/4
Tanahashi/Okada 1/4
Doi Darts 1/13
Scurll/Ospreay 1/16
Styles/Sabre 1/16
Lee/Kamaitachi 1/24