Wrestling: Chris Jericho earns first 5-Star Match after nearly 30 years in the business

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Alara317 said:

PAOerfulone said:
Also OP: Kenny Omega has actually broken the 6 Star barrier three times.

His first match with Okada at Wrestle Kingdom last year was 6 stars and their rematch at Dominion was 6 1/4 stars, which is actually the highest rating Meltzer has ever given. And then their 3rd match at the G1 broke 6 stars as well.

I think Meltzer my have a little bit of bias towards the Okada/Omega rivalries, just a little.

I'm beginning to wonder the same thing, because I watched a bunch of the matches that   he gave 5 and 6 stars to, and while they were definitely good - great even - I wouldn't put them as 'best of all time' level. 

Alpha vs Omega was great, definitely 5 stars, but better than BOTH of the Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker Mania Matches? Nope. Not a snowball's chance in hell. Meltzer seems to have a bias for Japan or a bias against WWE. 

Hell, I don't even think WWE is THAT great, but there's no way Michaels/Taker is rated lower than Alpha vs Omega. And this is coming from someone who has Jericho as my all time favorite and consider Omega to be quite possibly the best worker today. IT was good, it was nowhere near the level of Taker/Michaels. 

Or hell, JEricho Michaels. 

Point is, I either just 'don't get' what Meltzer sees in Japanese wrestling, or he has a boner. Either way, I don't agree. 

I think part of it may have something to do with Meltzer, now I may be wrong about this, this is just my hypothesis, but it may have something to do with him wanting to help expose New Japan and expand its popularity to the American wrestling audience. Because, Omega vs. Okada I, I recall, was actually trending on Twitter because of how incredible that match was, and it definitely was, and then Meltzer gave it 6 Stars out of 5, and I was hearing about how very, very few matches get that rating. In fact, it was only the 2nd match in WON history to get that rating, so I thought, "Holy Shit, I'm missing out! I gotta see this match!"
And hey, if that really is the plan. It's working! Wrestling Kingdom 12 was their most successful Tokyo Dome show in over a decade! New Japan has been gaining more and more momentum over the last year and part of that is because of the matches themselves, their quality, and the praise they've been getting from veterans of the business like Meltzer. 

But yeah, I agree, while those matches, as well as this one, were amazing. Slow down, people.