2002 MOTY Project

 2002 seems like an underrated year, puro nerds pretend NJPW was bad and NOAH wasn't yet great, there's also lots of underexplored/forgotten indy wrestling. It is true that promotions like ARSION and joshi in general got worse, also there was little shootstyle, so I'm gonna aim for something like a Top 50 75 here depending on how much good stuff I can find.

 

THE LIST: (ongoing)

1. Wataru Sakata vs. Naohiro Hoshikawa (ZERO1 12/15)
2. Super Dragon vs. Bobby Quance (APW 10/25/2002)
3. Bryan Danielson vs. Low Ki (JAPW 6/7/2002)
4. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Yoshihiro Takayama, NOAH 9/23/2002 
5. Robby Lance vs. Damon Scythe, ECCW 6/29/2002
   
6. Atlantis & Mr. Niebla & Negro Casas vs. Rey Bucanero & Tarzan Boy & Dr. Wagner Jr., CMLL 8/30/2002 
7. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito, NOAH 10/19/2002
   
8. Ikuto Hidaka & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tiger Mask IV & Kazuya Yuasa (Michinoku Pro 2/3/2002)
9. Yuki Ishikawa vs. Katsumi Usuda (BattlARTS 6/9/2002)
10. Elimination Match: Mitsuharu Misawa & Naomichi Marufuji & Takuma Sano & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akitoshi Saito & Jun Akiyama & Makoto Hashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru, NOAH 1/20/2002
    
11. Low Ki vs. Bryan Danielson (RoH  3/30/2002)
12. Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Yoshinari Ogawa (NOAH 9/7/2002)
13. Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (NJPW 8/29/2002)
14. Genichiro Tenryu & Nobutaka Araya vs Kazushi Miyamoto & Taiyo Kea (AJPW 4/27/2002)
15. Koki Kitahara & Daiyu Kawauchi vs. Shoichi Ichimiya & Kazunobu Nakamura (Capture International 10/5/2002)
16. Negro Navarro & Shu El Guerrero vs. Solar & Skayde (AULL 11/1/2002)
17. Toshiyo Yamada vs. Sugar Sato, GAEA 12/15/2002
    
18. Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar, WWE 10/20/2002
    
19. Momoe Nakanishi vs. Kumiko Maekawa (AJW 2/24/2002)
20. Koji Kanemoto vs. Makoto Hashi (NJPW 8/29/2002)
21. Command Bolshoi & GAMI vs. Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu, JWP 4/14/2002 
22. Yuji Nagata vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, NJPW 10/14/2002
    

23. Hijo del Santo & Mascara Magica & Shocker vs. Tarzan Boy & Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Buccanero, CMLL 6/7/2002)

     
24. Bas Rutten vs. Osamu Nishimura (NJPW 10/14/2002)
25. El Samurai vs. Black Buffalo, Osaka Pro 11/2/2002
    
26. Tanomusaku Toba & MIKAMI vs. Takashi Sasaki & GENTARO, DDT 10/24/2002
    
27. Tenryu & Arashi & Hirai & Araya vs. Muto & Hase & Shinzaki & Kojima, AJPW 9/16/2002
    
28. Osamu Nishimura vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (NJPW 8/10/2002)
29. Genichiro Tenryu & Nobukazu Hirai vs. Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima, AJPW 10/6/2002
    
30. Kobashi & Shiga & KENTA vs. Taue & Ikeda & Bison Smith (NOAH 11/17/2002)
31. Ian Rotten vs. Chris Hero (IWA MS 5/4/2002)
32. Tanomusaku Toba & MIKAMI vs. Super Uchu Power & Poison Sawda, DDT 8/25/2002
    
33. Yuji Nagata vs. Osamu Nishimura, NJPW 8/8/2002
    
34. Koki Kitahara & Johta vs. Masayuki Mineno & Nobuyuki Kurashima, CAPTURE 12/8/2002 
35. Tajiri vs. Mike Awesome, WWE 7/23/2002
    
36. Yuji Nagata vs. Manabu Nakanishi, NJPW 2/1/2002
    
37. Osamu Nishimura vs. Takashi Iizuka (NJPW/MUGA 10/6/2002)
38. Liger & Tanaka vs. Kikuchi & Kanemaru (NOAH 4/7/2002)
39. Super Dragon vs. Bryan Danielson (EPIC WAR 6/16/2002)
40. Kohei Sato & Ryouji Sai vs. Hirotaka Yokoi & Wataru Sakata (ZERO1 5/23/2002)
41. Low Ki vs Homicide (USA Pro 2/16/2002)
    
42. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse (NEO 08/17/02)
43. Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero vs. Vampiro & Shocker, CMLL 9/13/2002
    
44. Tamon Honda vs. Takashi Sugiura (NOAH 11/17/2002)
45. Shinya Hashimoto vs Masato Tanaka (ZERO1 3/2/2002)

46. Kengo Mashimo vs. Sambo Oishi, K-Dojo 4/20/2002
    

47.  Yuka Shiina vs. Yoshiko Tamura, NEO 10/22/2002 
    

     
48. Yuji Nagata vs. Bas Rutten, NJPW 7/20/2002
    
49. Carlos Amano vs. Command Bolshoi (JWP 9/23/2002)
50. Shinya Hashimoto & Naoya Ogawa vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Scott Norton (NJPW 5/2/2002)
51. Meiko Satomura & Ayako Hamada vs. Aja Kong & Manami Toyota, GAEA 8/30/2002
    
52. Mammoth Sasaki vs. Garuda (WMF 8/28/2002)
53. Super Dragon vs. Bobby Quance (GSCW 12/14/2002)
54. Ikuto Hidaka & Super Boy & Curry Man vs. Tiger Mask IV & Kazuya Yuasa & Hideki Nishida (Michinoku Pro 3/10/2002)
55. Goldust & Booker T vs. Christian & Chris Jericho, WWE 12/23/2002
    
56. Low Ki vs. Amazing Red (PWF 11/10/2002)
57. Wataru Sakata vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa (ZERO1 5/3/2002)
58. Ian Rotten vs. Tarek the Great (IWA MS 10/4/2002)
59. Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka vs. Wataru Sakata & Hirotaka Yokoi (ZERO1 7/7/2002)
60. Sumie Sakai vs. Megumi Yabushita (JD 1/20/2002)
61. Shinya Hashimoto & Katsuhiko Ogasawara vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Tatsuhito Takaiwa (ZERO1 8/4/2002)
62. Ryouji Sai vs. Hirotaka Yokoi (ZERO1 6/27/2002)
63. Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Wataru Sakata, ZERO1 12/29/2002 
64. Yuji Nagata vs. Takayuki Iizuka, NJPW 12/23/2002
    
65. Great Sasuke vs. Dick Togo (Michinoku Pro 8/15/2002)

66. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs. Ran Yu-Yu & Azumi Hyuga (9/16/2002)
    

     
67. Low Ki vs. Samoa Joe (RoH 10/5/2002)
68. Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka vs. Yuki Ishikawa & Katsumi Usuda (ZERO1 5/3/2002)
69. Low Ki vs. Amazing Red (TNA 7/24/2002)
70. Shinya Hashimoto vs. Nathan Jones (ZERO1 1/6/2002)
71. Shocker vs. Ultimo Guerrero (CMLL 12/13/2002)
72. Vampiro Canadiense vs. Rey Bucanero (CMLL 12/13/2002)
73. Naoya Ogawa vs. Shinjiro Ohtani (ZERO1 3/2/2002)
74. Wataru Sakata vs. Kohei Sato (ZERO1 6/27/2002)
75. Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero vs. Damian 666 & Halloween (CMLL 7/5/2002)
76. Meiko Satomura vs. Chikayo Nagashima, GAEA 4/14/2002
77. Torneo Cibernetico (CMLL 3/22/2002)
78. Meiko Satomura vs. Carlos Amano, GAEA 11/17/2002
    
79. Bas Rutten vs. Manabu Nakanishi (NJPW 5/2/2002)
80. Shinya Hashimoto & Kazuhiko Ogasawara vs. Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka (ZERO1 9/16/2002)
81. Masao Inoue & Tamon Honda vs. Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikioh, NOAH 1/20/2002
    
82. Manabu Sato (Manabu Hara/Suruga) vs. Hiroshi Shimada, Rainbow Promotion 3/21/200
83. Jamie Noble vs. Funaki, WWE 7/16/2002
    
84. Yuki Ishikawa vs. Shinjiro Ohtani (ZERO1 4/27/2002)
85. Takeshi Ono vs. Masaru Toi, Rainbow, Promotion 3/21/2002
86. Antifaz/La Fiera/Safari vs. Averno/Mephisto/Zumbido (CMLL 1/11/2002)
87. Masayuki Naruse vs. Takehiro Murahama (NJPW 8/29/2002)
88. SASUKE & Chabinger & Sasuke Performa 346 vs. Sasuke The Great & Masked Tiger & NANIWA (M.Pro  2/3/2002)
89. Tanomusaku Toba vs. Takeshi Yamada, Nightmare Pro 2/2/2002
    
90. Steve Corino vs. Barry Windham (2/19/2002)
91. Paul London vs. Perry Saturn, WWE 3/9/2002