The Top 20 Matches Of ..... Series: Week 39

[MGH]

Here's how it goes:

PM me your top 10 matches of whoever/whatever the wrestler/event of the week is. Wrestlers/events will be chosen at random from a list of 50. I'll let voting stay open until Friday. I'll calculate the votes and post the Top 20 over that weekend. Then the next week I'll go on with the next wrestler/event.

Even if I use guys who are currently in TNA, and I will at some point, please limit the matches to the Big 3 that WWE owns. WWE, WCW, and ECW.

Voting is open from right now until Friday at 8 PM, when Smackdown starts. Remember, PM me your lists. Don't post them in this thread until after the countdown please.

That's right, we're here a night early! For a list of this magnitude, I feel it's best to get right to it and get the lists flowing in. No need for a giant introduction this week. Unless you've been living under a rock as it relates to these lists, you know this week is yet another special edition. This week we will be counting down the best 25 offerings from the second biggest PPV of the year.....











SUMMERSLAM

Week 1: The Rock
Week 2: John Cena
Week 3: The Undertaker
Week 4: Shawn Michaels
Week 5: Jeff Hardy
Week 6: Triple H
Week 7: Chris Jericho
Week 8: Edge
Week 9: Big Show
Week 10: Vince & Shane McMahon
Week 11: The Royal Rumble
Week 12: Bret Hart
Week 13: Randy Orton
Week 14: Chris Benoit

2008 Year In Review Wrap up Series

1) Top 20 Wrestlers
2) Top 20 Feuds
3) Top 20 Segments/Moments
4) Top 25 Matches

Week 15: Stone Cold Steve Austin
Week 16: Owen Hart
Week 17: Survivor Series
Week 18: Vengeance/Night of Champions
Week 19: Hulk Hogan
Week 20: Eddie Guerrero
Week 21: Shelton Benjamin
Week 22: No Way Out
Week 23: Randy Savage
Week 24: Kane
Week 25: Wrestlemania
Week 26: Batista
Week 27: Smackdown

"Mini"-Series

Week 28: CM Punk
Week 29: Mr. Kennedy

Week 30: Mick Foley
Week 31: Monday Night Raw
Week 32: Rey Mysterio
Week 33: JBL
Week 34: Roddy Piper
Week 35: Rob Van Dam
Week 36: Ric Flair
Week 37: Unforgiven
Week 38: Brock Lesnar

[MGH]

Just to be clear, this is a top 25 countdown, but I still only need you to send in ten matches per list.

[somsta]

Just sent mine.
The Best There Ever Will be led the way with 5 appearances.
Every match features the Hitman, HBK, the Rattlesnake, or a future Outsider.
1 from the 1980's, 7 from the 1990's, and 2 from this decade.

[YellowJacketY2J]

Aug 15, 2009 17:40:29 GMT -5 somsta said:

The Best There Ever Will be led the way with 5 appearances.

I was just about to say that The Best There Ever Will Be appeared on my list 5 times. Eery.

Also, to get everybody in the mood, here are all of the Summerslam posters.

[J is Justice]

Question: Does the Bret/Lawler/Doink match at 1993 count as 1 match or 2 matches?

[YellowJacketY2J]

Aug 15, 2009 18:14:17 GMT -5 J is Justice said:

Question: Does the Bret/Lawler/Doink match at 1993 count as 1 match or 2 matches?

I would count it as one.

[MGH]

Aug 15, 2009 18:14:17 GMT -5 J is Justice said:

Question: Does the Bret/Lawler/Doink match at 1993 count as 1 match or 2 matches?

I think both were long enough to count as separate matches. That's how we did it on Bret's list.

[Crappler El 0 M]

Agreed. Doink v. Bret is one match. Bret v. Lawler is its own match.

Anyway, my list has already been sent and here are some notes:
-Matches come from ten different SummerSlams.
-6 from the '90s, 4 from '00-'08
-Surprisingly, no matches with Rock, Foley, Angle, Eddie, Benoit, Jericho, Mysterio, RVD, or Cena (though I concede they each have some great SummerSlam matches)

Who appears the most in my list:
-The Excellent Executor (3)
-Living Dead Guy (3)
-The Heartbreaker (3)
-The Rated R One (2)

[J is Justice]

Sent.

I almost forgot Shawn/Triple H from 2002. Someone super kick me this instant! I'm also kind of annoyed I couldn't fit in Shawn/Vader from 1996.

[YellowJacketY2J]

Bret vs Doink/Lawler can easily be separated as two matches. For me, they work better as one whole match (story wise, anyway).

[J is Justice]

Well, I count them as one match, myself.

[Ragnal]

Just to be stupid: Can we count the Savage/Elizabeth wedding as a "match" since it was billed as such?

[YellowJacketY2J]

Aug 15, 2009 19:15:31 GMT -5 Ragnal said:

Just to be stupid: Can we count the Savage/Elizabeth wedding as a "match" since it was billed as such?

Who won?

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Sent mine in

- 4 involve The Excellence of Execution, 2 each from Jeff Hardy, Edge, and HBK.
- No Deadman, People's Champion, Biggest Little Man, Latino Heat or The Next Big Thing.
- 5 from the 90's, 5 from the 2000's
- Latest match is 2005
- There are a lot of matches I wanted to add, but just missed the cut

1. A perfectly executed match
2. A midcard belt main events
3. One man's desperation to keep the title, and another man's desperation to win it, leads to something we never saw before.
4. The first match of it's kind.
5. A Mania rematch, a year later.
6. Brothers collide.
7. A match between 2 tag teams that ultimately sees 3 of the greatest tag teams of all time.
8. A return after an absence of years.
9. 2 men who would later hold the WWE Title, fight for the Hardcore Title
10. The second to last appearance for a man that wouldn't be seen in the WWE for 2 years.

[EZ: Brainy Bae]

My list is in, so many matches I would've liked to include. Here's the breakdown ...

- All except 1 are championship matches
- All except 1 are one on one encounters
- 6 matches from the 90's, 4 from the 2000's
- Bret Hart has the most matches with 3. He is tied with Shawn Michaels for appearances/involvements however, as Shawn is involved in a match as a non-competitor.
- 5 Gimmick matches
- Only 2 matches from the same Summerslam

[DrizzlinShytes]

Man...Bret Hart and HBK have owned Summerslam through the years. They should have wrestled each other at the biggest party of the summer.

My list has only two matches where Bret or HBK are not involved.

[tap]

I wish this could have been 15 matches, because I left off a couple matches that I really enjoy.

[MGH]

Fourteen lists in already, here's where we stand:

(101)
(95)
(90)
(74)
(70)

[jdsnelson]

1 match each from 92, 94, 95, 98, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 08.
Half the matches have cages or ladders.

Most appearances:
Edge, Triple H, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels make 2 appearances.

[Hulkshi Tanahashi]

Sent mine in. Only 1 one on one match, 7 title matches (3 WWF/E Title, 2 Intercontinental Title, 1 World Tag Team Title, and 1 Hardcore Title), 6 gimmick matches (3 ladder/TLC, 1 street fight, 1 Hell In A Cell, and 1 cage), 2 appearances of The Rock, Triple H, The Undertaker, Bret Hart, and Edge each, and they come from SummerSlam 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2008.