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Post by yokohamacpfc on Mar 23, 2024 22:09:47 GMT -5
Big Show v Sheamus at Hell in a Cell 2012. I’ve never really enjoyed the work of either guy (Sheamus only became tolerable once he started the ‘banger’ arc and Paul Wight has always been a channel changer). They had the match of the night saving a very weak PPV.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Mar 24, 2024 9:07:27 GMT -5
Two immediately come to mind. I'll never get over how surprised I was by the men's WrestleMania showcase tag match from WrestleMania 39. It had no right being as good as it was. It had no build, no hype, and no expectations and turned out to be one of the most fun and exciting 8-minute car crashes I've ever seen in professional wrestling. Every single competitor in the ring gave it 100 percent and floored it from the moment the bell rang. I have no problem saying it was one of my top three matches of 2023, it was that entertaining. Also, Undertaker vs. Batista at WrestleMania 23 absolutely stole the show that night. I expected a typical hoss fight and had low expectations considering the Undertaker was nearing 40 years old and Batista had returned to the ring nine months earlier and was still widely disparaged by fans, including that horrible match with the Big Show on ECW. But they gave it their all, and while no one would call it a five-star classic, it was wildly entertaining and was perhaps the Undertaker's second- or third-best WrestleMania match ever. Taker and Big Dave always had shockingly great chemistry My pick: Sami/Knoxville. I groaned at the idea but that match was overbooked nonsense in the best way possible. I was crying laughing by the end of it. I haven't enjoyed myself watching a match that much in years.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Mar 24, 2024 9:22:16 GMT -5
Agreed about last year's men's showcase tag. I had planned to go and make something to eat during it but was glued to the match instead. They really did the most with the short time they had
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Mar 24, 2024 9:24:38 GMT -5
I always kind of rolled my eyes at Hogan matches given I grew up far after his peak and preferred a more modern style but a lot of his mid 80s matches are really fun sprints with super hot crowds.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Mar 24, 2024 9:50:48 GMT -5
I always kind of rolled my eyes at Hogan matches given I grew up far after his peak and preferred a more modern style but a lot of his mid 80s matches are really fun sprints with super hot crowds. I'm finding this more and more with Hogan. I bought the 'Ultimate Collection' and that early stuff is just brilliant, good old American wrestling.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Mar 24, 2024 10:07:18 GMT -5
The Warlord is my favorite wrestler of all time. lol you definitely don’t want people to have to use roids to even have a chance…but realistically most people are still on something or another. I would guess that most get around it with a doctor prescription for TRT, but quite honestly the jury is still out on what synthetic testosterone does to the human body over the long term anyways. give me more HOSS fights! Warlord is great, and I love his matches with Bulldog just for the sheer amount of mass going toe to toe. Same reason I'm a big fan of Muraco Vs Bravo haha I actually came into this thread to say The Warlord vs Davey Boy Smith from WrestleMania VII.
Didn't really remember it as I'd only seen WM7 in it's entirety once before but ended up really enjoying that match.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Mar 28, 2024 12:13:46 GMT -5
Doug Furnas, Henry O. Godwinn, Phil Lafon and Phineas I. Godwinn (with Hillbilly Jim) vs The British Bulldog, Leif Cassidy, Marty Jannetty and Owen Hart (with Clarence Mason) at Survivor Series 96.
It was the best Survivor Series elimination team match.
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Post by msc on Mar 28, 2024 13:15:08 GMT -5
I love the Wildcard match. That moment when Owen and Bulldog, on opposite teams, go to handshake and both punch the other with the other hand at the same moment... wonderful.
Test is the king of this though. Test v Brock, Test v Shane, Test v Kane, Test v Raven, all much better than they had any right to be.
Abyss and Tomko had a great match randomly in TNA.
Also Hogan and Terry Funk had a really good title match on the 4th January 1986 Saturday Night Main Event which is on the Network/Peacock. Obviously Funk's one of the all time greats and Hogan is no slouch but mentioning its a bit of a hidden gem by this point in time.
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Post by nickcave on Mar 28, 2024 14:41:16 GMT -5
Kane and Big Show's chain wrestling match they had on Raw was a fun surprise
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 28, 2024 15:45:15 GMT -5
I always kind of rolled my eyes at Hogan matches given I grew up far after his peak and preferred a more modern style but a lot of his mid 80s matches are really fun sprints with super hot crowds. I'm finding this more and more with Hogan. I bought the 'Ultimate Collection' and that early stuff is just brilliant, good old American wrestling. For all the superhero stuff, the guy was amazing at selling that THIS time he'd met his match. He could look near death, that he really needed you, the Hulkamaniacs, to overcome it. Thats the difference between him and all the other big guys who tried to or people theorise could have been in his spot.
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Post by Dragonfly on Mar 28, 2024 23:00:36 GMT -5
This is a little more obscure, but the Blue Bloods/Chris Adams and Norman Smiley feud from late '97. Regal and Norman were absolute magic (or Black Magic, as the case may be) together. A true (WCW) Saturday Night special. youtu.be/h3Rl239yhgI?si=vZrzlo_PceR9aSSm
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Post by Soultastic on Mar 28, 2024 23:07:24 GMT -5
Probably the Shield vs the Wyatts. At the time, I felt only 3 of the 6 could actually hang in the ring, so I was expecting the hype for the stables clashing would carry the matches. Could not have been more wrong, those matches rule by any metric.
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Mar 28, 2024 23:44:58 GMT -5
Cody vs Kenny at Supercard of Honor got a lukewarm reception for how anticipated it was- enough for me to put it on the back-burner. Saw it a couple months later and loved it. I rewatch it at least once a year.
Not sure if (or why) people were expecting the typical Kenny NJPW match against Cody of all people, but it was a great old-school affair with Cody constantly slowing him down just as he was about to get going only for them to go gloves off once Brandi's out of the picture. Kenny does a tremendous job of selling and persevering in the face of interference/underhandedness. Probably the closest thing you'll get to "What would a WWE Kenny match look like?".
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Post by chazraps on Mar 29, 2024 0:22:38 GMT -5
Cody vs Kenny at Supercard of Honor got a lukewarm reception for how anticipated it was- enough for me to put it on the back-burner. Saw it a couple months later and loved it. I rewatch it at least once a year. Not sure if (or why) people were expecting the typical Kenny NJPW match against Cody of all people, but it was a great old-school affair with Cody constantly slowing him down just as he was about to get going only for them to go gloves off once Brandi's out of the picture. Kenny does a tremendous job of selling and persevering in the face of interference/underhandedness. Probably the closest thing you'll get to "What would a WWE Kenny match look like?". I think the lukewarm reception was just overall fatigue from how the last half of that show went. First you had the Bully Ray heelturn that nobody wanted, which was made to be *such* a *thing* and in retrospect shows the beginning of how ROH was about to be entirely booked around him. But even in the moment, the crowd just gets this "f***, is this how ROH is going to be" foreboding feel to it. Then, Cody and Kenny NOT being the main event was a baffling choice people really wanted this to close out the show. When it didn't and Dalton-Scurll was the main, the thought was that Scurll was going to win to really solidify him at the top of ROH and then give the ending of Cody-Kenny somewhere to go. As much as Dalton was and is still loved (and rightfully so), his body was really showing a need to take time off at this point and Scurll/Bullet Club was white hot. Given the booking at the top of the card was all headed toward a Bullet Club power struggle, fans took the way they felt through the end of it as overall disappointment, making Omega-Cody seem worse than it actually was, which I agree was quite good.
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Post by Doo Doo is Worse Than WCW 2000 on Mar 29, 2024 0:27:58 GMT -5
Both of the Big Show vs. Braun matches on Raw in 2017
Ronda vs. Nia at Money in the Bank
Bill Goldberg vs. Brock at WM 33
Ronda and Angle vs. HHH and Steph at WM 34
AJ vs. Taker Boneyard Match
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Mar 29, 2024 0:47:22 GMT -5
i think one that people are overlooking just because of how great both men eventually became is that jeff hardy/undertaker ladder match, people liked hardy a lot but we all thought he'd just get his ass beat and that's that
definitely ambrose/triple h at roadblock. almost everyone also thought this would be boring as shit with triple H winning to do the whole roman/triple h borefest at mania but I know for me it made me bite several times. that match doesn't get talked about enough, only that ambrose should've won. he should've won AND the match should be talked about
ellsworth (horrible) vs aj where he hits the no chin music too. i know i thought it would be lame or a split second thing but it gave us one of the wildest kick outs on tv ever? it should have been a gigantic waste of time but it got a reaction that is very hard to top, with someone who is the absolute worst
one that gets mentioned a bunch or it used to is scotty 2 hotty/malenko, that was amazing
another that i think doesn't get talked enough about and i thought would be pretty mid beforehand was that andrade/gargano NXT title match. we joke about how eventually NXT gargano kicked out of everything and it lost its luster but go back and actually watch this one. you're thinking "eh it'll probably be fine" and somehow its like the best shit ever? i remember talking all sorts of shit thinking it would be just whatever but for all the shit we give both of them that match absolutely rocked
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