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Post by The Trashman on Jan 20, 2018 14:13:53 GMT -5
Easily nWo vs Stone Cold and Rock.
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Post by Bobeddy on Jan 20, 2018 15:23:10 GMT -5
I have to second Radicalz v Rock/Cactus/Too Cool, everything about that was perfect. Great action, suprises, returns and all surrounding one of the best feuds of all time (HHH v Cactus Jack) with, I believe from memory, JR at his best. Not to forget an awesome return by Kane with Paul Bearer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 15:30:27 GMT -5
Yeah Rock/Austin vs the NWO takes this. Just look at the names there. Austin and Rock are the 2 main stars from the Attitude Era and the NWO were the main stars of WCW. They all changed the landscape of the company they were apart of. I don't see how anyone tops this regarding the names associated. That's a WM level main event on your television.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 20, 2018 17:10:39 GMT -5
Thing is, there were no actual stakes involved in some of these. I'll go with Rock vs. Mankind for the WWF title, where Foley won the title. That match was a big time title match with a perfect happy ending and it also came on the same night WCW did the Fingerpoke of Doom. More than any other show or main event that one wrecked WCW. I honestly can't even remember the NWO vs. Rock/Austin match. And that 10 man tag match was a lot of fun but at the end of the day it didn't mean anything. A feel-good ending of Foley winning the WWF Title vs. The NWO reuniting for the umpteenth time. No contest there.
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Post by lavelleuk on Jan 20, 2018 17:21:52 GMT -5
Is it weird I genuinely don't remember this nwo v rock and Austin match?
How could I forget rock v foley? That has to be up there
Cena v punk was a fantastic match too, fair shout for highest quality match but I guess things just seemed bigger in the old days to me...probably as I was younger
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Jan 20, 2018 17:50:23 GMT -5
It's absolutely insane thinking about the original nWo (Hall, Nash, Hogan), three guys who defined WCW's peak in the mid-to-later 90s, and then Austin and Rock, the two top stars of WWF's Attitude Era...all in one match on Raw! And there was a pinfall finish! It was truly a WCW vs WWF match. To a certain extent, we got Austin and Hogan against one another in a match on Raw.
Punk/Cena was an incredible and lengthy match that would easily define their rivalry if it wasn't for how memorable MITB 2011 was.
HBK/Cena was a big deal, too. I remember a lot of praise for HBK/Jeff Hardy around that time frame as well. Helped solidify Jeff as something more than mid-card.
Not as important, but I wish I could include the Cesaro/Cena match from June of 2015 (the first one) from a pure match standpoint, but it didn't main event until the week after, and it wasn't quite as phenomenal as the first. I do remember the crowd really getting into it, though.
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Post by chronocross on Jan 20, 2018 18:02:15 GMT -5
nWo vs. Rock/Austin, that could have easily been a PPV main event if the timing was different back in 2002.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 20, 2018 18:07:19 GMT -5
nWo vs. Rock/Austin, that could have easily been a PPV main event if the timing was different back in 2002. Put DDP with Austin and Rock so he can eat the pin. But he can get built up again at the same time. Backstage promos with DDP giving tips on how to beat the nWo would get him over again. What a missed opportunity.
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Post by The Barber on Jan 20, 2018 22:14:33 GMT -5
Thing is, there were no actual stakes involved in some of these. I'll go with Rock vs. Mankind for the WWF title, where Foley won the title. That match was a big time title match with a perfect happy ending and it also came on the same night WCW did the Fingerpoke of Doom. More than any other show or main event that one wrecked WCW. I honestly can't even remember the NWO vs. Rock/Austin match. And that 10 man tag match was a lot of fun but at the end of the day it didn't mean anything. A feel-good ending of Foley winning the WWF Title vs. The NWO reuniting for the umpteenth time. No contest there. The NWO were watered down versions of their previous incarnations while Rock/Mankind were a their peak.
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jan 21, 2018 1:20:52 GMT -5
Vince/Ric for ownership of the company?
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Post by repomark on Jan 21, 2018 5:30:44 GMT -5
Austin v Kane in 98 Austin v Undertaker in 99 Austin v Angle in 01
All three saw Austin win the WWF title back and were huge (especially the first two in terms of ratings).
A lot of really good ones have already been said, but thought they deserved a mention too.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Jan 21, 2018 6:48:00 GMT -5
I have to second Radicalz v Rock/Cactus/Too Cool, everything about that was perfect. Great action, suprises, returns and all surrounding one of the best feuds of all time (HHH v Cactus Jack) with, I believe from memory, JR at his best. It's the one match, years later, I just remember getting everyone at school talking, and was the first match I looked up when I got the WWE network (although it wasn't on there) Is this the match where Kane returned and JR freaked out as if he'd been gone for months, when he actually had just been gone since last SmackDown?
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jan 21, 2018 6:51:47 GMT -5
Can we play around with the definition of "main event" here? CM Punk closed off a Raw with a six minute pipe bomb promo that rocked the company to its core, but technically that main event segment was John Cena vs. R-Truth in a tables match that nobody remembers.
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Post by Woo on Jan 21, 2018 12:38:29 GMT -5
I have to second Radicalz v Rock/Cactus/Too Cool, everything about that was perfect. Great action, suprises, returns and all surrounding one of the best feuds of all time (HHH v Cactus Jack) with, I believe from memory, JR at his best. It's the one match, years later, I just remember getting everyone at school talking, and was the first match I looked up when I got the WWE network (although it wasn't on there) Is this the match where Kane returned and JR freaked out as if he'd been gone for months, when he actually had just been gone since last SmackDown? Yeah that's the one. The crowd freaked out too. Some reckon the fans thought it was Taker coming out at first, but I'm not sure.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 21, 2018 12:44:01 GMT -5
Yeah Rock/Austin vs the NWO takes this. Just look at the names there. Austin and Rock are the 2 main stars from the Attitude Era and the NWO were the main stars of WCW. They all changed the landscape of the company they were apart of. I don't see how anyone tops this regarding the names associated. That's a WM level main event on your television. Having Rock/Austin vs the NWO as TV build up to Hogan/Rock and Hall/Austin seems like a head-scratcher on paper. The only thing that salvages it in practice is what Hogan/Rock turned out to be. However, it is hilarious in hindsight that it was sold as "wrestling's past versus wrestling's future' given Hogan would actually go on to be far more active than The Rock in the years following.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 21, 2018 12:50:04 GMT -5
OBVIOUSLY
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