Matches that just SLAP.

[ragecutter]

For me, the be all, end all match is Dragunov vs. WALTER from 2020. That match is so perfect. You might say it slaps! What is your ultimate wrestling match?

[chazraps]

A match that I think is perfect in terms of the lost art of the absolute sprint is Kevin Steen vs Jimmy Jacobs from ROH's 'A New Dawn.' Bell to bell it's just under five minutes and just non-stop no resting absolute slapping banger. That mid-level non-squash non-truncated TV match absolute sprint of a match has become less and less common the last 15+ years and this one is an absolute example of why that style is so great and deserves a comeback. Two dudes beating the piss out of each other in a wrestling ring. All tenderloin, baby!

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It is not WWE but

Lucha Underground S02E07 – Death Comes in Threes

It is IMO both the best triple threat match in since the shows inception and subsequently the most underrated triple threat since the shows inception.

This match is pitch f***ing perfect from the story to making sure a match that has 3 of your top guys if not the 3 top guys at the time in the whole company not only get all their shit in but every single one of them comes out of it better.

And that is an almost nigh impossible feat because usually it boils down to 1 guy/gal has to get the bulk of the match to look good because that is the usually the purpose the other 2 end up just being a means to an end to get that 3rd person over.

Not here though it puts over Mil as the monsterous force he is by simply showing and not telling you by having Pentagon and Puma having to join forces to fend him off....it is a simple but utterly perfectly told story in this match.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

The Rockers vs. The Orient Express at Royal Rumble 1991.

Still one of my favorite endings to a match.

[TOK Is the Target Demo]

Christian vs. Del Rio at SummerSlam 2013 was the best match on the show and was 5 stars I'll die over this

[Jindrak Mark]

Angle/Mysterio at Summerslam 2002. Certain matches no matter how great they are I need to be in the right mood to watch them but this one I can just throw on and enjoy anytime. It has to be one of the best under 10 minute matches.

Throw Randy Orton into the mix and their triple threat at Wrestlemania 22 is another one. Also 9 minutes long and it's all-action start to finish.

[mountaindew]

123 Kid vs. Owen Hart at King of the Ring 94

Very short, but very good.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

On a second glance, I think OP was referring to more modern stuff soooo: DIY vs. The Revival (remember them?) at Takeover: Toronto. One of the most gripping matches to cap off a stellar feud.

[britishbulldog]

Bulldogs/dream team

[Hypnosis]

Oct 14, 2023 20:01:34 GMT -5 Jumpin' Jesse Walsh said:

On a second glance, I think OP was referring to more modern stuff soooo: DIY vs. The Revival (remember them?) at Takeover: Toronto. One of the most gripping matches to cap off a stellar feud.

I did like that period of DIY/Revival/AOP matches, though.

[clc]

The Shield vs the Wyatt Family

[Gerard Gerard]

Oct 14, 2023 17:46:16 GMT -5 chazraps said:

A match that I think is perfect in terms of the lost art of the absolute sprint is Kevin Steen vs Jimmy Jacobs from ROH's 'A New Dawn.' Bell to bell it's just under five minutes and just non-stop no resting absolute slapping banger. That mid-level non-squash non-truncated TV match absolute sprint of a match has become less and less common the last 15+ years and this one is an absolute example of why that style is so great and deserves a comeback. Two dudes beating the piss out of each other in a wrestling ring. All tenderloin, baby!

AJ and Tye Dillinger had a banger in 2017 that didn’t come near 5 minutes and did more for both guys than if it had gone 30.

[sarkerpolseng]

Alestair Black vs Andrade at Takeover.

[msc]

Owen v 123 Kid is just the greatest three minute match of all time.

Owen Hart v Edge at Breakdown 1998 is unjustly forgotten but if you have the Network go watch it now. Edge goes in a rookie and comes out about ten minutes later as almost an equal to a GOAT.

Vader and Bradshaw have a stiff fest of manly clotheslines on the same show. Prime Vader or JBL Vs Gunther, sheamus etc would have been amazing.

In the last decade or so my favourites would be that Wyatt's v Shield match, the Ziggler Del Rio double turn title match, and actually, dark order Vs the elite in the Halloween brawl.

[4real]

Wes Lee v Dijak from NXT earlier this year at Vengeance Day. Might even be my favourite match of the year.

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Every WALTER/GUNTHER match

Literally and Figuratively

[Mid-Carder]

The Charlotte/Ronda Survivor Series match from 2018 was stiff and brutal and nobody really talks about it anymore (probably because of the two women involved)

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Kozlov/Festus, just two mean meaty guys slapping meat

[theironyuppie]

Oct 15, 2023 3:40:57 GMT -5 Mid-Carder said:

The Charlotte/Ronda Survivor Series match from 2018 was stiff and brutal and nobody really talks about it anymore (probably because of the two women involved)

I was going to name that. It's an excellent hard-hitting match that's even more impressive due to the circumstances of having to put it together in only a few days (when the rumour was that Ronda's previous PPV matches had taken extensive rehearsals), and almost instantly winning over an audience that had been desperate to see Becky Lynch. A shame their WM 35 main event with Becky or 2022 matches couldn't quite recapture the magic, but it did set a high bar.

[Ben Wyatt]

Sheamus/Gunther/Drew from this past Mania.