The first match contested for the WWE Tag Team Championships on SmackDown got the tag team division on the blue brand off to a blazing start. © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. The main event might actually be the weakest of the bunch from a pure wrestling standpoint.
This is the best women's wrestling event of all time. The Steiner Brothers - March 21, 199180) NWA World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage Match: Harley Race © vs. Ric Flair - November 24, 198381) WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Hulk Hogan vs. Still, it was the ending WCW fans wanted and needed in a great year for the promotion.
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But this was not a one-match show. Meanwhile, the main event between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada felt like a larger than life spectacle. The loss, however, launched the career of the fourth face of Foley...Mick Foley. The undercard matches don’t hold up quite as well as they did upon first viewing. It isn't brainwashing, it is a product of wrestling being easier to approach than ever. Two brothers who made you believe the jealousy and envy was real. Funk brought brutality to the story, forcing Flair to come to his level in order to get the win. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig (AWA on ESPN 1986). Selected as match of the year in 1989 with very stiff competition, the second showdown between Flair and Steamboat is the greatest display of professional wrestling you will ever see.
Then again, you’re pretty much nitpicking when you’re analyzing NJPW shows from the past few years. In those days WCW, you didn’t get the good-guy versus good-buy matchup that seems commonplace in WWE today. It was such a success that the likes of Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Psicosis, Konnan and others would soon become mainstays in the States. DIY got the win in a full throttle two out of three falls match. The match launched the career of anti-hero Stone Cold Steve Austin, with MMA legend Ken Shamrock as the special guest referee, featured the rare double turn. NJPW really knew how to settle things. Truth be told, NJPW could have stopped after Wrestle Kingdom 11 and still owned 2017. But the biggest show of the year brought them together to one of the most engaging matches in history. Where did this person get that talking point? But that story drove what might be the greatest tag-team match in WWE history. 1 Epic List. Ring of Honor had a great 2007, capped by its summer Driven pay-per-view. They both must have been proud after this one.
22. The image of Austin bleeding profusely while helplessly fighting out of the Sharpshooter, an image which was later manufactured into a t-shirt, remains as one of the most iconic sequences in WrestleMania history.
It's the greatest and most influential story WWE has told in the 21st Century, even if Vince McMahon didn't initially want to tell it. Sadly, re-watching such a match can’t help but be a reminder of Benoit’s tragic ending. The event was led by what many now consider to be the greatest match in wrestling history.
But the pay-per-view was in Canada. Yep. Hollywood Hogan vs. Lennox Lewis accompanied the British Bulldog to the ring in front of his home crowd, further adding to the unique ambiance of a dynamic main event.
Here’s the thing about ECW.
Austin and Rock lived up to the many layers of pressure of the WrestleMania main event with a fantastic match where two of the most popular WWE Stars of all time went toe to toe in a main event befitting of the greatest WrestleMania of all time. Yet, little by little, Guerrero (one of the greatest to ever do it) makes the crowd believe there’s a chance. This was good vs. evil in a way that WCW hadn’t achieved before and didn’t again until the N.W.O. Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn had incredible chemistry.
The Flair-Steamboat feud is untouchable. Instead, we got a tag title match between Terry Gordy and Steve Williams and the Steiner Brothers. The Dangerous Alliance (WrestleWar 1992).
Austin and Bret Hart in a submission match at WrestleMania 13 was quite possibly the most important match of WWE history. It’s also the ideal moment in WCW history — modern enough to feel vital but old enough to still feel totally raw. The matches aren’t exactly special from a pure wrestling standpoint. But Dominion comes insanely close to equaling it. Yet, the dirtiest player in the game overcame all odds and was put over in one epic showcase. Nervous that a match between Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair wouldn’t get fans excited, they divided the two. But every match carries a certain weight of importance to it, closing out with what may have been the match of the year in all of wrestling with Bryan Danielson taking on Nigel McGuinness. The Undertaker - March 30, 200891) IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii - July 2, 201792) Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart - March 20, 199493) WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Goldberg © vs. Diamond Dallas Page - October 25, 199894) Steel Cage Match: Brodie Lee vs. Claudio Castagnoli - September 7, 200895) ROH World Championship Ladder War: Kevin Steen © vs. El Generico - December 16, 201296) Loser Leaves Town: Chris Hero vs. Eddie Kingston - April 4, 200797) #1 Contendership Guerilla Warfare Match: Drake Younger vs. Sami Callihan - March 22, 201398) WWE World Heavyweight Championship: Brock Lesnar © vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins - January 25, 201599) Shawn Michaels vs. Shelton Benjamin - May 2, 2005100) Bobby Fish vs. Bryan Danielson - July 23, 2010. Don't Edit. Top Rated Matches of All Time All below match ratings come from Dave Meltzer of the … McMahon had the main event he needed – Andre vs. Hogan. When it comes to pro wrestling and lists, the possibilities are almost endless. It was the greatest women’s match in all of WWE history up until that point and a peak moment in the promotion’s Women’s Revolution.
Okay... Only thing that interested me about the list was how many "old school" matches made it.
Heading into WrestleMania 13, Bret Hart was the promotion’s most bankable star. Lists are the very catalysts for a variety of debates and intriguing conversation. It’s absolutely incredible and somehow manages to overshadow a card that also features Chris Jericho in a fight against Tetsuya Naito, a six-man tag of the Bullet Club vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger and Rey Mysterio Jr., and, arguably, the best tag team match of the year featuring The Young Bucks vs. Sanada and Evil. – would win.
SummerSlam 1992 is most remembered for Bret Hart defending his Intercontinental Championship against brother-in-law The British Bulldog in the latter’s home country of England. The result is a match unlike anything WWE had seen, creating the blueprint for so many future performers, from Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels to CM Punk and Daniel Bryan. If you dig deep into wrestling blogs, you'll see a common thread in recaps of Beach Blast 1992. Oh, that promo. Menu.
In many way, this was NJPW’s coming out party. No love for Han and Tamura is also quite sad. 34. Elsewhere, Ricky Steamboat and Lex Luger bring the absolute best out of each other. 3.
The tournament also marked breakthrough moments for young wrestlers like Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit. Both Michaels and Hart are often cited as the greatest workers in North America, and during this point in time there really was no other wrestler better in the States than these two. The Nature Boy lasted more than an hour to win the Rumble. The Undertaker's long rivalry with Mick Foley's Mankind character saw a series of brutal gimmick matches; however, none were greater or more memorable than Taker and Mankind in the second Hell in a Cell match.
But it’s also Cactus Jack’s menacing nature. For my money, this is one of the absolute best matches of all time. falling off of a 16-foot cell through an announce table. Over 1,000 matches. But that doesn't mean it ages well. It’s still hard to believe this actually happened. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Savage got the win but properly put Flair over as a true heel. But it was Ms. Elizabeth to the rescue in a reunion for the ages. To realize how epic Extreme Rules was in 2012, you have to remember the build. But, unbeknownst to fans then, they were creating the blueprint for the modern main event. That’s one hell of a main event on a card that’s mind-blowing.
Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal pull double duty, while the dog-collar match between Jimmy Rave and CM Punk is a violent spectacle. And to think, that wasn’t even the main event. Somehow, AJ Styles and Tetsuya Naito squeeze 30 minutes worth of amazing moments into half that time. 1992 was a great year for WCW, perhaps, peaking with WrestleWar. But Bryan’s moment should have come much sooner than that. How did we rate WCW's greatest year in 1989? While the match seemed to have too many components on paper, the tension by design, expertly built up over a course of weeks, had created a matchup that fit the grueling implications of a two out of three falls match with the final two falls carrying dangerous stipulations. Can't say I'm a fan of the results, but at least there's some value in seeing how casual smart fans think.
We made it clear from the beginning that this is list is about pay-per-views in their entirety, not just events with one great match. The two’s chemistry was immediate.
I'm curious why your expectations are so low. As is Dustin Rhodes showdown with Bunkhouse Buck in a "Bunkhouse Match." 32. If you have a negative opinion on women's wrestling, it's likely you've never seen All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Dream Slam 1 (or its sequel for that matter).
Let's not turn this into a "the dread Meltzer has brainwashed the masses into liking the wrong kind of wrestling" thread, thanks. But it was that first WrestleMania match between Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels that serves as a poetry in motion.
Interesting that Magnum-Tully is the first old school match that pops up. Sting pulls out the victory for his team like the top babyface he was at the time.
Yet, Flair seemed doomed from the start of the match, as he drew No.
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