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What are matches you guys have given 5 stars? heres my list


-Ric Flair(c) vs Sting,NWA Title,NWA Clash Of The Champions

-Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat(c), NWA World Title ,Judges At Ringside,NWA/WCW WrestleWar 1989

-Bret Hart(c) vs Davey Boy Smith, WWF Intercontinental Title, WWF Summerslam 1992

-Bret Hart vs Owen Hart, WWF WrestleMania X

-Razor Ramon(c) vs Shawn Michaels,WWF IC Title,Ladder Match,WWF WrestleMania X

-Bret Hart(c) vs Shawn Michaels,WWF Title,60 Minute Iron Man Match,WWF Wrestlemania 12

-Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda,Deathmatch,FMW 5-5-1996

-Rey Mysterio vs Psychosis,WCW Bash At The Beach 1996

-Bret Hart vs Steve Austin,Submission Match,WWF Wrestlemania 13

-Shawn Michaels(c) vs The Undertaker,WWF Title,Hell In A Cell,WWF Badd Blood 1997

-Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero(c),WCW CW Title vs Mask,WCW Halloween Havoc 1997

-Rob Van Dam(c) vs Jerry Lynn,ECW TV Title,ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999

-Bret Hart vs Chris Benoit,WCW Nitro 10-4-1999

-Triple H(c) vs Cactus Jack,WWF Title,Street Fight,WWF Royal Rumble 2000

-Triple H vs Steve Austin,2/3 Falls,WWF No Way Out 2001

-Edge And Christain vs The Hardy Boyz vs The Dudley Boyz(c),WWF Tag Titles,TLC,WWF WrestleMania X-Seven

-The Rock(c) vs Steve Austin,WWF Title,NO DQ,WWF WrestleMania X-Seven

-Kurt Angle vs Shane Mcmahon,Street Fight,WWF King Of The Ring 2001

-Kurt Angle vs Steve Austin(c),WWF Title,WWF Unforgiven 2001

-Shawn Michaels vs Triple H,Street Fight,WWE Summerslam 2002

-Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit vs Edge and Rey Mysterio,WWE Tag Titles(First),WWE No Mercy 2002

-Brock Lesnar(c) vs The Undertaker,WWE Title,Hell In A Cell,WWE No Mercy 2002

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Chris Benoit,WWE Title,WWE Royal Rumble 2003

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Brock Lesnar,WWE Title,Level Playing Field,WWE WrestleMania XIX

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Brock Lesnar,WWE Title,WWE Summerslam 2003

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Brock Lesnar,WWE Title,60 Minute Iron Man Match,WWE Smackdown 9-18-2003

-Kurt Angle vs Eddie Guerrero(c),WWE Title,WWE WrestleMania XX

-Brock Lesnar(c) vs Eddie Guerrero,WWE Title,WWE No Way Out 2004

-Triple H(c) vs Chris Benoit vs Shawn Michaels,WWE WHC,WWE WrestleMania XX

-Randy Orton(c) vs Cactus Jack,WWE IC Title,Hardcore Match,WWE Backlash 2004

-AJ Styles vs Chris Sabin vs Petey Williams(c),TNA X Title,Ultimate X,TNA Final Resolution 2005

-AJ Styles(c) vs Christopher Daniels,TNA X Title,30 Minute Iron Man Match,TNA Against All Odds 2005

-Kurt Angle vs Shawn Michaels,WWE WrestleMania 21

-John Cena(c) vs JBL,WWE Title,I Quit,WWE Judgment Day 2005

-AJ Styles vs Matt Hardy,IWC 7-29-2005

-AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels(c),TNA X Title,TNA Unbreakable 2005

-Samoa Joe vs Kenta Kobashi,ROH Joe vs Kobashi

-Kurt Angle(c) vs The Undertaker,WWE WHC,WWE No Way Out 2006

-Blood Generation vs Do Fixer,ROH Supercard Of Honor 3-31-2006

-John Cena vs Shawn Michaels,WWE Raw 4-23-2007

-Kurt Angle vs AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe vs Christain Cage vs ???,TNA World Title(First),KOM,TNA Slammiversary 2007

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Yuji Nagata,IGF Title,Tokyo Dome Show 1-4-2008

-Kurt Angle(c) vs Samoa Joe,TNA Title vs Career,Cage,TNA Lockdown 2008

-Kurt Angle vs Jeff Jarrett,NO DQ,TNA Genesis 2009

-Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels,WWE WrestleMania 25

-Kurt Angle vs Matt Morgan,TNA Bound For Glory 2009

-Kurt Angle vs AJ Styles(c),TNA Title,TNA Impact 1-4-2010

-Kurt Angle vs Mr Anderson,Cage,Escape Only,TNA Lockdown 2010

-MCMG(c) vs Beer Money,2/3 Falls,TNA Tag Titles,TNA Whole F'N Show

-AJ Styles vs Bully Ray,Last Man Standing,TNA Slammiversary IX 2011

-Eddie Edwards(c) vs Davey Richards,ROH Title,ROH Best In The World 2011

-John Cena(c)vs CM Punk,WWE Title-WWE Money In The Bank 2011


Out of the thousands of matches i have seen i have 52 5 star matches. pretty special.

anyway id love to see ur guys's lists
 
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#928 ·
WCW just lives to confuse us, why are you so vague man?

That tag is incredible btw and it made #5 on my Top 100 WCW ballot, everyone in it was brilliant and it proves why southern tag formula makes for the best tag team matches. Think it was one of the first matches I saw of Zbyszko as well and I'd recommend anyone who watches this match watch more of him, because despite being the lesser of the 4 workers in the match (not a knock at all given the quality involved in that match) he's still a great great heel worker and well worth looking up.
 
#930 ·
Been living under a rock between uni work and trying to keep up a respectable social life and been quite burnt out talking about wrestling.

Watched a fair amount of matches but not had much motivation to write much, when exams finish on the 16th I might do a mini right up of a few WWE and Indy matches, some serious good shit going down on the lesser indies (i.e lucky to get 100 people). The likes of Luke Gallows, Jake Davis, Drew Haskins, Damian Wayne, Dean Allmark, James Mason and Kyle Matthews have been putting on some great matches, particularly Gallows v Davis
 
#931 ·
About time you showed back up here lol.

Gonna' get around to watching that WCW tag later tonight. I watched some old ROH stuff last night and I think the 4 way world title match at Redemption where Gibson won the belt was absolutely fantastic. I don't remember it being that good, and I checked the DVD review thread and I didn't see anyone who thought it was as good as I did. One of my favorite ROH matches ever and quite underrated.

I also watched Punk/Aries from DBD III again and while it is great and the atmosphere is amazing, Punk completely no selling the kick, 450 combo really took me out of the match. I did, however, love Punk kicking out of the pepsi plunge at a 1 count and hulking up only to get knocked out by an elbow.

Going to rewatch the Danielson/Strong series tomorrow to see if the Vendetta match is as good as I remember it.
 
#933 ·
The Clash tag might be one of the best American tags of all time, maybe just behind the Steamboat/Youngblood v Slaughter/Kernodle Final Conflict Steel Cage tag. Its just a perfectly worked style and a master display of crowd control and 4 brilliant workers putting on a sensational match, doesn't hurt that arguably the 2nd greatest tag team FIP is in the match against one of wrestling's best tag team heels either.

Gibson's whole run in ROH (as well as some hidden WWE stuff, step up v Mysterio Velocity Match which is fucking awesome) is incredible, everything from his arrival up until the Danielson title switch is worth watching, and the Punk saga and Strong match are incredible. I recall enjoying Punk/Aries, but yeah there was some indy pitfalls that definitely stopped the match being in the elite category for me, but with the atmosphere, pre and post match angle I can't fault anyone who looks past that and appreciates the match in a wider context.

Danielson/Strong Vendetta is my favourite ROH match ever, though I consider The 6th Anniversary show match v McGuinness to be ROH's best match ever. Danielson though in this match feels like 80s Ric Flair with how he combines the cowardly/sneaky character that riles the crowd up to the point where we have a clear face/heel dynamic with the crowd demanding Strong be crowned champion and then manages to add so many brilliant exchanges that reinforce his ability as the best in the world and keep up an incredible match. The finishing stretch and post match reaction might also be my favourite ROH finishing stretch, you can literally feel yourself hating Dragon with every sick elbow to Strong and realising just how hard its going to be to see him lose to someone.
 
#934 ·
The Clash tag might be one of the best American tags of all time, maybe just behind the Steamboat/Youngblood v Slaughter/Kernodle Final Conflict Steel Cage tag. Its just a perfectly worked style and a master display of crowd control and 4 brilliant workers putting on a sensational match, doesn't hurt that arguably the 2nd greatest tag team FIP is in the match against one of wrestling's best tag team heels either.
I agree with the bolded part.

The underlined part just seems like a massive stretch to me, though.

I mean, I can see the case that it's better than any WWF/E tag ever, even if I think there are a few that are as good or better (although there wouldn't be many). It's definitely one of the best WCW tags of the 90s (arguably the best, although I personally wouldn't argue that). But #2 *all-time*? If I had any sort of motivation to come up with a personal top 20 it'd most likely be in or about there, but top 5 seems like a huge stretch never mind second just behind the Final Conflict tag.
 
#935 ·
I could be forgetting a few matches/not watched some others that may appeal to me, but yeah on last watch I just adored everything about it from the characters, to the crowd, the setting, Jim Ross on commentary, little touches etc etc. Something about it just stuck with me and made me appreciate it so much more, same with Hogan/Flair Halloween Havoc Steel Cage being my #11, even though there are a ton of matches on my ballot I would probably watch ahead of it, something about it just made me love it so much more that I decided it was worthy of placing incredibly high on my ballot.
 
#938 ·
1. Steve Austin v Kurt Angle (WWF 8/19/01)
2. Bret Hart v Steve Austin (WWF – I Quit Match 3/23/97)
3. Shawn Michaels v Mankind (WWF 9/22/96)
4. Randy Savage v Ricky Steamboat (WWF 3/29/87)
5. Shawn Michaels v Undertaker (WWF 10/5/97)
6. Bret Hart v Steve Austin (WWF 11/17/96)
7. Bret Hart v Mr. Perfect (WWF 6/13/93)
8. Bob Backlund v Sgt. Slaughter (WWF – Cage Match 3/21/81)
9. Bob Backlund v Ken Patera (WWF – Texas Death Match 5/19/80)
10. Finlay v Chris Benoit (WWE 5/21/06)
11. Steve Austin v The Rock (WWF 4/1/01)
12. Bob Backlund v Greg Valentine (WWF 2/19/79)
13. Shawn Michaels v Diesel (WWF – No Holds Barred 4/28/96)
14. Chris Benoit v William Regal (WWE 10/8/06)

IDK man, that's a murderer's row ahead of it (wasn't a Benoit joke...although maybe it should be). Probably should've been ahead of the Shawn/Diesel match, though.
 
#941 ·
Yeah, I mean as you say everything post NWO 2001 is essentially building to the turn, and Rock is really just forced to play a defiant champion and default heel role while Austin's character breaks down with each kickout and JR screaming about just how far will he have to go to beat Rock. The cold eyed facial expressions of shock are extraordinary and the one with blood streaming from his head after Rock kicks out of a stunner is one of my favourites ever.

What I was really trying to say is on last watch some of the brawling/structure seemed a bit off to the point where I thought Austin's character went from just being the icing on a great match, to largely being responsible for the match turning out as well as it did, like if you had someone who isn't as good as Austin playing his character/role then I don't think the brawling, sequences etc would carry the match to 'really great' level.

I still think its a very good match and true to the attitude era style with some more subtle character/story work thrown in, but I do feel its diminished in stature the more I watch it.
 
#944 ·
What I was really trying to say is on last watch some of the brawling/structure seemed a bit off to the point where I thought Austin's character went from just being the icing on a great match, to largely being responsible for the match turning out as well as it did, like if you had someone who isn't as good as Austin playing his character/role then I don't think the brawling, sequences etc would carry the match to 'really great' level.
But the fact is that it was Austin, so the brawling and everything else was great. Why analyze the match on something that "might have happened" with another wrestler instead?
 
#942 ·
Well Austin was the best wrestler on the planet at that point, so yeah. But I get what you're saying.

I'd probably drop Bret/Perfect a few spots now. Watching it again on the '93 yearbook, I'm not even sure it's a top 30 match for that year worldwide. If I watched it in amongst all of that WWF stuff again I might still put it as high, but I'm not sure. Still think it smokes Bret/Owen from Wrestlemania, though.
 
#943 ·
Not got a great memory of Owen/Bret tbh, bar I know for the most part I enjoyed it and dug Owen in particular utilising some good cocky mannerisms. Pretty sure I didn't think it came close to some of the praise I'd seen/heard it get, and thought maybe some of the story/interactions could have been played out better than they were. I mean I'd rank the War Games match featuring Dustin v Bunkhouse Buck (sure I've got the right year) as far better than Owen/Bret, largely down to that lunatic Terry Funk throwing his shoe at his opponent 20 seconds into the match.
 
#951 ·
Austins performance in the WM 17 match was ridiculously amazing. I don't think I've seen many better character performances than that. Austin/Angle is another one where his performance really raised the match to epic levels. Austin in 2001 was undoubtedly the best wrestler in the world for me.
 
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