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Mil Mascaras v The Destroyer (AJPW 07/25/74) Jumbo Tsuruta v Terry Funk (AJPW 06/11/76) Bob Backlund v Antonio Inoki (NJPW 11/30/79)

Steve Austin v The Rock (WWF Wrestlemania X-7 PPV 04/01/01) The Rock v Chris Jericho (WWF No Mercy PPV 10/21/01)

Dory Funk Jr v Jack Brisco (NWA Florida 01/13/72)

Chigusa Nagayo v Devil Masami (AJW 08/22/85)

Midnight Express v Southern Boys (NWA Great American Bash PPV 07/07/90) Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Larry Zbyszko & Sid Vicious v Sting, Brian Pillman, Rick & Scott Steiner (WCW Wrestle War PPV 02/24/91) Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes v Steve Austin & Larry Zbyszko (WCW SuperBrawl II PPV 02/29/92)

Bob Backlund v Ken Patera (WWF @ MSG 05/19/80 - Texas Death Match)

(1) Stampede will be considered part of the US for the sole purposes of this project. (2) If a WWF match takes place in England, it would still be considered a US match. (3) Any lucha will be included with Mexico. If anyone has any really catchy names for each category, share 'em and I'll change the titles.

That would actually go in US nominations since it happened in Los Angeles, unless we want to consider Mexico "lucha". We may want to address that for companies touring outside their country anyway. I'm fine with either way. Make the decision, Mortimer, and we'll follow your lead.

16-man Cibernetico (AAA 04/18/97) Rey Misterio Jr v Juventud Guerrera (AAA 11/30/94)

Atlantis v Villano III (EMLL PPV 03/17/00)

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

Use this thread to nominate matches you've seen that you think are good that would fit in this category. We'll keep this and all other topics open for the remainder of the year so you can add matches anytime you come across something you see that you like.

So ... we're going to be starting something very similar to what DVDVR is doing at their board, but slightly different. Beginning some time around the first of the year, we're going to be doing a long series of Best Match lists, based on the interest in the idea when I did my recent poll. The idea is that we start nominations now for as much stuff in all categories as we possibly can. I will go about trying to track down as much of the footage that's nominated as I possibly can and send out DVDs with the matches included for those who are participating. The only costs involved would be covering postage and blank DVDs. If there was a service fee, it would be minimal. The only issues are as follows. (1) We need to ensure that people who get the footage will be participating. If they aren't participating and they're just using this as an opportunity to get tons of footage cheap, I'm going to have a problem with that. So, let's agree on a solid plan if someone just tries to ape a bunch of DVDs and doesn't talk about the matches and ways in which they'll be tortured. Obviously, there are going to be extenuating circumstances at times, but we need to find a way to discourage this as much as possible. (2) How do we want to divide the categories? I'm thinking the following. US Pre-1980 US 80s US 90s US 00s Japan Pre-1980 Japan 80s Japan 90s Japan 00s Mexico Pre-1990 Mexico 90s Mexico 00s Europe (all) After doing those categories individually, we could do overall lists. Since we're covering a more broad spectrum at a time than DVDVR is with their lists, we'll go at a slower pace. Nothing says that you'd have to participate in every single tournament, but if you didn't participate in every single tournament, you wouldn't be allowed to participate in any of the overall tournaments because you wouldn't have seen all the nominated footage. We're in the process right now of creating another subfolder to deal with all of this, and I'll move this topic there at that time. I'm going to start a thread for each category and we can make nominations there. For now, I just wanted to put this out there and gauge interest in doing this. This would be done at a very slow pace, probably one set every 90 days or so, and I'm thinking a Top 100 in every category seems about right, but we may have to make some adjustments along the way as footage availability will be a factor. Anyway, this is a thread for thoughts and suggestions, so have at it.

For the WCW tournament, we'll most likely take the same route we took with the WWF one and DVDs won't be necessary. We're looking at starting the Best Match stuff around the first of the year when I will also have burning and copying capabilities. Thanks for the offer and I'll let you know on that one when we're ready, but it's going to take some time. We could probably slowly start doing some nominations now for every Best Match tournament we do, actually. There's an idea. Just to keep everything organized. As for the WCW tournament, I'm going to let the poll run until Thursday just so it's open for a week. Looks like we're leaning toward 1991-2001.