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    I thought both worked extremely hard to overcome the lukewarm and disinterested crowd and tell a great story. They initially tried Flair as heel and Fujinami as face but switched roles as the match progressed in a really cool way with Fujinami relentlessly targeting Flair with vicious and focused offense while Flair sold fantastically and made himself a sympathetic figure.
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    Shinjiro Ohtani Ohtani/Wild Pegasus vs. Black Tiger/Great Sasuke 10/18/1994 vs. El Samurai 1/21/1996 vs. Jushin Liger 3/17/1996 vs. Ultimo Dragon 8/5/1996 vs. Jushin Liger 2/9/1997 Jun Akiyama Akiyama/Misawa vs. Kawada/Taue 1996 feud vs. Kobashi 7/24/1998 vs. Ogawa 9/11/1998 vs. Misawa 2/27/2000 vs. Tenzan 8/17/2003 vs. Kobashi 7/10/2004 vs Masao Inoue 4/23/2006 vs. Marufuji 9/9/2006 vs. Suwara 10/23/2011 vs. Kai 4/29/2013
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    Great match with cool matwork, stiff strikes and a great story with Hashimoto restoring New Japan's honor by beating the UWFi invader at his own game (submissions and strikes) and regaining the title. Not to mention incredible crowd heat with the two pops for the brainbuster and the finish being among the loudest ever. **** 1/4
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    One of the best WWE matches of the 2000-2009 decade. A simply incredible heel performance by Austin. His mannerisms and facial expressions were out of this world. Angle also gave a great performance as the tough underdog babyface. Tons of hate, intensity and blood and the non-finish with Austin taking out all those referees and the DQ worked perfectly with the story as it emphasized his frustration and desperation while protecting Angle. **** 1/4
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    Mima Shimoda http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/20398-etsuko-mita-mima-shimoda-vs-tomoko-watanabe-kumiko-maekawa/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/20472-etsuko-mita-mima-shimoda-vs-kaoru-ito-tomoko-watanabe/ http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/11496-manami-toyota-mima-shimoda-vs-kaoru-ito-mariko-yoshida-ajw-092896-23-falls/?hl=mima
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    I have been looking for more pre-1993 Akira Hokuto stuff when I found this match. Fantastic performance by her, full of urgency and focus, with a really good selljob of her bad leg. She looked very impressive even this early in her career. Chigusa continues her excellent 1980s run with another great performance as well. Terrific match and a hidden gem. **** 1/4
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    My Top 10 (in order) at this point 1) Genichiro Tenryu 2) Jushin Liger 3) El Satanico 4) Negro Casas 5) Kenta Kobashi 6) Terry Funk 7) Yoshiaki Fujiwara 8) Tatsumi Fujinami 9) Jumbo Tsuruta 10) El Dandy
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    I honestly thought the transitions worked well because of the high risk nature of the offense. The guy in control hits a series of big moves but because the offense involves an element of risk (eg. coming of the top rope), is likely to make a mistake or have the move countered so loses control of the match to other person. Now, the second person manages to hit a big move (eg. Sasuke's Asai Moonsault or Liger's Shotei) out of desperation but is still selling the previous damage/injuries and can't immediately go 100% and take full advantage, which is what differentiates this from a spotfest. Hope that makes sense.
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    vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara (8/8/1993) is a good match too.
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    If I was ranking solely based on peak (regardless of duration), she would be #1. 1993-94 Akira Hokuto is the best pro wrestler I have ever seen, possibly excluding only 1984 El Satanico.
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    Completely agree with all the praise here and in other places on the site. He just might be the most universally accessible wrestler ever (except maybe for people who just don't get/like Lucha) mainly because he is absolutely amazing at literally every facet of pro wrestling. My highest ranked luchador and a lock for Top 3.
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    If you are taking suggestions, I would recommend Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai (4/30/1992) from New Japan. The hate and general storytelling in that match are incredible.
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    Hello, I have been a pro wrestling fan since 2004 with Wrestlemania 20 being my first wrestling memory. I thought the matches were the coolest medium of storytelling I had ever seen. I was basically a WWE fan for the first few years and then I discovered WCW and ECW matches. I knew Benoit, Liger, Eddie etc. so I watched Benoit vs. Sasuke from Super J Cup 94, which was my gateway to Japanese wrestling. At first it was only New Japan Juniors but then I discovered All Japan with Misawa vs. Jumbo 6/90 being my first match. From there I diversified with Joshi and some shoot-style (RINGS). I found this site in 2013 and have been lurking until now. Even though I knew Santo and had seen the When Worlds Collide Tag match, I was almost completely unfamilar with Lucha until I saw how highly Dandy, Casas, Satanico matches were ranked on this site. I checked them out (and was extremely impressed) and so this site is what got me into Mexican wrestling. I wanted to participate in the 2016 GWE poll so I signed up.
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    Removed my list for now. Have to rework ratings.
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    Yes the 10/2009 Misawa tribute tag is a great choice. Tons of emotion and the HDA teaching KENTA a lesson for being such a prick was really fun. Kawada, especially, gave an exceptional performance.
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    Some matches I would recommend for Taue in the 2000s Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata (6/6/2003) Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (8/1/2004) Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi (9/10/2004) Akira Taue/Kenta Kobashi vs. Genichiro Tenryu/Jun Akiyama (9/18/2005) --> Taue's performance is the best one in the match, IMO Akira Taue vs. Takeshi Morishima (12/5/2005) Akira Taue vs. Jun Akiyama (1/22/2006) Akira Taue vs. Naomichi Marufuji (3/5/2006) Akira Taue/Go Shiosaki vs. KENTA/Katsuyori Shibata (9/9/2006)
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    "Easily surpass" is probably the wrong choice of words by me (it refers more to match quality than individual performances anyways, which might not be the right criteria). Still, I would have ranked Misawa and Kobashi above him anyways regardless of everyone's post-prime work. The 2000s boost mostly applied to Taue, who I always thought was only a little bit below the other three in their 90s matches.
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    I don't know I thought this had practically no down time at all and the submission stuff worked because of Miyato's selling. Watching the 5/88 match just added to the story of this for me, because it showed Miyato's growth. In that match he got almost no (non-kick based) offence at all but in this he is going toe to toe with Takada at various points and has the crowd more invested.
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    Very fun match with stiff strikes, cool matwork and great selling from Miyato but this was essentially a squash. The 7/89 match is much better and way more "competitive" (even though realistically Miyato had no chance of winning in either one).
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    This was much more one sided (a borderline squash) than the Takada match but was still really good. It was nice how the crowd went completely nuts when Miyato finally managed a flurry of offense near the end.
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    Fantastic match to the point I thought it was almost as good as Funaki vs. Nakano. Really good selling from Miyato and I liked how his strikes lost their power at the end because of how drained he was. Takada was vicious throughout but I thought he was really selfless and gave Miyato a lot of the offence.
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    Watched the 1989 Maeda and Takada matches and I thought he is really good as the tough underdog trying to survive the more skilled and experienced fighters. Good selling too.
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    Tenryu, Liger, Satanico, Casas and Kobashi would be certainties. Other contenders include Fujiwara, Terry Funk, Fujinami, Jumbo, Misawa, Akiyama, Shawn Michaels, El Dandy, Santo, Aja Kong, Chigusa, Kiyoshi Tamura, Vader, Eddie Guerrero, Akira Hokuto, Steve Austin, Ikeda
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    That's a fair point, watching a larger sample of matches would probably better indicate if he really was individually worse than the other three during the 2000s. And the regular overlap of Misawa, Kobashi and Taue is a good point, especially in tags that included Akiyama, Tenryu etc., and definitely would have been a factor for the higher match quality.
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    Superb match with Terry Funk giving one of the best performances in wrestling history. Brillant selling, doing little things to put Hansen over as a monster (for example nearly falling backwards after slamming Hansen to emphasize how difficult it was) and generally making himself look like the most sympathetic babyface ever. Hansen's intensity is great too but him no selling Funk's work on his knee everytime he went on the offensive is one thing that has always bothered me about this match. Still a must-see classic.
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