Great <10 minute matches

[El-P]

No clue if it's on YouTube, but there is a Brad Armstrong v. Vader match from either Worldwide or Pro in 94 that I absolutely love, and I doubt it goes longer than six minutes

 

So yeah, sometime we do see the same match. This is terrific indeed.

 

[cheapshot]

Updated the YT playlist with a further 9 matches. Keep the suggestions coming.

[KB8]

Some that I don't think have been mentioned yet (though I'm probably and they have):

 

 

Rockers v Powers of Pain (MSG, 1/15/90) (I think this is dead on ten minutes long. I've been saying it's maybe my favourite 10-minutes-or-less match ever for the last six years, anyway)

 

Arn Anderson & Barry Windham v Doom (WCW Starrcade, 12/16/90)

 

Stan Hansen & Ted DiBiase v Genichiro Tenryu & Jumbo Tsuruta (All Japan, 12/12/86)

 

Rock 'n' Roll Express v The Guerreros (Mid-South, 2/13/85)

 

Daisuke Ikeda v Yuki Ishikawa (Battlarts, 8/4/96)

 

Eddy Guerrero & Chris Jericho v The Faces of Fear (WCW Nitro, 2/24/97)

[cheapshot]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[thebrainfollower]

LOL I glanced at your list jingus for a second without realizing what is was a list of but knowing the topic thread and thought you had lost your mind.

[thebrainfollower]

Sadly I wish Kevin Dunn was around in that Vader-BA match to cover the 2 mistakes.

[BillThompson]

Brian Cage/Jack Evans from PWG: BoLA '15 - Day 3 is a definite contender for this category. The absolute best Cage has ever looked, and the one time I truly believed in him as a world destroying monster. He left all his flying bullshit in the back and just beat the fuck out of Evans with Suplexes, Throws, and Bombs. Evans did his part by bumping like a madman and really selling that he was dead versus Cage from the moment the bell rang. The ending works like aces because of their positioning. Great stuff really, and it's under five minutes long to boot.

[Brandon-E]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. Probably the best singles match that Haku/Meng was involved in.

[JerryvonKramer]

I'm really struggling with people dropping snowflakes on the Goldberg / Brock match for some reason. Doesn't sit right with me.

[WingedEagle]

I'm really struggling with people dropping snowflakes on the Goldberg / Brock match for some reason. Doesn't sit right with me.

 

There's no more to rate there than any physical angle that wraps up a promo, or a sneak attack.

[stomperspc]

I can see a lot of reasons why someone would rate Goldberg/Lesnar and rate it well.

 

If someone rates matches based on the overall effectiveness, Goldberg/Lesnar should do well because it was really effective and accomplished what it set out to accomplish. If you break it down to a more granular level, there is plenty to praise. Goldberg’s offense – both spears and the Jackhammer – looked really, really good. The timing was spot on in the sense that they captured the feeling of a wrestler/fighter getting caught unexpectedly before he could get untracked. The story that the announcers put over (Goldberg taking Brock lightly) was captured in the ring work. The part of the story they didn’t harp on (that Goldberg made a career out of making short work of opponents) was also a strong one and reflected in the ring work. Brock’s selling was fantastic (some of the best I’ve seen all year from anywhere). The way he sold not only made the brief run time feel “right” but also put over Goldberg huge.The match had heat and the finish got a bigtime reaction. None of those things were givens and should be viewed as positives in the match’s favor.

 

There was a full match in there – major offense, great selling, crowd heat, a story, ect. – it was just contained to 90 seconds. Why can’t you rate a match like that?

[supersonic]

Strong vs Nakajima was worth the price of admission.

[JRH]

4 pages and no mention of Owen/123 Kid from KOTR 94?

[EricR]

It was mentioned in the very first post.

[Bierschwale]

Enos-Jericho hasn't been, though.

[WingedEagle]

Shuji Ishikawa vs. Ryoto Hama from 3/31/2016 should be on the list as well.

 

And add Ishikawa vs. Konosuke Takeshita from 5/8/2016. That might even be under 5 minutes.

[WingedEagle]

Bumping this in light of Brock/Finn at tonight's Rumble.

[SmartMark15]

2 hours ago, WingedEagle said:

Bumping this in light of Brock/Finn at tonight's Rumble.

Brock has been great for this category in his career. Some of the early TV matches in 02-03 against Rey and other SD Six people. Then in the late half of his career, the two Goldberg matches plus this Balor match.

[Zoo Enthusiast]

That was so good.  I hope they do another one down the road.

[ShittyLittleBoots]

Utami Hayashishita vs. Starlight Kid (Stardom New Years Stars 2019 Day 2) is a recent great one. Great selling performance by Utami & Kid was awesome w/ her legwork.
 

[C.S.]

Gargano-Ciampa from the first round of the CWC. I bet a lot of those first round matches would fit the bill. 

[Edwin]

And more recently the Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch vs. Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner from last weeks episode of NXT was great.

[William Bologna]

12 hours ago, Edwin said:

 

Man, that was great. I'm guessing Lance Storm didn't think much of it, though.

I'd add the second Kawada vs Sasaki match, for the vacant IWGP.

[Boss Rock]

KUSHIDA vs. Hiromu Takahashi at Sakura Genesis 2017 is one of my favorites. Almost more of an angle than a match to put over how dominant Hiromu is, but it's so beautifully put together.

[brocklock]

On 1/27/2019 at 11:28 PM, SmartMark15 said:

Brock has been great for this category in his career. Some of the early TV matches in 02-03 against Rey and other SD Six people. Then in the late half of his career, the two Goldberg matches plus this Balor match.

I really liked the Samoa Joe match as well. I think that went only six minutes.