If You Could Take Only 3 Matches To A Desert Island...

[joeg]

Kind of surprised nobody picked Inoki vs Saito Desert Island Deathmatch

[fxnj]

Misawa/Kobashi 1/20/97

1984 NJPW Gauntlet

1992 Royal Rumble

 

Fuck short matches. If this is all I can watch I'm bringing something long.

[Edwin]

Benoit vs. Taskmaster (WCW Great American Bash 1996) - My favorite match of all time and the match that turned Benoit into my favorite wrestler of all time as kid. Knowing the backstory to this over the years made it much better in my eyes.

 

Rey Jr. vs Eddie (WCW Halloween Havoc 1997) - A match that has aged well in it's element. I know this may not be everyone's type of match now a days, but back then this was highly praised. To this day these 2 guys pulled out spots that haven't still been replicated and executed as perfectly as they did. Rey Jr. just went balls to the wall and Eddie caught him perfectly in every spot they worked in.

 

Sting, Windham, Dustin, Steamboat and Koloff vs. Austin, Rude, Arn, Eaton and Zbyszko (WCW WrestleWar 1992) - My favorite cage match ever and maybe the most underrated cage match ever. I haven't watched it in a while, but both teams really brought it that night. This match also featured the best Ricky Steamboat fist pump in the history of wrestling.

[UKWildcat]

Lawler v Dundee Loser Leaves Town - June 83

Flair v Funk - I Quit - Nov 89

Bret v Austin - Wrestlemania 13

[jdw]

I like Elliott stealing the old cheating gimmick.

 

Anyway:

 

03/05/69 NWA Int'l Title: Giant Baba vs The Destroyer
11/26/92 WWWA Tag Titles: Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai
12/06/96 RWTL Final: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama

[JaymeFuture]

I want to thank everybody for the contributions, we got to read many of them on the show, which is now available at the following link:

http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean.com/mf/play/qyreex/SCGRadio74-DesertIslandDuelsPart2.mp3

Join us for Part 2 of our "Desert Island Duels" series! Taking your feedback, we discuss the possibility of being stranded on a desert with only three wrestling matches to watch forever - which ones did you decide to take and why? We break down matches such as HHH Vs. Cactus, Bret Hart Vs. Roddy Piper, HHH Vs. Rock, Angle Vs. Michaels, Royal Rumble 2001, Lesnar Vs. Cena, Misawa Vs. Kobashi, Punk Vs. Cena matches not at MITB, and quite literally a ton more. This series was a really fun blast of nostalgia and positivity with emotional personal recollections galore. Check it out and let us know what you think!