dedhemingway Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 My 'favorite' match of all-time is easy, but kinda cheap. At one of the WrestleReunions, PWG held a show that featured a legends battle royal that ended with Terry Funk and Roddy Piper having a bloody brawl. Getting to see two of my favorite guys ever do that live, makes it easily my favorite match. If you made me pick something I wasn't there live for, it would change based on my mood and when you ask, but right now I'd probably say HBK/Mankind from Mind Games '96. Edit: I think I said Magnum/Tully was my favorite earlier, which kinda proves my mercurial tastes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 My favorite tag match is the Midnight Rockers vs. Rose/Somers that has been mentioned. Parv, I don't remember the versions that I have seen of the two mentioned Lawler/Dundee LLT matches being clipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 My version of 1983 Lawler/Dundee is 17:03. For 1985, it's 15:20. Both are definitely clipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 That's interesting. I definitely had forgotten they were clipped. I have the Memphis 80's set, and the Lawler set that WWE released a few years ago. The Blu-ray has the match from '83. But, I doubt it is any different from the version you (we) have. So, I guess I had forgotten the clipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childs Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 The 1985 match is definitely clipped. The video highlight package that goes with it features action that isn't in the match as broadcast. I still voted it No. 1 on the Memphis set, and it's on a short list of the greatest matches I've ever seen. But the clip is frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachchaos Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 6/9/95 or Clash 6 Neither answer is wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 One of the little issues I have with people citing Lawler / Dundee as "perfect" ... isn't it clipped?Not the one I have, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachchaos Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 70's-TV.com apparently has a version of the '83 LLT w/ intros that I haven't gotten my hands on yet, but other than that I recall about 30 seconds missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 I looked through the thread and I'm a little shocked no one has dropped Santo/Casas from 1997. Mike from WKO picked that, and I just re-watched it and it really is a great pick. It has the same bar fight/two guys trying to murder eachother feel like Chicana/MS1, Lawler/Dundee or the best of WAR/BattlARTS etc., but mixed with modern athletic death moves and sports-like feeling and awesome "swinging pendulum" build like Misawa/Kawada. I really need to find their match from Tijuana again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 I looked through the thread and I'm a little shocked no one has dropped Santo/Casas from 1997. Mike from WKO picked that, and I just re-watched it and it really is a great pick. It has the same bar fight/two guys trying to murder eachother feel like Chicana/MS1, Lawler/Dundee or the best of WAR/BattlARTS etc., but mixed with modern athletic death moves and sports-like feeling and awesome "swinging pendulum" build like Misawa/Kawada. I really need to find their match from Tijuana again. I almost mentioned that. it is like next tier down for me, but when I was listing stuff that I would consider for the top spot, it was fringe. i honestly need to watch it again. I mean it is still an absolute classic in my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cad Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 I like Angel Azteca vs Dandy more than Sangre Chicana vs MS-1. Some of that is just preferring championship style wrestling to a brawl, but I also think that in this case the title match was simply more interesting. Chicana vs MS-1 was not really that different from hundreds of other hair vs hair matches in terms of how it progressed. It's just that the wrestlers and the crowd were incredible. Angel Azteca and Dandy tried to wrestle a match that was not just better than but also different from the standard good title fight. AA vs Dandy also doesn't have anything as objectively poor as those MS-1 punches that he winged right over Chicana's head, although I'm not really a stickler for "good stiff strikes." As a bit of an aside, I thought that the refereeing in both matches was very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Liska Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 It's not my favorite match, but if someone asks me why wrestling should be considered a respectable form of art worthy of so much of anyone's time, 6/8/90 is what I show them - just the perfect overall package because of the emotion and heat and significance and depth of storytelling and everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB8 Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 If we're doing straight up favourite match ever, I think I'd probably go with Michaels/Mankind from Mind Games. It's been my go to for about fifteen years and it always holds up. If not that then Eddie/Rey from the 6/05 Smackdown! Or Rockers v Powers of Pain. Or the big 2/93 WAR V New Japan multi-man. Or maybe Damiancito el Guerrero v Cicloncito Ramirez. I'd have to think harder about this than "greatest." The 1985 match is definitely clipped. The video highlight package that goes with it features action that isn't in the match as broadcast. I still voted it No. 1 on the Memphis set, and it's on a short list of the greatest matches I've ever seen. But the clip is frustrating. Was the version on those Memphis discs a bunch of us got in a bulk buy a few years ago any less clipped, or was it just a VQ upgrade? I moved a bunch of stuff around my house at some point and I don't even know where I've put them, so I can't even check this myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Mark Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 My top 3: Doug Furnas/Dan Kroffat vs Kenta Kobashi/Tsuyoshi Kikuchi-AJPW 5/92. Dynamite Kansai/Mayumi Ozaki vs Manami Toyota/Toshio Yamada-AJW 4/1993. Kenta Kobashi vs Mitsuharu Misawa-AJPW 6/1999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Lacelle Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Sting vs Vader from Great American bash 92 I'm not sure if it's the greatest match of all time but it is certainly my favourite match of all time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliott Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Lucha fans, whats the best trios match ever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 That's a tough question because I don't really think there is a trios match on the level of the matches mentioned here, but my pick would be either the 5/90 trios (I can't remember the date of the better one), the 11/91 Brazos vs. Infernales match, or the 1997 minis match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB8 Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 The October '97 minis match feels like as good a pick as any. I also remember thinking one of the May 1990 trios was maybe the best lucha trios I'd seen, but I couldn't tell you which one it was, either. The 11/26 trios that follows on from the Santo heel turn feels like it might be in the discussion. Honestly, I'd probably have the June 2013 Casas/Rush trios up there as well. I remember pretty much nothing about Brazos/Infernales. I know I've seen it, but I couldn't tell you what I thought about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 The two post-Santo heel turn trios matches are up there for me, both the one where he actually turned and the one the subsequent week. I'm pretty sure those would be my picks. 11/22/96 and 11/29/96 are the dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted February 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 I'm not nearly as much of a lucha fan as many here, but the 11/29/96 trios is my second-favorite lucha match of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianB Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 I'll have to think some more about greatest because I'm not sure I'd pick this as the greatest as applied to a match. But synthesizing desert island match and favorite match, I'd probably pick War Games 1992--Sting's Squadron vs. the Dangerous Alliance. At least for today. It's hard to ever settle on these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Lucha fans, whats the best trios match ever? It's an atomicos but where are people on... 12.8.94 Fuerza Guerrera/Blue Panther/Espanto Jr./Psicosis v. El Hijo del Santo/Octagon/El Mariachi/El Mexicano (it's on youtube, btw) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Lucha fans, whats the best trios match ever? I always go with the Dandy/Chavo/Rocca/Azteca one from 1990. It's a pure instinct answer though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimArg Posted February 1, 2017 Report Share Posted February 1, 2017 Lucha fans, whats the best trios match ever? Bracito/Cicloncito/Mascarita vs Damiancito/Fierito/Pierrothito, but Guerreros vs Infernales 09/30/1983 is my heart pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 6/9/95 and Flair vs Steamboat Landover houseshow for me... Are we going to do a top 100 matches of all time? I'd be curious to see how matches from different styles, different eras, and different promotions end up finishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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