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Who has a claim to have had great matches in 2 years the furthest apart?

 

Examples

 

Terry Funk -- 35 years

vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (1976)

vs. Jerry Lawler (2011)

 

Johnny Saint -- 35 years

vs. Jim Breaks (1973)

vs. Mike Quackenbush (2008)

 

Yoshiaki Fujiwara -- 33 years

vs. Super Tiger (1984)

vs. Shinya Aoki (2017)

 

Jerry Lawler -- 30 years

vs. Terry Funk (1981)

vs. The Miz (2011)

 

Negro Casas -- 29 years

vs. Fuerza Guerrera (1986)

vs. Dragon Lee (2015)

 

Antonio Inoki -- 27 years

vs. Chris Markoff (1969)

vs. Vader (1996)

 

Hijo del Santo -- 26 years

vs. Espanto Jr. (1986)

w Villano IV vs. Hijo del Solitario & Angel Blanco Jr (2012)

 

Verne Gagne -- 24 years

vs. Billy Goelz (1950)

vs. Billy Robinson (1974)

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Of course all depends of your acceptation of "great". For instance, I'd say that Lawler vs Miz match was "fun" or "good for what it was"…

 

I guess Tenryu must be somewhere in the conversation.

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I think there's a general tendancy to overrate older guys matches, honestly, because it usually fit a preconcieved, cool (and a bit snobish, let's admit it for once) narrative of "This guy at 55 is still better than any 30 years old worker". Whereas "This guy at 55 is still damn good" would be enough of a praise in a lot of cases.

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I'd actually put Lawler at 1975 for his first great match that made tape. The Jack Brisco matches. There's also the Race and Dundee matches in 1977. No clue when his last great match was.

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With PCO clocking in a great match with WALTER 'Mania weekend, he's gotta be at 20+ years, depending on when you think he had his first one.

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I think there's a general tendancy to overrate older guys matches, honestly, because it usually fit a preconcieved, cool (and a bit snobish, let's admit it for once) narrative of "This guy at 55 is still better than any 30 years old worker". Whereas "This guy at 55 is still damn good" would be enough of a praise in a lot of cases.

 

On that note, Negro Casas has certainly had some great matches the last 3 years, so pegging him at 2015 seems to be selling him short.

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I think there's a general tendancy to overrate older guys matches, honestly, because it usually fit a preconcieved, cool (and a bit snobish, let's admit it for once) narrative of "This guy at 55 is still better than any 30 years old worker". Whereas "This guy at 55 is still damn good" would be enough of a praise in a lot of cases.

 

On that note, Negro Casas has certainly had some great matches the last 3 years, so pegging him at 2015 seems to be selling him short.

 

 

Guy had a really good match with Sam Adonis of all people on New Year's Day. You're pretty much guaranteed at least one banger singles match from Casas per year.

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