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Post by bossrock on Jul 23, 2019 19:05:39 GMT -5
Shout-out to Elliot for mentioning this in the Kandori thread. Basically, who are great wrestlers who had the greatest variety of opponents? The two that immediately come to mind for me are Genichiro Tenryu and Daniel Bryan. Granted, these might not all be their absolute BEST matches, but rather, great matches against different opponents.
Tenryu:
vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW 7/27/1988)
vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW 6/5/1989)
vs. Atsushi Onita (FMW Exploding Barbed Wire Cage 5/5/1994)
vs. Yoji Anjoh (WAR/UWFi 7/21/1996)
vs. Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 8/1/1998)
vs. Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW 1/4/2000)
vs. Keiji Mutoh (AJPW 6/8/2001)
vs. Satoshi Kojima (AJPW 7/17/2002)
w/ Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi and Go Shiozaki (NOAH 4/24/2005)
vs. KENTA (NOAH 10/8/2005)
Bryan:
vs. Low Ki (ROH 2/23/2002)
vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH Unified 2006)
vs. KENTA (ROH 9/16/2006)
vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH Manhattan Mayhem 2007)
vs. Necro Butcher (PWG 7/29/2007)
vs. Sheamus (WWE Extreme Rules 2012 2/3 Falls)
w/ Kane and Ryback vs. The Shield (WWE TLC Tables, Ladders, and Chairs 2012)
vs. John Cena (WWE Summerslam 2013)
vs. Triple H (WWE Wrestlemania 30)
vs. The Miz (WWE Summerslam 2018)
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Post by nintendologic on Jul 23, 2019 20:03:28 GMT -5
The ones who immediately come to mind for me are Bret Hart, Vader, and Jumbo Tsuruta.
Bret:
vs. Randy Savage (WWF Saturday Night's Main Event 11/28/1987)
vs. Mr. Perfect (WWF Summerslam 8/26/1991, King of the Ring 6/13/1993)
vs. Roddy Piper (WWF Wrestlemania VIII 4/5/1992)
vs. British Bulldog (WWF Summerslam 8/29/1992, In Your House 5 12/17/1995)
vs. Owen Hart (WWF Wrestlemania X 3/20/1994)
vs. 123 Kid (WWF Monday Night Raw 7/11/1994)
vs. Diesel (WWF Survivor Series 11/19/1995)
vs. Steve Austin (WWF Survivor Series 11/17/1996, Wrestlemania X 3/23/1997)
vs. Undertaker (WWF One Night Only 9/20/1997)
vs. Chris Benoit (WCW Monday Nitro 10/4/1999)
Vader:
vs. Otto Wanz (CWA 12/22/1989)
vs. Riki Choshu (NJPW 8/19/1990)
vs. Keiji Mutoh (NJPW 8/10/1991)
vs. Sting (WCW Great American Bash 7/12/1992, Starrcade 12/28/1992)
vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFi 6/10/1994)
vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFi 8/18/1994)
vs. Hulk Hogan (WCW Superbrawl V 2/19/1995)
vs. Antonio Inoki (NJPW 1/4/1996)
vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 5/2/1999)
vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 1/23/2000)
Jumbo:
vs. Terry Funk (AJPW 6/11/1976)
vs. Jack Brisco (AJPW 8/28/1976)
vs. Billy Robinson (AJPW 3/5/1977)
vs. Ric Flair (AJPW 6/8/1983)
vs. Kerry Von Erich (AJPW 5/22/1984)
vs. Rick Martel (AWA 9/29/1985)
vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW 10/21/1986)
vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW 6/5/1989)
vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW 6/8/1990, 9/1/1990)
vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 10/24/1991)
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Post by bossrock on Jul 23, 2019 21:18:30 GMT -5
Some more:
Liger:
vs. Naoki Sano (NJPW 1/31/1990)
vs. Brian Pillman (WCW SuperBrawl II 1992)
vs. El Samurai (NJPW 4/30/1992)
vs. Great Sasuke (4/16/1994)
vs. Ultimo Dragon (WAR 12/13/1995)
vs. Shinjiro Otani (NJPW 2/9/1997)
w/ Wataru Inoue vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (NOAH 2/17/2002)
vs. KUSHIDA (NJPW Dominion 2016)
vs. Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW 5/18/2017)
vs. Taiji Ishimori (NJPW 47th Anniversary Show 2019)
Mysterio:
vs. Psicosis (WAR 12/13/1995)
vs. Juventud Guerrera (ECW Big Ass Extreme Bash 1996)
vs. Ultimo Dragon (WAR 12/13/1996)
vs. Eddie Guerrero (Halloween Havoc 1997)
vs. Kurt Angle (WWE Summerslam 2002)
vs. Big Show (WWE Backlash 2003)
vs. Chris Jericho (WWE The Bash 2009)
Aztec Warfare 2 (Lucha Underground 3/23/2016)
vs. Prince Puma (Lucha Underground Ultima Lucha Dos 2016)
vs. Andrade (WWE Smackdown Live 1/15/2019 and 1/22/2019)
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Post by microstatistics on Jul 23, 2019 21:23:51 GMT -5
Great Topic, agree with the choices of far.
Kiyoshi Tamura:
vs. Shigeo Miyato (UWF 8/13/1989)
vs. Yoji Anjoh (UWFi 7/3/1991)
vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFi 2/14/1993)
vs. Volk Han (RINGS 9/25/1996, 1/22/1997, 9/26/1997)
vs. Akira Maeda (RINGS 3/28/1997)
vs. Mikhail Iliokhine (RINGS 1/21/1998)
vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS 6/27/1998, 1/23/1999, U-Style 2/4/2004)
vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS 6/24/1999)
vs. Hiroyuki Ito (U-Style 8/18/2004)
vs. Alexander Otsuka (U-Style 8/18/2004)
vs. Josh Barnett (U-Style 11/23/2005)
El Satanico:
vs. Lizmark (EMLL 3/9/1984, 7/14/1998)
vs. Shiro Koshinaka (EMLL 7/30/1984)
vs. Gran Cochisse (EMLL 9/14/1984)
vs. Sangre Chicana (EMLL 5/26/1989)
w/ Atlantis vs. MS-1/TVF (EMLL 9/22/1989)
vs. Jerry Estrada (EMLL 3/23/1990)
vs. El Dandy (EMLL 10/26/1990)
vs. Pirata Morgan (AAA 11/26/1993)
vs. Ultimo Guerrero and co (CMLL 5/22/2001, 6/19/2001, 9/28/2001)
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Post by microstatistics on Jul 23, 2019 21:30:11 GMT -5
Yoshiaki Fujiwara:
vs. Super Tiger (UWF 9/7/1984)
vs. Riki Choshu (NJPW 6/9/1987)
vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (UWF 7/24/1989, 4/15/1990)
vs. Akira Maeda (UWF 8/13/1989)
vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWF, 2/27/1990, 10/25/1990)
vs. Wellington Wilkin Jr. (PWFG 5/19/1991)
vs. Joe Malenko (PWFG 6/1/1993)
vs. Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 6/1/1994)
vs. Genichiro Tenryu (WAR 11/27/1997)
vs. Shinya Aoki (NEW 4/5/2017)
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Post by elliott on Jul 24, 2019 3:17:51 GMT -5
Jerry Lawler just in the 80s and cutting it off at 10... vs Terry Funk 4/6/81 vs Dutch Mantell 3/29/82 vs Nick Bockwinkel 11/8/82 vs Randy Savage 6/3/85 vs Rick Martel 10/12/85 vs Bill Dundee 12/30/85 vs Bam Bam Bigelow 9/7/86 vs Austin Idol 4/27/87 vs Curt Hennig 5/9/88 vs Kerry Von Erich 12/13/88 Inoki is a sneaky monster in this category: vs Chris Markoff 5/16/69 vs Dory Funk Jr 12/1/69 vs The Destroyer 5/19/71 vs Jack Brisco 8/5/71 vs Billy Robinson 12/11/75 vs Bob Backlund 7/27/78 vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara 2/6/86 vs Masa Saito 4/27/87 vs Tatsumi Fujinami 8/8/88 vs Vader 1/4/96 So is Giant Baba vs Fritz Von Erich 12/3/66 vs Gene Kiniski 8/14/67 vs Bruno Sammartino 8/7/68 vs The Destroyer 3/5/69 vs Dory Funk Jr 12/3/69 vs Jack Brisoc 12/5/74 vs Billy Robinson 7/24/76 vs Abdullah the Butcher 4/8/78 vs Harley Race 10/31/79 vs Stan Hansen 2/4/82 Terry Funk (doing more than 10 but leaving out tags and more controversial matches I'd be inclined to call great like vs HOgan, Steamboat, Bret etc) vs Jumbo Tsuruta 6/11/76 vs Harley Race 7/1/77 vs Mark Lewin 4/27/79 vs Abdullah the Butcher 7/18/79 vs Jerry Lawler 4/6/81 vs Bruiser Brody 12/7/82 vs Stan Hansen 4/14/83 vs Bob Orton Jr 5/26/83 vs Nick BOckwinkel 7/12/83 vs Barry Windham 9/19/86 vs Rick Martel 9/20/86 vs Ric Flair 7/23/89 vs Atsushi Onita 5/5/93 vs Eddie Gilbert 6/19/93 vs Tony St Clair 12/18/93 vs Sabu 8/9/97 vs Mick Foley 5/4/98 Terry Funk had a bunch of great matches  |
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Post by nintendologic on Jul 24, 2019 9:19:40 GMT -5
To be honest, any great wrestler with a career of sufficient length will have quality matches with a variety of opponents. I think the bigger challenge is coming up with wrestlers who weren't total stiffs who had great matches with the fewest number of opponents. As much as I hate to admit it, how many guys did Rick Rude have great singles matches with? There's Ultimate Warrior, Ricky Steamboat, Masahiro Chono...and that's pretty much it. Maybe Jake Roberts if you're being generous.
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Post by pterois on Apr 29, 2020 6:14:41 GMT -5
Ric Flair :
vs Ricky Steamboat (4/2/1989)
vs Terry Funk (11/15/1989)
vs Lex Luger (2/25/1990)
vs Jumbo Tsuruta (6/8/1983)
vs Vader (12/27/1993)
vs Terry Taylor (5/3/1985)
vs Koko Ware(11/18/1985)
vs Ted Dibiase (11/6/1985)
vs Butch Reed (8/10/1985)
vs Sting (3/27/1988)
vs Randy Savage (Mania VIII)
vs Ron Garvin (9/26/1987)
vs Triple H (11/1/2005)
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