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Post by elliott on Oct 5, 2019 4:12:29 GMT -5
Figured we should have a thread for the best Overall Shows, Cards, PPVs. What are some of the best cards ever. What are some of your favorites if not necessarily the best. Anything with multiple matches/contenders for your top 100 list? Anything with no contenders for your list that you still love? I'll come back with some of my favorites tomorrow.
Certainly not a requirement, but it'd be great if people mentioned the specific matches or why you like the shows if there's more to it than a couple of matches. Not asking for full cards + analysis of every match (unless you wanna, I'll read it!!) but hoping for something more than "Spring Stampede 94 and Night X of G1 Climax Y." That said "Night X of G1 Climax Y because it had these Z number of 3 1/2+ star matches" is a totally acceptable answer.
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Post by tetsujin on Oct 5, 2019 4:48:55 GMT -5
I don't know if it's gonna hold up now, but when I saw Takeover R Evolution I thought it was an amazing show because every match delivered as much as it could. Owen's debut rocked. Itami and Demon Bálor looked great together against The Ascension. Lucha Dragons and Vaudevillains had a very good tag match. Corbin was still squashing people with the End of Days in less than a minute with the crowd counting every second and it was awesome. And obviously, the two big title matches were excellent, specially the main event (it's a strong top 50 contender for me)... And the post match segment was perfect.
Peak NXT was so good... Now, that Corbin match with Dillinger would be a fifteen minute your turn-my turn movefest and Charlotte/Banks and Neville/Zayn would go to 40-50 minutes.
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Post by kas on Oct 5, 2019 6:59:30 GMT -5
Toss-up between WK11 and Night 4 of G1 23. For WK11, the undercard is solid if a bit unspectacular, but the run of matches from the Jr. match to the main event is my favourite run of matches on any card. It's insane just how varied the 4 matches are on top of that as well.
For Night 4 of G1 23, it has only one match out of 10 that I'd go below 3 on (Yano vs Takahashi), it has my favourite G1 match of all time (Ishii vs Shibata), another match that is a contender for my top 100 (Nakamura vs Ibushi), and some other truly great matches that I rarely seen talked about, such as an actually good Naito vs Suzuki match or the surprisingly good DBS Jr. Vs Kojima bout.
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Post by bossrock on Oct 5, 2019 9:20:05 GMT -5
Dominion 2017 might still be the best show I've seen in recent memory. Almost the whole card top-to-bottom was some level of good. The undercard tags were solid, the 6-man NEVER Gauntlet was fun, the two tag team title matches were pretty good, Cody-Elgin was one of the better Cody matches I've ever seen, Goto-Suzuki wasn't great but not bad either, and the final 3 title matches ranged from great to incredible. Okada-Omega 2 is probably still the greatest 1-hour draw I've ever seen and will remain my top 100 list for the foreseeable future.
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Post by elliott on Oct 9, 2019 5:43:12 GMT -5
I still think Weekly Pro at the Tokyo Dome 4/2/95 is the best show ever. I mean, its a totally cheating answer because you have 13 different promotions sending all their top stars to work one show. But for great matches and sheer variety of great matches, this could never ever be topped. This has legit great joshi, juniors, death match & AJPW pillars matches. I will say that I don't think this has a match I would seriously consider for a GME top 100 List. The AJPW 6 man is probably the closest to a top 100 match and the IWA 6 man is more of a top 100 Favorites match. But those are both excellent matches nontheless and this has the depth of great matches & unmatched variety that make it an easy pick for me for Best Show Ever.
There are a number of Famously Great Shows I could mention that I still love that I think are strong contenders for greatest Show/Card/PPV ever: DreamSlam I, Bash 89, Starrcade 85, WrestleMania III etc but the one I really wanted to mention is AAA When World's Collide.
I don't know how people are first starting to watch Lucha nowadays, but I will always credit When World's Collide being the first Lucha show I ever watched being the reason I instantly "got" lucha and had zero trouble that a lot of people seem to have when they first try to watch it. Say what you will about Mike Tenay, he was the perfect announcer to completely introduce this different style of wrestling to an American audience. Chris Cruise isn't great, but he's very enthusiastic about everything. The 3 undercard matches are all fun/exciting matches. They all definitely feel rushed because they're one fall and AAA was so panicked about going long. But they're all good undercard matches. The tag match is a stone cold classic and quite possibly the best tag match in US history. The pre-match, match, post-match is about as good as anything that has ever happened in pro-wrestling. Just classic. And then somehow the main event managed to follow this all time classic with a truly great and satisfying match. Seriously, Perro Aguayo vs Konnan in a cage is awesome. Not just in a "oh that's the best Konnan match ever" way but in a "this has to follow one of the best matches of all time and it is soooo awesome." way. Konnan vs Perro is just an over the top juice fest with Perro bleeding and foot stomping his way to a for real truly swear to god really great match. The fun undercard and then 1-2 main event punch of all time classic workrate semi-main event and then shockingly great main event juice-fest with an all time card and a genuine learning experience on commentary makes this one of the best shows ever.
Spring Stampede 94 always gets brought up in threads like these for good reason but I've always had a soft spot for WCW's follow-up PPV, Slamboree 1994. It has the super fun Terry Funk vs Tully Blanchard "Legends match" that was just an insane brawl. Dustin & Buck and Cactus & the Nasty Boys continued their awesome matches on PPV. We've got the great Regal vs Larry Z feud represented on PPV with a really fun stalling start and great mat work. It also has one of a million Sting vs Vader matches like Spring Stampede has one of a million Flair/Steamboat matches. Now, I think the Dustin/Buck & Cactus matches are better from Spring Stampede, but they are still very good/excellent at Slamboree. I adore the Funk/Tully & Larry Z/Regal matches. Slamboree 94 is at worst 90% as good as Spring Stampede 94.
Another one that sort of reminds me of Spring Stampede 94 is the UWFi show from 6/10/94. This was the semi-finals of their Best of the World Tournament and took place in front of a sold out crowd in Budokan Hall and aired on PPV in the US. Takada vs Albright is an excellent big show main event. They had worked together for years by this point, but remained a super hot matchup and this had bigtime stakes so it has great crowd heat & a big match feel. One of the two or three best Albright matches ever and one of Takada's most inspired performances. Takada vs Albright is awesome, but where this show really stands out is the depth. Tamura vs Vader in the semi-main event is a classic match. I genuinely think it might be the single best Monster vs Little Man match in history. This show also has two legitimately great shoot style tag matches with Salman Hashimikov & Victor Zangiev vs Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoji Anjoh and Kazushi Sakuraba & Masahito Kakihara vs Steve Nelson & Gene Lydick both being shockingly awesome. The gaijin teams are both bigger & suplex heavy while the Japanese wrestlers are smaller with stronger technique. All of the matches on this show are under 17 minutes so its a really easy watch with the really hot card and exciting matches. Easily one of my favorite under the radar great shows ever.
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Post by pterois on Apr 29, 2020 8:14:36 GMT -5
Great American Bash 1992. Sting/Vader I, a tag team tournament featuring Steamboat/Koloff, Doc/Gordy, Dustin/Windham, Liger/Pillman, Hase/Hashimoto, Jimmy Garvin/Hayes and Austin/Rude.
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