Andrew Watches Wrestling
Nov 8, 2020 20:58:37 GMT -5
Post by AndrewGB79 on Nov 8, 2020 20:58:37 GMT -5
After what feels like an eternity away from wrestling, I decided to get back into it and the Greatest Match Ever seems like the perfect project for this.
It gives me an excuse to watch some old favourites and to catch up on great wrestling I’ve missed.
I’ll keep this first post updated with my top 100, and I’m only going to list matches I’ve seen from this point on, so no ranking matches from memory. And I’m only going to list matches I rate four stars and above.
I’ll use the thread to note what I’ve been watching.
My ongoing top 100:
1. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 06/09/95)
2. Ric Flair vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 06/08/83)
3. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS, 06/24/99)
4. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 10/25/95)
5. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, 06/01/93)
6. Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Kengo Kimura, Nobuhiko Takada & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi, Kuniaki Kobayashi & Yoshiaki Yatsu (NJPW, 04/19/84)
7. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 08/30/88)
8. Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (AJPW, 07/24/1995)
9. The Briscoes vs. El Generico & Kevin Steen (ROH, 08/10/07)
10. Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (NJPW, 03/26/86)
11. Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW, 06/03/93)
12. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/03/93)
13. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 04/10/94)
14. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW, 12/16/88)
15. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 06/03/94)
16. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Genichiro Tenryu (UWFi, 09/11/96)
17. Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda, Kengo Kimura, Riki Choshu & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Kantaro Hoshino, Keiji Muto, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 08/19/87)
18. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Bob Backlund (UWF, 12/22/88)
19. Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 09/04/91)
20. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, 04/20/91)
21. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, 10/19/90)
22. Roderick Strong vs. Mike Bailey (PWG, 06/26/15)
23. The Funks vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW, 08/31/83)
24. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoji Anjoh (UWFi, 08/28/92)
25. Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 07/28/94)
26. Josh Alexander vs. Mike Bailey (Impact, 11/19/22)
27. Walter vs. Will Ospreay (OTT, 10/13/18)
28. Wayne Shamrock vs. Minoru Suzuki (PWFG, 03/04/91)
29. The Funks vs. The Sheik & Abdullah the Butcher (AJPW, 07/15/79)
30. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 04/18/91)
31. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Nobuhiko Takada (WAR, 12/13/96)
32. MS-1, Satanico & Pirata Morgan vs. Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata & El Brazo (CMLL, 11/22/91)
33. Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, Nate Webb & Necro Butcher vs. Ace Steel, Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer, Bryan Danielson, Homicide & Samoa Joe (ROH, 07/15/06)
34. Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Masa Saito, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 09/17/87)
35. Curt Hennig vs. Nick Bockwinkel (AWA, 11/15/86)
36. FTR vs. The Briscoes (ROH, 12/10/22)
37. Devil Masami vs. Chigusa Nagayo (AJW, 08/22/85)
38. FTR vs. The Briscoes (ROH, 07/23/22)
39. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (NXT, 10/07/15)
40. El Hijo del Santo vs. Negro Casas (WWA, 05/17/91)
41. Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi (ROH, 10/01/05)
42. Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWF, 10/25/90)
43. Kenta Kobashi vs. Steve Williams (AJPW, 08/31/93)
44. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 10/21/92)
45. Riki Choshu vs. Killer Khan (AJPW, 07/31/86)
46. Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka vs. Terry Funk & Mr. Pogo (FMW, 05/05/96)
47. Jack Brisco vs. Giant Baba (AJPW, 12/02/74)
48. Walter vs. Tyler Bate (PROGRESS, 09/30/18)
49. Isami Kodaka vs. Masashi Takeda (BJW, 06/20/18)
50. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS, 06/27/98)
51. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Antonio Inoki (NJPW, 08/08/88)
52. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 10/11/89)
53. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mikhail Ilyukhin (RINGS, 09/21/98)
54. Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 08/23/1985)
55. Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher (IWA MS, 06/11/05)
56. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 09/01/90)
57. Felino, Black Warrior, El Hijo del Santo, Silver King, Dr. Wagner Jr., El Satanico, Kevin Quinn & Scorpio Jr. vs. Ultimo Dragon, Atlantis, Negro Casas, El Dandy, Shocker, Mascara Magica, La Fiera & Brazo de Oro (CMLL, 04/18/97)
58. Dump Matsumoto vs. Yukari Omori (AJW, 03/20/86)
59. El Dandy vs. El Satanico (EMLL, 12/14/90)
60. Terry Funk vs. Atsushi Onita (FMW, 05/05/093)
61. Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFi, 08/18/94)
62. Atsushi Onita, El Hijo del Santo & Tarzan Goto vs. Horace Boulder, Negro Casas & Tim Patterson (FMW/WWA, 05/16/92)
63. Minoru Suzuki vs. Naoki Sano (PWFG, 07/26/91)
64. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (Mid-Pacific, 02/14/79)
65. El Hijo Del Santo vs. Brazo De Oro (UWA, 01/13/91)
66. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 07/24/95)
67. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS, 01/23/99)
68. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 10/21/86)
69. Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Masakazu Maeda (UWFi, 03/17/92)
70. Lioness Asuka vs. Yukari Omori (AJW, 04/15/87)
71. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 06/08/90)
72. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Gary Albright (AJPW, 10/25/95)
73. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW, 11/15/89)
74. Crush Gals vs. Lola Gonzalez & La Galactica (AJW, 10/06/84)
75. Chris Benoit vs. Kevin Sullivan (WCW, 06/16/96)
76. Akira Hokuto & Suzuka Minami vs. Mitsuko Nishiwaki & Yumiko Hotta (AJW, 05/13/90)
77. Atsushi Onita vs. Hayabusa (FMW, 05/05/95)
78. Ian Rotten vs. Eddie Kingston (IWA MS, 07/08/05)
79. Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Atsushi Onita (FMW, 09/19/92)
80. Great Sasuke, Gran Hamada, Super Delfin, Gran Naniwa & Masato Yakushiji vs. Dick Togo, Men's Teioh, Taka Michinoku, Shiryu & Sho Funaki (MPro, 12/16/96)
81. Bruno Sammartino vs. Ken Patera (WWWF, 03/07/77)
It gives me an excuse to watch some old favourites and to catch up on great wrestling I’ve missed.
I’ll keep this first post updated with my top 100, and I’m only going to list matches I’ve seen from this point on, so no ranking matches from memory. And I’m only going to list matches I rate four stars and above.
I’ll use the thread to note what I’ve been watching.
My ongoing top 100:
1. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 06/09/95)
2. Ric Flair vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW, 06/08/83)
3. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS, 06/24/99)
4. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 10/25/95)
5. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, 06/01/93)
6. Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Kengo Kimura, Nobuhiko Takada & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi, Kuniaki Kobayashi & Yoshiaki Yatsu (NJPW, 04/19/84)
7. Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 08/30/88)
8. Kenta Kobashi vs Akira Taue (AJPW, 07/24/1995)
9. The Briscoes vs. El Generico & Kevin Steen (ROH, 08/10/07)
10. Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino vs. Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (NJPW, 03/26/86)
11. Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Toshiaki Kawada, Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW, 06/03/93)
12. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW, 12/03/93)
13. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW, 04/10/94)
14. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW, 12/16/88)
15. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 06/03/94)
16. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Genichiro Tenryu (UWFi, 09/11/96)
17. Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda, Kengo Kimura, Riki Choshu & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Kantaro Hoshino, Keiji Muto, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 08/19/87)
18. Nobuhiko Takada vs. Bob Backlund (UWF, 12/22/88)
19. Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 09/04/91)
20. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, 04/20/91)
21. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW, 10/19/90)
22. Roderick Strong vs. Mike Bailey (PWG, 06/26/15)
23. The Funks vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (AJPW, 08/31/83)
24. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoji Anjoh (UWFi, 08/28/92)
25. Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 07/28/94)
26. Josh Alexander vs. Mike Bailey (Impact, 11/19/22)
27. Walter vs. Will Ospreay (OTT, 10/13/18)
28. Wayne Shamrock vs. Minoru Suzuki (PWFG, 03/04/91)
29. The Funks vs. The Sheik & Abdullah the Butcher (AJPW, 07/15/79)
30. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 04/18/91)
31. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Nobuhiko Takada (WAR, 12/13/96)
32. MS-1, Satanico & Pirata Morgan vs. Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata & El Brazo (CMLL, 11/22/91)
33. Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston, Nate Webb & Necro Butcher vs. Ace Steel, Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer, Bryan Danielson, Homicide & Samoa Joe (ROH, 07/15/06)
34. Tatsumi Fujinami, Akira Maeda, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu & Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Masa Saito, Seiji Sakaguchi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW, 09/17/87)
35. Curt Hennig vs. Nick Bockwinkel (AWA, 11/15/86)
36. FTR vs. The Briscoes (ROH, 12/10/22)
37. Devil Masami vs. Chigusa Nagayo (AJW, 08/22/85)
38. FTR vs. The Briscoes (ROH, 07/23/22)
39. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (NXT, 10/07/15)
40. El Hijo del Santo vs. Negro Casas (WWA, 05/17/91)
41. Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi (ROH, 10/01/05)
42. Nobuhiko Takada vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWF, 10/25/90)
43. Kenta Kobashi vs. Steve Williams (AJPW, 08/31/93)
44. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 10/21/92)
45. Riki Choshu vs. Killer Khan (AJPW, 07/31/86)
46. Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka vs. Terry Funk & Mr. Pogo (FMW, 05/05/96)
47. Jack Brisco vs. Giant Baba (AJPW, 12/02/74)
48. Walter vs. Tyler Bate (PROGRESS, 09/30/18)
49. Isami Kodaka vs. Masashi Takeda (BJW, 06/20/18)
50. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS, 06/27/98)
51. Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Antonio Inoki (NJPW, 08/08/88)
52. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW, 10/11/89)
53. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Mikhail Ilyukhin (RINGS, 09/21/98)
54. Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 08/23/1985)
55. Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher (IWA MS, 06/11/05)
56. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 09/01/90)
57. Felino, Black Warrior, El Hijo del Santo, Silver King, Dr. Wagner Jr., El Satanico, Kevin Quinn & Scorpio Jr. vs. Ultimo Dragon, Atlantis, Negro Casas, El Dandy, Shocker, Mascara Magica, La Fiera & Brazo de Oro (CMLL, 04/18/97)
58. Dump Matsumoto vs. Yukari Omori (AJW, 03/20/86)
59. El Dandy vs. El Satanico (EMLL, 12/14/90)
60. Terry Funk vs. Atsushi Onita (FMW, 05/05/093)
61. Vader vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFi, 08/18/94)
62. Atsushi Onita, El Hijo del Santo & Tarzan Goto vs. Horace Boulder, Negro Casas & Tim Patterson (FMW/WWA, 05/16/92)
63. Minoru Suzuki vs. Naoki Sano (PWFG, 07/26/91)
64. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta (Mid-Pacific, 02/14/79)
65. El Hijo Del Santo vs. Brazo De Oro (UWA, 01/13/91)
66. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 07/24/95)
67. Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS, 01/23/99)
68. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW, 10/21/86)
69. Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Masakazu Maeda (UWFi, 03/17/92)
70. Lioness Asuka vs. Yukari Omori (AJW, 04/15/87)
71. Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (AJPW, 06/08/90)
72. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Gary Albright (AJPW, 10/25/95)
73. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW, 11/15/89)
74. Crush Gals vs. Lola Gonzalez & La Galactica (AJW, 10/06/84)
75. Chris Benoit vs. Kevin Sullivan (WCW, 06/16/96)
76. Akira Hokuto & Suzuka Minami vs. Mitsuko Nishiwaki & Yumiko Hotta (AJW, 05/13/90)
77. Atsushi Onita vs. Hayabusa (FMW, 05/05/95)
78. Ian Rotten vs. Eddie Kingston (IWA MS, 07/08/05)
79. Tiger Jeet Singh vs. Atsushi Onita (FMW, 09/19/92)
80. Great Sasuke, Gran Hamada, Super Delfin, Gran Naniwa & Masato Yakushiji vs. Dick Togo, Men's Teioh, Taka Michinoku, Shiryu & Sho Funaki (MPro, 12/16/96)
81. Bruno Sammartino vs. Ken Patera (WWWF, 03/07/77)