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The Locks for my List Jul 16, 2018 2:15:25 GMT -5

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After looking through my various rough drafts and thinking a bit about the matches I have to put on a top 100 list, I currently have 89 (!!) matches that will definitely make my final list. Here they are in chronological order.

1. Gilbert Cesca vs Billy Catanzaro (60s French Catch)
2. The Destroyer vs Giant Baba (JWA 3/5/69)
3. Johnny Valentine vs Wild Bull Curry (Houston 6/20/69)
4. Terry Funk vs Harley Race (Houston 7/1/77)
5. Terry & Dory Funk Jr vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (AJPW 12/15/77)
6. Terry & Dory Funk Jr vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (12/15/78)
7. Terry & Dory Funk Jr vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (AJPW 2/3 Falls 7/15/79)
8. Terry & Dory Funk Jr vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (AJPW 12/13/79
9. Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (No DQ 3/23/81)
10. Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk (Empty Arena 4/6/81)
11. Stan Hansen vs Andre the Giant (NJPW 9/23/81)
12. Terry Funk vs Stan Hansen (AJPW 9/11/82)
13. Terry Funk vs Stan Hansen (AJPW 4/14/83)
14. Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (Loser Leaves Town 6/6/83)
15. Sangre Chicana vs MS-1 (Hair vs Hair 9/23/83)
16. Roddy Piper vs Greg Valentine (Dog Collar JCP Starrcade 11/24/83)
17. Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiako Takada, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs Riki Coshu, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi & Kuniaki Kobayashi (5x5 Gauntlet - NJPW - 4/19/1984)
18. Sgt. Slaughter vs Iron Sheik (Boot Camp Match 6/16/84)
19. El Satanico vs Gran Cochise (EMLL 9/14/84)
20. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Super Tiger (UWF 12/5/84)
21. Devil Masami vs Chigusa Nagayo (AJW 8/22/85)
22. Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo (Hair vs Hair AJW 8/28/85)
23. Magnum TA vs Tully Blanchard (I Quit JCP Starrcade 11/28/85)
24. Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee (Loser Leaves Town 12/30/85)
25. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu vs Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu (AJPW 1/28/86)
26. Sangre Chicana vs Perro Aguayo (Hair vs Hair 2/28/86)
27. Team New Japan (Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Umanosuke Ueda & Kantaro Hoshino) vs Team UWF (Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Nobuhiko Takada, Kazuo Yamazaki & Osamu Kid) (“Elimination Match” – NJPW – 3/26/1986)
28. Akira Maeda vs Tatsumi Fujinami (NJPW 6/12/86)
29. Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton (Cage Match JCP 7/5/86)
30. El Hijo del Santo vs Espanto Jr (Mask vs Mask 8/31/86)
31. Invader I vs Ron Starr (WWC 9/19/86)
32. Invader I vs Al Perez (Street Fight WWC 10/26/86)
33. Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo (Hair vs Hair AJW 11/7/86)
34. Stan Hansen vs Carlos Colon (Bullrope 1/6/87)
35. Stan Hansen vs Carlos Colon (Steel Cage 3/14/87(
36. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Riki Choshu (NJPW 6/9/87)
37. Wargames (JCP 7/4/87)
38. El Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas (Mask vs Hair 7/18/87)
39. Antonio Inoki, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Seiji Sakaguchi, Kantaro Hoshino & Keiji Muto vs Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Choshu, Akira Maeda, Kengo Kimura & Super Strong Machine (Elimination Match - NJPW - 8/19/1987)
40. Tatsumi Fujinami, Nobuhiko Takada, Riki Choshu, Akira Maeda & Super Strong Machine vs Antonio Inoki, Dick Murdoch, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Masa Saito & Seiji Sakaguchi (Elimination Match - NJPW - 9/17/1987)
41. Devil Masami vs Shinobu Kandori 7/14/88
42. Tatsumi Fujinami, Keichii Yamada, Shiro Koshinaka, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kengo Kimura vs Hiroshi Saito, Kuniaki Kobayashi, Super Strong Machine, Masa Saito & Riki Choshu (Elimination Match - NJPW - 9/12/1988)
43. El Dandy vs Pirata Morgan (Hair vs Hair EMLL 9/23/88)
44. Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (2/3 Falls WCW Clash VI 4/2/89)
45. Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW WrestleWar 5/7/89)
46. Jumbo Tsuruta vs Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW 6/5/89(
47. Ric Flair vs Terry Funk (WCW 7/23/89)
48. Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Kazuo Yamazaki (UWF 7/24/89)
49. Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura (AJPW 11/29/89)
50. Jushin Liger vs Naoki Sano (NJPW 1/31/90)
51. Onita & Goto vs Nagasaki & Kurisu (FMW 4/1/90)
52. El Satanico vs El Dandy (Super Libre EMLL 10/26/90)
53. Aja Kong vs Bull Nakano (Cage Match AJW 11/14/90)
54. El Satanico vs El Dandy (Hair vs Hair EMLL 12/14/90)
55. El Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas (UWA 5/19/91)
56. Keiji Muto vs Masahiro Chono (NJPW G1 Climax Final 8/11/91)
57. Santo, Onita & Goto vs Casas, Patterson & Boulder (FMW/WWA 5/16/92)
58. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (AJPW 5/25/92)
59. Negro Casas vs El Dandy (EMLL 7/3/92)
60. Mayumi Ozaki & Dyanmite Kansai vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada (AJW 11/24/92)
61. Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW 4/2/93)
62. Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita (Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match FMW 5/5/93)
63. Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 7/27/93)
64. Akira Hokuto & Shinobu Kandori vs Aja Kong & Bull Nakano (AJW 3/27/94)
65. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 6/3/94)
66. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Vader (UWF-i 6/10/94)
67. Misawa & Kobashi vs Kawada & Taue (AJPW 6/9/95)
68. Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda (Exploding Barbed Wire FMW 5/5/96)
69. Shinya Hashimoto vs Riki Choshu (NJPW 8/2/96)
70. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Volk Han (9/25/96 RINGS)
71. El Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas vs El Dandy (CMLL 12/6/96)
72. Dick Togo, TAKA Michinoku, Mens Teoh, Shiryu & Shoichi Funaki vs Great Sasuke, Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji & Super Delphin (MPro 12/16/96)
73. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 1/20/97)
74. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Volk Han (RINGS 1/22/97)
75. Steve Austin vs Bret Hart (Submission Match WWE WrestleMania XIII 3/23/97)
76. Torneo Cibernetico (CMLL 4/18/97)
77. El Hijo del Santo vs Negro Casas (Mask vs Hair CMLL 9/19/97)
78. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Volk Han (RINGS 9/26/97)
79. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Mikhail Ilioukhine (RINGS 1/21/98)
80. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (RINGS 6/27/98)
81. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto (RINGS 6/24/99)
82. Alexander Otuska vs Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (BattlArts 11/19/99)
83. Hashimoto & Iizuka vs Ogawa & Murakami (NJPW 1/4/00)
84. Atlantis vs Villano III (CMLL 3/17/00)
85. Kazunari Murakami vs Yuki Ishikawa (BattlArts 11/26/00)
86. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (U-Style 2/4/04)
87. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Hiroyuki Ito (U-Style 8/18/04)
88. Yuki Ishikawa vs Daisuke Ikeda (Futen 4/24/05)
89. Brock Lesnar vs John Cena (WWE Extreme Rules 4/29/12)

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The Locks for my List Jul 16, 2018 22:35:24 GMT -5

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1. Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (Empty Arena 4/6/81)
2. Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk (No DQ 3/23/81)
3. Stan Hansen vs. Andre the Giant (NJPW 9/23/81)
4. Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW 9/11/82)
5. Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen (AJPW 4/14/83)
6. Ted DiBiase vs Jim Duggan (MSW Loser Leaves Town Tuxedo Coal Miner's Glove Steel Cage 3/22/1985)
7. Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu and Riki Choshu (AJP2 1/28/1986)
8. Stan Hansen vs. Carlos Colon (WWC 10/12/1986)
9. Stan Hansen vs. Carlos Colon (WWC Bullrope 1/6/1987)
10. Stan Hansen vs Carlos Colon (WWC Steel Cage 3/14/87)
11. Carlos Colon vs. Hercules Ayala (WWC Texas Death Match 7/18/1987)
12. Stan Hansen and Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW Real World Tag League 12/16/1988)
13. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW Chi-Town Rumble 2/20/1989)
14. Jumbo Tsurura vs. Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW 6/5/1989)
15. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW The Great American Bash 7/23/1989)
16. Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (WCW Clash of the Champions IX 11/15/1989)
17. Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Stan Hansen and Genichiro Tenryu (AJPW 12/6/1989)
18. Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto vs. Kendo Nagasaki and Masanobu Kurisu (FMW Texas Death Match 4/1/1990)
19. Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, and Kenta Kobashi vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue, and Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW 10/19/1990)
20. El Dandy vs. El Satanico (EMLL Hair vs. Hair 12/14/1990)
21. Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, and Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue, and Masanobu Fuchi (AJPW 4/20/1991)
22. Mitsuharu Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jumbo Tsuruta and Akira Taue (AJPW 9/4/1991)
23. Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs. El Samurai (NJPW 4/30/1992)
24. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Dan Kroffat & Doug Furnas (AJPW 5/25/92)
25. Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada vs. Mayumi Ozaki and Dynamite Kansai (AJW 11/24/1992)
26. Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 2/28/1993)
27. Stan Hansen vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 7/29/1993)
28. Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 12/3/1993)
29. Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori vs. Aja Kong and Bull Nakano (AJW 3/27/1994)
30. Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs. Great Sasuke (NJPW Super J Cup 4/16/1994)
31. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 6/3/1994)
32. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue (AJPW 4/15/1995)
33. Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 6/9/1995)
34. Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 5/23/1996)
35. Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind (WWE In Your House: Mind Games 9/22/1996)
36. Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama vs. Akira Taue and Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 12/6/1996)
37. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 1/20/1997)
38. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart (WWE WrestleMania 13 Submission 3/23/1997)
39. Shawn Michaels vs. the Undertaker (WWE Badd Blood Hell in a Cell 10/5/1997)
40. Jun Akiyama vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 7/24/1998)
41. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 10/31/1998)
42. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (AJPW 6/11/1999)
43. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW 2/27/2000)
44. Atlantis vs. Villano 3 (CMLL 3/17/2000)
45. El Hijo del Santo vs. L.A. Park (Monterrery, 12/23/2001)
46. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi (Pro Wrestling Noah 3/1/2003)
47. Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama (Pro Wrestling Noah 7/10/2004)
48. Triple X vs. America's Most Wanted (TNA Turning Point Six Sides of Steel 12/5/2004)
49. Daisuke Ikeda vs. Yuki Ishikawa (Futen 4/24/2005)
50. Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher (IWA: Mid-South 6/11/2005)
51. Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH Unified 8/12/2006)
52. Bryan Danielson vs. Takeshi Morishima (ROH Manhattan Mayem II 8/24/2007)
53. Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness (ROH Sixth Anniversary Show 2/23/2008)
54. Minoru Suzuki vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 10/8/2012)
55. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW Invasion Attack 4/7/2013)
56. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW G1 Climax August 8/4/2013)
57. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 10/14/2013)
58. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi (NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 1/4/2015)
59. Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins vs. John Cena (WWE Royal Rumble 1/25/2015)
60. Tetsuya Naito vs. Kenny Omega (NJPW G1 Climax 8/13/2016)
61. The Revival vs. #DIY (NXT Takeover: Toronto 11/19/2016)
62. John Cena vs. A.J. Styles (WWE Royal Rumble 1/29/2017)
63. Kazuchika Okada vs. Katsuyori Shibata (NJPW Sakura Genesis 4/9/2017)
64. Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega (NJPW Dominion 6/11/2017)
65. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kenny Omega (G1 Special in USA 7/2/2017)
66. Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega (NJPW G1 Climax 8/12/2017)
67. Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito (NJPW G1 Climax 8/13/2017)
68. Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade "Cien" Almas (NXT Takeover: Philadelphia 1/27/2018)
69. Golden Lovers vs. Young Bucks (NJPW Strong Style Evolved 3/25/2018)
70. Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa (NXT Takeover: New Orleans 4/7/2018)
71. Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega (NJPW Dominion 6/9/2018)

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The Locks for my List Jul 22, 2018 21:31:50 GMT -5

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72. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (2/3 Falls WCW Clash VI 4/2/89)
73. Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCW WrestleWar 5/7/89)
74. Dynamite Kansai and Mayumi Ozaki vs. Toshiyo Yamada and Manami Toyota (AJW 4/11/1993)
75. Dynamite Kansai and Mayumi Ozaki vs. Toshiyo Yamada and Manami Toyota (AJW 12/6/1993)
76. Daisuke Ikeda and Takeshi Ono vs. Alexander Otsuka and Yuki Ishikawa (BattlArts 10/30/1996)

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The Locks for my List Jul 22, 2018 22:21:50 GMT -5

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Post by microstatistics on Jul 22, 2018 22:21:50 GMT -5

Jul 16, 2018 22:35:24 GMT -5 bossrock said:

59. Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins vs. John Cena (WWE Royal Rumble 1/25/2015)

Interesting you have this and not Brock vs. Cena or Brock vs. Roman. How would you compare those to this? Also fun overall list. Not many people are going to have Colon vs. Ayala and Bucks vs. Golden Lovers on the same list.

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The Locks for my List Jul 22, 2018 22:26:05 GMT -5

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Post by bossrock on Jul 22, 2018 22:26:05 GMT -5

Brock vs. Cena ER is most definitely going to get another view as I haven't seen it in a few years. Brock vs. Roman was also under consideration as it's probably the greatest WM main event ever. I just think the Brock domination segment goes on a bit too long before Roman's super-hot comeback. It's like a 4.5 match that just sort of misses the cut for me.

And in all honesty, I probably need to give the triple-threat a re-watch just to verify it's as good as I remember (I thought you made a good point in the other thread about locks not holding up as well as you recall). To me, it's just balls-to-the-wall insanity and probably the greatest triple-threat ever. You have the unsinkable babyface in Cena, the cunning heel in Rollins, and the unstoppable force of nature in Brock. One of Brock's last truly great performances.

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The Locks for my List Jul 23, 2018 22:40:47 GMT -5

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Post by bossrock on Jul 23, 2018 22:40:47 GMT -5

So on a re-watch, I think the Royal Rumble triple-threat match is out. Still a tremendous triple-threat match and maybe the best ever, but doesn't have quite the "holy shit!" factor I remember.

On the other hand, gave Cena-Umaga from the 2007 Royal Rumble and I think that takes the 2015 match's place. Brock-Cena ER is also still up for consideration.

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The Locks for my List Jul 23, 2018 23:49:02 GMT -5

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Post by microstatistics on Jul 23, 2018 23:49:02 GMT -5

The importance of rewatches. Though it's kind of sad when a match you thought was in the elite tier doesn't quite hold up. But then again you might rediscover something that was better than you remember, like the case above.

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