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Post by bigraj on Aug 31, 2013 13:03:53 GMT
Have you recently watched some great matches of the past? Let us know here. If you can post a link or video, that would be great too. Maybe some of us haven't seen the match, or want to experience it again.
For me, it was the Piper vs Valentine Dog Collar Match from Starcade '83.
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Post by Kimmel on Aug 31, 2013 22:20:13 GMT
More of a neo classic, but The Malenko/Guerrero Classic, it was the match that got me to start watching wrestling again when I came across it on Channel 55 here in Charlotte, I still remember I had this bunk bed where the bottom was a futon that folded into a couch, I got home late from Theater practice and had a chicken sandwich from subway with pizza sauce, provolone cheese, green peppers, onions, banana peppers, and jalapenos, flipping through the channels I came across this match and was hooked again.
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Post by bigraj on Aug 31, 2013 22:54:56 GMT
I love that match. ECW really had a great mix of scientific, hardcore, and highflying styles at one point. Too bad WCW took most of the good talent and WWF took the "attitude" and blew it up, leaving them non-stop hardcore.
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Post by Captain Charisma on Sept 1, 2013 4:41:17 GMT
I don't have a link, damn satelite internet and Youtube don't get along. But from I can't begin to explain how impressed I was with Taz vs. Sabu vs. Bam Bam Bigelow off the Unreleased Vol. II dvd. None of the hardcore stuff was really my bag, but that was highly impressive.
I did watch the essential Starrcade collection again a couple of nights ago, and watched Tully vs. Magnum I Quit/Cage Match. Outstanding match.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 1, 2013 11:32:09 GMT
Brody & Hansen vs The Funks
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Post by Chitohausen on Sept 1, 2013 15:01:28 GMT
I recently watched that Hansen/Brody vs Funks match on youtube, it was just non-stop action from bell to bell, such a great match.
Here's one I was watching recently, Dory Funk Jr vs Ric Flair from St. Louis TV:
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Post by darthfoley on Sept 3, 2013 12:41:41 GMT
Certainly not a classic 'wrestling' match, but this was one of my favorites and one I watched about a week ago. Match starts at about the 6 minute mark in part 4/10 - Steiners v Nasty Boys from Halloween Havoc '90. Any match with a chair shot that makes JR just start babbling sounds (OO BOO WOO!) is a winner in my book.
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Post by Captain Charisma on Sept 3, 2013 17:10:12 GMT
Havoc 90 is a forgotten gem, IMO. Nasties vs. Steiners was way better than I thought the Nasties could do, Flair/AA vs. Doom was a great fight, and I wish that tag feud had gotten to finish its story. Havoc led to them headlining the Nov. Clash where Naitch earned him and Arn another tag title shot, that turned into the Barry/Arn vs. Doom streetfight at Starrcade 90. You had a good Stan Hansen vs. Lex Luger match, Sid was always a good opponent for Sting.
I want to say Mean Mark was still around at that point. Lot's of people poo-poo 1990 and Sting's first title run, but all he got to do was take on Sid and then the Black Scorpion angle. There was some really good stuff going on around him. I felt like, anyway.
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Post by Kimmel on Sept 3, 2013 18:33:41 GMT
I have a distinct memory of Halloween Havoc 90, I was very sick, I was supposed to go spend the weekend with my dad but was too sick to do so, he had planned on us going to Chicago to see family and to take me to the show. My lungs were really acting up and I was stuck in bed at my moms house, depressed that I was going to miss the show. My two cousins who were 6 years older than me and loved wrestling, and were responsible for me seeing my first matches, showed up at the house. Both had just turned 16, and had their cars and licenses. They drove to my mom house, convinced her to order the Pay Per View and brought me some Pizza Hut Bigfoot Pizzas and cheerwine with the money they had earned working at the family race shop. They helped me out of my room, onto the couch and the three of us watched Havoc in the den on one of those old fold out big screen projector TVs. I remember how happy we were when Stan Hansen won the US Title, how great the brawl between the Nastys and Stieners was, and the Doom-Horsemen match, hated the finish to the Sting-Vicious deal. And we would have been even more angry had we known that would be the last time the Midnight Express would team up.
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Post by Kimmel on Sept 3, 2013 18:39:25 GMT
Wahoo vs. Magnum from Wahoo's short heel run in JCP when he and Tully were out to kick the shit out of a babyface Flair:
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Post by grigs on Sept 3, 2013 20:06:23 GMT
I just watched a few Buck Zumhofe matches from the early 80s on youtube for fantasy booking research purposes.
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Post by Captain Charisma on Sept 3, 2013 20:23:27 GMT
Outstanding match from Wahoo and Magnum there. Wahoo and Tully sounds like a damn fine top heel duo for somebody in Territory Throwdown, insert rocking out smiley here.
WCW made a lot of dumb decisions and I loved them anyway, but I never forgave them for not running an actual Midnight Express vs. Steiner Brothers feud. I guess Cornette and Lane had already decided to bolt, and that was the reason behind putting the US Tag Titles on the Steiners, who didn't need them at the time, maybe? Hansen was a shock to me as a 6 year old, I hadn't seen him before that, the tobacco chewing devastation on Z-Man at that Clash before Havoc was awesome. He was a breath of fresh air honestly, and then didn't really do much at all with the US Title until dropping it back to Luger at Starrcade.
Made for a memorable second Halloween Havoc though.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 4, 2013 1:01:59 GMT
First time I'd ever seen this. Great quality for a 1982 match.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 4, 2013 1:24:02 GMT
I remember watching a bunch of these Vader vs Steamboat matches on Worldwide and Saturday Night in 1992-93 and loved them all. Steamboat's selling is impeccable, as always, and he really helped get Vader over almost as much as Sting did during this era.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 4, 2013 1:43:01 GMT
That's right! It's the old Ricky Steamboat classic threepeat! After seeing the Dragon take a few shots from Handsome Harley during the Vader match, I got curious.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 7, 2013 16:22:17 GMT
More Steamboat goodness. This guy's pretty good, and so are the other guys involved.
And Doc & Gordy vs Jumbo & Kabuki
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Post by Captain Charisma on Sept 8, 2013 6:09:12 GMT
After Raj's recent mancrush on The Dragon, I went and watched a forgotten tag team classic from the Essential Starrcade WWE DVD. Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas vs. Barry Windham and Flyin Brian from Starrcade 92. The Battlebowl/Lethal Lottery and King of Cable Tournament were featured at this Starrcade, so this match being part of neither gets forgotten a lot, and man what a wrestling match this was. I wouldn't change anything because we got a Barry Windham World Title run and the Hollywood Blondes after this, but man alive Barry and Brian had as much chemistry as a heel tag team as they did feuding with one another, complimented one another very well. Great match.
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Post by Kimmel on Sept 9, 2013 23:55:31 GMT
Not a match but one of my all time favorite all time angles:
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Post by bigraj on Sept 10, 2013 0:19:21 GMT
Not sure why Piper was getting IC title shots when he was mainly doing commentary, but he and Hennig had some good chemistry.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 10, 2013 0:52:08 GMT
Damn, Hawk is scary looking, and he's the small guy on the team.  |
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Post by bigraj on Sept 10, 2013 1:20:35 GMT
Fun brawl while it lasted.
I love any match where Bamm Bamm and Doc beat the hell out of each other. Throw in Terry Funk and Sting? It's a main event in any arena in the country.
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Post by bigraj on Sept 10, 2013 1:51:09 GMT
Yep. More Dr. Death. He was my absolute favorite wrestler after he turned face in the aftermath of the DiBiase-Murdoch angle (Mid South DVD set comes out tomorrow!) and I thought he'd blow up once he got exposed to a larger audience, but it never really happened until he went to Japan.
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Post by darthfoley on Sept 10, 2013 1:53:37 GMT
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Post by bigraj on Sept 10, 2013 2:15:32 GMT
Greatest Warrior match, ever.
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Post by Kimmel on Sept 10, 2013 2:18:09 GMT
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Working on it now.