darkship Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 It was Guerrero/Angle at WM20 (Benoit/HHH/Shawn in the main). It was a nice match, although I'd hesitate to say *****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep81 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Extreme Rules 2012. Â Lesnar/Cena and Bryan/Sheamus. Could throw in Jericho/Punk too tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2015 What was the NOAH event in 2004 that had the amazing Akiyama/Kobashi match and a fantastic Liger JH match underneath? Â Departure, which was pretty shit hot all over ; Â Â Departure - * Main evented with the long-awaited GHC title defence with the 16 month reign of Kenta Kobashi in jeopardy as he defended for the first (and only) time against former partner/long-time rival, Jun Akiyama, in a match essentially that had been anticipated from the moment Kobashi won the belt, and that many felt Akiyama was destined to win, and without doubt the most anticipated title match of the year. * Featured the FIRST EVER in ring meeting of Puro deities Mitsuharu Misawa and Keiji Muto either side of a tag title match. The place went mental just the two of them getting in the ring, never mind doing anything. * The "nasty outsider" and junior legend Jushin "Thunder" Liger defending NOAH'S junior belt against Kanemaru. * IWGP tag champs (and renowned hard cases) Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama defending on Noah soil against Noah's own (renowned hard cases) Wild II. * Marufuji & KENTA defending their junior belts - the opponents (Sugiura & Kendo Ka Shin) could have been fucking anyone at the time, you knew it was going to be the balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 For WWF/E shows I'd throw Royal Rumble 2000 in there. The Hardys/Dudleys table elimination match and the Cactus/Triple H Streetfight were both red-hot, Attitude Era classics. Though both possibly fit into the "what the fuck were they thinking with those chairshots/bumps" category, in retrospect. At the time though, shit hot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2015 Didn't Wrestlemania 19 have a mental series of matches one after the other? Hogan vs McMahon, The Rock vs Austin and Brock vs Kurt Angle. Excellent ending to a PPV. Three excellent matches there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieg1980 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 ROH Unified: Bryan Danielson / Nigel McGuinness and Roderick Strong & Austin Aries / Briscoe Brothers. Great event, great venue and a great crowd. And I am biased because I was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffbag Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 How about Wrestlewar 1992? The famous War Games match is the classic everyone remembers but Pillman vs Zenk is one of my favourites - great match with a really effective story of former partners knowing each other's moves. The Steiners match with Fujinami and Izuka was really good too. Bugger, beat me to it. Â I'll go for Superbrawl III Benoit vs Scorpio and Vader vs Sting in a strap match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glass Smash Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Didn't Wrestlemania 19 have a mental series of matches one after the other? Hogan vs McMahon, The Rock vs Austin and Brock vs Kurt Angle. Excellent ending to a PPV. Three excellent matches there. Â Michaels V Jericho was a cracker too. WrestleMania 19 was probably the last decent one. All others since have almost been one match shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2015 I'd say last years WrestleMania was more than a one match show. The opener and main event were absolutely fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingofSports Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 A couple just sprung to mind. Not quite 5-star, but great anyway: 2013 G1 (4/8) Ishii vs. Shibata & Nakamura vs. Ibushi, both must have been MOTY contenders & oddly enough an All Japan event from 2004 (18/7) Kojima vs. Misawa & Kawada vs. Omori. Haven't watched the latter for years, so not sure if it holds up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinc Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I'd say last years WrestleMania was more than a one match show. The opener and main event were absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't have WMXX as a one match show either. The triple threat is the most talked about in hindsight, but Undertaker/Kane, Rock & Sock/Evolution, and Goldberg/Lesnar were all hyped going in. WMXXX had Lesnar/Taker too. Â It's a fair shout for most of the Manias in between though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I said it earlier in the thread but I'll mention it again for the sake of proving Glass Smash wrong. Wrestlemania 24 had two crackers. Undertaker vs Edge and HBK vs Flair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015  I thought he'd rated both Owen v Bret and Razor v Shawn as *****?  Nah, he gave the full five snowflakes to Bret & Owen's match at Summerslam, not Mania X.   You're right of course, for some reason I'd conflated those two brother vs brother matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted January 22, 2015 I'd say last years WrestleMania was more than a one match show. The opener and main event were absolutely fantastic.  I'd say last years WrestleMania was more than a one match show. The opener and main event were absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't have WMXX as a one match show either. The triple threat is the most talked about in hindsight, but Undertaker/Kane, Rock & Sock/Evolution, and Goldberg/Lesnar were all hyped going in. WMXXX had Lesnar/Taker too. I said it earlier in the thread but I'll mention it again for the sake of proving Glass Smash wrong. Wrestlemania 24 had two crackers. Undertaker vs Edge and HBK vs Flair.  And 21 had, for me, at least three really good matches in Michaels/Angle, Undertaker/Orton, and the first Money In The Bank.  22 had Cena/HHH which I thought was brilliant, and HBK vs Vince which everyone thought was great.  23 had two great title matches and a fun Money In The Bank.  In fact, the "one match show" thing is almost completely bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Culk Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I remember an episode of Smackdown that had the famous Guerrero v Edge street fight and a great Mysterio v Benoit main event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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