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2 hours ago, air_raid said:

Kid vs Owen from King of the Ring 1994. The best five minute match of all time, a great snapshot of how in-ring the WWF was showcasing faster, better wrestling than ever. a brilliant example from both about how to make someone look good in defeat, crisp sequences, one of the best "fuck me!" openings to a match of all time.

Mike Quackenbush waxed lyrical about this on a podcast recently, about it being one of his favourite matches of all-time, and one of the moments that made him want to be a wrestler. I didn't have any particular memory of it, but watched it off the back of that. He described the start of it as "a baseball slide like nothing you've ever seen" and, yeah, he's not wrong. Far more impactful, and with far more urgency, than the sort of big flippy dive you'd likely see in that spot today, and perfectly accented by the low lighting and camera angle to look like it's wholly unexpected.

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