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| Big Tuna | Jul 15 2012, 12:02 AM Post #21 |
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#15 Sting vs. Big Van Vader [King of Cable Finals], Starrcade (December 28th, 1992) This is like their one match I've never seen, so I am going in blind. PErfect continuation of the themes from the GAB match. Sting now knows what Vader's capable of, but he runs at him for most of the match. He of course takes a pounding early on, but is able to get more big stuff in, and not just as kind of a desperate burst like at the Bash. It's still Vader though, so Vader eventually mauls him for much of the match, and is extra violent due to being mad at Sting trying to show him up. Finish is good, as Sting catches Vader coming off the top with a Powerslam for the win. Good, but probably the least of their 3 92-93 PPV matches. ***1/2 #14 Ric Flair/Barry Windham/Larry Zbyszko/Sid Vicious vs. Sting/The Steiner Brothers/Brian Pillman [WAR GAMES~], WrestleWar 91 (February 24th, 1991) Brian has a taped shoulder, and they try and make him enter last, but he runs right in when he sees that Barry is starting, so it's Brian Pillman and Barry Windham to start. Brian uses the cage to hit a Huracanrana, in a totally awesome spot that influenced my War Games writing so so so so so so much. Brian is insanely aggressive, and Barry bleeds. Flair is in next, and he and Pillman rule together. Pillman's bumps into the cage are fantastic, an Sting is in next. Awesome "hot tag" run for his two minutes. Larry is in next, and Sting hits him with the shoulderblock from one ring into the other. Eventually, Larry gets on offense and has an awesome series of punches to Sting's midsection in the corner. Rick Steiner is in next, and STEINERLINES EVERYWHERE~! Flair bleeds now, and Rick hurls him around. Sid is in next, and does nothing of note. However, more awesome Flair bumping happens before Scott Steiner comes in last. Sid gets caught clearly calling spots with Scott, and as much as it hurts to say, Sid is by far the weak link in this match. Rick takes a couple of great bumps on Sid clotheslines. Sid Powerbombs Pillman, but Brian's feet hit the cage as he omes up, causing a near-Ganso Bomb. In their defense, the cage roof is noticeably sinking in this match. Sid Powerbombs him again, and El Gigante runs down. He sees that Pillman is almost dead, so he has the ref call it. Six and a half years later, Pillman would finish what Sid started. As for the match, not as "timeless" or "classic" as the original, but probably better up until the finish, which I can't see being what was planned specifically. ***3/4 #13 Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Psicosis, Bash at the Beach (July 7th, 1996) Hahahahaha, #13? I mean, I love this match. It's great. But time has not been kind to it, as now it is merely an insane cutting edge spotfest, and is merely a super fun match. It is in no way the 13th best match in WCW history. I guess people voted on this list in like 2001, when this was still relatively cutting edge. They have some good matwork at points, but it's essentially a pure spotfest. Rey wins with his Splash Mountain Bomb counter. *** #12 Sting vs. Cactus Jack [Falls Count Anywhere], Beach Blast 92 (June 20th, 1992) What a fucking great match. Hot crowd combined with really wild brawling. Both men are crisp as hell and most of the spots they do still stand up as being really brutal. Basic story of the Ace character having to dig down and find his brutal side to beat the insane brawler. A ton of really insane Foley bumps too, and the subtle thing of Sting using a lot more wrestling based stuff on the floor was a neat way to get over the story of it. I love when people fight on the gigantic ramp to the ring. I fucking love the ramp that goes right to the ring. Sting gets a Flying Clothesline off the top to Jack on the ramp to win. **** #11 Ric Flair [c] vs. Terry Funk w/ Gary Hart [NWA World Heavyweight Championship], Great American Bash (July 23rd, 1989) Completely magnificent match. Title Match Flair, as seen vs. Luger recently on the list, is fun, as is Old Man Heel Flair, as seen in Evolution tags, but my favorite Flair is pissed off grudge match Flair. Nasty punches, chops, AND FLAIR THROWS THE RARE AND AMAZING FOREARMS! Terry Funk is Terry Funk. He goes for the neck, but Flair is able to keep him away. Funk hits him with the branding iron to open him up, and Funk works the cut, but then is able to go for the neck. Flair eventually hits Funk with the iron to open him up too. Finish is kind of abrupt, but it works as a flash finish to the first match in a series. Flair reverses a Figure Four reversal cradle into his own cradle to retain. **** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 15 2012, 05:01 PM Post #22 |
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#10 Ricky Steamboat [c] vs. Ric Flair [NWA World Heavyweight Championship], WrestleWar (May 7th, 1989) This is still great, it's Flair/Steamboat, but it is much more of a spotfest than the more cerebral Clash. I haven't seen Chi Town Rumble in like 5-10 years, so I have no memory of how this went. Super energetic all the way through, tons of nasty chop exchanges. Steamboat seems to stick with the arm, but Flair keeps drawing him into strike exchanges so he can't really go to town on the arm to weaken him for the Chickenwing. They have some awesome stuff, and then Flair hurts the leg. He goes to town on it, and Steamboat's leg buckles on a slam and Flair rolls through with a pin to win. ***3/4 #9 Jushin Liger [c] vs. Brian Pillman [WCW Light Heavyweight Championship], SuperBrawl II (February 29th, 1992) L O L. I mean, hey, it's a good match. Revolutionary for its time, lots of cool stuff. But I don't know. It doesn't hold up as great anymore. Liger tries working the knee, but Pillman doesn't even sell it a little bit, so they go back to lots of cool stuff. When "cool stuff" is all your match has gong for it, once the stuff stops being cool, the match doesn't have a lot to offer. Liger misses a Diving Headbutt and Pillman gets a bridging pin to win. ***1/4 #8 Sting [c] vs. Big Van Vader w/ Harley Race [WCW World Heavyweight Championship], Great American Bash (July 12th, 1992) Hey yeah, great and all, but #7? It's a great first match in a series. Brilliant job of immediately putting Vader over, as for the most part, he steamrolls Sting to begin. Sting gets in some stuff, yeah, but most of it barely phases Vader. Of course, Vader eventually mauls him. Sting makes his awesome comeback and throws everything at Vader just to knock him down. He overshoots the Stinger Splash though, and hits the ring cable. Vader capitalizes with the Powerbomb to win the belt. ***1/2 #7 Sting vs. Big Van Vader w/ Harley Race [WHITE CASTLE OF FEAR STRAP MATCH], SuperBrawl III (February 21st, 1993) This is their best match together. Really violent and brutal match, as it should be with this stip and Vader involved. Lots of awesome strapping spots. It felt more like a match within the rules of a Strap Match, as opposed to other matches which are matches based around Strap Match rules. They get into awesome close calls near the end, and Sting accidentally kicks Vader back and Vader falls into the 4th corner to win. **** #6 The Midnight Express [c] vs. The Southern Boys [NWA U.S. Tag Team Championship], Great American Bash (July 7th, 1990) Probably too high, but it's so fucking awesome, so whatever. This is surely caused by it being fairly high on all ballots, like how when we did the BQ100 in 2009, Kofi Kingston got at #9 because he was on all five or six ballots around the same ranking, probably like 25-10. I predict the same thing happened here. Classic MX formula match, except now with a STAN LANE/TRACEY SMOTHERS KARATE SHOWDOWN! Tracey has lots of awesome stuff, and Bobby Eaton is Bobby Eaton. Killer punches, huge bumps, etc. Brilliant cutoffs by the MX in the control seg. Armstrong has a good hot tag, and they have two awesome false finishes with a Rocket Launcher kick out and then a twin switch cradle on Eaton. Lane then kicks Tracey in the back of the head from the apron and Eaton gets a cradle to win. **** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2012, 02:41 PM Post #23 |
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#5 Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk [I Quit Match], Clash of the Champions IX (November 15th, 1989) Appropriate placement for once. Doesn't take long for it to break down into the fight and the brawl they teased at GAB. It's full of great little sells from Terry Funk. Selling his hand after a punch, his usual punch drunk wobbly stuff, and then killer knee selling at the end. Flair throws the most brutal chops of his career by far. In the best possible way, it feels like and comes across as a real life fight between two guys who happen to be trained pro wrestlers, with the way they throw each other into anything near by, and how Flair jumps at Funk repeatedly when he tries to walk away. Flair can't really hang with Funk in a pure slugfest, so he attacks the knee. There's this amazing moment in the finishing run where Funk is swinging desperately at Flair, and Flair ducks all of this blows and throws increasingly nasty chops at him, and it comes off as Flair having exhausted Funk and still being full of life and shit. If I was a fan at this point, let alone alive, it feels like that's the moment I would decide Ric Flair is the G.O.A.T. Anyways, Flair makes Funk quit with the Figure Four. ****1/2 #4 Ricky Steamboat [c] vs. Ric Flair [NWA World Heavyweight Championship - Best of Three Falls], Clash of the Champions VI (April 2nd, 1989) I went through a phase when I was 13-14 of thinking this was the greatest match of all time, sort of like I did when I was 16-18 of thinking the HDA vs. Misawa/Kobashi 1995 match was. I never really wavered in Benoit/Jericho vs. 2MPT being my FAVORITE match, but we all have phases. The point is, if I'm putting together this list, this is #1, 99% sure. First 10-15 is really simple, and based around Flair still having no answer for Steamboat and getting dominated. Tons of super fast stuff and when Flair does get Steamboat down, he puts him in positions to wear himself down so Flair can take a break. He sets him up to fail with a missed dropkick. Steamboat counters the Figure Four into a cradle, but Flair reverses into his own to win. Flair gets more confident now and lets go of his plan to let Ricky wear himself out. Steamboat works the leg a little before Flair cuts him off, and Flair has some great little sells of the leg. Steamboat then works the back when he can, culminating in a Double Chickenwing hold to go 1-1. Steamboat sticks with the back now but Flair goes after the knee, and they alternate. Ricky's leg selling is again remarkable, but Flair forgets about the back, and that's my only real complaint. Steamboat keeps selling for the next 15 minutes into the finish, and it even plays into the finish. Steamboat goes back to the back at the end, which is why Flair selling would have pushed this from being an all time classic into being THE all time classic, and puts on the Double Chickenwing Hold, BUT HIS LEG GIVES OUT! Flair falls on top, but the ref counts his shoulders down instead of Steamboat's, and Steamboat wins. ****1/2 #3 Ric Flair [c] vs. Ricky Steamboat [NWA World Heavyweight Championship], Chi Town Rumble (February 20th, 1989) Hey, this is great. Who'd have thunk? It's a really simple story, but they do it so well. Flair is still totally thrown off by Steamboat, who obviously has his number. As a result, he tries to rush a lot of his usual cheap tricks, but having not done the proper legwork (not literal working of the leg), Steamboat can counter or block most of them. This is more of a sprint like WrestleWar as opposed to the psychological master course that is the match in the middle of those two. This is better than WrestleWar though, as it's shorter and thus has less dead space and a little more substance. Steamboat counters the Figure Four into an inside cradle to win. **** #2 Eddie Guerrero [c] vs. Rey Mysterio [WCW Cruiserweight Championship - TITLE VS. MASK], Halloween Havoc (October 26th, 1997) This is the perfect cruiserweight match, or as close as they'll come. Tons, and I mean TONS, of super crisp incredible spots. Then you have a perfectly fine structure, and some incredible hate from Eddie and desperation from Rey. Eddie rips the mask, causing Rey to fight even harder. A good amount of the spots they do are still super inventive 15 years after the fact. Lots of action and then Eddie stupidly tries a Splash Mountain Bomb, BUT YOU CAN'T SPLASH MOUNTAIN BOMB REY MYSTERIO! He counters into the Frankensteiner to win. ****1/2 #1 Sting/Ricky Steamboat/Barry Windham/Dustin Rhodes/Nikita Koloff vs. Rick Rude/Arn Anderson/Steve Austin/Bobby Eaton/Larry Zbyszko w/ Paul E. Dangerously & Madusa [WAR GAMES~], WrestleWar 92 (May 17th, 1992) Austin and Barry start, and it is great. Austin takes some huge bumps, bleeds a lot, etc. Barry's stuff on the cut is all brutal and fantastic. Since Austin is all fucked up, Rude is sent in next as their best guy. Steamboat wants at Rude, so he's in next, and has his broken nose taped. AND STEAMBOAT USES THE TOP OF THE CAGE FOR A HURACANRANA! FUCK YEAH! Arn is finally in next. I believe Arn should start all WG matches, but him being used in a critical role as Ricky and Barry beat the fuck out of the DA guys, since he knows more about War Games than anyone, is also very logical. They start the gang attack now, and Barry and Ricky have some awesome moments trying to fight off the numbers game. Steamboat takes a huge bump flying over both sets of ropes to the other ring. Dustin is in next and he works on Austin's nasty cut. Larry is in next, but Dustin cuts him off and they have an incredible slugfest. MADUSA CLIMBS ONTO THE CEILING AND DROPS THE PHONE IN AND ARN HITS DUSTIN WITH IT TO FINALLY CUT HIM OFF! DA controls again for a minute or so, AND RUDE GRABS THE NOSE OF STEAMBOAT AND YANKS UP ON IT AS HE PUNCHES IT JESUS CHRIST. Sting is in, AND STING PRESS SLAMS RUDE UP AND DOWN INTO THE TOP OF THE CAGE! LARRY TAKES A BACK DROP INTO THE CAGE! Arn and Barry and Dustin are busted now, and all have nasty cuts too. Eaton is in last for the DA, and is fine and all. He's Bobby Eaton, so he's solid at worst, but contributes the least of anyone to this, I guess. Nikita is in last and proves his loyalty to Sting and shit. Larry undoes the top rope and goes to hit Sting with the connecting cable, but he moves and hits Eaton's arm! Sting puts him in an armlock and Eaton quits. Decent finish, but the actual armbar didn't look that great so it didn't feel like it fit in with the incredibly violent and gritty match that came before it. But at least this list got #1 right. ****3/4 |
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