WCW Top 20 Matches of the 1990's

[Guest Tim Cooke]

1 at the top, 20 at the bottom.

 

Midnight Express v Southern Boys (7/90)

Sting v Vader (2/93 Strap Match)

Windham v Scorpio (6/93)

Rey Misterio Jr v Eddy Guerrero (10/97)

Benoit v Scorpio (2/93)

Dangerous Alliance v Stings Squadron (5/92 Wargames)

Rey Misterio Jr v Ultimo Dragon (11/96)

Sting v Vader (7/92)

Sting v Vader (12/92)

Windham/Rhodes v Austin/Zybisko (2/92)

Horsemen v Sting and Co (2/91 Wargames)

Anderson/Zybisko v Steamboat/Rhodes (11/91)

Pillman v Badd (9/95)

Sting v Cactus Jack (6/92)

Liger v Pillman (2/92)

Steiner Brothers v Luger/Sting (5/91)

Midnight Express v Pillman/Zenk (5/90)

Midnight Express v Rock n Roll Express (2/90)

Benoit/Malenko v Raven/Saturn (4/99)

Rey Misterio Jr. v Juventud Guerrera v Billy Kidman (12/98)

 

Comments forthcoming sometime hopefully.

 

Tim

[Guest Midnight Express83]

20: Steiner Brothers vs. Tatsumi Fujinami/Takayuki Iizuka - Wrestlewar 92

19: Ric Flair vs. Vader- Starrcade 93

18: Chris Benoit v. 2 Cold Scorpio- Superbrawl 3

17: Flair vs Sting - Clash XXVII

16: Ric Flair v. Lex Luger - Wrestlewar 90

15: Rey Mysterio Jr vs Psychosis

14: Rey Mysterio Jr vs Ultimo Dragon 96

13: Midnight Express v Rock n Roll Express Feb 90

12: Anderson/Zybisko v Steamboat/Rhodes 11-91

11: Midnight Express vs Pillman Z-Man Superbrawl 1

10: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko vs. Raven/Perry Saturn - Stampede 99

9: Vader vs. Cactus Jack - Havoc 93

8: Chris Benoit vs. Kevin Sullivan - GAB 96

7: Wargames '1

6: Liger v Pillman-Superbrawl 2

5: Rey Misterio Jr v Eddy Guerrero-Havoc 97

4: Sting v Vader- Superbrawl 93-Strap Match

3: Midnight Express v Southern Boys (7/90)

2: Steiners vs Luger/Sting-Superbrawl 2

1: Wargames 92

[Guest godthedog]

1 at the top, 20 at the bottom.

 

Midnight Express v Southern Boys (7/90)

Sting v Vader (2/93 Strap Match)

Windham v Scorpio (6/93)

Rey Misterio Jr v Eddy Guerrero (10/97)

Benoit v Scorpio (2/93)

Dangerous Alliance v Stings Squadron (5/92 Wargames)

Rey Misterio Jr v Ultimo Dragon (11/96)

Sting v Vader (7/92)

Sting v Vader (12/92)

Windham/Rhodes v Austin/Zybisko (2/92)

Horsemen v Sting and Co (2/91 Wargames)

Anderson/Zybisko v Steamboat/Rhodes (11/91)

Pillman v Badd (9/95)

Sting v Cactus Jack (6/92)

Liger v Pillman (2/92)

Steiner Brothers v Luger/Sting (5/91)

Midnight Express v Pillman/Zenk (5/90)

Midnight Express v Rock n Roll Express (2/90)

Benoit/Malenko v Raven/Saturn (4/99)

Rey Misterio Jr. v Juventud Guerrera v Billy Kidman (12/98)

 

Comments forthcoming sometime hopefully.

 

Tim

i have seen exactly, hm...two of those matches, so i can't fairly comment. but there's a steamboat/douglas v. hollywood blondes match i have from around 93 (i think) that is one of the 20 best matches i've ever seen & gets no love from anybody.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

I haven't seen Benoit vs. Raven anywhere, huh.

 

I, too, haven't seen much WCW, so I couldn't make a top 20, or even a top 10.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I'm the only person that cannot list the Benoit/Malenko vs. Raven/Saturn match from Spring Stampede 1999 as one of WCW's best matches, when I think that the Cruiserweight Tag Team finals (Romeo/Skipper vs. Misterio/Kidman) was a better match.

[Guest Midnight Express83]

I got alot of these matches on my PC so if you have AIM or MSN Messager, IM me and I will send it to you.

[Guest razazteca]

what no Chris Jericho or DDP or Savage matches?

[Guest BifEverchad]

MY top 20 WCW matches of the 90's.....

 

 

20: Sting vs Vader (Superbrawl 93)

19: Diamond Dallas Page vs Raven (Spring Stampede 98)

18: Chris Benoit vs 2 Cold Scorpio (Superbrawl 3)

17: The Midnight Express vs The Southern Boys (GAB 90)

16: Ric Flair vs Lex Luger (WrestleWar 90)

15: Ultimo Dragon vs Dean Malenko (WCW Starrcade 96)

14: Chris Jericho vs Raven (Halloween Havoc 98)

13: Vader vs Cactus Jack (Halloween Havoc 93)

12: Rick and Scott Steiner vs Lex Luger/Sting (Superbrawl 2)

11: Midnight Express vs Brian Pillman/Tom Zenk (Superbrawl 1)

10: Booker T vs Chris Beniot (Nitro 98)

09: The Nasty Boys vs Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan (Slamboree 94)

08: Chris Benoit vs Kevin Sullivan (GAB 96)

07: Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit (Fall Brawl 96)

06: Blitzkrieg vs Juventud Guerrera (Spring Stampede 99)

05: Rey Misterio Jr vs Eddy Guerrero (Halloween Havoc 97)

04: Jushin Liger vs Brian Pillman (Superbrawl 2)

03: Ric Flair vs Vader (Starrcade 93)

02: Dean Malenko vs Rey Misterio Jr (GAB 96)

01: Bret Hart vs Chris Benoit (Owen Tribute) (Nitro 99)

[Guest Tim Cooke]

Some notes:

 

Raven v Benoit (1/98)

- Benoit has had a million better matches in Japan, Mexico, US that are better than this. A brawl with the over rated Raven. They worked a much smarter and greater match with the 4/99 tag at Spring Stampede.

 

No Savage or DDP Matches

- Savage SUCKED in WCW (and WWF, but that is another matter). Any "good" DDP matches came from Benoit in which Benoit had to dumb it down for DDP. I think DDP is a solid worker and his match with Goldberg at HH 98 is a testament to his work ethic and wanting to bust his ass for good matches. That said, he never had anything that came close to top 20.

 

Hollywood Blonds v Douglas/Steamboat

- Decent, not top 20. The Starrcade 1992 match with Pillman/Windham v Steamer/Douglas is 10x better but not top 20.

 

Jericho

- All of Jericho's WCW stuff was predestrian. No singles matches stand out like Windham/Scorpio, Sting/Vader, etc.

 

Cruiserweight Tag Final

- ***1/2 match.....just a ton of fun and much better than it should have been. And it was the 3rd best match that night which says something.

 

Tim

[Guest BifEverchad]

Cruiserweight Tag Final

- ***1/2 match.....just a ton of fun and much better than it should have been. And it was the 3rd best match that night which says something.

Not too mention this match happened in 2001. This list is for the 90's.

[Guest razazteca]

Savage vs DDP and DDP vs Raven matches were good

[Guest Tim Cooke]

Savage v DDP was better than it had any right to be and DDP v Raven was mediocre. How does that qualify for top 20?

 

Tim

[Guest bob_barron]

Benoit v. DDP Superbrawl VIII is one of my favourite matches of all time

[Guest RickyChosyu]

It has no place on a list of best of the ninties. It's no where near the levle Benoit was performing with other workers, and it's nothing compared to the many tags of the early ninties. There's just a whole lot of stuff that's better.

[Guest razazteca]

well it is my personal opinion that the whole DDP:

 

vs Savage

vs Raven

vs Beniot

vs the world

 

is what got him over during the time period so, it does not belong in top 20 of 90s but is important in my eyes.

 

Excuse me for being a DDP Mark

[Guest Midnight Express83]

I would vote 5 or 7 of the 9 Benoit matches vs Booker T but I can't really tell them a part, so none make it.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Wasn't there a Blondes vs. Flair and AA match at a Clash that was supposed to be good?

[Guest Midnight Express83]

I thought it was Blondes vs Flair/Steamboat.

[Guest Tim Cooke]

It was the Blondes v AA/Flair from Flair's return to WCW and it blew hard. Flair looked so freaking old at that point. He should have hung it up at that point.

 

Tim

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Scorpio vs. Windham at #3? I've never seen it, but I can't imagine it was *THAT* great???

[Guest Tim Cooke]

Windham brought LOADS of good to great heavy offense for a US wrestler at the time. He reigned in Scorpio after letting him start hot, then let Scorpio make his comeback with a ton of hot nearfalls. 12:22 of one of the best US singles matches that I have ever seen.

 

I may rate it a *tad* high but only because the match is the BEST example of a Young v Vet match up that the US has ever seen.

 

Tim

[Guest Midnight Express83]

For Young vs Vet, nobody touches the Flair vs Luger series.

 

As for DDP matches, they are solid, but not top 20 due to the fact that lot of this matches the other wrestler is just brawling or dumbing it down.

[Guest Tim Cooke]

"For Young vs Vet, nobody touches the Flair vs Luger series"

 

Yup, Flair by the numbers vs. Clothesline until I die is really the prototypical Young Spunky Wrestler v Grizzly Old Vet storyline.

 

Tim