shortest ever ***** match?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

And speaking of killer brawls like I mentioned earlier, one that I haven't seen enough times to totally get into, but have enjoyed thoroughly every time I've seen it, is the Liger/Sammy match from BOSJ 92(or is it 93?)

 

Intensity to spare, and it really stands out as unique from most of the other juniors material I've seen.

[cawthon777]

If we're going to go the brawl route, you can't beat the innovativeness of Cactus / Vader Texas Death Match at Havoc 93. To this day, that is one of the best American hardcore matches I've ever seen.

[Guest Jubuki]

Jumbo vs. Funk from '76 had "best match to happen at the time" written all over it and clocks in around 27 minutes. Of the ones I'm sure of, 12/6/96 and Hokuto/Kandori are right at the 30-minute mark. I forget which is longer.

[Guest Tim Cooke]

Hokuto/Kandori is like 31 and Misawa/Akiyama v Kawada/Taue is like 32 and some change.

 

Tim

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

And yeah, let's be realistic rock/bossman was a DUD, because if that's ***** then so is all those bits where 5 people win the HC title. Crash has had about 40 ***** matches%

Crash > Flair

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

Crash Holly is the Nature Boy of hardcore wrestling. What is he, a 20-Time Hardcore Champion?

[Guest wolverine]

While the matches I listed previously were all within a 1/2* of that mark, the actual shortest ***** match I've seen would be the 12/3/93 Misawa/Kobashi vs. Kawada/Taue at about 22 minutes. This also happens to be my favorite pro wrestling match of all-time, thanks to the greatest bit of selling I've ever seen in my life by Kawada.

[Guest Jubuki]

Ironically, 12/6/96 is exactly 1 minute longer than Hokuto/Kandori.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

Another point about the 'epic' quality, I think Flair/Steamboat (the one on the hhh dvd) is as highly rated as it is largely because of that. Sure, it's a great match, but time hasn't been *that* kind to it.