One & only favorite old school matches thread

[Guest alfdogg]

1988:

20-man tag from Survivor Series

 

Keep in mind I didn't see any WCW from pre-1991 that was of note.  I was mainly watching WWF.

[Guest alfdogg]

1989:

Harts-Brain Busters & Rude-Warrior, SummerSlam

[Guest]

Nothing beats Taker-Shawn Hell in the Cell brothers, even if yours truly hasn't seen it (blame the government, not me) but if we're gonna talk matches i've seen, which im sure is the whole purpose of this thing, my money is on Owen Hart v.s Bret Hart - Summerslam 1994 Steel Cage Match...

 

5 STARS BA-BAY!

 

This has been an over-excited Old School Taker Mark™

 

P.S Also the Final Four main event after the Royal Rumble in 1997, classic stuff...even if Taker didnt win :@

[Guest Tony149]

New year! List your favorite matches of 1990.

 

Sting vs. Flair - Great American Bash '90

 

Midnight Express vs. the Southern Boys - Great American Bash '90

 

Warrior vs. Hogan - WM 6

 

Luger vs. Flair - Wrestle War '90

 

Midnight Express vs. Rock 'N' Roll Express - Wrestle War '90

 

Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. Doom - Halloween Havoc '90

 

Luger vs. Flair - Capital Combat '90

 

Midnight Express vs. Z-Man & Flyin' Brian - Capital Combat '90

 

Doom vs. Arn Anderson & Barry Windham - Starrcade '90

[Guest alfdogg]

Garvin-Valentine, Royal Rumble

Hogan-Warrior, WrestleMania VI

Harts-Demos, SummerSlam

Doom-AA/Windham, Starrcade (my first WCW PPV)

[Guest Tony149]

We now move to the year 1991.

 

War Games '91 - Wrestle War

 

Flair vs. Scott Steiner - Clash of the Champions 14

 

Sting & Luger vs. the Steiner Brothers - Superbrawl

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. Hase & Chono - Clash of the Champions XV

 

Luger vs. Dan Spivy (sp?) - Wrestle War

 

Flair vs. Bobby Eaton - Clash of the Champions XV

 

Steamboat & Rhodes vs. the Enforcers - Clash of the Champions XVII

 

Sting vs. Rude - Clash of the Champions XVII

 

Luger & Anderson vs. Z-Man & Terry Taylor - Starrcade '91

[Guest caboose]

Warrior Vs. Savage WM7

[Guest alfdogg]

Add the Rumble match to my 1990 list.

 

1991

Rockers-O. Express, Royal Rumble

Rumble match

War Games

Warrior-Savage, WrestleMania VII

Steiners-Sting/Luger, SuperBrawl

Hart-Hennig, SummerSlam

DiBiase-Virgil, SummerSlam

Piper/Bret/Virgil/Bulldog-Flair/Mountie/DiBiase/Warlord, Survivor Series

[Guest Tony149]

Time for a new year. We're now in 1992.

 

War Games '92 - Wrestle War

 

Z-Man vs. Flyin' Brian - Wrestle War

 

The Steiners vs. the two Japanese guys - Wrestle War

 

Flyin' Brian vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger - Superbrawl II

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. Bobby Eaton & Arn Anderson - Superbrawl II

 

Royal Rumble match - Royal Rumble

 

Flair vs. Savage - WM VIII

 

Piper vs. Bret Hart - WM VIII

 

Sting vs. Cactus Jack - Beach Blast

 

Rude vs. Steamboat - Beach Blast

 

Sting vs. Vader - Great American Bash

 

Sting vs. Rude - Clash of the Champions XXI

 

Bret Hart vs. Bulldog - Summerslam

 

Savage vs. Warrior - Summerslam

 

Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels - Survivor Series

 

Ric Flair & Razor Ramon vs. Randy Savage & Mr. Perfect - Survivor Series

[Guest tank_abbott]

Frank Gotch vs Geogre Hackensmith 1932'

[Guest Tony149]

1993 is next.

 

Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. the Hollywood Blondes - Clash of the Champions

 

Hollywood Blondes vs. Ricky Steamboat & "Shane Douglas" (Really Tom Zenk) - Slamboree

 

Arn Anderson vs. Barry Windham - Slamboree

 

Sting vs. Vader - Superbrawl III

 

Chris Benoit vs. 2 Cold Scorpio - Superbrawl III

 

Sting vs. Flair - WCW Saturday Night

 

Cactus Jack vs. Vader - Halloween Havoc

 

Ric Flair vs. Mr. Perfect - Monday Night Raw

 

Mr. Perfect vs. Bret Hart - King of the Ring

 

Ric Flair vs. Vader - Starrcade

[Guest alfdogg]

1992:

Rumble match

Piper-Mountie, Royal Rumble (not necessarily a good match, but I was happy to see Piper finally get a title)

Pillman-Liger, SuperBrawl II

Savage-Flair, WrestleMania VIII

Bret-Piper, WrestleMania VIII

War Games

Pillman-Zenk, Wrestle War

Bret-DBS, SummerSlam

Savage-Warrior, SummerSlam

Savage/Hennig-Flair/Razor, Survivor Series

Bret-Shawn, Survivor Series

Bret-Flair, Smack 'Em Whack 'Em (Bret wins first title in Saskatoon)

[Guest alfdogg]

1993

Shawn-Marty, Royal Rumble

Bret-Razor, Royal Rumble

Steiners-Headshrinkers, WrestleMania IX (had a few cool spots)

Blondes-Steamboat/Zenk, Slamboree

Steamboat-Regal, Fall Brawl

Rude-Flair, Fall Brawl

Bret-Hennig, King of the Ring

Bret-Bigelow, King of the Ring

Steiners-Bodies, SummerSlam

Bodies-R & R Express, Survivor Series

[Guest Singular]

Any of Vader's matches with Cactus/Sting/Flair in the early 90's were gold.  I loved the way WCW built him as a monster by having him run in at the end of mid-card matches and destroy everyone.

[Guest]

I would have to say that my favourite match ever would be Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret "Hitman" Hart in the No DQ match from Wrestlemania 13 with Special Referee Ken Shamrock. I will never get board of watching that match. It rules! I remember the first time I saw it I was blown away. It was just totally awesome. The perfect blend of wrestling, brawling & drama with the heat turned up to full. This is the kind of stuff the WWE should produce to live up to the name of World Wrestling Entertainment. Simple perfect.

[Guest Tony149]

1994 is next.

 

Flair vs Steamboat - Spring Stampede & Saturday Night

 

Cactus Jack & Max Payne vs. the Nasty Boys - Spring Stampede

 

Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan vs. the Nasty Boys - Slamboree

 

Vader vs. Sting - Slamboree & Fall Brawl

 

Sting vs. Flair - Clash of the Champions (27?)

 

Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart - WM X

 

HBK vs. Razor Ramon - WM X

 

Bret vs. Owen - Summerslam

[Guest]

Oooh...1994.

 

-Wild Pegasus vs. Great Sasuke, NJPW J-Cup

and the semi final before it...

-Jushin Lyger vs. Great Sasuke, from the same show. I actually like this match better. Sasuke's running senton to the outside on Lyger was unbelievable.

[Guest alfdogg]

1994

Harts-Quebecers, Royal Rumble

Bret-Owen, WrestleMania X

Shawn-Razor, WrestleMania X

Sting-Flair, COTC June

Owen-Kid, King of the Ring

Bret-Diesel, KOTR

Hogan-Flair, Bash at the Beach

Austin-Steamboat, Bash at the Beach

Bret-Owen, SummerSlam

Bret-Backlund, Survivor Series

[Guest alfdogg]

You'll have to forgive me, as I've never seen any of the Super J Cups or anything like that from Japan.

[Guest papacita]

You know what's sad is that as big a WCW mark that I was from 93-94 I can't remember jack about the matches. Oh well...here's my list:

 

1990: Wrestlemania VI was the only real notable PPV that I can remember from that year so I'll go with Huck and Warrior. Right behind that is the Perfect/Von Erich match from SummerSlam and the one on Superstars where Dibiase screwed Von Erich out of the title.

 

91: Savage/Warrior from WM 7

Virgil/Dibiase from SummerSlam.

Bret/Perfect from SummerSlam

Piper, Bret, Virgil and British Bulldog Vs Flair, Mountie, and Dibiase and Warlord Survivor Series 91

 

92: Sting/Vader from GAB

Flair and Savage from WM 8

Shawn and Bret from the 1st house show I ever went to and the one they had at Survivor Series.

Perfect/Savage Vs Flair and Razor (Surv)

HBK Vs Bulldog from the last SNME

 

93: Perfect and Flair's retirement match

Bret/Perfect from KOTR

Sting and Vader's White Castle of Fear match

All HBK and Jannetty matches

Battlebowl 93 (I liked that PPV)

 

94: Bret and Owen from WM

Steamboat and Austin from Clash of the Champions

Ladder match from WM

HBK and Diesel Vs Razor and the Kid from Action Zone in August or September

[Guest caboose]

1991

Savage Vs. Warrior @ WMVII

 

1992

Savage Vs. Flair @ WMVIII

&

Bulldog Vs. B.Hart @ SummerSlam

 

1993

King Of The Ring Tournament

 

1994

HBK Vs. Ramoan - Ladder Match @ WMX

 

1995

It All Sucked.

 

1996

HBK Vs. Foley @ MindGames

 

1997

HBK Vs. UnderTaker - HellInACell @ BaddBlood

 

1998

Rocky Vs. Triple H - Ladder Match @ SummerSlam

 

1999

Rocky Vs. Foley - 'I Quit' Match @ Royal Rumble

 

2000

Foley Vs. Triple H - HellInACell @ Royal Rumble

 

2001

Rocky Vs. Jericho @ No Mercy

 

2002 Thus Far

Rocky Vs. Jericho @ Royal Rumble

[Guest Tony149]

1995 is next. Hell, I can't remember much of 1995.

 

Flair vs. Arn Anderson - Fall Brawl

 

Flair vs. Savage - Great American Bash '95

 

Hart vs. Diesel - Survivor Series

 

HBK, Sid, Ahmed Johnson & British Bulldog vs. Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Dean Douglas & Razor Ramon

[Guest alfdogg]

1995

Bret-Diesel, Royal Rumble

Shawn-Razor, SummerSlam

Hakushi-Kid, SummerSlam

Badd-Pillman, Fall Brawl

Flair-Anderson, Fall Brawl

Kid/Candido/Radford/Pritchard-Janetty/Holly/Horowitz/Hakushi, Survivor Series

Shawn/Bulldog/Ahmed/Sid-Owen/Yoko/Razor/Douglas, Survivor Series

Bret-Diesel, Survivor Series

Badd-Page, World War 3

Sting-Flair, World War 3

[Guest papacita]

95

 

WWF:

Bret and Diesel from Series

 

Wild Card Survivor Series match (my fav Survivor Series match)

 

HBK and Razor Ladder match

 

HBK Vs Jarrett from IYH 2

 

Bret Vs Jean Lafitte from IYH 3 and a Raw a few weeks later (say what you will about the Pirate, but that feud was the hotness)

 

Bret Vs Hakushi from Raw in July 95

 

Bret Vs Bulldog from December IYH

 

And I'll throw in HBK and Diesel Vs Yoko and Bulldog for the tag titles even though that ending was so messed up.

 

WCW:

 

Honestly I don't remember one good match they had that year. The Savage/Flair Lifeguard match from BATB was ok but nothing classic.

 

Pillman and Liger from the 1st Nitro

 

This one Tag Match on an episode of the Main Event between Beniot/Malenko and some team...I forget who it was but I liked the match.

 

ECW:

 

Rey Jr. and Psycosis in their ECW debut.

 

Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer Vs Raven and Cactus Jack from N2R

 

Only other matches that I can remember from 95 in ECW are Shane Douglas Vs the Sandman and Cactus Vs the Sandman.

[Guest Tony149]

List your favorite matches from 1996.

[Guest alfdogg]

Owen/DBS/Vader-Shawn/Ahmed/Sid, IYH International Incident

Undertaker/Mankind, SummerSlam

Shawn/Vader, SummerSlam

Bret/Shawn, WrestleMania XII

Flair/Savage, SuperBrawl

Rey/Ultimo, World War 3

[Guest papacita]

WWF:

 

Bret/Shawn WM12

HBK/Bulldog from KOTR

HBK/Mankind from Mind Games

Mankind/Taker KOTR

 

ECW:

4 Corners TV Title match from Heat Wave (Francine turns)

Shane Douglas/Raven ECW Title (Cyberslam I think)

 

WCW:

Rey Jr. and Dean Malenko from the Nitro after BATB (I started to turn on WCW by this time, so that was one of their few matches that I actually saw)

Giant and Flair (Giant wins the belt)

 

That's it.

[Guest Andy]

IYH6: Crybaby match: 1-2-3 vs Ramon

IYH6: Michaels vs Owen

WM12: Austin vs Vega

WM12: Bret vs Michaels

IYH Good Friends Better Enemies: Vader vs Ramon

IYH Good Friends Better Enemies: Michaels vs Diesel

IYH Beware Of Dog: HHH vs Mero

IYH Beware Of Dog: Michaels vs Bulldog

IYH Beware Of Dog: Austin vs Vega

KOTR 96: Austin vs Mero

KOTR 96: Michaels vs Bulldog

IYH International Incident: Michaels, Johnson & Sid vs Owen, Bulldog & Vader

Slam 96: Boiler Room Brawl: Mankind vs Undertaker

Slam 96: Boiler Room Brawl: Michaels vs Vader

IYH Mind Games: Michaels vs Mankind

IYH Buried Alive: Austin vs HHH

IYH Buried Alive: Undertaker vs Mankind

Survivor Series 96: Undertaker vs Mankind

Survivor Series 96: Bret vs Austin

Survivor Series 96: Michaels vs Sid

IYH It's Time: Snow vs Scorpio

IYH It's Time: Furnas & Lafon vs Owen & Bulldog

IYH It's Time: Austin vs Bret vs Vader vs Undertaker

 

Peace out.

 

Andy

[Guest Tony149]

The last year is 1997.

 

 

 

Next year 1998 will be considered "Old School". If it's 5 years old, it's old school.

[Guest papacita]

WWF:

 

Final Four: Taker Vs Bret Vs Austin Vs Vader for the title

Austin Vs Bret from WM13

Chicago Street Fight from WM13

Owen Vs Bulldog from the Euro Title finals

Austin Vs Bret from Revenge of the Taker

Taker Vs Mankind from Revenge of the Taker

HBK and Austin Vs Owen and Bulldog for the Tag Team Titles (Memorial Day Raw)

Austin Vs HBK from KOTR

Mankind Vs HHH from KOTR

Canadian Stampede Tag Match

Flag Match from July or August (Halifax I think)

Bret Vs Taker from SummerSlam

HHH and Mankind from SummerSlam

Owen and Austin (before the Piledriver from Hell)

Fatal Four way match from Ground Zero (Tag Titles)

HBK and Taker from Ground Zero

Savio Vs Faarooq Vs Crush (well I liked it)

Hell in a Cell from Badd Blood

Rock and Austin from Degeneration X

HBK and Owen from last Raw in 97

 

WCW:

Savage and DDP from this house show I went to (worst House show EVER)

Jericho Vs Eddie from Starrcade I think

Savage and Hall Vs Luger and DDP from Clash

Syxx Vs Ric Flair from that same house show.

 

ECW:

Taz Vs Sabu from Wrestlepalooza

Tommy Vs Raven "Loser Leaves" match

Tommy and Sandman Vs Sabu and RVD Cage match (Rude turns on ECW)

Tommy and Terry Funk Vs Raven and Big Stevie Cool from Buffalo Invasion (just cuz I seriously thought Stevie would win the World Title)

Dudleyz Vs the Eliminators (Dudleyz win their 1st tag title)

Al Snow Vs Shane Douglas from fall 97

Gangstanators Vs the Dudleyz from As good as it gets

 

A bunch of other ECW matches that I can't even remember