Match with greatest total package/buildup

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

I was just curious what everyone thought was the greatest total package in the history of wrestling. I mean an angle that had it all, awesome buildup, great promos, a decent story, great announcing during the match. A great match of course w/ intangibles, I mean the total package.

 

I picked up Wrestlemania X8 today and with it came a history of Wrestlemania DVD. When I was watching it, and it got to Wrestlemania 8, the promos w/ Flair and Savage w/ the doctored photos were absolute gold. I was only 10 years old at the time this happened, so I didn't appreciate it then, but it spawned a line my friends and I used in high school when my buddy hooked up with this girl who had a boyfriend...

 

"She was mine before she was yours. Damaged Goods! Whooooo!"

 

Everything was gold, everything. From the promos w/ Flair and Perfect, to Heenan's commentary during the match. "I think Liz just winked at Flair, look at her saying whooo!" Of course the match itself was awesome, including Flair's awesome blade job and Macho's second title win. Let's not forget Flair's blood soaked kiss on Liz at the end. Just a simply awesome match to conclude an awesome angle. It had everything necessary to make it one of the greatest angles ever...Agree or disagree, and what's yours??

[Guest dreamer420]

i have to agree with you and vote for flair/savage, although I wanted to see the pics of liz at WM8

[Guest Tim Cooke]

6/3/94 Misawa v Kawada or 6/9/95 Misawa/Kobashi v Kawada/Taue...both have about the greatest story that I have ever seen in wrestling.  Every move in each match means something from the past, present, or future, in some bases from more than one.

 

Tim

[Guest]

I'm always a mark for Steamboat/Savage. I was a kid when that happened, and I thought Savage killed Steamboat with that bell. Then the doctor reports, then the comeback, toss in the Animal and Liz, and one of the best matches ever. Not bad.

 

 

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[Guest papacita]

I agree about WM 8. I didn't see the PPV itself until 99 and I agree, you couldn't really appreciate that as much when you were little. That whole program was great.

 

I thought the whole Austin/Bret rivalry as a good one too. It had a great build...something that feuds in the WWF are missing these days. It started just after KOTR 96, slowly built to the Survivor Series. Arguably the feud that made the attitude era.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

Absolutely, Austin/Bret would probably be the greatest feud because all of their great moments weren't for the same match. I mean seriously, Bret 'retires'/considers WCW offer and they have Austin call him out every single week, so finally they fight at Survivor Series, and the match is amazing. They even repeated the spot from Wrestlemania 8 I think w/ Bret winning the IC title off Piper for the win. And then the whole Canadian patriotism thing, Austin attacking during the Canadian national anthem. Attacking Bret while he was being loaded into the ambulance. Just great, great stuff. I wish Raw could be half as entertaining now as it was then.

[Guest HartFan86]

Taker/Austin from Summerslam 1998. The promoted/foreshadowed it from May 98 to when it happened. I loved it.

 

Also, Wrestlemania 17.

[Guest The Great Wesuke]

Hogan-Savage, WrestleMania 5. Ok, not the greatest match of all time but the groundwork for the feud was set-up over a year before the match took place!

 

Everyone knew the split of the MegaPowers was going to happen but they dragged it out through Survivor Series (Savage gets handcuffed and beaten... why won't Hogan help him?), Rumble (Hogan just eliminated Savage!) and on Superstars (Brother Love show: "You lust for Elizabeth"!).

 

Funny how most of the comments on this topic have involved Savage and Elizabeth, I guess it was just the classic jealous boyfriend that made it even more believable.

 

Anyway, WM5... the Megapowers EXPLODE! The first WM I saw live and the PPV that hooked me on wrestling the rest of my life.

 

Honourable mention goes to Piper-Adonis, the feud that got me watching pro-wrestling.

[Guest Dangerous A]

It's a tie between the aforementioned Savage/Hogan WM 5 megapowers explode and Funk/Flair going from Wrestlewar 89 to GAB 89 to Halloween Havoc 89 and culminating at the superb star I quit match at Clash of Champions. Just marvelous story and buildup.

[Guest Andy]

Flair vs Funk and also Flair vs Savage.

 

Both damn good.

 

Andy

[Guest]

Bret "Hitman" Hart v.s Shawn Michaels, Survivor Series '97..

 

Now THAT is what i call H*E*A*T brother!

 

This has been the Taker Mark

[Guest bravesfan]

The entire Mega Powers formation/break-up angle, especially with the Saturday Night Main Event against Akeem and Bossman with the backstage fight over Liz...

 

But hands down, gotta go with Flair/Savage. The doctored photos that WWF Magazine printed were GOLD (Sorry Mik!)

Not to mention they were both great in a ring together and Flair seeming to reek of the "Womanizer" persona just made the angle stand up above all others.

 

Ahh, the good ole' days when we relied on WWF MAGAZINE for our monthly angle progression instead of these current fluff ad mags.

[Guest thebear]

I think the Ironman Match at WM12 was  a hugely built up match. People seem to forget the psychology put into the draw, that they came across on RAW's leading into WM12 as studying absolutely everything about each other.

 

I can remember Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart being at ringside for matches, without saying one negative word, being able to throw each other off thier games.

 

It really had no Gimmicked Storyline to it, and it may have been one of the last big old school matches (Where the wrestling led the buildup, not a storyline about wife's being stolen, dog's getting run over and such)

[Guest Drury37]

I thought the build up to all of WWF SummerSlam 1998 was pretty impressive.

Thanks.

[Guest nWoScorpion]

For woever mentioned Savage bing handcufed at SSeries 88, WRONG. Hogan was handcuffed and ebaten down by Bossman & Akeem while Savage was fighting agaisnt them and Haku in between it. So why didnt Savage save Hogan?

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart cage match from Summerslam '94.  

 

Bret and Owen collide at Survivor Series '93, allowing Owen to the be the only member from the Hart team eliminated.  He challenges Bret to a match, but Bret won't fight his own brother.  They work things out over Christmas weekend and team against The Quebecers at the Royal Rumble.  Bret either can't make the tag to Owen or is selfish and tries to win the match himself by locking on a weak sharpshooter.  The match is stopped due to Bret's injury and The Quebecers win.  Owen kicks Bret in the knee, and we have a match at Wrestlemania.  Owen gets out of the shadow of his brother by beating him clean at Wrestlemania, however, Bret wins the WWF title later in the show.  He's champion, but Owen is obviously the better man.  Owen wins the KOTR tournament and allies himself with Bret's former partner Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart.  This finally culminates with the near ***** cage match at Summerslam.  Classic stuff.