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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A lot of the matches widely considered the best WWF matches of the 90s - Austin/Bretx2, Bret/Owen, Savage/Warrior, Bret/Dave, Shawn/Razor etc are IC or non-title matches. So I was wondering... What are your Top 5 WWF World Title Matches of the 90s?

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TAPE @tapemachines.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

gene kelly is sincerely one of the greatest athletes i have ever seen

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since the day it happened, Hogan vs Andre WrestleMania III has always been the ultimate litmus test for good taste.

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bossmoz @bossmoz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

pretty interesting how the rizzler only appears in aew when taz has some time off...

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I thought Big Boom AJ vs QT Marshall was awesome. I expected it to be fun but it wildly exceeded my expectations. Great job laying it out, both guys really delivered what they needed to & it was a blast.

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Neil McNerlan AKA Frank Waisten @neil-mcnerlan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich from SuperClash 3 is just wonderful. ****1/4

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What's your Favorite/Best match with one or more wrestlers you don't particularly like?

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Steven Graham 🦖🦕 @grimmas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Vader vs Scott Norton, NJPW 1991-05-31, 1991-06-12, 1991-08-09, 1991-09-23 THEY ALL RULE. This is how you do two huge monsters battling! Norton is such a great firey babyface on comebacks! #GWE 5/31 - 7.25/10 6/12 - 8/10 8/9 - 9/10 9/23 - 8/10

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So how do I watch AJ vs QT Marshall match? It's on the pre-show? Not the PPV?

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Andrew @cero1max.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One of the best to ever do it. Babyface or heel, across multiple territories, years and opponents.

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Joseph Montecillo @josephweirdness.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Man, Manami was fucking on one in this GAEA run. Fantastic title match here where Chiyako immediately feels like the challenger despite coming in with the belt. youtu.be/Yf_Kf6G3eAE

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【女子プロレス GAEA】イズム闘争決着戦！永島千佳世 vs 豊田真奈美 2002年10月20日＠横浜文化体育館 AAAWシングル選手権

YouTube video by GAEAISM公式チャンネル

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Adonis @fakemlgreaper1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today’s break graps.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🤼I'm not a big Bruiser Brody fan but that guy had one of the best knee drops I've ever seen. Look at this🤼

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For those not familiar with Charles' work, he's doing an amazing job chronicling pro wrestling through the medium of "footage," using the text itself and available contextual sources to create maybe the most coherent and comprehensive history of pro wrestling ever. Give it a look.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If TK was a real dvdvr SICKO~!, he would've put Phil Schneider in charge of booking. We all saw the DEAN show.

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Adonis @fakemlgreaper1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It can’t be undersold just how good The Shield actually was. I mean this wholeheartedly, one of the greatest year runs any act has had this century. Not only were they over as hell, they were having fantastic matches every single week. They helped keep a sinking ship afloat. Transcendent trio.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Warrior is one of those wrestlers that certain fans emphasize the negatives while completely ignoring the positives.

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In 1990, Warrior was laughed at in the ring by the Japanese crowd as he defended against Dibiase. In 1991, he made sure no one was going to laugh at him. If you only see one minute out of his entire career, this is the minute. Plus, an all time bit of bumping from Sarge.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

When it comes to Greatest Wrestler Ever #GWE I have my top 4 locked in: 1. Terry Funk - I voted him 1st in 2016, I'll vote him 1st again. 2. Dump Matsumoto - At her best the best I've ever seen. I couldn't put her higher than 2. 3. Andre the Giant 4. Jerry Lawler

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Tanner @tanneronefour.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Jun Akiyama is Number One #GWE

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Corwo @thecorwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Again, I have a TON of blind spots. That said, these wrestlers feel like locks for my #GWE as of right now: Bryan Danielson Aja Kong Buddy Rose Meiko Satomura Mayumi Ozaki Rey Mysterio John Cena

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Corwo @thecorwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The more I see of Tenryu, the more I'm convinced he could be number one.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My #GWE Top !0 at this point: 1. Terry Funk 2. Dump Matsumoto 3. Andre the Giant 4. Jerry Lawler 5. The Destroyer 6. El Satanico 7. El Hijo del Santo 9. Devil Masami 9. Stan Hansen 10. Bull Nakano

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🏎️ @highflyflow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Idl how many GWE heads follow me on here yet but this app would be a great way to spark discussion on the project given the implementation of feeds. All you would have to do is create one and make it to where the hashtag #GWE pops up in that feed

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It's almost shocking how great Hogan was as a worker given his reputation among "smart" fans. It's easy to find good/great matches and performances. Finding outright bad ones is trickier. They exist but there aren't nearly as many as people who don't actually watch the matches suggest

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Here's my (relatively) quick DVDVR review of the Inoki vs Saito Island Death Match. Note that the WON thought this was basically the worst thing ever at the time even if NJPW fans in Japan voted it the match of the year.

(1) I don't have the words to do it justice but it accomplishes so much with so little, with time, setting, and effort driving it all.

The match is fairly self-evident. Either you're going to get it or you're not going to get it and I can't make you not get it if you don't. You have to take a leap of faith, have to give in something of yourself, have to put in some level of effort, have to ride the wave and channel what they're feeling. The match is exhausting; it was for them it is for you as a viewer. If I understand the translation well enough, we come in at around the 30 minute mark and they'd just been posturing. There's a shot of Inoki groundhogging his head out of his tent as Saito waits in the ring. Once they get going, Saito goes for the Scorpion immediately and Inoki blocks it and tries for a UWF leglock. Saito is bloodied up from his mouth early and it adds a mood to everything almost from the get go. From there, things remain hotly contested but with simple, grinding holds. There are some patterns, such as Saito getting a hold and Inoki getting a reversal, again and again. There are times that Inoki escapes a hold by simply working his way around the ring. This is a battle of attrition, more so than probably any pro wrestling match since the 1930s.

(2) Time passes. Night falls. They light the torches. Everything is so grueling and every tiny advantage is made to mean so much over time. Whenever they build to a high moment, like Inoki pulling Saito over the ring or Saito trying to force Inoki into the fire and crashing into it himself instead, it's a huge deal. Saito gets a modified version of his prison lock on and Inoki charges him on the outside, desperate to make up the advantage. That leads to the moment I captured, where Saito takes advantage due to Inoki's desperation but he's putting so much into containing and stetching Inoki. It's almost like lucha matwork where they can hold on for as long as they can but if they can't get some sort of win (and the only way to win is to escape to a certain part of the island), then they have to let go. They escalate to suplexes, but slowly, steadily, one and then a long gap of holds again, but towards the end, Inoki starts to really gain an advantage with Knuckle Arrows and all the rest. Saito starts to backpeddle. It feels inevitable. But then he grabs a piece of wood from the ground and blasts Inoki and it's legitimately shocking because this has all been violence and battle but this is a different sort. It's beyond the pale. It's crossing a line. Inoki blades hard. The two of them are covered in dirt, covered in blood, and Saito is unrelenting. Inoki is Inoki however. He powers back, chokes Saito out, and marches his way to freedom as they put Saito on a stretcher and bring him back to his tent.

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This opening to Hogan vs Piper from The War to Settle the Score feels like a moment sort of lost to history, but the bit with Mr. T and then Hogan rushing right in and throwing hands with Piper as the theme is still playing, comes off like the most dynamic thing that happened in the entire WWF era.

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

86-88 NJPW Takada is basically the Dean Malenko of UWF-in-NJPW and I mean that in the worst way you can imagine. The thriving, gripping, writhing soul of pro wrestling does not escape into reality through that man's face, and whatever it is, stoicism it is not, so that's not an out for him.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've been badgering Grimmas to make a case for Don Muraco as one of the 100 greatest wrestlers ever for like 10 years and they did and did an awesome job! Check this out & watch some Muraco!

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I figure everyone gets a couple of strikes here and I choose to use them on this, the thing that got the account KO'd on the other place. It's a great piece of business, Andre getting a foot up on his own partner to save himself and then basing for a Maeda dive! People should be allowed to see it.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

General Match Recommendation Thread: This will just be an ongoing thread of matches I really like & recommend people check out.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Let's get some prime Giant Baba on the timeline. Full match before I clip out some highlights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w44f...

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Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura vs Calypso Hurricane, Chief Whitewolf（Adnan Al-Kaissie）(May 12, 1964)

YouTube video by Alessio

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

By far the only Boxing anyone needs today. Andre vs Gorilla in Puerto Rico.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

To follow up on Gorilla - I'm convinced at this point that he's the GOAT Special Guest Ref and it's not particularly close. He is the perfect blend of enforcer & guy you absolutely trust to do the right thing. Every match I've seen him as the guest ref is better because of it.

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Austin Idol Terry Funk Dump Matsumoto Jerry Lawler 1970s Superstar Billy Graham The Destroyer El Satanico Randy Savage Invader 1 Andre the Giant

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Emphasis on Favorite Funk Brothers Rock & Roll Express Infernales (Satanico/MS-1/Pirata Morgan version) Dump Matsumoto & Bull Nakano Austin Idol & Tommy Rich Honorable mentions: Little Guido & Tracy Smothers w/ Tommy Rich The Rougeaus

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🤼Back in July some twitter dumbfuck said Ric Flair didn't have any high spots and wasn't a technical wrestler so I had to spend a couple days watching and clipping Flair matches. Now I'm bringing that thread over here. So, you're welcome.🤼

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Top 5 AJPW Matches All Time: 1. Funks vs Abdullah & The Sheik 12/15/77 2. Stan Hansen vs Kenta Kobashi 7/29/93 3.Funks vs Abdullah & The Sheik 7/15/79 4. Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen vs Giant Baba & Rusher Kimura 11/29/89 5. Great Muta vs Shinya Hashimoto 2/23/03

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Neil McNerlan AKA Frank Waisten @neil-mcnerlan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I wanted to make sure my first post here was somewhat important, so here we go; Does anyone know where I can find April 17th 1987 episode of Stampede?😅

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elliottswrestling.bsky.social @elliottswrestling.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yall think next year is the year Dave sends me a WON HOF ballot? 🤣

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Matt D - SC @mattd-sc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

One of the greatest, most shocking moments in wrestling history, the start of Baba/Rusher vs Tenryu/Hansen from 11/29/89. Not a single person in that crowd had any idea this was coming. The pageantry of the Real World Tag League shattered by a chaotic revolutionary.

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