Greats by almost Greats
By Scott Keith on 1 September 2013
Interested to see what matches (primarily singles) people would say are the best/must-sees for people on that second, maybe third tier of great technical wrestler. We all know what Savage, Flair, Michaels matches to seek out, but curious about the following guys.
-Christian
The Orton series in 2011 produced some top-level stuff, but Christian as a singles guy has never really been a tippy top worker. The match with Jericho at WM20 was a near-showstealer also.
-Dean Malenko
Almost any of his Cruiserweight title matches in WCW, but the Jericho match at Slamboree 98 was pretty much the peak of his run. I also have a soft spot for the match with Scotty 2 Hotty at Backlash 2000. Plus there's reams of awesome Japan stuff in the Super Junior tournaments.
-Barry Windham
Ric Flair, 1987, pick any of them.
-Raven
His shot at the NWA title with Jeff Jarrett was amazingly built and one of the best things TNA ever did, and then of course there's a million decent brawls in ECW, including the Raven-Richards v. Pitbulls match that was the only ECW match to get ***** from me.
-Vader
Lots of WCW Sting matches in the 90s, lots of awesome "beat the shit out of each other" matches with guys like Stan Hansen in Japan, plus a crazy tag match with him and Bigelow against the Steiners that was on pretty much every comp tape of the 90s. Wanna see Vader take a Frankensteiner? There ya go.
-RVD
I've always been partial to the John Cena match, and the Lynn matches have grown on me over the years.