Oh, OK. I misread his post.

I don't know if I've seen these listed yet:

 

Bret vs. Flair (Ironman, Boston)

 

I sat, bored out of my mind, through this one recently. Well, I started fast-forwarding and stuff. But if other people love it, that's fine too.

*Edited to take out matches that were already nominated*

 

Hart Foundation vs Rockers SNME 4/28/90

 

Tito Santana vs Mr. Perfect SNME 7/28/90

 

Pillman vs Lyger Handheld 12/26/91

 

Benoit/Wellington vs Pillman/Lyger 6/16/92

 

The Steiner Brothers vs. Terry Gordy/Steve Williams - Clash XIX 6/16/92

 

Benoit vs Brad Armstrong 1/13/93 -- Clash of the Champions

 

Benoit vs Scorpio 1/23/93 HH

 

Bret Hart vs Razor Ramon 1/24/93

 

Benoit vs 2 Cold Scorpio 2/21/93 WCW Superbrawl

 

Hollwood Blondes vs Steamboat/Douglas 3/2/93 Worldwide (3/27 Worldwide)

 

Hollywood Blondes vs Scorpio/Bagwell Computer Challenge Tournament for the tag titles Worldwide Date 5/8/93

 

Bret Hart vs Yokozuna 8/13/93 MSG Cage Match

 

Benoit vs Sabu Handheld 2/19/94

 

Nasty Boys vs. Cactus Jack/Kevin Sullivan - Slamboree ?94 5/23/94

 

Benoit vs Sabu Handheld 8/5/94

 

Benoit vs Al Snow NWA handheld 8/7/94

 

Benoit vs Scorpio; handheld match with the brick wall 11/9/94

 

Bret Hart vs Diesil Royal Rumble 1/22/95

 

Chris Benoit vs. Al Snow - Double Tables 2/4/95

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero WCW Nitro 10/16/95

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero WCWSN 11/18/95

 

Bret Hart vs Diesil 11/20/95 Survivor Series

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero WCWSN 11/25/95

 

Benoit vs Alex Wright Nitro 1/8/96

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero 1/14/96 Worldwide

 

Shinjiro Ohtani vs. Dean Malenko - Worldwide 5/2/96

 

Benoit vs Dean Malenko 8/10/96

 

Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho - Fall Brawl '96 9/15/96

 

Benoit vs Juventud Guerrera Worlwide 10/13/96

 

Benoit vs Regal 12/2/96

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero -- 12/23/96 Nitro Tourney match

 

Dean Malenko vs. Ultimo Dragon - Starrcade '96 12/29/96

 

Benoit vs Meng -- 5/18/97 Slamboree

 

Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero 10/20/97 Nitro

 

Benoit vs Fit Finlay 10/27/97 Nitro

 

Benoit vs Malenko 1/12/98 Nitro

 

Benoit vs Booker T 5/25/98 Nitro First Match of "Best of 7" series

 

Benoit vs Booker T 6/11/98 Thunder

 

Benoit vs Booker T 6/14/98 Great American Bash

 

Benoit vs Finlay 6/15/98 Nitro

 

Benoit vs Bret Hart 6/22/98 Nitro

 

Benoit/Malenko vs Adams/Horace Hogan 2/18/99 Thunder Cage match

 

Benoit vs Hart 3/1/99 Nitro

 

Benoit/Malenko vs Kidman/Rey Mysterio Jr. 3/29/99 Nitro

 

Benoit/Malenko vs Rey Mysterio Jr./Kidman vs Raven/Saturn 5/9/99 Slamboree

 

Benoit vs Kanyon 7/8/99 Thunder

 

Benoit/Saturn vs DDP/Bigelow 7/11/99 Bash at the Bash

 

Benoit vs Malenko 9/13/99 Nitro #1 Contender match

 

Benoit vs Sting 9/20/99 Nitro

 

 

*Edited to take out matches that were already nominated

 

 

 

 

Bret Hart vs Hakushi Raw ????

 

Bret Hart vs Diesil Cage MSG 1/27/96 -- Has anybody seen this? I haven't seen it but I heard it's great so for anyone who has seen this -- I'm giving a shout out to remind you to nominate it.

God damn I had forgotten about that Benoit/Meng match. Meng really was a fun worker.

I'm going to do a big indy pimping post at some point.

*bump*

 

This seems to be coming together quite well, but I think we still more of the following:

 

* ECW & indy nominations

* WCW TV nominations

* WWF TV nominations

* Coliseum Video nominations

* Handheld nominations

 

At this point, it looks like we have 80% of the PPV must-haves, but I'll get all those, so for now, worry more about the less obvious choices.

 

USWA and SMW nominations would also be GREATLY appreciated, moreso USWA than SMW.

With ECW... were there any truly great ECW matches worthy of being in this type of survey? I think the myth of the great PItbulls-Raven/Richards match has already been debunked and nothing else that wne tdown in that organization was really Match of the year worthy.

 

With WCW and WWF TV ... slowly but surely.

 

With Coliseum Video... I would lean on teke and Bruiser to come up with some stuff here. I can look through match lists and list potential matchups but not anything I have seen and loved with the exception of the Harts-Steiners match which I need to revisit anyway.

 

With handhelds... there is a post at TOA that reviewed a big chunk of handhelds. That might be a starting point but I think the problem we are going to encoutner here is that this forum isn't very big and we probably don't have a big enough population to pick up a huge chunk of handhelds.

 

Brian and I have a huge chunk of SMW but who has time to watch them and then decide what is a MOTY? Again, we are at the mercy of someone who knows something about that promotion. With USWA, you can ask people to recommend matches from there but I have never even seen a USWA show from the 90s and I have seen alot of wrestling. Is there anything really noteworthy from that promotion that no one anywhere has ever recommended some must see matches and we just missed it?

We've learned that people don't always recommend all the good stuff because they thought AJPW and NJPW were the only promotions in existence for the 90s. USWA had Lawler, Dundee, Gilbert and Jarrett around (Jarrett in Memphis >>> Jarrett anywhere else), so I'm expecting some really great matches to be hidden in there.

My point was the reason no one has recommended them is because no one here, in our small community, actually has them.

My thing is I don't want to do a category and realize afterward that we're missing qualified matches from that category. With that in mind, should we postpone this 6-12 months?

If you want it to encompass as much as possible... yes.

Then we will. I want to do this right the first time, and we're in no hurry.

Adding one I don't remember seeing. It probably won't rate too high in the actual voting:

 

Rick & Scott Steiner vs. Money Inc. -- cage match; 8/16/1993 (aired 8/22 on the SummerSlam Spectacular)

These Coliseum Video matches are worth considering:

 

03/11/91 Shawn Michaels vs. Mr. Perfect

04/14/92 Randy Savage vs. Shawn Michaels

07/21/92 Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (Ladder match)

10/12/92 Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair (Hart wins WWF World Title)

 

Some other WWF matches that should also be considered:

 

11/25/92 Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels

8/27/95 Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon (Ladder match)

6/23/96 Shawn Michaels vs. Davey Boy Smith

4/25/99 Steve Austin vs. Rock

These Coliseum Video matches are worth considering:

 

03/11/91 Shawn Michaels vs. Mr. Perfect

04/14/92 Randy Savage vs. Shawn Michaels

07/21/92 Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (Ladder match)

10/12/92 Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair (Hart wins WWF World Title)

 

Some other WWF matches that should also be considered:

 

11/25/92 Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels

8/27/95 Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon (Ladder match)

6/23/96 Shawn Michaels vs. Davey Boy Smith

4/25/99 Steve Austin vs. Rock

Hey! Welcome aboard.

Then we will. I want to do this right the first time, and we're in no hurry.

Do you think we should invite hardcore knowledgable people for the sole purpose of nominating? Just in case we miss something? Rob Edwards for example would be of great help for the Joshi puroresu section.

Well, we have wolverine for that, and he is definitely knowledgeable. He's made quite a few noms and I imagine he'll make many more.

 

But yeah, Rob is invited to come post and nominate. Anyone is.