Posted October 16, 200519 yr comment_3682587 Tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of Joe-Punk II so what other great matches happened this week? The only other one, off the top of my head is Misawa-Kobashi 10-21-97.
October 16, 200519 yr comment_3682647 Good idea! Mitsuharu Misawa v Toshiaki Kawada - AJPW 10/21/92 Wild Pegasus & Shinjiro Otani v Black Tiger & Great Sasuke - NJPW 10/16/94 The Rock v Chris Jericho - WWF No Mercy 10/21/01 Misawa/Kobashi v Kawada/Taue from 10/15/95 also gets a lot of love, but I haven't seen it. Just missed the famous Michinoku Pro 10-man tag (10/10/96) by a few days. EDIT: I went too far ahead on some of the choices I selected.
October 16, 200519 yr comment_3683968 Misawa/Kobashi v Kawada/Taue from 10/15/95 also gets a lot of love, but I haven't seen it. I have. It's awesome. I remember the first time I saw it, when the bell rang at the end, I said to my friend "There is no way that was an hour...there were no serious rest holds. They shaved time." We went back and rewatched it later with the counter on the VCR, and it clocked out to 62 minutes. John Williams from tOa said this about that match: I don't think any other four wrestlers could have worked this match. It touched on nearly every storyline element of All Japan's 1995 year, from the "work alone" storylines of the tags, to all of Taue's "growth", to Kawada foreshadowing his match with Albright by destroying Kobashi's arm and working for submissions on it deep into the match. The best 60:00 match in the decade... and probably any other decade. If you can get your hands on this match, do it.
October 16, 200519 yr Author comment_3686103 Other matches listed in the Best Match Nominations thread... 10/17/82 - Adrian Adonis v Hulk Hogan (AWA) 10/19/85 - Ric Flair v Jumbo Tsuruta (AJPW) 10/21/85 - Ric Flair v Rick Martel (AJPW) 10/19/90 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi v Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW) 10/15/91 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi v Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi (AJPW)
