ITT: Matches that were better than you expected

WeeLC the thread. Legit 4+ star match

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This one

>>2250992
7 stars

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>>2250976
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>2251003
literally takers only good match in the past three years

>>2251012
Summer Slam match was garbage. The HIAC match was the gem of the trilogy.

>>2251012
It was overbooked shite. HIAC match was way better

>>2251017
Other way around for me

>>2251019
I'm a mark for "big fight feel" matches (Rock/Cena, Rock/Hogan, DDP/Goldberg, Hogan/Warrior) so thats probably why

felt like the crowd was going crazy for everything they did

>>2251012
>Shane O' Mac
>Bray Wyatt
Not much competition there.

I hate australians

>>2250971

>Hugo Savinovich take a chair shot

GOAT match

>>2251617
only good Rock match since he came back besides wm28

>>2250971
I just tried to watch this on the Network and Hogan has some god awful ripoff of Voodoo Child, what the fuck is this? Are they that cheap that they can't license it?

>>2251577
Second best WM main event of all time after Rock vs Austin at X7

>>2251577
Best wm main event of all time

>>2250977
This

Fun match, big spots

>>2251621
yup and it makes watching old nitros unbearable because you hear the nwo theme 500 times a show instead of hearing some hendrix once in awhile

>>2251057
Ugh. Disappointed. One big spot doesn't make a match and the one spot it WAS built round was completely inconsequential. It's the definition of overbooking and convoluted story telling, it featured two sub par wrestlers past their prime, and the outcome of the match was rendered moot the very next day.

Completely unredeemable and wwe at its absolute worst. You have to be trolling.

>>2250971
Big show vs Mayweather was a pretty fun match to watch.

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GOAT MATCH

>>2250992
Jokes aside, this was actually a good match and made me think women wrestling could be worth watching. I was wrong.

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>>2250971

>>2252209
It can be. Just not in WWE. The few talented one are bogged down by awful shitters.

>>2251986
Was unironically fun becasue NXT actually knows how to book sensibly. Or did.

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Thought it would be boring, ended up being the match of the night

>>2252396
It sucks how this is never mentioned as one of the best NXT women's matches just cause it didn't have any of the 4 Horsememes

>>2250992
Are there any matches where Sasha isn't carried?

>>2251986
fun match

utilized the strengths of both and sorta hid their weaknesses

>>2252406
Summer, Paige and Emma's entire early NXT runs that laid the foundation for the horsememes is ignored too

>>2252406
Probably because it didn't really have much storytelling. It was just a really good match with exciting action.

>>2252408
That one? Sasha is the one that does the carrying. She's the common denominator in every single acclaimed women's match. Sasha haters conveniently forget that

>>2252396
card was shit but it was a good match

>>2252435
True, I remember when people were calling Paige vs Emma the best women's match of all time and then the 4 horsememes happened and no one was giving Paige or Emma any credit at all and shitting all over both. And I personally still think Paige is better than any of the horses.

>>2252445
I thought it was a solid enough card. Revival vs. Memezo and Big Meme was kinda fun and the main event wasn't bad

>>2252453
every enzo and cass match is the same though

>>2251577
>>2251986
Gotta agree with this one.

>>2250992
Kind of agree with this one too. Not from a >womens wrestling standpoint, it was just the first Takeover I watched so I was surprised that the best match was a womens one.

>>2252441
It did have a story of sorts
>Emma and Dana bully babyfaces
>Think they're hot shit
>Asuka arrives and they try to push her around
>Asuka laughs it off and squashes Dana, Emma's interference fails completely. They're scared of Asuka now
>Emma eventually says fuck it, faces her fear and puts on a valiant effort against Asuka, never backs down from her again despite losing
Simple but fun. It both established Asuka as a monster that could win no matter how much cheating the heel did and made Emma go from cowardly heel to badass heel.

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That is Hogan's best match by miles.

>>2251621
Bro licensing a Hendrix song can be beyond costly.

>>2252209
Not on the main roster.

>>2252498
Yeah it's not something that would make neckbeards cry and chant wymyns wrestling but it was engaging all the same. It was funny because normally it's the underdog babyface that has to overcome the monster, not a heel. Emma was defintiely elevated by that match though. There was that one battle royal a couple months later where the heels all cowered to one side of the ring when Asuka entered. The bell rang and Emma was the only one to go right for Asuka and start beating the shit out of her

>>2252498
It was legit the only time I've ever felt Asuka would lose

>>2252512
of his later WWE run maybe, he had some great 80's matches like WM 5-6, the steel cage match with Flair in WCW, him and boss man in a cage etc. Hulks not a good worker, but he's had better matches than that.

>>2251637
> what is Shawn vs Bret
> What is Shawn vs Taker
> What is Benoit vs HHH vs Shawn
> What is Bryan vs Batista vs Orton

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>>2252396
>>2252406
>>2252498
>mfw based emma will never come back

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GOAT crowd

>>2251577
agreed

>>2251637
>>2251640
>I started watching wrestling two years ago

Goldberg/Lesnar 1

>For years was told it was the worst WWE match in 15 years
>Built it up in my head as a total clusterfuck with botches and out of character shit
>Finally watch it
>It's just a regular Brock match mashed up with a Goldberg match
>Total spotfest but not the absolute mess the IWC has been hyping it as

I pictured a 0.25 star match and got a 2 star match.

>>2254766
>be Brock Lesnar
>be lauded as the next big thing, company heavily invests in you to take up the top guy position after Austin and Rock left, get the rub from just about any major star they had
>bail out at the height of your popularity after a couple years, the void left in your wake making up for many of mid 00's WWE problems

>be Goldberg
>finally sign with WWE, fans hyped as fuck
>phone your entire run in just because you don't really feel like wrestling anymore

Given everything that led up to that encounter and the fact that both guys were leaving after it, it's understandable how hard the fans turned on it. And given the point in time it happened, I see it as the mercy kill of the remnants of the Attitude Era.

>>2251577
Definitely I wouldn't have been pist with Reigns winning desu
>>2252230
Bases Corbin and Kalisto

>>2254766
Goldberg/Lesnar 1 was awful because the two of them decided to fuck around for 5 minutes before actually doing anything. After that, the match was decent.

>>2250971
Royal Rumble 04. I never understood why they would have Stevie Richards win it, but it was a hell of a match.

>>2252230

Based. The underdog of PPV matches.

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>>2250971

20 Years

>>2250992
This was Sasha's best match. To hell with Bayley.

>>2252647
>Shawn vs Bret
>Better than X7
FUCKING LOL PAL

>>2255711
Not better than X-7, Better than 31.

>>2250971
Nobody will ever say Vince could wrestle, but boy could the man work. Masterful at his role.