Not a bad match, but not worthy of closing the show. The Road Warriors vs. SummerSlam 1992 is one of the rare pay-per-views where WWE's World Heavyweight Championship took a backseat. But when the execution is on point, especially during the finishes, Dream Slam I hits high marks. It was sorely needed in a transitional year for the company that wasn't the best. As is the match between Doom and The Steiner Brothers, along with a solid wrestling display from Brian Pillman and Lex Luger for the U.S. Championship. "Flyin'" Brian Pillman versus Jushin Liger is a 17-minute light-heavyweight classic and rather groundbreaking in showing what cruiserweights could do in WCW. And, by all estimations, it was a rousing success. But Wrestle Kingdom 10 easily wins you over on the strength of its marquee matchups. But that doesn't mean it ages well. Backlash over they years have featured great match and was all about epicness. And things play out in stunning fashion. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. – would win. 2017 was one of the best years in Japanese wrestling history. showed up. The fact that it tops this amazing NJPW cards is hard to wrap your head around. The Rock does everything he can to put over Lesnar. So leave your picks for the best pay-per-views of all time in our comments section. 1992 was a great year for WCW, perhaps, peaking with WrestleWar. Wrestle Kingdom 11 was event viewing from top to bottom on a level that NJPW hadn't accomplished before. Putting together one of the greatest wrestling pay-per-views up until that point was a nice way to make the transition. But the two never stop moving. The first One Night Stand (the others that followed didn't quite live up to this one) may very well be the most repeat-worthy wrestling pay-per-view of all time, from the old-school ECW violence and technical wrestling to the zingers between talent and the crowd reaction. After all, how does one compare a star of the '50s (Lou Thesz) to a star of the '80s (Ric Flair) to a star of today (John Cena)? If there was ever any reason to think that NJPW could compete with or even overtake WWE in terms of quality of wrestling and production, this is it. All the matches here focus on a title defense or the end of an amazing feud. Spring Stampede was a weird event, as it features matches that shouldn't work on paper. The Magnificent Seven: The Top 7 Most Important WWE PPVs Of All Time. The Naito-Tanahashi match on this card is a true wrestling throwback. The nostalgia factor with the first Halloween Havoc pay-per-view is rather high. Outside … Several historic events take place at NOAH's Departure, including the promotion working with All Japan for the first time in years, as well as Keiji Muto and Taiyo Kea making their first appearances with NOAH. The show's groundbreaking moment comes during Bayley and Sasha Banks NXT Women’s Championship match. A year before giving us, perhaps, the greatest match in wrestling history, Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega go the time-limit for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The debate between WrestleMania X-Seven and WrestleMania 19 rages on. Not in the way that the matches at Wrestle Kingdom 9 or 11 do. Tweet. The NWO had infiltrated WCW. 40,000+ articles posted by thousands of contributors spanning the entire cultural spectrum. And that began with the Royal Rumble. Think Snooki at WrestleMania 27, Lawrence Taylor at WrestleMania 11 or the Miller Light Cat Fight Girls at WrestleMania 19. Ranking the top 101 wrestlers of all time is a tall task. Yes! Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada take their feud to new heights, going at it in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match that lasts for over an hour and doesn’t feature a single boring moment. Shinsuke Nakamura and Kota Ibushi’s clash for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship stands as, perhaps, the greatest non main-event match in Japanese wrestling history. Forget WWE's "Evolution." WWE Typing Challenge. April 14th, 2014. The rest of the card features everything from violence and technical wrestling to another iconic showdown between Rick Rude and Ricky Steamboat. One of the best WWE rivalry of the year 2007, Undertaker VS Batista had a electryfying match for their rematch of Wrestlemania 23. Shawn Michaels tearing up right before he ended Ric Flair’s career is as moving as wrestling gets. John Cena was coming off of his loss to The Rock at WrestleMania XXVII only to have Brock Lesnar show up the next day on Raw (Lesnar's) first WWE appearance since 2004) to destroy Cena. But the top title matches tell the kinds of wrestling stories that take your breath away. Sting pulls out the victory for his team like the top babyface he was at the time. New Japan Pro Wrestling is in the midst of a golden era that's dominated the industry over the past few years. It’s one of the great main events in WWE history. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. CM Punk had the Illinois crowd worked up during his Chicago Street Fight against Chris Jericho for the WWE Championship. Starrcade 1988 was the first major event after Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions and turned the company into WCW. Over the years. 42. ... and is possibly the greatest Chamber match of all time. But things actually close out with a strap match between Vader and Sting. This is the best women's wrestling event of all time. Yet, it may not even be the night's greatest match, sandwiched between Roderick Strong vs. Erick Stevens and the main event ladder-match between The Briscoe Brothers and the team of Kevin Steen and El Generico. It's the pay-per-view that led into what many consider the greatest WrestleMania of all time. The undercard is excellent -- A tag match between The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian in their prime, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit in a ladder match. Every match is good with several delivering some of the most iconic moments in ROH history. But Turning Point 2009 wins you over with its double main event. As wrestling fans know, for every NXT TakeOver: New Orleans, there's a Backlash 2018. Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohior Isshi and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles were two of the best matches of 2016. Pre-King Baron Corbin challenging for the Universal title in the closing match was no one’s dream match. The tournament also marked breakthrough moments for young wrestlers like Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit. Heck, the TLC match triple-threat tag match alone rates as one of the finest matches in wrestling history. These Are the WWE Pay-Per-Views That Were So Good They Made You Say, "Oh Hell Yeah!" If you want to know how great NJPW was doing in 2015, consider the fact that Dominion wasn’t even the promotion’s best pay-per-view of that year. No other moment in WWE history is quite like the ending of Money in the Bank 2011. But these days, there are more options than ever. What rounds things out is the first ever Elimination Chamber match and its unique format that concludes by Shawn Michaels making his comeback complete and winning the World Heavyweight Championship. It’s been called “the most incredible single night of wrestling ever.” And it may very well have been up until that point. And, of course, the main event is one of the greatest matches in wrestling history. This is undoubtedly the best PPV of the last 10 years at least; and top to bottom, each match on the card will blow you away. Things got extreme! https://www.cleveland.com/.../50-greatest-wrestling-payperviews-of-all-time.html Edge and Randy Orton are both 10+-time World Champions with dense WWE histories, a myriad of connections to almost all of WWE’s top stars from … The one big exception is WrestleMania 24 and its clash between Floyd "Money" Mayweather and the Big Show. As always, Dominion featured a solid undercard last year. But Flair’s match with Terry Funk at The Great American Bash 1989 is a special kind of beast. We’re going to rank the 100 greatest wrestlers of all time! Still, we were left to wonder who the third member of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash's team would be. Maybe the best year for any promotion ever. Even wrestling fans who only focused on American wrestling had to take note. Then you get AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe in an epic three-way. The feud between The Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man Randy Savage was actually quite good and their title match, which ended in a count out, is one of their standout showdowns. Top 10 WWE Backlash PPVs of all time 2 weeks ago Alexander . 5 WWE: Money in the Bank 2011. Except, the event takes place in Houston, so the Texas crowd is rooting Austin on. However, what I liked about this PPV was that it signaled a changing of the guard of sorts for the WWE roster. That main event is an all-time great match. No one saw this coming, which is key. But WWE did everything it could to make you believe someone else – The Rock, Rikishi, Kane, The Undertaker, etc. Aside from that, SummerSlam 2013 was a loaded card. Then again, you’re pretty much nitpicking when you’re analyzing NJPW shows from the past few years. Maybe it lasts a bit too long. There’s nothing else like Canadian Stampede in WWE’s catalog of great pay-per-views. A cross promotional event (between Mexico's AAA and WCW) like no other. But how high you rank Wrestle Kingdom 10 probably depends on your view of the main event between Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi. By ... since I sat there once a month on Sunday's going through awful low-rate streaming sites just to watch a poorly buffered pay-per-view (PPV). Which is WWE’s greatest WrestleMania and greatest pay-per-view ever? A reminder: This is just one opinion from one wrestling fan. Share. But the final four matches are where WrestleMania 19 takes on iconic status. It was defiant and oh so epic. The matches aren’t exactly special from a pure wrestling standpoint. WrestleMania III had two matches that sit in the top 10 of the best WWE matches of all-time. The 2018 event remains NXT’s peak show by a wide margin. The Nature Boy lasted more than an hour to win the Rumble. Still the greatest pay-per-view in wrestling history. Yet, Flair seemed doomed from the start of the match, as he drew No. That only added to the suspense, which was at an all-time high. But every match carries a certain weight of importance to it, closing out with what may have been the match of the year in all of wrestling with Bryan Danielson taking on Nigel McGuinness. Share. In ranking the 100 greatest wrestlers of all time, we took into account in-ring skills, influence and impact, longevity, career success and charisma, among other things. Somehow, AJ Styles and Tetsuya Naito squeeze 30 minutes worth of amazing moments into half that time. Technically an ECW event that was put on after the WWE purchased the now-dissolved... 2. For example, #1 = 100 points, #2 = 99 points, etc. The events hits the ground running with two amazing matches, before calming down a bit. The Street Fight between Triple H and Cactus Jack, finds the former delivering the pedigree to his opponent on thumbtacks, is a showstopper. But the ending of WrestleMania 30, which finds Bryan raising the title belts, was a WrestleMania moment for the ages. Spring Stampede in 1994 is proof that the iconic feud between Ricky Steamboat and Ric Flair never got old. In 2005, WWE released "The Rise and Fall of ECW," a documentary so insanely popular, the promotion got the idea for a reunion event and called it One Night Stand. The 1992 Royal Rumble card was certainly far from the best ever. The main card opens with a ladder match that, in my mind, is one of the more overlooked in history. Money in the Bank 2011 also comes with two (Yes, two!) There are a couple of strong early matches at Bash at the Beach 1996. Barely Legal was one of the most important pay-per-views in wrestling history up until that point. The main event features a two-out-of-three-falls match between Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole. Chris Benoit and 2 Cold Scorpio is a preview of the cruiserweight matches that would take WCW by storm. Can you name the Top 100 WWE Superstars based on their amount of career wins on Monday Night Raw? Just a totally amazing Backlash that to me is the reason it's being kept in the WWE PPV events again. Our list of the greatest pay-per-views looks at the best of the best from every promotion, from the U.S. to Japan. Two legendary showdowns on one card and the matches come back to back. The fans throwing everything they could get their hands on into the ring was proof that NWO was a force like none other wrestling had seen. Posted on May 6, 2015. Fittingly, the final match is the best with Wild Pegasus (aka Benoit) defeating The Great Sasuke to win the crown. In many way, this was NJPW’s coming out party. So, bear in mind that the list only includes matches that occurred before 24/2/2017 AND those on the WWE Network! If you want to know what all the fuss is about when it comes to NXT, watch TakeOver: New Orleans. But Flair could do no wrong. Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega put on the kind of main event you’d expect from those two, while Cody and Dustin Rhodes’ brutal battle is as compelling as it gets. Yes, Roman wins what was the match of the year in 1994. And to think, that wasn’t even the main event. And yet, sometimes a match is so historic, it consumes the entire experience. He ultimately broke even with his first two events and changed the entire wrestling industry. Our ranking differs from the PWI 500 because we use math. But what pushes WK 11 just slightly past Dominion 2017 is The Young Bucks and Roppongi Vice in one the great tag matches you will ever see. WWE Network’s 100 Best Matches To See Before You Die (THE ORIGINAL LIST!) There are stellar matches on the undercard, including Kurt Angle vs. Rey Mysterio and Rob Van damn vs. Chris Benoit. But the payoff of Gargano reaching the top of the mountain is worth it. All the matches were excellent except Lesnar vs Show. Consider the fact the show kicks off with a singles match between legend Jushin Thunder Liger and Tyler Breeze. What pushes Spring Stampede into the top 10 on this is one of the greatest tag matches in wrestling history: Nasty Boys vs. Cactus Jack & Maxx Payne. The rivalry between Okada and Omega is as advertised – it’s one of the best you will ever see in wrestling history. To realize how epic Extreme Rules was in 2012, you have to remember the build. Tweet. The second SuperBrawl begins with one of the best matches in WCW history. This was good vs. evil in a way that WCW hadn’t achieved before and didn’t again until the N.W.O. Royal Rumble – 1992. WWE: 20 Best PPVs Of All Time. The latter would become the youngest world champion in WWE history. Passion + Emption + Tremendous Workrate + Great Storylines = Memorable PPV events. We're going to see if it's will be the same thing at Backlash 2021! There's even a hardcore match between Victoria and Trish Stratus. Though, Brian Pillman’s performance during the Light Heavyweight Championship match is top notch and the tag match between the Steiner Brothers and Tatsumi Funijanmi and Takayuki Iizuka is one of the best of the year. Lex Luger, on his way out of WCW, doesn't put up much of an effort in losing his title to Sting. This is the greatest moment of my life!" fantastic MITB ladder matches. Then we get two final matches that could, arguably, both be five-stars. It was a game-changer for the industry. Ring of Honor had a great 2007, capped by its summer Driven pay-per-view. Delivering passionate and comprehensive entertainment coverage to millions of users world-wide each month. But the first AEW pay-per-view feels like something that will eventually mark a turning point in the wrestling industry. The matches at Double or Nothing, especially the final three, are brilliant. TakeOver: Brooklyn was not NXT’s first big event. That sounds like a weird thing to say, but not when you realize a falls count anywhere match between Sting and Cactus Jack-- one of the best matches in WCW history -- takes place in the middle of the entire thing. NJPW knows how to put on a show better than any other promotion these days. 10 Dumb Reasons Why Wrestlers Had To Apologise To Other Wrestlers, 10 WWE Wrestlers The Rock Refused To Wrestle, Revealed: Why WWE Released Velveteen Dream, Real Reason Edge Disappeared After WWE WrestleMania 37, 10 WWE Celebrity Matches That Came So Close To Happening, 10 Times WWE Tried To Repeat History With The Undertaker, 10 Gimmick Matches WWE Should NEVER Book Again, 10 Loudest Wrestling Pops You Didn't Know About, Lio Rush Doing Mo-Cap Work For WWE 2K22 You know SuperBrawl III is a great pay-per-view when it kicks off with The Hollywood Blonds (Brian Pillman and Steve Austin), maybe the most underrated tag-team of all time. It’s absolutely incredible and somehow manages to overshadow a card that also features Chris Jericho in a fight against Tetsuya Naito, a six-man tag of the Bullet Club vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger and Rey Mysterio Jr., and, arguably, the best tag team match of the year featuring The Young Bucks vs. Sanada and Evil. WrestleMania I was not the first (it aired on closed-circuit in theaters), rather Wrestling Classic was. Yep. The mid-card is solid. The other story at WrestleMania X is the ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon. Save for the opener between Michael Hayes and Assassin I, every other match on this card is good, if not great, most notably the "Loser Leaves NWA" match between both Midnight Express teams and the near-perfect Lex Luger-Barry Windham clash for the U.S. title. Is it possible he could still win the title? The performances on this night would set the stage for the future feud between Michaels and Hart that would define WWE during that era. Has New Japan given us a show better than anything WWE has offered? With all due respect to an amazing Falls Count Anywhere match between Macho Man Randy Savage and Crush, WrestleMania X essentially tells two stories. Flair and the Four Horsemen were at their peak powers. 05. It made every match feel bigger and would be something other promotions would eventually latch on to in one way or another. But who would the champ be facing? 1. The 2000 Royal Rumble gets off to a fantastic start with Taz making his WWE pay-per-view debut against Kurt Angle. Everything great about wrestling is featured in this match. Cody Rhodes held his own in a tables match with Big Show. Still, WrestleWar 1991 closes out with what some consider to be the greatest WarGames match featuring the Four Horsemen facing off against WCW's top faces at the time, including Sting. ALL championships changed hands on this event. Anyway, here we go! ... in WWE … It’s a loaded pay-per-view capped by the lasting image of CM Punk blowing a kiss to McMahon. Chills! General Database Records One was arguably the best wrestling match of all time and the other was arguably the greatest … And even then, it feels underrated. By Justin Henry. Surprisingly, the biggest disappointment from a wrestling is the International Championship match between Sting and Rick Rude, even  though fans didn't seem to mind back then. It's all about the spectacle. 3. The undercard matches don’t hold up quite as well as they did upon first viewing. The raucous makes things even more epic. WWE SmackDown Rankings: AJ … And let us not forget  the celebration afterwards with Flair delivering one of his greatest promos: "I am tellin' you right now!…with a tear in my eye! Vince McMahon put his entire company on the line when he created WrestleMania. Email. It’s hard to put up with all that pressure and that includes pay-per-view. a list I had thought extremely hard about, this is a list imo, These are the shows I had enjoyed the most. If you would like to suggest another list, you can use the contact form or email the site administration team directly at wrestlebase@gmail.com. The main event is a tag-team cage match that finds Sting and Ric Flair taking on The Great Muta and Terry Funk in a continuation of a compelling feud established at the Great American 1989. If you dig deep into wrestling blogs, you'll see a common thread in recaps of Beach Blast 1992. The Flair-Steamboat feud is untouchable. The list include every Song Title and Artist for all WWE PPV & Special Events sorted by Event Date, featuring all WrestleMania Theme Songs, as well as themes for NXT TakeOver shows and other WWE Network Specials. It's like a dream come true. This was a new and highly influential style of wrestling for the U.S. that would portray its wrestlers as heroes or villains in scripted promos and sketches. And that’s before a main event that would change the future of WWE. Brock Lesnar and The Rock put on a classic (maybe the best match in both wrestlers’ respective careers). There are some wrestling fans who consider Wrestle Kingdom 10 New Japan Pro Wrestling’s greatest pay-per-view ever. Payback 2013 is a sleeper PPV in every sense of the word. It turns out Savage was a mad genius, forever changing how great matches were laid out moving forward. That format and its boatload of talent has potential to produce one of the best WWE pay-per-views in recent memory. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages. Photo Credit: WWE . The format was certainly compelling – a tournament featuring the greatest junior heavyweight wrestlers in the world. The company's future was on the line. Elsewhere, Ricky Steamboat and Lex Luger bring the absolute best out of each other. When Worlds Collide was the gateway into Lucha Libre for many American wrestling fans. These ladies take as many risks as the men. Every performer in every match delivered on this night. And a brawl at the end of a show that featured an amazing card could only have been instigated by Stone Cold Steve Austin. The night's best match may have come from Brock Lesnar and CM Punk. Though that didn’t stop Mr. McMahon from doing everything he could to prevent it from happening. Meanwhile, the main event between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada felt like a larger than life spectacle. But it’s Shawn Michaels who accomplishes his star-is-born moment. Sure, Stone Cold Steve Austin felt like the favorite. Owen Hart defeats his brother Bret in one of the greatest matches in WWE history early in the night, only to have Bret win the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event over Yokozuna. WWE's 25 Greatest Pay-Per-Views of All Time. The build here is everything, from his famous pipe bomb to the reports that Punk’s contract was up and he would be leaving WWE after MITB. CM Punk vs. John Cena was purely epic! Have you seen the past few Wrestle Kingdom shows? It doesn’t quite reach the levels of other main events Wrestle Kingdom has showcased over the years. Hikoro Goto and Shinsuke Nakamura put on one of their greatest matches, only to be topped by AJ Styles vs. Kazuchika Okada. But this was not a one-match show. There's an image of Lex Luger hoisting Ric Flair above his head that's featured on the VHS copy of Starrcade '88 that pretty much sums up the show. It’s a brutal piece of storytelling that capitalizes on the build Funk put into place WrestleWar. The Rock was on top of his game at No Way Out, taking the WWF Championship off of Kurt Angle in a great main event. And the idea of turning the biggest face in wrestling history into a villain was unheard of. Terry Funk winning the ECW World Heavyweight Championship is every bit the bloody, feel-good-moment it's built up to be in "The Rise and Fall of ECW" documentary. It’s a near perfect match that almost ends in disaster when Brock Lesnar botches a Shooting Star Press. The latter gets all the credit for doing the impossible by making us think he could actually beat Lesnar in a no DQ match. Wrestlemania 19 - 2003. This might be the most fun you ever have watching a WCW pay-per-view, as it is all about entertainment value. And still, you could make the case that the Junior Heavyweight Championship between Kushida and Hiromu Takahashi does everything it can to steal the show. Are you kidding me? NXT TakeOver: New York doesn’t waste anytime establishing itself as an instant classic. Top 30 Worst WWE Pay-Per-Views In History. Funk’s style isn’t for everyone. The Undertaker VS Batista Backlash 2007. First, WWF had to decide who would be its next lead star. Internet Wrestling Database Records The results of the following lists are automatically updated as more matches are added to the database. The co-main event between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tesuya Naito is almost as good. The main event sees Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock both at their peak babyface powers going at it. It's a must see mid-card event that showcases beautiful violence. The Ironman Match between Ricky Steamboat and Rick Rude is also one of the best matches in WCW history. Over 1,000 matches. Top 20 Worst WWE Pay Per Views Of All Time. WWE Payback 2013. The Young Bucks and Lucha Brothers threatens to steal the show as an all-out wrestling showcase. That’s one hell of a main event on a card that’s mind-blowing. Regardless of what you think of TNA/Impact, Turning Point 2009 serves as the greatest example of what the promotion was capable of when firing on all cylinders. But not the one everyone came to see. WWE Backlash 2001 Photo Credit: WWE. I’m talking about the Attitude Era. Barely Legal even features a turning point for Rob Van Damn, who originally wasn't supposed to be featured on the show. Dragon Gate USA's first event had to deliver the goods and it did. We even get a hard-hitting, four-star WarGames match. No, their main event is not as great as the legendary 1989 trilogy (Nothing really is). Canadian Stampede is the stuff of WWE legend at this point – an outlier of a pay-per-view that takes place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but might as well be happening a different universe. Key matches: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada (IWGP World Title), Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi (IWGP Intercontinental Title), Tomohiro Ishii vs. Togi Makabe (NEVER Openweight Championship). The undercard is very good, but not great. Still, it wasn’t until the third WrestleMania that WrestleMania reached its potential. The Rock finally gets the best of him, bringing an end to the most important trilogy in WWE history. ROSEMONT, Illinois -- This year's WWE Survivor Series will, for the very first time, see the company's three brands -- SmackDown, Raw and NXT -- face off in competition.
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