Basically this thread will have North American matches from mid-90’s and earlier. I’ll also put a few old Japanese matches featuring some well known NA wrestlers.
Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
Part 2
5/7/89 – NWA - 44:30
- Widely considered one of the best, if not the best wrestling match ever. Also one of the pimpest entrances ever by Flair. Must see.
Ric Flair-Ricky Steamboat Interview Segment
Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 5:23
- Old clip, quality sucks a bit and I don’t know what year it is, but it’s fun to see a really, really old Flair-Steamboat confrontation
Ric Flair vs. Kerry Von Erich
12/25/82 – NWA – Steel Cage Match – 30:56
- Michael Hayes is ref, Terry Gordy is gatekeeper. Haven’t watched it yet.
Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair
10/25/91 – 16:30
- Crappy handheld camera video, but it’s Hogan-Flair and I think one of their first matches ever
Rock & Roll Express vs. Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo
1984 – 2:12
- Short clip, but there’s a cool piledriver on a table spot. FYI, if you didn’t know, Savage and Poffo are real life brothers.
Mulkey Brothers vs. The Gladiators
1987 – 3:40
- I don’t know who these guys are really. But, if you do, maybe you’ll like it.
Bob Backund vs. Samoan #3
1983 – WWF – 8:32
- Hogan returns to the WWF at the end of the match.
Jim Duggan vs. Ted Dibiase
3/30/85 – WWF – No Time Limit/No DQ/Steel Cage/Coal Miner’s Glove/Loser Leaves Town/Tuxedo Street Fight – 14:12
- Yeah, those are all parts of the rules. I’m still not sure how they got to those rules or what they all mean, but it’s a cool match.
Pat Patterson vs. Sgt. Slaughter
5/4/81 – WWF – No Holds Barrred - 17:50
- Super bloody match.
Piper’s Pit with Jimmy Snuka
1984 – WWF – 3:08
- The most infamous of all Piper’s Pits.
Terry Funk vs. Jumbo Tsurata
6/11/76 – NWA Title Match – 2 out of 3 falls – 35:06
- A very young Funk takes in a match that took place in Japan for the NWA Title
Heavenly Bodies vs. Fantastics
8/8/92 – Smokey Mountain – Barbed Wire Cage Match – 23:37
- Fun, bloody match with some classic Jim Cornette moments.