What is your favorite heavyweight match?

[Hom3R]

I got a few candidates:

1: Triple Crown: Kenta Kobashi VS Mitsuharu Misawa from 97. It was 43 mins long and Misawa won it with multiple elbows.

2: Triple Crown: Mitsuharu Misawa VS Kenta Kobashi. Misawa retained the title with the Emerald Frosion. Over 40 mins.

3: Triple Crown: Gen'ichiro Tenryu VS Keiji Mutoh. Mutoh won the TC with the ol' combination of the Rib Breaker to Moonsault. 22 minutes long.


All of these 3 are among the best matches I ever seen, puro or american.

[BurningSpirit]

Kawada V Misawa for the Triple crown in janurary 99

Tanaka V Awesome V Taz ECW world title, anarchy rulz 99

cant think of any others right now... too tired, I'll add more later

[lCS 39]

i like the Kawada vs Misawa match for the Triple crown in janurary 99

[Ganso]

Kawada vs. Misawa from AJPW's first Tokyo Dome show 5/1 or 5/5 1998 was very good.

Kawada/Taue vs. Misawa/Kobashi from June of 95 for the tag titles was very good as well, great psycology.

[highpriest]

My second favorite heavyweight match is any one that features Goldberg......every other one in history is tied for first! Seriously,Goldberg is tough........TOUGH TO WATCH! Ok, I'm sorry, I let my personal feelings cloud my judgement lol. But you got to admit its good to know he isnt still wrestling and possibly ending another career......

[DangerousBD]

Any Kawada/Misawa singles match.

Misawa/Kobashi vs. Kawada/Taue (from AJ excite series I believe)

Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori (AJW dreamslam 93)

Mutoh vs Chono matches (1993)

[LizardKing]

I recently got the Misawa-Kobashi tape, with some of their great matches on. After having mainly been a junior match kind of guy, I have to admit that for heavyweight matches, IMO it doesn't get much better than some of their matches. The 43 minute epic, (97) was just astonishing. So naturally, they are my picks for heavyweight matches.

[Luds]

I loved Mutoh vs Tenryu match for the Triple Crown. I also loved the Savage vs Steamboat match from WMIII, and the Owen Hart vs Bret Hart from WMX.

[Peru-Yakuza]

Yamazaki vs. Nagata 2000 (short in length, high in action)
Misawa vs. Akiyama 2000 in All-Japan
Kawada vs. Kojima 2001
Muta vs. Williams 2001

[kobashi]

I think this is classified as a heavyweight match because Ikeda vs. Ishikawa from The young generation battle tournament 1999 in BattlArts is very awesome.

Also do not forget all the Kobashi/Misawa and Kawada/Misawa matches, and the Tsurutra/Misawa matches are also brilliant. Tenryu vs. Tsurutra from 1989 is an amazing match and starts off the psychology that built on to Kawada vs. Misawa from 6/4/94.

For more recent ones try Nagata & Iizuka vs. Kawada & Fuchi and Kobashi vs. Akiyama. IMO they are my two MOTY's for 2000.

[samoth]

"Seriously,Goldberg is tough........TOUGH TO WATCH"

Check out Fall Brawl 99 or 2000 (I forget which one). Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner is pretty awesome until the overbooked Russo finish. Steiner struggles to press Goldberg, but Goldberg lifts Steiner without so much as a grunt and presses him several times over his head. Very impressive strength.

Also, the Goldberg title win over Hogan from Nitro was surprisingly good (packed Atlanta Dome), and some of the Goldberg and Bret matches were good.

[highpriest]

Unfortunatly one of those matches with Hart lead to the hanging up of his tights. I think there was alot of steam left in the hitman, and I realize that accidents happen. But at the same time it seems that Goldberg was a little undertrained and a little under qualified to be in a wrestling ring for more than 30 seconds. Thats managments fault as much as anyones. I caught Steiner vs. Goldberg at a house show once. Steiner absolutly carried that match on his shoulders. Of course he went out looking at the lights and popped the crowd for Goldberg, but I really don't like the guy. He is as unprofessional as they come. (HHH knows this as well as anybody lol) I wouldnt quite rank him on the Buff or HBK scale as far as unprofessionalism but he is definatly lacking some class.

[Luds]

I think that the best Goldberg matches are the ones against La Parka or against Vincent...

La Parka comes in the ring, does his little dance (crowd laughs) spear, jackhammer...

Vincent comes to the ring thinking he's the man(crowd laughs) spear, jackhammer...

Less than 20 seconds... great action!

[Hom3R]

Or what about when he faced Glacier......Glacier does his martial arts routine...missed and bang.....Goldberg explodes with the Spear......and you can guess the rest!

[ThePrinceofOldSchool]

Mutoh vs. Chono in the finals of G-1 Climax '91 that was a great match...