Greatest moments in Light Heavyweight History

[Famine]

QUESTION TO ALL

What's your opinion on the greatest match or matches in "light-heavyweight" history?

My favorite would be the J-Crown Tournament.

Possibly one of the greatest events in wrestling history (in my opinion) was the J-Crown tournament and the one event preceding it. One of the most surreal images was when Lyger, Sasuke, Dragon, Samuri, and others each threw down their respective titles signaling the agreement to put all eight on the line to crown one undisputed champion. Truely a great moment in wrestling history.

It would be a dream, most likely a pipe-dream, if anything even remotely close to this would happen again.

[BENJII]

I'd have to say that my favourite moment would be the SUWA vs. Dragon Kid match... dammit, I forgot the date... but basically it was in a big arena (I think it was the Budokan) in 1999, where we saw the 420 Powerbomb used by SUWA, but the ending saw the Dragonrana for one of the most exciting matches I have ever witnessed in Toryumon History.

Oh ***... where is Crazy MAX when you need them.... which reminds me... I need to order more Toryumon!!!

[Hom3R]

Some of these matches:
Men's Teioh VS Tiger Mask IV from These Days commercial tape...wasnt actually on the event but it was added to the tape.

Tiger Mask IV VS Jyushin Lyger. From the J Cup.

Naoki Sano VS The Great Sasuke. From the J Cup.

Katsumi Usuda VS Men's Teioh. From the J Cup.

Lyger VS Sasuke. From the 94 J Cup.

and the These Days 10 man tag to top it off.

note:
I seen better matches than most of the matches on my list but these were the ones I remembered right now.

[Tradewynd]

I don't know how you can make a list like this without mentioning Taka winning the WWF Light-Heavyweight Championship(sarcasm)...

[samoth]

One of the best matches I ever remember seeing on free TV was in WCW in 1999. Billy Kidman vs. Rey Misterio Jr., which I think was for the Cruiserweight Title. Man they went all out and busted ***, and then afterwards hugged and shook hands. Great showmanship all around, and I really wish I had taped the match because that kind of stuff is about impossible to find. It's kind of funny, because they were having matches like this every week while the WWF was trying to pass off Brian Christopher as comparable to WCW's talent roster.

The Michinoku Pro 10 man from These Days was of course awesome. Can't really say much better about it.

There's a lot of sweet stuff from around 95-96 with Psicosis, Rey and Juvi in AAA, ECW, WCW and WAR that rocks the house as well.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

"Junior heavyweight" is A LOT more common than "light heavyweight" in Japa.

[Hijo de Carlos]

Gotta be the original Super J Cup

From the US I would pick either a title change match on Nitro (can't recall the date) between Kidman and Juventud Guerrera, or Kaientai feuding with Lo Down on Heat

[Shepster]

I'd have to go with Benoit/Sasuke from the '94 J Cup, Rey Jr v Juvi Guerrera 2/3 falls (ECW 1996) and the Dragon Kid, Magnum Tokyo & SAITO v Fuji, SUWA & Shiima Nobunaga elimination match off of the February 1999 Toryumon tape. Each of those matches changed my perception of what could be expected in a match.