NintendoLogic

Come on, guys. If you're not positively giddy at the prospect of Jinder Mahal having a world title match in Chicago, I feel sorry for you. It's going to make the crowd reaction to Goldberg/Lesnar at WM20 look like a 1986 Crockett crowd.

Holy hell, I can't believe I let this match slip my mind. You can be sure you're watching greatness when little old ladies in the audience are so enraged that they're storming the ring.

You'll get no argument from me on this pick. The RWTL final is an all-time top 15 match for me. I'd like to throw out El Dandy vs. Pirata Morgan as a worthy challenger, but it doesn't seem to be online anymore. Instead, I'll nominate my pick for the best sub-10:00 match of all time.

Jones and Rocco wrestled each other like a million times, and this was probably their best match together. I'm a really big fan of Rocco. He was one of the pioneers of working a more fast-paced brawling style.

I find 2008 to be kind of a weak year overall, but this is the Misawa-Kawada of wrestler vs. non-wrestler matches.

1993 might be the most loaded year in history in terms of really high-end matches. Anyway, here's the correct answer.

I'd say Vader's best WWF match was with Owen at One Night Only. There's also the surreal spectacle of Vader and Ken Shamrock having a quasi-UWFi match in a WWF ring.

Here's my pick. For my money, Misawa's last great singles match. Also worthy of consideration: It sucks that Joe's rampage through the X-Division coincided with all the Planet Jarrett bullshit, because that was the closest TNA came to being legitimately good.

All my favorites have been mentioned (and there's no chance in hell of Phil and Eric turning against Santo/Casas), so I'll throw out a sentimental favorite. If there's a better Malenko match, I haven't seen it. It's mainly due to Eddy, but Dean is no slouch either.

Miz was so awesome this year, he would have stood out even if wrestling was still good.

From what I've seen of Cavernario, I'm pretty sure I actively hate him, mainly because I hate workrate lucha. It's video game wrestling, which is pretty much the exact opposite of the kind of wrestling I like. I am kind of in awe of his willingness to destroy his knees for little or no reward, but that's as far as it goes. Jericho has been nothing to write home about in the ring either, but his character work has been off the charts.

A few years ago, I thought 1991 was a weak year in terms of high-end matches. I've done a complete 180 and now consider it one of the stronger years in that regard. In fact, I'm willing to throw out a nominee for each region. US: Mexico: Japan:

Meltzer just tweeted about how Gordon Solie was one of the old-timers who thought the NFL was worked. Well, the regular season was. The Super Bowl was a shoot.

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You think you could program a computer to judge the artistry of a routine? Which is irrelevant if you knock the other guy out. That's as objective as it gets.

There's a big difference between imperfect application of objective rules and judging something like artistry which is inherently subjective.

Which is why I made sure to say "exclusively." You can win in UFC by knockout or submission. Nothing more objective than that.

I agree with this. If you only followed online discussion, it'd be hard to discern that there ever was a period outside of the Chyna/Sable era that Divas wrestling was considered bad. And the women may be better now on a week-to-week basis than they've ever been, but I don't think they've had a match yet as good as Trish/Mickie at Wrestlemania 22.

Good for her, but a sport requires more than physical urgency. If outcomes are determined entirely by subjective judging, it's not a sport.

Also, figure skating and gymnastics aren't real sports.

The teenage audience was much larger, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of viewers, during the Attitude Era. And most of them managed to watch until the very end. And again, we're talking about an even higher than normal drop-off among teenage girls. If they can manage to stay up to watch Kevin Owens, they can do it for Bayley.

I haven't watched Race/Funk yet (and I agree that nothing else from that year stands a chance after that write-up), but I like the Jumbo/Robinson trilogy.

Some hardcore revisionist history in this thread. For most of Raw's history, the main event/overrun was the highest-rated part of the show. Bedtime apparently didn't exist until the fall of 2011, which is when ratings started dropping as the show went on. In other news, there's a Costa Rican Bollywood movie starring Scott Steiner.