Observer's Top 100 of the 80's
abes...@erols.com
Does anyone know where I can find the Observer's list of the
top 100 matches of the '80's?
-Big Mike
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Herb Kunze
Here's the list:
Jeff Bowdren's Top 100 Matches of the 1980s (bottom 80 unordered)
04/81 - Wayne Ferris & Kevin Sullivan vs. Bill Dundee & Dream Machine
04/21/81 - Pat Patterson vs. Sgt. Slaughter
12/12/81 - Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Dory & Terry Funk
09/02/82 - Satoru Sayama vs. Dynamite Kid
12/13/82 - Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody vs. Terry & Dory Funk
03/12/83 - Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood
vs. Don Kernodle & Sgt. Slaughter
06/83 - Jerry Lawler vs. Jim Dundee
04/03/83 - Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Riki Choshu
07/04/83 - Freebirds vs. von Erichs
08/31/83 - Dory & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
12/08/83 - Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi & Yoshiaki Yatsu
vs. Akira Maeda & Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura
04/19/84 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Toshiaki Yatsu
05/14/84 - Eddie Gilbert & Tommy Rich vs. Koko Ware & Norvell Austin
06/16/84 - Sgt. Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik
07/04/84 - Freebirds vs. von Erichs
07/05/84 - Dynamite Kid vs. Cobra
07/23/84 - Satoru Sayama & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Maeda & Fujiwara
08/02/84 - Cobra vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi
11/22/84 - Terry Gordy vs. Killer Khan
11/27/84 - Ricky Steamboat vs. Tully Blanchard
12/05/84 - Satoru Sayama vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
12/08/84 - Tiger Mask vs. Pirata Morgan
05/85 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Lioness Asuka
01/04/85 - Ric Flair vs. Bruiser Brody
01/25/85 - Ric Flair vs. Kerry von Erich
06/01/85 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Taylor
09/16/85 - Antonio Inoki vs. Bruiser Brody
10/27/85 - Ric Flair vs. Butch Reed
11/11/85 - Jim Duggan vs. Buzz Sawyer
11/26/85 - Magnum T.A. vs. Tully Blanchard
12/31/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Dick Murdoch
04/86 - Midnight Express vs. R'N'R Express
10/86 - Bull Nakano & Condor Saito vs. Dump Matsumoto & Yasuko Ishiguro
03/20/86 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Jumping Bomb Angels
04/07/86 - Fantastics vs. Sheepherders
07/31/86 - Riki Choshu vs. Killer Khan
08/31/86 - Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers
09/06/86 - Owen Hart & Ben Bassarab vs. Viet Cong Express
10/06/86 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Bull Nakano & Condor Saito
10/09/86 - Akira Maeda vs. Don Nakaya Neilsen
11/07/86 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto
11/21/86 - Nick Bockwinkel vs. Curt Hennig
11/24/86 - Nobuhiko Takada & Shiro Koshinaka
vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Keiji Muto
12/02/86 - Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Tsuruta & Tenryu
01/04/87 - Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Yumi Ogura & Kazue Nagahori
02/05/87 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Shiro Koshinaka
03/20/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada vs. Keiji Muto & Shiro Koshinaka
03/29/87 - Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage
04/27/87 - Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito
05/25/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada
vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Toshiaki Fujiwara
06/01/87 - Terry Taylor & Eddie Gilbert vs. Sting & Shane Douglas
07/04/87 - Ric Flair & Tully Blanchard & Lex Luger & Arn Anderson
& J.J.Dillon vs. Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff & Road Warriors
& Paul Ellering
07/18/87 - Negro Casas vs. El Hijo Del Santo
09/01/87 - Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada
vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Toshiaki Fujiwara
12/05/87 - Chigusa Nagayo & Yumiko Hotta & Mika Suzuki & Yachiyo Hirata
& Mika Takahashi & ? vs. Lioness Asuka & Mika Komatsu
& Kazue Nagahori & Mitsuko Nishiwaki & Etsuko Mita
& Sachiko Makamura
12/11/87 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara
02/04/88 - Nobuhiko Takada vs. Hiro Hase
02/05/88 - Hiro Hase vs. Keiichi Yamada
03/09/88 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Tiger Mask
03/27/88 - Ric Flair vs. Sting
03/27/88 - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics
04/26/88 - Midnight Express vs. Fantastics
06/10/88 - Owen Hart vs. Keiichi Yamada
06/24/88 - Owen Hart vs. Shiro Koshinaka
07/19/88 - Foot Loose vs. Shinichi Nakano & Shinji Takano
07/22/88 - Ted DiBiase vs. Randy Savage
07/31/88 - Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs. Don Nakaya Neilsen
08/08/88 - Antonio Inoki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami
08/28/88 - Genichiro Tenryu & Ashura Hara
vs. Yoshiaki Yatsu & Jumbo Tsuruta
09/20/88 - Foot Loose vs. Shinichi Nakano & Shinji Takano
10/28/88 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu
12/26/88 - Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger
02/16/89 - Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson vs. Rockers
03/18/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
06/05/89 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu
07/13/89 - Jushin Riger vs. Naoki Sano
07/22/89 - Ricky Steamboat vs. Lex Luger
07/23/89 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk
09/20/89 - Jushin Riger vs. Naoki Sano
Top 20 (ordered):
07/01/84 - Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra
vs. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith & David Shultz
81 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita
12/16/88 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada
03/22/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Jim Duggan
06/21/85 - Tiger Mask (Misawa) vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi
01/20/87 - Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham
11/15/89 - Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk
03/24/86 - Bill Dundee & Buddy Landel vs. Jerry Lawler & Dutch Mantell
04/02/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
08/05/82 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask
08/19/87 - Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami & Akira Maeda & Kengo Kimura
& Super Strong Machine vs. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi
& Keiji Muto & Kantaro Hoshino & Yoshiaki Fujiwara
06/12/86 - Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Akira Maeda
02/26/87 - Chigusa Nagayo vs. Lioness Asuka
02/14/86 - Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham
01/28/86 - Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu
vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu
12/25/82 - Ric Flair vs. Kerry von Erich
02/20/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
08/22/85 - Lioness Asuka vs. Jaguar Yokota
04/21/83 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask
05/07/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
Kevin Podsiadlik
In article <E4oHp...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
hek...@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) wrote:
>Here's the list:
>
>Jeff Bowdren's Top 100 Matches of the 1980s (bottom 80 unordered)
[...]
>Top 20 (ordered):
>
>07/01/84 - Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra
> vs. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith & David Shultz
> 81 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita
>12/16/88 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
> vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada
>03/22/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Jim Duggan
[...]
>02/20/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
>08/22/85 - Lioness Asuka vs. Jaguar Yokota
>04/21/83 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask
>05/07/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
Herb, could you please clarify which way the ordering runs in the
top 20?
Either way, seeing Jim Duggan's name anywhere in the top 20 here,
and knowing what he's like now... brrrr...
--
Kevin Podsiadlik (kjpo...@cyberramp.net)
"It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."
Dan Edward Ginnetty
In <kjpodsia-ya0240800...@newshost.cyberramp.net>
kjpo...@cyberramp.net (Kevin Podsiadlik) writes:
>
>In article <E4oHp...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
>hek...@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) wrote:
>
>>
>>Jeff Bowdren's Top 100 Matches of the 1980s (bottom 80 unordered)
>
>
>>Top 20 (ordered):
>>
>>07/01/84 - Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra
>> vs. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith & David Shultz
>> 81 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi
Onita
>>12/16/88 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
>> vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada
>>03/22/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Jim Duggan
>>02/20/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
>>08/22/85 - Lioness Asuka vs. Jaguar Yokota
>>04/21/83 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask
>>05/07/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
>
>top 20?
>
>Either way, seeing Jim Duggan's name anywhere in the top 20 here,
>and knowing what he's like now... brrrr...
The #20 match is the Inoki/Fujinami/Cobra match. #1 obviously
is the 5/7/89 Flair-Steamboat match. Believe it or not, Duggan
was not horrible in 85. He was a BIG star in Mid South. The match
with Dibiase is quite good. Sometimes I have trouble believing it is
really Duggan in that match tho...
Dan Ginnetty
Herb Kunze
In article <kjpodsia-ya0240800...@newshost.cyberramp.net>,
Kevin Podsiadlik <kjpo...@cyberramp.net> wrote:
>In article <E4oHp...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
>hek...@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze) wrote:
>>
>>Jeff Bowdren's Top 100 Matches of the 1980s (bottom 80 unordered)
>
>
>>Top 20 (ordered):
>>
>>07/01/84 - Antonio Inoki & Tatsumi Fujinami & Cobra
>> vs. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith & David Shultz
>> 81 - Eddie Gilbert & Ricky Morton vs. Masa Fuchi & Atsushi Onita
>>12/16/88 - Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
>> vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada
>>03/22/85 - Ted DiBiase vs. Jim Duggan
>>02/20/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
>>08/22/85 - Lioness Asuka vs. Jaguar Yokota
>>04/21/83 - Dynamite Kid vs. Tiger Mask
>>05/07/89 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat
>
>top 20?
>
>Either way, seeing Jim Duggan's name anywhere in the top 20 here,
>and knowing what he's like now... brrrr...
The top 20 are in descending order, so Flair vs. Steamboat is
best match of the 1980s.
The Duggan vs. DiBiase match was a coal miner's glove tuxedo loser
leaves town cage match with double juice from the UWF. It was
a wild match and quite memorable for the time frame.
Since we're having fun with this, here's another list:
Dave Meltzer's 65 Best Matches of 1990 from Observer Yearbook
01/31/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Naoki Sano
10/19/90 - Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuhara Misawa & Kenta Kobashi
vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Masa Fuchi & Akira Taue
11/01/90 - Hiro Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs. Keiji Muto & Masa Chono
06/08/90 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuhara Misawa
04/01/90 - Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto
vs. Masanobu Kurisu & Dragon Master
09/01/90 - Joe Malenko & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Fantastics
09/14/90 - Hiro Hase vs. Great Muta
07/08/90 - Midnight Express vs. Southern Boys
05/26/90 - Mitsuhara Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Akira Taue
vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Masa Fuchi & Kabuki
02/25/90 - Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger
09/01/90 - Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuhara Misawa
11/01/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Pegasus Kid
03/01/90 - Yoshihiro Asai & Kendo & Super Astro
vs. El Espanto Jr. & Shu El Guerrero & Negro Casa
04/19/90 - Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs. Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey
02/13/90 - Ric Flair vs. Brian Pillman
02/10/90 - Riki Choshu & George Takano vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Tiger Mask
08/19/90 - Akira Hokuto vs. Manami Toyota
02/07/90 - Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton
12/13/90 - Hiro Hase & Kensuke Sasaki
vs. Shiro Koshinaka & Takayuki Iizuka
01/15/90 - Ric Flair & Sting & Arn Anderson
vs. Buzz Sawyer & Great Muta & Dragon Master
12/07/90 - Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue
vs. Mitsuhara Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada
08/19/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Pegasus Kid
03/02/90 - Yoshihiro Asai vs. Negro Casas
11/14/90 - Aja Kong vs. Bull Nakano
12/14/90 - El Dandy vs. El Satanico
03/13/90 - Ric Flair vs. Ricky Morton
05/24/90 - Riki Choshu vs. Keiji Muto
02/25/90 - Midnight Express vs. R'n'R Express
12/16/90 - Doom vs. Barry Windham & Arn Anderson
06/04/90 - Aja Kong & Bison Kimura & Grizzly Iwamoto
vs. Kaoru Maeda & Mika Takahashi & Manami Toyota
07/17/90 - Jumbo Tsuruta & Great Kabuki & Masa Fuchi
vs. Mitsuhara Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue
06/30/90 - Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kenta Kobashi
02/10/90 - Jushin Riger & Akira Nogami vs. Pegasus Kid & Naoki Sano
08/18/90 - Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi
vs. Mitsuhara Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada & Kenta Kobashi
03/19/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Pegasus Kid
08/24/90 - Ric Flair vs. Sting
06/07/90 - Yoshihiro Asai vs. Negro Casas
08/19/90 - Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs. Grizzly Iwamoto & Bull Nakano
01/25/90 - Genichiro Tenryu & Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada
vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Kabuki & Mighty Inoue
06/07/90 - El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro
vs. El Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo & Kendo
07/16/90 - Curt Hennig vs. Tito Santana
12/26/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Negro Casas
12/28/90 - Curt Hennig vs. Roddy Piper
01/30/90 - Jushin Riger vs. Owen Hart
04/13/90 - Genichiro Tenryu vs. Randy Savage
11/25/90 - Terry Gordy & Steve Williams vs. Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue
10/30/90 - Curt Hennig vs. Big Boss Man
06/25/90 - Arn Anderson vs. Barry Windham
10/01/90 - Steiners vs. Midnight Express
04/09/90 - Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk vs. Midnight Express
10/27/90 - Steiners vs. Nasty Boys
02/28/90 - Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk vs. Midnight Express
09/05/90 - Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger
06/01/90 - Yoshihiro Asai & Kendo & El Hijo Del Santo
vs. Cuchillo & Negro Casas & Fuerza Guerrera
04/27/90 - Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto vs. Keiji Muto & Masa Chono
10/19/90 - Genichiro Tenryu vs. George Takano
09/07/90 - Fantastics vs. Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi
01/06/90 - Jushin Riger & Masa Chono vs. Shinya Hashimoto & Naoki Sano
04/23/90 - Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger
11/10/90 - Eddie Gilbert vs. Cactus Jack
09/01/90 - Madusa vs. Aja Kong
04/01/90 - Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior
11/09/90 - Stan Lane & Eddie Gilbert vs. Terry Funk & Cactus Jack
04/22/90 - Rockers vs. Hart Foundation
06/13/90 - Doom vs. Steiners
Herb...
Yuriy Kleyner
Seen two of these only....brrr.....I need to get more tapes
Steiners-Nasties at HH
Midnight-Lovable Rednecks at GAB
Yuriy
Stephen M. Strange
Dan Edward Ginnetty (ginn...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: >Either way, seeing Jim Duggan's name anywhere in the top 20 here,
: >and knowing what he's like now... brrrr...
:
: is the 5/7/89 Flair-Steamboat match. Believe it or not, Duggan
: was not horrible in 85. He was a BIG star in Mid South. The match
: with Dibiase is quite good. Sometimes I have trouble believing it is
: really Duggan in that match tho...
:
: Dan Ginnetty
Is this the match from the Superdome? Steel Cage Tuxedo Coal Miner's
Glove Match? Damn that was a nice fight. Bill Watts could sure get a
crowd into a match with his booking.
--
Steve Strange
New.York.University
~sms...@is.nyu.edu
~http://pages.nyu.edu/~sms6225
John D. Williams
Yuriy Kleyner wrote:
Uh, Yuriy.... this one sound a little familiar:
02/10/90 Riki Choshu & George Takano
vs. Genichiro Tenryu & Tiger Mask
BTW, there was a raw feed of this, as opposed to a handheld. Much
better thata way.
Best regards,
--
jdw
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The star of England. Fortune made his sword,
By which the world's best garden he achieved...
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