Dave Meltzer on the El Grande Americano Mask vs Mask Match:
“This was the best AAA match I’ve ever seen, arguably the best WWE match and a top tier match of all-time.”
- @WONF4W
I love that straight edge guys are like NOTHING! IS! EVER! GOING! IN! MY! BODY! EVER! except PEDs which I will be putting in my body actually very often now because I do steroids, but of course that does not break my sacred vow. I am more disciplined than you :)
You’re talking about a man that saw tape of himself hitting the worst moonsault ever and instead of removing it from his arsenal, he just stopped watching his matches back. Lol
gonna drop some pro-wwe takes to balance the equilibrium
- Hart vs Austin WM13 > any aew match ever
- Punk vs Reigns is the best american match of the year
- WWE's womens division genuinely shits on AEW like hard
- AJ Styles is the best american wrestler of all time
He's an interesting case. High end Randy Savage was like an Ospreay level talent and years ahead of his time. Phenomenal. House show Randy Savage in no way would be top 300 I've seen. I can say easily that the worst house show Pat Patterson match I saw was better than 80% or more of Savage's house show matches. I think anyone who saw both regularly would say that. As for whether Savage should be higher or lower than Patterson, I have no idea. Both are great characters and excellent workers when they wanted to be. But that's the danger of trying to rank wrestlers while only seeing a few of their best matches and not their 4-6 day per week matchdes.
The problem is that the useless undercard guys do the same moves, so when you see it in the main event it makes people tune out. Still an issue today, but a shit 450 is more exciting than a terrible full Nelson.
Over the years, the prevailing critical tool to judge and rate wrestling has been "workrate," the notion of how much action happens in a match. In a bearhug, almost nothing happens along those lines: feet planted, tiny movements. But so much emotion can be portrayed nonetheless.