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Greats by almost Greats

By Scott Keith on September 1, 2013

Interested to see what matches (primarily singles) people would say are the best/must-sees for people on that second, maybe third tier of great technical wrestler. We all know what Savage, Flair, Michaels matches to seek out, but curious about the following guys.

-Christian

The Orton series in 2011 produced some top-level stuff, but Christian as a singles guy has never really been a tippy top worker. The match with Jericho at WM20 was a near-showstealer also.

-Dean Malenko

Almost any of his Cruiserweight title matches in WCW, but the Jericho match at Slamboree 98 was pretty much the peak of his run. I also have a soft spot for the match with Scotty 2 Hotty at Backlash 2000. Plus there's reams of awesome Japan stuff in the Super Junior tournaments.

-Barry Windham

Ric Flair, 1987, pick any of them.

-Raven

His shot at the NWA title with Jeff Jarrett was amazingly built and one of the best things TNA ever did, and then of course there's a million decent brawls in ECW, including the Raven-Richards v. Pitbulls match that was the only ECW match to get ***** from me.

-Vader

Lots of WCW Sting matches in the 90s, lots of awesome "beat the shit out of each other" matches with guys like Stan Hansen in Japan, plus a crazy tag match with him and Bigelow against the Steiners that was on pretty much every comp tape of the 90s. Wanna see Vader take a Frankensteiner? There ya go.

-RVD
I've always been partial to the John Cena match, and the Lynn matches have grown on me over the years.

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