Vintage Puroresu プロレス
@vintagepuro
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Joined January 2021
The coldest match opening in WWE history. 🧊☠️💔
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John Cena x Umaga. Unbeknownst to many WWE fans, Umaga had spent the previous 3 years battling guys like Kawada, Muto & Kojima. When he arrived at peak ferocity and found a very game Cena, the result was one of the hardest rivalries in WWE history. ☠️☠️.
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The time Rey Mysterio Jr. & Andrade decided to go out and put on a match that made a lot of us feel like it was ‘97 again. 🔥
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Shelton Benjamin, one of the best of his generation. 👑
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Shinsuke Nakamura’s NXT debut vs. Sami Zayn. As soon as it was over, this match was placed directly into the “All Time” folder, where it has remained since 2016. 🌟
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1995 Shawn Michaels was a whole different thing. 💔
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*Rey Mysterio Jr. & Ultimo Dragon · Backstage at Nitro 8.12.1996*.“Looks like we got 5 minute tonight. What do you wanna do?”.“Hmm, I dunno. Hardest sh*t these mf’rs have ever seen?”.“Sounds good.” 🔥
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Keiji Muto x Steve Austin. Two of the most iconic stars in the history of the sport put on a mat clinic. 🌟
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Eddie Guerrero & Silver King on a whole different level. Awesome. 👑👑
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John Cena & Bryan Danielson bring the velocity in 2003! ⚡️
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Kurt Angle’s suplexes on Rey Mysterio were not of this world. 🇺🇸☠️🏅
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RVD & Bam Bam Bigelow going absolutely f*cking wild in Buffalo. 🔥
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El Generico & The 1-2-3 Kid going HARD in a Chikara dream match! (4.17.2011) 🌟
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Brock Lesnar x Daniel Bryan. Very few matches have ever taken fans on an emotional ride like this. Utterly compelling pro wrestling action between two of the best ever. In the discussion for WWE’s greatest match of the 21st century so far. 🌟
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Davey Boy Smith & Owen Hart show off just about the most advanced level of matwork you will see in a 90’s WWF ring during the European Title finals. (1997) 👑👑
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20 years ago this month, Eddie Guerrero pulls out the most epic counter to the Rock Bottom & comes within a breath of putting @TheRock away! Legendary stuff. 👑👑
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Ultimo Dragon x Dean Malenko. The art of wrestling .🐉🧊
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2 Cold Scorpio revolutionized American pro wrestling. 🦂🧊👑
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John Cena & Bryan Danielson bring the velocity in 2003! ⚡️
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Gedo at The Great Sasuke’s “funeral.” (1999) 🕯️
We are officially adding "Hater of the Year" to next year's Fightful Awards
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Eddie Guerrero x Juventud Guerrera. If some older fans seem like tough critics today, it’s probably because this is the standard many were watching 25 years ago. 👑
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One of the most famous exchanges in ECW history. 🌟
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RVD welcomes Chris Jericho to ECW with a rarely seen slingshot moonsault to the floor! (1996) 🌟
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I literally almost fell off my chair when I watched this live. “One of a Kind” isn’t a gimmick, I’ve never seen anybody else like RVD. ☯️👑
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Rock & Austin should have gotten an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography. 🏆📺☠️
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Bret Hart x Mr. Perfect. Summerslam ‘91. If highly advanced extraterrestrial travelers descended upon Earth and gave humanity 20 minutes to demonstrate our worth as a species or face eradication, I would show them this match. 🔥👽
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In a career of legendary matches & moments, perhaps the one that most embodied what Terry Funk meant to wrestling came in 1989 when he used his own main event run to shine a light on an unknown Eddie Guerrero. King of the Old School always looking to elevate stars of the future👑
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Kurt Angle hits The Undertaker with an Olympic Slam. SmackDown Budokan. (7.17.2004) 🌟
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Eddie Guerrero, who wrestled extensively with NJPW in the 90’s, receives a king’s welcome at the Saitama Super Arena for his match with Kenzo Suzuki in 2005. 🌟
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Carlito x Shelton Benjamin x Johnny Nitro. Staple rivalry of the mid-00’s IC Title picture. 🌟
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John Cena x Umaga. One of the hardest rivalries in WWE history. ☠️☠️
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The Great Muta x The Giant. The greatest 1-minute match in WCW history. 🐉☠️
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AJ Styles & The Hurricane break out the heavy duty stuff on Jakked. (Jan 2002) ☠️
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“I’m usually pretty critical of my own work, especially in the matches that people consider to be classics, but whenever I watch that one, I just think. Sh*t, that was good.” ~Eddie Guerrero, on his match vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (Halloween Havoc ‘97) 👑
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PAC vs. El Generico. Spectacular. (PWG · All Star Weekend 2007) 🌟
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Lashley dives through the cage onto Umaga! Peak ECW 2.0 moment. 💥
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TAKA Michinoku. Having your signature move which bears your name used/called on US television at least 6 times per week more than 20 years after you’ve actively competed in the States feels like a strong case for Hall of Fame consideration. 👑
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Ricochet x PAC. Watching their first Dragon Gate singles meeting and the series of matches that followed throughout the year, it felt as if they were unlocking a whole new level of intensity & dynamism in the style. (3.1.2011) 🐉 .
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Brock Lesnar x RVD. Two of the most uniquely & supremely talented stars in wrestling history battle in one of the most visually stunning rivalries in WWE history. (2002) 🌟
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Kurt Angle & Lance Storm only had one televised 5-minute singles match, but, not surprisingly, it was a hard hitting, technical clinic. 🌟
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When WWF opened up a short-lived working agreement with Japan’s AJW in late 1995, they were looking to enhance their tv/ppv product with some solid new challengers for Alundra Blayze. What they got was some of the hardest hitting action ever seen in a WWF ring. ☠️
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The Great Muta x The Giant. The greatest <1 minute match in WCW history. 🐉☠️
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Such an incredible moment, Chris Jericho reverses the Gory Special and puts Eddie Guerrero in the very hold his father originated. 🌟
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As boisterous chants rumble throughout the arena, Bruiser Brody decides to find out just how *much* a part of the show the fans want to be. ☠️
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You will get tougher just by watching this exchange between Scott Norton & Meng. ☠️
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Shinjiro Otani vs. Eddie Guerrero •Starrcade 1995 👑👑 #大谷晋二郎
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Koko B. Ware’s “Ghostbuster.” One of the most devastating finishing moves in WWE history. 👻🚫☠️🦜
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Randy Savage was one of the few people on Earth willing to face the full, terrifying force of a Big Van Vader moonsault.
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Over the Summer of 1992, WCW fans were treated to an international dream series as The Steiner Brothers (NJPW) battled Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW), and it was no f*ckin’ joke. Four of the baddest men to ever menace the squared circle going full throttle, no quarter. ☠️
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Kurt Angle vs. Amazing Red. One of the most 🔥 sub-5 minute matches of all time. (2010) 👑👑
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Guerrero & Malenko with some serious SNAP at Starrcade ‘97! 🧊🔥
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Despite having only two (excellent) televised singles matches, Bret Hart vs. Hakushi was one of the most memorable, cutting-edge in-ring feuds of the New Generation Era. (1995) 💜☠️
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56 year old Ricky Steamboat & @IAmJericho turn back the clock for a classic Dragon burn burner at #WMBacklash 2009! 🐉🔥
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Brock Lesnar x Samoa Joe. Brief, chaotic, legendary feud. ☠️
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In the midst of one of the greatest main event years in history, Terry Funk uses his airtime to shine a spotlight on a promising young star by the name of Eddie Guerrero. (1989)
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Eddie Guerrero x Silver King. So smooth its almost unreal.
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Before the age of instant streaming, I remember reading about this move Rey Mysterio Jr. & Eddie Guerrero had done in Mexico in early ‘95 and wondering how something like that was even possible. Groundbreaking not is a strong enough word. 👑👑
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TAJIRI comes in hot and single-handedly takes out Evolution! 🌟.
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Lord Steven Regal x “The Belfast Bruiser” Fit Finlay. Art of Fighting ‘96. ☘️☠️🇬🇧
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As teenagers Jay Briscoe (18) & Mark Briscoe (17) were already wrestling at a level that put them at the forefront of the new wave of American wrestling, but they still worked to improve every year & in 2022 had some of the best matches ever seen. (8.24.02) #RIPJayBriscoe
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Barry Windham vs. Ric Flair. One of the best matches of the 80’s & one of wrestling’s greatest masterpieces. (1.20.1987) 🌟
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Manami Toyota x Akira Hokuto. The Destiny Climax. One of the greatest matches of all time. (AJW · 9.2.1995) 🌟
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Cash & Jason Jett go f*ckin’ berserk on the final edition of WCW Thunder. (3.19.2001) ☠️
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Kurt Angle x Brock Lesnar. The final in-ring meeting between two of the most iconic stars of the 21st century, Brock’s first match in over a year, and his last until 2012. 🌟
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RVD x TAJIRI. Despite being top stars in later years ECW, two of wrestling’s most visually & stylistically compelling wrestlers ever first crossed paths formally, albeit briefly, in 2001. 🌟
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One of the most bad*ss wrestling moments of the 21st century. 🔥☠️ @RealKurtAngle @SamoaJoe
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The bar has officially been set for the best professional wrestling moment of 2023. Good luck to all who follow. 🌟 #noah_ghc
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RVD x TAJIRI. Despite being top stars in later years ECW, the paths of two of wrestling’s most visually & stylistically compelling wrestlers ever would first cross formally, albeit briefly, in 2001. 🌟
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Ric Flair x Terry Funk. I Quit Match. Watching this Clash I immediately felt like it was the best match I had ever seen. 34 years later, it’s absolutely still in the conversation. Few feuds have ever reached this level of emotion/intensity. (11.15.1989) 🌟
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