This thread will work as follows:

- Each day I will post 1 new matchup from the bracket.

- Voting for each match will be open for 3 days

- To vote, BOLD the name of the match you want to win. Example: HBK/Angle. I will be using a vote counter for this thread, so while I did it by hand in the nomination thread and counted everything, in this only the BOLD names will count.

- At the end of the 3 days, whichever match has more votes will advance. In event of a tie, the higher seed wins. In event of tie still, random.org will be used.


- I will just be posting the NAME of the matches without a write up for these rounds. If you would like, feel free to post a link, give a write up for your match of choice, etc. All of these have been chosen by us, so I think rather than have me write a few sentences on every match getting someone passionate about that match to give their take would provide better content (also I'm lazy). This will likely change as the tournament progresses.





THE BRACKET

Today's match will have voting open until 5pm eastern on FRIDAY


16. Flair vs Steamboat III, WrestleWar '89
vs
9. Austin vs Hart, Wrestlemania 13

Austin/Hart

This appears to be the early championship. Both are amazing and largely beyond significant critique, but the Austin/Hart story is a bit more compelling.

Makes me feel terrible to vote against Flair/Steakboat though.

hart austin


gotta say, this was not the f8 i expected when i started
thats why i love this tho

Austin/Hart

I don't want to give my reasoning yet, because I don't want to influence anyone ne one way or the other, but I think this is betting favorite to take down the whole tournament

Next round is the championship with Austin/Hart vs. Undertaker/HBK.

Flair vs. Steamboat

I don't want to see it swept.

Austin/Hart

Basically like picking between two of my nonexistent children.

Matchup	# of Votes
deadline	Friday
Steamboat/Flair 3	1
Hart/Austin	4

Today's match will have voting open until 5pm eastern on SATURDAY


3. Savage vs Steamboat, WM 3
vs
6. CM Punk vs Cena, MitB

Savage/Steamboat

punk/cena

I actually rewatched this one yesterday again and damn it's so good. crowd is unreal, a surprisingly great announcing job, a good ending, and an overall top notch sequence from build to result.

Tough choices.

Flair/Steamboat
Cena/Punk

Savage/Steamboat

Punk/Cena

Easy pick, really. Savage/Steamboat is really good and I give it five stars, I just think it's at the very very bottom tier of 5* matches. Punk/Cena is near the very top.

Hart/Austin

Cena/Punk

Hart/Austin

Savage/Steamboat

Flair/Steamboat
Punk/Cena

Probably voted for the two losers.

Austin vs Hart

Savage vs Steamboat

I haven't been keeping track in the last few rounds, lol @ Punk/Cena making it this far.

I hate the ending to the cena/punk match

Would snap vote it if it were a totally clean ending

Snap is an exaggeration but I think I'd vote for it.

Savage/steamboat

Matchup	# of Votes
deadline	Friday
Steamboat/Flair 3	3
Hart/Austin	7
Deadline	Saturday
savage/steamboat	5
punk/cena	5

Todays voting is open til 5pm eastern on SUNDAY


20. HBK vs Undertaker, WM 25
vs
28. Bret vs Perfect, SS '91

HBK/Taker not close.

I'm gonna watch all these matches again back to back to get a good guage on where I want to go since we're getting down to the nitty gritty. Agreed that Punk/Cena getting this far is a crime but possibly a luck of the draw.

Love Bret/Perfect to pieces. But...