ahh he did not

Bump, Taker/HBK is a better match in just about every way possible, no way it should lose.

What he means by that is that it took place far more recently.

Beat me to it.

Nope, this spot alone should be enough for it to win.

Well like I said earlier in the thread, I'm not taking anything away from an awesome Taker/HBK match. To call it worse than Steamboat/Flair WrestleWar '89 is to leave it plenty of room to still be one of the great matches of all time.

True North's post (#7) said it pretty much perfectly.

I've been out of the voting for a few rounds, but I just watched Flair/Steamboat. I understand the great historical importance and context, and the result was positively brilliant. I haven't watched a youtube match that I've enjoyed like that for a long, long time.

On the other hand, an essential part of the magic of pro graps is how a story unfolds in the ring. And the one told by Flair and Steamboat was doubtlessly a great one. What their match didn't have, however, was that one brilliant, captivating thread of a story that induced an instaneous, entrancing, multi-million fan mark-out moment when, for a brief second, advanced knowledge of the "worked" nature of what we're seeing is forcibly expelled from our collective minds, like how during a saturation bombing when all oxygen gets sucked away to feed an inferno of flame. I, of course, refer to the following:



I'm voting for Shawn and Taker.

^ I can't watch that moment enough times.

The poll has closed. Each side had a disqualified vote, so the margin shown in the poll above is accurate. The score has to be amended slightly, but Steamboat/Flair advances in a really close matchup by a score of 13-12.

Darn, no HBK matches in the semi-finals, I should have been aware of that when I voted Cena/Punk against two of those HBK matches, I voted for HBK/Undertaker HITC, in the first round.

ffs missing this one cost HBK/Taker at least a tie.

No idea how I missed it. Damnit.

Damn. I wanted this match to go all the way.

I still have no idea wtf people were thinking voting for cena/punk over hbk/angle.

HBK/Angle had the audacity to take place a full seven years ago.