Here are some of the first round match-ups to discuss and vote on; hopefully I can release a new set of matches every 2-3 days but allow the discussion to continue on previous match-ups for a little bit longer than that (maybe up to a week if it's still ongoing). I haven't done any "seeding" necessarily on these, but I will take the votes into consideration when matching up for the second and following rounds. I won't include a synopsis with the match-ups mainly because some of the match-ups I'm not familiar with, but will give some kind of recap of the ones I do in a separate post.

Ric Flair/Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Orton/Christian

The Freebirds/The Von Erichs vs. Booker T/Chris Benoit

Bryan Danielson/Nigel Mcguinness vs. Tito Santana/Greg Valentine

Tully Blanchard/Magnum TA vs. Ted DiBiase/Jim Duggan

Legion of Doom/Demolition vs. The Moondogs/Jerry Lawler and Jeff Jarrett

The Sheik/Bobo Brazil vs. Razor Ramon/1-2-3 Kid

The Funks/The Briscos vs. Nick Bockwinkel/Curt Hennig

Chris Jericho/Dean Malenko vs. Jimmy Snuka/Don Muraco

Flair/Steamboat
Freebirds/Von Erichs
Danielson/McGuinness
Tully/Magnum
Moondogs/Lawler & Jarrett
Sheik/Brazil
Funks/Briscos
Jericho/Malenko

I never found LOD/Demos to be much of a feud after all the anticipation.

Randy Orton/Christian
The Freebirds/The Von Erichs
Tito Santana/Greg Valentine
Tully Blanchard/Magnum TA vs. Ted DiBiase/Jim Duggan
The Moondogs/Jerry Lawler and Jeff Jarrett
The Sheik/Bobo Brazil vs. Razor Ramon/1-2-3 Kid
The Funks/The Briscos vs. Nick Bockwinkel/Curt Hennig
Jimmy Snuka/Don Muraco

not voting on the ones i'm not sure of.

can't vote for flair/steamboat since it wasn't really a feud as much as a series of great matches.
when i think of uswa the first thought in my mind is Freebirds/Von Erichs and booker/benoit isn't even close
mcguinness/danielson was almost a parallel of flair/steamboat so voted for the actual feud that was valentine/santana
i think auto putting in blanchard/magnum is a mistake if you don't know the dibiase/duggan rivalry from mid-south. i've never watched any mid-south but i've read tons and tons about this rivalry so i'm not voting on it because it seems incredibly close from what i've read.
as TN said, the LOD/Demos sucked after lots of anticipation
i know nothing of bobo/sheik aside from the fact they did feud.
can't speak on either funks/briscos or bock/perfect
jericho/malenko was pretty meh aside from a couple good segments. snuka/muraco brought hate into everything they did with each other.

Abstaining for now on the final four. Definitely would vote for either feud in the last two mathups over either feud in the 5th and 6th matchups

LOD and Demolition had a feud that actually went somewhere? I thought by the time they went to do it, Bill Eadie was already on his way out and Demolition was a shell of their former selves. I thought the feud just sort of fizzled out without even really happening. Then Demolition got a jobber entrance at WM VI before jobbing to a Japanese team and never being seen again.

I need to read up/watch stuff on Moondogs/Lawler and Jarrett, but I assume just by default that it's better.

Well, props to this guy for uploading every part of the Moondogs/Jarrett and Lawler feud - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxifl5TM0G4 - and it's sort of cool to look at as a time capsule, but I got to the end of part 9 (of 24 I believe) and sort of shrugged and stopped watching. It won feud of the year but it really doesn't grab me.

Here's a match of LOD vs. Demolition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbqY3U8_Wn4 - they never so much as fought on PPV, except on opposite sides of Survivor Series teams one time in 1990. There just wasn't much to this feud; they turned Demolition heel to make it work, they never got a ton of heat, they randomly threw them back in with Mr. Fuji just to instruct the fans, "No, seriously, they're bad guys now"...from there, they went out with a whimper.

Voting for the Moondogs v. Jarrett/Lawler feud just by default. I think they should be cannon fodder next round.

Going with Flair/Steamboat over Orton/Christian. Both had pretty bare-bones storylines that were basically good enough to justify great series of matches. Obviously the matches in Flair/Steamboat win the day, since we won't still be talking about Orton/Christian in 22 years. Orton/Christian was great though.

Give me Freebirds/Von Erichs in a walk. As moorobot alluded to, this feud had so much heat that the Freebirds legitimately feared for their safety on a number of occasions. Booker/Benoit had a very nice set of matches obviously, but they don't compare in this at all.

Need to do more research to vote on the other matchups.

Ric Flair/Ricky Steamboat
The Freebirds/The Von Erichs
Tully Blanchard/Magnum TA
The Sheik/Bobo Brazil
The Funks/The Briscos
Jimmy Snuka/Don Muraco

Abstaining on the others for lack of info. Felt the Funks/Briscoes vs. Bockwinkel/Hennig was the toughest call of the ones I voted on.

Oh Bockwinkel/Hogan should prolly be on here. Was it nominated?

Linda McMahon vs. Democrats

I know I haven't gotten around to being able to comment on the matches I haven't voted on, but I'm still interested.

This board is quickly turning into the Merv Griffin set from that Seinfeld episode, so it may only be a small handful of us who care. Still worth it for the discussion IMO.

I'm gonna be away until Saturday and I want to do some research, so my votes will probably be in on Sunday. I will make a case for the feuds I nominated too (just Sheik vs. Bobo from this set I think).

Second set of match-ups:

NWO/WCW vs. Chris Jericho/Goldberg

Hulk Hogan/Roddy Piper vs. CM Punk/William Regal

Midnight Express/Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. The Hollywood Blonds/Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglass

Tommy Dreamer/Raven vs. Eric Embry/Devastation Inc.

AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Jimmy Valiant/Ivan Koloff

Keiji Mutoh(Great Muta)/Masahiro Chono vs. Andre the Giant/Big John Studd

Rikidozan/Freddie Blassie vs. Kevin Sullivan/Chris Benoit

Ric Flair/Dusty Rhodes vs. Dynamite Kid/Bad News Allen

Hogan/Piper over Punk/Regal by miles. The revisiting of this feud in WCW was awful, but the early 80's WWF feud was great.

nWo v. WCW certainly has to win out over Jericho/Goldberg as well. Jericho/Goldberg had the backstage fight, so there was legitimate heat, but there isn't really any argument for it over nWo v. WCW as on-screen rivalries go.

I imagine I'll vote Midnight Express/Rock 'n Roll Express over the WCW feud, but honestly I don't know enough about the other one yet to lock in a vote on it.

NWO/WCW
Hulk Hogan/Roddy Piper
Midnight Express/Rock 'n' Roll Express
Keiji Mutoh(Great Muta)/Masahiro Chono
Ric Flair/Dusty Rhodes

Abstaining on the others. Even though I loved Sullivan/Benoit (nothing like a real-life affair to heat up a rivalry!) I know nothing about Rikidozan/Blassie so can't make a fair vote.

Midnight/Rock n' Roll rivalry could be a serious sleeper in this tournament.

Sullivan booked Benoit to share hotel rooms with Nancy to sell the angle as not being kayfabe. This of course led to her actually leaving him for Benoit. I like the joke that people throw about that Kevin Sullivan booked his own divorce.

I did not know that. That's epic on several levels.

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Jake the snake vs million dollar man
ultimate warrior vs rick rude

NWO/WCW vs. Chris Jericho/Goldberg

Hulk Hogan/Roddy Piper vs. CM Punk/William Regal

Midnight Express/Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. The Hollywood Blonds/Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglass

Tommy Dreamer/Raven vs. Eric Embry/Devastation Inc.

AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels vs. Jimmy Valiant/Ivan Koloff

Rikidozan/Freddie Blassie vs. Kevin Sullivan/Chris Benoit

Ric Flair/Dusty Rhodes vs. Dynamite Kid/Bad News Allen

Don't forget these 2