The Summerslam match between Mr. Perfect and Shawn Michaels, while good, is frequently cited as a "should've been better than it was" match because of the people involved. Are there other matches that you think fit this bill?
Conversely, are there matches that have shocked you by being better than you thought it would be because of the people involved? Cena/Umaga and Cena/Khali seem to pop up frequently here.
Thanks
Oh yeah, there’s definitely lots of matches that were built up beforehand in people’s minds as being classics and then didn’t deliver. Some off the top of my head…
- Eddie Guerrero v. Rey Mysterio at WM, where they were basically trying to follow their own Halloween Havoc classic and just psyched themselves out.
- Rick Steiner v. Mike Rotundo from Starrcade 88, which was built up for months with one of the best sympathetic babyface storylines ever, but just couldn’t deliver to the full potential in the ring. Again, it was good and had an awesome finish, but wasn’t able to achieve that classic status it should have had.
- Sting v. Ric Flair at Great American Bash 90. Flair in 1990 was pretty pathetic by his own standards, and in the match that had been built up for months and was supposed to be the grand passing of the torch, they just couldn’t pull off a great match. And Sting was 100 times the worker that he was in 1988 when Flair got a near-***** match out of him at the first Clash, which is why it’s all the more perplexing. I don’t know if it was booking or Sting’s injury or Flair just being off that night, but it always stands out to me as the one that should have been an easy **** classic and yet it got shown up by a midcard Midnights v. Southern Boys match.
Loading ...
