Retro Recommended Matches Roundup #2
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It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these. With the WWE Vault consistently dropping previously unavailable footage and Black Terry Jr. reviving his old YouTube channel, I figured it’d be a good idea to do a retro version of the Recommended Matches Roundup once in awhile. Think of it as a sampler to get your feet wet while diving into older wrestling.
- Bull Curry vs. Johnny Valentine (GAC, 6/20/1969)
- Wahoo McDaniel vs. Greg Valentine (MACW, 9/7/1977)
- Bret Hart vs. Buzz Sawyer (GCW, 11/3/1979)
- Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper & The Junkyard Dog vs. Adrian Adonis, King Harley Race & Randy Savage (WWF, 2/23/1987)
- Apolo Estrada vs. Negro Navarro (Unknown Promotion, ??/??/1989)
- The Four Horsemen (Sting, Arn Anderson & Ric Flair) vs. The Great Muta, Buzz Sawyer & The Dragon Master (WCW, 1/26/1990)
- Masanobu Kurisu vs. Takashi Okamura (Kitao Dojo, 6/14/1994)
- Erin O’Grady vs. Vic Grimes (WWF, 1/20/1998)
- Goldberg vs. Diamond Dallas Page (WCW/n.W.o., 10/25/1998)
- The Rock vs. Eddie Guerrero (WWE, 7/22/2002)
- Mariko Yoshida vs. Megumi Fujii (ARSION, 5/24/2003)
- Jun Akiyama vs. Yuji Nagata (NOAH, 7/16/2003)
- Katsuhisa Fujii & Naoya Ogawa vs. Satoshi Kojima & Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW, 7/19/2003)
- Black Terry & Villano III vs. Blue Panther & Shu el Guerrero (Unknown Promotion, ??/??/2004)
- Samoa Joe vs. Jay Briscoe (ROH, 3/13/2004)
- Gran Apache vs. Skayde (DTU, 4/18/2010)
- Kenichiro Arai vs. Kotaro Nasu (STYLE-E, 9/2/2012)
