Wrestling: Chris Jericho earns first 5-Star Match after nearly 30 years in the business

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Jumpin said:

KBG29 said:
Just finished watching. It was a good match, even with me not knowing Kenny Omega going into it. Might have had a bigger impact on me if I had more context.

I would give it a 4/5 on todays WWE scale, but compaired to the Attitude Era its just a bit run of the mill.

My favorite Jericho match is still the Sone Cold & HHH vs Jericho & Benoit on Raw when HHH tore his quad. Only about 18 minutes long, but it was non stop action.

I think the best match of all time is Kurt Angle vs Shane McMahon at King of the Ring 2001.

I'm watching the Attitude era right now, and the matches are kind of shitty, to be honest. They are definitely NOT the main attraction of the show. It's the soap-opera stuff revolving around the McMahon family.

In fact, the RAW/Smackdown crowds seem to genuinely hate it when matches go beyond the 4-minute mark without any interruptions with story development stuff. In the last show I watched, Kurt Angle actually got a "boring" chant when his match ran a little long, and he's pretty much the best wrestler on the show right now (it's between him, Jericho, E&C, and the Hardys - the Rock has the flashiest/most entertaining style, but not as skillful as these guys).

Also, the main event slot for the last bit has been story segments for the most part; not matches.

I started watching every WWF/WWE PPV in order starting from 1996 - 2008 when WWE Network launched. For my taste the best matches happened between 1997 - 2004. I only have a small sample from before 1996, and I have watched every WWE PPV since 2009 Wrestlemania.

I typically don't watch a lot of matches from RAW and Smackdown, and I havn't went back to watch the archived shows at all. RAW and Smackdown are shows, PPVs are where the talent showcase their in ring talent. Every now and then you will get a great match on RAW or Smackdown though.

Maybe we just have diferent taste though.