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0 Subject: "The John Report" - Top 50 Matches from 2000-2004

Posted by: Species
- Leader [07724916] Fri, May 06, 2005, 19:31

List of top 5 Matches of the Millenia

Interesting reading. But I liked these snippets below -- kind of affirms a prevailing opinion in this forum about who the best workers/wrestlers are ("Wrestlers Appearances in top 50"). Too bad WWE spends so much time with crappy gimmicks and shallow storylines.

The Top 50 Master List
Here's the final full list in descending order:
50. SSlam 01 - RVD over Jeff Hardy (Hardcore Ladder) - ***3/4
49. SSlam 04 - Orton over Benoit (World Title) - ***3/4
48. SSlam 02 - Angle over Mysterio - ***3/4
47. Backlash 00 - Malenko over Scotty 2 Hotty (WWE Light Heavy Title) - ***3/4
46. No Mercy 02 - Lesnar over Undertaker (WWE Title - HIAC) - ***3/4
45. Survivor Series 03 - Team Austin (Shawn Michaels, Booker T., Rob Van Dam, Dudley Boys) vs. Team Bischoff (Chris Jericho, Christian, Mark Henry, Scott Steiner, Randy Orton) - ***3/4
44. Armageddon 02 - Benoit over Guerrero - ***3/4
43. Vengeance 04 - Benoit over HHH (World Title) - ****
42. Survivor Series 01 - Team WWE (Rock, Taker, Jericho, Big Show, Kane) over Team Alliance (Austin, Angle, Booker, RVD, Shane) - ****
41. WM 04 - Guerrero over Angle (WWE Title) - ****
40. KOTR 01 - Angle over Shane (Street Fight) - ****
39. Rumble 02 - Jericho over Rock (Undisputed World Title) - ****
38. Backlash 00 - Benoit over Jericho via DQ (IC Title) - ****
37. Backlash 02 - Angle over Edge - ****1/4
36. Backlash 00 - Rock over HHH (World Title) - ****1/4
35. Survivor Series 02 - Michaels over HHH, RVD, Kane, Jericho & Booker (World Title - Elim Chamber) - ****1/4
34. GAB 04 - Mysterio over Chavo (Cruiser Title) - ****1/4
33. No Mercy 00 - Angle over Rock (World Title) - ****1/4
32. No Mercy 00 - HHH over Benoit - ****1/4
31. Vengeance 02 - Rock over Undertaker, Angle (Undisputed World Title) - ****1/4
30. SSlam 00 - Benoit over Jericho (2/3 Falls) - ****1/4
29. WM 01 - Angle over Benoit - ****1/4
28. NWO 00 - HHH over Cactus (HIAC World Title) - ****1/4
27. Unforgiven 02 - Benoit over Angle - ****1/4
26. Vengeance 03 - Angle over Show, Lesnar (WWE Title) - ****1/4
25. WM 00 - E&C over Hardys & Dudleys (Tag Title Tables & Ladders Match) - ****1/4
24. Fully Loaded 00 - Rock over Benoit (World Title) - ****1/4
23. Backlash 04 - Orton over Cactus Jack - ****1/4
22. SSlam 03 - Angle over Lesnar (WWE Title) - ****1/4
21. NWO 01 - Rock over Angle (World Title) - ****1/2
20. JDay 00 - Benoit over Jericho (IC Submission) - ****1/2
19. Summerslam 00 - E&C over Dudleys, Hardys (TLC Tag Titles) - ****1/2
18. Fully Loaded 00 - HHH over Jericho (Last Man Standing) - ****1/2
17. No Mercy 01 - Jericho over Rock (WCW Title) - ****1/2
16. Backlash 04 - Benoit over Michaels & HHH (World Title) - ****1/2
15. SSlam 02 - Michaels over HHH (Street Fight) - ****1/2
14. WM 03 - Michaels over Jericho - ****1/2
13. WM 03 - Lesnar over Angle (WWE Title) - ****1/2
12. Rumble 01 - Jericho over Benoit (IC title ladder match) - ****1/2
11. Bad Blood 04 - HHH over Michaels (HIAC) - ****1/2
10. NWO 04 - Guerrero over Lesnar (WWE Title) - ****3/4
9. WM 01 - E&C over Dudleys & Hardys (TLC Tag titles) - ****3/4
8. JDay 00 - HHH over Rock (World Title - Ironman) - ****3/4
7. SSlam 01 - Angle over Austin via DQ (WWE Title) - ****3/4
6. No Mercy 02 - Angle & Benoit over Edge & Mysterio (WWE Tag Titles) - *****
5. WM 04 - Benoit over HHH & Michaels (World Title) - *****
4. Rumble 03 - Angle over Benoit (WWE Title) - *****
3. NWO 01 - HHH over Austin (3 Stages of Hell) - *****
2. Rumble 00 - HHH over Cactus (World Title street fight) - *****
1. WM 01 - Austin over Rock (World Title) - *****

The Wrestler Appearances in the Top 50
First you'll see the number of appearances, then you'll see the wrestler's name and the match numbers that the person is in will be inside the brackets. I want to thank my buddy Cash for helping me with this part. Here's that list.

1. 16 Matches - Kurt Angle (4, 6, 7, 13, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 40, 41, 42, 48)
2. 15 - Chris Benoit (4, 5, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24, 27, 29, 30, 32, 38, 43, 44, 49)
3. 13 - Triple H (2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 15, 16, 18, 28, 32, 35, 36, 43)
4. 11 - Chris Jericho (12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 30, 35, 38, 39, 42, 45)
5. 10 - The Rock (1, 8, 17, 21, 24, 31, 33, 36, 39, 42)
6. 7 - Shawn Michaels (5, 11, 14, 15, 16, 35, 45)
7. (tie) 5 - Brock Lesnar (10, 13, 22, 26, 46) and Edge (6, 9, 19, 25, 37)
9. (tie) 4 - Steve Austin (1, 3, 7, 42), Christian (9, 19, 25, 45), Bubba Ray Dudley (9, 19, 25, 45), D-Von Dudley (9, 19, 25, 45), Jeff Hardy (9, 19, 25, 50)
14. (tie) 3 - Booker T. (35, 42, 45), Cactus Jack (2, 23, 28), Eddie Guerrero (10, 41, 44), Matt Hardy (9, 19, 25), Randy Orton (23, 45, 49), Rey Mysterio (6, 34, 48), Rob Van Dam (35, 42, 50), Undertaker (31, 42, 46)
22. (tie) 2 - Big Show (26, 42), Kane (35, 42), Shane McMahon (40, 42)
25. (tie) 1 - Chavo Guerrero (34), Scott Steiner (45), Mark Henry (45), Dean Malenko (47), Scotty 2 Hotty (47)

Notes: - The race for the top was a close one, but Angle just edged out Benoit. Each man has missed significant ring time, although each of them were active for about 75% of the time that this list was based on.
- Triple H has the most top ten appearances with four and the most top twenty appearances with eight. Even though he doesn't have the most appearances, that certainly makes him a candidate for being the best "big match" wrestler.
- While Angle and HHH are two of the top three, none of their singles matches made the list. All of them were close. I just didn't feel they were good enough. Their triple threat at Summerslam 2000 and six way match at Armageddon also were really close.
- Christian, D-Von, and Bubba all have the same matches in the top fifty. They're the three tag title matches as well as the tradition Survivor Series tag match from 2003.
- Angle and Benoit have four matches on here that they are involved in together with one of them being a tag team match when they were on the same team.
- Mick Foley has had five PPV matches since 2000, three of them made it and all of his singles efforts are on here. That's pretty good.
- There's only one traditional tag team match in this list, and it's the one involving Benoit/Angle vs. Edge/Mysterio
- There are four singles matches between Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit in the list. Three of them were for the Intercontinental Title, all of which were the only IC title matches on the list.
- There are no Rock matches on the list from the past two years, showing just how good he was in the first three years of this time period.
- Shawn Michaels didn't even wrestle for the first two and a half years that this list is based on, yet he still managed to land in sixth place.
- Mark Henry wins the award as the worst wrestler on the list.
- There were 29 different people that appeared in this list.

The Years Represented in the Top 50
1. 2000 - 14 matches (#2, 8, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 47)
2. 2001 - 11 matches (#1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 17, 21, 29, 40, 42, 50)
3. 2002 - 10 matches (#6, 15, 27, 31, 35, 37, 39, 44, 46, 48)
4. 2004 - 9 matches (#5, 10, 11, 16, 23, 34, 41, 43, 49)
5. 2003 - 6 matches (#4, 13, 14, 22, 26, 45)

Notes: - The year 2000 ran away with this one. It was a year full of matches in the four star range.
- Despite 2001 finishing in second, it placed four matches in the top ten.
- Of the six matches from 2003, four of them feature Kurt Angle. The other two are from the Raw brand.

PPVs Represented in the Top 50
I'm not going to list the matches this time. I'm just going to list the PPVs and note how many times a match from that PPV appeared.

1. 8 Appearances - WrestleMania, Summerslam
3. 6 - Backlash
4 (tie). 5 - No Mercy, July PPVs (Fully Loaded, Vengeance)
6. (tie). 4 - Royal Rumble, No Way Out
8. 3 - Survivor Series, June PPVs (Bad Blood, King of the Ring, Great American Bash)
10. 2 - Judgment Day
11 (tie). 1 - Unforgiven, Armageddon

Notes: - I'm not shocked by WrestleMania and Summerslam being at the top. They have perennially been the best PPVs on a regular basis.
- Backlash being third isn't surprising because it's usually a card that follows up WrestleMania, so the quality tends to be there too.
- I am shocked that the Royal Rumble tied for fifth. Looking back, I notice a lot of Royal Rumble matches as ones that came really close to making the list.

While there are many PPVs with just one match on the list and eleven PPVs with two matches on the list, there are only two PPVs with three matches on the list. They are WrestleMania X7 in 2001 (1, 9, 29) and Backlash 2000 (36, 38, 47).
1New ROHfan
      ID: 2441227
      Sat, Jun 04, 2005, 20:38
its great to see that top match is held by the two laziest workers in wrestling
2Great One
      ID: 1049299
      Sun, Jun 05, 2005, 08:13
I loved that HHH vs. Cactus match at the Rumble ranked #2.. I went out and bought that DVD - one of the few PPV DVD's I own that aren't Wrestlemania or TNA (the best of the X Division baby!)...
3blue hen
      ID: 34342811
      Mon, Jun 06, 2005, 13:52
Wow, Mark Henry even made the list. Nice. Guess he just had talented teammates.

I think Lesnar/Angle from WM03 tops my list. The whole time people were on edge about Angle's injury and then we get the real-life scare of the botched Shooting Star Press. Given those two factors, the talent of the two involved, and the setting in which it took place, it's probably the best match I've ever seen. And since it now looks like Brock will never wrestle again, this was his defining moment.

Austin/Rock at WM01 and TLC at WM01 are also among my top matches, along with Hogan/Rock at WM02.

One match that probably isn't in my top 20 but I'd probably put in my top 50 is Lita vs. Trish on Raw a while back. It's easily the greatest (and longest) women's match of all time, and it was amazing to see two women generally seen as "eye candy" perform at such a high level.
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