The Dazz



1. Austin vs Rock at Wrestlemania 17



2. Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuiness at ROH Unified 2006



3. Kenta Kobashi vs Stan Hansen AJPW Summer Action Series 1993



4. Katsuyori Shibata vs Tomohiro Ishii, NJPW G1 Climax 23.



5. Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins 30 minute Ironman match in FCW in 2011



6. TJ Perkins vs Kota Ibushi, Cruiserweight Classic Semi-Final Match



7. Kushida vs Hiromu Takahashi, Jr. Heavyweight Title Match, Dominion 6.11 2017.



8. TAKA Michinoku vs The Great Sasuke, IYH: Canadian Stampede 1997




Oncall



1. Dean Malenko vs Rey Mysterio at Great American Bash 1996



2. John Cena vs AJ Styles: Summerslam 2016



3. Harley Race vs Dusty Rhodes 6/21/1981: An NWA World Title Match



4. Johnny Gargano vs Andrade Cien Almas at NXT Takeover



5. Roman Reigns vs Big Show in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules 2015



6. The Miz vs John Morrison in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the WWE Championship on Raw in 2011



7. Razor Ramon vs The Kid on Monday Night Raw in 1993



8. Victoria vs Trish Stratus in a Hardcore match for the Womens Championship at Survivor Series 2002

Two excellent cards here but I have to go Dazz. His top four are all amazing matches I could watch time and time again. Especially Kobashi vs Hansen. Oncall doesn't even have one match on that caliber (although some are close). He's also chose one of the best NJPW junior heavyweight matches of recent years, and a great Cruiserweight Classic match. That's a card I could thoroughly enjoy start to finish.

So Dazz has the best Austin/Rock match, which is arguably a great way to kick off a draft like this, and then Oncall had the most bizarre (to me) first round pick in Dean/Rey. If only voting was taking place in 1997, Oncall might walk away with this if comparing only first round picks. As it stands, whatever Dean love I used to have has been fading more and more over the years. Nowadays I kinda just consider him to be like a good version of Lance Storm with a lot more street cred.

Anyway...

Both lists are brimming with more modern matches that I haven't seen and that don't sound too appealing on paper. It'll take a lot of discipline and a concerted effort to watch them and also keep an open mind.

From what I do know on each list, Razor/Kid was really more of a moment than a match (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that). I do love Trish/Victoria outright, in large part because of fond real time memories. Trish, Victoria, Molly, Jazz, etc. will always hold a soft spot in my heart and represent ladies wrestling that the NXT generation just won't ever be able to top in my book.

Taka/Sasuke almost took Shelley/Sabin's spot on my list. So there's that. And I love Shibata, and feel like his match can't be bad regardless of whatever unknown is across the ring from him.

Miz/Morrison and Ambrose/Rollins feels like a wash to me.

Right now, my gut feeling is to go with Dazz... But I've got some homework to do, and so that feeling could end up changing.

Dazz killed it with his first pick , and then pretty much fell off a cliff for me.

Oncall did some nice things with his draft even though he had to shoehorn his favorites in there , he did so with inoffensive matches. Hell Morrison vs Miz is even pretty good.

Where he won me over though was Kid vs Razor , one of the best picks in this entire draft considering the options at the time and a match I hold close to my heart.

So yeah Call. I'm as surprised as anyone.

I almost leaned towards Dazz’s card but I was only familiar w/ Austin-Rock and Michinoku-Sasuke.

I really like both but Oncall's second half just isn't as strong as Dazz's so it was close but I had to go for Dazz.

Call 's first pick was a bit of a strange one for me. It isn't even my favourite Rey/Malenko match from that year. I don't like PWG Cena. I can appreciate the idea behind the Race/Dusty pick for getting two big names in a NWA World Title switch but it isn't a well-known or well-regarded (as far as I know) match. Almas/Gargano, despite still having some modern tropes I am not too fond of, is great and Reigns/Show is a match that surpassed expectations but is not a match I'd have been close to drafting at that point with so many better options on the table.

The Dazz just needs his first 3 picks to win this comfortably. Austin/Rock is a total package classic, Danielson/McGuinness one of the best indy matches of the 00s and Hansen/Kobashi is close to the best match drafted in the whole thing.