>>15233187Replace Taker and Mankind with Omega and Okada, keep all the moves and timing, and tell me it's a good match.
That HIAC match was the first match I ever saw, and it still had impact when I saw it again the other week, but it's not a match, it's just extreme risk spot after extreme risk spot.
The primary reason, maybe the only reason it's remembered so well and so fondly, is that these two guys went out there and sacrificed their bodies in this way to this extent, for the first time.
You only lose your holy-shit virginity once and that bout popped millions of people's cherry.
Since then, hundreds of guys tried to imitate and replicate that match, and it's dimeless slop every time other people do it. Same for the SS2000 TLC match btw.
