I’m currently on that timeline and there’s a couple great ones:
vs Jeff Hardy, ladder match for the title on Raw
three-way vs Angle and The Rock at Judgement Day
Hell in a Cell vs Lesnar at No Mercy 2002
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The Triple H trilogy too, I guess…
Yeah his Edge feud in 2008/09 was great
Original Hell in a Cell vs Shawn Michaels at Badd Blood 1997 is obviously his best match
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the hell in the cell at WM28 is the only really good one against HHH
Yeah 2002 was an anomaly year imho
By 2003 he’s crap again
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Been a while since I’ve watched any of them but, from memory, I’d have the HIAC match in 2nd place. Preferred their match the previous year.
pretty much yeah.
His Mania match vs CM Punk is also one of my favourite matches ever
Also really enjoy Final Four 1997 but c’mon, any match with him, Austin, Vader and Bret is going to amazing
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Ah man that’s easily the worst of the three for me, think it’s really dull
Oh he also has a great match with Rob Van Dam at the end of 2001 which I think counts in this period as he was transitioning into Big Evil here
The hardcore match? That were really good yea
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only really rate the first of those trips matches. good shout with batista though, think that mania match is super underrated. they had a couple more good ones after that too iirc
other than that, the 4 way with bret, austin and vader; punk at mania; and that’s about it I guess. had an alright match with bret at summerslam that would’ve / could’ve been a lot better if it wasn’t overloaded with stupid stipulations
lads, was Batista any good? I stopped watching around the time he was at the top of the business because I found him, JBL and Orton really boring.
I still find Orton and JBL boring. Does Dave deserve a chance?
Didn’t find him particularly interesting, decent in the ring, had some good matches.
I tought all the big hitters from that era were stupendously bland
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it took him a while, but he got decent eventually. the taker stuff mentioned above is really good
think it’s because they all learnt how to main event from the worst version of triple h
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God we got it pretty good these days dont we, we should probally enjoy wrestling more than we do?
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He’s like most very experienced really big fellas, put him in with great workers and you’ll get a great match. Expecting him to carry a match against guys like Albert or Giant Gonzalez and… hm.
prefer him as an actor tbh but I missed that era so idk
no HIAC Mankind?