Author: Liam Byrne

25 years ago today, WWE took a bold risk putting their top babyface in a position to be booed.

Carve out thirty minutes of your time thirty years after the fact and enjoy the epic that is Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat from Beach Blast 1992.

Two watershed moments in Japanese wrestling history—Inoki vs. Saito & Tsuruta vs. Misawa—unified by the power of a finish.

Should this whole retirement, the ceremony and the match, be looked down upon due to Terry Funk’s eventual return in just over a year?

Six men who knew exactly what their role was alongside a molten hot crowd week in, week out led to viscerally exciting television even by today’s standards.