1994 Women’s Championship Match Makes WWE.com List Of Greatest SS Matches
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Subject: 1994 Women’s Championship Match Makes WWE.com List Of Greatest SS Matches Sat 03 Aug 2013, 7:43 pm
WWE.com has compiled a list of the 25 “greatest matches in SummerSlam history”, and only one women’s match made the grade.
Coming in at number 22, the Women’s Championship match between Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano was noted for stealing the spotlight at the 1994 edition of SummerSlam.
The site explains the choice in detail:
During 1994’s SummerSlam, nobody expected a Women’s Championship Match to essentially steal the spotlight. But on a hot night from the United Center, that’s exactly what then-Women’s Champion Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano did.
Nakano, with her hard-hitting style, will always go down in history as one of the most famous women’s wrestlers to step out of Japan, etched out with the names of Manami Toyota, Lioness Asuka and Aja Kong. Nakano was an innovator, a dynamic and multifaceted ring technician with the ability to make her opponents tap with a submission, or get the three-count with a moonsault off the top rope.
Alundra Blayze may not have had the technical prowess of Nakano, but what she may have lacked in strength and size compared to the Japanese lady wrestler, she more than made up for with heart. And that was her appeal to WWE fans across the world — the girl next door had a dream to step inside the ring and wear championship gold – and keep it around her waist — at SummerSlam 1994.
It seemed as though Nakano had Blayze’s number from the starting bell, overpowering the Women’s Champion as the sold-out arena chanted “USA! USA! USA!” Nakano handed everything to Blayze she could, but the Women’s Champion just kept fighting back. A devastating drop to the canvas, and the crowd sensed that Blayze’s time might be over. But the Women’s Champion’s sheer will to succeed came through, hitting the brawling Bull Nakano with the German suplex for the three-count.
A good match isn’t always about the finishing move, sometimes it’s about what two opponents are able to get out of each other. And Blayze and Nakano did just that — bringing out one of the top 25 matches to ever occur at SummerSlam, and one of the greatest women’s matches of all time.
You can read the full list on WWE.com: http://www.wwe.com/classics/25-greatest-wwe-summerslam-matches-of-all-time/
Watch the full Blayze/Nakano match below:
Spoiler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jexq1O08oTI
Do you agree with the list? Which women’s match did they miss?
1994 Women’s Championship Match Makes WWE.com List Of Greatest SS Matches
