Best World Championship Wrestling (WCW/JCP) Matches of All Time

Criteria: Simple match had to take place in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions or World Championship Wrestling. Could happen anytime or anywhere just has to be promoted just has to follow the Crockett-Turner lineage.

Categorized by star rating. In chronological order within a star rating.

****** - Maryse



Watched within the past five years. (So if you don't see something obvious like Flair/Steamboat or Flair/Funk it is because I have not watched it recently enough to accurately judge it.)

***** - Wife Material (Greatest Match of All Time Contenders)

1. NWA US Champion Tully Blanchard vs Magnum TA - NWA Starrcade 1985

2.  NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton - GAB 7/11/86 Steel Cage

3. NWA US Tag Team Champions Midnight Express vs Fantastics - Clash of the Champions I

4. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Lex Luger – NWA Starrcade 1988

5. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat - NWA Chi-Town Rumble '89

6. WCW World Heavyweight Champion Sting vs Vader - Great American Bash 1992

7. WCW Cruiserweight Champion Eddy Guerrero vs Rey Misterio Jr. - Halloween Havoc 1997

****3/4 - Perpetual Bridesmaids Make For Great Lays (Almost Perfect)

1. NWA US Champion Greg "The Hammer" Valentine vs "Rowdy" Roddy Piper - NWA Starrcade 1983 Dog Collar

2. NWA World Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs Lex Luger & Barry Windham - NWA Clash of the Champions I

3. Sting vs Vader - Starrcade 1992

4. WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader vs Sting - SuperBrawl III

5. Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat - WCW Saturday Night 5/14/94 Vacant World Championship

6.  Ric Flair vs Randy Savage - WCW Great American Bash 1995


****1/2 - Best Friend Zoned (Match of the Year Contenders)

1. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat - NWA Boogie Jam 3/17/84

2. NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Ronnie Garvin - WCW 12/28/85

3. Western States Heritage Champion Barry Windham vs Tully Blanchard - NWA World Championship Wrestling 1/23/88

4. NWA US Tag Team Champions Midnight Express vs Fantastics - NWA Worldwide 5/14/88

5. WCW US Tag Team Champions Steiner Brothers vs Nasty Boys - NWA Halloween Havoc '90

6. Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Larry Zbyszko, Sid Vicious) vs Sting's Squadron (Sting, Brian Pillman & Steiner Brothers) - Wrestlewar 1991 WARGAMES

6. WCW World Tag Team Champions The Enforcers vs Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat - Clash XVII

7.  WCW Light Heavyweight Champion Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs Brian Pillman - WCW SuperBrawl II

8. WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader vs Ric Flair - WCW Starrcade 1993

9. WCW World Tag Champions Nasty Boys vs Cactus Jack & Maxx Payne - Spring Stampede 94

10. Dustin Rhodes vs Bunkhouse Buck - WCW Spring Stampede 1994 Bunkhouse Match

11.  Dusty & Dustin Rhodes & Nasty Boys vs Stud Stable (Terry Funk, Arn Anderson, Bunkhouse Buck & Col. Robert Parker) - WCW Fall Brawl 1994 WARGAMES

12. WCW World Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko vs Rey Misterio Jr. - Great American BASH 1996

13. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Psychosis - WCW Bash At The Beach 1996

14. WCW US Champion Diamond Dallas Page vs Chris Benoit - WCW SuperBrawl VIII

15. Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko vs Eddy Guerrero & Chris Jericho - Brian Hiildebrand Tribute
(So technically not promoted by WCW, but featured all-WCW talent).

16. WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page vs Sting - WCW Nitro 4/26/99

17. Bret Hart vs Chris Benoit - WCW Nitro 10/99 Owen Hart Tribute Match