Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, from NJPW The New Beginning 2012

This is one of the most important wrestling matches of all time, and that's hysterical because you'd never know that by just watching it. They nail the climax, at least, with Tanahashi's limb work and Okada's attempts at ringing Tanahashi's bell coming into play to make for the most iconic puroresu finish since Mitsuharu Misawa outwrestled Jumbo Tsuruta, but they worked a twenty-five minute match like they were going forty-five minutes; they could have easily cut out ten miutes without complaint. I had a lot of fun watching this, but Okada and Tanahashi would blow this out of the water.

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