10 5-Star Matches you absolutely need to know about

#4 Manami Toyota vs. Kyoko Inoue – May 7, 1995

I have watched many women’s matches and was one of the many that loved it when the Four Horsewomen were tearing it up in NXT in 2014 and 2015. But as good as those women were/are, they aren’t anywhere near the same level as the joshis that took part in this jaw-dropping match.

THIS is what women’s wrestling should look like: women putting on the same kind of exhausting, high-risk, insane wrestling that’s typically reserved for their male counterparts. But that’s exactly what the legendary Kyoko Inoue and Manami Toyota did in this hour-long bout for the WWWA Championship.

Yes, that’s right; two women wrestled for one full hour, and there was nonstop action throughout the entire thing.

The things these two women did to each other were unbelievable. They executed Piledrivers on the unprotected floor outside the ring.

They did a German Suplex off the top rope. They executed more finishers than ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin & The Rock did at WrestleMania X-Seven. It was brutal, it was exciting, and the crowd sounded like they were transported straight from an NXT TakeOver event.

So for those of you out there that hope that women’s wrestling can be truly taken seriously, that won’t happen in WWE until we see something like this in Vince’s promotion.