#2 Yes, Steamboat versus Savage is as good as you have been told
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I have a sad confession to make: I had never seen Steamboat vs. Savage from WrestleMania 3 before this review. You can take my wrestling card if you want but I had certainly heard of the match as being influential to many wrestlers going forward.
How could this supposed classic live up to the hype? Easily. It was one of the most influential matches in pro wrestling history and one that set up the way wrestling matches would look like for decades to come.
It seems to sum up what the best matches are all about. It had an extremely fast pace for a 15-minute match. It has about twenty near falls in an era of very few. The match looked aggressive and never had a dull moment.
When Steamboat won the IC Title, the crowd was about the loudest it would be the entire night. When you learn that Savage had planned out the entire match in advance, it is simply an amazing script brought to perfection.
The only thing that made me sad was these two didn’t get a rematch at WrestleMania IV or really ever again. It was special 30 years later and worthy of the hype.
