Haystacks v Kendo Nagasaki i remember going 2 portsmouth Guildhall and watching some good matches with them if only wrestling was like it was in the good old days.

Of course, most of us can only speak _base_d on what we've seen in our lifetimes. There are all manner of great world lightweight _title_ defences by George Kidd, British heavyweight _title_ matches featuring Bert Assirati, Ernie Baldwin, Billy Joyce, Arthur Belshaw etc, welterweight matches with Tommy "Jack Dempsey" Moore, world mid-heavyweight _title_ defences by the late great Mike Marino etc that are way before all our times.

But _base_d on what I remember as a kid and what I've had the chance to see again on video:

King Ben vs. Kid Mc Coy, father vs son in a clean match tournament final circa '86

Marty Jones vs Dave Fit Finlay - Finlay wins the World Mid-Heavyweight _title_.

Marty vs. a French opponent who wrestled cleanly but got heel heat for no good reason. A corker despite the embarrasingly partisan crowd.

the inevitable classic bout from 1987 between Johnny Saint and Robbie Brookside - a bout now LEGENDARY on the tape-trading circuit

another lesser known bout featuring Saint vs. Danny Boy Collins caught on camcorder somewhere in the West Country in the early '90s

a vaguely remembered tag bout - the Royals vs McManus & Logan one winter in the late '70s - I was ill at the time and I rose from my sickbed to watch it. (Aaah!!!)

the Jim Breaks vs Danny Collins series from 1984

the Rocco vs Fuji Yamada series from '87

the Saint vs Grey series from '80

Kendo Nagasaki vs Rex Strong from 1978 - despite the silly hypnosis ending it's a good solid match, for a few minutes a real throwback to '50s _style_ "They could move like lightweights!" heavyweight wrestling.

Kendo's _title_ win over Wayne Bridges - a real epic.

seeing Sammy Lee (Satoru "Tiger Mask #1" Sayama) for the first time demolishing Blackjack Mulligan (sadly a tribute man, not Bob Windham ). I missed Sammy Lee's first TV match but my grandad came round for tea that evening afterwards and told me "Sammy Lee!!! Woaah!! He's FANTASTIC!!! " A few weeks later I saw Sammy in this match and had to agree.

not that I'm a fan of gimmick matches but Kendo Nagasaki vs Rollerball Rocco in a ladder match at Croydon in July 1990 in which Messrs. Thornley and Hussey Jnr got to enact all their hardcore fantasies - Kendo's first fight in Croydon for two years after he got banned for kicking the crap out of a member of the venue staff who tried to intervene in the infamous "Booking Hall Brawl" two years earlier.

I'll be honest I haven't seen any british match that I would class as "good"... but I've seen very little. The "best", recently, may be Jody vs. Doug at Revival but that was barely "decent" never mind anything else... I need to ger more.