10 Best Return Matches In Wrestling History

3. Ricky Steamboat/Eddie Gilbert vs. Ric Flair/Barry Windham - National Wrestling Alliance - 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVuIgJ9AHMQ For as much as Ricky Steamboat is known for his great match with Randy Savage at Wrestlemania III and being one of WWE's most beloved babyfaces, he may be just as renowned for his series of matches as a single and in a tag-team pairing throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s with fellow AWA trainee Ric Flair. Thus, after disappearing from the WWF after Wrestlemania IV, Steamboat's re-appearance on the scene in the NWA in January 1989 was certainly shocking. Announced as a suprise partner for Eddie Gilbert in his main event matchup with Ric Flair and Barry Windham, the most intriguing thing about the match is just how seamlessly Flair and Steamboat's chemistry returns, and after four years of separation from Flair, Steamboat rejoins the NWA and feels as if he never left. Of course, for the fans it's an immediate shot in the arm as Steamboat had become a bona-fide wrestling superstar in the WWF, and in returning to the NWA was certainly a high-profile competitor that had made the jump in the not-so-typical WWF-to-NWA direction.