10 Best Wrestling Matches That Went Over 45 Minutes

Expectation must've been weighing heavily on the shoulders of Messrs Okada and Omega as they headed into the second of their now-legendary trilogy at June's Dominion in Osaka-jo Hall.

And yet it, in the eyes of most fans, it outstripped the original (putting it, along with T2, Aliens and The Godfather II, in an elite group of sequels that defied cinematic convention).

Mainly, this was because of the extra 10 minutes tacked onto its end - the bout went to an hour-long time limit draw, as opposed to the original's 47 - and the fact that they brought out new (but equally crazy) spots we hadn't seen the first time round.

Take, for example, Okada's apron Attitude Adjustment, or the Rainmaker's suicidal table jump to the outside, getting air time that brought an audible gasp from the usually hard-to-impress NJPW crowd.

In the end, he wasn't able to put Omega away, desperately crawling into a doomed pin attempt at the death, as the 60-minute mark brought things to a thrilling conclusion (and one that still somehow seemed to come a few minutes too soon).