10 Tantalizing WWE Versus New Japan Dream Matches
What would happen if Japan's best tangled with the United States' finest?
"Fantasy Warfare" -- the debate over how hypothetical matches between wrestlers from opposing promotions would go down -- has been around for decades. While the big question on everybody's mind was once about Hogan versus Flair, as the years passed, it morphed into Bret Hart versus Sting, then Steve Austin versus Bill Goldberg. Even once WCW closed its doors and one major promotion dominated the U.S. scene, fans still wondered how indy darlings who never made the jump -- like A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe -- would do battling the sport's biggest superstars. Today, the two largest wrestling promotions on the planet are World Wrestling Entertainment and New Japan Pro Wrestling. While the companies are located in different countries -- and different hemispheres -- today's technology means that fans all across the globe can watch as much of either organization's product as they wish. With the advent of the New Japan World streaming video service, WWE and NJPW are just a browser click away from each other... and thus, the old questions start to rise up. What would happen in the ultimate contest of the best versus the best? What kind of action could the fans expect? How would it all go down? Here are 10 matches between the two wrestling companies that may never happen, but are guaranteed to get imaginations working overtime...