The Iron Man Match at Wrestlemania XII

I didn't mind it; I think the story they were trying to tell was that these two were so evenly matched, so them both taking a few falls during the match would have hurt that story in a way. Maybe if they let each one take a fall, and it was tied 1-1 at the end, with everything else staying the same, maybe that could have helped with some of the slower parts of the match. They also could have just signed this as a regular match, one fall to a finish, then let it go the hour, maybe this would help people not compare it to other Iron-man matches that had more falls. Though, I think that would have hurt the build-up to the match. They were trying to make this something special, and at the time, no one went an hour in a WWF match (at least not on TV), and they never talked about house show matches going that long, so that was something special. Other than Steamboat/Flair from 1989, I don't think anyone went a full hour in a match on TV, so it was something unique at the time.

i hated it too

def wish it went 3-4 falls each til the end or just a 30 minute iron man match if they were gonna do no falls til the end.

as Ive said here many times I think its a total snoozer. A straight up match between the two with a lot of near falls would have been way better. let them run at it hard for 30-35 minutes.

All the rest holds were a complete waste of HBKs bumping style & Bret's crisp offence....IMHO.

I hate the Iron Man gimmick to start with. As for the match, it's pretty inoffensive to somewhat boring at times. Not having a fall until the OT did it no favors.

I remember the weeks leading up to this my friends and I were all trying to guess how many decisions the match would be and not one of us has 0! The problem here was all ego, Shawn Michaels needed to take the first fall, but there was no way in hell he was ever going to do that.

As others have said, should have been just a regular match and I have no doubt the two would have torn the house down.

It's a 25-30 match stretched out for over an hour.

I don't necessarily hate it. But Bret and Shawn's ego hurt this match.

I enjoyed it except for the end. It never made sense to me, because if it was real Bret sign up for an hour match. He fulfilled his obligation. There’s no way he should have been forced to go into “sudden death” so that ending never made sense.

I've said this before, but when I was a kid I had a friend who was so mad over this. He was adamant that Bret should have been allowed to put Shawn back in the sharpshooter when overtime started.

A 40 min match with a faster pace & a few high spots would have made this match the greatest of all time...throw in a few near falls as well