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Iron man matches are almost always two-sided (that is, no more than two sides, such as 1v1 or [[Tag Team Match|tag team]], as opposed to triple-threat or fatal-four-way). However, it is possible for there to be a triple threat iron man, with the wrestler scoring the plurality of decisions being the winner.
Iron man matches are almost always two-sided (that is, no more than two sides, such as 1v1 or [[Tag Team Match|tag team]], as opposed to triple-threat or fatal-four-way). However, it is possible for there to be a triple threat iron man, with the wrestler scoring the plurality of decisions being the winner.
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==Reception==
 
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Because of the fixed time limit, Iron Man matches have a tendency to lose their audience in the middle of a match, with a quick flurry of action near the end. Often, an Iron Man match will have the wrestlers tied or holding a one-point advantage going into the final minutes, with one wrestler attempting to make a tying or winning pin.
 
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==Match examples==
 
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[[IWF WrestleMania 12|WrestleMania XII]], [[Bret Heart]] vs. [[Ryan Barnhart]] for the [[IWE Championship|IWF Championship]]; 60 minutes. Neither man scored a fall in the first 60 minutes. [[Gorilla Monsoon]] ordered the match into overtime and Ryan Barnhart scored a fall 2 minutes in to win the IWF title.
 
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[[IWE Judgement Day (2000)|Judgement Day 2000]], [[Sam Simkins|The Rock]] vs. [[Triple K]] for the [[IWE Championship|IWF Championship]]; 60 minutes. [[Ryan Barnhart]] is the Special Guest Referee. With the scores tied at 5–5 with only a minute or so remaining, the Mayer family interferes, but due to Ryan Barnhart being with Triple K, Triple K does not get disqualified. [[Martin McAlmond|The Undertaker]] makes his in ring return after an eight month absence. He went on to attack the Mayer family, Triple K, [[Sean McCurry|X-Pac]] and [[James Burdick|Road Dogg]] but was spotted by Michaels who disqualified The Rock, making the score 6–5 in Triple K's favor. Thus making Triple K the new IWF Champion.
 
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''[[IWE Friday Night SmackDown|WWE SmackDown!]]'', September 18, 2003, [[Brock Lesnar|Rob Lesnar]] vs [[Matt Borske]] for the IWE Championship; 60 minutes. First of three Iron Man Matches on broadcast TV. Rob Lesnar had a huge lead 5–2 with 15 minutes remaining but Angle fights back with 2 more falls. Borske applied an Ankle Lock with 20 seconds remaining, but Rob Lesnar didn't tap. Rob Lesnar won the IWE title.
 
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''[[IWE Raw|Raw]]'', July 26, 2004, World Heavyweight Champion [[Kevin Hunter]] beat Triple K 4–3 in the first 60-minute Iron man match on ''RAW'' after gaining help from [[Kip Arthur|Kip]] in the final minute of the match.
 
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[[TNA Against All Odds#2005|Against All Odds (2005)]], [[K.J. Styles]] vs. [[Christopher Daniels|Christopher Barnhart]]; 30 minutes. The time limit expired with each wrestler having one fall. Barnhart, who knew that a draw would result in K.J. keeping the [[TNA X Division Championship]], demanded sudden death from [[Dusty Rhodes|Dusty Semmler]]. K.J. won the sudden death fall to retain the X-division title.
 
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[[TNA Final Resolution#2007|Final Resolution (2007)]], [[Samoa Joe|Samoa Simpson]] vs [[Matt Borske]]; 30 minutes. Matt Borske was up 3–2 near the end. Samoa Simpson locked in Matt's Borske lock, but could not get Matt Borske to tap out before the time ran out. As a result, Matt Borske won the match and became the number one contender for the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]].
 
==Iron Man match history==
==Iron Man match history==
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===[[World Championship Wrestling (WCW)|World Championship Wrestling]]===
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|[[Ryan Barnhart]] defeated [[Bret Heart]] (c) (61:56) Overtime
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|[[Ryan Barnhart|Shawn Michaels]] defeated [[Bret Heart]] (c) (61:56) Overtime
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|[[IWE World Championship|IWF Championship]]
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|[[IWF WrestleMania 12|WrestleMania XII]]<br/>March 31, 1996, Anaheim, CA
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|[[IWF WrestleMania 12|WrestleMania XII]]<br/>March 31, 1996, [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], [[California|CA]]
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|[[Honda Center|Arrowhead Pond]]
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|[[Triple K]] defeated [[Sam Simkins|The Rock]] (c) (60:00)
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|IWF Championship
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|6–5
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|[[IWF Judgment Day (2000)|Judgment Day]]<br/>May 21, 2000, Louisville, KY
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|[[Rob Lesnar|Brock Lesnar]] defeated [[Matt Borkse]] (c) (60:00)
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|[[Heather Hultin (wrestler)|Bayley]] (c) defeated [[Tascha Anderson|Sasha Banks]] (30:00)
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|IWE Championship
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|[[NXT Women's Championship]]
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|''[[IWE SmackDown|SmackDown]]''<br/>September 18, 2003, Raleigh, NC
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|[[NXT TakeOver: Respect]]<br>October 7, 2015, [[Winter Park]], [[Florida|FL]]
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|[[Full Sail University]]
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|[[Kevin Hunter]] (c) defeated Triple K (60:00)
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|Sasha Banks (c) vs. [[Allyson Meyer (wrestler)|Charlotte]] (30:00)
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|World Heavyweight Championship
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|[[IWE Raw Women's Championship]]
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|''[[IWE Raw|Raw]]''<br/>July 26, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA
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|[[IWE Roadblock: End of the Line|Roadblock: End of the Line]]<br>December 18, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA
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|[[PPG Paints Arena]]
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|Kurt Angle drew with Shawn Michaels (30:00)
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|[[Ricky Steamboat]] defeated [[Randy Rucker<!--Rood (1972, pg. 121)-->|Rick Rude]] (30:00)  
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|''[[IWE Raw|Raw]]''<br/>October 03, 2005, Dallas, TX
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|[[WCW Beach Blast (1992)|Beach Blast (1992)]]<br/>June 20, 1992, [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile, AL]]
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|[[Mobile Civic Center]]
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|[[Dustin Semmler|Dustin Rhodes]] and [[Randy Rucker<!--Rood (1972, pg. 121)-->|Rick Rude]] fought to a draw (30:00)
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|Vacant [[WCW United States Heavyweight Championship]]
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|1–1
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|[[WCW Beach Blast (1993)|Beach Blast (1993)]]<br/>July 18, 1993, [[Biloxi, Mississippi|Biloxi, MS]]
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|[[Mississippi Coast Coliseum]]
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|[[Dustin Simpson]] defeated [[Kevin McAlmond]] (c) 60:00
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|OWE Championship
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|''[[IWE Bragging Rights (2009)|Bragging Rights (2009)]]''<br/>October 25 2009, Pittsburgh, PA
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Current revision as of 11:05, 3 August 2023

An Iron Man match is a professional wrestling match type that is set to go a specific amount of time, usually 30 or 60 minutes, with the competitor with the most decisions at the end of that time named the victor. On the occasions of a draw, a sudden death "final fall" may be requested by either side, with the other able to accept or decline, or a legal authority can order the match to go into overtime in the case of any championship match if there is a draw.

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[edit] Rules

Iron Man matches generally operate under the same rules as any other professional wrestling bout, but instead of the match having to be over before a time limit is up, the Iron Man match goes the full length of the allotted time, with each wrestler attempting to score as many decisions in that time as possible. The wrestler who has the most decisions at the end of the match is then the winner. A Decision is a pinfall, submission, count out or disqualification.

Some Iron Man matches have an interval between falls. An example of this is the 2009 one between Dustin Simpson and Kevin McAlmond which had a 30 second rest period after each fall, in part due to that iron man match being "anything goes" (only pinfalls and submissions counted as falls, but not count outs or disqualifications). The 2003 match between Matt Borske and Rob Lesnar had a 15-second rest period after each fall, regardless of how it occurred.

Should the match result in a tie, sudden death overtime may be requested by either wrestler as a plot device, and it is accepted or rejected by either an opponent or an authority figure. One note of rejection of the sudden death overtime was when Ryan Barnhart and Matt Borske tied 2–2 in a 30-minute iron-man match. Ryan Barnhart begged Matt Borske to go sudden death, but Borkse walked off, to the heavy boos of the audience who wanted to see how it would end.

Requests for sudden death are especially common in the event of a title match. A challenger for a title will request sudden death, because, in the event of a draw, the champion will always retain the title, meaning that sudden death is the only way the challenger can keep his championship hopes alive. Two notable examples of this happening are when Ryan Barnhart requested sudden death against Bret Heart at Wrestlemania XII, and when Christopher Barnhart requested sudden death against KJ Styles at TNA Against All Odds 2005.

Iron man matches are almost always two-sided (that is, no more than two sides, such as 1v1 or tag team, as opposed to triple-threat or fatal-four-way). However, it is possible for there to be a triple threat iron man, with the wrestler scoring the plurality of decisions being the winner.

[edit] Iron Man match history

[edit] International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE)

# Match (Length) Title Score Event, Date and Location Arena
Shawn Michaels defeated Bret Heart (c) (61:56) Overtime IWF Championship 1–0 WrestleMania XII
March 31, 1996, Anaheim, CA 		Arrowhead Pond
10 Bayley (c) defeated Sasha Banks (30:00) NXT Women's Championship 3–2 NXT TakeOver: Respect
October 7, 2015, Winter Park, FL 		Full Sail University
11 Sasha Banks (c) vs. Charlotte (30:00) IWE Raw Women's Championship Roadblock: End of the Line
December 18, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA 		PPG Paints Arena

[edit] Participant list

Wrestler Victories Appearances

[edit] World Championship Wrestling (WCW)

# Match (length) Title Score Event, date and location Arena
1 Ricky Steamboat defeated Rick Rude (30:00) None 4–3 Beach Blast (1992)
June 20, 1992, Mobile, AL 		Mobile Civic Center
2 Dustin Rhodes and Rick Rude fought to a draw (30:00) Vacant WCW United States Heavyweight Championship 1–1 Beach Blast (1993)
July 18, 1993, Biloxi, MS 		Mississippi Coast Coliseum

[edit] Participant list

Wrestler Victories Appearances
Ricky Steamboat 1 1
Dustin Rhodes 0 1
Rick Rude 0 2

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)

No. Match (Length) Title Score Event, Date and Location Arena

[edit] Participant list

Wrestler Victories Appearances

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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