My Top 10 Wrestling Matches (QUICK RAMBLING?!)

So… I’ma do my best to bang through this. Right?

Shut up, crime. 2022 is the year of Top 10 lists.

Boom.

10. Lex Luger vs. Hollywood Hogan (WCW Monday Nitro 8/4/1997)

Is this “FIVE STARS IN THE TOKYO DOME?!” No. Obviously not.

Was this amazing? Yes.

Did this match help me solidify my loce for professional wrestling? Yes.

9. Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart (WrestleMania XXII)

Fpr YEARS… DECADES, even, i considered this match to be the best ever. It was the #1 when I wrote this up in 2011.

Up until like… two-three years ago… I realized, I’ve watched this match… MAYBE twice. I’ve never even gone back to it for background noise or anything.

It’s a perfectly crafted masterpiece by two athletes in their physical prime. But it’s practically unwatchable. So.

8. Sting vs. Samoa Joe (Bound for Glory 2008)

So… uh… there’s no Youtube highlights for this one. Just the full match. Put out for all to see by IMPACT Wrestling themselves. So. Yeah. Sorrt about that.

But uh…

Dude… this was the first time I experienced something like modern “twritter wrestling,” you know? It was just me and Brock Estell (who once requested extra ice for his drink, unfortunately… one of those icebergs sank the Titanic). Talking on AIM or some shit. I dunno. I was watching a pirated live stream thing of this match, he probably was too.

And I was giving him the business, like “Fuck Joe! Sting forever!” Something. Like. That. Throughout the match.

Then boom. Sting wins.

So yeah. Awesome times. Awesome experience. All that. kybe.

7. Undertaker vs. Mankind (King of the Ring 1998)

It was around this number here )off the top of my head) during the first go-round.

And I mean. It created some of the most highlighted moments in wrestling history.

Taker himself had an injured ankle or foot or whatever going into it. Foley was.. uyou know… obviously fucked throughout the proceedings. And yet… they both created this masterpiece. So. Yeah.

Solid #7.

6. Triple H. vs. Undertaker (WrestleMania 27/28)

Yes… tjhat’s just highlights from WrestleMania 28, sure. Because it’s the overall better match and most amazing or whatever .But.

27 has a special place in my heart, or whatever, for two reasons. I loved that the “Ciole Mine” got bestroyed (no typo) and there were those few seconds where I thought Trips was actually going to beat Taker after he did the Tombstone. Sometime later, if not immediately after, I sent a text to Dave saying so ething like:

“Dude, if anyone beats Taker at ‘Mania, it’s gotta be by the Tombstone.

So long gay Lesnar.

But yeah. 28 was a perfect match between the two of them. So.Plus, That;s such a beautiful moment with the three of them at the end there. This is an undeniable fact. Shut uop, crime.

5. Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena (ECW One Night Stand II)