Quite late but since when that is that a shock…

I intend to post the whole thing properly afterwards, with a good description and stuff, but considering there’s pictures and everything, and just because I’m too lazy to finish all the write-ups yet, I decided to also split this into sections. Enjoy!

25. Extreme Rules: John Morrison & The Miz vs. Tommy Dreamer & Colin Delaney
(ECW on Sci-Fi, 12/03)
Including Tommy Dreamer on a list of the best anything seems wrong, but this was tons of fun. It probably wouldn’t have registered a few years ago when this kind of stuff got beaten into the ground, but here it was great nostalgia and just highly entertaining. The highlight would obviously be Morrison’s moonsault to the floor while holding a trash can, but Colin Delaney going nuts with weapons and then acting flabbergasted at what he had done was hilarious.

24. Non-Sanctioned Match: Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels
(Unforgiven, 07/09)
As part of the best feud in recent memory, the reason this match isn’t any higher is because I was so PSYCHED for it and it just didn’t live up to my expectations. It’s still a really good heated brawl though, with plenty of things to like about it, it just could have and should have been better. Shawn’s revenge-seeking performance as a good man pushed too far was amazing though, and I really liked the stuff that called back to their previous stuff, especially the referee stoppage finish. Really needed some blood though, but that’s the new family friendly WWE for you.

23. John Morrison & The Miz vs. Rey Mysterio & Evan Bourne
(Raw, 08/09)
This was just a random Raw tag team match but it was awesome; just six or seven minutes of fast-paced non-stop exciting action. You could call it a ‘spotfest’ if you want, but it had heart, and it made sense. Everything was hit well, everything was crisp, everything looked good, and all four men left the match looking better than they did before it. The crowd loved it too and it probably seemed even better because it was in the WWE, where matches like this don’t happen every day. Rey Mysterio is so much better these days in tag team matches, by the way.

22. CM Punk vs. Batista
(Great American Bash, 20/07)
CM Punk has had quite a lot of good matches this year, but this stood out for me because I didn’t expect it to be as good as it was. This was also part of Batista’s ‘hot streak’ that I keep banging on about. It was a good title match, with the story of Punk trying to prove himself worthy of being World champion. Punk just killing Batista with a brutal kick to the head was awesome, as was Batista hitting the spinebuster on the concrete floor. The only downside to the match was the double disqualification finish. Give this a proper ending and it would have ranked way higher.

21. Matt Hardy vs. MVP
(Smackdown, 04/04)
MVP and Matt Hardy are two of the most consistently good wrestlers on the roster, but the problem with that is that sometimes no one match stands out. This one did, partly because their entire storyline and build was good and partly because it was a really good TV match, where they really brought the hate and beat the shit out of each other. MVP played his usual ‘arrogant but skilful’ gimmick and threw in aggression, and Matt was already mad enough thanks to all the stuff MVP had done to him leading up to this, so yeah, this was pretty violent, and all without weapons, just two guys punching and kicking each other to death. Good stuff.

Parts 2, 3 and possibly 4 tommorrow! Which kinds of defeats the purpose of splitting it into parts but whatever. :)