hey guys.
didn’t watch wrestling for quite some time. last time i was kinda invested was when we had smack down for playstation 1, something like 25 years ago.
rewatched the legendary hell in a cell match from mankind and undertaker last week. since then i watched this years royal rumble and a few more events and was hooked again.
so what are the events, you think, i should watch to catch up?
NXT and NJPW from roughly 2015-2020 were tied for best overall imo. Highlights from that off the top of my head:
Omega v Okada (if you only pick one thing from this list, this one)
Asuka breaking Goldberg’s undefeated record
Toru Yano v anyone
Gargano v Ciampa
NXT bringing back War Games matches
Mauro Ranallo
Broken Matt Hardy (tna)
Cody Rhodes v Dustin Rhodes (very early aew)
Tag team matches became main event level and are really good. Look for any ppv match with: DIY, The Revival, Undisputed Era, Young Bucks, and probably lots more I’m forgetting
Any NXT ppv, any NJPW Wrestle Kingdom ppv, they’re all great
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WWE highlights from that time period:
Smackdown, for about a year starting from the 2016 reboot until Wrestlemania 2017
Survivor Series 2016
AJ Styles v James Ellsworth (ladder match and world title match)
Ronda Rousey
4 horsewomen
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Then there was a new company founded in 2019 that’s become #2 worldwide (aew), so go check that out if you haven’t. But I’ll stop here at 2020 since this post is long enough.
that’s gonna kill some (read: a lot) time.
thanks so much for that!
tag matches look way better than they used to be, that’s for sure.
but also the women are at such a different level now.