10 Best Wrestling Feuds Of 2020
10. Adam Cole Vs. Pat McAfee
Pat McAfee is a natural pro wrestling personality who, on the evidence of his excellent feud with Adam Cole, should have been nudged towards this kind of role from the moment he first appeared as a pre-show panellist.
Not that Cole has ever needed somebody else to sell a program for him, but McAfee's innate ability to make you want to punch him in his big, stupid face put this storyline over the line. More than that, it made a believable babyface of a career heel in the Undisputed Era's leader. Things weren't black and white coming out of their initial podcast confrontation, from which Cole stormed out, though this quickly changed when McAfee shockingly laid the record-breaking NXT Champion out at the commentary desk, punting him unconscious.
That Pat was the NFL's Punter of the Decade circumvented complaints about a non-wrestler putting Cole to sleep. Obnoxious heel promos aside, kicking is the one thing McAfee is really, really good at. Buying into it was easy from that moment onwards.
The match, at TakeOver: XXX, was almost shockingly good. A freak athlete going back to his football days, Pat threw everything into his performance, delivering a debut bout on a similar tier as Ronda Rousey's at WrestleMania 34. Don't bet against similar insanity when Pat and The Kings of WWE NXT hit WarGames with Undisputed this weekend.