10 Best Wrestling Matches Of 2024

10. Bronson Reed Vs. Braun Strowman - WWE Raw (September 16)

It doesn’t matter that this wasn’t a long main event that strives for inclusion in such lists; if anything, the cynical star-chase match is becoming increasingly passé. 

This wasn’t technically a “match” - the bell did not ring - but who cares. It was a triumph. 

You know that feeling, in a pop or rock song, when the band drives into a key change and a sense of stunned euphoria takes hold as you punch the air? 

This was the pro wrestling version of that. Braun Vs. Bronson was a violent festival of HELL YEAH moments. Just when you thought it could not get any more awesome, it did get more awesome - literally one second later, in the most awesome way possible. Bronson Reed threw a fan at Braun, to slow down his train spot, which was big dumb fun in the best possible way. Mere seconds later, Strowman dusted off a wild, unusual attack and smashed Reed through a barricade. 

The brawl broke out in the backstage area, as the two wrestling soulmates continued the loop with the awesome physical sensation of destroying a video game environment. This was the reason a lot of millennials got into wrestling - watching big bruisers kick lumps out of one another - but it was miles better than your nostalgia.

Wade Barrett described the first phase of the melee as the greatest 60 seconds in the history of the sport. In the moment, he wasn’t wrong.