10 Most Bizarre Hardcore Matches In Wrestling History

9. Arcade Anarchy

Arcade Anarchy should not have worked. 

The Best Friends Vs. Miro and Kip Sabian programme had dragged on longer than a Triple H match at WrestleMania; Miro’s ‘Best Man’ schtick was a misfire; the levity of the tone risked veering into silly territory. 

In reality, the match was a brutal and memorable spectacle that located an impossible sweet spot between fun, violent and moving. 

The uso of Lego-as-thumbtacks was particularly inspired. It was an in-character choice by the in-arrested-development Best Friends unit, and while few people have experienced the sensation of an unprotected chair shot to the dome, everybody has stepped on a toy or a plug. Arcade Anarchy was a match you could both watch and feel. 

Very well-crafted - as fans probably should have expected, actually, from underrated genre wizard Chuck Taylor - it was also the site of Kris Statlander’s return from a lengthy injury layoff. 

This saw AEW operating at its thoughtful, detail-obsessed best: the space alien character emerged from the Toy Story alien claw machine.