5 Wrestling Dream Matches That Make Perfect Sense (And 5 That Don't)
Austin Vs Hogan? Dream on...
Bayley's eventual match with Sasha Banks is the closest WWE have to an actual dream match at present.
It's a credit to the workers that they are both full-timers, have fought before, and have been in each other's business for the better part of five years that this is still the case.
The former Boss & Hug Connection and Golden Role Models bonded over respect forged by their iconic 2015 NXT rivalry, with abysmal booking between 2017-2019 constantly threatening to rip away at all they'd created. They survived the worst of times to thrive within the new worst of times - virtually all of the empty arena'd 2020 has been spent building to the split that occurred in the ThunderDome on September 2nd. They are the broken creative machine's rule-proving exception, regardless of how the eventual battle plays out.
Things have changed quickly too. There'd have been a point just recently where the pair would have been perfect opponents for Trish Stratus and Lita in a one-off, even though the former has retired and the latter seems content to limit her appearances.
It speaks to how crucial the timing of these things can be, and how taking ideas from the past and trying to force them into working in the present isn't always the narrative magic wand it appears to be...
10. DO - The Undertaker Vs Aleister Black
It's time to stop trying to find the "next Undertaker".
From the moment his character first appeared on television, Bray Wyatt was tied to 'The Deadman'. "Follow The Buzzards" was supposed to lead us all to Death Valley or something, and who else had access to all the magical powers The Undertaker had used for years? Well, Kane, but look who Wyatt beat down when he arrived and sh*t all the pieces fit guys!
They stopped fitting when both WWE and Bray himself stopped trying to make them. A good but unfinished concept was fed to the machine long before Undertaker himself gobbled the rest of it up in the Bay Area daylight of WrestleMania 31.
Never fear though, because Aleister Black's here and he comes out to candlelight on a riser as if direct from the grave itself, so it must have been him all along.
Knock this on the head, but have the legend take a Black Mass in the process.
One of WWE's biggest ingrained issues is every generation from about 2001 not quite being able to live up to the ones that came before them. There's been longer spent lionising the heroes of old than trying to toast the ones of today, but Black dominating and destroying the company cornerstone would at least mean that he'd not have to follow him.
Randy Orton didn't become a meme hitting the "new Diamond Cutter outta nowhere". Time to let mystique and magic of the 'The Deadman' actually die.