One WWE Match You MUST Watch From Every Year 1984-2024

5. 2019 - The Graveyard Dogs Vs. Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre, Extreme Rules

By 2019, absolutely nothing made sense and everything went long.

WWE was, in almost every respect, a dire and unsalvageable wrestling show. It's still interesting to look at marker's in AEW's formation and track what was happening within the walled garden of the market leader at the time, because one really does relate to another. It was a putrid product promoted by a putrid man, and his head being gone meant yours had to be too. WrestleMania 35 was the longest ever but standard B-shows routinely cracked the four hour mark and Raw and SmackDown started loading up on gauntlets and two-out-of-three falls matches as if to actively punish you with more of the nonsensical dirge. 

It was astoundingly terrible and realistically beyond saving in such a way that the only time things actually felt earnestly good were when they didn't real feel of this (WWE) Universe. Enter The Graveyard Dogs.

Fans had grown so sceptical of the company that Roman Reigns, a month after announcing he was in remission from leukaemia, was already hearing boos again. He'd been booked to get pinned by Shane McMahon and it didn't allay the fears that another unwanted megapush was on the horizon. Meanwhile, Drew McIntyre's ceiling had never looked lower and The Undertaker wasn't shaking pinished accusations after a host of Saudi Arabia supershow nightmares. 

Only then, in this version of WWE - the opposite land of professional wrestling - could this match be as amazing as it was. McMahon at long last got overdue comeuppance for spending half a year calling himself the 'Best In The World', Undertaker moved at such a clip to prove an awful lot of points to an awful lot of the people, and the frenzied pace and structure at long last played to Roman's genuine strengths as a fired up babyface. 

Discounting Kofi Kingston's epic victory over Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania, this isn't just the one match you must see from 2019. It's the only one you ever should.