10 Awesome Wrestling Matches That Ended In A Draw

2. Samoa Joe Vs. CM Punk II - Ring Of Honor (2004)

Nowadays, if a match were to last for 60 minutes and, at the end of that time, no one came out the other end the winner, there would be a full-scale mutiny in the building. But rewind to 2004, where a young Samoa Joe and CM Punk did exactly that in Ring of Honor, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a disappointed fan in the stands.

Of course, it helps when the two wrestlers going at it have an almost endless bag of tricks from which to choose from, and excel at multiple styles of wrestling. Creating a blend of Japanese martial arts, technical submissions, and old-school wrestling psychology, these two told an Oscar-worthy story inside the ring. If you were to count the number of different holds performed in this one match, it would take longer to list than that time Chris Jericho decided to name all 1,004 holds he knew on an episode of WCW Nitro.

And sometimes that level of persistent technicality and never-ending reversals can get tiresome (as one disgruntled fan expressed around the halfway mark of the match, to which Punk replied that he could leave, drawing a generous pop from the rest of the crowd), but these guys made it work. And with the exception of that one jerk mentioned earlier, the entire crowd was vocalizing their support and admiration of the match for pretty much the entire time.

The result didn't matter as much as the performance.