10 Best 21st Century WWE Moments In Madison Square Garden
The Greatest Moments From The World's Most Famous Arena This Century.
Madison Square Garden in New York's historic Manhattan borough is one of the greatest venues in the history of live entertainment. From basketball to boxing to Billy Joel, The Garden has played home to anyone who is anyone in its storied history. MSG is many things to many people, but to wrestling fans it is only one thing - the spiritual home of WWE.
The Garden has played host to WWE events from the company's very beginning and has been the backdrop to legendary moments like the end of Bruno Sammartino's world title reign and the first WrestleMania.
Though their relationship isn't as rock solid these days, WWE and MSG still do business from time-to-time. Vince & co. last rocked up there in September 2021 and recently announced that they will be returning to the venue in March 2022. What historic moments will this show give birth to? Well, if that September show is anything to go by, then none.
That's not to say that big MSG moments are a thing of WWE's past, though. This century has provided fans with plenty of great matches, segments, and memories, as these ten examples clearly show. Here's hoping we get some more moments like these when March rolls around.
10. Kofi Drops Randy - Monday Night Raw, November 16th 2009
At SummerSlam 2019, Kofi Kingston defended his WWE Championship against Randy Orton in a match that had been a decade in the making. Back in 2009, Kingston had been involved in a major angle with The Viper before the latter's "stupid" outburst put the brakes on the then-Jamaican's push.
One bright spot of the feud before it got pulled took place on the 16th November edition of Raw. After The Apex Predator threatened to punt kick Roddy Piper, Kingston ran down the famously-short MSG entrance way to rescue the legend and put a beatdown on his rival. The two brawled across The Garden before Kingston's laid Orton out on a table and - because he just couldn't help himself - jumped on his prone victim with a huge Boom Drop, splintering the table and annihilating Randy in the process.
Not only was this a hell of a go-home angle for Orton and Kingston's Survivor Series match, it also proved to be a star-making turn for Kofi as he proved that he could go toe-to-toe with one of the WWE's biggest stars. Sadly, this didn't lead to everything it could have, but it's still a fondly-remembered Garden moment.