10 Best British Wrestling Matches Of 2016

While PROGRESS have become British wrestling's master storytellers over the past few years, RevPro have become the country's "dream match" promotion. Their working relationship with NJPW means they're able to rival even PWG as far as exciting matches go, and their cards often read like a "who's who" of the world's best wrestlers.

Wrestlers like Katsuyori Shibata, Jushin Liger, and Tetsuya Naito travelled to Bethnal Green for this year's Global Wars two-nighter. They met (and fought) with a horde of top British wrestlers, but for all the quality on show across both events, Global Wars' strongest match came from two imports.

This was the weekend's most highly-anticipated match, and it delivered on every level. Hero wrestled another fantastic match with Shibata the following evening, but his Night One battle with Tomohiro Ishii edges it out through raw emotion. Ishii is one of the best sellers in the world at the moment: he's so effective at showing how much pain he's in that you actually start worrying about the guy's health as he wrestles. Few wrestlers can draw an audience in like Ishii, and he always makes his opponents look like a million dollars.

Ishii, as usual, absorbed an insane amount of punishment throughout the match, but he kept coming back. Just as Hero started getting too cocky, Ishii would level him with chops, lariats, and headbutts. A strike-heavy match laced with violence, fighting spirit, and everything that makes these two so special.