10 Best Matches From The WWE ThunderDome Era
5. Drew McIntyre Vs Sheamus (Raw, March 1st 2021)
Not content with throwing his body into everything away from the ring inside WWE's dystopian Zoom conference, Sheamus proved he had the formula for a perfect ThunderDome television match too in this hidden gem from the March 1st Raw.
It's funny (and incompetent) - thanks to WWE's content churn it's highly possible people will remember this encounter between the former friends the least from the wars they had ahead of WrestleMania 37. More's the pity too, because it was the best of the lot.
There was much to enjoy about their No Holds Barred payoff at Fastlane and the stairs-on-head conclusion to a wild No Disqualification brawl on March 8th, but this thoroughbred original found the former friends beating the sh*t out of each other in a way that didn't need Instagram photos of painful welts after the fact. Because the company tells stories backwards, this was the cleanest and most decisive of their series too.
The match ebbed and flowed and bristled and built and concluded with spit and sweat and imaginary blood flying everywhere as two behemoths genuinely fought for a genuine cause they genuinely believed in. Or at least, thank f*ck, it actually felt that way for a change.
Never had one of the simplest ways to do wrestling right felt like such an outlier, but on a show flooded with black goo, pathetic champions and wall-to-wall losers, it glistened like the last star in a once-stacked sky.