10 Best TV Wrestling Matches Ever

9. Fénix Vs. Nick Jackson - AEW Dynamite, November 20, 2019

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This somewhat contradicts the introduction.

It was a great match promoted to promote a great match on the transparent premise of Matt Jackson's storyline injury. It was promoted as a rare reactive measure to what was on the other side - a literal horde of WWE main roster talent - and so AEW responded with something WWE is not capable in the true spirit of competition: a lung-bursting sprint worked with a defiantly indie and international flavour clashing at warp speed.

A jaw-dropping interpretation of the pro wrestling chess genre, Fénix and Nick Jackson, deeply intimate with one another's strategy and high-risk arsenal, realised this telepathic dance to create sequence upon building sequence of total insanity as an immersive psychological base.. Nick, after executing a stunning Canadian Destroyer, had the intelligence to roll through the kick-out and apply a Sharpshooter, quite gloriously submitting the notion that there is no attempt to win these matches.

Nick, embarking on singles competition for the first time in years, threaded a more overt story beat through the match by instinctively reaching for tags, unable, to his ultimate cost, to remove himself from that which the bad-faith crowd insist this sort of match lacks: his character.

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