10 Best TV Wrestling Matches Ever
4. Sting Vs. Diamond Dallas Page - WCW Monday Nitro, April 26, 1999
Promoted amid utter creative turmoil - the Commissioner that made the match wasn't even the Commissioner by the time it happened, he had commissioned it that night, "Commissioner" was a WWF thing and this was supposed to be the alternative - for 20 astonishing minutes, the working style and beating heart of WCW was in full, transcendent effect.
Sting - who as a masterful babyface performer, psychologically and in-ring, might be the most underrated of all the greats - slammed DDP on his ass with his chest after the opening collar-and-elbow. There remained a legion of WCW fans at this point, and he made damn sure to keep them believing. Page jaw-jacked in response, inciting a glorious, heated, badass throw-down with a puro flavour.
This was the ultimate Crow Sting in-ring performance; he channelled that old irresistible babyface fire into a new, fashionable brawling style, and cast a formidable aura as the vigilante whenever Page, in great sh*t-talking form, took a shortcut. Page, rocked, could only tap into that famous opportunism with a nasty slant by inelegantly sweeping Sting off his feet as the brawl descended into a proper scrap.
A match of proper, old-fashioned resolve - Sting didn't athletically reverse the Diamond Cutter, he held the rope with his last breath to make Page kiss the canvas - it ended, after an unbelievable series of Tombstone reversals, with another Cutter counter and a Scorpion Death Drop.
The two guys who gave the most f*cks giving it their all.