10 Best Wrestling Matches NOBODY Watched

2010 was to TNA what 2000 was to WCW. Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff's suspect arrival, the influx of nineties 'wrestlers', and the legendarily ill-fated Monday Night Wars reboot opposite Monday Night Raw contributed to what is regarded as the group's worst year.

The year did, however, house a refreshing tag team match, two weeks after TNA was NXT 2.0'ed, that saw The Motor City Machine Guns contend Generation Me - and it was the best five-minute match ever.

It was a generational match between two generational tag teams. Gobs of innovative tag team offence comprised the match as the audience - already familiar with Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin's prodigious style - became jubilant at the sight of a pair who could not only match the Guns, but outdo them. Such at-the-time ludicrous spots (Max Buck's Corkscrew Neckbreaker across Jeremy's knee, the Moonsault/Frog Splash combination) are now pedestrian aspects of circa-2023 Young Bucks matches; in 2010, though, they were game-changing, innovational, and world-class.

The Guns and the brothers Buck would have better matches together (their 2010 Final Resolution Full Metal Mayhem match, for instance), but those were pay-per-view attractions in every sense of the word. Here, they wrestled a pay-per-view attraction on an otherwise drab IMPACT that garnered a 1.3 television rating. It was high for TNA, granted, but the rating wasn't needle-moving in the way TNA wanted and needed it to be.