10 Best Wrestling Matches Of 2020
1. Kenny Omega & Hangman Page Vs. The Young Bucks - AEW Revolution
One day, pro wrestling will be a far richer medium, and the Elite will have blazed the trail towards it.
This was a masterclass - the greatest tag team wrestling match ever - fought between the four most intelligent professional wrestlers in the game. Hangman Page, the former high school journalism teacher, operates at a level above all but his partner and his opponents on the night.
In this seminal, life-affirming epic, he used subtextual details to deepen his incredible arc. He used the One-Winged Angel where partner Kenny Omega wouldn't use his Buckshot. Omega did however rage, in the bout's f*ck-yes dopamine rush spot, at the Bucks using the Golden Trigger against him. Omega kicked out at one. This was a fist-pumping moment - until one remembered where his heart was. This was devastating even when it was euphoric: the full spectrum of pro wrestling emotion spanned a single move.
And if you didn't catch that detail, it didn't matter; this pulsating war threaded these story beats together in the main body of the match. Instantly heralded as the best ever entry into the genre, it has aged magnificently. That beat - just one of many electrifying and emotional moments in a match that volleyed your sympathy all over the ring with beautiful, skull-rattling violence - is even more deeply felt now, looking at the subsequent arcs paved by the former Tag Team Champions.
A twisting, compelling and layered saga staggering in its psychological complexity - presented in the medium of a state-of-the-art banger - this was prestige drama.
A genuine advancement of the form.