10 Best Wrestling Matches Of 2021 (So Far)

6. Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston vs. The Young Bucks (AEW Double Or Nothing)

If you want to understand the importance of a live crowd to professional wrestling, watch this match.

Similarly, if you immediately want to feel bad about going back to empty arena wrestling, or wish to make the slow march to July's big return feel like a lifetime, watch this match.

Or, you know, watch it because it's one of the best matches of the year so far. Take your pick.

Only the bout's weak-looking finishing flurry of BTE Triggers and heavy-handed Matt Jackson pantomime heal segment prevent The Young Bucks vs. Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston from scoring a top-three spot here. It was a molten pairing of diametric opposites, stylistically and in terms of characters. State-of-the-art mega-athletes vs. bloody-nosed brawlers. Millennial sh*theels clad in thousand-dollar shoes vs. rabble-rousing folk heroes in shirts and boots hawked from the bargain rack.

So fired up while entering that he marched halfway across Daily's Place just to destroy some furniture, Moxley summoned The Sandman in spirit and flesh early on, crushing beers and feeding off the building's unparalleled energy and support. His hot tag was a thing of flawlessly built beauty later on and Kingston, too, wrestled the match of his life, savaging those no-good Bucks when his previously injured knee wasn't being torn to pieces.