10 Best Wrestling Matches Of 2025

4. Toni Storm Vs. Mariah May (AEW Revolution)

A lot of people said, and still maintain, that this should have closed the AEW Revolution PPV. The wrestlers deserved the spotlight, absolutely, for crafting such a remarkable, long-term saga - but if it was positioned last, the Hollywood Ending might have stood in its own way. The modern main event feels obligated to go long.

This didn’t. At 12 minutes and 55 seconds, it was almost shockingly short - but it didn’t need more time. There was no need for melodrama, a blight on the modern main event. The time for everything else was over - except for a shocking, urgent, hellish fight to the death.

This was an incredible sprint. Pure commitment was expressed across every last second. The environment that so often feels mundane nowadays felt like a weapon all over again. You see moves executed on the ramp every week; you don’t see what looks like potential concussion, when Mariah drove the back of Toni’s head and smashed it against the floor, every day. You see a stiff strike in virtually every match; you don’t expect to see Toni Storm’s tooth to fly out of her mouth like you did when Mariah slapped her silly. Mariah blasted Toni with a DDT on the ramp here with such vicious whiplash that it felt like the broadcast had glitched into the 2x speed setting.

As much as this was driven by an incredible immediacy, it was still drenched in as much personality as blood. The vulgar tone of the feud was articulated when Mariah smashed Toni between the legs with a bottle of champagne.

This needed to feel cinematic, given the title of the match and the story told, but this element was handled to genius effect with the mid-match Taipei death match and the exquisite use of props. In the end, Mariah had to watch out for the shoe, with which Storm bludgeoned and wrote May out of AEW for good.

One of the very best AEW matches ever.