10 Best Wrestling PPVs Of 2019
8. NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors Final
On how many shows are you granted the privilege of watching a wrestler announce himself as the best in the world?
Another question: how difficult is it to become the best in the world, in 2019, a year in which the talent on the global stage is of such an awesome standard?
At the Best of the Super Juniors final, Will Ospreay announced himself as the best wrestler in the world throughout 33 minutes and 36 seconds of unreal drama. Ospreay was phenomenal here, fighting the strength of his colossus opponent with pure fire, evading every propulsive onslaught with jaw-dropping agility, in one of the greatest matches of all time. Benefitting from Shingo Takagi's monster push, NJPW engineered a giant-killing atmosphere for the ages, and Ospreay levelled up to the occasion with a performance as hermetic as it was heroic.
As a one-match show, the BOSJ final was an honourable mention. That's how good the match was.
But as one dragon was slain, another monster rose in his wake: Jon Moxley, who pulverised Juice Robinson in an ultra-violent spectacle. The BOSJ final was a wonderful illustration of Gedo's unparalleled ability to book successively, but there, as ever, endured Hiroshi Tanahashi, the one constant. His desperate double-leg dragon screw counter to Jay White brought a sense of pathos to a show built on violence and technique.
A superb presentation of a spectacular roster in perfect balance, the BOSJ final was, somehow, yet another New Beginning for an endlessly brilliant promotion.