10 Best WWE Matches Ever (According To The Internet)

7. The Revival Vs. D.I.Y (NXT TakeOver: Toronto)

Shawn Michaels The Undertaker
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A beloved closer to an epic feud in a transcendent tag division, this TakeOver: Toronto two-out-of-three falls match was artful, indulgent and gripped the Canadian crowd tighter than Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson were able to in the stunning climax.

After each team scored a fall apiece with their own finishers, the only "simplistic" element of a contest concluded. From their, the drilled and dynamic duos mixed classic tag tropes with dizzyingly complex exchanges in front of a crowd that were frothing at the gills to get the finale they craved.

NXT as a brand was pivoting from a little-engine-that-could-and-did developmental to established super-indie at the time, and while the four men were visions of both sides of the divide, the storytelling in the run up fused golden era creative brilliance with the new escalated in-ring ceiling. There was palpable panic that DIY could and would fall apart (Ciampa and Gargano's split was every bit the beautifully woven tale even if they bastardised it years later), and nothing cut through people's emotion quite like these Revival cut-offs.

Holding on to each other until they could no longer hold onto the gold, there was no better way for Dash and Dawson's iconic reign to conclude, and it was the beginning of the end for their run on the black-and-gold brand too. Sadly nothing under main roster WWE's reckless booking for the next three years touched the magic they crafted here.

 
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