10 Dream Wrestling Matches (That We Really Needed To Happen This Decade)
Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
As with most things in life, professional wrestling is littered with a ton of 'what ifs': What if that superstar never got injured? What if the crowd didn't respond to him/her that way? What if WCW won the Monday Night Wars instead?
It's human nature to think about what could have been, as the fantasy is often more pleasing than reality, and one of wrestling's most popular thought-provoking What If scenarios center on dream matches. You know, the idea of two specific superstars colliding that the mere thought of it gives you goosebumps - so much so that it almost feels like the chances of it happening are so incredibly slim.
However, we're living in a day and age where dream matches do happen. Sure, they're still a rare breed but they aren't non-existent. Now, they certainly don't always live up to expectations (Sting vs. Hulk Hogan, Undertaker vs. Goldberg) but we've seen our fair share of them in recent memory.
That being said, there are plenty of times in which they don't happen when they really really could have, and with the end of the decade upon us, let's take a look back at the ones that we should have seen by now and, unfortunately, probably never will.
10. Kane Vs. Abyss
Following Abyss' rise through the ranks at TNA, fans couldn't help but compare him to wrestling's most famous masked monster Kane. After all, they were both renowned for their reigns of destruction, they were both heavy hitters in the ring and, well, yeah they both had long hair and scary masks.
Look, there's no denying that Kane's best in-ring days were both at the end of the '90s and the beginning of the '00s, so by the time that this decade had started, he had significantly slowed down. That being said, he did re-mask in 2011 (after spending eight years unmasked) and that was more than enough to make the idea of a dream match with Abyss all the more appealing.
Unlike some of the other offerings on this list, it's hard to really blame WWE on this one's failure to transpire. Sure, they threw a truck load of problematic storylines at Kane over the past 10 years but that doesn't change the fact that Abyss never showed up in the company and, thus, they couldn't make this dream match happen. And even if he did, it's not like he could be Abyss anyway.
Ironically, Abyss himself, Joseph Parks, has been working for WWE as a producer this year... just as the semi-retired Kane is busy being the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Yeah, it just seems like the pair's paths were never destined to cross and, with both of them past their physical prime now, it's unlikely that we'll ever see them collide.