10 Most Insane Wrestling Spots Of 2020
5. When It Rains, It's An Apron Tombstone - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night One (4 January)
We touched upon this one in the intro, so it would be rude to miss it out.
Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi's IWGP Heavyweight Championship collision at this year's Wrestle Kingdom, and it goes without saying that the pair knocked lumps out of each other in one of the most hard-hitting affairs of 2020. 'The Rainmaker' and 'The Golden Star' just have this chemistry that makes them two of the greatest performers of this generation.
That Tombstone Piledriver on the ring apron (The Hardest Part Of The Ring™, mind you) was just gnarly. Ibushi loves being dropped on his neck, doesn't he? The apron German suplex from Tetsuya Naito just wasn't enough for the former junior heavyweight ace, as he felt some sort of desire to be spiked on the wood courtesy of Okada.
It's a miracle at this point that Ibushi is still cleared to wrestle, really. Two bumps as scary as those shouldn't be happening so close to one another.
You can always count on Wrestle Kingdom to deliver a handful of genuine Match of the Year contenders, and Okada vs. Ibushi was nothing short of that (that's why it ranks number three on WhatCulture's 2020 ranking). That Tombstone, though - it's one of those moves that you can physically feel.