10 Most Insanely Popular TNA Matches Ever

WWE will tell you that the (stateside) Women's Evolution began in 2015 when Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch were called up from NXT, but it actually began almost a decade before in TNA.

Awesome Kong and Gail Kim - the former a transformative figure following an admirable stint in Japan and the latter a thrilling ex-WWE act-turned-TNA megastar - instantaneously defined the Knockouts division. This was in an era when WWE's Divas were struggling. Struggling through nonexistent storylines, struggling through a lack of care put into them, struggling for television time.

Kong and Kim, in a gargantuan middle finger to WWE, set the world ablaze with their generational clashes. Reformulating the David vs. Goliath blueprint, their Final Resolution 2008 affair was an impeccable display of the new formula. Kong was convincing as the imperious heel and Kim was authentic as the babyface-in-peril; she was cogent in every movement, appearing to legitimately be fighting for her life against the commanding Awesome Kong, who spent swathes of the nearly 13-minute match hurling the defending Knockouts Champion around the six-sided ring.

At just under 9 million views and Dave Meltzer's highest-rated singles match of the duo, the bout is unconditionally worth a rewatch, if not for Kong's piercing Uraken that wiped out Kim. It's 11 minutes and 20 seconds in; you're welcome.