10 Most Perfectly Timed Wrestling Spots Ever

6. Matt Jackson's Ankle-Breaker Superkick To Sammy Guevara

Triple H The Undertaker Shawn Michaels WrestleMania XXVIII
AEW

With apologies to its antecedent, this is even better than the Shawn Michaels/Shelton Benjamin catch Superkick spot.

Side note: it's good that the thing you like gets better! That means there's more of it it to like!

Both were actually flawed, if you want to be defiantly pedantic in the face of something so awesome. Both Benjamin and Guevara performed flying nothings purely to set up the spot. Would it kill these f*ckers to motion to perform a flying ax handle? To make it look like they intend on hurting their opponent?

It's a terrible logic gap, really, but if you successfully disengage your brain, the results are just too spectacular to give a f*ck.

The key difference that elevates the Guevara bump over Benjamin's is all in the ankles. Guevara effectively turned his feet inside out. It looked like his whole body got rocked. It did - Guevara actually rolled his ankle - so perhaps the timing wasn't perfect. The aim of wrestling is to not hurt oneself. But the other aim of wrestling is to blow people's minds, and this spot did. Tony Schiavone was so impressed that he feared for Guevara's life.

The bump is so good, so perfectly timed, that it appears in one seamless motion that Jackson kicked Guevara's head off and scraped it from his shoe.

Contributor
Contributor

Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!