10 Wrestlers Who Achieved The Impossible
6. Kenny Omega: Seven Star Machine
Dave Meltzer maintains that there was never a limit to his star rating system. Like WWE storyline continuity, it was made to be broken.
Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk were the first to do so by wrestling the first ever ***** match in 1981; previously, the Roger Ebert-inspired scale devised by Jim Cornette and Norm Dooley stretched to ****. Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat reached the ****** level in a mythical 1989 house show match. Six stars was like the Burning Hammer of star ratings - a beast as brilliant as it was very rarely-sighted - and, in the years since, bar the odd weird '+' symbol, only Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega matched it. They also transcended it on June 9, 2018.
Meltzer maintains that there was never a limit to his star rating system. But still: seven stars is utterly insane, and even Meltzer himself never thought he would award a match with such a rating. He did so only because, to his mind, he will never see a match as good as that ever again.
That match was the best of the best of the best; the best match itself, between the two best wrestlers, followed the best title reign and the best redemptive babyface character arc. It was something well beyond special, and even if you don't rate the rating system, the prospect of it being broken can only result in something actually impossible.