10 Wrestlers You'll NEVER Believe Shared The Same Ring

An inter-promotional dream match between All Elite Wrestling and...Jim Crockett Promotions?!

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Pro wrestling has a canny knack of making the impossible possible.

None of these f*ckers ever retire, for a start, so it's little wonder that we've been treated to - or burdened with - so many inter-generational matches.

Consider Edge, long thought done after suffering the worst effects of an injury that retires all who suffer it. When he retired, the wrestling world seemed to change immediately in his wake. Multiple generations of super-indie-honed talent entered an NXT brand reimagined the very next year as a division of WWE unlike anything the company had ever embraced. The cruel impossibilities intensified with every year Edge spent at home.

Edge Vs. Finn Bálor. Edge Vs. AJ Styles. Edge Vs. Adam Cole.

When he finally made his improbable return, WWE reached into the hat and...

...twice pulled out Edge Vs. Randy Orton, with part III set for WrestleMania 36. This time, there will be fans in attendance to zone out during the chinlock.

WWE tends not to realise these possibilities, but the arcane machinations of time and space - and Joey Janela - do.

But these combinations are closer to Jim Londos Vs. Marko Stunt than anything we've seen on a banter GCW show...

10. Ultimate Warrior & Orlando Jordan

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There's a natural source of conflict here, at least, since the Ultimate Warrior was an awful bigot and Orlando Jordan wasn't a white libertarian.

Still: bit f*cking weird.

The Ultimate Warrior wouldn't work just anybody, even at the highest level, without securing himself a massive payday and or pitching a massive hissy fit.

Literally a decade in the making, this, the Warrior's last ever match, took place 10 years after his infamous disaster opposite Hulk Hogan at WCW Halloween Havoc 1998. He worked WWE also-ran Orlando Jordan for Nu-Wrestling Evolution in Spain, weirdly, since the openly bisexual Jordan debuted when Warrior was thought long retired and had embarked on a side gig as a homophobic public speaker.

Built via an angle remarkably devoid of both hate speech and gibberish, Warrior took umbrage when Jordan, ahem, touched a minor when he shouldn't have. This actually happened.

The match itself sucked s**t because it was a match between the Ultimate Warrior and Orlando Jordan, and oddly, given it was all he was good for, Warrior didn't generate much of a reaction. Perhaps the crowd was "smark"-heavy.

Or perhaps the Warrior was a blown-up sh*thead who did f*ck all except suck air for 20 minutes.

Genuinely, genuinely typo'd "years" there.

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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 surefire Undisputed WWE Universal 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!