10 Wrestling Matches Never Meant To Be This Good

5. Speed Muscle Vs The Motor City Machine Guns (TNA Impact, June 12th 2008)

Playing with the unknown as the wrestlers themselves played with the form, TNA had nothing to lose by bringing Speed Muscle over to the United States and letting them loose against arguably the most transcendent tag team of the decade.

Expectations obviously weren't low - they just didn't exist. Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley were a scintillating doubles act, but in Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi they found perfect counterparts to help move the genre forward about 800 years in eight minutes.

Doi's pace was always his unique selling point, and he sold the world on it as he darted across the ring early on. This turbo charged the the Guns, but their levelling up brought the best out in Yoshino and Doi's own double teams. There were as few spots to take a breather as there were gaps between the moves - everything was crisp, clinical and looked like it knacked for six seconds. There was literally no time to sell, but this sprint simply didn't need it.

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