15 Greatest Angles In Modern Wrestling History

Wrestling's relationship with plunder needs a thorough rethink, beyond merely the excess of it all. 

It is bad enough that an assortment of objects are hidden underneath the ring, which is a dumb quirk that people have come to accept. This new trend of colour-coded Kendo sticks, tables daubed with a wrestler's name or slogan, or even worse, Slim Jim, is lame in addition to being woefully contrived. This stuff works best, and always worked best, when a wrestler grabbed an everyday item that would feasibly exist in that environment and used it for violent means. It felt more improvised and thus more realistic. A Molotov cocktail is a stupid wrestling weapon. Before they popped up everywhere, the sturdy ringside table was a fantastic weapon. A mundane object used for a violent purpose is the best way of approaching plunder because it captures the slanted, vile enterprise of a wrestler's mind. 

Jon Moxley using a plastic bag to suffocate Bryan Danielson at All Out was a superb idea. It wasn't AEW's idea, rather Terry Funk's, but Bryan and Mox's repurposing of it was inspired. You see a plastic carrier bag every day of your life. You never feel the urge to tighten it around somebody's throat. Only a sick bastard would do that. Thus, Mox was put over as a sick bastard, not some loser who had spent his day spray-painting a table so that his wrestling spot looked even cooler in his mind. 

After defeating Jack Perry, Bryan Danielson was joined in the ring by his Blackpool Combat Club mates at All Out '24. There would be no celebrations; Claudio rocked Danielson with an uppercut before the suffocation. 

Danielson's performance throughout was magnificent. Without drawing too much influence from his trainer Shawn Michaels, Bryan expressed shock. It was an earned take on an overdone facial expression because he wasn't in disbelief that somebody had kicked out of a signature move; he was shocked to an extent that bypassed his pain receptors because he had just been betrayed.