15 Greatest Match Finishes In Modern Wrestling History

There are three near-falls in Kenny Omega Vs. Will Ospreay II that other, less wrestlers would sell their souls to orchestrate just once in their entire career. 

It was an unbelievable sequel to an even better match - a disgusting blood-splattered masterpiece undermined very, very slightly by some daft gaps in logic. Don Callis returning after he'd been ejected, without incurring a disqualification, was a waste of time. He shouldn't have been thrown out for what ultimately was a cheap pop in the first place. The last five minutes were so incredible however that the third act alone elevated a ****1/2 bout into the full fiver. 

Ospreay blasted Omega with the Storm Breaker which, at the time, hadn't been supplanted by the Hidden Blade as Ospreay's favoured kill shot. The timing and precision of this spot was perfect. That's not hyperbole; there is no other word. Omega landed in a spot that looked dead centre. Nobody expected a rope break. It did not look physically possible. Then, Kenny only seemed to start lifting his leg at 2.99. This was the best rope break spot in recorded history. 

Ospreay then hit Omega's One-Winged Angel. The false finish was subverted to incredible effect here. There's a sense of finality to the finisher. Nobody kicks out of it, ever - but only when Omega uses it. He kicked at one in a stunning, shocking moment of pure, contemptuous defiance.

Then, in another use of subversion, Omega and Ospreay broke the rule of three; Omega kicked out of an absolutely terrifying, full-on, legitimate, on-the-top-of-his-actual-head Tiger Driver '91. You don't see that move and that delivery of it anymore. You thus don't expect anyone to kick out of it. 

This was a transgressive and excessive closing stretch, but holy hell, it was the most mind-blowing final act of any AEW match ever.