25 Best Wrestling Moments Of 2024

1. The Duality Of The Dragon

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This is technically two moments, but both, combined, underscore that even post-peak AEW is - at its best - a seminal promotion. 

You’ll watch pro wrestling for any manner of reasons. You might love an intricate submission-based chess match. You might love a pause-stuffed WWE “big match” heavy on body language and registering. You might like a dumb-assed spot-fest, unashamedly. 

At its core, no matter the genre or style or, let’s face it, the company’s initials, you watch wrestling in the hope that the wrestler you like the most wins the big one - as long as it’s not so easy. You want the heartbreak and the triumph. 

Does it get any better, then, than the key Bryan Danielson moments across All In and All Out? 

You watched the best wrestler of all-time fire up and kick the sh*t out of Swerve Strickland, as his daughter bounced up and down in glee at ringside, before winning the big one at Wembley stadium. A fortnight later, in a copycat risk of an angle so viscerally uncomfortable that nobody of note has dared repeat it since 1989, Jon Moxley suffocated the best wrestler of all-time with a plastic bag. 

The answer to AEW’s bleak gates isn’t easy, but God: on this evidence, the promotion deserves so much more. 

You want the heartbreak and the triumph, and you literally can’t get better than the best of both worlds involving the very best in the world. 

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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 current Undisputed WWE 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!