25 Best Wrestling Moments Of 2025

3. Mistico’s AEW Grand Slam Entrance

MJF articulated the feelings of a generation of wrestling fans when he buried Mistico ahead of their first match at Arena Mexico.

For years, lucha libre fans and followers were adamant, correctly, that Mistico used to be and was reborn as a gigantic star between that disastrous WWE stint. But how? Sin Cara was possibly the biggest flop in WWE history. It just never felt believable, that reality.

The brilliance of Mistico’s brief stint in AEW is that fans were shown that reality at long last. Mistico returned to Dynamite. MJF was not impressed. “To me,” he said, “you’ll always be sloppy Sin Cara”. This was typical trash talk, a way to rally behind the babyface, but it was more than that: the reminder of Mistico's terrible WWE run was designed to make the revelation all the more breathtaking.

When Mistico made his entrance at Grand Slam, he resembled nothing less than a godlike figure. It was almost jarring, watching a crowd so earnestly and passionately receive a babyface as an actual hero. The ‘Me Muero’ theme song was an incredibly moving composition that soundtracked the moment perfectly. It was deafening, special, surreal.

MJF was exceptional here, too, by leaning into the role of the ignorant, embarrassed American who had only just learned of the trouble he had gotten himself into.

The match itself was an excellent bit of business, a great first chapter of possibly the best feud of the year, as MJF knew he was outmatched by the opponent and the occasion, and could only get himself disqualified like a coward.