25 Best Wrestling Shows EVER

7. AEW Revolution 2024

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The Young Bucks Vs. Sting & Darby Allin was one of the most magical matches in the history of the medium. 

Watching retirement-age Sting in the deranged and surreal context of a tornado plunder party match was never not awesome. At Revolution, the addition of peril and stakes to the formula elevated that magic into something even loftier. Also, with the introduction of glass and stiff superkicks into the head of Ricky Steamboat, it was more deranged than even Sting’s wild library of AEW classics. The main event was a match so good that millennial-aged fans were frightened that their hero might lose. They literally don’t make them like that anymore. 

Elsewhere, Will Ospreay and Konosuke Takeshita set new standards of athletic exhilaration in one of the best back-and-forth dream match shoot-outs in history. Take’s Bastard driver in that match was preposterous. Ospreay got himself in position to take it, tucked, and took it in the span of a millisecond. It was terrifying, but they pulled it off with a supernatural combination of freak core strength and unprecedented athleticism. 

Eddie Kingston Vs. Bryan Danielson was an all-time great attritional struggle. FTR Vs. the Blackpool Combat Club entered hyper-violent overdrive. 

It was overlong, in that signature AEW way, but the snappy undercard fare of Christian Cage Vs. Daniel Garcia and Roderick Strong Vs. Orange Cassidy prevented the show from entering a lull. 

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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!