Ranking What Was REALLY The Best Wrestling PPV Every Year 1990-2020

14. 2007 - TNA Sacrifice

Shawn Michaels Jon Moxley
Impact Wrestling

TNA pay-per-views often peaked higher, but the most uneven pro wrestling company ever, by definition, offered horrendously booked sh*t-shows alongside its very best matches.

Sacrifice was a rare, consistently very good show that wasn't remotely overthought nor otherwise tarnished by Vince Russo's creative atrocities.

The Texas Death match between former partners Chris Harris and James Storm didn't headline the show, but it was treated as the main event, almost: every match ran shorter to accommodate something quintessentially and uniquely TNA. It was something they could call their own, and they were proud to; a blood-soaked fight, creative without ever losing sight of the tone, it was one of the better and less heralded modern hardcore brawls.

The X Division matches both ruled - the the opening triangle title match in particular was fantastic - and the big stars in the big matches, without blowing anybody away, proved that TNA was major league, if it could only get out of its own stupid way.

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