Greatest Match of 2010 - The Countdown

[Crocker]

The year 2010 is the subject of the latest countdown, 2010 was the year where Instagram was launched and we also got the release of the iPad.

Also in the news in 2000 The UK General Election ended up with a hung parliament and Swine Flu carried on to spread around the world

Also in 2010 we also had major earthquakes in Haiti & Chile.

Amongst the well known people who passed away in 2010 were Dennis Hopper, Leslie Nielson, Alexander McQueen, Corey Haim and former wrestlers Jack Brisco, Chris Kanyon & Lunc Vachon.

In music Lady Gaga become the first female to have her first six singles get to number one in the U.S.

In sport Spain defeated The Netherlands thanks to an Andrea Iniesta goal to win their first World Cup, New Orleans Saints won the Superbowl and Vancouver hosted the Winter Olympics.

Amongst the biggest films of the year were Iton Man 2, Alice in Wonderland & Toy Story 3.

In wrestling Bret Hart returns to the WWE for the first time in over 12 years, TNA starts an ill fated Monday Night War with the WWE and NXT replaces ECW.

But what is the greatest match from this year, so we got five full lists from myself @Apoho Creed @GARBAGE @Jacob Fox and @RDT and the countdown of the top 25 matches begins soon.​

 

[Crocker]

=23 WWE Championship
Batista(c) vs John Cena
Wrestlemania XXVI
March 28
22 points
RDT(4)



=23 Chris Masters vs Drew McIntyre
WWE Superstars
August 10
22 Points
Crocker(4)



=23 Best Two Out of Three Falls
Mask vs Mask
Comandro Negro vs El Pollo
IWRG
December 26
GARBAGE(4)



22.WWE World Heavyweight Championship
The Undertaker(c) vs Rey Mysterio
Royal Rumble
January 31
23 Points
RDT(3)



21. El Mesias vs LA Par-K
AAA Sin Limite-Guerra De Tianes
December 5
24 Points
GARBAGE(5)

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[Leon TrotSky]

Truly based individual who put the Chicken Man match on this list

@GARBAGE I respect you

 

[RDT]

Kinda surprised I was the only person to have Batista vs. Cena at Mania and Taker vs. Rey at the Rumble on their lists.

 

[GARBAGE]

Truly based individual who put the Chicken Man match on this list

@GARBAGE I respect you

The Chicken Man match is just a fantastic, violent, bloody apuestas. One of those matches I would be tempted to recommend to someone getting into lucha for the first time, with the slight caveat that I couldn't name you one other chicken man match. Though maybe that's even better. I partially regretted putting it at #4 instead of #3 but either way. Park vs. Mesias was actually my #2 and not my #5 (I assume it was right anyway since it landed above my #4) and it is an even better violent bloody chaotic brawl. LA Park is one of my ten favourite wrestlers and he in just in sicko mode in the match. AAA is infamous for underwhelming nonsense during most of their run after 1996 but this is as good as any match in the promotion's history.

I've always liked that Rey/Undertaker match but have also always preferred the Smackdown match a few months later. Pretty sure Masters/McIntyre would have made my list if it was US only.

 

[Crocker]

20. Daisuke Ikeda & Takahiro Ona vs Kenso Mashimo & Makoto Hashi
Fu-Ten BATI-BATI 40
October 24
25 Points
GARBAGE(1)



18= Royal Rumble Match
Royal Rumble
January 31
27 Points
RDT(2), Crocker(23)



18= Kana vs Meiko Satomura
Kana Produce Kana Pro
April 29
27 Points
Apoho Creed(4), GARBAGE(21)



17. ROH World Championship
Tyler Black(c) vs Austin Aries vs Roderick Strong
ROH The Big Bang!
April 3
29 Points
Jacob Fox (8), Apoho Creed(15)



16 The Kings of Wrestling can Worlds Greatest Tag Team
ROH Glory by Honor IX
September 11
30 Points
Apoho Creed(11), Jacob Fox(11)​

 

[Crocker]

15. TNA Workd Heavyweight Championship
AJ Styles(c) vs Kurt Angle
TNA Genesis
January 17
32 Points
RDT(10), Apoho Creed(13), Jacob Fox(23)



13= TNA Workd Heavyweight Championship
AJ Styles(c) vs Kurt Angle
TNA Impact
January 4
34 Points
RDT(6), Crocker(10)



13= TNA World Tag Team Championship
The Motor City Machine Guns(c) vs Generation Me
TNA Bound for Glory
October 10
34 Points
Crocker(14), Apoho Creed((16), Jacob Fox(20)



11= Hair vs Hair
BxB Hulk vs Shingo Takagi
Dragon Gate Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival
July 11
38 Points
Crocker(6), Apoho Creed(8)



Daisuke Ikeda & Katsuni Usada vs Takeshi Ono & Yuki Ishikawa
Fu-Ten BATI BATI 42
December 19
38 Points
GARBAGE(3), Crocker(10)

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[GARBAGE]

That's the wrong link (the match can be found here) but the December Fu-Ten tag was an amazing treat considering I went most of these years past 2010 not knowing Ishikawa even showed up in Fu-Ten that year, let alone having another absurdly violent match vs. Ikeda. The October tag is also absurdly violent in some moments but those headbutts especially are just crazy. The closing stretch of the match is one of the best I've ever seen to cap off one of the best matches I've ever seen, period, and Ikeda is especially amazing refusing to die vs. Hashi. Kana vs. Satomura I thought would be consistently flashier so I was pleasantly surprised when I got a great little mat-based scrap out of most of it instead.

I don't think I've ever watched any of the Angle/Styles matches?

 

[Crocker]

10. Ladder Match
John Morrison vs Sheamus
WWE TLC
December 19
39 Points
Crocker(7), Jacob Fox(16), RDT(16)

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[Crocker]

9. JWP Openweight Championship
Hair vs Hair
Kaori Yoneyama(c) vs Emi Sakura
JWP Revolution
September 19
42 Points
Apoho Creed(2), Crocker(8)

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[Crocker]

8. WWE World Heavyweight Championship
TLC Match
Kane(c) vs Alberto Del Rio vs Edge vs Rey Mysterio
WWE TLC
December 19
43 Points
Jacob Fox(4), RDT(5)

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[GARBAGE]

The ladder match is really good but did go down a notch (a rung...) on a rewatch a couple years ago. Thought Sakura/Yoneyama was mostly pretty good and had the drama of a hair match but I didn't love it. I don't even remember that TLC happening even though I know for a fact I watched it because I've seen every 2010 WWE ppv beginning to end.

 

[Crocker]

7. TNA World Tag Team Championship
Best Two out of Three Falls
The Motor City Machine Guns(c) vs Beer Money
TNA Impact
August 9
44 Points
Jacob Fox(3), Apoho Creed(5)

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[Crocker]

6. Bryan Danielson vs Shingo
DGUSA Enter Tge Dragon
July 24
46 Points
Apoho Creed(3), Crocker(3)

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[Crocker]

5. Steel Cage
Kurt Angle vs Mr. Anderson
TNA Lockdown
April 16
50 Points
Jacob Fox(1), RDT(7), Crocker(20)

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