This is one of the interesting ones as thinking back to all of the bad matches over the course of the year can pull up some horrible memories. There were some matches that I had forgotten about and I wasn’t thrilled with having them pop back into my head. The in-ring product has come a long way in that you have a certain baseline for most matches, but the bad ones really fall apart. Let’s get to it.

As usual, in no particular order until the winner at the end.

Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt (Money In The Bank)

These two were stuck in one of the worst situations two wrestlers can be in: being part of a feud that isn’t as big as the company thinks it is and running with it. That’s the case here, as Strowman and Wyatt may have been stablemates but it wasn’t like it was some big deal. This was the match where everything stopped for the sake of Bray trying to control Strowman again and then Strowman just won. I’m not sure why this is supposed to interest me, but that is the case with anything Strowman does.

Dasha Gonzalez/Rachael Ellering vs. Ivelisse/Diamante (AEW Women’s Tag Team Tournament)

I know I’m in the minority on the tournament but I thought it was one of the biggest wastes of time I’ve seen in a long time and one of the only times AEW completely misfired. This was the complete bottom of the barrel as Gonzalez wasn’t a wrestler (not her fault) and Ellering was recovering from a torn ACL. That left Ivelisse and Diamante to carry the thing and that was always going to be a disaster. This was terrible and perhaps the worst match AEW has done to date.

Bayley vs. Tamina (Money In The Bank)

This one falls under the category of “what were you expecting”? Bayley has gotten a lot better over the course of the year but Tamina was just a fill in challenger until they could get to the showdown with Sasha Banks. The problem is that it’s Tamina, who is perhaps the least interesting main roster star. I feel sorry for Bayley and it isn’t Tamina’s fault that she is put into these spots, but this never had a chance.

Women’s Survivor Series Match (Survivor Series)

You never can tell what is going to happen with something like this, but this was at the height of the Nia Jax Puts Lana Through A Table Every Week period. As a result, this was ALL about Jax tormenting Lana until there was a massive countout to give Lana the win. It was a bad story, bad execution and a bad ending. What more could you have expected from something like this?

Goldberg vs. The Fiend (Super Showdown)

The only thing this match has going for it is that it was short. They had less than three minutes, but man alive it was a frustrating and bad three minutes. Goldberg managed to hit four spears and the Jackhammer for one of the most irritating results of the year. This is more on the booking than the wrestling, but that doesn’t exactly make things that much better.

I went back and forth on this but I couldn’t come up with anything to beat it.

Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt (Extreme Rules)

This was the Swamp Fight and that means it’s time for Wyatt’s crazy antics. I know they sound cool on paper but they were doing this for the sake of having a second match between the two of them, making it a long, drawn out exercise in putting out whatever insanity they felt they could put on screen. I’m (almost) completely over these cinematic matches and a lot of Bray’s stuff is more tiring than anything else. It went long too, making this as bad as it got all year.

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This is another one of the more important ones as you need a good feud to make people care about what they are going to be seeing. If you can find a hot rivalry, it can carry the entire promotion on its back, which is one of the more important as well as difficult things to do. There were some good ones to pick from in 2020 so let’s get to it.

As usual, in no order until the winner at the end.

Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page

This is a rather simple concept turned up to eleven, which is where AEW can shine. They were partners, then Page started going nuts with paranoia over not being elite and they dropped the Tag Team Titles. Page lost to Omega in the finals of the #1 contenders tournament, but it seems that this is going to be revisited later. This was all about the deep storytelling and drama between the two of them, which made for some great moments week to week between the two of them.

Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso

I had to decide between this one or Reigns vs. Owens, because Reigns was good enough to be on the list twice. There was one difference though: the Owens feud was always going to be good because you know what Owens can do. This was Jey Uso having a crazy good pair of World Title matches on pay per view. Just the surprise of seeing something like that made the feud that much better and it’s enough to get the win here.

Eddie Kingston vs. Jon Moxley

This one was built almost entirely on the promos but then the match was good enough to carry its own weight. There wasn’t a ton of drama about Kingston becoming champion, but that is not always a bad thing. It was about the journey instead of the conclusion, and Kingston’s promo work was among the best, if not the very best, of the year. Moxley did his thing too, but this was the Kingston show.

Randy Orton vs. Edge

This is another one where I had to pick one over the other, as Drew McIntyre and Orton had a rather long feud of their own. I liked this one better than, if nothing else because it didn’t drag on as long. Throw in that I was one of the few who liked the Last Man Standing match and it was a heck of a way to bring Edge back. Granted I hope they don’t relaunch it again when he is healed up, but it worked out well here.

Team McAfee vs. Undisputed Era

Earlier on I said that you were going to see McAfee’s name in this a lot and that is going to be the case here again. What was originally going to be Ridge Holland turned into Pete Dunne (at least that seems to be the case) and Oney Lorcan/Danny Burch with McAfee as the mouthpiece against the best faction NXT has ever seen. They had a great singles match and then a great WarGames match with the promos being even better. It came and went in a hurry, but what we got was great.

However, there was one thing that was built up and then paid off very well too.

Bayley vs. Sasha Banks

These two have been joined at the hip for years and that is likely going to be the case for a very long time to come. They spent most of the year as friends, dominated the title scene, and then Bayley turned on her before Banks could do it, which is a rather brilliant way to go. The matches were very good but the story was better, because the history was there. That’s what makes a great feud exceptional, and that’s what they did here.

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You can’t have a wrestling show without them. It all comes down to this as wrestlers are the thing that makes the shows move forward. Your individual taste in wrestlers may vary again but I’ll be going for a bit of a mix of everything here. Odds are you are going to have a few different options, but there were several good choices to pick from this year. Let’s get to it.

As usual, no order until the ending.

Roman Reigns

I’m not going with him as the best choice as he was only around at such a level for four months. Reigns was incredible while he was around though and that is the kind of performance that deserves some recognition. Odds are he is going to be one of, if not the, best stars of 2021 but the back quarter of his 2020 was some of the best work throughout the year.

Io Shirai

Shirai is someone who is going to fly underneath the radar but she has been NXT Women’s Champion for about seven months and has run through some rather stiff competition during her reign. She keeps getting better and better and still has one of the best moonsaults going. I could go for seeing her holding that title for a long time to come and at the pace she is on, that is exactly what she is going to do.

Randy Orton

I know a lot of people aren’t wild on him and I can understand that, but Orton is still one of the more consistent performers in all of WWE and has been for a very long time now. He had multiple big feuds this year and had at least a few good matches in each of them, which is better than almost anyone else can say. Yes Orton has been around for a long time now and has been on top for a good while, but there is a reason for that: he has earned the spot.

Asuka

She might be the best woman on the main roster (or the best person on any roster) and there is no shock that she was handed the keys after Becky Lynch took time off. Asuka can do it all and has more charisma that she knows what to do with most of the time. She feels like a star and is someone who should be able to be near the top of the women’s division for as long as she wants to be.

Bayley

There is a heck of an argument to have Bayley near or at the top of this list as she was all over the television shows and was awesome throughout. Couple that with an epic title reign and the big fight feel against Sasha Banks and it was really tempting to give this to her. Bayley managing to become one of the best WWE heels going today is impressive as I loved her face run that much, but I wouldn’t have expected this to work nearly so well.

Drew McIntyre

I’ve been a huge McIntyre fan for a very long time now and I was so happy to see him finally win the World Title that he had seemed primed to get for so long. He went on to have a heck of a year and even won the title back. The best thing about McIntyre is that he feels like a World Champion, which is not something that you get to see very often anymore. WWE made a star out of him and that is something they have been needing to do for years now.

This could have gone a lot of ways but the more I think about it, the more this is the best choice.

Jon Moxley

Much like McIntyre, Moxley just feels like a World Champion. You look at him and you feel like he is the biggest star in the company, which is exactly the point in putting the title on him. He has the talking abilities, the look and the brawling to make it work, which is why he held the title as long as he did. This made sense and Moxley is deserving of the top spot, because he was the best of the year.

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These are the people who can do a lot of things that the wrestlers just can’t. Every now and then you have a talented wrestler who needs a little bit of help and that is where some kind of backup can come in. It might be a manager, a trainer, a coach or some combination of them all, but they can do a lot of good in a hurry. That is where we are going today as there has been a bit of a resurgence in the last few years. Let’s get to it.

As usual, in no particular order until the end.

MVP

Yeah I’m cheating a bit with this one as MVP does wrestle occasionally but mainly serves as a mouthpiece these days. I was never a big MVP fan back in his day but my goodness he has been a breath of fresh air these days. The Hurt Business has gone from being just another bunch of guys to one of the best things in all of wrestling and I could go for seeing them get a much larger push. MVP is the reason that works and he is well deserving of some notoriety.

Alexa Bliss

Given that she has had three matches since July, I think it’s fair to call her mainly a non-wrestler at this point. The amazing thing about Bliss is how much of a transformation she has made in recent months. To go from your run of the mill heel/face to the Harley Quinn inspired Fiend disciple is a heck of a change and there have been times where she is genuinely creepy. This is also going to be a lot better for her long term health as Bliss has never been able to stay off the injured list full time.

Paul Heyman

This is a weird one as Heyman is kind of the current king of this generation, but he really hasn’t done much this year. Other than standing behind Roman Reigns and the occasional promo, how many things do you remember from Heyman? Reigns has done most of the talking, but this is a case where Heyman’s reputation carries him forward. You don’t see Heyman doing the talking, but you know how much he is in Reigns’ ear behind the scenes, turning him into this monster. Throw in Heyman’s disturbed looks at Reigns’ carnage and he is the key to the greatness we are seeing on Smackdown.

Taz

We’re going back to the MVP mold here as Taz is absolutely the catalyst that makes everything work for his team. He has a reputation from his career and can work a microphone like few others these days. I buy into the idea of Team Taz as threats to anyone at any time and Taz does feel like the kind of person who could become one of the more important players in AEW at the drop of a hat.

And now for the winner, which is going to be a bit of cheating again but he’s worth it.

Pat McAfee

Again, yeah he wrestled but it was twice all year and he is far more known for his talking than what he does in the ring. McAfee debuted over the summer and became possibly the best heel in all of wrestling in the span of a few months. That is not something you see every day and he comes across as someone you want to see get hit in the mouth. McAfee was a highlight of NXT and the best at what he did all year against some stiff competition.

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There are a lot of options here, which is what can make something like this all the more interesting. For the sake of simplicity, I’m including pretty much anything other than regular television, because otherwise it could get into a bit of a tricky question of what is or isn’t major. Therefore, we’ll go with a pretty broad range of options and hope everyone is happy. Let’s get to it.

As usual, in no order until the end, where the top choice is last.

Sidenote: there were A LOT of highly rated shows this year so I’ve cut it down to the best one from each area (New Japan, Network Special, WWE, AEW, NXT). There were several on the same level, but I trimmed it down for the sake of not needing another week to list all of them.

Wrestle Kingdom

I’m combining the two nights into one as I had both shows rated about the same. You can only say so many things about a Wrestle Kingdom because they’re always awesome shows with some of the best matches of the year. This has always been the case and likely will be for a long time. This was another great show and you have to include it on such a list.

Worlds Collide

I thought about putting this one on the top. This was a big coming out party for NXT UK as they got to show that they were here. You have a host of big matches, but then the main event was all you could ask for, with Imperium (ok Walter) taking on the Undisputed Era and even winning despite it turning into a handicap match. I loved this way more than I would have bet on and it was one of the best things all year.

Clash Of Champions

Yeah I barely remember it either but apparently it was a heck of a show. This was the night of the McIntyre vs. Orton ambulance match and the first Reigns vs. Uso showdown, plus the pretty crazy awesome ladder match with Sami Zayn winning the Intercontinental Title. I had a blast with this show and it was a sneaky surprise, so I’ll certainly put this on a list of greatest shows of the year.

Double Or Nothing

AEW has one of the best pay per view track records of all time and Double Or Nothing might be the biggest show of their calendar. This year’s show was just as good, with the card being strong up and down and a host of awesome matches. AEW pay per views are up there with Takeovers for guaranteed levels of awesome. They know how to make a great presentation and they did it again here.

Believe it or not, the winner is from NXT.

Takeover: Portland

Who would have thought the winner of this would come from what felt like a nothing Takeover? This show was the classic Takeover formula with one awesome match after another. I loved this show and it was one of the best shows I’ve seen in a good while. It may not have been the best by much (and I wouldn’t argue with about a dozen shows beating it out), but it was a heck of an event and one of the best in a long time.

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Your tastes may vary on this one as there are different styles of promos. Some of them are meant to build up a match but some are meant to build up a character, many times through comedy. That’s what we have a nice mixture of here today, as there is some serious stuff plus a little comedy thrown in because when a wrestling promo is funny, it’s hilarious. Let’s get to it.

As usual, in no order until the ending.

Pat McAfee Retired The Undisputed Era – NXT, November 4

McAfee continues to have no reason to be this good this fast but he became the best heel in wrestling overnight. You want to see this guy get taken apart and that’s what the Undisputed Era did, but not before McAfee retired them, throwing an Undisputed Era banner in a trashcan. This was one of the most charismatic and energized heel promos you’ll see in years and it was outstanding throughout, just like McAfee.

Edge Is Back On Raw – Raw, January 27

There are things in wrestling that you’ll never believe you’re seeing and this was the latest entry. Edge was not supposed to wrestle again. After having to retire nearly nine years ago, Edge was one of the last names I ever would have expected to see get back in the ring and you could feel what it meant to him. It was even better than I would have expected, had I ever been able to expect something like this.

Becky Lynch Vacates The Raw Women’s Title – Raw, May 11

We’ll stick with the emotions here and have a moment that shook things up. Becky had become one of (if not the) biggest stars in WWE and it was almost impossible to believe that she could ever actually lose the Women’s Title. It looked like Asuka, as Miss Money in the Bank, was next for her but the night after Asuka won the briefcase, Becky said that Asuka was the new champion. Asuka could go be champion, because Becky was going to go be a mother. How much sweeter of a moment can you get than that?

Bayley Explains Herself – Smackdown, September 11

Bayley and Sasha Banks have had one of the longest stories in modern WWE and a lot of it took place over the course of 2020. They teamed together for a very long time, but then Bayley turned on Banks, continuing a heel run no one knew she had in her. Bayley had to explain herself and she did so very easily: she turned on Banks before Banks could turn on her. It was a logical explanation and right to the point. That’s all you could want from this and far more.

Big E. Is Doing Work – Smackdown Exclusive, December 25

This was a YouTube exclusive after Big E. beat Sami Zayn for the Intercontinental Title and…..he talks about taking down Sami’s tights, bending him over and doing work. As in construction work. Like, he mentions picnic areas, low income housing and a business district. He’s even wearing a construction hat. This is the crazy, charismatic and completely hilarious Big E. that people have been hyping for years now.

Los Parks Cook Pork – MLW Fusion, May 2

Every now and then, you see something that comes out of nowhere, is completely and utterly over the top, and you can’t stop watching it. This is the 2020 edition, as LA Park and his sons (LA Park Jr. and El Hijo de LA Park) join us from the kitchen where they make a pork dish, step by step, for about twelve minutes, all while Park Senior stops to rant about their upcoming match with Pagano and Psycho Clown. It’s all in Spanish with subtitles but I was cracking up throughout this entire segment. You don’t need any backstory because it’s all in the delivery. And you’ll see how to make a tasty looking dish.

Eddie Kingston And Jon Moxley Know Each Other – Dynamite, November 4

I had to cut myself off at one Kingston promo because he may be the best talker in wrestling right now. The idea of the feud is that Kingston and Moxley have known each other but Moxley forgot about him on his way to fame and fortune. Kingston wants revenge, but they can’t touch each other until the match. This sends them into an intense as heck back and forth, with Moxley talking about how he promised Kingston’s mother that he would take care of him, which is why he didn’t bring Kingston along. Kingston was shaking and I wanted to see these two rid each other apart. That’s how it’s done.

And now we have the winner. I don’t care that it’s stupid. I don’t care that it didn’t lead anywhere. I don’t care if it’s something I would make fun of most of the time. This is one of the greatest things I’ve seen in wrestling in years and I’ve watched it back more times than I can count.

Brandi Rhodes Meets Jade Cargill – Dynamite, November 11

This is the one I’ve watched more times than anything else from the year because DANG. Cargill had threatened Cody Rhodes with Shaquille O’Neal (because of course she did) and here comes Brandi, who is NOT HAVING IT. Brandi then gives the most passionate, emotional performance of her life, screaming and yelling at Jade…..who gives her a little spank. And then pretty much nothing ever happened again because Brandi was pregnant, but this was the best thing she’s ever done in wrestling by a mile.

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These are the ones that you remember. A match has a lot of different moving parts but sometimes something is going to happen that you remember more than anything else. The big spots are the ones that make the highlight reels, most of the time for better than worse. That is something worth remembering a lot of the time and while some of them were cut off in 2020, there were still some good picks. Let’s get to it.

As usual, in no order until the end.

Io Shirai’s Trashcan Moonsault Off Of WarGames

There is something to be said about someone taking a trashcan and diving backwards off of a cage onto a bunch of people. I think the description says it all, because that sounds completely insane. Shirai can do one of the best looking moonsaults today but to do it on that stage with that kind of accuracy makes it all the more impressive. It just looked cool and that’s enough to warrant a mention.

Pat McAfee’s Swanton Off Of WarGames

You might say that this is a good way to do something like this. You’ll probably be hearing about McAfee again on this list and there is a good reason for that. McAfee had no business being as good as he was in these situations and yet he kept pulling it off, including with this great looking dive from the top of the cage onto everyone else. He shouldn’t be doing that and yet he made it look even better than almost anyone else could these days. That’s hard to believe, but he made it look easy.

Jeff Hardy’s Swanton Onto Elias

This is better known as the one where Hardy slammed his head into the steps because Hardy is kind of freaking nuts. I almost left it off because of the landing but it wouldn’t feel right to not have Hardy included in here somehow. It was an awesome looking dive and while the landing is what people will remember the most, Hardy can still do this like few others, even at 43.

Sammy Guevara And The Golf Cart

Now THIS is the one that people remember and with good reason. The image of Guevara being chased down by a golf cart of all things and then taking a heck of a bump off of it, all of which continued a feud with a maniacal Matt Hardy was the kind of stuff you can only hope to script. AEW shot it perfectly and it was just awesome, with everyone playing their part perfectly.

Then there is the winner, which was exactly what I wanted.

Hangman Page Rides A Horse Into Stadium Stampede

Every now and then you find someone who is perfect for the character they are playing. That is the case with Page, who is the definition of a cowboy wrestler. He looks like one, dresses like one, talks like one and acts like one. The line of “I’M GONNA DO SOME COWBOY S***!” is still maybe the best line AEW has ever had and Page is one of the best characters on the show. Then he rode a horse into a football stadium, because that’s what a cowboy is supposed to do, especially in the spot of the year.

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This is going to be a tricky one as it is going to depend on what you mean by worst. In my eyes, it is either someone who is completely inept in the ring or someone who makes me cringe anytime they come on screen. Usually it tends to be more of the latter, as almost anyone is going to be capable of having at least a passable match these days. However, there were some rather bad choices this year so let’s get to it.

As usual this is in no order until the final choice.

Goldberg

I know he barely wrestles and I know he was gone for a good chunk of the year, but my goodness the amount of apathy I feel when that music hits and it’s time for something important. Goldberg has made a mini career out of popping in, winning a World Title and then going home. That gets really annoying in a hurry and it is probably going to continue for years to come. He can’t even do his old stuff as well anymore, which is quite the trick when you only have two moves.  It’s an easy pick but that is the case for a reason.

Dexter Lumis

I’ve been watching NXT since the beginning and this might be the first time where I just do not get it. Lumis is supposed to be some kind of tortured artist but that hardly makes him interesting. For reasons I don’t understand, WWE feels the need to present him almost as much as anyone else in NXT and it really isn’t working. I can’t say he’s the worst because there are far worse wrestlers out there, but the lack of interest I feel whenever he’s out there is incredible.

Marko Stunt

Yeah I know this is kind of a cheap answer but there comes a point where it isn’t believable. That’s where Stunt comes in, as he is nearly a foot shorter than most of the people he is facing. He can do a few cool things, but seeing him out there makes me cringe every time and I don’t need him on the show in any role other than a glorified mascot. This is far more on AEW than Stunt, but that doesn’t make it any better.

Those people were bad, but I get the point. I don’t get it with this one.

Michael Nakazawa

Nope. He isn’t funny, he doesn’t do anything worthwhile in the ring and there is no reason to have him on camera. His whole deal is the oil and the underwear and it isn’t worth my time or yours. Nakazawa is presumably there because he is Omega’s assistant or whatever it is and that is not enough to warrant time on either a national television show or a web series. This was a complete layup for me and likely will be as long as he is around.

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As usual, these are in no particular order until the winner at the end.

Otis Is Mr. Money In The Bank

The words “I’m sorry what now?” apply here, as Otis went from a gyrating goof to a gyrating goof who won at Wrestlemania to a gyrating goof who caught the Money in the Bank briefcase. It came out of almost nowhere and while it didn’t wind up meaning anything in the end, it certainly had some awesome surprise value and it made Otis feel like a player.

Sting In AEW

This was certainly a moment, even if Sting has never quite been associated with snow. Just seeing Sting show up and instantly being used better than he was in WWE was a cool moment, though I’m almost worried about where all of this is leading. What matters here is an awesome debut though and Sting feeling like a legend, especially one who came out of nowhere.

Pat McAfee Is Awesome

You see a lot of celebrities pop up in wrestling but how often do you see someone who comes off like a natural? McAfee had a heck of a match with Adam Cole but what mattered was his insane talking ability, as he was instantly one of (if not the) best heels in all of wrestling. I wanted to see someone hit this guy in the face over and over again, which is the name of the game. Most people would have been happy with McAfee being adequate and then he wound up being great. Not a bad surprise.

Roman Reigns Is A Paul Heyman Guy

Sometimes the best way to make something like this work is with a simple camera swipe and that’s how they did this reveal. Reigns had returned at Summreslam and felt a bit different, but then we saw that he had Heyman by his side and it was a whole new ball game. What followed was one of the best heel runs of the modern age, but it all started with having Heyman, the ultimate evil in WWE, sitting next to him and I was absolutely stunned

But there was one thing better.

Edge Returns At The Royal Rumble

I had the previous entry winning but just couldn’t get around this one. If there is one thing that I have learned over the last few years in wrestling, it is that you can never say never. That being said, when you wait almost nine years, you kind of believe that something is never going to happen. That was the case with Edge, who made his return at the Royal Rumble in a moment I never thought I would see. Yeah he’s older and yeah he’s hurt again, but Edge got back in the ring and had a few matches all those years later. I lost it when that music hit and it was outstanding the whole way through.

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I’m not going to waste your time on this one.

For once, I’m not even bothering with the other nominees or even honorable mention. There is only one option here and it’s the SpeakingOut Movement (I consider Covid to be something wrestling dealt with rather than a wrestling story if that makes sense). SpeakingOut shook up wrestling, but it did so in a way that needed to happen. The things that were taking place behind the scenes could not continue and something had to be done about them.

That is where the movement comes into play and thank goodness it got rid of so many of the problems that were taking place. Those things cannot continue and the faster it cleaned everything out, the better it was going to be. There were so many horrible things taking place and it is great to see the people not only being taken to task for them but being flat out punished for them. That stuff shouldn’t have started and it should have ended earlier, but at least it is being pulled out into the light instead of being kept a secret any longer. This was the only real option and it’s a problem that needed to be addressed a lot sooner than it was.