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Top 50 WWE Matches – First Half of 2019

1. WWE Title: Daniel Bryan [c] w/ Rowan vs. Kofi Kingston w/ Big E and Xavier Woods (WrestleMania 4/7/19)
Some matches might’ve been more exciting, more economical with their time – but this is it. This is the masterpiece. This is how you do wrestling. 20+ minutes of a classic bad guy beatdown, well-placed cut-offs, the absolute shittiest eating grins you’ll ever see, and finally a comeback and finish as epic and satisfying as the TV build-up promised.

2. NXT Tag Team Title: War Raiders [c] vs. Aleister Black & Ricochet (NXT TakeOver: New York 4/5/19)
A god damn freak show of a wrestling match. So much crazy, so much fun. The structure is basic, what they do with the structure is insane. Black vs. Rowe and Ricochet vs. Hanson are magical pairings – Hanson going toe-to-toe with Ricochet on the flips was incredible, while Black and Rowe practically had themselves an IWGP Heavyweight Title match finish as the setup to the actual finish. If you’re gonna do crazy, you might as well lean into the crazy.

3. Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade w/ Zelina Vega (SmackDown 1/15/19)
Not just wrestling impressive, but human being impressive. Rey Mysterio is still a marvel to watch after all these years. He doesn’t just hit spots, but complicated algorithms that result in graceful headscissors and beautiful dives to the floor. Andrade meanwhile feels like the young guy Rey has desperately both needed and wanted to work with. They brought a serious aura combined with some of the craziest spots on WWE TV ever, and that’s not hyperbole. Corey Graves used the word “outrageous” at one point and that really sums this up.

4. NXT North American Title: Johnny Gargano [c] vs. Velveteen Dream (NXT 2/20/19)
This was an epic indy dream match that remembered to have character from bell-to-bell. From time to time it felt like two Shawn Michaels proteges trying to impress their idol, though not because of the theatrics but because both guys were moving like superhuman athletes and they had ups and downs and brought the match to an incredible crescendo. Dream has had a lot of excellent performances but hadn’t had a match yet where I thought he had reached the potential that comes with his amazing character. Here he had that match. Wild, frantic, beautiful finish too that had all the stuff ya need – last-second kickouts, counters, a tilt-a-whirl deadlift death valley driver. Amazing.

5. SmackDown Women’s Title: Asuka [c] vs. Becky Lynch (Royal Rumble 1/27/19)
This just felt on another level, with brilliant ups and downs that had the crowd enveloped in everything. Everything felt like a struggle, and it doesn’t hurt that Becky Lynch is the most over person in WWE. Asuka threw some of the greatest spin kicks of all time here too.

6. WWE U.K. Title: Pete Dunne [c] vs. WALTER (NXT TakeOver: New York 4/5/19)
There are some dynamics in professional wrestling that just work. Pete Dunne as some kind of Antonio Inoki/Mitsuharu Misawa ace opposite this large European man unlike anything WWE has ever seen works. These guys pulled off a physical NJPW-paced match if the first 15 minutes actually told a story. WALTER had his biggest showcase on the roster and more than delivered, providing a presence and physicality along with these weird points where he comes off as a scary menace but also a sad little boy that Pete is trying to hurt him. And Pete was a master on defense, doing Inoki kicks and making faces and just beating the shit out of WALTER on his comeback. Great story, great physicality, great wrestling.

7. Harper vs. Dominik Dijakovic (Worlds Collide 4/14/19)
I hope Harper gets the release he has requested, because this is one of the greatest fuck you exit interviews I have ever seen in my life. You put this match in any environment – AXXESS, WrestleMania, Wrestle Kingdom, IWA-Mid-South’s King of the Death Matches – and it’s going to flip everybody out. Everything was hard-hitting but registered, everything escalated well, blah blah blah – more than anything THERE WAS JUST SO MUCH COOL SHIT HERE. It’s an endless display of wrestling awesomeness, all the more impressive in that these are two big tall fellas. Crazy near falls, crazy spots, these guys were working like they were main eventing.

8. If The New Day Wins, Kofi Kingston Goes to WrestleMania – Gauntlet Tag Team Match: The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) vs. Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson, Shinsuke Nakamura & Rusev, The Bar, The Usos and Daniel Bryan & Erick Rowan (SmackDown 3/26/19)
Great story, great wrestling. E and Woods faced five teams here and in 45 minutes had 5 unique, quality tag matches: the Gallows & Anderson match was a good squash, Nakamura & Rusev match was a legitimately great tag with a beginning middle and end, The Bar match was based around an incredible hot tag followed by a post-match beatdown that sent our heroes to a momentary abyss, The Usos match was a great wrestling moment, and finally the Daniel Bryan & Rowan was a wild brawl. Most fun and compelling wrestling thing all month.

9. Elimination Chamber – WWE Title: Daniel Bryan [c] vs. AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Randy Orton vs. Samoa Joe (Elimination Chamber 2/17/19)
Kofi Kingston emerges as a main event superstar while a bunch of great wrestlers run through spots together around him. Then it comes down to Kofi and Bryan and it’s among the finest professional wrestling you ever will see. When a crowd is all in on something, the wrestling gets special. That they were all in on the defeat of Daniel freaking Bryan makes it even better.

10. WWE Universal Title: Brock Lesnar [c] w/ Paul Heyman vs. Finn Balor (Royal Rumble 1/27/19)
Tremendous sub-10 minute match that was everything it ever needed to be, with non-stop action centered around Finn throwing everything at Brock to the point where it seemed like he may just do it, only for Brock to keep cutting him off. Finn did three tope con hilo’s in a row here which were perhaps the three most menacing, impactful tope con hilo’s ever done. The finish is perfection too.

11. Keith Lee vs. Dominik Dijakovic (NXT 2/27/19)
Sometimes in wrestling you just find your dance partner. This is two big heavyweights doing straight-up old school cruiserweight spots, but the thing about this was it wasn’t just jaw-dropping spots, even if jaw-dropping spots rule and my jaw dropped like 15 times. But they also reacted to stuff and sold it… every big spot had a reaction and facial expression to go along with it. The staredown after Lee defied logic and landed on his feet off a monkey flip was everything I want from my wrestling. THE HEIGHT DIJAKOVIC GETS ON STUFF HERE, PEOPLE! OH MY GOD!!!

12. NXT North American Title: Velveteen Dream [c] vs. Matt Riddle (NXT TakeOver: New York 4/5/19)
A match that I’m not sure settled on what it wanted to be but one I loved all the same. Riddle is working this fast-paced style with barefoot kicks and sweet suplexes, and throwing knees that’d make Kenny Omega blush, getting Dream even more over in the process. Dream meanwhile brought the physicality along with the top rope axe handles. So this was like a BattlARTS match with random top rope axe handles. I think that’s good. The crowd liked it. The crowd loved it.

13. NXT Title: Johnny Gargano [c] vs. Adam Cole (TakeOver: XXV 6/1/19)
For the style this is, which I have my reservations about, this is really really good. It had a lot of elbows and suplexes and superkicks. So many superkicks. One that countered a tope suicda, which was kind of incredible. And the finish was wild. These guys are obviously capable of this big time match and the crowd was going nuts. But Tina Fey once got a shot in on The Daily Show by saying its’ jokes sometimes elicit not laughter but “clapter” – meaning, it’s not evicting a genuine response of laughter, but some laughter followed by a lot of clapping, which is an affirmation by the audience that they are in on the joke. Sometimes this feels like that. It’s good though, and I can’t argue it wasn’t the best in-ring thing all month.

14. Matt Riddle vs. Roderick Strong (TakeOver: XXV 6/1/19)
Deadlift suplexes and body shots – what else do you want? Oh, a high-end G1 Climax type of finish? Cool. We’ve got you. Tremendous opener, tremendous crowd, tremendous spots, tremendous wrestling.

15. Matt Riddle vs. Adam Cole (NXT 5/8/19)
Matt Riddle is a very good babyface wrestler and he was that here. Matt Riddle and Adam Cole are very good at doing dramatic finishing stretches and they did that here. Riddle on offense brought fun matwork, strikes, and suplexes, while Riddle on defense had him all exhausted and sweaty and barefoot before he setup a comeback by just German suplexing Cole’s ass. Sometimes Cole’s whole thing just loses me, but opposite Riddle there were enough little touches that kept me in. Heck of a wrestling match.

16. NXT North American Title: Velveteen Dream [c] vs. Buddy Murphy (NXT 4/17/19)
These two guys opposite each other re-enforces that Dream and Buddy are on another level of WWE professional wrestler. As they wrestle you can almost picture an empty arena, these two running endlessly through sequence after sequence of athletically mind-blowing wrestling sequences as HBK and Red Rooster pop chubbs and tell them to keep going, while Regal looks on from afar, only seeing potential in The Dream. This is a spectacular wrestling match that builds seamlessly into a dramatic wrestling match.

17. NXT North American Title: Ricochet [c] vs. Johnny Gargano (NXT TakeOver: Phoenix 1/26/19)
A balls out completely insane wrestling match from two of the best going. Johnny TakeOver is real, but Ricochet was the man here, doing like ten things that made me lose my mind. And he din’t just do them, he made them look perfect AND had the time/poise to react to everything and make the most of it. It got a little performative here and there but that’s personal preference – judged on where wrestling is today, this is as good as it gets.

18. NXT Women’s Title: Shayna Baszler [c] vs. Io Shirai (TakeOver: XXV 6/1/19)
This ruled, because it always does when Shayna Baszler is defending the NXT Women’s Title at TakeOver. Her matches are so stripped down and I love them for it – they got right to the point here and didn’t waste a second. First there was the matwork where everything was a struggle, then Shayna kicked Io’s arm like three times really hard, then Io tried to make a comeback with one arm. Really fun finish too.

19. 2/3 Falls: Rey Mysterio vs. Andrade (SmackDown 1/22/19)
Another bit of magic from these two, and a match that didn’t repeat the last one but built on it. It’s another match that forces you to just sit back and watch in awe of how good these dudes can be. Rey did a baseball slide sunset flip powerbomb into the barricade here. Seriously. And it didn’t look silly at all. It looked like a legitimate offensive maneuver.

20. Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano & Adam Cole vs. Aleister Black, Ricochet & Velveteen Dream (Halftime Heat 2/3/19)
When I saw this I was convinced it was the best thing I’d see all month, and here we are. The Top 3 have more meat, but this is a blast – NXT’s top six guys go all out and get all their shit in, with everything timed and paced and delivered beautifully. The perfect “YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS WRESTLING SHIT OUT” match.

21. Cedric Alexander vs. Oney Lorcan (205 Live 4/16/19)
This is Cedric Alexander’s last 205 Live match and it is also Cedric Alexander and Oney Lorcan having a PPV-level banger to absolute silence. I think they were given the green light to go have their big epic main event type of match because this pairing probably isn’t going to happen again. Glad we got it here though. So much desperation, so much intensity, lots of smacks to the face that look like they hurt – that’s how wrestling works.

22. Triple Threat Match – Winner Competes for Universal Title Opportunity: AJ Styles vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Samoa Joe (RAW 4/22/19)
These old pros just went out there and DID IT. Witness these three crazy bastards work like they’re trying to get noticed in Reseda or something, with non-stop action and crazy double team spots. Some of this stuff felt so risky, as it was seasoned veterans pulling off moves they probably shouldn’t be doing anymore tucking their chin at just the last second. Rey is timeless, AJ went harder than he has in a while, and I wasn’t even aware Joe could move around and bump like this anymore.

23. NXT Women’s Women’s Title: Shayna Baszler [c] w/ Marina Shafir and Jessamyn Duke vs. Kairi Sane (NXT 4/17/19)
From Kairi’s backfist and stiff-ass shots to the face early on they just kept this 10-minute train moving with their beautiful wonderful good guy vs. bad guy dynamic, pulling out all the stuff that worked best the last few times they wrestled, all of which were awesome. Great angle of a finish too.

24. Tyler Bate vs. Brian Kendrick (Worlds Collide 4/17/19)
These guys got 15 minutes in front of a relatively lively AXXESS crowd and they take it from eye poke shtick and Kendrick trying to start U-S-A chants to a big dramatic finish. It was a necessary reminder that Kendrick is one of the greats, as after years of soulless 205 Live participation he was having a blast in a smaller, looser environment. These two can exchange wrestling maneuvers pretty well too.

25. 4-Way Ladder Match – NXT Tag Team Title: Street Profits vs. Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch vs. The Undisputed Era vs. The Forgotten Sons w/ Jaxson Ryker (TakeOver: XXV 6/1/19)
There are way too many multi-guy Ladder Matches these days but this still managed to stand out and felt more reckless than the usual sanitized TLC match. The subplot of Kyle O’Reilly just taking the nastiest falls was incredible, and guys who don’t normally get showcased like Angelo Dawkins and The Forgotten Sons had their moments. Ford and Oney of course took a few insane bumps too.

26. NXT UK Tag Team Title: Moustache Mountain vs. Zack Gibson & James Drake (NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool 1/12/19)
Loads of crazy stuff within the structure of a great 20+ minute tag team wrestling match – you bet your ass Zack Gibson slapped on a few chinlocks, but Moustache Mountain are an elite babyface tag team attraction. Seven sold his ass off and made the middle interesting, while the finish had a bunch of legitimate false finishes as these guys found themselves in a rare case in WWE where it really could go either way and either way is interesting. It also had the TakeOver Opener Atmosphere, which will put any great match over the top.

27. Matt Riddle vs. Drew Gulak (NXT 2/6/19)
A match that was prompted by the question, “How about you take your little flip flops off and make my day?” Gulak and Riddle go all BattlARTS on everybody’s asses and it rules.

28. WWE U.K. Title: Pete Dunne [c] vs. Joe Coffey (NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool 1/12/19)
This thing went 35 minutes and I am so conflicted about it. I think I really liked it. It was a unique match in that it was basically built like a 20ish minute WWE main event match that wasn’t all that good, but then it kept going and going and it transcended the earlier work and became kind of amazing. It was a long match that was a testimonial for matches going long, which is not usually the case. A few kickouts might’ve felt forced but beyond those was a whole lot of compelling action in front of a molten crowd. They blow a pretty big spot here but when it happens it feels less like a blown spot and more like a part of the chaos that happens in an epic match. I still have no idea whether Joe Coffey is any good, but this was a hell of a match.

29. The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose) vs. Drew McIntyre, Bobby Lashley & Baron Corbin (Fastlane 3/10/19)
The Shield took one more ride and it was beautiful. The good guys were selling, the bad guys were serviceable, Rollins was diving, everyone was firing off signature spots, and the crowd was going wild for all of it. The Greatest Hits are great.

30. WWE Cruiserweight Title #1 Contender’s Tournament – Round 1: Brian Kendrick vs. Drew Gulak (205 Live 2/26/19)
This was wild. Kendrick and Gulak meet a crowd that is just not that into them but they don’t care, putting together a mat-based match that was too rooted in reality to even need a crowd. There were holds, unique counters, fish hooks, and overall just a bunch of mat-based violence before they brought it home with a dramatic finish that had the crowd booing every kickout.

31. Fatal 4-Way Match – WWE Cruiserweight Title: Buddy Murphy [c] vs. Kalisto vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Hideo Itami (Royal Rumble 1/27/19)
A wonderful wild match that just flipped the crowd out, with a ton of insane stuff hit perfectly and paced well. Murphy, Kalisto and Tozawa all shined doing incredible complex stuff, but even Itami found himself a role and added to the match, making it more than just guys doing crazy spots. There have been a lot of 205 Live multi-man matches, but they rarely feel like they embrace their potential – this one did.

32. Ricochet vs. Adam Cole (NXT 2/13/19)
This is The Ricochet Show, in which a man named Ricochet delivers everything with such precision that you’re compelled to not just root for him in this moment but for his existence in general. From a simple dropkick to selling Cole’s leg work, whatever he is doing is effective, and he tops it off with an otherworldly one-legged springboard splash. It wasn’t as big and showy as their Brooklyn match but might’ve been more cohesive.

33. WALTER vs. Jordan Devlin (NXT UK 5/1/19)
I hear these two have had a few epics in the past, and you can tell that’s the truth from this, as it’s a 10-minute TV match that probably wasn’t meant to accomplish much more than a tease of something between them in the future, and it ends up being kind of a small epic. It felt like one of those “every second counts” type of matches that got a story across really tightly. Devlin plays the undersized cocky guy early, taking his time avoiding any interaction with WALTER, and when he’s finally caught it feels like a huge moment. Between Devlin’s astute leg work and WALTER’s subtle selling, they do a great job of making Devlin competitive throughout, which leads to some wild near falls at the end too.

34. WWE Title: Daniel Bryan [c] vs. AJ Styles (Royal Rumble 1/27/19)
A strange, beautiful wrestling match in which Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles worked over each other’s limbs for 25 minutes to complete silence, as it took place right after the crowd lost their minds over Becky Lynch entering and winning the Royal Rumble. The work was so transparently good that it really didn’t even matter.

35. NXT Tag Team Title: The Undisputed Era (Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly) [c] vs. War Raiders (NXT TakeOver: Phoenix 1/26/19)
A TakeOver Opener with the best tag team going and War Raiders, a team comprised of Hanson who casually does spots a man of his size should not be able to do and Rowe who is capable of going on an absolutely elite run of offense. The start of this is kind of eh, but once they get going they really get going.

36. NXT North American Title: Velveteen Dream [c] vs. Tyler Breeze (TakeOver: XXV 6/1/19)
Exhibit A on why presentation of a wrestler as a big deal is both a) important and b) frustratingly easy. Tyler Breeze played a very serious and notable wrestler here, and had a very fun competitive match with Dream, who is as over as anybody. That the Hulu-Only Breeze got some legitimate near falls here is very impressive.

37. Triple Threat Match – WWE Cruiserweight Title: Tony Nese [c] vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Drew Gulak (Stomping Grounds Kickoff 6/23/19)
Awesome, non-stop action is a cliche match description these days, but at a little over 10 minutes this is what this was. Every shot and dive connected, Nese’s athleticism is insane, and Tozawa knows how to get a crowd popping whether it’s his deadlift fireman’s carry spot or amazing somersault plancha off the apron. These boys got actual 2-0-5 chants too, which amaze me every time.

38. WWE Cruiserweight Title #1 Contender Match: Tony Nese vs. Akira Tozawa (205 Live 6/25/19)
These guys had what felt like what would’ve probably been the Cruiserweight Title match they’d have on PPV if it it ever happened. Tozawa was an absolute freak here, hitting rapid-fire somersault plancha, his usual amazing tope, and a Canadian Destroyer that I was just not prepared for. That crowds get so into his finishes despite him being treated like a nobody is a testament to this guys’ skill.

39. RAW Tag Team Title: Bobby Roode & Chad Gable [c] vs. The Revival (RAW 2/11/19)
This was a match that could’ve easily died a death in a late segment on an already long and bad show, but they took a quiet crowd into This is Awesome territory with some good old-fashioned tag team wrestling. Gable went hard as always, Roode stepped up and looked like he was 25-years-old, and The Revival felt completely prepared for the moment when Vince McMahon called them into his office and said, “Alright, I’m going with you motherfuckers.”

40. WALTER [c] vs. Pete Dunne (NXT UK 5/22/19)
It was missing the Big Fight Feel of the TakeOver: Blackpool match, but these guys seem comfortable reminding you once a month or so that they are some of the best doing it. There were so many good bits here – tight holds, counter after counter, the teases and then deliveries of WALTER’s terrifying chops. They play with Dunne’s momentum in a smart way throughout too – several times he almost finds an opening for offense, but WALTER keeps chopping or booting him on his ass. Once he does get his opening, him working over WALTER doesn’t feel silly either – there is what feels like a half-foot and nearly 100-pound weight difference between these two and while Dunne’s got WALTER down on the mat bending his hand I’m like, “My goodness, WALTER might not pull through.”

41. WWE Universal Title: Seth Rollins [c] vs. AJ Styles (Money in the Bank 5/19/19)
This was a good championship match that got to that second gear a lot of big AJ Styles matches have been missing since he became a proper WWE Main Event Superstar, but it’s also a match I’m conflicted on because it’s both a statement match for and possibly an indictment against what has become this WWE main event style of hybrid world-traveled guy molding their stuff into something Kevin Dunn can shoot. Everything here is executed brilliantly and they cap it off with some tremendous spots and near falls. Don’t believe WWE when they try pushing it as the Match of the Year come December, but it was very good.

42. WWE Cruiserweight Title: Tony Nese [c] vs. Buddy Murphy (205 Live 4/9/19)
The Mania match was great, this was greater. They worked their holds but kept a crazy pace, and Murphy as per usual was launching himself full force into every bump he took or knee he threw. I mean that knee smash on the apron – WOW. They went from a respectful trading of wrestling maneuvers to them just throwing shots at each other in an effort to get that Cruiserweight Title, and with a little more time were able to tack on a hotter finish than Mania. It was indeed – as the crowd chanted – wrestling.

43. Winner Takes All Triple Threat Match – RAW Women’s Title & SmackDown Women’s Title: Ronda Rousey [c] vs. Charlotte Flair [c] vs. Becky Lynch (WrestleMania 4/7/19)
Look, this was a rushed match with a lot of smoke and mirrors at the end of a long show but it started with Charlotte arriving in a helicopter, Ronda Rousey being played to the ring by Joan Jett, and Becky Lynch being one of those rare cases in wrestling where something organic and cool happens. And after that they had themselves for better or worse a WWE Main Event match, though it was certainly a little more looser and stiffer and I dug that. Everybody was bumping like they were purposely being reckless or something. “YOU CHOP LIKE A BITCH” was great too.

44. WWE Cruiserweight Title #1 Contender’s Tournament – Semi Final: Cedric Alexander vs. Oney Lorcan (205 Live 3/12/19)
Imagine having a chop so hard it can change the mood of a match. Oney Lorcan has that chop. And Cedric sold that chop like time itself had stopped. The rest of the match ruled too. Cedric Alexander in a match all about intensity and speed and stiffness is a billion times better than when he’s doing cute wrestling sequences and throwing mule kicks.

45. Triple Threat Match – WWE Title: Daniel Bryan [c] vs. Kevin Owens vs. Mustafa Ali (Fastlane 3/10/19)
This is a match that went from three guys going balls out over WE WANT KOFI chants to three guys going balls out to insane crowd heat because it didn’t matter that Kofi wasn’t there anymore. One of the wildest WWE Title matches we’ll probably ever see, with Mustafa Ali doing all kinds of insane things while Bryan and Owens played Very Good World-Traveled Professional Wrestlers. It was also a match that started with Owens bending Bryan’s pinky and Bryan going AHHH.

46. Falls Count Anywhere: The Miz vs. Shane McMahon (WrestleMania 4/7/19)
As wonderful and stupid as it needed to be: bad punches, The Miz’ dad getting beat up, Miz pulling off a credible ass-kicking, and some wacky times in the crowd before what was truly an incredible superplex spot off a scaffold.

47. Mia Yim vs. Shayna Baszler (NXT 2/27/19)
Another Shayna Baszler TV special, this time with Mia Yim. It starts as a fun brawl that they keep moving as if it’s the Attitude Era, and then despite Mia’s very vocal pleas Shayna tries to break her leg. And the leg work here isn’t 10 minutes of pully-grabby things – Shayna fucks up Mia’s leg with like 3 things and then Mia sells the crap out of it as they build to the finish.

48. Matt Riddle vs. Kassius Ohno (NXT 1/2/19)
The better Riddle/Ohno match this happened not at TakeOver, but on TV. It went 10 minutes and was basically a bar fight with occasional suplexes and a Bromission. Knock down, drag out, yadda yadda. Good stuff.

49. WWE Cruiserweight Title: Buddy Murphy [c] vs. Akira Tozawa (Elimination Chamber 2/17/19)
This has two of the most incredible spots I have ever seen in my life woven into a good match with a hell of a finish, as Tozawa can get the folks behind him and make the folks think he’s gonna win. But the real story is the bullet tope catch into a Jackhammer and a Dirty Dancing lift on the top rope countered with a frankensteiner. The match was a good one, but those two put it over the top.

50. SmackDown Tag Team Title: Shane McMahon & The Miz [c] w/ Maryse vs. The Usos (Elimination Chamber 2/17/19)
This was another great Usos tag held back by some awkward moments because Shane McMahon is old and still feels like he never really trained as a wrestler, but at the same time it was brought up by those awkward moments too because it was less a great cohesive tag match and more of an experience, and I’ll take the experience. Like, the Shane hot tag didn’t work. But also, if it did – is this match as fun? I don’t know!!