That's right, my friends, it is time to discuss the best wrestling matches of 2025.

As always, these are what culture of wrestling's best matches? I am but your humble host, and you will get Simon Miller's best matches very soon, so you can yell at these ones, and then you can yell at my ones, and there's going to be a yacht at the other thing, but that will be totally fine. But you know the deal. in 2025. And in terms of this list, I think everyone has gone out their way to try and shine a spotlight, or maybe some of the belts. They didn't get a lot of love, there are other ones, but people will consider the best thing ever until we move on because recency bias is real. There's a few honorable mentions as well. CM Punk versus Gunther, I think, was very, very good. To Kester versus Osprey, obviously was absolutely brilliant. And most things the Young Bucks did in 2025 kind of reminded you the Young Bucks could be the best wrestling tag team of all time, as opposed to the best tag team at all time. Let us not go down that route. So again, hello, I am Simon Miller. Pleasure to see you.

Here's the 10 best wrestling matches of 2025. Number 10, FTR versus the Outrunners from the July 5th collision. So this one really does come down to an over-delivery, although I think that's a little bit unfair. Because back in the summer of this year, the Outrunners were the absolute best thing ever. And just a nice reminder that if you do get your gimmick right, you can be good at the rest of the stuff we call sports entertainment, but people are going to love you regardless. Because deep down in our tum-tums, we just want to have a good time. That would be the outrunners I am referring to. And as for FTR, if you want to walk into my house right now and say they could be one of the best tag teams ever, I am not going to argue with you they're great. FTR had just turned heel before this, meaning they were the perfect pairing for the Outrunners. I don't want to say this over delivered in a mean way. I just don't think many people had high expectation for what felt like a random match on collision when not only the viewers at home sit down and be like oh my gosh this is

brilliant but the fans on the night in that arena i tell you you can go see this right now

they lost their flipping minds cash and daks played right into this as well because the reason

they hated truth and turbo so much is because they're like listen you are just a gimmick

everything going on here is a fabrication in your head. Maybe you should stop

doing it. Stop being so over the top and respect the sanctity of pro wrestling like we do. In that

statement though, I think they forgot the outrunners are actually fueled by the timeless power

of old school wrestling. And every single one of those things we have just mentioned went into

this match with some near falls that made you go,

oh my gosh, I totally believed it. Truth Magnum basically played Ricky Morton here too, because he just

sold and sold and sold to the point when he did get the hot tag to his partner and they went

on this stereotypical running wild. Everybody was cheering saying, listen, we understand this is a wrestling

trope, but if this could end with the one, two, three, we're going to pop like champagne cox. FDR was superb at the ring as well at the last moment. The Major would go, damn it, I can't believe you keep doing it. And listen, this had a hell of a lot of blood, which I guess is somewhat ironic too, because it was meant to be a throwback. and in terms of running the race,, they used to say, well, they did that and it absolutely got you into it more emotionally. Let's not forget that's the point of blood. That's literally why it's there. FTR of course eventually won, but the near fall off the outrunner's son of a bitch elbow is something to behold. But everybody benefited here, which is why I think it snuck in at number 10. Like cash and backs were able to go on, go, oh, we are bad guys, whereas the love for the Outrunners was already like at 9.9, and after this, smashed in at 10. They really didn't feel like the biggest night of the Outrunners life, and if you would use this to send them onto the tag team titles, nobody would have complained. And even if you are watching this on 2026, I want to make it very clear, I still wouldn't moan. If they would like to take me on as the fourth members of the Outrunners, I'll be waiting by the phone. Number nine, Kenny Omega versus DeKester at AWREVolution. So in many an interview this year, Kenny Omega has actually come out and said due to his diverticulitis, he is not able to be

the Kenny Omega of old, but I think that is selling himself short, because as he showed once again

in this match with the Kestha, maybe nobody on this planet is as good as selling as him. Nobody is as

making you feel like, oh, come on, Ken, I need to do something here. So even if he did that in every single match and left all the big crazy moves to the Kenny Amager of old, he would still be one of the best wrestlers on planet Earth. Of course, the big difference here, given that Kenny Amiga had had stomach surgery, essentially, is that he was able to sell his tum-tum area because Dekechda is just such a a big aggressive son of a ditch.

Well, this got you, man.

Once again, you were sat there going, I don't think we should be doing this to Mr. Omega. He may be properly hurt. And as soon as you plant that ceiling, your brain, where you're lost. You're not thinking of pro wrestling anymore. You're just thinking of fighting. I think Omega's performance during this was so good. he actually made you forget what he was able to do a good few years ago,

because again, that's not what you were leaning into. You just wanted him to be okay. Sometimes, Dekechhta would stand over him, and it was like David and Goliath, which makes no sense because they're both sizable men. Amiga even made mistakes trying to get back into this, like when he flew into the turnbuckle. And you know what DeKeshta did right after this? He need Kenny Omega right in the stomach, just to let you know I am a heel and also basically a piece of trash. He did eventually get a springboard avalanche power bomb, but the joy of that only lasted a few seconds. Because instantly Kenny threw himself on the floor and you can take my point here just kind of goes to show that you can evolve as a wrestler even if you do go through some

down times and in terms of selling which people tell me is a lost start in 2025 well mr kenny

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