Top 10 WWE Matches of 2020

If 2020 taught me one thing in all of its insane cruelty, it’s that wrestling will survive at all cost. Even during a pandemic, WWE will ensure wrestling fans of more content, for better or for worse. I found wrestling in 2020, at its best, had some of the most creative matches I’ve ever seen. Storytelling was accentuated, experimentation with match structure and various spots were valued due to the lower stakes, and the best wrestlers in the world floated to the top in adjustment to the lack of crowds. It took a little time to get used to dead air early on, hence why the ThunderDome and the sparse crowds of real people were introduced. However, despite the artificiality of the crowd noise and the emptiness in not hearing a crowd erupt, wrestling was found at its purest art form. Would a lot of these matches have benefitted from a thunderous ovation from thousands of people? Absolutely, a lot of the huge title wins were dampened by the celebration to no fans. A match like Keith Lee vs Adam Cole or Drew McIntyre vs Brock Lesnar hinges on its big moments. Once again, though, wrestling is all about the audibles, rolling with the punches and proving yourself as a superstar through absolute force and skill. The show must go on.

Initially, I was going to cover matches as a whole in order to properly assess how wrestling existed in a time where everything had to transform and evolve. However, due to my…