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Friday, October 12, 2018

Best Matches: Christian

1998:
1999:
  • Christian & Edge Vs Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy – No Mercy 1999 – 4 ½* - One of the earliest tag-team ladder matches in WWF, a lot of people forget about this match being the precursor to those Ladder/TLC Matches with each other plus the Dudley’s in the future. It’s a really good match which helped in the careers in all four men.
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2004:
  • Christian Vs Chris Jericho – Wrestlemania 20 – 3 ½* - Christian is just such a natural heel it’s perfect, the lead up to this match featured him: trying to steal Chris Jericho’s crush – Trish Stratus, attacking Trish and then attacked his over two year tag-team partner Chris Jericho. The match is actually really good between them, they work really great with each other inside the ring, and the ending will leave you speechless.
  • Christian Vs Chris Jericho – Raw 10/05/2004 – 4* - Following their Wrestlemania match, these two would have a few more matches which lead into a Steel Cage match on an episode of Raw. It was a way to write Christian off TV for a while because of an injured back. He would return in September and continue his feud with Jericho which finished in a Ladder match at Unforgiven 2004.
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2009:
  • Christian Vs Jack Swagger – ECW 23/02/2009 – 3 ½* - In late 2008 news started circling that Christian had ‘re-signed’ with WWE and would be placed in a feud with Jeff Hardy (who was in the midst of a WWE Championship reign/program) however when the news broke WWE changed plans and had Christian head down to ECW to feud for the ECW Championship, and had Jeff go into a feud with his brother Matt. However, its still good that WWE had Christian go straight into the ECW Championship picture especially since it’s believed backstage that Vince McMahon doesn’t like Christian, and ever more doesn’t like his face. In his first run I believe there was a rumour that Vince had an idea to put a blue dot over Christians face whenever he was on screen.
  • Christian Vs Jack Swagger – Backlash 2009 – 3 ½* - Christian would finally win the ECW Championship against Jack Swagger and hold the title for a short while.
  • Christian Vs William Regal – Breaking Point 2009 – 3 ¼* - A great match between two good wrestlers in a very stellar show. They would have several matches in ECW in 2009 but this would be their best match together.
  • Christian Vs Shelton Benjamin – TLC 2009 – 4 ¼* - A great ladder match between two of ECW’s biggest stars. This match is super underrated and I recommend anyone reading these lists and rewatching matches watch this match and see how good it is.
2010:
  • Christian Vs Ezekiel Jackson - ECW 16/02/2010 – This would be the last ever ECW show in WWE’s branding of it, the final match would be between Christian vs Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules Match for the ECW Championship. It makes no sense to me why they decided to make Christian lose the ECW Championship especially if they were just going to have Jackson do nothing but have a forgettable Intercontinental Championship reign and join the CORRE and be meaningless.
  • Christian Vs Edge – Raw 17/05/2010 – Another forgotten classic by two best-friends. These two could’ve had magic in a feud around this time, however they were on different brands doing different things. However, in 2011 (depending on who you believe) it was said that Christian and Edge would feud and that Christian would be the one to retire Edge when his contract ran out.
2011:
  • Christian Vs Alberto Del Rio – Extreme Rules 2011 – 4 ¼* - With Edge, Christians real life bestfriend retiring from WWE due to injury, WWE officials decided to give Christian his ‘career-rewarding’ moment, by having him in a main event match against Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship.
  • Christian Vs Randy Orton – Over the Limit 2011 – 4 ¼* - Christians career-rewarding World Championship reigned a total of 2 days (5 because it was taped). I was somewhat fine with this, IF they were going to keep Christian a face, and probably make Orton the heel. Nevertheless, that’s my opinion but you guys might not agree. I will say Christian and Orton had a great feud in 2011, I know people will say that Punk feud/storyline was the best of 2011, but I’d even argue that Christians 2011 was a close runner up.
  • Christian Vs Randy Orton – Summerslam 2011 – 4* - These two would fight throughout mid-2011, with Christian turning heel and re-winning the World Heavyweight Championship at the previous PPV. This match was actually really good, and their whole feud is quite good. Now that sound hypocritical because earlier I said that Orton should’ve been the heel in this feud, but I believe Christian being the chicken-shit heel, who constantly wanted rematches for the World Heavyweight Championship was a perfect role for him. I will still argue to this day that this match was much more enjoyable then the rematch of the famous 5 star Money in the Bank match between Cena and Punk which happens on the same card.
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