Greatest Match Round 2: Styles/Daniels/Joe vs. Angle/Benoit Mysterio/Edge

[Everlong]

SquaredCircle's Greatest Match of All Time!

(2) AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Samoa Joe, Unbreakable 2005



VS

(5) Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit vs. Edge and Rey Mysterio, No Mercy 2002



VOTE NOW for which you liked better. Voting will last six days. In the event of a tie, the winner will be decided by which match had more people commenting in its favor.

[VaderBomb]

I'm going to watch these back to back before voting or commenting on a winner.

[Hanley!]

Definitely Styles/Joe/Daniels.

Both of these matches are very good technically. The stories being told aren't incredible. They weren't part of some of the best angles of all time. These matches are both here simply because they were great, competitive, technical matches featuring some of the best wrestlers of their respective companies.

That makes this round easy, because you only really have to look at one factor: which was the better match technically. Which had the best moves, the best pacing, the smoothest performances. And looking at things from that perspective only, I'd argue that Styles/Joe/Daniels is the best match in this entire tournament. It might not even be close. Those guys were crisp as fuck in that match. The moves themselves were impressive, and executed to perfection. It has to win on those grounds.

Also, it gets points from me for being a triple threat that doesn't follow the lazy WWE formula where one guy is always outside the ring. There are a lot of three person spots in the match, and there's a lot of three person wrestling sequences. Even when there's someone outside the ring, we're not supposed to forget about them and it's part of the story. Someone might deliberately throw someone out of the ring so they can focus on just one person, and they repeatedly try to prevent them from entering the ring again, so they can keep that one on one advantage. Part of me wishes it had gone up against the Wrestlemania 20 triple threat, as I would have loved to argue that one.

Anyway Styles/Daniels/Joe should take this, though they're both very good.

[Viazon]

I kind have drifted away from these tournaments. Forget they were happening to be honest but I want to get back into them. I was too late in voting on this one, however I would have voted for the triple threat, which won. That was one of these best matches I had seen in a long time.