5 Best Wrestling Matches Of 2015

#4 Bayley vs. Sasha Banks – TakeOver: Brooklyn

This match has reached mythical status as the best women’s wrestling match in WWE history…until Revolution. It had the perfect build, the hottest atmosphere in NXT history, and had absolutely spectacular wrestling action from two of WWE’s best women’s wrestlers.

Sasha played the obnoxious heel perfectly, her cocky attitude and taunts really adding to the story being told. Bayley, meanwhile, had such awesome babyface fire that you couldn’t help but cheer for her, no matter what she did in the ring.

Character work aside, these two women showed something that hadn’t been seen in a WWE ring before to such a degree: the ring presence and psychology from both of these women was on another level altogether.

Sasha stomped on Bayley’s hand as Bayley reached for the ropes, and then pushed off the ropes to roll back to the middle of the ring to wrench in her submission finisher. If the match ended there, it would’ve been a perfect ending. But thankfully, it only went further from there.

Bayley pulled out all the stops, hitting big move after big move, including a poisoned (inverted) frankensteiner from the top rope, before hitting her finisher and winning. At that moment, you knew that a new era of women’s wrestling was nigh.

This absolutely epic wrestling match not only stole the show on that NXT TakeOver, but also beat anything on SummerSlam as well. This is the match that truly set the women’s revolution in motion.