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#4 Finn Balor vs Kevin Owens (Beast in the East 2015 - Tokyo, Japan)
Outside of the RAW and SmackDown tapings in 2005, WWE has only run one big event in Japan in the modern era (unless you count the episode of NXT in December 2016). It happened 10 years later and was an early, experimental special event for the WWE Network. Beast in the East was Brock Lesnar's return to Japan for the first time in almost 10 years, as he had last appeared for New Japan in 2007.
The most anticipated match of the evening wasn't involving the man for whom the show was named, however. Kevin Owens was the dominant and down-right scary NXT Champion, and Finn Balor was coming for him.
Balor, as you may expect, received a hero's welcome in Japan, the country in which he became a star under the name Prince Devitt. Balor was the man NXT needed in order to be saved from the monster who was Kevin Owens, and he did it in style in front of what was something akin to a hometown crowd.
Sure, he's from Ireland, but he was 'made in Japan', for lack of a better term. Finn would go on to be the longest-reigning NXT Champion in history, holding the title for 292 days, a number that has yet to be topped.
