Sportskeeda WWE Awards 2016: Match of the Year

2016 was a great year for wrestling in the WWE

9: Fatal-4-Way #1 Contender’s Match – Raw After Wrestlemania 32

AJ Styles avenged his loss from the previous night by pinning Chris Jericho

After one of the most underwhelming Wrestlemania’s of all time, WWE looked to somewhat reboot Raw the next night with a number of new NXT call-ups to the main roster and a couple of new players being added to the main event scene.

A #1 contender’s match main-evented Raw and it easily outshone the Wrestlemania main event the previous night. The match was originally announced as a Fatal-4-Way between Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles and Sami Zayn but Zayn was eventually replaced by Cesaro.

The fast-paced match kept the raucous crowd hot throughout and was easily one of the best Raw main events of 2016. Future WWE World Champion, AJ Styles, got his first brush with main eventing a WWE show that night as he bounced back from the loss to Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania the night before.

The four men went back and forth and the crowd went along with them for a wild ride. For most of the match it looked like it was anybody’s game but in the end, when it finally looked like Chris Jericho was about to become the #1 contender, AJ Styles hit him with a Styles Clash out of nowhere as the fans in attendance erupted.

This match definitely deserves to be on this list as one of the top matches this year. It certainly helped wipe out the bad taste in my mouth that Wrestlemania had left. Good riddance.

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