Last Wednesday's episode of AEW Dynamite saw Private Party recreate the massive upset they scored on the second week of the show in 2019 by defeating the Young Bucks. This time they dethroned the champions and won the AEW Tag Team championships for the first time in their careers. It was a great match and could end up on many match of the year lists. It may have been the best tag match I've seen this year as well.
It was a great week and with New Japan running their annual Best of the Super Juniors Tag league and trying to keep up with that, I'm starting to fall behind so you'll notice that while this list is the best matches I've personally watched in the last 7 days, more of them than usual will have actually taken place outside that time period. WWE also ran a PLE that was generally well received.
I also saw what I considered the top two tag team matches in New Japan all year and Cagematch voters agreed with me on the top one at least, which obviously fared very well on this week's list.
Over the last week, covering the period of October 28-November 3, I watched a total of 56 matches which included the following shows: WWE RAW, WWE NXT, AEW Collision (recorded October 26), NJPW Super Juniors Tag League Night 3 (recorded October 27), AEW Dynamite, TNA Impact, WWE Smackdown, NXT Lvl Up (aired October 25, recorded Oct 22), WWE Main Event (aired October 25, recorded Oct 21), NJPW Super Juniors Tag League Night 4 and NJPW Super Juniors Tag League Night 5.
My top 10 matches of the week are listed below, including one honorable mention, with my star rating at the front and the Cagematch rating and Dave Meltzer star rating, where available, following.
1. 5* Private Party beats the Young Bucks for the AEW World Tag Team titles at AEW Dynamite on October 30. 8.53/10 on Cagematch. 4.75* from Dave Meltzer
2. 4.75* Cody Rhodes beats Gunther to win the inaugral Men's Crown Jewel Championship at WWE Crown Jewel on November 2. 7.55/10 on Cagematch
3. 4.5* Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney beat Kosei Fujita and Robbie Eagles in the Super Junior Tag League Night 3 on October 27. 8.23/10 on Cagematch. 4.75* from Dave Meltzer
4. 4.5* Fraxiom (Nathan Frazer/Axiom) beat Je'Von Hayes and Cedric Alexander to retain the NXT Tag team titles on WWE NXT October 30. 8.66/10 on Cagematch. 4.5* from Dave Meltzer
5. 4.5* Roppongi ReVice (Rocky Romero/YOH) beat Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira/TJP) in the Super Junior Tag League Night 3. 7.77/10 on Cagematch
6. 4.25* Bianca and Jade Cargill retained their WWE Women's Tag titles over the Metagirls (Jakara Jackson/Lash Legend), Piper Niven/Chelsea Green and Iyo Sky/Kairi Sane at WWE Crown Jewel. 6.2/10 on Cagematch
7. 4* Seth Rollins beat Bronson Reed at WWE Crown Jewel. 6.99/10 on Cagematch
8. 4* Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita beat Bushi/Hiromu Takahashi at Super Junior Tag League Night 4 on October 28. 6.67/10 on Cagematch
9. 4* Robbie X and Taiji Ishimori beat Roppongi ReVice at Super Junior Tag League Night 4. 6.52/10 on Cagematch
10. 4* LA Night retained his WWE US title over Carmelo Hayes and Andrade at WWE Crown Jewel. 7.37/10 on Cagematch
Honorable mention, also receiving 4 stars:
FTR beat Dralistico and Rush at AEW Collision on October 26. 7.28/10 on Cagematch
